cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
garget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt
Forms: form: gargets
Etymology: From Middle English garget, gargate (“throat”), from Old French gargate. Compare gorge.
Senses: examples: text: Chronic indurations will sometimes remain after the inflammation of garget has been subdued; they will be somewhat tender, and they will always lessen the quantity of milk.
ref: 1836, William Youatt, Cattle: Their Breeds, Management, Diseases:
text: Mastitis is a disease of the udder. More specifically, mastitis is an inflammation of the udder usually caused by germs which enter through the teat canal. Many dairymen and farmers refer to the disease by the terms garget, caked udder, and a variety of other names. All, however, are one and the same disease.
ref: 1941, W.L. Boyd, W.A. Billings, W.G. Andberg, University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service, “Mastitis or Garget in Cattle”, in Extension Folder, University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy:
text: [speaking of Suffolk in the era circa World War I] As well as these special journeys we could go for regular inspections of the cattle—because there were troubles. Some of them would be heifers or dry cows, and they would get what I suppose we'd call mastitis today but then we called it gargut [spelling as given].
ref: 1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting Margaret Meek (born 1909), Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: An inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder; synonym of mastitis.
synonyms: gargol
glosses: A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite.
synonyms: coakum
inkberry
pigeonweed
pocan
poke
poke salad
scoke
glosses: Pokeweed.
Derived terms: gargety
panegyric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒaɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: panegyrics
form: panegyrick
form: panegyry
Etymology: From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós).
Senses: examples: text: My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […]
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 267:
text: Want of something else to say, and a very shady lane, disposed him to confidence; and he forthwith began a panegyric on himself, and on the good fortune of Miss Arundel, stating, he was now on his road to offer himself and his debts to her acceptance.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 321–322:
text: The painter's absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences—he understood them all now, and he felt sorry.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 174:
text: He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 197:
text: Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.
ref: 1979, Carl Deroux, editor, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History (Collection Latomus; 164), volume 1, Brussels: Latomus, →OCLC, page 111:
synonyms: eulogy
glosses: A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
glosses: Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
Derived terms: panegyrical
panegyrically
panegyricize
panegyrist
Related terms: encomium
eulogy
laudation
oration
paean
praise
tribute
panegyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒaɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: more panegyric
form: most panegyric
form: panegyrick
form: panegyry
Etymology: From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós).
Senses: glosses: panegyrical
tache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːʃ/
ipa: /tæʃ/
Forms: form: taches
form: tash
form: 'tache
Etymology: Clipping of moustache or mustache.
Senses: glosses: Moustache, mustache.
Synonyms: stache
'stache
tache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːʃ/
ipa: /tæʃ/
Forms: form: taches
form: tatch
Etymology: From French tache (“a spot”). See tetchy.
Senses: examples: text: the herynge or seynge of any vice or euyl tache
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.
ref: 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 95:
glosses: A spot, stain, or blemish.
tache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːʃ/
ipa: /tæʃ/
Forms: form: taches
Etymology: See tack (“a kind of nail”).
Senses: examples: text: And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
ref: 1611, King James Bible, “xxvi.vi”, in Exodus, Barker edition:
glosses: Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
chatterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
other: /ˈtʃæ.təˌbɒks/
other: /ˈtʃæt.əɹ-/
other: /ˈtʃæ.dəɹˌbɑks/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)bɒks
Forms: form: chatterboxes
Etymology: From chatter + box.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref: 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who chats or talks to excess.
glosses: Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
synonyms: word: cootie catcher
extra: children's fortune-telling device
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of chatterbot.
synonyms: word: chatterbot
glosses: The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
Synonyms: sense: one who chats to excess
word: babbler
word: jabberer
word: chatterer
word: yakker
word: airbag
word: babblemouth
word: bag of wind
word: blab
word: blabberer
word: blatherer
word: blabbermouth
word: blatherskite
word: bloviator
word: chatterbag
word: chatter-basket
word: chatterbox
word: chewet
word: gabbler
word: gasbag
word: jangler
word: motormouth
word: patterer
word: prater
word: prattler
word: rattle
word: tongue-pad
word: twaddler
word: windbag
word: yapper
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: driveler
word: expatiator
word: gossiper
word: jay
word: magpie
word: ranter
word: rattlehead
word: sermonizer
Related terms: word: chatter
word: prattle
word: talkative
word: informant
crusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: crustier
form: crustiest
Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.
