cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lengthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lengthier
form: lengthiest
Etymology: From length + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a lengthy text
text: a lengthy discussion
text: a laborious and lengthy process
text: She died last night after a lengthy illness.
text: They received lengthy prison terms.
text: They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
ref: 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Sticks insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC:
text: “In light of the current state of our country, I struggled to find the right words of wisdom for you today,” Obama says in her lengthiest public remarks to date about the protests taking place in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
ref: 2020 June 7, Kate Bennett, “Michelle Obama to 2020 graduates: ‘For those of you who feel invisible: Please know that your story matters’”, in CNN:
text: Without the help of the IEEPA, the Trump administration would have to take a slower approach, launching lengthier trade investigations and abiding by other trade laws to back the tariff threats.
ref: 2025 May 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, “US federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
examples: text: If, in addition to being a lengthy preacher, he had also been a Rev. Mr. Mumbles or a Rev. Dr. Drone, the penance thus endured by his people would have been intolerably severe.
ref: 1863, John Cumming, Driftwood, seaweed and fallen leaves, volume 1, page 92:
glosses: Speaking or writing at length; long-winded.
Derived terms: lengthily
lengthiness
Related terms: lengthful
lengthish
lengthsome
abs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbz/
rhymes: -æbz
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of abstract.
abs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbz/
rhymes: -æbz
Senses: glosses: The abdominal muscles. plural of ab
glosses: Acronym of absolute temperature.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of absolute value function.
Synonyms: abdominal muscles
abdominals
Derived terms: washboard abs
abs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbz/
rhymes: -æbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ab
Babs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæbz/
rhymes: -æbz
Etymology: From the clipping of Barbara + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staff
staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of staff
Croydon facelift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɔɪdn̩ ˈfeɪslɪft/
Forms: form: Croydon facelifts
Etymology: From Croydon, a Borough of London + facelift.
Senses: examples: text: We climb in, and I plaster my Little House on the Prairie-style cloth hat over my hair so the greasy strands won't get yanked back into a Croydon facelift as I pull on my helmet.
ref: 2010, Charlotte Madison, Dressed to Kill, unnumbered page:
text: Everyone stopped drinking to have a look. A girl with a Croydon facelift hairdo and a sequinned tank top began hyperventilating noisily.
ref: 2013, e.c. saunders, Kat Among the Pigeons: A Kat Shakespeare Mystery, page 81:
text: All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift").
ref: 2013 July 28, Elizabeth Day, The Observer:
glosses: A women's hairstyle, associated with lower social classes, in which the hair is pulled tightly back from the face and fastened behind the head, thus pulling the features up and back and giving an effect similar to a facelift.
pounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: pounces
Etymology: From French ponce, from Latin pūmex. Doublet of pumice.
Senses: examples: text: At the Thorn, or at a meagre kitchen table, or even on the carpenter’s workbench, he spreads open the portfolio, lights a candle stub, slices a fresh quill, and arranges pounce pot and ink well.
ref: 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books, page 120:
glosses: A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
glosses: Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
Derived terms: pounce wheel
pounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: pounces
form: pouncing
form: pounced
form: pounced
Etymology: From French ponce, from Latin pūmex. Doublet of pumice.
Senses: examples: text: to pounce paper, or a pattern
glosses: To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
pounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: pounces
Etymology: From Middle English pounce, probably akin to punch. Possibly from Old French ponchonner (compare French poinçonner).
Senses: examples: text: Again the cat jolted the bed with a pounce.
ref: 1999, Niki Anderson, Inspurrrational Stories for Cat Lovers:
glosses: A sudden leaping attack.
examples: text: March 22 1775, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on conciliation with America
You have , indeed , winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea
text: And from her griping pounce the greedy prey doth quarry
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
examples: text: a pounce to print money with
ref: 1602, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine for Children:
glosses: A punch or stamp.
examples: text: one spendeth his patrimony upon pounces and cuts
ref: 1571, John Jewel et al., “An Homily Against excess of apparel”, in The Second Tome of Homilees […] :
glosses: Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
synonyms: word: bump
extra: sudden movement of underground strata
pounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: pounces
form: pouncing
form: pounced
form: pounced
Etymology: From Middle English pounce, probably akin to punch. Possibly from Old French ponchonner (compare French poinçonner).
