cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪm/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: whims
Etymology: Clipping of whim-wham.
Senses: examples: text: Let ev’ry Man enjoy his whim; / What’s He to Me, or I to him?
ref: 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, book IV, J. Coote, →OCLC, page 137:
text: The king was tired of this whim of hers long ago, and thought she ought to get married like other people; there was nothing she need wait for, she was old enough and she would not be any richer either, for she was to have half the kingdom, which she inherited after her mother.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269:
text: “You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
text: He also disagreed with the idea of cancelling projects "completely at the whim of an individual Prime Minister," citing Rishi Sunak's decision to cancel HS2 north of Handsacre Junction.
ref: 2025 October 15, “News: Renewed commitment to Northern Powerhouse Rail”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 9:
glosses: A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
Synonyms: sense: fancy
word: lark
word: especially in phrase on a whim
word: boutade
word: caprice
word: capriccio
word: conceit
word: crotchet
word: delirament
word: fancy
word: fangle
word: figary
word: flisk
word: freak
word: kink
word: maggot
word: megrim
word: spleen
word: toy
word: vagary
word: whim
word: whim-wham
word: whimsy
Hypernyms: word: idea
word: impulse
word: notion
word: thought
Derived terms: on a whim
whim gin
whim shaft
whimsical
Related terms: word: on a whim
word: whimling
whim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪm/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: whims
form: whimming
form: whimmed
form: whimmed
Etymology: Clipping of whim-wham.
Senses: glosses: To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.
whim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪm/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: whims
Etymology: Compare whimbrel.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.
Synonyms: word: boutade
word: caprice
word: capriccio
word: conceit
word: crotchet
word: delirament
word: fancy
word: fangle
word: figary
word: flisk
word: freak
word: kink
word: lark
word: maggot
word: megrim
word: spleen
word: toy
word: vagary
word: whim
word: whim-wham
word: whimsy
Hypernyms: word: idea
word: impulse
word: notion
word: thought
Related terms: word: on a whim
word: whimling
fanciful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænsɪfl̩/
Forms: form: more fanciful
form: most fanciful
form: fancifull
form: phanciful
form: phancifull
Etymology: From fancy + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
text: It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
glosses: Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
glosses: Unreal or imagined.
Derived terms: fancifully
fancifulness
nonfanciful
overfanciful
unfanciful
imaginative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnətɪv/
ipa: /-ənətɪv/
ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒnətɪv/
Forms: form: more imaginative
form: most imaginative
Etymology: From Middle English ymagynatif, from Middle French imaginatif, from Medieval Latin imāginātīvus.
Senses: examples: text: an imaginative boy
text: No doubt kibitzers are highly imaginative. How else could they see wins and brilliant combinations that do not exist?
ref: 1951 December, Helen Weissenstein, “Readers' Forum”, in Chess Review:
glosses: Having a lively or creative imagination.
examples: text: an imaginative story
glosses: Tending to be fanciful or inventive.
glosses: False or imagined.
Derived terms: imaginative fiction
imaginatively
imaginativeness
nonimaginative
overimaginative
unimaginative
inventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-vĕnʹtĭv
ipa: /ɪnˈvɛntɪv/
rhymes: -ɛntɪv
Forms: form: more inventive
form: most inventive
Etymology: From Middle English inventif, inventyfe, borrowed from Old French inventif, borrowed from Medieval Latin inventivus. By surface analysis, invent + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: an inventive pursuit
text: At the other end, Dortmund were producing some typically inventive approach play but struggled to find a way through the visitors' defence, and were unable to find a finish when they did.
ref: 2013 November 6, Chris Bevan, “Borussia Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
examples: text: an inventive fellow
glosses: Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
examples: text: an inventive story
glosses: Purposely fictive.
Derived terms: inventively
inventiveness
reinventive
uninventive
sass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæs/
rhymes: -æs
Etymology: Variant of sauce.
Senses: examples: text: This girl has a lot of sass.
glosses: The quality of being sassy.
examples: text: Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter I, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 23:
text: Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter V, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: Talk-back or sass per Bell Hooks is "a gesture of defiance that heals...liberated voice" […]
ref: 2015, Gwendolyn D. Pough, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere, Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
glosses: Vegetables used in making sauces.
glosses: A subgenre of screamo music.
