cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: jocks
Etymology: From Jock, a Scottish hypocoristic form of John (compare Jack).
Senses: glosses: A common man.
glosses: A Scotsman.
jock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: jocks
Etymology: The computer slang meanings are derived from jockey. The athletic slang meanings in turn date from the mid-20th century and are simple abbreviations of jockstrap.
Senses: examples: text: "You've heard of him?" "No." "Why, young fellah, where have you lived? Sir John Ballinger is the best gentleman jock in the north country."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A jockey.
glosses: The penis.
synonyms: jockstrap
glosses: An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals especially during sports.
glosses: A young male athlete (through college age).
examples: text: 'Cause all jocks ever think about is sports, all we ever think about is sex.
ref: 1984, Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai (screenplay), Revenge of the Nerds (motion picture), spoken by Lewis (Robert Carradine):
glosses: An enthusiastic athlete or sports fan, especially one with few other interests, often stereotyped as slow-witted person of large size and great physical strength.
examples: text: There was never a single listener protest or objection — the entire opposition to the content of the program came from a few jocks within the station.
ref: 1977 April 16, "Hartford Radio Show Axed", in Gay Community News, page 6, quoting Eric Gordon
text: As a teenager, I laid down the sword and decided I wanted to be a disc jockey. […] I'd sit outside the studio and watch with envy and admiration as the jocks performed in the small room on the other side of the soundproof window […]
ref: 2010, Stephen B. McSwain, The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God, page 95:
glosses: A disc jockey.
examples: text: compiler jock
text: systems jock
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specialist computer programmer.
Derived terms: jockdom
jockette
jockish
jocklike
Jockney
jockocracy
jockocrat
jockocratic
jocky
superjock
jock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: jocks
form: jocking
form: jocked
form: jocked
Senses: synonyms: jack off
jerk off
wank
wank off
glosses: To masturbate.
synonyms: punk
glosses: To humiliate.
synonyms: gank
glosses: To steal.
jock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Thear's boan-idle nowbles, baht hahses an' lands, 'at al walk on a carpeted path, an' nivver do nowt wi' ther lily-white hands bud lift uther fowk's jock to ther maath.
ref: 1881, Ben Preston, Dialect and Other Poems, page 19:
text: Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?
ref: 1884, William Cudworth (of Bradford), Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches, page 15:
glosses: Food; meals.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all etymologies (should be sorted)
word: bubbley-jock
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word: bubbly-jock
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word: jock itch
sense: terms derived from all etymologies (should be sorted)
word: jock off
sense: terms derived from all etymologies (should be sorted)
word: jock sniffer
sense: terms derived from all etymologies (should be sorted)
word: jock strap
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word: radio jock
sense: terms derived from all etymologies (should be sorted)
word: rock jock
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word: rocks for jocks
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word: shock jock
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word: talk jock
unruly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɹuːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: unrulier
form: unruliest
Etymology: From Middle English unruly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + rule + -ly (compare Middle English ruly, reuli (“subject to a religious rule, regular”)), but also representing a modified continuation of earlier Middle English unrouly, unroly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + roolie. The latter is perhaps from or influenced by Old Norse *úróligr, related to Danish urolig (“restless”), Swedish orolig (“restless”), Icelandic órólegur (“agitated”). Compare also Middle English unroo, unro (“unrest”). More at roo.
Senses: examples: text: The police gathered to contain the unruly mob.
text: Unruly boys who will not grow up / Must be taken in hand / Unruly girls who will not settle down / They must be taken in hand
ref: 1985, Morrissey & Johnny Marr, “Barbarism Begins at Home”, in Meat Is Murder, performed by The Smiths:
text: Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel?
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: The bar had two entrances, one on Barrow and another via Bedford, and “86” referred to the address of the door from which intoxicated or unruly guests would be ejected.
ref: 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Wild; uncontrolled.
key server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key servers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of keyserver.
flabbergasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːstəd/
ipa: /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡæstəd/
ipa: /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/
Forms: form: more flabbergasted
form: most flabbergasted
form: flabagasted
form: flambergasted
Etymology: Past tense of flabbergast.