Senses: examples: text: The kitten pounced at the ball I threw to it.
text: She pounced on the young man, because she loved him and wanted him for herself.
glosses: To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
examples: text: I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.
glosses: To attack suddenly by leaping.
examples: text: I pounced on the chance to get promoted.
text: While he was out of town on vacation, I pounced, leaking the photos.
text: Why would I talk to the press and give them a chance to pounce on me?
text: Irish debutant Conor Henderson - another ball-playing midfielder - probed for a gap through the back-line and the 19-year-old's deflected pass was pounced on by Tomas Rosicky, who sped to the byeline to clip a square ball through the legs of Charlie Daniels across the box.
ref: 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:
glosses: To eagerly seize an opportunity.
examples: text: Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, Table Talk:
text: Now pounce him lightly, / And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper.
ref: 1621, John Fletcher, The Pilgrim (play):
glosses: To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
glosses: To stamp holes in; to perforate.
Synonyms: sense: instance of propelling oneself into air
word: leap
sense: instance of propelling oneself into air
word: jump
sense: instance of propelling oneself into air
word: bounce
sense: instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated place
word: strike
sense: instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated place
word: attack
Derived terms: pounceable
pouncehug
pouncer
pouncingly
pouncy
Jabberwocky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name of a nonsense poem from the children's book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872) by Lewis Carroll. Apparently based on the Jabberwock, the monster described therein, with the suffix -y in imitation of classical epics such as the Odyssey.
Senses: glosses: A nonsensical poem that appears in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
Derived terms: Jabberwockian
jabberwocky
Related terms: Jabberwock
stats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: examples: text: Stats is one of her favourite subjects at school.
glosses: Clipping of statistics (the subject).
examples: text: What do the stats tell us?
glosses: Clipping of statistics (data, figures).
examples: text: Those items he bought really boosted his stats.
text: As your troops conquer the enemy, they'll earn experience and gain levels. Each time they level up, their stats will increase.
ref: 2003 December 24, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, Show Some Class, page 33:
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output)
Related terms: stat
statistics
congrats
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈɡɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: examples: text: You were cast in the show? Congrats!
glosses: Clipping of congratulations.
Synonyms: well done
Derived terms: congratz
grats
congrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈɡɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: examples: text: Accept our congrats for all your hard work!
glosses: Clipping of congratulations.
eat one's words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats one's words
form: eating one's words
form: ate one's words
form: eaten one's words
Senses: examples: text: He didn't think I could do it, but I proved him wrong and made him eat his words.
text: This time, you have to eat your words, because, like it or not, you lost.
text: "Better retract that," she advised, "hadn't you?" "Why should I?" "Because if you're stupid enough to remain in Bombay, I'll make you eat your words one day."
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter II, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 16:
text: However, in 1844, saner counsels prevailed, and Edgeley became the principal station—the directors eating their words once more by retaining the older station, which was renamed Heaton Norris.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 618:
glosses: To regret or retract what one has said.
Synonyms: sense: regret
word: eat crow
sense: retract
word: recant
word: take back
unbeknownst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnbɪˈnoʊnst/
Etymology: Variant of unbeknown with excrescent -st.
Senses: examples: text: He went home early, unbeknownst to his mother.
text: Theon’s redemption scene convincingly threatens to kill him right there on the beaches of Dragonstone, dying for a good cause unbeknownst to anyone but the rapscallions who watched him die, but at last it swerves into something genuinely heroic.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Without the knowledge of.
Synonyms: unbeknown
unknown
hullabaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌləbəˈluː/
ipa: /ˌhʌləbəˈlu/
ipa: /ˈhʌləbəˌlu/
Forms: form: hullabaloos
form: hallaballoo
form: hallabaloo
form: hulabaloo
form: hullaballoo
form: hellaballoo
form: hellabaloo
Etymology: Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers), hilloa, hullo (variants of “hello”), and similar words.