Senses: examples: text: No one was there. But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: Having a crust, especially a thick one.
examples: text: However kindly a friend may otherwise be, he soon turns crusty if asked to lend money.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 12:
text: Then somebody told a story about the Swedish Majesty's last sojourn in Norway. There, at a railway station, Oscar ran against a crusty old farmer who thought himself a lot better than a mere king and kept his hat on.
ref: 1922, Henry William Fischer, Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field:
text: Visitors to Maine often expect to find such colorful characters at every turn. In fact, Governor Angus King once said that if he could just strategically position a suitable crusty yet benign "Mainah" on the porch of every general store or end of every lobster wharf, giving people asking for directions the standard reply of "You can't get theyah from heyah," tourism revenue would triple.
ref: 2009, Earl Brechlin, Adventure Guide to Maine, page 65:
synonyms: gruff
peevish
surly
harsh
glosses: Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
raw_tags: of a person or behavior
examples: text: The door opened with a crusty squeak that echoed in the silent room.
text: The old vinyl record made a crusty crackling sound as the needle hit it.
text: A crusty sound came from the rusted hinges of the gate.
synonyms: inferior
glosses: Of very low quality; crude visuals or harsh, granular sound.
Derived terms: crustily
crustiness
uncrusty
Related terms: upper-crusty
crusty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: crusties
form: crustie
Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.
Senses: glosses: A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
examples: text: Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.
ref: 1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation,, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?
ref: 2003, Mary O'Connell, “Saint Anne”, in Living with Saints, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 209:
text: I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.
ref: 2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, Contemporary Press, page 51
synonyms: word: gound
word: sleep#Noun
word: sleepy dust
glosses: Dried eye mucus.
examples: text: The Spirals are part of the crossover between the rave scene and the ‘crusty’ subculture—crusties being squat-dwelling anarcho-hippy-punk types named after their matted dreadlocks and post-apocalyptic garb.
ref: 1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Many of them, dressed in raggedy black combat gear, with haircuts that matched and mismatched punk, Rasta and Native American styles - a look which would later be codified as 'crustie' - began to join the travellers on the road. This influx from the cities changed the travelling scene, and after the Battle of the Beanfield, sections of the downcast and disillusioned travelling community began to seek oblivion through Special Brew superlager or even heroin as the dream of rural liberation turned sour.
ref: 2010, Matthew Collin, Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House, page 202:
text: The predictable complaints began as soon as Extinction Rebellion launched its fortnight of protest in London, part of an international campaign of civil disobedience in as many as 60 cities worldwide. Politicians have moaned that the police are being too passive, and Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, labelled the protesters – who include a former Metropolitan police detective – “uncooperative crusties”.
ref: 2019 October 10, “The Guardian view on the Extinction Rebellion protests: of course they’re an inconvenience”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
Related terms: cruddy
crufty
souped-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːpt ʌp/
ipa: /ˈsupt ʌp/
Forms: form: souped
form: souped up
form: suped-up
Etymology: Uncertain; the fact that the earlier senses seem to be the horse racing cant and United States Navy slang ones suggests a derivation from soup (“liquid food item”), connoting a horse or a person being filled with a liquid.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a modified clipping of supe(r), with reference to an aeroplane or automobile engine being supercharged: see, for example, the quotation from 1925. This sense appears to post-date the horse-racing and navy slang senses.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soup-up
busty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
Forms: form: bustier
form: bustiest
Etymology: From bust (“breast”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I could see a busty blonde at the end of the boardwalk.
glosses: Having large breasts.
