cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
doest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːɪst/
ipa: /ˈduːəst/
rhymes: -uːɪst
rhymes: -uːəst
Forms: form: do'st
form: dost
Senses: examples: text: If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
ref: , Genesis 4:7
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of do
tenderest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This intimacy did not decrease with further acquaintance. I found Lischen the tenderest of nurses.
ref: 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of tender: most tender
punishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punishment
punishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punish
ichneumon fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichneumon flies
Senses: qualifier: inaccurately named
glosses: ichneumon wasp
ichneumon wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichneumon wasps
Senses: glosses: A member of family Ichneumonidae of parasitic wasps whose larvae feed on other live insect larvae.
Synonyms: ichneumon fly
flieth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəθ
Senses: examples: text: The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
ref: , Deuteronomy 4:17
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fly
rideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
ref: , Psalms 68:33
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ride
crowneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: crown + -eth
Senses: examples: text: Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies
ref: 1611, “Psalm 103:4”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crown
redeemeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
ref: , Psalm 103:4
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redeem
clotheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clothe + -eth
Senses: examples: text: When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.
ref: , Sirach 43:20
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe
bloweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blow + -eth
Senses: examples: text: When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.
ref: , Sirach 43:20
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow
remaineth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 41::
text: What remaineth concerning Maſtiffs is referred to the same Topick in Somerſetſhire.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Lincolne-shire”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remain
blindeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: blind + -eth
Senses: examples: text: And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
ref: , Exodus 23:8
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blind
perverteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
ref: , Exodus 23:8
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pervert
-ote
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek -ωτά (-ōtá), neuter plural of -ωτός (-ōtós), verbal adjective from the stem of -όω (-óō, denominal verb suffix). Related to translingual -ota.
Senses: examples: text: amnion + -ote → amniote
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or equipped with a certain feature or structure.
Related terms: -oma
-ome
-osis
-ota
-otic
industriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From industrious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: industry
diligence
hardworkingness
coordinate_terms: conscientiousness
grit#Noun
glosses: The quality of being industrious.
Related terms: ingenuity
volitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃənəl/
/vɒˈlɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more volitional
form: most volitional
Etymology: From volition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
ref: 1942, Olaf Stapledon, Darkness and the Light, chapter 5, iii:
text: Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.
ref: 1957, Leo Kanner, Child Psychology, 3rd edition, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Part Two, Chapter 4, p. 42:
glosses: Of or relating to the volition or will.
examples: text: A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.
ref: 2016 July 28, Rebecca Mead, “The Power of ‘Love’ in Politics”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: conjectural
hortative
presumptive
tentative
glosses: Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
raw_tags: of an inflectional class or inflected form
Synonyms: sense: done by conscious choice
word: deliberate
word: voluntary
word: intentional
Derived terms: avolitional
nonvolitional
postvolitional
prevolitional
sensori-volitional
unvolitional
volitionalism
volitionalist
volitionality
volitionally
volitional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃənəl/
/vɒˈlɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: volitionals
Etymology: From volition + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The volitional grammatical mood.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.
wicket keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wicket keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wicketkeeper.
come unhinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes unhinged
form: coming unhinged
form: came unhinged
form: come unhinged
Senses: examples: text: Dad came unhinged when he saw the report card with such bad grades.
glosses: To become angered or crazy; to lose control of one's senses or sanity.
GTFO
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gtfo
Senses: examples: text: GTFO of my house.
text: "I just found a hundred bucks." "GTFO!"
glosses: Get the fuck out; can be used to express disbelief or displeasure.
examples: text: Also, the Supreme court has ruled that we don't have to restrict media to "only what is fit for children". Live with it or GTFO Usenet.
ref: 1995 November 19, "Follower of the Clawed Albino" (username), "Re: RFD: KILL rec.drugs.* expansion", in news.groups and alt.drugs.pot, Usenet
text: He told the morons to GTFO my porch...^([sic – meaning ellipsis in original])
ref: 2003 August 16, mytoysdammit, “Gads, buy a damned clue!”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: GTFO our group you manc bastard!
ref: 2009 February 7, Blackmore, “Re: car criminal”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):
glosses: Get the fuck off. See get off
Related terms: get out of here
nope out
endeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Here endeth the lesson.
ref: 1662, Book of Common Prayer:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of end
soylent green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a foodstuff in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green, from soylent in the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, from soy and lentils.