Senses: examples: text: They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
text: […]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.
ref: 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or The New Generation, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 234–235:
text: Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo, thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
text: 'Sarah, could you bring me the calendar from the wall over there? Does it say the right date?' 'Two days behind – and small wonder no one tore it off with all the hullaballoo going on. Ever so pretty, isn't it?' said Sarah as she handed the calendar to Jessamy.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:
text: He was so fascinated by the sight of this bald wolf that he would have lost his flock, perhaps himself been eaten and certainly been beaten to the bone for negligence had not the goats themselves raised their heads, snuffed danger and run off, bleating and whinnying, so that the men came, firing guns, making hullabaloo, scaring the wolves away.
ref: 1982, Angela Carter, “Peter and the Wolf”, in T. J. Binding, editor, Firebird 1: Writing Today, Harmondsworth, Greater London: Penguin Books/Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 42:
synonyms: word: ado
word: hype
word: to-do
word: ado
word: argy-bargy
word: bangarang
word: bobbery
word: brouhaha
word: bunfight
word: bustle
word: bust-up
word: chaos
word: clamour
word: clatter
word: commotion
word: disruption
word: disturbance
word: flap
word: foofaraw
word: fracas
word: furor
word: fuss
word: hobbleshaw
word: hoo-ha
word: hoo-hah
word: hubbub
word: hullabaloo
word: hurly-burly
word: kerfuffle
word: mayhem
word: merry hell
word: outcry
word: palaver
word: pandemonium
word: pother
word: quarrel
word: riot
word: rowdydow
word: ruckus
word: rumpus
word: shemozzle
word: shindy
word: splatterdash
word: stir
word: stooshie
word: three-ring circus
word: to-do
word: tomfoolery
word: trouble
word: tumult
word: turmoil
word: unrest
word: uproar
word: upstir
glosses: A clamour, a commotion; a fuss or uproar.
Related terms: bedlam
brouhaha
commotion
hoopla
kerfuffle
pandemonium
rumpus
hullabaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhʌləbəˈluː/
ipa: /ˌhʌləbəˈlu/
ipa: /ˈhʌləbəˌlu/
Forms: form: hullabaloos
form: hullabalooing
form: hullabalooed
form: hullabalooed
Etymology: Possibly a rhyming reduplication of halloo (used as a greeting or to catch attention; used in hunting to urge on pursuers), hilloa, hullo (variants of “hello”), and similar words.
Senses: examples: text: They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.
ref: 1844, George Carter Needham, Street Arabs and Gutter Snipes: The Pathetic and Humorous Side of Young Vagabond Life in the Great Cities, with Records of Work for Their Reclamation, D. L. Guernsey:
text: "Nonsense, child," said my father, smiling. "Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again."
ref: 1867, Rhoda Broughton, Cometh Up as a Flower: An Autobiography, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], pages 53–54:
text: Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!
ref: 1952, Dylan Thomas, “Author’s Prologue”, in Collected Poems, 1934–1952, Dent, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: Twitter broke the news, and soon enough, the media hullaballooed over this latest act of art vandalism.
ref: 2012 October 30, Jessica Redmond, “It was all yellow: Some dude defaces a Rothko in the name of ‘yellowism’”, in Columbia Spectator:
text: In addition to size, manufacturers hope to attract buyers with added gadgetry despite disappointing sales of 3D televisions, an innovation hullaballooed at CES last year only to flop in stores.
ref: 2013 January 8, Rory Carroll, “CES 2013: TV companies hope size and sharpness are the future”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make a commotion or uproar.
savante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savantes
Etymology: From French savante.
Senses: examples: text: The reputation of a scholar, eccentric habits, grave dress, a severe countenance, and boldness enough to be rude, have raised the Doctor to his little eminence in his circle, where he holds forth, like the philosophers of old in their porticoes, and where weak, would-be savants and savantes come, each with their taper, to borrow light from an offensive half-illumined lamp, shining dimly in neighbouring darkness.
ref: 1818, The Hermit in London [pseudonym], “Sketches of Society. The Hermit in London, or Sketches of English Manners. No. XV. A Pedant.”, in The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Politics, Etc., page 668, column 1:
text: There is singular lack of beauty among the savants and savantes, and the squareness and stiffness of their temper might be expressed in their forms. Grace is rare in a race that values it so slightly, and quiet ugliness is stamped on all things new and old.
ref: 1866 April, “Modern Geneva”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XIII, number 76, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], page 427:
text: Not only her scientific background, but a knowledge of the expertise of surgery was child’s play to her, and of the Arts and Reasoning that control our ways of life, she was a Savante.
ref: 1968, Geoffrey Parker, The Black Scalpel, London: William Kimber […], →ISBN, page 51:
text: Likenesses of both savants and savantes proliferated. Even though men were infinitely better educated than women, it is impossible to say with certainty that portraits of men set the standard for those of women.
