cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
twirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɜːl/
ipa: /ˈtwɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: twirls
form: twirling
form: twirled
form: twirled
Etymology: Of Scandinavian origin, akin to Norwegian Nynorsk tvirla, Old High German dweran (German zwirlen, quirlen), Dutch dwarrelen and Icelandic þyrill; all from Proto-Germanic *þwirilaz (“stirring-stick, whisk”), *þweraną (“to stir”). Or, an alteration of tirl (“to twist”), with influence from whirl.
Senses: glosses: To perform a twirl.
examples: text: See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.
ref: 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture:
text: No more beneath soft eve's consenting star / Fandango twirls his jocund castanet.
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVII:
glosses: To rotate rapidly.
examples: text: He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:
synonyms: twizzle
glosses: To twist round.
examples: text: When the batteries were announced, however, and Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox, probably the best pitcher in all baseballdom, was named to twirl for the invading team, we felt we had been tricked.
ref: 1949, Mark Raymond Murnane, Ground Swells: Of Sailors, Ships, and Shellac, page 302:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pitch.
Derived terms: twirl one's moustache
truckload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌkˌloʊd/
Forms: form: truckloads
Etymology: From truck + load.
Senses: examples: text: A task force of 1,000 gas-masked, ready-to-shoot state troopers and sheriff’s deputies, backed in reserve by 70 truckloads of New York National Guardsmen, liberated 29 other hostages, 25 of whom were injured.
ref: 1971 September 14, “37 Prisoners, Guards Die As Troopers Storm Prison”, in The Charlotte Observer, 86th year, number 173, page 1A:
synonyms: truckful
coordinate_terms: busload
carload
cartload
drayload
less than truckload
trailerload
wagonload
glosses: The contents of a full truck or lorry.
examples: text: We were expecting just a handful of people to come to the festival, but then a truckload of revellers started arriving at the festival gates.
text: Another meme shows an empty van. “Excellent news,” it reads. “The first truckload of your thoughts and prayers has just arrived.”
ref: 2018 May 19, AJ Willimgham, “How ‘thoughts and prayers’ went from common condolence to cynical meme”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large number.
Derived terms: less than truckload
commandant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒməndænt/
ipa: /kɒmənˈdænt/
ipa: /-dɑnt/
ipa: /ˈkɒməndənt/
ipa: /ˈkɒməndɑːnt/
ipa: /kɒmənˈdɑːnt/
Forms: form: commandants
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Proto-Italic *manuðō
Latin mandō
Latin commendō
Latin mandōinflu.
Latin commandāre
Old French comander
Middle French commander
French commanderder.
French commandant
English commandant
From French commandant, from commander, from Middle French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, from commendō + mandō.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A commanding officer, usually of a specific force or division.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military rank equivalent to major used in some countries, especially when derived from French usage.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: lieutenant-colonel
Derived terms: colonel commandant
colonel-commandant
commandant-general
commandantship
mangy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mānʹjē
ipa: /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -eɪndʒi
Forms: form: mangier
form: mangiest
form: mangey
Etymology: From mange + -y.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
examples: text: We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
text: When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany.
ref: 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):
text: Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'
ref: 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Spectral Ravine:
synonyms: decrepit
scruffy
shabby
glosses: Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
examples: text: And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Contemptible, despicable, low.
Derived terms: mangily
manginess
sterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜː.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɝ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
homophone: Stirling
Forms: form: sterlings
Etymology: Possibly from Old English *steorling, from steorra (“star”) and -ling, in reference to the stars that appeared on certain English pennies. Alternatively, the first element may be *stēre, meaning “strong” or “stout” (compare the etymology of solidus).
