cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nixie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪksi/
Forms: form: nixies
form: nixe
form: nixy
Etymology: From German Nixe, feminine of Nix, from Middle High German nickes, from Old High German nihhus (“water-elf, crocodile”), from Proto-Germanic *nikwus, *nikwis, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”).
Cognate with Old English nicor (“water-elf, hippopotamus, walrus”), English nicker.
Senses: examples: text: The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]
ref: 1876, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 391:
text: The place seems to have been fashioned as a dwelling for dryads and hamadryads, for nixies and pixies, and all the fabled spirits of forest and stream.
ref: 1916, Rex Beach, Rainbow's End, published 2008, page 1:
text: Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie’s green.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: In medieval times, the image of the double fish tailed siren was called a nixie or evil water spirit. Yet, the nixies were more likely daughters of the primordial goddess named Nyx or mother night, who hovered over ancient waters, rather than evil spirits.
ref: 2011, Katalin Koda, Fire of the Goddess, page 83:
glosses: A female nix, a water-spirit.
nixie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪksi/
Forms: form: nixies
Etymology: From nix + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Mailers who are registered participants in the Postal Service's Address Change Service (ACS) system expect to receive their address corrections and nixie notifications by electronic messages;[…].
ref: 1994 March 3, Postal Bulletin, United States Postal Service, page 4:
text: If you get a response of less than one percent or excessive “nixies” (wrong addresses), rework your copy or get a new list.
ref: 2003, Jenkins Group, The Insiders Guide to Large Quantity Book Sales, page 7:
text: Another good reason to use first-class mail is the fact that it will often be forwarded or, if need be, returned to the sender if the address is bad. (In the industry, this is called a “nixie.”) It is important to keep an eye on the nixie rate if you are using first-class mail.
ref: 2008, Susan K. Jones, Business-to-Business Internet Marketing, 5th edition, page 15:
glosses: A piece of mail returned as undeliverable.
Related terms: Nixie tube
nonius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊnɪəs/
rhymes: -əʊniəs
Forms: form: noniuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Nonius, the Latinised form of the name of its inventor, Pedro Nunes (1502-78), a Portuguese mathematician and geographer.
Senses: examples: text: Well, of course, one must manipulate the various Screw-Settings precisely, read the Nonius, and an hundred other details besides I’d but bore you with,—
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:
glosses: A device for adjusting the accuracy of mathematical instruments, later superseded by the vernier.
wikipedia: Pedro Nunes
Derived terms: nonius horopter
gold top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the gold-coloured aluminium top of the bottle in which this type of milk is sold.
Senses: synonyms: gold-top milk
coordinate_terms: silver top
green top
glosses: Channel Island milk.
noosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.əsfɪə/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.əsfɪɚ/
Forms: form: noospheres
form: noösphere
Etymology: Borrowed from French noosphère, from Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”) + Ancient Greek σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “ball, globe”), developed and perhaps coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir Vernadsky, in analogy to atmosphere, biosphere etc. By surface analysis, nous (“mind”) + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: I used to have a pretty clear idea of God. Now we have these new theologians who say God’s inside here not up there or he’s an impersonal noosphere and the anthropomorphic image is out. Three unpersons in one anthropomorphic noosphere.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 573:
text: Finally, human beings reproduce themselves mentally through exchanges with cultural and symbolic environments[…] These relational exchanges are embedded in the traditions and institutions of a particular society in such a way that that society can reproduce itself on a cultural level, can reproduce itself in the noosphere.
ref: 1995, Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, Shambhala, →ISBN, page 66:
text: […] Therefore, high capacity nodes will experience greater latency from the rest of the noosphere, and the intelligences that inhabit them will likely be more individualistic.
ref: 2000 November 18, Alexandre Owen Muniz, “Individualism in Transhuman Society.”, in SL4 mailing list, message-ID <3A16FF3F.F030BA6A@xprt.net>:
text: This creates a pattern of homesteading in the noosphere that rather resembles that of settlers spreading into a physical frontier—not random, but like a diffusion-limited fractal.