ref: 2000, Elise Goodman, “Picturing Enlightened Women”, in The Portraits of Madame de Pompadour: Celebrating the Femme Savante, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 80:
text: In the late fifteenth century, these catalogues, which progressively played into women’s emergence as writers and savantes, began to include contemporary women intellectuals. […] The notion of the savante as a threat to her husband and as arrogant and unduly confident had already surfaced in the late sixteenth century, usually in connection with learned women from the lesser nobility and the upper gentry.
ref: 2016, Anne R. Larsen, “Introduction: The Savante in Historical Context”, in Anna Maria van Schurman, ‘The Star of Utrecht’: The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 19 and 21:
glosses: Female equivalent of savant.
shrug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: shrugs
Etymology: From Middle English schruggen, shrukken, probably of North Germanic origin related to Danish skrugge, skrukke (“to stoop; crouch”), Swedish skruga, skrukka (“to huddle; crouch”), all from or related to Old Norse skrykkva, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Compare also Old English scrincan (“to shrink”). More at shrink.
Senses: examples: text: He dismissed my comment with a shrug.
glosses: A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge.
glosses: A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted.
Derived terms: macaroni shrug
shrug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: shrugs
form: shrugging
form: shrugged
form: shrugged
Etymology: From Middle English schruggen, shrukken, probably of North Germanic origin related to Danish skrugge, skrukke (“to stoop; crouch”), Swedish skruga, skrukka (“to huddle; crouch”), all from or related to Old Norse skrykkva, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Compare also Old English scrincan (“to shrink”). More at shrink.
Senses: examples: text: I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged.
text: When he saw the problem, he just shrugged and started fixing it.
text: He[…] shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities.
ref: 1712 January 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, January 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 264; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
Derived terms: shrug off
Related terms: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hallabaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallabaloos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hullabaloo (“noise or uproar”).
howdy-do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howdy-dos
Senses: examples: text: The men in that far country were liars, every one. Their mere howdy-do was a lie, because they didn't care how you did, except they were undertakers.
ref: 1882, Mark Twain, “On the Decay of the Art of Lying”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Alternative form of how-d'ye-do.
howdy-do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of how do you do.
precatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.kə.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.kə.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/
Forms: form: more precatory
form: most precatory
Etymology: From Late Latin precatorius, from Latin precari (“to pray”).
Senses: examples: text: December 8. . . . A precatory letter from Gillies. I must do Molière for him, I suppose; but it is wonderful that knowing the situation I am in, the poor fellow presses so hard.
ref: 1827 December, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:
glosses: Expressing a wish.
examples: text: precatory words in a will
topics: law
glosses: Expressing a wish but not creating any legal obligation or duty.
Synonyms: sense: expressing a wish
word: precative
sense: expressing a wish
word: supplicatory
topics: legal
law
word: aspirational
Related terms: precation
should
philatelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlætəlɪst/
Forms: form: philatelists
Etymology: From philately + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who collects and studies postage stamps.
Synonyms: stamp collector
Derived terms: aerophilatelist
astrophilatelist
amm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of amnesia (a potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana).
synonyms: word: amnesia
extra: a potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana
eo ipso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪəʊ ˈɪpsəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin eo ipso, ablative form of id ipsum (“that (thing) itself”).
Senses: examples: text: When we demand an object from somebody, its “use value” (the fact that it serves to satisfy some of our needs) eo ipso becomes a form of expression of its “exchange value”; the object in question functions as an index of a network of intersubjective relations.
ref: 1998, Slavoj Žižek, chapter 1, in Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture:
text: For example, Jim Ruben's remarks are illustrative of neofuturist thinking in which technologies eo ipso impact favorably the political process: “democracy itself . . . is due for a retooling to function in a different world” (1983, 59).
ref: 2000, Anthony G. Wilhelm, Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace, Routledge, →ISBN, page 20:
coordinate_terms: ipso facto
glosses: Through or by that very act or quality; thereby.
Related terms: eo nomine
consanguinuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The laws of fashion do not bind people of rank to forget the ties of consanguinity and affection, for I could point out numerous instances where mothers really love their children, and wives their husbands.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: The state of being consanguineous.
marmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹˌmaɪt/
Forms: form: marmites
Etymology: From French marmite.
Senses: examples: 1824 Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French Marmite, or Pot-au-Feu: and on preparing Bouillon with it
My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (bouillon) of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty to send you the directions necessary to enable any one to prepare this cheap and desirable food.