Senses: examples: text: He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
text: Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
ref: 1952, Agnes Morley Cleaveland., Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert, Houghton-Mifflin:
text: From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
ref: 2008, Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home, Gospel Light, page 57:
text: On his first encounter with tailgating in 2006, he was flabbergasted at the way rival fans mixed peaceably together at the parties. A Chicago Bears fan, he was warmly welcomed into a group of Arizona Cardinals fans and fed. "I was shocked and slightly worried. I thought they were going to poison me. It was just so odd."
ref: 2014 August 16, BBC News, Why have tailgate parties not spread to the UK?:
glosses: Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.
glosses: Damned.
Derived terms: flabbergastedly
flabbergastedness
unflabbergasted
flabbergasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːstəd/
ipa: /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡæstəd/
ipa: /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/
Forms: form: flabagasted
form: flambergasted
Etymology: Past tense of flabbergast.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flabbergast
lymph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmf/
ipa: [lɪmpf]
rhymes: -ɪmf
Forms: form: lymphs
form: lymphe
Etymology: Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.
Senses: glosses: Pure water.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pure water.
The sap of plants.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.
examples: text: She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268:
topics: immunology
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.
The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
Derived terms: cytolymph
endolymph
haemolymph
hemolymph
karyolymph
lymphadenia
lymphangiogenesis
lymphangiography
lymph gland
lymphitis
lymphlike
lymphlined
lymph-
lympho-
lymph node
lymphnode
lymphoblast
lymphœdema
lymphography
lymphoid
lymphosome
lymph vessel
lymphy
neurolymph
perilymph
Related terms: lymphatic
nymph
twisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪstɪd/
rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Forms: form: more twisted
form: most twisted
Etymology: The sense "intertwined" comes from twist (verb) by the late 15th century. The sense "mentally disturbed, perverted" is probably from twist (“mental peculiarity, perversion”, noun), which is attested by 1811.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of two or more threads, strands or the like intertwined; formed by twisting or twining.
examples: text: twisted sense of humor
text: The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath.
text: I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
text: It was almost noon, and we still had more than a hundred miles to go. They would be tough miles. Very soon, I knew, we would both be completely twisted. But there was no going back, and no time to rest. We would have to ride it out.
ref: 1971, Hunter S[tockton] Thompson, “Welcome to Las Vegas”, in The Great Shark Hunt, Simon and Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 531:
glosses: Mentally or emotionally distorted or unsound; perverted.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Don't get this twisted. Just because I don't hate you doesn't mean we're friends.
glosses: Bent out of shape or out of place; distorted; contorted.
Having the intended meaning altered or misrepresented; misunderstood.
raw_tags: of words
glosses: Bent out of shape or out of place; distorted; contorted.
Distorted or contorted by tensing the facial muscles.
raw_tags: of facial expressions
examples: text: Dude I’m so twisted right now.
text: "Man is he high!" someone whispered. "Man, he's twisted! But on what? On what?"
ref: 1958, John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, Open Road Media, published 2015, →ISBN:
glosses: Under heavy influence of intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana; very intoxicated.
glosses: Having a spiral ornament inside.
raw_tags: of the stem of a wine glass
glosses: Intimately associated or connected; united; combined.
twisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪstɪd/
rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Etymology: The sense "intertwined" comes from twist (verb) by the late 15th century. The sense "mentally disturbed, perverted" is probably from twist (“mental peculiarity, perversion”, noun), which is attested by 1811.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twist
Synonyms: sense: contorted
word: wry
sense: contorted
word: pretzelled
sense: contorted
word: out of shape
sense: wound spirally
word: coiled
sense: mentally disturbed
word: deranged
sense: mentally disturbed
word: disturbed
sense: mentally disturbed
word: perverted
sense: mentally disturbed
word: sick
sense: mentally disturbed
word: warped
sense: intoxicated
word: drunk
word: stoned
Derived terms: don't get it twisted
get something twisted
rose twisted-stalk
shielded twisted pair
sick and twisted
twisted beech
twisted cluster bean
twisted cylinder
twisted pair
twisted perspective
twisted-stalk
Badoglian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Badoglio + -an.