Derived terms: sassy
sass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: sasses
form: sassing
form: sassed
form: sassed
Etymology: Variant of sauce.
Senses: examples: text: The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back; and the minute they was fairly at it, I lit out, and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer—for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXI, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 316:
text: “But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.”
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, chapter 2, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:
glosses: To talk, to talk back.
examples: text: Don’t sass your teachers!
text: “This isn’t any of your business, Ilse Burnley,” muttered Jennie, sullenly.
“Oh, isn’t it? Don’t you sass me, Piggy-eyes.” Ilse walked up to the retreating Jennie and shook a sunburned fist in her face.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: To speak insolently to.
glory box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glory boxes
form: glory-box
Etymology: Probably related to UK dialect glory hole (“place for storing odds and ends”).
Senses: examples: text: 1985, Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900-1965, Melbourne University Press, page 148,
Every girl who hoped to marry had started early on her glory box, sewing and embroidering household linen, buying sheets and towels on cash order.
text: Trousseaux and glory boxes could be slowly built up while women were engaged in the paid workforce, before marriage heralded the loss of an independent income.
ref: 2003, Jane Malthus, Chris Brickell, “Producing and Consuming Gender: The Case of Clothing”, in Barbara Lesley Brookes, Annabel Cooper, Robin Law, editors, Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1939, page 124:
text: ‘[…]You can work on my daughter′s glory box. She′s had to get a job in the pub and she hasn′t had time to finish it and she′s getting married in December.’
ref: 2004, Kerry Greenwood, The Long Walk, unnumbered page:
text: She said that her mother brought them out to Australia in a baule — a huge glory box — along with blankets, kitchen utensils, crockery, and 32 litres of olive oil in tins. Tucked in this glory box, the linens travelled in the hull of a ship from Naples across oceans and seas, on a train from Sydney to Stanthorpe, by horse and cart to Applethorpe and later by ute to Brisbane.
ref: 2011, Zoe Boccabella, Mezza Italiana, unnumbered page:
glosses: A woman's storage box containing items saved for her wedding or married life.
Synonyms: word: bottom drawer
word: hope chest
Related terms: trousseau
keyserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyservers
form: key server
Etymology: From key + server.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In public key cryptography, the server that stores and distributes the public key files.
cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹz/
ipa: /ˈkɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of car
loved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvd/
rhymes: -ʌvd
Etymology: From Middle English loved, luvd, from Old English lufode, first and third person singular past indicative of lufian; and Middle English loved, iloved, from Old English ġelufod, past participle of lufian; both equivalent to love + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of love
loved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvd/
rhymes: -ʌvd
Forms: form: more loved
form: most loved
Etymology: From Middle English loved, luvd, from Old English lufode, first and third person singular past indicative of lufian; and Middle English loved, iloved, from Old English ġelufod, past participle of lufian; both equivalent to love + -ed.
Senses: examples: ref: 1997, Charlie W. Shedd, How to Make People Really Feel Loved: And Other Life-Giving Observations, Vine Books, →ISBN:
ref: 1999, Valerie Grove, Laurie Lee: The Well-Loved Stranger, Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
glosses: Being the object of love.
Synonyms: beloved
Derived terms: loved one
loved-up
loved up
preloved
underloved
unloved
well loved
well-loved
glory hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glory holes
Senses: examples: text: The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 75:
text: One trick I used is turning things into a word problem. For example, if there are three glory holes in the bathroom at the club and 28 guys at the circuit party, how many rotations of guys will it take before everybody's had a turn?
ref: 2009, Richard Appel, “Family Gay”, in Family Guy, season 7, episode 8, spoken by Peter Griffin:
text: His personal assistants wear go-go boots and every vocal booth / Must have a glory hole
ref: 2009, “Scoliosis Jones”, in Jhelli Beam, performed by Busdriver:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
hypernyms: glory wall
glosses: A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military trench.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the merchant and Royal Navy:
A generally untidy place.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the merchant and Royal Navy:
The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the merchant and Royal Navy:
The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
glosses: A bell-mouth spillway; a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
glosses: A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
Derived terms: gloryholer
glory hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glory holes
form: glory holing
form: glory holed
form: glory holed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gloryhole.
willie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of willy
Related terms: the willies
willie wagtail
willie-waught
suppurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌpjəreɪt/
Forms: form: suppurates
form: suppurating
form: suppurated
form: suppurated
Etymology: From Latin suppūrātus, past participle of suppūrō, from pūr-, stem of pūs.