Senses: glosses: Any foodstuff of dubious nature or origin.
wikipedia: Harry Harrison
Make Room! Make Room!
Soylent Green
Related terms: soylent pink
ogrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ogrish
form: most ogrish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ogreish.
Derived terms: ogrishly
verbal diarrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of verbal diarrhea.
sybilline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sibylline.
sibylline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪbɪlaɪn/
Forms: form: sybilline
Etymology: From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla.
Senses: examples: text: Cleopatra immediately comes down to the chair of state; seizes Ptolemy and drags him out of his seat; then takes his place in the chair. Ftatateeta seats herself on the step of the loggia, and sits there, watching the scene with sybilline intensity.
ref: 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
text: But directly she had closed the door behind her, Mother Théot's manner underwent a chance. Here the broad light of day appeared to divest her of all her sybilline attributes. She became just an ugly old woman, wrinkled and hook-nosed, dressed in shabby draperies that were grey with age and dirt, and with claw-like hands that looked like the talons of a bird of prey.
ref: 1922 August, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 23, in The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: Another early form of rhapsodomancy is represented by the sibylline books.
ref: 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 42:
text: Bitch ov a sibylline vulva / Usurpress and liar / Centuries wept because ov thee / Where art thou now in the hour ov trial?
ref: 2014, “Amen”, in Nergal (lyrics), The Satanist, performed by Behemoth, Track 5:
synonyms: sibyllic
glosses: Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
synonyms: sibyllic
glosses: Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
synonyms: sibyllic
enigmatic
glosses: Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
Occult, mysterious.
glosses: Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
sibylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪbɪlaɪn/
Forms: form: sibyllines
form: sybilline
Etymology: From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla.
Senses: glosses: One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
Derived terms: Sibylline Oracles
stiffener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiffeners
Etymology: From stiffen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] he wears a wisp of black silk round his neck, without any stiffener, as an apology for a neckerchief […]
ref: 1856, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life & Every-day People:
text: […] each of these stiffener-columns must be designed to resist approximately 26 tons. Sometimes single angles are thus used as stiffeners […]
ref: 1901, James Nisbit Hazlehurst, Towers and Tanks for Water-works: The Theory and Practice of Their Design and Construction:
text: The tee bar (b) is used as a stiffener to important bulkheads […]
ref: 1904, Edward L. Attwood, War-ships: A Text-book on the Construction, Protection, Stability, Turning, Etc., of War Vessels:
text: […] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
glosses: Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: One of a series of angle bars, Z-bars, beams, rods, or other shapes, attached in order to provide them the necessary stiffness or rigidity.
examples: text: I believe the old man has taken himself off to the nearest bar for a stiffener.
ref: 2017, William Meikle, Sigils and Totems:
glosses: An alcoholic drink taken to fortify oneself.
Derived terms: dingo stiffener
fætus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fætuses
Senses: examples: text: A way Of preſerving Birds taken out of the Egge, and other ſmall Fætus’s; communicated by Mr. Boyle.
ref: 1666, Philosophical Transactions, Num. 12
glosses: Alternative spelling of fetus.
Derived terms: fætal
metathesize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: metathesizes
form: metathesizing
form: metathesized
form: metathesized
form: metathesise
form: metathetize
Etymology: From metathesis + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Cases like mu·yh : mu·hyut may be accounted for under a rule that clusters of h plus sonorant metathesize in word-final position.
ref: 1939, Morris Swadesh & C. F. Voegelin, A Problem in Phonological Alternation, in Language, Vol. 15, No. 1
text: The significance of noticing the existence of this adjective tharf by the side of the metathesized form thraf is of course apparent
ref: 1888, James W. Bright, Thraf-Caik, in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 3, No. 3
text: If the first of two identical consonants in sequence is postconsonantal and the second intervocalic, metathesize the first with the following vowel (geminate roots only).
ref: 1962, Gene M. Schramm, An Outline of Classical Arabic Verb Structure, in Language, Vol. 38, No. 4
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word.
Derived terms: unmetathesized
vacuum-clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacuum-cleans
form: vacuum-cleaning
form: vacuum-cleaned
form: vacuum-cleaned
Etymology: Back-formation from vacuum cleaner.
Senses: glosses: To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
Synonyms: vacuum
hoover
swallow one's pride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swallows one's pride
form: swallowing one's pride
form: swallowed one's pride
form: swallowed one's pride
Senses: glosses: To set aside one's feelings of pride and adopt a more humble or appropriate stance.
Related terms: eat humble pie
come to pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to pass
form: coming to pass
form: came to pass
form: come to pass
Senses: examples: text: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:8:
text: A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year.
ref: 2021 June 30, David Clough, “Brush: a UK rail icon”, in RAIL, number 934, page 57:
glosses: To happen; to occur.
Synonyms: transpire
happen
builded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd. / No it was buylded far from accident,
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 124”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, lines 4–5:
text: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:17:
text: Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:1:
text: And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
ref: 1804, William Blake, And did those feet in ancient time:
text: Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 407:
text: […] / They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; / […]
ref: 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10:
text: 1909, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, Chapter I: Africa and America, page 18,
“So there was builded into America the thrift of the searchers of wealth, the freedom of the Renaissance and the stern morality of the Reformation.”
text: “Our forebears builded better than they knew.”
ref: 1923, Dan McKenzie, Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, p. 6:
text: Down ruins the ancient order
And empire builded of old.
ref: 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XXI, New Year’s Eve, lines 35–36
text: I think it just sort of gradually ‘builded’ up.
ref: 2003, Rhiannon, aged 14, quoted in Ian Butler et al, Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 52
glosses: Alternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build
Derived terms: unbuilded
sub silencio
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sub silencio (“beneath the silence”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: in a clearly implied but not overtly stated way
instructer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instructers
Etymology: From instruct + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
ref: , Genesis 4:22
glosses: One who instructs.
Synonyms: instructor
silly money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Buying a house in central London will set you back close to a million quid, these days – it's just silly money.
text: With collectors prepared to pay silly money for limited edition cars, Aston Martin commissioned Zagato to build a new body on the Vantage chassis.
ref: 1996, Mike Lawrence, A-Z of Sports Cars:
text: Representatives of both the Employers and Contractors thought that the potential to make ‘silly money' was not within the ECC.
ref: 1999, Jon Broome, The NEC Engineering and Construction Contract: A User's Guide:
text: 12p is a small price to pay to save on inconvenience and get a shot at someone paying silly money for your item.
ref: 2005, David Belbin, The EBay Book:
text: Standard prices range from about 180€ - 500€ per night (unless you're looking to spend really silly money).
ref: 2005, Benjamin Craig, Cannes - A Festival Virgin's Guide: Attending the Cannes Film Festival for filmmakers and film industry professionals:
glosses: A ridiculously large (or, less commonly, small) sum of money.
Related terms: funny money
mad money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ultrasuede minibags "are just the solution for waste." And for crime. Most minis hardly hold more than mad money and a comb.
ref: 1975 November 10, “Baglets”, in Time:
glosses: A sum of money, often relatively small in amount, kept in reserve to use for impulsive, frivolous purposes.
examples: text: Such an expression is mad money, noted as early as 1922 by Howard J. Savage (Dialect Notes 5:148) at the end of an article on Bryn Mawr slang. Savage's definition is 'money a girl carries in case she has a row with her escort and wishes to go home alone.'
ref: 1975, George Javor, “Mad Money: A Semantic Change”, in American Speech, vol. 50, no. 1/2, p. 155:
glosses: A sum of money kept in reserve or to insulate oneself financially in the event of the sudden breakdown of a relationship in which one is economically dependent.
Related terms: pocket money
spending money
air bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bridges
Senses: examples: text: Berliners referred to both missions as die Luftbrucke - "the air bridge."
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
glosses: Alternative form of airbridge.
nunchuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌnt͡ʃʌk/
Forms: form: nunchucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nunchaku.
cubicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə
Senses: glosses: plural of cubiculum
loculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loculus
beggars can't be choosers
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Mo went online and found me a beggars-can't-be-choosers flight out of Denver: a 5.45 a.m. takeoff, a three-hour layover at O'Hare. I'd land in Hartford by late afternoon.
"I'll be fine," I said. "Drink a lot of coffee, drive right from school to the airport. I can crash once I get on the plane." She frowned. "Okay, let me rephrase that. I can sleep once I get on the plane."
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.60
glosses: Something is better than nothing: those who can't provide for themselves should accept whatever help is available.
Synonyms: something is better than nothing
half a loaf is better than none
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
satisfactory
Coordinate terms: Hobson's choice
take it or leave it
my way or the highway
good things come to those who wait
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: patience is a virtue
all things come to those who wait
glosses: A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time.
Related terms: all things in time
a penny saved is a penny earned
April showers bring May flowers
a watched pot never boils
to everything there is a season
cribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪbd/
rhymes: -ɪbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crib
cribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪbd/
rhymes: -ɪbd
Senses: examples: text: The cribbed baby was quite content.
glosses: Placed in a crib.
Derived terms: uncribbed
patience is a virtue
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: good things come to those who wait
glosses: It is better to be patient than impatient.
Related terms: overpatient
patience of an angel
patience of a saint
haste makes waste
revenge is a dish best served cold
the early bird catches the worm
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the early bird gets the worm.
sell ice to Eskimos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells ice to Eskimos
form: selling ice to Eskimos
form: sold ice to Eskimos
form: sold ice to Eskimos
Senses: examples: text: He's such a smooth talker, he could sell ice to Eskimos.
glosses: To persuade people to go against their best interests or to accept something unnecessary or preposterous.
Synonyms: sell freezers to Eskimos
sell salt to a slug
sell snow to Eskimos
Related terms: charm the birds from the trees
coals to Newcastle
carry coals to Newcastle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries coals to Newcastle
form: carrying coals to Newcastle
form: carried coals to Newcastle
form: carried coals to Newcastle
form: bring coals to Newcastle
form: sell coal to Newcastle
form: sell coals to Newcastle
form: take coals to Newcastle
Etymology: Newcastle upon Tyne (in England) was a major coal-exporting city, so sending coal there would be pointless.
Senses: examples: text: However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 81, in Moby-Dick:
text: He's the fellow who likes to let off stink bombs in night clubs, which rather falls under the head of carrying coals to Newcastle […]
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter II, in Jeeves in the Offing:
synonyms: bring owls to Athens
bring sand to the beach
sell ice to Eskimos
coordinate_terms: preach to the choir
glosses: To do something that is unneeded or redundant.
Related terms: busman's holiday
carry owls to Athens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries owls to Athens
form: carrying owls to Athens
form: carried owls to Athens
form: carried owls to Athens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bring owls to Athens.
bring owls to Athens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪŋ ˈaʊlz tu ˈæ.θɪnz/
Forms: form: brings owls to Athens
form: bringing owls to Athens
form: brought owls to Athens
form: brought owls to Athens
form: carry owls to Athens
Etymology: Calque from Ancient Greek proverb γλαῦκ’ εἰς Ἀθήνας (glaûk’ eis Athḗnas). The owl, which roosted in the rafters of the old Parthenon (the one burnt by Xerxes I), was the symbol of the city of Athens, and was sacred to its patron goddess, Athena. It was featured on Athens’ silver coins, and as Athens both mined its own silver and minted its own coins, bringing owls (either the real birds, or the coins) to Athens would be pointless.
Senses: examples: text: Euelpides: Who brings owls to Athens?
ref: 414 BCE, Aristophanes, Ian C. Johnston (translator into English), The Birds:
text: Forgive me, then, for bringing owls to Athens as a thanks-offering.
ref: 1832 March 17, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Louis H. Gray (translator into English), Letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt:
text: Perhaps we have not been sufficiently aware that talking about access and its implications in Scandinavia is like bringing owls to Athens.
ref: 1996 June 27, Herbert Burkert, “Access To Public Information: A Key To Commercial Growth And Electronic Democracy”, in parliamentary debates, Stockholm:
synonyms: carry coals to Newcastle
glosses: To undertake a pointless venture, one that is redundant, unnecessary, superfluous, or highly uneconomical.
wikipedia: Xerxes I
pain in the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the ass
form: pain in one's ass
form: pain in the arse
form: pain in one's arse
form: PITA
Etymology: Dysphemistically modelled after pain in the neck. First attested in the early to mid-20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Strangely enough, the days I spent at this pain-in-the-ass job were some of my most memorable and valuable.
ref: 2019 January 30, Tim Denning, “How To Use A Pain-In-The-Ass Job To Your Advantage And Come Out A Winner”, in Medium, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2020, retrieved 07 Feb 2025:
text: His one obligation is that, every day, he must gather $10,000 worth of items from the store – stuff he doesn’t need: electronics, nappies, pet food and so forth – and exchange them for the cash. This is both an acute pain in the ass, and the one thing that prevents him from going insane with boredom. )
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
synonyms: pain in the back
pain in the backside
pain in the bum
pain in the butt
pain in the keister
pain in the neck
pain in the rear
pain in the dick
;
assache
;
pill
glosses: Something or someone that causes discomfort or frustration.
Related terms: english: medical registers, literal meaning
translation: medical registers, literal meaning
word: proctalgia
english: similar to above
translation: similar to above
word: coccydynia
word: royal pain
show barn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show barns
Etymology: From show + barn.
Senses: examples: text: The Okmulgee County Commissioners voted to award Bid #5 for a new show barn at the Okmulgee County Fairgrounds.
ref: 19 October 2004, Okmulgee Daily Times:
glosses: A building for exhibiting cattle and other domestic animals, as at a county fairgrounds.
jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Standing in the cavernous barracks clad only in my jockeys, shivering next to other miserable schlubs and being handled like a piece of beef with "mad cow" disease did nothing to improve my mood.
ref: 2004, Dan Peek, An American Band, page 131:
text: "Are you for real? I’d think with those green eyes you'd be peeling the chicks off your jockeys before they peeled your jockeys off you!"
ref: 2010, Angelo J. Lagana III, Me Island, page 368:
glosses: Synonym of jockey shorts.
synonyms: word: jockey shorts
Related terms: boxers
midways
trunks
Speedo
BVDs
jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of jockey
jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jockey
long johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-john
form: long john
form: long-johns
form: longjohns
Etymology: Reputedly named after American heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan (1858–1918); also posed as an approximation of French longues jambes (“long legs”); see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A full-length undergarment, worn on the bottom half of the body, or two-piece, to keep the wearer warm in cold weather.
Synonyms: long underwear
thermal underwear
union suit
long johns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From long john + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of long john
disc jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disc jockey
chaulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔːk/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔk/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: chaulks
Etymology: See chalk.
Senses: examples: text: At Compton Chamberlayne in 1597 the surveyor noted that, '. . . there is a chaulk pytt at the south-west corner of Compton arable fields neere the bottom of the Downe, where the tenants doe fetche Chaulk for manuringe theyr Lands
ref: 1597, Wiltshire Record Society, Wiltshire Record Society, volume 57, published 2005:
text: Apelles Not drew liker in charcole then he in Chaulk.
ref: 1724-1741, Mary Freman Caesar, edited by Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter, The journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724-1741, published 2002:
text: Bees-wax 2 8 Verdegrees 1 Red chaulk 2 Allum 0 2 Borax 0 2 Sal ammoniack
ref: a''' 1809, Matthew Boulton, quoting Nicholas Goodison, (Please provide the book title or journal name), quoted in Ormolu: the work of Matthew Boulton, published 1974:
text: This will pull charcoal chaulk or pencil particles from the paper up to the polyester.
ref: 1985, Genealogy Club of America, Genealogy digest, volumes 16-18:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chalk.
chaulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔːk/
ipa: /t͡ʃɔk/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: chaulks
form: chaulking
form: chaulked
form: chaulked
Etymology: See chalk.
Senses: examples: text: This Book it chaulketh out before thine eyes / The man that ſeeks the everlaſting Prize: / It ſhevvs you vvhence he comes, vvhither he goes, / VVhat he leaves undone; alſo vvhat he does: / It alſo ſhovvs you hovv he runs, and runs, / Till he unto the Gate of Glory comes.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chalk.
omphalomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omphalo- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have.
xiexie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: xie xie
form: xie-xie
form: hsie hsie
form: hsie-hsie
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 謝謝 /谢谢 (xièxie, “thank you”).
Senses: glosses: thank you
muzzleloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzzleloaders
Etymology: From muzzle + loader.
Senses: glosses: A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the end that discharges the projectile (the muzzle).
Related terms: breechloader
muzzleloaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzzleloader
breechloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breechloaders
form: BL
Etymology: From breech + loader.
Senses: glosses: A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the breech (the end opposite that which discharges the projectile).
Related terms: breechloading
muzzleloader
breechloaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breechloader
caterpillar tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caterpillar trees
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tree consisting of only a path (the spine or stalk of the tree) and vertices directly connected to (i.e. one edge away from) that path; a tree whose vertices with a degree of at least 3 are all surrounded by at most two vertices of degree two or greater.
glosses: Catalpa bignonioides; the southern catalpa, a deciduous tree of family Bignoniaceae growing in Southeastern U.S., which is the host plant for the catawba worms, caterpillars that are popular fishing bait.
Hypernyms: tree
chamber pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber pots
form: chamberpot
Etymology: From chamber + pot, from its usual use in one's chamber (i.e., bedroom).
Senses: glosses: A container used for urination and defecation, particularly those used in early modern towns before the advent of the flush toilet.
Synonyms: word: bedpan
word: can
word: chamber
word: chamber pot
word: chemical toilet
word: commode
word: Cousin John
word: crapper
word: gazunder
word: guzunder
word: honey bucket
word: honeypot
word: Jerry
word: jerry
word: john
word: johnny
word: jordan
word: latrine
word: mingo
word: necessary stool
word: pan
word: pee pot
word: pisspot
word: piss pot
word: po
word: pot
word: potty
word: potty-chair
word: shitbucket
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: slop bucket
word: stool
word: stool of easement
word: throne
word: thunder mug
word: toilet
word: urinal
Related terms: word: bedpan
word: bathroom
word: outhouse
chamber pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamber pot
bedpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdˌpæn/
Forms: form: bedpans
Etymology: From bed + pan ("chamber pot").
Senses: examples: text: The nurse emptied the patient's bedpan each morning.
glosses: A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.
Synonyms: chamber pot
bedpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedpan
hoared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: hoard
homophone: horde
homophone: whored
Forms: form: more hoared
form: most hoared
Etymology: From hoar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: hoared headed frosts
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: […] they played wilily, and went and sent ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their Asses, and wine bottles old and rent and knit together again, and old clouted shoes upon their feet, and old raiment upon them and all their provision of bread was dried up and hoared.
ref: 1963, Bible (New American Standard), Joshua 9:5
glosses: moldy; musty
Related terms: hoar
hoary
gossips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossip
gossips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gossip
knee-high
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːˈhaɪ/
ipa: /ˌniˈhaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From knee + high (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: knee-deep
text: knee-high by the Fourth of July
text: The corn is knee-high.
coordinate_terms: chest-high
waist-high
waist-deep
ankle-high
ankle-deep
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee, high: reaching to the height of a person's knees.
examples: text: John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: Very young.
Derived terms: knee-high blackberry
knee-high by the Fourth of July
knee-high to a grasshopper
knee-high
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːˈhaɪ/
ipa: /ˌniˈhaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: knee-highs
Etymology: From knee + high (adjective).
Senses: synonyms: pop sock
coordinate_terms: ankle-high
glosses: A sock or stocking that reaches to the knees; chiefly, women's nylon stockings that end slightly above the knee and are supported by garter belts.
and change
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky.
ref: 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 179:
text: She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human.
ref: 2010, Robert Charles Wilson, Spin - Volume 1, →ISBN:
text: “Six hundred and change shares of Grauptham House,” she said. “As soon as we have these notarized in the morning."
ref: 2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred and change light years from Earth.
ref: 2013, Tony Pypka, Raptor, →ISBN, page 180:
text: It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)
text: How fast was he going? A hundred and change. (i.e., more than 100 but less than 110).
text: "A Million and 1 Questions" by Jay Z.
This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundred and change
glosses: And some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see and, change.
Synonyms: -odd
-some
Related terms: spare change
chorrin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "He's been chorrin gear from work agyen, he'll get caught man!"
glosses: present participle of chor
barra boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barra boys
Senses: glosses: A man who works on market stalls.
stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of stall
stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stall
think one's shit doesn't stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks one's shit doesn't stink
form: thinking one's shit doesn't stink
form: thought one's shit didn't stink
form: thought one's shit didn't stink
Senses: synonyms: think the sun shines out of one's arse
think one is it
glosses: To be arrogant or overconfident.
barras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barra
barras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French barras.
Senses: glosses: galipot resin
glosses: coarse linen fabric
barras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barrace (“the lists in a tournament”).
perfecta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛktə/
Forms: form: perfectas
Etymology: From American Spanish quiniela perfecta (“perfect quinella”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of bet wherein the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order.
Derived terms: exacta
quadfecta
superfecta
trifecta
Related terms: quiniela
perfecta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛktə/
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A female perfect (Cathar leader).
Wenis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnəs/
rhymes: -uːnəs
Forms: form: Unis
form: Oenas
form: Onnos
form: Ounas
form: Unas
form: Wnis
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian wnjs, wn:n-i-s
Senses: examples: text: The passages were eventually separated and categorized, as well as illustrated and eventually evolved into the Book of the Dead, or more properly, 'The Book of the Coming forth by Day'. The oldest of these text come from that Pyramid of Wenis, or more popularly these days, Unas at Saqqara.
ref: 2004, Ancient Egyptian Texts:
text: Unas (Wenis) reigned at the end of Dynasty V, for a period of up to 30 years.
ref: 2005, Pyramid and mortuary temple of Unas:
glosses: An Egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty
loculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loculi
Etymology: From Latin loculus.
Senses: glosses: A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.
glosses: In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: locule
loculament
glosses: One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary.
Derived terms: locular
proloculus
pseudoloculus
kife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: kifes
form: kifing
form: kifed
form: kifed
Senses: glosses: To steal.
boko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: bōʹkō
ipa: /ˈboʊ.koʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: bokos
Etymology: Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins:
* From beak (“nose”)
* From French beaucoup (“very much”)
* Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut
* From boke (“point; thrust”)
* From poke, as in poke one's nose into
Senses: examples: text: […] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that.
ref: 1943, W[illiam] E[arl] Johns, Biggles Fails to Return, page 115:
text: He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"
ref: 1965, The Illustrated Weekly of India, volume 86, number 1, page 41:
text: He let out a yell, his eyes watering from the punch on the boko.
ref: 2012, Mary Dobbs Wood, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Inventing My Childhood, page 45:
glosses: The nose.
Synonyms: nose
Related terms: Boko Haram
trademark erosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trademark erosions
Senses: examples: text: While many companies object to the process of trademark erosion, there is little that can be done to prevent it.
synonyms: genericization
genericide
glosses: The situation that occurs when a trademarked name becomes a generic name through constant use.
Related terms: containing terms born in this way
knaa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /nɑː/
Forms: form: naa
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English knawe, from Old English cnawan.
Senses: examples: text: A divint knaa, man!
glosses: To know
Related terms: word: ken
word: know
divint
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Contraction of the Geordie dee (“do”) + not. Cognate with Scots divvent. Also dinna in parts of Scotland and the north-east of England.
Senses: examples: "Divint gan near the Seghill mine". Lyric from the Northumbrian folk song Blackleg Miner
glosses: do not, don't
numpties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numpty
glosses: plural of numptie
bizarrerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈzɑːɹəɹi/
Forms: form: bizarreries
Etymology: Borrowed from French bizarrerie.
Senses: examples: text: It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with an utter abandon.
ref: 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 167, column 2:
glosses: The state or measure of being bizarre.
examples: text: Being of independent and even of abundant means, the Clarendons had for many years stuck to their old Manhattan mansion in East Nineteenth Street, whose ghosts must have looked sorely askance at the bizarrerie of Surama and the Thibetans.
ref: 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, Adolphe de Castro, The Last Test:
text: But even as I harboured these doubts I felt ashamed that so fantastic a piece of bizarrerie as Henry Akeley’s wild letter had brought them up.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: A bizarre thing.
Synonyms: bizarreness
bizarrity
within an ace of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: very near; on the point of
Synonyms: within a whisker of
Kotka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of the Kymenlaakso region, in southern Finland.
charver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charvers
form: charvering
form: charvered
form: charvered
Etymology: Of uncertain origin; possibly from nineteenth-century Romani charver (“prostitute”), or Italian chiavare (“to nail, to attach, to fuck”), or from Romani ćhavo (“child”) and/or its derivatives, especially Spanish chava (“girl”), or from Spanish chabacanada (“vulgarity”). (Compare charva.)
Senses: glosses: To have sex with; to fuck.
charver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charvers
Etymology: Of uncertain origin; possibly from nineteenth-century Romani charver (“prostitute”), or Italian chiavare (“to nail, to attach, to fuck”), or from Romani ćhavo (“child”) and/or its derivatives, especially Spanish chava (“girl”), or from Spanish chabacanada (“vulgarity”). (Compare charva.)
Senses: glosses: Sexual intercourse; fucking.
glosses: A woman, especially as a sexual partner.
glosses: Alternative spelling of charva (“unruly youth; chav; friend, mate”).
Derived terms: arva
myopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more myopically
form: most myopically
Etymology: From myopic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: She squinted myopically at the small print.
glosses: As if suffering from myopia.
meaningfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meaningfulnesses
Etymology: From meaningful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or measure of being meaningful.
charvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charvettes
Etymology: From charva + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female charva.
Related terms: chav
chavette
charva
charver
scally
charvettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charvette
pluckt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
ref: , Genesis 8:11
glosses: simple past and past participle of pluck