Earthen-pots with covers, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat, are found in every family. The marmite bought for me was for one-and-a-half pound only: this quantity of lean meat (bœufmaigre), was always part of the leg or shoulder: it was put into the marmite, which was then filled up with cold water, about five pints, and placed on the hearth, close to the wood-fire; and when it began to simmer or boil gently, it threw up a scum, which was carefully taken off from time to time with a spoon, for the space of threequarters of an hour, which perfectly cleansed the meat and water from every impurity.
glosses: A rounded cooking pot of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without tripod, handles, lid etc; originally earthenware but currently more commonly of cast iron or other metals.
quilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪtlɚ/
ipa: /ˈkwɪltə/
rhymes: -ɪltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: quilters
Etymology: From quilt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person whose hobby or profession is making quilts.
glosses: A person whose hobby or profession is making quilts.
Mary's house showcases fabrics galore because she is a quilter.
Mary's house showcases fabrics galore because she is a quilter.
glosses: A person who uses a hand or machine stitch to decorate a quilt, or to sew together the layers of a quilt.
glosses: A person who performs the entire process of making a patchwork quilt, whether or not it is decorated with quilting stitches.
quilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪlt/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪlt]
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: quilts
Etymology: From Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Senses: examples: text: My grandmother is going to sew a quilt.
glosses: A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
glosses: A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
glosses: A quilted skirt worn by women.
examples: text: Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout. Early on […] she alternated alternated jokes and stanzas, providing a wonderful quilt of her musical and story-telling talents.
ref: 1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
Derived terms: continental quilt
crazy quilt
honeycomb quilt
memory quilt
patchwork quilt
quilt show
T-shirt quilt
quilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪlt/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪlt]
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: quilts
form: quilting
form: quilted
form: quilted
Etymology: From Middle English quilte, quylte, from Anglo-Norman quilte and Old French coilte, cuilte (compare French couette), from Latin culcita. Doublet of quoit.
Senses: glosses: To construct a quilt.
examples: text: Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
text: Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:
glosses: To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique.
examples: text: I am glad, said Mr. Slick, that cussed critter, that schoolmaster, hasn't yet woke up. I'm most afeerd if he had aturned out afore we started, I should have quilted him, for that talk of his last night sticks in my crop considerable hard.
ref: 1884, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, page 113:
glosses: To beat or thrash.
Derived terms: quilter
quilting
quilting bee
quilting needle
Related terms: batting
pinking shears
sew
cotton
speleology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speleologies
Etymology: From French spéléologie, coined by Émile Rivière in 1890. The word can be broken down as speleo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of caves.
glosses: The recreational activity of exploring caves.
Related terms: speleological
spelunk
caving
potholing
confirmation name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmation names
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A name given usually by a pastor to a confirmand during a confirmation ceremony in various Christian denominations.
maiden name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maiden names
Senses: glosses: The original last name of a person, usually a woman, who has changed their last name upon marriage.
Hypernyms: birth name
Coordinate terms: deadname
Related terms: né
nee
née
mausoleum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɔː.zəˈliː.əm/
ipa: /ˌmɔ.səˈli.əm/
enpr: mô'sə-lē'əm
ipa: /-.zəˈ-/
ipa: /ˌmɑ.-/
Forms: form: mausoleums
form: mausolea
form: mausolæum
Etymology: From Middle English mausoleum, from Latin Mausōlēum, from Ancient Greek Μαυσωλεῖον (Mausōleîon), from Μαύσωλος (Maúsōlos); named after Mausolus (?–395 BCE), satrap of the Persian empire and ruler of Caria, whose tomb was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Senses: examples: Holonym: cemetery
hypernyms: vault
coordinate_terms: crypt
ossuary
glosses: A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
examples: text: As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey.
ref: 2018 December 25, Austin Murphy, “I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A gloomy, usually large room or building.
Derived terms: mausoleal
mausolean
Francophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæŋkəfoʊb/
Forms: form: Francophobes
Etymology: From Franco- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who dislikes France, the French, or French culture.
Sandeep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːp
Etymology: From Hindi संदीप (sandīp, “enlightened”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hindi used in India.
Sanya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Са́ня (Sánja), diminutive of Алекса́ндра (Aleksándra) and Алекса́ндр (Aleksándr). In some cases possibly from Serbo-Croatian Сања and Sanja.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Russian.