Senses: examples: text: In England sterlings and nobles were struck, both of them often counterfeited.
ref: 1911, Charles G. Herbermann et al., editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 11, page 155:
glosses: A silver penny.
examples: text: “… among the objects stolen was the famous parure of Black Diamonds, for which a bid of half a million sterling had just been made and accepted.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “Who Stole the Black Diamonds ?”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: The currency of the United Kingdom, based on the pound sterling.
examples: text: Sterling was the known and approved standard in England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign.
ref: 1793, Stephen Martin Leake, An Historical Account of English Money from the Conquest to the Present Time:
glosses: Former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness: for gold 0.91666 and for silver 0.925.
glosses: Sterling silver, or articles made from this material.
Derived terms: penny sterling
pound sterling
sterling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜː.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɝ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
homophone: Stirling
Forms: form: more sterling
form: most sterling
Etymology: Possibly from Old English *steorling, from steorra (“star”) and -ling, in reference to the stars that appeared on certain English pennies. Alternatively, the first element may be *stēre, meaning “strong” or “stout” (compare the etymology of solidus).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage.
glosses: Of, relating to, or made from sterling silver.
examples: text: Then the world seemed none so bad / And I myself a sterling lad
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:
text: Southampton had been hoping to get back to winning ways to prove to their critics there was substance to their sterling start to the season.
ref: 2014 December 13, Mandeep Sanghera, “Burnley 1-0 Southampton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Of acknowledged worth or influence; high quality; authoritative.
examples: text: I have said that Mr. Crawley was a stern, unpleasant man; and it certainly was so. The man must be made of very sterling stuff, whom continued and undeserved misfortune does not make unpleasant.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
text: But Rodríguez says, “Neither the law nor the facts support Senator Grassley’s baseless allegations and extrapolated conclusions. It is disappointing that the senator and his staff continue to focus a politically motivated campaign on Ms. Abedin, who has been known her entire professional life for hard work, integrity, and her sterling reputation. It is people like Ms. Abedin whom we should all want in public service.”
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
text: HSTs continued to provide sterling service during these years, so much so that when Virgin and Midland Mainline brought their new wave of high-speed diesel electric multiple units [...] on stream, many preferred the ride and comfort of the vanquished to the ride and comfort of the vanquisher.
ref: 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 53:
glosses: Genuine; true; pure; of great value or excellence.
sterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜː.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɝ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
homophone: Stirling
Forms: form: sterlings
Senses: examples: text: The bubbles ended in another swirl by a weed-fringed sterling, and a delicate swift water-arrow shot away between the two piers of the middle arch […]
ref: 1927, Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter:
glosses: A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge; a starling.
humping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hump
humping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: humpings
Senses: examples: text: The foreign ladies, in their simple, tasteful, fresh attire, innocent of the humpings and bunchings, the monstrosities and deformities of ultra-fashionable bad taste, beamed with cheerfulness, friendliness, and kindliness.
ref: 1974, Isabella Bird, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands, amongst the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes:
glosses: A hump or mound.
examples: text: As for sex, every man in the county knew of the famous thirty-minute humpings available from one of the 'girls' who worked out of the rear rooms of Angels Motel.
ref: 2007, Rod Wallsmith, Booze, Blood and Justice:
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
lakeside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪkˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: lakesides
Etymology: From lake + -side.
Senses: glosses: The ground near the edge of a lake; the land adjacent to a lake.
lakeside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪkˌsaɪd/
Etymology: From lake + -side.
Senses: glosses: By the side of a lake.
g'night
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈnaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology: Contraction of good night; compare g'day, g'bye.