Senses: glosses: Describing those Italian soldiers who chose to stay faithful to the Italian Crown and then-Army Commander General Badoglio after September 8 1943, during World War II, as the Fascist regime fell in Italy and the Italian army was left without a lead as King Victor Emmanuel III fled the country.
maffick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
homophone: mafic
Forms: form: mafficks
form: mafficking
form: mafficked
form: mafficked
Etymology: Back-formation from Mafikeng, humorously treated as if it were a present participle (mafficking), from the celebrations in London after the relief of Mafeking during the Boer War.
Senses: examples: text: […] we crown our work by putting into our children’s hands a book that reeks of Jingoism, Imperialism, and Patriotism; that “mafficks” on every other page, that sings the glories of all the ruffianly kings who bore rule in the Dark Ages, and never fails to applaud their most disreputable military adventures!
ref: 1906, Arthur Machen, chapter 5, in Dr. Stiggins: His Views and Principles, London: Francis Griffiths, page 116:
text: […] father has given a day from business, mother has helped, even those shiny-headed nuts, the sons, have condescended to assist, and now villadom, feeling a little safer, is ready with the dinner-bell, its characteristic instrument of music, to maffick at the victories it has done its best to spoil.
ref: 1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 3, in The War That Will End War, London: F. & C. Palmer, page 22:
text: “[…] but if to be foreign is to be mad, I think I’d rather be English.”
“There!” cried Miss Haymer. “That’s typical! Pure jingoism, Connie! You can’t maffick under my roof! […]”
ref: 1932, William Plomer, chapter 14, in The Case Is Altered, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1970, pages 242–243:
glosses: To celebrate a victory in a boisterous manner.
Derived terms: mafficker
maffick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
homophone: mafic
Forms: form: mafficks
Etymology: Back-formation from Mafikeng, humorously treated as if it were a present participle (mafficking), from the celebrations in London after the relief of Mafeking during the Boer War.
Senses: examples: text: But far the greater number of the inhabitants lead a sober life, only breaking out into occasional excess on “mafficks” of authorised national rejoicing, on the days of public holiday, or on the last night of the year, and other periods of unusual solemnity.
ref: 1901, Charles Masterman, “Realities at Home”, in The Heart of the Empire, London: Unwin, page 25:
text: War gives to them something of the excitement of the public-house; and much as I hate the passion of jingoism among those to whom fortune has given the education and opportunity to think, I recognise that a slum “on the Maffick” was a thing far less degrading to human nature than the calculations of financiers or the plots of statesmen.
ref: 1904, Brougham Villiers, chapter 2, in The Opportunity of Liberalism, London: Unwin, page 29:
text: It was a clandestine “maffick,” but was all the more exuberant because we had the satisfaction of knowing that we had outwitted the authorities completely, they being in utter ignorance of our celebration.
ref: c. 1920, Henry C. Mahoney, Frederick A. Talbot, Interned in Germany, London: Sampson Low, Marston, pages 78-79:
text: This, needless to say, ended the maffick and put a damper on the rest of the VE Day celebrations.
ref: 2000, L. Anthony Leicester, chapter 13, in Flights into Night: Reminiscences of a World War Two, RAF Wellington Pilot, Oxford: Isis, page 249:
glosses: The boisterous celebration of a victory.
xenofobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Dutch xenofobie, Portuguese xenofobia, Spanish xenofobia, and Turkish zenofobi.
Senses: examples: text: Greetings from Brigite from Portugal to Austria!
What do I know about your country?
Hardly nothing! I only know that you speak German, your capital is Vienna and that you have very beatifull^([sic]) palaces. oh yes, and that the film of "Sissi" was made there! (Actually I liked it a lot!)
What prejudices?