Senses: examples: text: Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
text: The only difference being Bezos was worth $60.7bn, while Bloodworth and his fellow “associates” walked back at midnight to fetid digs “with heavy legs supporting suppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.
ref: 2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quoting James Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To form or discharge pus.
examples: text: to suppurate a sore
glosses: To cause to generate pus.
halves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːvz/
ipa: /haːvz/
ipa: /hɐːvz/
ipa: /hævz/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəvz/
ipa: /havz/
Senses: glosses: plural of half
Derived terms: by halves
halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːvz/
ipa: /haːvz/
ipa: /hɐːvz/
ipa: /hævz/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəvz/
ipa: /havz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of halve
Related terms: halfsies
fleshy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛʃi/
rhymes: -ɛʃi
homophone: fleshie
Forms: form: fleshier
form: more fleshy
form: fleshiest
form: most fleshy
Etymology: From Middle English fleisshy, fleischy, fleschi, equivalent to flesh + -y. Piecewise doublet of fleischig.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in David Copperfield:
text: [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
ref: 1901, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The First Men in the Moon:
glosses: Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
examples: text: The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
ref: 1894, Anthony Hope, chapter 3, in The Prisoner of Zenda:
text: He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
ref: 1908, Jack London, The Heathen:
text: It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.
ref: 2009 January 15, Lisa Abend, “Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks”, in Time:
glosses: Having considerable flesh; plump.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: a fleshy wine
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: Rich and smooth, with significant body or texture.
Synonyms: sense: having considerable flesh
word: corpulent
sense: having considerable flesh
word: full-figured
sense: having considerable flesh
word: porky
sense: having considerable flesh
word: pudgy
sense: having considerable flesh
word: well-covered
Derived terms: fleshily
fleshiness
fleshy lupine
overfleshy
subfleshy
unfleshy
basa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basa
Etymology: From Vietnamese ba sa.
Senses: synonyms: word: cobbler
word: river cobbler
glosses: The catfish Pangasius bocourti.
Related terms: basa fish
perforate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəːfəreɪt/
Forms: form: perforates
form: perforating
form: perforated
form: perforated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English perforat(e) (“perforated, pierced”), borrowed from Latin perforātus, the perfect
passive participle of perforō (“to bore or pierce through, to perforate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from per- (“through, thorough”) + forō (“to bore, pierce”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: To pierce; to penetrate.
examples: text: to perforate a sheet of postage stamps
glosses: To make a line of holes in (a thin material) to allow separation at the line.
Derived terms: biperforate
imperforate
macroperforate
microperforate
multiperforate
nonperforating
perforately
perforation
perforator
perforin
reperforate
subperforate
unperforate
perforate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəːfəreɪt/
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English perforat(e) (“perforated, pierced”), borrowed from Latin perforātus, the perfect
passive participle of perforō (“to bore or pierce through, to perforate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from per- (“through, thorough”) + forō (“to bore, pierce”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: examples: text: An Earthen Pot perforate at the Bottom to let in the Plant.
ref: 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylua Syluarum:
glosses: Perforated.
raw_tags: as a participle
examples: text: Suche abuses can not be longe hydde frome princis, that haue their eares perforate (as is the prouerbe).
ref: 1541, Thomas Elyot, Image of Governance:
glosses: Perforated, having a hole.
raw_tags: as a participial adjective
examples: text: A species of remarkable appearance with mature leaf laminae often so profoundly perforate as to resemble a fragile net of tissue.
ref: 1999, Nguyen Van Dzu, Peter C. Boyce, Kew Bulletin, 54(2):379-393:
topics: biology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philately
glosses: Perforated.
Raynaud's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Maurice Raynaud, the French doctor who described the disease.