Senses: glosses: good night
ting
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭng
ipa: /tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Everybody sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, “The Private Theatricals”, in Sketches by Boz:
text: Lonnie shook the Sacajaweas from his hand and let them land noisily on the glass coffee table—ting ting ting—oblivious or indifferent or likely hostile to Ig so near to nap.
ref: 2015, Claire Vaye Watkins, “Book One”, in Gold Fame Citrus, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 74:
text: “Aah, Miss Zoe!” proclaimed Raj, as she opened the door to his shop. The bell rang as she entered. TING.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Burt’s Burgers”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Representing a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
ting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭng
ipa: /tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: tings
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiii. 307:
text: At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 36:
glosses: A high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
ting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭng
ipa: /tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: tings
form: tinging
form: tinged
form: tinged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: When the microwaved food was ready, the bell tinged.
text: It was built by Alco—the American Locomotive Company—and looked fairly new; it was carried on two 4-wheel bogies, and had a funny bell that tinged continuously somewhere inside.
ref: 1942 February, “A Railway Day in New England”, in Railway Magazine, page 38:
glosses: To make a high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
Related terms: ding
ding dong
tintinnabulation
ting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭng
ipa: /tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: tings
form: ting
form: ding
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng) Wade-Giles romanization: ting³.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
ting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭng
ipa: /tɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: tings
Etymology: From thing.
Senses: examples: text: Inter, two man in Milan, heard one of my tings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags
ref: 2023, “Sprinter”, performed by Central Cee x Dave:
qualifier: Caribbean creoles
glosses: thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections).
Derived terms: battri ting
big man ting
peng ting
side ting
racquetball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racquetballs
form: racketball
Etymology: From racquet + ball.
Senses: glosses: A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball.
glosses: A ball used for this sport.
Related terms: squash
racquets
tennis
racquet
racket
cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkulɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Forms: form: more cooling
form: most cooling
Etymology: By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: frigorific
glosses: That cools.
examples: text: Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 187:
antonyms: heaty
qualifier: Asian English
glosses: . Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.
Derived terms: cooling board
cooling center
cooling curve
cooling glasses
cooling-off period
cooling pond
cooling rack
cooling tower
cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkulɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Forms: form: coolings
Etymology: By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A decrease in temperature.
glosses: Refrigeration.
Derived terms: adiabatic cooling
aftercooling
coolingly
cooling plant
cooling time
cryocooling
decooling
district cooling
dynamic cooling
evaporative cooling
expansion cooling
free-cooling
global cooling
heroic cooling
house cooling party
laser cooling
lubro-cooling
overcooling
Peltier cooling
Sisyphus cooling
subcooling
telecooling
cooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkulɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, cool + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cool
prowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: proul
ipa: /pɹaʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
ipa: /pɹoʊl/
Forms: form: prowls
form: prowling
form: prowled
form: prowled
Etymology: From Middle English prollen, of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.
text: It's easy to sneak vandalism into Wiktionary as there are few other users prowling the Recent Changes page.
text: He prowls each place, still in new colours decked.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.
ref: 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty.
examples: text: That dandy has nothing better to do than prowl around town all day in his pinstripe suit.
glosses: To idle; to go about aimlessly.
examples: text: to prowl money
glosses: To collect by plunder.
Derived terms: aprowl
on the prowl
prowl car
prowler
prowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: proul
ipa: /pɹaʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
ipa: /pɹoʊl/
Forms: form: prowls
Etymology: From Middle English prollen, of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going on a midnight prowl.
glosses: The act of prowling.
pooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: poopers
Etymology: From poop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She likes it up the pooper.
glosses: The anus; often in reference to anal intercourse.
examples: text: I wanted us to have fun today. You're such a pooper cleaning the house now!
glosses: One who poops out on an activity; one who dampens the mood by lack of participation or negative attitude. Mostly used in the phrase party pooper.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A selection in a slot machine game that ends the picking bonus.
examples: text: Jimmy's toilet training is finally over; he's becoming a good little pooper.
glosses: One who poops; or, poops well.
glosses: One who poops; or, poops well.