ref: 2001 [1999], Eric S. Raymond, “Homesteading the Noosphere”, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 92:
text: The noosphere admits human cognition as a part of the environment of the Earth.
ref: 2012 October 4, Esther Inglis-Arkell, “What comes next after the Noosphere?”, in Gizmodo:
glosses: The sphere of human reason, thought, and consciousness, seen as a theoretical evolutionary stage.
wikipedia: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Vladimir Vernadsky
Derived terms: noospheric
Related terms: sense: See
word: nous § Related terms
word: biosphere
word: ecosphere
word: neurosphere
word: Omega Point
gold-top milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the gold-coloured aluminium top of the bottle in which this type of milk is sold.
Senses: glosses: Channel Island milk.
Synonyms: gold top
Related terms: silver top
Channel Island milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Channel Island milks
Senses: glosses: A type of creamy, light-beige-coloured milk originally from the Jersey and Guernsey breeds of cattle native to the Channel Islands.
Synonyms: gold top
gold-top milk
Related terms: breakfast milk
silver top
clobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒb.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɑb.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Etymology: British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.
Senses: examples: text: He should have stepped back and given Hemi room to chat and see where the women^([sic]) was going, yet he found himself drawn over to them. His friend would probably give him a clobber later on for his stupidity […]
ref: 2014, Philippa Ballantine, Weather Child:
glosses: A thumping or beating.
glosses: A bash on say the head, typically with a tool or object rather than with fists.
clobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒb.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɑb.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Etymology: British slang from 19th century of unknown origin, perhaps from Yiddish.
Senses: examples: text: W'y, they call a man a robber if 'e stuffs 'is marchin' clobber / With the— / (Chorus) Loo! loo! Lulu! lulu! Loo! loo! Loot! loot! loot!
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Loot”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 31:
text: Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
ref: 1900, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Captain Brassbound’s Conversion”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], published 1901, →OCLC, Act III, page 292:
text: I was thinkin' of the widow while I gets me clobber on— / Like a feller will start thinkin' of the times that's past an' gone.
ref: 1919, C. J. Dennis, Red Robin, in Jim of The Hills, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500931
text: I went to one in Woolwich, south-east London, which is one of the first stores to welcome the Pep&Co range, to road test the new uber-cheap clobber for myself.
ref: 2017 March 30, Gemma Mullin, “We road test new uber-cheap clobber as Poundland rolls-out its own clothing range – but there’s a twist”, in The Sun:
glosses: Clothing; clothes.
glosses: Equipment.
clobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒb.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɑb.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Etymology: Of obscure origin, but compare clabber (“mud, wet clay”).
Senses: glosses: A paste used by shoemakers to hide the cracks in leather.
numina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːmɪnə/
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: plural of numen
creamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːmi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Forms: form: creamier
form: creamiest
Etymology: From Middle English cremy, equivalent to cream + -y. Piecewise doublet of cremey.
Senses: examples: text: creamy milk
glosses: Containing cream.
examples: text: creamy chocolate
glosses: Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream.
examples: text: a creamy lotion
glosses: Of any liquid, having the thick texture of cream.
examples: text: The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...
ref: 2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:
text: Rutland (and some of the bordering ‘Notswolds’ counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have the same mellow, creamy limestone as the Cotswolds and boast beguiling market towns and villages that are every bit as attractive, but without the tourists or hefty prices.
ref: 2024 November 19, Nicola Venning, “Welcome to the Notswolds”, in Country Life, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
glosses: Having the colour of cream.
examples: text: The lens is liked by Nikon users for the way it renders smooth and creamy bokeh with impressive levels of sharpness at the centre.
ref: 2016 July 30, Andy Westlake, Michael Topham, “Lenses for selective focusing”, in Amateur Photographer, page 55:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Characterised by a gentle transition between sharp and out-of-focus areas.
examples: text: There she was in the steam room after our workout, steam covering her body, drops rolling down her gorgeous breasts. I would stare and stare. (I'm getting creamy just thinking about her again.)
ref: 1989 February 12, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Fun With The Electro-Lux And Other Masturbation Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9:
glosses: Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
Derived terms: creamily
creaminess
creamy crack
creamy layer
creamy snuff
creamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːmi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Forms: form: creamies
Etymology: From Middle English cremy, equivalent to cream + -y. Piecewise doublet of cremey.