Sanya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Saniyah, Saniyya, from Arabic سنيّة (“radiant”)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Sanya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: sänʹyäʹ
Forms: form: San-ya
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 三亞／三亚 (Sānyà).
Senses: examples: text: About forty bombers and fighters were based at the Hoihow Airport and at Sanya in the southern part of the island, both fields built by the Japanese and used in the war to strike at Allied positions in China and Southeast Asia.[...]CAT kept planes at its main base at Sanya on a standby basis for emergency evacuation in case of Communist invasion.
ref: 1972, Seymour Topping, “Departure”, in Journey Between Two Chinas, Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 102–103:
text: In mid-November, the commander of the Hainan Military Sub-district ordered troops stationed at Sanya Bay to join the demonstration.
ref: 1983 March 20, “Hainan protest over Teng's economic plans”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 11, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: One sample question: How will Chinese ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs) based at Sanya, on Hainan Island, reach patrol grounds in the western Pacific should Beijing choose to send them out? To maintain stealth, SSBNs would first have to evade any adversary picket submarines lying offshore. Once in deep water, they would cruise eastward toward the Philippines. In all likelihood Chinese boats would exit through the Luzon Strait, the narrow sea between Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon.
ref: 2014, James R. Holmes, “Strategic Features of the South China Sea”, in Naval War College Review, volume 67, number 2, page 45:
glosses: A resort city, a prefecture-level city on Hainan island, Hainan province, China.
koji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊd͡ʒi/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdʒi
Forms: form: kojis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 麹 (kōji).
Senses: glosses: A substance that is produced by letting a mold, especially Aspergillus oryzae, grow on rice, barley, soybeans, etc., used to make fermented products such as sake, amazake, miso, and soy sauce.
glosses: The mold used in such a preparation.
right-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more right-wing
form: most right-wing
form: rightwing
form: right wing
Etymology: From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
text: From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
ref: 2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of political ideologies: typically supporting tradition, social order and property rights, especially conservative, traditionalist, and/or reactionary politics.
Synonyms: word: rightish
word: right
english: particularly US
translation: particularly US
word: conservative
english: particularly the UK
translation: particularly the UK
word: Tory
Hyponyms: aristocratic
conservative
monarchist
reactionary
theocratic
Derived terms: right-wing populism
right-wing socialism
RWNJ
Related terms: right wing
right-winger
left-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more left-wing
form: most left-wing
form: leftwing
form: left wing
Etymology: From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.
Senses: examples: text: From the start of its operations in Colombia, the company was on guard against the decadeslong civil strife in the country between left-wing guerrilla and right-wing paramilitary groups, witnesses have testified.
ref: 2007 July 13, Kyle Whitmire, “Suit in U.S. Over Murders in Colombia”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: left
leftish
liberal
antonyms: right-wing
conservative
glosses: Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality.
Derived terms: left-wing anarchism
left-wing anarchist
left-winger
left-wingy
LWNJ
Related terms: leftwing
left wing
guffaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈfɔː/
ipa: /ɡəˈfɔ/
ipa: /ɡəˈfɑ/
ipa: /ɡəˈfoː/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: guffaws
Etymology: Early 18th century, originally Scots, probably onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.
ref: 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter XX, in Sir Nigel, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], published January 1906, →OCLC:
text: He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.
ref: 1936, Robert E. Howard, chapter 15, in The Hour of the Dragon:
text: When Time magazine named Ann Coulter among its 100 "most influential people" last week, alongside such heavyweights as Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Kim Jong Il and the Dalai Lama, the choice produced guffaws online.
ref: 2005 April 19, Eric Boehlert, “Time hearts Ann Coulter”, in Salon, archived from the original on 17 May 2006:
synonyms: belly laugh
glosses: A boisterous laugh.
guffaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈfɔː/
ipa: /ɡəˈfɔ/
ipa: /ɡəˈfɑ/
ipa: /ɡəˈfoː/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: guffaws
form: guffawing
form: guffawed
form: guffawed
Etymology: Early 18th century, originally Scots, probably onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: He guffawed at his adversaries.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 15, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
text: Peter, on the contrary, threw back his head and guffawed thunderously.
ref: 1900, Stephen Crane, The Knife:
glosses: To laugh boisterously.
Derived terms: guffawingly
guffawish
ROE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ROEs
form: RoE
form: R.O.E.
form: R. O. E.
form: R.o.E.
form: R. o. E.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of return on equity, a measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of rule(s) of engagement, a/the rule(s) governing when to fire or return fire.
glosses: Abbreviation of record of employment.
Related terms: topics: finance
business
word: ROI
topics: finance
business
word: ROR
SSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Secure Sockets Layer (cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet).
Related terms: TLS
SSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Start-Stop Logic.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Spanish Second Language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Spanish Sign Language.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: Initialism of sound scattering layer.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Società Sportiva Lazio.
snippet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpɪt/
ipa: /ˈsnɪpɪt/
ipa: [ˈsnɪpɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]
rhymes: -ɪpɪt
Forms: form: snippets
Etymology: From snip + -et. Compare snippock.
Senses: examples: text: From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
text: He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table […]
ref: 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester::
text: On another occasion a "Schools" class, No. 30911 Dover, with a load of eight bogies on the same train was badly delayed by signals all the way, but made very determined attempts to pick up time whenever possible. This resulted in a sustained speed of 50 m.p.h. up Sole Street bank and several snippets in the "eighties".
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216:
text: Miss Honey smiled. It was extraordinary, she told herself, how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems, and with such authority, too.
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
synonyms: word: excerpt
word: cutting
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.
Derived terms: DNA snippet
in-snippet
snippet journalism
snippety
snippet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpɪt/
ipa: /ˈsnɪpɪt/
ipa: [ˈsnɪpɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]
rhymes: -ɪpɪt
Forms: form: snippets
form: snippeting
form: snippetting
form: snippeted
form: snippeted
form: snippetted
form: snippetted
Etymology: From snip + -et. Compare snippock.
Senses: examples: text: We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
examples: text: All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]
ref: 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester::
glosses: To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
Synonyms: sense: tiny part
word: excerpt
listless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪstləs/
Forms: form: more listless
form: most listless
Etymology: From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) + -less. Compare German lustlos and Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.
Senses: examples: text: I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 2–3:
text: What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless, stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
ref: 1861, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 6, in The Stokesley Secret:
text: The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
ref: 1901, William Somerset Maugham, chapter 21, in The Hero:
text: “Listless, inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”
ref: 2005 November 29, Aryn Baker, “John Hardy: Bali Guy”, in Time:
synonyms: word: languid
word: spiritless
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
Derived terms: listlessly
listlessness
shoot through like a Bondi tram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots through like a Bondi tram
form: shooting through like a Bondi tram
form: shot through like a Bondi tram
form: shot through like a Bondi tram
Senses: examples: text: 1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197,
[…] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram.
text: When it came to the real thing, panic took over and the routine shot through like a Bondi tram, to be replaced by a three-ring circus.
ref: 1994, Lydia Laube, The Long Way Home: Nobody Goes that Way, published 2002, page 22:
text: She had put the wind up them, called them “un-Australian”, and took to them with her parasol and they shot through like a Bondi tram, one of the men with a gash on his neck that he won′t quickly forget.
ref: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 431:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To leave in haste.
blew it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow it
sois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soi
Peach Melba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peach Melbas
Etymology: Chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1892 or 1893 created the dish for, and named it after, Australian opera singer Nellie Melba who took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.
Senses: glosses: A classic French dessert, made from peaches and raspberry sauce accompanied with vanilla ice cream.
wikipedia: Auguste Escoffier
Nellie Melba
Savoy Hotel
Related terms: Melba sauce
Melba toast
top off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tops off
form: topping off
form: topped off
form: topped off
Senses: examples: text: The waitress topped off my coffee every few minutes.
synonyms: top up
glosses: To fill or refill (a drink etc.) so that the container is completely full.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: finish off, polish
text: The banquet was topped off with coffee and chocolate.
synonyms: cap
cap off
glosses: To complete, to put the finishing touch to (something).
Related terms: word: top
word: topper
word: top it all off
word: topper-offer
Caesar salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caesar salads
form: Cæsar salad
Etymology: Named after (Italian-born) US restaurateur Caesar Cardini (1896–1956) who is generally thought to have invented it for his Tijuana restaurant in 1924.
Senses: examples: text: Would you like some Caesar salad for lunch?
text: Of all the Caesar salads I've tasted, this is the finest.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A type of salad, generally made from romaine lettuce, croutons, parmesan cheese, coddled or hard-boiled eggs, fresh-ground black pepper and Worcestershire sauce.
examples: text: Would you like a Caesar salad for lunch?
glosses: A serving of such salad.