An infant.
examples: text: "Here I sit, on the pooper, giving birth to a Maine state trooper."
ref: 2001, Stephen King, “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A toilet.
examples: text: For whatever reason – the terrible animation or the absurd dialogue, most likely – these cutscenes are popular among poopers.
ref: 2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech:
text: Many who disregard the medium are oblivious to the absurd amount of effort that some Poopers put into their projects.
ref: 2019 March 20, Luke Dormehl, “YouTube Poop is punk rock for the internet age, and you probably don’t get it”, in Digital Trends:
text: But each individual YTP features something different, and different YTP creators (often called "poopers") use their own styles.
ref: 2021 August 15, Ben Stegner, “What Is YouTube Poop?”, in Make Use Of:
related: word: Pooper
glosses: Clipping of YouTube Pooper.
Synonyms: sense: anus
word: shitter
word: anus
Related terms: poop
party pooper
pooper scooper
motorcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməʊtə(ɹ)ˈkeɪd/
ipa: /ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌkeɪd/
Forms: form: motorcades
Etymology: Blend of motor + cavalcade.
Senses: examples: text: JFK was assassinated in a motorcade.
text: The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
ref: 1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.
motorcade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməʊtə(ɹ)ˈkeɪd/
ipa: /ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌkeɪd/
Forms: form: motorcades
form: motorcading
form: motorcaded
form: motorcaded
Etymology: Blend of motor + cavalcade.
Senses: examples: text: We then motorcaded to our hotel to change into formal wear[…]
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: To travel in a motorcade.
give someone an earful
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone an earful
form: giving someone an earful
form: gave someone an earful
form: given someone an earful
Senses: examples: text: I should never have tried to grind the computer system to a halt. Firstly I got sacked, and then my boss gave me a right earful.
glosses: To scold someone loudly.
alcoholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoholic
disgruntled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɡɹʌntl̩d/
Etymology: From disgruntle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disgruntle
disgruntled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɡɹʌntl̩d/
Forms: form: more disgruntled
form: most disgruntled
Etymology: From disgruntle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
ref: 1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale Bishop, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 18, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
text: A good proportion of British Railways' most disgruntled main line passengers will be found among those who have to make long-distance journeys at week-ends, when trains are apt to be diverted and re-timed because of large-scale engineering works.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: Week-end diversions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
synonyms: word: glum
word: low-spirited
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
antonyms: word: satisfied
word: gruntled
glosses: Unhappy; dissatisfied
glosses: Frustrated.
Derived terms: disgruntledly
disgruntledness
undisgruntled
Related terms: disgruntlement
riff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: Rif
Forms: form: riffs
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a clipping of riffle, or an alteration of refrain.
Senses: examples: text: Listen to one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time!
text: Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has been named the greatest guitar riff of all time, 41 years after it was recorded, in a poll by website Music Radar.
ref: 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC:
glosses: A repeated melody line in a song, usually instrumental but sometimes vocal.
examples: text: Pope Francis delivers off-the-cuff riff on family life
ref: 2015 September 27, “Pope Francis delivers off-the-cuff riff on family life”, in USA Today:
glosses: A clever or witty remark.
examples: text: Both the Orbit and the Pinnacle are riffs on an idea sketched out in 1917 by Vladimir Tatlin for a monument to international communism.
ref: 2012, The Economist, London Skyline: Tower Power:
text: Grok’s companions are a riff on the idea of AI assistants or agents, which some people use for friendship or romance in place of or in addition to human partners.
ref: 2025 July 16, David Ingram, “Musk's Grok 'companions' include a flirty anime character and an anti-religion panda”, in NBC News:
glosses: A variation on something.
examples: text: The creative team has experience with spoofing: Both [Paul] Rudd and [Amy] Poehler had parts in [David] Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, a hysterically irreverent riff on ’80s summer-camp comedies.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
glosses: A spoof.
riff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: Rif
Forms: form: riffs
Etymology: From Middle English *rif (found only in midrif), from Old English hrif (“the belly; womb”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrif, from Proto-Germanic *hrefaz (“body; torso; belly”), from Proto-Indo-European *krep- (“body”). Distant doublet of corpus, corpse, and corse.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The belly; the bowels.