Senses: glosses: A horse with a cream-coloured coat.
nystagmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈstæɡ.məs/
ipa: /naɪˈstæɡ.məs/
Forms: form: nystagmuses
Etymology: First attested in 1798. From New Latin nystagmus, from Ancient Greek νυσταγμός (nustagmós, “nodding, drowsiness”), from νυστάζω (nustázō, “nod, be sleepy”).
Senses: examples: text: For months Travis had seen his solitary figure, shoulders hunched inside the flying jacket, in more and more newsreels, as an extra in war films, and then as a patient in an elegant ophthalmic film on nystagmus
ref: 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: rapid involuntary eye movement, usually lateral
Synonyms: miner's disease
Derived terms: nystagmic
nystagmiform
nystagmography
nystagmoid
sabre rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabre rattlings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sabre-rattling.
sabre rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sabre rattle
saber-rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saber-rattlings
Senses: glosses: chiefly US spelling of sabre-rattling
saber-rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saber-rattle
saber-rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saber-rattling
form: most saber-rattling
Senses: glosses: chiefly US spelling of sabre-rattling
time trial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time trials
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
synonyms: word: race of truth
word: TT
glosses: An unpaced race in which riders or teams leaving at regular intervals are timed over a preset course or distance, the winner being the rider or team to finish in the fastest time.
glosses: Any competitive event in which competitors are timed rather than racing against each other.
topics: video-games
synonyms: time attack
glosses: A mode in which the main goal is to complete levels, or, in some cases, the entire game as quickly as possible.
Derived terms: individual time trial
team time trial
time trial bicycle
time-trialing
time trialist
TT
time warp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time warps
form: timewarp
Senses: examples: text: But as the reports on the Bild investigation suggest, the company’s workplace culture may be stuck in a time warp.
ref: 2021 October 17, Ben Smith, “At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A line dance popularized by the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which the dancers take a jump to the left, a step to the right, put their hands on their hips, bend their knees, thrust their pelvises, spin in a circle, jump forward and back, and wiggle.
topics: video-games
glosses: Acceleration of in-game time relative to real-world time.
time warp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time warps
form: time warping
form: time warped
form: time warped
form: timewarp
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To travel through time in such a manner.
glosses: To perform the time warp dance.
oeillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əːˈjɑːd/
Forms: form: oeillades
Etymology: Borrowed from French œillade.
Senses: examples: text: I know your Lady do's not loue her Husband, / I am sure of that: and at her late being heere, / She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes / To Noble Edmund.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: ‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic.
ref: 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
text: But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.
ref: 4 Sep 1999, Michael Billington, The Guardian:
glosses: A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
timework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time work
form: time-work
Etymology: From time + work.
Senses: glosses: Work for which a certain rate is paid per unit of time.
Derived terms: time-worker
timeworker
Related terms: piecework
œillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œillades
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oeillade.
timeworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪm.wɔɹn/
Forms: form: more timeworn
form: most timeworn
form: time-worn
Etymology: From time + worn.
Senses: examples: text: The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; […]
ref: [1905], Maxim Gorky, “Part I”, in J. K. M. Shirazi, transl., Creatures that Once were Men, London: Alston Rivers, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: After walking the timeworn horizons out of Africa, I have entered a corrugated maze, a knotted crossroad of the world where landscape is read like sacrament, a labyrinth of echoing faiths called the Middle East.