I heard of a lot of xenofobia and racism... is it true?
ref: 1997 April 16, ri20556, “From AUSTRIA - from Portugal”, in soc.college.org.aiesec (Usenet), retrieved 18 Apr 2022:
text: As an ex-inhabitant of Bruges, I'm sorry to read posts with complaints about bad behaviour in restaurants towards tourists. The problem is that in Bruges there are so many tourists that in some restaurants the Brugeois are in a 'minority'. Sometimes restaurant owners try to profile themselves as 'non-tourist' to attract more people from Bruges.
Though I completely lack any feeling of xenofobia, I must say it is weird to be in a restaurant in your home-town and to be amongst only tourists. It makes you feel like being in a tourist trap - I'm sure the average tourist feels the same about that.
ref: 1998 August 25, Dela, “Restaurants in Brugges?^([sic])”, in rec.travel.europe (Usenet), retrieved 18 Apr 2022:
text: Genocide is not a mistake. It is delibarete^([sic]) attempt to exterminate a people out of racial prejudice. Nobody exterminates anybody because they are an inconveniency,^([sic]) as you suggest. Armenians and Turks have coexisted peacefully in the Empire before 1915. Armenians and Turks coexist peacefully in Turkey today. So what was it, a brief attack of xenofobia by the young Turks? come on. You may consider this qubbling^([sic]) over a fine point, it is exactly that point you are trying to smear us with.
ref: 1998 November 7, pipe...@my-dejanews.com, “SEVEN MORE REPRESENTATIVES JOIN ARMENIAN CAUCUS (fwd)”, in soc.culture.turkish (Usenet), retrieved 18 Apr 2022:
text: Also i see a shade of xenofobia in this treatment and i dont like this. In spain there are also people who see the tourists as inferior beings, not me.
ref: 2002 August 29, Rafa, “Education in CzR”, in soc.culture.czecho-slovak (Usenet), retrieved 18 Apr 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of xenophobia.
matchlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmatʃlɒk/
ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃlɑk/
Forms: form: matchlocks
Etymology: From match + lock.
Senses: examples: text: I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, Black and White, volume 1, Folio Society, published 2004, page 372:
glosses: Early type of firearm, using a smoldering piece of cord to fire the powder in the firing pan.
glosses: The gunlock used in such a weapon, having a slow smouldering match.
flintlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪntˌlɒk/
Forms: form: flintlocks
Etymology: From flint + lock.
Senses: examples: text: But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.
glosses: A type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
Derived terms: flintlock mechanism
smoldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smouldering
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smolder
smoldering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smolderings
form: smouldering
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smouldering.
utilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: utilisable
Etymology: From utilize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be utilized
usura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ūsūra.
Senses: examples: text: In time past it was sors pro sorte – that is, the principal only for the principal; but now, beside that which is above the principal properly called Usura, we challenge Foenus – that is, commodity of soil and fruits of the earth, if not the ground itself.
ref: 1577, William Harrison, chapter 9, in Holinshed's Chronicles:
text: Quite considerable sums, as the sources show, went at the death of rich people to religious institutions as conscience money, at times even back to former debtors as usura which had been unjustly taken from them.
ref: 1905, Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism:
text: With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that design might cover their face,
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
harpes et luz
or where virgin receiveth message
and halo projects from incision,[…]
ref: 1937, Ezra Pound, The Cantos:
glosses: Usury.
elusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uː.sɪv/
ipa: /iˈl(j)uː.sɪv/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uː.zɪv/
ipa: /iˈl(j)uː.zɪv/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/
ipa: /iˈl(j)u.sɪv/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)u.zɪv/
ipa: /iˈl(j)u.zɪv/
ipa: /ɪˈlʉ.sɪv/
ipa: /əˈlʉ.sɪv/
homophone: illusive
Forms: form: more elusive
form: most elusive
Etymology: From Latin elusus past participle of eludo (“to parry a blow, to deceive”).
Senses: examples: text: The elusive criminal was arrested
text: The temporary elusive goal / To reach the solace, to feed once more upon the synthetic reaper of loss / No matter the outcome, the cost
ref: 2002, Meshuggah, Closed Eye Visuals:
glosses: Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
examples: text: A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive
ref: 2010, Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease:
text: Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.
ref: 1910, Jack London, chapter 6, in Lost Face, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2011:
glosses: Difficult to make precise.
examples: text: While you're sniffing the trunks of the ponderosas to see if they're butterscotch, vanilla, strawberry, or the elusive chocolate variety, watch for Brown Creepers, an elusive variety of bird.
ref: 2002, Scott Roederer, Birding: Rocky Mountain National Park, page 93:
glosses: Rarely seen.
Synonyms: elusory
Derived terms: elusively
elusiveness
unelusive
Related terms: elude
manufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚd/
enpr: măn'yə-făkʹchərd
ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəd/
Forms: form: more manufactured
form: most manufactured
Senses: glosses: manmade; produced by humans rather than nature
examples: text: a manufactured boy band
glosses: not genuine; contrived
Derived terms: manufactroversy
manufactured home
nonmanufactured
unmanufactured
manufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚd/
enpr: măn'yə-făkʹchərd
ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of manufacture
Derived terms: manufacturable
Related terms: manufacture
manufacturing
stressful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strĕs'fəl
ipa: /ˈstɹɛsfəl/
Forms: form: more stressful
form: most stressful
Etymology: From stress + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
ref: 1970, Richard Nelson Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?:
text: Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.
ref: 2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN:
glosses: Irritating; causing stress.
glosses: Mentally taxing.
raw_tags: of a task
Synonyms: trying
Related terms: stress
stressed
stressfully
fathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fathered
form: most fathered
Derived terms: unfathered
fathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of father
fathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of father
parental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛn.təl/
ipa: /pəˈɹen.təl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈparəɳʈəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpe-/
note: Indic
ipa: /pəˈrɛɳʈəl/
Forms: form: more parental
form: most parental
Etymology: From Middle French parental, from Latin parentālis, from parens (“parent”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a parent.
glosses: Befitting a parent; affectionate; tender.
examples: text: This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]
ref: 1916, William E. Castle, Gregor Mendel, Genetics & Eugenics, page 101:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of the generation of organisms that produce a hybrid.
Hypernyms: monoparental
Derived terms: alloparental
bioparental
biparental
coparental
diparental
extraparental
filioparental
godparental
grandparental
heteroparental
interparental
monoparental
multiparental
nonparental
parental alienation
parental alienation syndrome
parental control
parental duty
parental home
parentalism
parentality
parental leave
parental love
parentally
parental rights
parental unit
preparental
quasiparental
stepparental
tetraparental
triparental
uniparental
unparental
Related terms: paternal
maternal
parental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛn.təl/
ipa: /pəˈɹen.təl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈparəɳʈəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpe-/
note: Indic
ipa: /pəˈrɛɳʈəl/
Forms: form: parentals
Etymology: From Middle French parental, from Latin parentālis, from parens (“parent”).
Senses: examples: text: Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.
glosses: A person fulfilling a parental role.
fullback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlˌbæk/
Forms: form: fullbacks
Etymology: From full + back.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A position behind the main line of backs in both rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, they wear number 15 jersey at the start of play and are the last line of defence responsible for catching punts.
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the opposing team from scoring.
examples: text: For long, awkward spells, City looked out of their depth. Dani Alves and Jordi Alba attacked like whippets from the full-back positions.
ref: 2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London):
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.
Related terms: centre-back
wing-back
inedible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + edible.
Senses: synonyms: uneatable
unedible
antonyms: edible
glosses: not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat
Synonyms: word: incomestible
word: indigestible
word: inedible
word: inesculent
word: nonedible
word: uncomsumable
word: uneatable
Hyponyms: word: rotten
Derived terms: inedibly
Related terms: word: food
word: unpalatable
inedible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inedibles
Etymology: From in- + edible.
Senses: glosses: Anything inedible; that which is not a foodstuff.
neutral zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral zones
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A zone between the defensive line of scrimmage and the offensive line of scrimmage.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A zone on the playing surface between the attacking zone and the defending zone as delineated by the two blue lines.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A non-competitive segment of a bicycle race during which competitors have to stay behind the lead vehicles.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: That space in the oral cavity where the forces exerted by the musculature of the tongue are equal and balanced with the forces exerted by the buccinator muscle of the cheek laterally and the orbicularis oris muscle anteriorly.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In Characeae, that line or place where rotating streams of protoplasm flow beside each other in opposite directions, shown by the absence of chlorophyll granules.
Synonyms: topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: center zone
topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: center ice
Derived terms: neutral-zone infraction
line of scrimmage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of scrimmage
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Either of two imaginary lines across the football field touching one of the two apices of the football which point toward either the defensive side or the offensive side before the center is allowed to touch the ball before each play.
Derived terms: offensive line of scrimmage
apices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.pɪˌsiːz/
ipa: /ˈæ.pɪˌsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of apex
football field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: football fields
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A playing field on which the game of American football is played.
qualifier: Association football
glosses: A playing field on which the game of association football is played.
glosses: An informal unit of measure of area, equal to the area of an American football field (57,600 square feet or 1.32 acres).
playing field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playing fields
form: field of play
Senses: synonyms: playfield
glosses: A field on which a game, especially a ball game, is played.
examples: text: A shake-up of transport taxes is needed to create a 'level green playing field' that better reflects how environmentally damaging each mode of transport is.
ref: 2020 August 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: RDG urges tax revision to aid switch to 'greener' rail”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: Any place or context within which competitive activity takes place, such as market competition between companies.
Derived terms: level playing field
ball game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːl ˌɡeɪm/
Forms: form: ball games
form: ballgame
Senses: examples: text: Basketball, cricket, and football are three kinds of ball game.
glosses: Any game played with a ball.
examples: text: George and Harriet went to the stadium to see the ball game.
glosses: A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
examples: text: The ball game was the main sport in Central America before the arrival of the Spanish.
glosses: A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
examples: text: Think things over, Callahan. Get with it. It's a whole new ball game these days.
ref: 1983, Joseph Stinson, Sudden Impact (motion picture), spoken by Captain Briggs (Bradford Dillman):
glosses: Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
examples: text: If a U.S. presidential candidate receives 270 electoral votes, that's the ball game.
glosses: A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
esp.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: esp
Senses: examples: text: Male 6', 180 lbs, 26 yrs old […] Have many interests. Will answer all, esp-fond of gay fems.
ref: 1982 December 25, Robert Anderson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 15:
glosses: Abbreviation of especially.
offensive line of scrimmage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive lines of scrimmage
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The scrimmage line on the offensive side of the football field.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive line.
countersink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersinks
Etymology: From counter- + sink.
Senses: coordinate_terms: counterbore
glosses: A conical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (with a matching taper) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
examples: Holonym: center drill (combined drill and countersink)
synonyms: countersinker
hypernyms: cutter
cutting tool
coordinate_terms: counterbore
;
drill
drill bit
;
reamer
;
endmill
glosses: The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for edge-breaking/deburring.)
countersink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countersinks
form: countersinking
form: countersank
form: countersunk
form: countersunk
Etymology: From counter- + sink.
Senses: examples: to countersink a hole for a screw
glosses: To create such a conical recess.
examples: text: to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork
text: I countersank into the locust just enough to make the nailhead flush.
ref: 2010, Larry Pardey, Details of Classic Boat Construction, pages 7-30:
glosses: To cause to sink even with or below the surface.
Derived terms: countersinker
Related terms: word: diesinking
word: sink
word: spotface
counterbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterbores
Etymology: From counter- (“against”) + bore (“hole”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: countersink
glosses: A cylindrical recess, typically machined at the mouth of a hole to admit a screw (such as a cap screw) so that the screw sits flush with a surface.
examples: Meronyms: flute, pilot (the land at the tip, which rides the hole as a guide), shank
hypernyms: cutter
cutting tool
coordinate_terms: countersink
;
drill
drill bit
;
reamer
;
endmill
glosses: The cutter used to cut such a recess. (Also used, at less depth, for spotfacing.)
Related terms: word: spotface
counterbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterbores
form: counterboring
form: counterbored
form: counterbored
Etymology: From counter- (“against”) + bore (“hole”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: countersink#Verb
spotface#Verb
glosses: To create such a cylindrical recess.
running back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running backs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive back whose primary job is to be the ballcarrier.
running back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run back
ballcarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballcarriers
Senses: examples: text: As the team's speedy ballcarriers broke tackle after tackle, the fans chatted among themselves.
ref: 2006 December 8, Scott Eden, “The Team Plays, the Bar Pays”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ball carrier.
ball carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball carriers
form: ballcarrier
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player who carries the football.
Related terms: ball carry
carry the ball
offensive back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive backs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player for the team in possession of the ball who lines up behind the line of scrimmage at the start of a play.
Hyponyms: sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: blocking back
sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: fullback
sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: halfback
sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: quarterback
sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: running back
sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: slot back
sense: terms for types of offensive backs
word: tailback
recess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛs/
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɛs/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɛs/
ipa: /ɹəˈsɛs/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: more recess
form: most recess
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Latin recessus (“act of going back, departure, receding, retiring; (figuratively) retreat, withdrawal; (metonymically) distant, secluded, or secret spot, corner, nook, retreat; recessed part, indentation”) (also Late Latin recessus (“decree or resolution of the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire”)), from recēdō (“to go back, recede, retire, withdraw; to go away, depart; (by extension) to disappear, vanish; to separate; to stand back, be distant; to yield”) (from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards’) + cēdō (“to go, move, proceed”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs); influenced by Middle French recès, French recès (“a break, pause; break between classes in school; school vacation; ebbing of tide; reduction”) (also Anglo-Norman recès and Old French recès (“hiding place; hollow”).
Sense 5 (“decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, etc.”) is possibly influenced by Italian recesso and refers to a decree or resolution made just before a meeting ends.
The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Catalan recés
* Italian recesso
* Middle French recès (modern French recès)
* Portuguese recesso
* Spanish receso
Senses: examples: text: […] I ſhould think it beſt in the ſubſequent diſcourſes to begin to examine vvhether the Earth be eſteemed immoveable, as it hath been till novv believed by moſt men, or elſe moveable, as ſome ancient Philoſophers held, and others of not very receſſe times vvere of opinion; and if it be moveable, to enquire of vvhat kind its motion may be?
ref: 1661, Galilæus Galilæus Lyncæus [i.e., Galileo Galilei], “The Systeme of the World: In Four Dialogues. […]. The Second Dialogue.”, in Thomas Salusbury, transl., Mathematical Collections and Translations, tome I, 1st part, London: […] William Leybourne, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Of a place or time: distant, remote.
one-minute warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-minute warnings
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In the AFL, a warning given with one minute to go before the end of a half, after which special rules apply, eg, stoppage of the game clock after very first down.
AFL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪ ɛf ɛl/
Forms: form: AFLs
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of abstract family of languages.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of adaptive front light.
glosses: Abbreviation of airfield lighting.
AFL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /eɪ ɛf ɛl/
Senses: examples: text: The weekend after AFL football chief Simon Lethlean made it clear players who jumper punched or punched opponents in the stomach would most likely be suspended, Jones was charged with striking Hawthorn’s Luke Breust.
ref: 2017 May 29, “Zak Jones fined for off-the-ball hit, escapes MRP suspension”, in Fox Footy, retrieved 25 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of Australian Football League.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Arena Football League.
qualifier: labor union
glosses: Initialism of American Federation of Labor.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of American Football League.
Synonyms: sense: Australian Football League
english: before 1990
translation: before 1990
word: VFL
sense: labor union
word: AF of L
Derived terms: sense: American Football League
word: AFC
sense: others
word: AFLNZ
sense: others
word: NZAFL
Related terms: sense: American Football League
word: USFL
AFL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪ ɛf ɛl/
Senses: glosses: The game of Australian rules football.
Related terms: ARL
NFC
NFL
VFA
VFL
game clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game clocks
Senses: glosses: A clock used to time a game, such as a chess clock.
first down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first downs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first play in a series that has a maximum of four downs.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of getting a first down by advancing the ball more than ten yards ahead of the field position where the team took possession.
Related terms: second down
third down
fourth down
football player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: football players
form: football-player
Senses: glosses: One who plays gridiron football.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: One who plays association football, aka soccer.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who plays American football.
topics: ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who plays Canadian football.
glosses: A large, intimidating male.
Synonyms: sense: one who plays soccer
word: footballer
sense: one who plays soccer
word: soccer player
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: flushes
Etymology: From Middle English flusshen, fluschen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle English flasshen, flasschen, flaschen, see flash; or a Middle English blend of flowen (“to flow”) + guschen (“to gush”). Compare Saterland Frisian flutskje, German Low German flutschen, German flutschen.
Senses: examples: text: As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: flushes
form: flushing
form: flushed
form: flushed
Etymology: From Middle English flusshen, fluschen, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle English flasshen, flasschen, flaschen, see flash; or a Middle English blend of flowen (“to flow”) + guschen (“to gush”). Compare Saterland Frisian flutskje, German Low German flutschen, German flutschen.
Senses: examples: text: The dogs flushed the deer from the woods.
synonyms: drive#Verb
flush out
scare up
glosses: To cause to take flight from concealment.
examples: text: A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.
text: But then as little VVrens but nevvly fledge, / […] / His fellovv noting his agilitie, / Thinkes he as vvell may venter as the other, / So fluſhing from one ſpray vnto another, / Gets to the top, and then enbold'ned flies, / Vnto an height paſt ken of humane eyes: […]
ref: 1613, William Browne, “The Fourth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 83:
text: The birds seem to lie very close and must be nearly stepped on before they will flush.
ref: 1926, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds: Marsh Birds, page 336:
text: AWACS is survivable due to its ability to flush on warning, to maneuver at jet speeds, to maintain awareness of the developing air situation and to command weapons as appropriate, including weapons for its own defense.
ref: 1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense, Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1973, page 460:
glosses: To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: flusher
form: flushest
Etymology: Same as Etymology 3, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Senses: examples: text: Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.
glosses: Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
examples: text: He just got a bonus so he's flush today.
text: In 1952, Fawcett Books was flush with the unprecedented success of Women's Barracks.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 54:
glosses: Wealthy or well off.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: forced
forced justified
force justified
justified
glosses: Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
examples: text: With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
examples: text: [H]e vvas not fluſh in Ready [i.e., ready money], either to go to Lavv or clear old Debts, neither could he find good Bail: […]
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “A Copy of Bull and Frog’s Letter to Lord Strutt”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
Derived terms: flush cast
flush left
flush left and right
flush mount
flush mounted
flush mounting
flushness
flush right
nonflush
non-flush
semi-flush
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Etymology: Same as Etymology 3, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Senses: examples: text: I landed flush on the couch.
glosses: Suddenly and completely.
flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: flushes
Etymology: Probably from Etymology 1, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Senses: examples: text: in manner of a wave or flush
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
glosses: Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
examples: text: When I would kiss thy hand, / The flush of anger'd shame / O'erflows thy calmer glances, / And o'er black brows drops down / A sudden-curved frown: […]
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Madeline”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
examples: text: the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset
text: Benefit’s cult product Benetint is the lip stain most widely associated with Popsicle lips. Its watery tint gives just the slightest hint of flush, befitting of lips (and nipples — Benetint’s original use was to tint the nipples of burlesque dancers).
ref: 2014 July 22, Kathleen Hou, “How to Get Summery, Popsicle-Stained Lips”, in The Cut, New York, N.Y.: Vox Media, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2018:
glosses: Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
examples: text: a flush of joy
glosses: A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
Derived terms: alcohol flush reaction
Asian flush
autoflush
backflush
bucket flush
courtesy flush
eco-flush
first flush
flush deck
flushless
flush mounting
flushometer
flush toilet
four-flush
four flush
hot flush
mercy flush
outflush
overflush
preflush
running flush
saline flush
sex flush
underflush
unflush