Synonyms: word: bathykolpian
word: big
word: big-breasted
word: breasty
word: boobilicious
word: bosomy
word: busty
word: buxom
word: chesty
word: curvy
word: full-bosomed
word: full-throated
word: macromastic
word: racktacular
word: racktastic
word: stacked
word: top-heavy
word: well-endowed
word: well-stacked
Hypernyms: word: voluptuous
Derived terms: bustily
bustiness
unbusty
Related terms: word: breasts
word: callipygian
souped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soup up
litigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/
Forms: form: litigants
Etymology: From French litigant, from Middle French, from Latin litigans.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.
Derived terms: litigant in person
nonlitigant
litigant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/
Forms: form: more litigant
form: most litigant
Etymology: From French litigant, from Middle French, from Latin litigans.
Senses: examples: text: the parties litigant
text: litigant Scholars
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.
tramline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæmlaɪn/
Forms: form: tramlines
form: tram line
Etymology: From tram + line.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The rails that a tram runs on.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Either of the two pairs of sidelines marked on a tennis court which mark the outside of the singles and doubles playing areas.
examples: text: The tramline is therefore much less obvious on the screen. Also, if the scratch is on the base (i.e., on the back of the film), then it will not be in sharp focus.
ref: 1984, Movie Maker, volume 18, number 2, page 47:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames.
examples: text: a tramline scar
text: The well-reported "tramlines" or parallel punctate scars on either side of the vein were seen in only four patients.
ref: 1970 June 13, Dorothy I. Vollum, “Skin Lesions in Drug Addicts”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 5710, London: British Medical Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 647:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: tram track
glosses: A mark or bruise having the shape of two parallel lines.
examples: text: Those words that [James] Murray classified as denizens and aliens, as well as those casuals approaching these two prior categories, were marked by two parallel lines beside the headword (||), a symbol known by the in-house term tramline. Murray himself admitted to the inherent subjectivity of his method of classification, which unsurprisingly led to a number of inconsistencies in the use of tramlines, and may even have contributed to the patchiness of the OED's regional coverage that Weiner acknowledged many years later.
ref: 2014 May 23, Danica Salazar, “Towards improved coverage of Southeast Asian Englishes in the Oxford English Dictionary”, in Lexicography, Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: Oxford English Dictionary jargon
glosses: A pair of vertical bars (||) placed to the left of the headword in certain editions of the OED to indicate that the term is "alien or not fully naturalized" (such as a recent borrowing).
Related terms: topics: tennis
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: alley
tramline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæmlaɪn/
Forms: form: tramlines
form: tramlining
form: tramlined
form: tramlined
form: tram line
Etymology: From tram + line.
Senses: topics: road
transport
synonyms: nibble
glosses: Of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels.
break the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs/
Forms: form: breaks the ice
form: breaking the ice
form: broke the ice
form: broken the ice
Etymology: By application of the metaphor that strangers are socially separated by ice.
Senses: examples: text: Including a few fun details in large group introductions can be a great way to break the ice.
glosses: To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality.
examples: text: If it be so ſir, that you are the man Muſt ſteed us all, and me amongſt the reſt: And if you breake the ice and do this ſeeke, Atchieve the elder: ſet the yonger free, For our acceſſe, whose hap ſhall be to have her, will not so graceleſſe be, to be ingrate.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 214:
glosses: To introduce conversation.
glosses: To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, the, ice.
Derived terms: icebreaker
shatter the ice
sward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔːd/
ipa: /swɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: swards
form: swarding
form: swarded
form: swarded
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English sward (“rind; skin; calloused skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard, swearð (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
examples: text: [Land...] will not sward again […]
ref: 1644, Gabriel Plattes, in a letter in Hartlib's Legacy (1655), page 236
text: […] for the ground immediately after corn is many years before it swards, and […]
ref: 1765, Thomas Hamilton Haddington, A Short Treatise on Forest-trees, page 45:
text: ... with soil of a similar character, several fields have been laid down and ploughed up again under the old plea that they will not sward.
ref: 1891, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Professional Notes, volume 5, page 256:
glosses: Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
Derived terms: word: swarded
sward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔːd/
ipa: /swɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: swards
Etymology: From a blend of sword + pardner.
Senses: glosses: A homosexual man.
Derived terms: swardspeak
swarth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/
ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ð
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: swarthes
form: swarths
Senses: examples: text: Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of sward.
swarth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/
ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ð
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: more swarth
form: most swarth
Etymology: See swart.
Senses: examples: text: […] What made those holes and rents
 In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk
 All hope of greenness? […]
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:
text: a swarth complexion
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: swarthy
swarth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/
ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)θ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ð
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
Senses: glosses: An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
water main
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water mains
Senses: examples: text: Helpston: Removal and replacement of rails on the main line; also the erection of a gantry to carry a water main across the railway.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: Sunday on the G.N. line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 322:
glosses: The principal pipe, usually underground, for conveying water to residential and business properties.
watermark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːtəmɑːk/
Forms: form: watermarks
Etymology: From water + mark.
Senses: glosses: A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
glosses: A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A default hint caption displayed in a text box prior to the user inputting any text.
glosses: A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
Derived terms: digital watermark
watermark disease
watermark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːtəmɑːk/
Forms: form: watermarks
form: watermarking
form: watermarked
form: watermarked
Etymology: From water + mark.
Senses: glosses: To mark paper with a watermark.
glosses: To mark a datafile with a digital watermark.
defloration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflorations
Etymology: From Old French desfloracion (French défloration), from Latin defloratio.
Senses: synonyms: deflowerment
glosses: the act of deflowering
Related terms: deflorate
deflower
decamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: decamps
form: decamping
form: decamped
form: decamped
Etymology: * French décamper, Old French descamper.
Senses: glosses: To break up camp and move on.
examples: text: Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she decamped in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye.
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
text: Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To disappear suddenly and secretly.
examples: text: I let the civilian members of our team decamp the bus first and then the main members of Team Seven and finally the hippie from Iceland, Oran! ACT 50 I noticed an RAF truck at the bottom.
ref: 2019 April 18, Kenn Gordon, The Return of Seven, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: It required much honking of horns (not only the bus's), several passengers decamping like rats leaving a sinking ship, and much waiting around while a large truck trying to negotiate the same alley found room to back up[…]
ref: 2011 May 14, Ann Timonin, Peter Timonin, Chinese Characters, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 161:
text: That vehicle was incapacitated when, during a strafing attack by American planes, its driver neglected to set its brakes before decamping, and the bus crashed into a stone wall. Whitney spent the next three nights in a windowless cellar[…]
ref: 2021 July 22, E.J. Kahn, Jr., Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney, Plunkett Lake Press:
qualifier: perhaps nonstandard
glosses: To debark, to disembark.
Synonyms: abscond
absquatulate
Derived terms: decampee
decamper
decampment
vintage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭnʹtĭj
ipa: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: vintages
Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).
Senses: glosses: The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
examples: text: I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes:
glosses: Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
glosses: The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
glosses: The year or place in which something is produced.
Derived terms: make vintage
vintage port
vintage shop
vintage shout
vintage store
vintage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭnʹtĭj
ipa: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: more vintage
form: most vintage
Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
glosses: Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
glosses: Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA).
qualifier: Of a motor car
glosses: Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
produced between the years 1870 and 1980.
qualifier: Of a watch
glosses: Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
produced between the years of 1945 and 1970, during the post-war period.
qualifier: Of an item of clothing
Derived terms: non-vintage
nonvintage
post-vintage thoroughbred
rack vintage
unvintaged
vintage audio
vintage base ball
vintage car
vintage chocolate
vintage clothing
vintage dance
vintage guitar
vintage jewellery
vintage jewelry
vintage model
vintager
vintage snowmobiling
vintage song
vintage spring
vintage time
vintage wine
vintage year
vintage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭnʹtĭj
ipa: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: vintages
form: vintaging
form: vintaged
form: vintaged
Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).
Senses: glosses: To harvest (grapes).
glosses: To make (wine) from grapes.
Derived terms: vintaging
Related terms: classic
veteran
unnoticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈnoʊtɪst/
ipa: /ʌnˈnəʊtɪst/
Forms: form: more unnoticed
form: most unnoticed
Etymology: From un- + noticed.
Senses: examples: text: In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record.
ref: 1941 September, “Notes and News: The London & Blackwall Cable Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 424–425:
text: The announcement was slipped out almost unnoticed on the last day before Parliament was dissolved to prepare for a General Election.
ref: 2019 November 20, “Government delays Heathrow rail to consider other modes”, in Rail, page 25:
text: The change of blue of the flags adorning the Elysée Palace was first made a year ago but went largely unnoticed.
ref: 2021 November 11, “Macron reverts French flag to navy blue from lighter EU shade”, in euronews:
glosses: Not noticed.
Derived terms: go unnoticed
pass unnoticed
Related terms: unnoticing
unnotice
RBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RBIs
form: RBI
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of run batted in.
RBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RBIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of risk-based inspection.
RBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Reserve Bank of India.
glosses: Initialism of Radio Berlin International.
glosses: Initialism of Ruđer Bošković Institute
smaragd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmæɹæɡd/
ipa: /sməˈɹæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Forms: form: smaragds
Etymology: From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.
Senses: examples: text: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 389:
glosses: An emerald.
Synonyms: emerald
Related terms: smaragdine
smaragdine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sməˈɹæɡdiːn/
rhymes: -æɡdiːn
Etymology: From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smáragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smáragdos). See emerald for more.
Senses: examples: text: The smaragdine and beryl, (as they are called), which are found in the copper-mines, are said to have their colour from their mixture with sulphur: and that the chrysolite, produced by the heat of thesun, receives its tincture from a hot and fiery exhalation.
ref: 1814, G. Booth, The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, volume 1, translation of original by Diodorus Siculus, page 143:
text: […]others green, as the emerald, smaragdine, and beryl; others bluish, as the sapphire and turquois; others purple-coloured, as the amethyst.
ref: 1833, John Brown, A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Stones, page 484:
text: In a work attributed to Albertus Magnus, but which is probably spurious, we are told that Alexander the Great found the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron. This tomb contained an emerald table — “The Smaragdine Table″ — on which were inscribed the following thirteen sentences in Phœnician characters: —
ref: 1997, H. Stanley Redgrove, Alchemy Ancient and Modern (Facsimile Reprint), page 40:
glosses: Emerald.
smaragdine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sməˈɹæɡdiːn/
rhymes: -æɡdiːn
Etymology: From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smáragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smáragdos). See emerald for more.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to emeralds.
examples: text: Not even inspired vision ever saw sweeter fields arrayed in living green than these spangled meads which stretch out for miles on either side, and probably lead to "rivers of delight" just beyond those massive banks of beech and oaken and maple foliage, which frame the view in smaragdine opulence.
ref: 1882 June 29, “Outside the Cars”, in Toledo Blade:
text: Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm.
ref: 1900, Frederick Rolfe, In His Own Image, John Lane, pages 323–324:
text: […] We will get the Hillbilly Woman very very high and she will lead us over the smaragdine mountain to a quiet pool where the Violent One awaits you."
ref: 1999, Lynda Barry, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 154–155:
text: She did not squint not as the sun crept through the Venetian blinds and seemed to ignite her already-luminous smaragdine eyes.
ref: 2007, Brite Templeton, Under Aldebaran, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Having the colour of emeralds.
Related terms: smaragd
greensward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnswɔːd/
Forms: form: greenswards
form: green-sward
form: green sward
Etymology: From green + sward.
Senses: examples: text: This is the prettieſt Lovv-borne Laſſe, that euer / Ran on the greene-ſord: […]
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 292, column 2:
text: Ventagladia is also a Latin form of the name Vindogladia, and would, as it seems to me, be a good name for the broad reach of greensward below, above and south of Woodyates' Inn. Gwent gledd would mean the open or unenclosed land of greensward.
ref: 1879, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, page 74:
text: One of the first roads was Norton Way, running from north to south of the town area, and is 60 feet between boundaries, with a 16-foot carriage way of 9-inch slag bottom and 4-inch granite metalling, kerbed with 4-inch pennant kerbing; on either side two 12-foot greenswards and two 10-foot paths; the surface being drained by open ditches in the greensward (Plate VI., No 3).
ref: 1913, Charles Benjamin Purdom, The Garden City: A Study in the Development of a Modern Town, page 258:
text: From the pools of blood and the enormous lumps of flesh scattered in every direction over the green sward we imagined at first that a number of animals had been killed, but on examining the remains more closely we discovered that all this carnage came from one of these unwieldy monsters, which had been literally torn to pieces by some creature not larger, perhaps, but far more ferocious, than itself.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: To be plunged straight into the old nut and bolt shop, as was the writer's experience, during a spell of cloudless June Weather was a real hardship, and the mind kept flitting back to the glint of blue water under willow trees and the click of ball on bat on a quiet spacious greensward.
ref: 1944 September–October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
text: He followed much of Olmsted and Vaux's plan, creating features such as South Open Ground, a vast greensward created by thinning out native oaks and shaping tons of soil and animal waste into “pleasing slopes and graceful undulations.”
ref: 2015, Colin Fisher, Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago, University of North Carolina Press, page 16:
glosses: A tract of land that is green with grass.
Derived terms: greenswarded
Related terms: grassland
green
lea
meadow
pasture
Brenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brennas
Etymology: An American coinage used since the 1970s, possibly based on the male given name Brennan or Brendan.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Brenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brennas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Brenna.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
haired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛəd/
ipa: /hɛɹd/
ipa: /heːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /heəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hiəd/
ipa: /heɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
homophone: heard (fair–fur merger)
homophone: herd (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hair
plaigiarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of plagiarism.
watermill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermills
Etymology: From water + mill.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: water engine
glosses: A mill powered by water.
The machine or device itself.
related: word: water mill
coordinate_terms: windmill#Noun
wind engine#Noun
examples: text: Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:
glosses: A mill powered by water.
The machine and the building that houses it, considered as a unit.
related: word: water mill
coordinate_terms: windmill#Noun
Related terms: grist mill
gristmill
flour mill
flourmill
feed mill
feedmill
water power
waterpower
water mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water mills
Etymology: From water + mill.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watermill.
varietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹaɪətəl/
Etymology: From variety + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a distinct variety of organism.
antonyms: generic#Adjective
glosses: Made from a single specific variety (especially of grapes in wine).
examples: text: An assessment of a selection of regional, varietal, and slang dictionaries also found that little lexicographical effort has been extended to these terms.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a variety of a language.
varietal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹaɪətəl/
Forms: form: varietals
Etymology: From variety + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The varietal Merlot has rich red color and a robust fruity taste. Cabernet Sauvignon is a varietal that descended from Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc.
text: “This debut rosé marks the beginning of As Ever’s thoughtful expansion into wine, with a Méthode Champenoise Napa Valley sparkling wine planned for the near future and additional varietals to follow,” it said.
ref: 2025 July 1, Edward Helmore, “Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, launches ‘thoughtful’ collection of wines”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: blend#Noun
generic#Noun
glosses: A wine made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of grape, which carries the name of that grape.
glosses: A coffee made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of coffee bean.
gelding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ
Forms: form: geldings
Etymology: From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
ref: 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A castrated male horse.
glosses: Any castrated male animal.
gelding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ
Etymology: From geld + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geld
gubbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌb.ɪnz/
Forms: form: gubbins
Etymology: Ante 1553. From gobbin (“piece, portion, slice”), from Middle English goboun, from Anglo-Norman gobon. Compare with English gobony (“line of alternating squares”).
Senses: examples: text: "Silly gubbins," she said. "You told me twice, and I was interested even the second time. […]"
ref: 1916, Edward Frederic Benson, David Blaize, page 146:
glosses: Silly person; fool.
Synonyms: sense: silly person
word: fool
fettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛtl̩/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
Forms: form: fettles
Etymology: From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly:
* from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or
* from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”).
Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”).
Senses: examples: text: These strong 2-8-2s […] appeared in good fettle, especially those shedded at Lublin and several arrivals and departures were photographed in the fine evening light.
ref: 1979 August, P. R. G. Kennard, “Polish Steam Panorama”, in Railway World, page 421:
glosses: A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
glosses: One's mental state; spirits.
glosses: Sand used to line a furnace.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
glosses: The act of fettling.
examples: text: What’s yer fettle marra?
glosses: A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
Derived terms: in fine fettle
fettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛtl̩/
rhymes: -ɛtəl
Forms: form: fettles
form: fettling
form: fettled
form: fettled
Etymology: From Late Middle English fetlen (“(verb) to bestow; to fix, prepare, put in place; to prepare (oneself) for battle, gird up; to shape; to be about to, or to ready (oneself) to stay; (adjective) shaped (well or poorly)”) [and other forms], which possibly:
* from Old English fetel (“belt, girdle, fettle”), from Proto-Germanic *fatilaz, further etymology unknown; or
* from Old English fetian (“to fetch”), from Proto-Germanic *fatōną, *fatjaną (“to fetch”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“foot”).
Compare Old English ġefetelsod (“provided with a belt; trimmed, polished, ornamented”).
Senses: examples: text: He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in.
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia:
text: For some time after the train had gone Oscar stood on the track conversing with members of the fettling gang […]
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 83:
coordinate_terms: fiddle
fiddle with
glosses: To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
examples: text: Nor list he now go whistling to the car,
But sells his team , and fettleth to the war
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
glosses: To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
examples: text: Divint fettle yersel ower that!
glosses: To be upset or in a bad mood.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
examples: text: He wants to fettle his gearchange mechanism before the next competition.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation.
examples: text: But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next...
ref: 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
glosses: To prepare.
Derived terms: fettler
fettling
refettle
unfettled
Related terms: fash
generation loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generation losses
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media.
safety school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety schools
Senses: glosses: The least desired among the colleges and universities that one applies to for admission, chosen as a contingency in case one is rejected from all others.
gangbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋ.bæŋ/
Forms: form: gangbangs
form: gang bang
form: gang-bang
Etymology: Compound of gang + bang.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Man, that sure was some bum evening at Mr Vial's,’ he said. ‘I pulled out fast when I saw how it was shaping. They was having an orgy when I left, but me, I don't care for these pig-parties or gang-bangs whatsoever.’
ref: 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, pages 179–180:
synonyms: word: tag team
hypernyms: orgy
meronyms: tip drill
glosses: An act of two or more people having sex with one person who is the focus of the sexual activity.
examples: text: One night the mob turned up in force and wrecked the joint. Left the girls alone, but had themselves a gang-bang with Tiffany. She was only sixteen at the time.
ref: 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever:
glosses: Synonym of gang rape.
synonyms: word: gang rape
glosses: An act of a street gang committing crimes as a group, such as attacking random people on the streets.
Derived terms: blowbang
gangbanger
reverse gangbang
gangbang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋ.bæŋ/
Forms: form: gangbangs
form: gangbanging
form: gangbanged
form: gangbanged
form: gang bang
form: gang-bang
Etymology: Compound of gang + bang.
Senses: examples: text: We all got to gangbang the porn star.
coordinate_terms: run a train
pull a train
ride the cock carousel
glosses: To participate in a gangbang.
examples: text: It broke my heart to see him out there gangbanging.
glosses: To belong to a gang; to commit criminal acts as part of a gang.