Senses: glosses: A disease characterized by low blood flow to the fingers, toes, and/or ears.
wikipedia: Maurice Raynaud
poka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkə/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of polka.
trivial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
note: now rare except in rapid speech
ipa: /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/
Forms: form: more trivial
form: most trivial
form: triviall
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
* From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
* From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
Senses: examples: text: "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
glosses: Ignorable; of little significance or value.
examples: text: As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
ref: 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:
glosses: Commonplace, ordinary.
glosses: Concerned with or involving trivia.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
Containing only one element; having an underlying set which is a singleton.
raw_tags: of an algebraic structure or ideal thereof
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Self-evident.
glosses: Pertaining to the trivium.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
Synonyms: sense: of little significance
word: ignorable
sense: of little significance
word: negligible
sense: of little significance
word: trifling
sense: of little significance
word: frothy
Derived terms: nontrivial
trivia
trivial absolute value
trivial functional dependency
trivial group
triviality
trivially
trivial name
trivial solution
trivial topology
trivial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/
note: now rare except in rapid speech
ipa: /ˈtɹɪv.jəl/
Forms: form: trivials
form: triviall
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
* From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
* From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
Senses: examples: text: Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre
That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde
How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
ref: c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
text: St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
lamington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmɪŋtən/
Forms: form: lamingtons
form: leamington
form: lemmington
Etymology: Uncertain. Although current dictionaries all associate it with Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the earliest publication of this derivation is by John Hepworth in the Nation Review of July 1977. An earlier (1966) reference gives the cake but does not associate it with the Baron, suggesting the theory was not current in the 1960s. It has also been claimed that the name comes from Lamington, South Lanarkshire.
Senses: examples: text: Women were also known for their cooking skills although this was not so much in the provision of meals (which were ‘simple and wholesome’), but in the production of confectionery, ranging from scones, biscuits, sponges, cakes, etc., to such noted Australian and New Zealand delicacies as lamingtons and pavlova.
ref: 2000, Patrick Mullins, Chris Kynaston, “The Household Production of Subsistence Goods”, in Patrick Nicol Troy, editor, A History of European Housing in Australia: The Urban Peasant Thesis Reassessed, page 146:
text: Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut.
ref: 2003, Dawn Marie Schrandt, Just Me Cookin Cakes, page 136:
text: Lamingtons are a traditional New Zealand tea-time treat: plain sponge dipped in a chocolate sauce and coated with coconut.
ref: 2005, Pippa Cuthbert, Lindsay Cameron Wilson, Ice Cream!, page 118:
text: Enter James Lambert, word detective. Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington. Steal the pavlova if you must, but only an April Fool would deem the lamington a Kiwi import.
ref: 2021 April 14, David Astle, “Lamington wars: claiming an Australian invention really takes the cake”, in The Age:
glosses: A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut.
wikipedia: Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington
Lamington, South Lanarkshire
Related terms: lamington drive
alembong
lamington drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamington drives
Etymology: From lamington + drive (“fundraiser”).
Senses: examples: text: From a modest beginning, relying on ‘funds raised through lamington drives and the sale of home-made jams and cakes by a loyal and dedicated band of childless wives and would-be grandmothers’, Pivet Australia developed into a $5 million dollar complex with a team of scientists and technicians of international renown.
ref: 1992, Robyn Rowland, Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies, page 220:
text: Jan and Fergus are recommending activities like raffles and lamington drives and car washes - which are all well and good but will raise the entrants hardly any money.
ref: 2003, Rebecca Sparrow, The Girl Most Likely, University of Queensland Press, page 70:
text: They did their best to protect their precious victories, found ways to qualify for a little federal funding, or went back to raffles and lamington drives.
ref: 2003, Mark Peel, The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty, page 143:
glosses: A club or school fundraising event where volunteers make lamingtons for sale.
botch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: botches
form: botching
form: botched
form: botched
Etymology: From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.
Senses: examples: text: A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
synonyms: word: ruin
word: bungle
word: crab
word: ball up
word: blight
word: botch
word: bugger up
word: bungle
word: dirty
word: undo
word: disrupt
word: disturb
word: fuck up
word: jack up
word: mar
word: mess up
word: mishandle
word: mommick
word: pollute
word: put a crimp in
word: queer
word: ruin
word: screw up
word: sour
word: spoil
word: stain
word: upset
word: turn upside down
word: upset the applecart
word: vitiate
glosses: To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
glosses: To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
synonyms: word: bodge
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: cobble together
word: jury-rig
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: knock together
word: knock up
word: MacGyver
word: make-do
word: patch
word: patch-up
glosses: To repair or mend clumsily.
Derived terms: blotch
botcher
botchery
botch up
botchwork
botchy
botch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: botches
Etymology: From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.
Senses: examples: text: That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 140, column 2:
glosses: An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
glosses: A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
glosses: A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
glosses: A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
examples: text: If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, Doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-by.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Æsculapius to the Rescue”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 149:
synonyms: bungler
glosses: One who makes a mess of something.
Derived terms: botch job
botch-up
Related terms: bodge
foul up
mess up
screw up
botch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: botches
Etymology: From Middle English botche, from Anglo-Norman boche, from Late Latin bocia (“boss”).
Senses: examples: text: Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 1071:
glosses: A tumour or other malignant swelling.
examples: text: The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:27:
glosses: A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
Pan-Slavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + Slav + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A movement aimed at uniting all the Slavic peoples.
out to lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She's out to lunch right now, but you may leave her a note.
glosses: Away eating lunch or for a midday break; especially, away from work or a job.
examples: text: After he drove with his turn signal on for five miles, I was pretty sure he was out to lunch.
text: Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
ref: 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
text: But then along came this biter / And he was so out of touch / So completely self indulgent / Just so out to lunch
ref: 2002, “Along Came a Biter”, in Temporary Forever, performed by Busdriver:
glosses: Clueless, inattentive, or careless.
baby boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby boomers
form: baby-boomer
form: babyboomer
form: Baby Boomer
Etymology: From baby boom + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The baby boomers, Americans born between 1946 and 1961, are increasingly discovering that the cohorts with whom they crowded into maternity wards, elementary schools, colleges and entry-level jobs are now clogging the fast track to the top as well, demographers say.
ref: 1982 January 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Baby Boom Comes of Age”, in New York Times:
synonyms: boomer
glosses: A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.
Hyponyms: english: usually hyponymous
translation: usually hyponymous
word: Joneser
Derived terms: conspiraboomer
echo boomer
grandboomer
Related terms: baby buster
heads up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Heads up! I'm about to let go.
text: Heads up! The boss is coming.
text: Heads up, Marines! We got trouble.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
glosses: Used as an informal warning, caution, or call for attention; pay attention!
Synonyms: word: look out!
word: look sharp!
word: watch it!
word: watch out!
word: avast [⇒ thesaurus]!
topics: nautical
transport
word: beware!
word: blackfriars!
word: cave!
word: cheese it!
word: heads up!
word: hey up!
word: hist!
word: look lively!
word: mind out!
word: namous!
word: take care!
word: ware!
Hypernyms: word: hey
Hyponyms: word: en garde!
topics: fencing
martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: fire in the hole!
word: fore!
topics: golf
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: gardyloo!
word: man on!
topics: soccer
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
basketball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: timber!
Related terms: word: pay attention
word: attention
word: caution
heads up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads ups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heads-up.
heads up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of head up
heads up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Containing only two players.
Related terms: head up
devotchka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devotchkas
form: devochka
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian де́вочка (dévočka, “girl”).
Senses: examples: text: This evening in the Korova there was a fair number of vecks and ptitsas and devotchkas and malchicks smecking and peeting away, and cutting through their govoreeting and the burbling of the in-the-landers with their 'Gorgor fallatuke and the worm sprays in filltip slaughterballs' and all that cal you could slooshy a popdisc on the stereo, this being Ned Achimota singing 'That Day, Yeah, That Day'.
ref: 1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 115:
text: His arm wrapped her shoulders, and he dropped a kiss on her head. "Come on, devotchka. I'm taking you home."
ref: 1984, Möeth Allison, Russian Roulette, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Meanwhile, three churlish mops stroke their cheeks at the top of the stairs as if to remind the first guest that they are truly the rosy-cheeked devotchkas of yore.
ref: 2001, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, A Larger Sense of Harvey: A Novel, page 261:
text: “Comrade Golovkin,” he said. “It is a terrible afternoon, devotchka. May I offer you a ride back to the Kremlin?”
ref: 2014, Paul Dowswell, Red Shadow, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A girl, especially one of Russian descent.
buttinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌˈtɪnski/
ipa: /bʌˈtɪnski/
ipa: [-ˈɾɪn-]
Forms: form: buttinskys
form: buttinskies
form: buttinski
Etymology: From butt in (“to join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited, interject”) + -sky (a variant of -ski (suffix added to a word, name, or phrase to invoke Russianness, Polishness, or a more general Slavicness)), humorously modelled after Russian surnames, and originally and often used in the form of a surname.
Senses: examples: text: I wish I had never met that nosy buttinsky!
text: Well, all right then! If you think I'm a buttinsky, then I'll just butt in!
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I, page 252:
text: "Shut up, Garrett. I never," said Mr. Tallboy, extricating himself from Garrett's grasp and giving him a playful punch in the wind, "in my life, met with such a bunch of buttinskis as you are in this department. Nothing is sacred to you, not even a man's business correspondence."
ref: 1933, Dorothy L[eigh] Sayers, “Murder Must Advertise. Chapter 4: Remarkable Acrobatics of a Harlequin.”, in The Five Red Herrings (Suspicious Characters): And Murder Must Advertise, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, →OCLC, page 357:
text: It is never pleasant for a man of sensibility to find himself regarded as a buttinski and a trailing arbutus, and it was thus, I could see at a g., that Wilbert Cream was pencilling me in.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter V, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC, page 50:
synonyms: word: butterinsky
word: kibitzer
word: meddler
word: nosey parker
word: stickybeak
word: yenta
english: woman, chiefly in Jewish contexts
translation: woman, chiefly in Jewish contexts
glosses: One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
synonyms: butt set
glosses: A robust portable one-piece telephone instrument with clips, used by technicians and lines staff for testing telephone circuits or making a temporary connection to a telephone line.
Related terms: butterinsky
back-seat driver
encroacher
gatecrasher
interloper
intruder
marplot
peeping tom
persona non grata
snoop
snooper
impromptu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɒmptju/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɑmpt(j)u/
Etymology: Borrowed from French impromptu.
Senses: examples: text: The party began with an impromptu rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.
text: an impromptu speech
synonyms: extemporaneous
unplanned
glosses: Improvised; without prior preparation, planning or rehearsal.
Synonyms: word: ad lib
word: extemporal
word: extemporary
word: extemporaneous
word: extempore
word: extemporized
word: impromptu
word: improvised
word: improviso
word: off-the-cuff
word: offhand
word: spur-of-the-moment
Related terms: word: designless
word: undesigned
word: unscheduled
word: unplanned
word: unpremeditated
word: unrehearsed
word: unscripted
word: spontaneous
word: unprepared
word: casual
word: improvisatorial
word: improvisatory
word: throwaway
word: makeshift
word: make-do
word: jury-rigged
word: stopgap
impromptu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɒmptju/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɑmpt(j)u/
Forms: form: impromptus
Etymology: Borrowed from French impromptu.
Senses: examples: text: The second impromptu is a dance-like Allegretto in A flat major, with a trio in D flat major employing arpeggiated textures.
ref: 1997, Christopher H. Gibbs, The Cambridge Companion to Schubert, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
glosses: Any composition, musical or otherwise, that is created on the spot without preparation.
big screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big screens
Senses: examples: text: You should watch Star Wars on the big screen for the full effect.
text: He also became a big screen star. The 2014 film Paddington included scenes shot within his namesake terminus, [...].
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74:
glosses: The large viewing surface upon which films are projected in a cinema.
examples: text: Stars of the stage and the big screen gathered for the awards ceremony.
text: Jane Smith made her big-screen debut in 2005, appearing as a librarian in a Hollywood crime thriller.
glosses: Movies, or that which is related to movies or cinema.
Synonyms: silver screen
on the blink
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Presumably from an appliance with poor electrical connection blinking from intermittent connection.
Senses: examples: text: My toaster is on the blink, making either charcoal or cold bread.
text: I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink / I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
ref: 1968, “I'm So Tired”, in John Lennon (lyrics), The Beatles, performed by the Beatles:
glosses: functioning erratically, malfunctioning; not working or not working well. Usually refers to a mechanical or electrical device.