Derived terms: midriff
Related terms: riff-raff
riffraff
nosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊzi/
rhymes: -əʊzi
Forms: form: nosier
form: nosiest
Etymology: From nose + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nosy.
nosey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊzi/
rhymes: -əʊzi
Forms: form: noseys
Etymology: From nose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Harry and Ron both leapt out of their beds and wrenched the two elves apart, though they continued to try to kick and punch each other, egged on by Peeves, who swooped around the lamp squealing, ‘Stick your fingers up his nosey, draw his cork and pull his earsies –’
ref: 2005 July 16, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter; 6), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nosy.
nosey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊzi/
rhymes: -əʊzi
Forms: form: noseys
form: noseying
form: noseyed
form: noseyed
Etymology: From nose + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nosy.
morse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: morses
Etymology: From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).
Senses: examples: text: The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.
morse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: morses
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.
Senses: examples: text: The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]
ref: 1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:
text: Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice.
ref: 1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881:
glosses: A walrus.
counterproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəpɹəˈdʌktɪv/
Forms: form: more counterproductive
form: most counterproductive
Etymology: From counter- + productive.
Senses: examples: text: It's most likely that these kinds of cuts to service frequencies, train formations, and service start and finish times would cost more in revenue than they save in cost and would therefore be counterproductive.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25:
glosses: More of a hindrance than a help.
Derived terms: counterproductively
counterproductiveness
Related terms: adaptive versus maladaptive
helpful versus unhelpful
useful versus useless
teensy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːn.si/
ipa: /ˈtin.si/
Forms: form: teensier
form: teensiest
Etymology: Baby-talk alteration of teeny, from tiny, probably modelled after itsy, itsy-bitsy, etc.; see -sy.
Senses: examples: text: There's only a teensy chance that I'll be able to make your party, as I'm up to my eyeballs in work.
glosses: tiny
Synonyms: incy wincy
itsy bitsy
microscopic
minuscule
minute
teensy weensy
teensy-weensy
teentsy
teeny weeny
tincy
tincy wincy
teeny weeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: teeny-weeniest
form: teeny weeniest
Senses: examples: She wore an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka-dot bikini
glosses: Alternative spelling of teeny-weeny.
showdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showdowns
Etymology: From show + down.
Senses: examples: text: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored on his first start since recovering from malaria as Arsenal prepared for their Europa League showdown against Villarreal with a confidence-boosting win away to Newcastle at St James' Park.
ref: 2021 May 2, Mantej Mann, “Newcastle United 0-2 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The final battle between two opponents, in which there can be only one victor.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The final round in a poker match, where all of the remaining players' cards have to be put down on the table and shown.
s'mores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of s'more
foosball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːsˌbɔːl/
ipa: /ˈfuːzˌbɔːl/
Etymology: From German Fußball, itself a calque of English football.
Senses: examples: text: […] Caleb on Tuesday, for the first time in months, had invited him to play foosball […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: table soccer (US), table football (UK)
floozy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floozies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of floozie.
losers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loser
burdock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːdɒk/
ipa: /ˈbɝːdɑːk/
Forms: form: burdocks
Etymology: From Middle English *bury dokke (attested as plural bury dokkis), equivalent to bur(ry) + dock.
Senses: examples: text: Your love is like a studded leather headlock
Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain
You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock
And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade
ref: 2011, Alex Turner, “Suck It And See”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
glosses: Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.