ref: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
synonyms: shopworn
threadbare
well-worn
glosses: Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
synonyms: word: commonplace
word: clichéd
word: stock
word: tired
word: unoriginal
word: banal
word: bromidic
word: quotidian
word: clichéd
word: commonplace
word: cookie-cutter
word: corny
word: dog-eared
word: everyday
word: hackneyed
word: hoary
word: meh
word: overdone
word: pat
word: played out
word: prosaic
word: shopworn
word: stale
word: stock
word: threadbare
word: timeworn
word: tired
word: trite
word: unoriginal
word: vapid
word: warmed-over
word: well-worn
glosses: Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.
oestrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːstɹəs/
ipa: /ˈɛstɹəs/
Forms: form: oestruses
form: oestri
form: œstrus
form: estrus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin oestrus (“gadfly, sting, frenzy”), from Ancient Greek οἶστρος (oîstros), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eys-, used to form words denoting passion; see also Latin īra (“anger”), Lithuanian aistra (“violent passion”), Avestan 𐬀𐬈𐬯𐬨𐬀 (aesma, “anger”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and which is produced by the larvae of oestri and particularly of Oestrus hemorrhoidalis.
ref: 1915, American Veterinary Review, page 407:
text: If this is inseparable from the oeconomy of nature, it necessarily follows that man must be subject to the depredations of oestri, ichneumons, . . . and perhaps, thousands of others, which the senses, aided by the directions of a correct understanding, may be able to trace in a way that will fall very little short of absolute demonstration.
ref: 1963, Bacteriological Reviews, page 92, column 1:
glosses: A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly.
glosses: A bite or sting.
glosses: A passion or frenzy.
examples: text: In those monoestrous species in which the male is capable all the year round, it is found that the oestri of individual females come at different seasons.
ref: 1910, Cleveland Medical Journal, page 517:
text: A vasectomized Philippine carabao bull was used as a teaser to determine the occurrence and recurrence of oestri.
ref: 1939, The Philippine Agriculturist, page 289:
text: An evaluation was carried out so that the mean number of oestri per one animal was calculated for 14 days in the three periods: […]
ref: 1962, Neoplasma, page 152:
text: Intervals between oestri and between ovulations in dairy cows within 100 days post partum
ref: 1980, The Zimbabwe Journal of Agricultural Research, page 73:
text: It’s the supremely human act, freely to fuck, not because you are on heat, or in oestrus, like an animal, but to give and receive pleasure.
ref: 2001, David Lodge, Thinks...:
text: The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] during oestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.
ref: 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: heat
rut
coordinate_terms: musth
glosses: A female animal's readiness to mate.
Derived terms: dioestrus
interoestrus
oestrin
oestrogen
perioestrus
postoestrus
stupidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stupidly
form: most stupidly
Etymology: From stupid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was so modest, so expressive, she had looked so soft in her thin white gown that he felt he had acted stupidly.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 26:
text: "Don't we behave just as stupidly in our pursuit of happiness - don't we?" Simpson nodded dejectedly.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 154:
text: As I write this, drivers' union ASLEF has announced yet another series of one-day strikes, because ministers are stupidly insisting that the modest below-inflation pay rise they have offered drivers still comes with strings attached over working conditions.
ref: 2024 January 24, Christian Wolmar, “What could Labour do to reverse the rail reform agenda?”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 47:
glosses: In a stupid manner.
examples: text: He is so—so proud of his money, and thinks every one ought to be as stupidly rich as he is himself.
ref: 1898, Fox Russell, “Outridden”, in Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches, volume 15:
text: As well as being stupidly hungry I had a raging thirst.
ref: 2011, Amy Kernahan, Orion is Upside Down:
glosses: To an extreme or excessive degree; absurdly.
Synonyms: sense: in a stupid manner
word: carelessly
sense: in a stupid manner
word: foolishly
sense: in a stupid manner
word: irresponsibly
sense: to an extreme degree
word: absurdly
word: ridiculously
word: extremely
oka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒkə/
Forms: form: okas
form: oke
form: okka
Etymology: From Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish اوقه (okka). Doublet of ounce, inch, uncia, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
Senses: examples: text: At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois...
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, volume XXX, Rottolo, page 632:
text: Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
ref: 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures"
glosses: A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
glosses: A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.