Synonyms: sense: malfunctioning
word: on the fritz
buckle down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buckles down
form: buckling down
form: buckled down
form: buckled down
Etymology: From buckle + down.
Senses: examples: text: If he would buckle down and do his homework, he could be an excellent student.
text: I confess that the recollection of what this bell could do when it buckled down to it gave me pause as I stood that night at 12.30 p.m. prompt beside the outhouse where it was located.
ref: 1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXII, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 280:
synonyms: buckle to
glosses: To apply oneself to study, or a task or work; to focus on or take a serious attitude towards something; to put forth the needed effort.
Related terms: buckle to
buckle up
hunker down
knuckle down
lock in
variegated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: vârʹēəgā'tĭd
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹɪˌɡeɪtɪd/
enpr: vârʹēəgā'tĭd
ipa: /ˈvɛ(ə)ɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
note: non-Mary–marry–merry merger also
ipa: /ˈvæɹ-/
Forms: form: more variegated
form: most variegated
Etymology: From variegate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There I beheld the painter of the year diſplaying his variegated fancies on his leafy tablets, and, with the pencil of power dipped in the æthereal bow, writing the leſſons of wiſdom divine on the fair forehead of blooming Nature.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:
text: From the heights a view was now and then obtained between the lofty pine and fir-trees of the valley below with its smiling fields and variegated woods of birch and alder trees, between which the river wound like a narrow silvery streak.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:
synonyms: word: patterned
word: distinct
word: marked
word: patterned
glosses: Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
synonyms: word: motley
word: multicolored
word: polychromatic
word: aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured
word: colorful (US) / colourful
word: colorific
word: discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US
word: obsolete) / discoloured
word: kaleidoscopic
word: many-coloured
word: motley
word: multichromatic
word: multicolor (US) / multicolour
word: multicolored (US) / multicoloured
word: multicolorous
word: multihued
word: particolored (US) / particoloured
word: polychromate
word: polychromatic
word: polychromed
word: polyhued
word: prismatic
word: rainbow
word: rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured
word: tissued
word: variegated
glosses: Very colorful.
examples: text: The challenge to heterosexuality requires that we claim, not deny, our queer character. It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.
ref: 1996 September, “No Double Standard”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Varied, heterogeneous, motley
Derived terms: variegated coffee bug
variegated fairywren
variegated horsetail
variegated star macromolecule
variegated tinamou
Related terms: variegate
variegated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vârʹēəgā'tĭd
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈvɛəɹɪˌɡeɪtɪd/
enpr: vârʹēəgā'tĭd
ipa: /ˈvɛ(ə)ɹi.əˌɡeɪtɪd/
note: non-Mary–marry–merry merger also
ipa: /ˈvæɹ-/
Etymology: From variegate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of variegate
crank out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cranks out
form: cranking out
form: cranked out
form: cranked out
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: churn out
text: The teenager spent hours cranking out volumes of bad poetry.
coordinate_terms: turn out
slap together
throw together
glosses: To produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine.
Related terms: crank one out
beside oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: besides oneself
Etymology: Possibly derived from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”), from παράνοος (paránoos, “demented”), from παρά (pará, “beyond, beside”) + νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”), with "beside mind" evolving into "beside oneself".
Senses: examples: text: His widow was beside herself with grief.
text: [...] he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.
ref: 1860, Henry David Thoreau, The Last Days of John Brown:
glosses: Overcome; consumed by an emotion.
Maxwell's demon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maxwell's demons
Etymology: Named after physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and demon, and probably from Greek daemon, a mythological being intermediate between gods and men.
Senses: examples: text: She did gather that there were two distinct kinds of this entropy. One having to do with heat-engines, the other to do with communication. The equation for one, back in the ’30's, had looked very like the equation for the other. It was a coincidence. The two fields were entirely unconnected, except at one point: Maxwell's Demon.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A hypothetical creature in a thought experiment. Maxwell’s demon, if it existed, would act as a sort of gate guard by sorting between higher-energy molecules and lower-energy molecules within an enclosed space. Because such a sorting process would tend to decrease entropy, it would violate the second law of thermodynamics.
Related terms: information engine
perpetual motion machine of the second kind