Synonyms: gobo
Derived terms: taxonomic: Arctium minus
word: common burdock
word: dandelion and burdock
taxonomic: Arctium lappa
word: edible burdock
word: great burdock
taxonomic: Arctium lappa
word: greater burdock
taxonomic: Arctium minus
word: lesser burdock
taxonomic: Xanthium echintum
word: sea burdock
polymorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑliˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Etymology: From poly- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Variation under Nature”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 46:
text: 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
glosses: Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.
examples: text: Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.
ref: 1996, Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program design:
text: A polymorphic call looks like a procedural call, but where a procedural call has only one possible target subroutine, a polymorphic call can result in the execution of one of several different subroutines.
ref: 2012, Karel Driesen, Efficient Polymorphic Calls, page 1:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.
raw_tags: of a function
examples: text: The fact that polymorphic equilibrium is not a dynamic equilibrium is significant with respect to the random distribution of velocity of temperature agitation among the molecules.
ref: 1916, Percy Williams Bridgman, The Velocity of Polymorphic Changes Between Solids, page 84:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to a compound that can crystallizes into two or more distinct forms (e.g. carbon, which can crystalize into coal, graphite, diamond, etc.)
Synonyms: sense: able to have several shapes or forms
word: multiform
word: protean
Derived terms: catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
hyperpolymorphic
nonpolymorphic
polymorphically
polymorphic iteration
doggie door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doggie doors
Senses: glosses: An opening in a door where a dog can enter and leave a house without requiring a human to open the door.
Related terms: cat flap
tended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tend
Derived terms: well-tended
universities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /junɪˈvɝsətiz/
ipa: /juːnɪˈvɜːsətiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of university
traversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈvɝst/
ipa: /tɹəˈvɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of traverse
radiocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocarbons
Etymology: From radio- + carbon.
Senses: glosses: A radioactive isotope of carbon, especially ¹⁴₆C.
Derived terms: radiocarbon dating
Related terms: radiochemistry
topics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒpɪks/
ipa: /ˈtɑpɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of topic
cushions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʊʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cushion
cushions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkʊʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cushion
examples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑːmpl̩z/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmpl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of example
examples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑːmpl̩z/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmpl̩z/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of example
matronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmætɹəˈnɪmɪk/
Etymology: From Latin māter (“mother”) + -onym + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In many countries, matronymic surnames can be adopted after the death of the father, although the process is very formal and lengthy.
glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from the given name of one's mother.
glosses: By extension; of, relating to, or derived from the given name of a female ancestor.
Synonyms: sense: from the given name of a mother
word: metronymic
matronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmætɹəˈnɪmɪk/
Forms: form: matronymics
Etymology: From Latin māter (“mother”) + -onym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A surname or byname acquired from the given name of one's mother.
glosses: By extension, a surname or byname acquired from the given name from a female ancestor.
Synonyms: sense: surname from a mother
word: matronym
sense: surname from a mother
word: metronym
sense: surname from a mother
word: metronymic
Coordinate terms: patronym
patronymic
Related terms: family name
first name
given name
surname
Septuagint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛpˈtu.ə.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /sɛpˈtju.ə.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.t͡ʃə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.tə.wəˌd͡ʒɪnt/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.tjʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊ.ə.d͡ʒɪnt/
Forms: form: Septuagints
Etymology: From Late Latin Septuaginta, lit. "The Seventy", a clipping of earlier descriptional names such as septuaginta translatio (“translation by the seventy”) and septuaginta interpretes (“the 70 interpreters”), calques of Koine Greek names such as οἱ ἐβδομήκοντα ἑρμηνευταί (hoi ebdomḗkonta hermēneutaí, “the 70 interpreters”) and οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the LXX”), deriving from the popular (but probably mistaken) belief that its translation of the Torah had been produced in 72 days by a team of 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem (6 from each tribe) summoned to Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II.
Senses: glosses: The team of translators who produced the Septuagint.
examples: text: 2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers (Peeters Leuven), page 503,
Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this specific domain of research.
text: 2009, Jan Joosten, The Prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3): Sources and Origin, Johann Cook (editor), Septuagint and Reception, BRILL, page 5,
The Septuagint originated, for the most part, as a translation of a source text. As such it represents a link—and a very important one—in the reception history of the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures. But the Septuagint very soon turned into a literary and religious reference in its own right. […] The Septuagint itself became the starting point for a new reception history.
text: Other important works appeared that continued the discussion about the position of the Septuagint within postclassical Greek.
ref: 2022, William A. Ross, Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography, SBL Press, page 42:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.