Meronyms: sense: subdivisions of the unit of weight
word: dirhem
sense: subdivisions of the unit of weight
word: dram
sense: subdivisions of the unit of weight
word: ounce
sense: subdivisions of the unit of weight
word: cheki
sense: subdivisions of the unit of weight
word: rottol
sense: subdivisions of the unit of weight
word: rotl
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: batman
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: kantar
sense: superdivisions of the unit of weight
word: quintal
olisbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒlɪzbəs/
Forms: form: olisboi
form: olisbos
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄλισβος (ólisbos), possibly from ὀλισθάνειν (olisthánein, “to slip, glide”).
Senses: examples: text: I had blazed in her face an olisbos-like flashlight.
ref: 1958, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
text: At quiet hour in the afternoon they were adepts of the olisbos, baubon, and finger.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
text: A bowl of Pamphaeus in the British Museum shows a naked hetaira who has two olisboi in her hand; apparently there is a similar representation on a bowl of Euphronius.
ref: 1932, Sexual Life in Ancient Greece, Panther, published 1969, page 287:
glosses: A dildo.
zip-front
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a garment worn on the upper body, fastened by a zip fastener that runs the full length of the garment.
ollamh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒlæm/
Forms: form: ollamhs
form: olam
form: ollam
form: ollav
form: ollave
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish ollamh, from Old Irish ollam (“doctor”).
Senses: glosses: In Irish history, a man of science or learning, equivalent to a university professor.
ollav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ollavs
Senses: examples: text: Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face, bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of ollamh.
omophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊməˈfeɪd͡ʒɪə/
rhymes: -eɪdʒiə
Forms: form: omophagias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὠμοφαγία (ōmophagía), from ὠμός (ōmós, “raw”) (see omo-) + -φαγία (-phagía) (see -phagia for more).
Senses: examples: text: Omophagia, that’s it! Do you like that word? Take it away with you!
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Megalopolitan Maniac”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Uncomfortably, I thought of the Bacchae: hooves and bloody ribs, scraps dangling from the fir trees. There was a word for it in Greek: omophagia.
ref: 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:
glosses: The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
Related terms: omophagist
oncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌnsɚ/
Forms: form: oncers
Etymology: From once + -er (relational suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: On whatever point Jane’s eyes rested, through whichever line her gaze ran, she saw cheques being signed, credit-card counterfoils being scrawled across, standing orders being arranged, and cash – wholesome dosh, ponies, monkies, oncers, coins of the realm – flowing around like mercury, like some element.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
glosses: A one-pound note.
examples: text: Could he but once see Nature as / In truth she is for ever, / What oncer would not fall in love?
ref: 1944, W. H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's The Tempest, Part 1. Prospero to Ariel:
glosses: A person who does something once.
glosses: A single sexual encounter between two individuals, a one-night stand.
glosses: A person with whom one shares a single sexual encounter, a one-night stand.
oreibasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əɹeɪˈbæsɪə/
Etymology: Greek ορειβασία, literally ‘mountain-treading’.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, it was getting cold. They say that the oreibasia took place in midwinter, but I daresay the Peloponnesus is considerably milder that time of year than Vermont.
ref: 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:
glosses: A nocturnal ceremony of Bacchic women in Ancient Greece.
snowfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnoʊfɔːl/
enpr: snōʹfôl
Forms: form: snowfalls
form: snow-fall
Etymology: From snow + fall.
Senses: examples: text: There has been snowfall every day this week.
glosses: An instance of falling of snow.
examples: text: London recorded a snowfall of 10 centimetres last night.
glosses: The amount of snow that falls on one occasion.
Derived terms: Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale
orexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛksɪs/
Forms: form: orexes
Etymology: From Latin orexis (“longing; appetite”), from Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “desire”), from ὀρέγω (orégō, “I reach, stretch”).
Senses: examples: text: A sweet orexis rising in his cock, a blush of fever mixing tickles in his balls, Adriaan slid his briefs off and began to lay out the makings for supper.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The affective and conative character of mental activity as contrasted with its cognitive aspect; the appetitive aspect of an act; desire, appetite.
Related terms: orectic
orexigenic
anorexigenic
orgone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɡəʊn/
Forms: form: orgones
Etymology: Blend of organism + hormone, after German Orgon.
Senses: examples: text: In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.
ref: 1944, Wilhelm Reich, “The Discovery of the Orgone, part 2”, in Theodore P Wolfe, transl., International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research, volume III, number 1:
text: So, boys, when those hot licks play over your balls and prick and dart up your ass like an invisible blue blow torch of orgones, in the words of T. J. Watson, Think.
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press:
glosses: In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use.
Derived terms: anorgonia
orgone accumulator
orgonic
orgonite
Related terms: cloudbuster
oriflamme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪflæm/
Forms: form: oriflammes
form: auriflamme
form: oriflamb
Etymology: From Old French oriflambe, oriflamme, from Medieval Latin auriflamma (“golden flame”), from Latin aurum (“gold”) + flamma (“flame”).
Senses: examples: text: The white banner with the golden lilies of France has been unfurled. The oriflamme has been presented to the virginal bride who stands before the altar in the forest chapel.
ref: 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 58:
glosses: The red silk banner of St Denis, which the abbot of St Denis gave to French kings as they rode to war in the Middle Ages.
examples: text: And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
ref: 1824, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Ivry:
text: Please remember that the vocabulary of our readers isn’t very extensive, so don’t go using words like ‘oriflamme’ or ‘inelectable’.
ref: [1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
glosses: Any banner, idea or principle which serves as a rallying point for those involved in a struggle.
examples: text: This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its 'Drapeau Rouge:' in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, has but henceforth to hang out that new Oriflamme of his; then to read or mumble something about the King's peace; and, after certain pauses, serve any undispersing Assemblage with musket-shot....
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: On the other side Mailey's yellow beard flamed like an oriflamme.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Lucette trotted into the room with a child's pink, stiff-bagged butterfly-net in her little fist, like an oriflamme.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Penguin, published 2011, page 96:
text: Open spaces made visible the approach to almost every one of them, or else a splendid mass of foliage stood out before it like an oriflamme.
ref: 1992, Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, edited by D.J. Enright, Swann's Way, Folio Society, published 2005, page 417:
glosses: Something resembling the banner of St Denis; a bright, shining object.
bushwhacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushwhackings
Senses: glosses: Travelling through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
glosses: Fighting as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.
glosses: Criticizing on policies and stances by George W. Bush.
Related terms: bushwhack
bushwhacker
bushwhacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bushwhack
orpiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːpɪmənt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹpəmənt/
Forms: form: orpiments
form: auripigment
Etymology: From Middle English orpyment, from Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).
Senses: examples: text: Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 24, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 242:
glosses: Arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment.
Derived terms: red orpiment
yellow orpiment
Related terms: realgar
cinnabar
supermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superman
orrery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹ.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.ə.ɹi/
Forms: form: orreries
Etymology: Named after Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1676–1731), for whom such a device was made. The placename is from Irish Orbhraighe, originally the name of a tribe (Orbh-raighe (“Orb's people”)), and then of a territory and a barony.
Senses: examples: text: In the mean time I have another trouble to give you, if you will oblige me in it; and that is to get me a sight of the famous Orrery, which I have heard you and others so often speak of; and which I think was made by Mr. Rowley, the famous Mathematical Instrument-Maker.
ref: 1719, John Harris, Astronomical dialogues between a gentleman and a lady, page 151:
text: To conclude; the Candor and Forgiveness of the Reader is here entreated for Errors or Imperfections he possibly may discover in the following pages, as they are the production of one, whose engagements in business will admit but a small portion of time for an endeavor to explain the most conspicuous, and interesting phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies, by his new portable Orrey.
ref: 1784, William Jones, The description and use of a new portable orrery: on a most simple construction:
text: To which his answer was: why, that God is eternal motion, Lacy. This is his first orrery.
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
text: Ethelmer for a split second is gazing straight up into her nostrils, one of which now flares into pink illumination as Pitt’s Taper sets alight the central Lanthorn of the Orrery, representing the Sun. The other Planets wait, all but humming, taut within their spidery Linkages back to the Crank-Shaft and the Crank, held in the didactic Grasp of the Revd Cherrycoke.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: A clockwork model of any given solar system.
wikipedia: Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
ort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
enpr: ôrt
ipa: /oɹt/
homophone: aught
homophone: ought (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɔːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɔːt/
Forms: form: orts
Etymology: From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- + eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.
Senses: examples: text: […]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, chapter III, in Silas Marner, page 40:
text: Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
examples: text: ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.
ref: 1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268:
text: The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]
ref: 1915, The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and Paper Money, page 245:
glosses: A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
Synonyms: sense: fragment
word: bit
word: chip
sense: leftover food
word: gubbins
sense: leftover food
word: leftover
sense: leftover food
word: scrap
sense: any remainder
word: remnant
word: residue
sense: a piece of refuse
word: garbage
word: rubbish
ort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
enpr: ôrt
ipa: /oɹt/
homophone: aught
homophone: ought (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
note: rhotic
ipa: /ɔːɹt/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɔːt/
Forms: form: orts
form: orting
form: orted
form: orted
Etymology: From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”), equivalent to or- + eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.
Senses: glosses: To turn away from with disgust; refuse.
Related terms: slart
manavelins
outfangthief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtfaŋθiːf/
Forms: form: outfangthef
form: outfangenthef
form: utfangenthef
form: utfangenethef
form: utfangthief
form: utfangethef
form: utfangthef
Etymology: From out- + fang + thief, formed—probably in Middle English [Term?]—after the model of infangthief, with the only Old English [Term?] attestation a spurious charter forged in the 1st half of the 12th century.
Senses: examples: text: A grant of outfangthief imports the trial of those of his fee taken for felony in another precinct.
ref: 1822, John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, A Digest of the Laws of England, Butterworth & Son, page 328:
text: The addition of outfangandthef is much less usual [than infangthief]; it seems to have meant the right to try a man of the barony taken stealing outside the barony, if necessary repledging him to the barony court.
ref: 1990, David Maxwell Walker, A Legal History of Scotland, volume II, page 640:
topics: law
qualifier: properly
glosses: A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon thieves (particularly their own tenants) captured outside their estates and to keep any chattels forfeited upon conviction.
examples: text: But feudalism also contained another principle, and that was, that within his own territory each lord was absolute; his suzerain could not interfere with his jurisdiction; infangthief and outfangthief implied a very perfect and intelligible power of hanging and imprisoning as he pleased.
ref: 1845, John Henry Newman, Lives of the English Saints, ST Freemantle, p. 19
topics: law
qualifier: generally
glosses: A privilege of some feudal lords permitting them to execute summary judgment upon all thieves captured within their estates, regardless of their origin.
topics: law
glosses: A thief so captured and tried.
Related terms: infangthief
grungy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌnd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: grungier
form: grungiest
Etymology: Probably a blend of grunt + dingy, influenced by grimy.
Senses: glosses: Dirty; shabby; in disrepair.
glosses: Of or relating to grunge music.
Synonyms: grungelike
Derived terms: grungily
grunginess
forceps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːsɛps/
ipa: /ˈfɔːsəps/
ipa: /ˈfoɹsɛps/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger, rhotic
ipa: /ˈfɔ(ː)ɹsɛps/
Forms: form: forceps
form: forcipes
form: forcepses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin forceps.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pair of appendages on the abdomen of some insects, such as earwigs, resembling the medical instrument.
Synonyms: pair of forceps
Hyponyms: serrefine
Derived terms: dressing forceps
eyelash forceps
forceps delivery
forceps-like
forcepslike
forcepstail
gonoforceps
microforceps
midforceps
dredger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛdʒ.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dredgers
Etymology: From dredge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.
ref: 1923, Marine Engineer and Naval Architect - Volume 46, page 162:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel equipped for the removal of sand or sediment from the seabed.
glosses: One who fishes with a dredge.
glosses: A dredging machine.
examples: text: In the kitchen Mrs. Piper was busy with a flour dredger, a rolling pin, and a basin of dough.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: A container with a perforated lid, used to sprinkle sugar or flour.
Derived terms: dredgerman
Related terms: dredge
dredging
overexertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overexertions
Etymology: From over- + exertion.
Senses: glosses: excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results
Related terms: overexert
mixed blessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed blessings
Senses: examples: text: Moving house has been a mixed blessing: we're closer to the shops, but the railway is noisy.
glosses: Something that has both good and bad features.
Related terms: blessing in disguise
improvised explosive device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improvised explosive devices
form: IED
Etymology: As a descriptive term, appearing in the early 20th century. In the narrower sense describing weapons of irregulars and terrorists, popularized in the British Army during the Troubles and in the US during the Iraq War.
Senses: glosses: An unconventional or amateur explosive weapon made from nonmilitary components, especially one used by guerrillas, commandos or terrorists.
Coordinate terms: roadside bomb
roadside bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadside bombs
Senses: glosses: An explosive device placed at the side of a road and detonated when the target passes.
spokesperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspəʊkspɜːɹsən/
ipa: /ˈspoʊksˌpɝsən/
Forms: form: spokespersons
form: spokespeople
Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + person.
Senses: examples: text: News subsidies thus include making spokespersons available, producing press releases or staging pseudo-events designed to suit the media's production needs and attract the media's attention […]
ref: 2012, C. Holtz-Bacha, J. Strömbäck, Opinion Polls and the Media:
text: Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
ref: 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate:
text: A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were made aware of concern for a group of three hillwalkers who had not returned from the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glen Coe shortly after 9.05pm on Saturday 5 August.
ref: 2023 August 7, Nadeem Badshah, “Bodies of three hillwalkers recovered from ridge in Scottish Highlands”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people.
Synonyms: spox
Coordinate terms: spokesdog
spokesman
spokeswoman
tinfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinfoils
Etymology: From tin + foil.
Senses: glosses: A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping.
glosses: Aluminium foil.
Derived terms: tinfoil hat
tinfoily
Related terms: tin can
tinfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tinfoils
form: tinfoiling
form: tinfoiled
form: tinfoiled
Etymology: From tin + foil.
Senses: glosses: To cover in tinfoil.
tingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: tingles
form: tingling
form: tingled
form: tingled
Etymology: From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.
Senses: examples: text: My hands were tingling from the cold.
text: I got hit in the butt yesterday, and it still tingles.
text: For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
glosses: To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
examples: text: Tingle your tastebuds with these exotic dishes.
glosses: To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
examples: text: Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: 1859-1895, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
sharp tingling bells
text: The wind-chime tingling of halyards slapping against masts, the constant creaking of wooden boats, the gurgling of water passing under the hull.
ref: 1991, Michael L. Frankel, Sabra Crossing: An Ecological Adventure in the North Atlantic:
text: They delighfully ring to greet the rising sun and still tingle during the darkest night.
ref: 2010, Joseph J. Mazzella, Walking the Path of Love, page 223:
text: At that precise moment, after a week of silence, the solar chime forcefully tingled, loudly and clearly, again and again.
ref: 2021, Benita Glickman, Then and Now: Snapshots of My Life:
glosses: To ring; to tinkle or twang.
examples: text: Jackson, the butler, older of course, and altered he can see at a glance, opens the door almost before his hand is off the bell he has only gently tingled.
ref: 1874, Charles C. Duek, The abbey chimes, page 76:
text: […]the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.
ref: 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Second.⁠ The Bellman’s Speech.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to ring, to tinkle.
Synonyms: sense: to feel a prickly sensation
word: itch
sense: to ring, cause to ring
word: tinkle
Derived terms: my spider sense is tingling
spine-tingling
tingly
Related terms: ting
tink
tinkle