Synonyms: LXX
Derived terms: septuagint
Septuagintal
Septuagintalist
sterilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sterilises
form: sterilising
form: sterilised
form: sterilised
Etymology: From sterile + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The use of heat as a sterilising agent is a method of long standing and is particularly effective against most insects. Insects are very susceptible to high temperatures, the ultramaximum temperature—the temperature which will kill an insect instantly—being for the great majority of insects about 140 degrees F. A moderately high temperature, however, if applied for several hours is usually as fatal as a much higher temperature applied for a shorter time.
ref: 1923, Philip Buckle, Rovert A. Wardle, The Principles of Insect Control, Arnold, page 198:
text: […] one tablet completely sterilises a quart of water, tastelessly, without discolouration or odour.
ref: 1938, The Homestead, numbers 1170-1196, page 14:
text: Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.
ref: 1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu:
text: He thinks new classes of insecticides introduced in the last 20 years, including neonicotinoids and fipronil, have been particularly damaging as they are used routinely and persist in the environment: “They sterilise the soil, killing all the grubs.”
ref: 2019 February 10, Damian Carrington, “Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sterilize.
d-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d-words
form: D-word
Senses: glosses: The word damn.
glosses: The word dick or dickhead.
glosses: The word douche or douchebag.
glosses: The word dyke.
glosses: Any word beginning with d that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
a-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a-words
Senses: glosses: A bad word that starts with the letter a, such as ass/arse or asshole/arsehole.
examples: text: It was Lent; “alleluia” is not sung in the Catholic church during Lent. I told her Babloo liked songs with the “A-word.”
ref: 2008, Mary Poplin, Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service, →ISBN, page 71:
text: My congregation is frustrated because we can’t sing carols during Advent, and now we can’t say the A-word [Alleluia] during Lent.
ref: 2009, Melinda A. Quivik, Serving the Word, →ISBN, page 43:
text: What we give up — the A-word. […] I added what we call the A-word in Lent, since we stop saying “a-l-l-e-l-u-i-a” for this season (Shhhh!).
ref: 2022 April 1, Keith Dorwick, “Deeper and deeper into Lenten quiet”, in Peninsula Daily News:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The word alleluia, typically in the context of Lent since the Lenten liturgies of various Christian churches omit the alleluia.
examples: text: Specialists sometimes choose PDD-NOS instead of an autism diagnosis because they are afraid that the “a-word” frightens patients.
ref: 2010, Ken Siri, “Diagnosis and Evaluation—Formation”, in 1,001 Tips for the Parents of Autistic Boys, page 17:
glosses: Any word beginning with a that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
Related terms: b-word
c-word
d-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
h-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: h-words
form: H-word
Senses: glosses: The word hell/Hell.
glosses: Any word beginning with h that is not normally taboo but is considered to be so in the given context, such as horny.
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
plaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: plaints
Etymology: From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“I beat the breast, I lament”); see plain.
Senses: examples: text: she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: A complaint.
examples: text: In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
ref: 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 11:
text: His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 75:
glosses: A lament or woeful cry.
glosses: A sad song.
examples: text: Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
topics: law
glosses: An accusation.
Derived terms: plaintful
plaintless
Related terms: complaint
plaintiff
plaintive
p-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: p-words
form: P-word
Etymology: From p + word.
Senses: glosses: Any vulgar/taboo word starting with p, e.g. piss, penis, pussy, poof, prick, or Paki.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: prosodic word, phonological word.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A preposition or adverb that no longer performs a prepositional or adverbial function including particles in phrasal verbs, quasi-modal verbs, and determiner phrases and infinitive markers.
Synonyms: particle
Related terms: sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: f-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur