cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
condolences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdoʊlənsəz/
ipa: /ˈkɒndələnsəz/
Etymology: From Latin condoleo (“I feel another's pain”).
Senses: examples: text: I sent her a card expressing my condolences after her mother passed away.
glosses: comfort, support, or sympathy offered especially to the family and friends of somebody who has died.
Derived terms: congratudolences
offer one's condolences
Related terms: condolence
condolences
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdoʊlənsəz/
ipa: /ˈkɒndələnsəz/
Etymology: From Latin condoleo (“I feel another's pain”).
Senses: examples: text: "What were you doing at the cemetery?"
 "Burying my father."
 "Oh." Rodionov grunted as if he had expected a more imaginative excuse. "Condolences."
ref: 1992, Martin Cruz Smith, Red Square, page 120:
text: Let's get another caller on the line. This is Camille. Camille with us from Visalia in California.
 Visalia, California that's correct.
 Go ahead please.
 Hi. I'm an African-American woman and when I first saw the cover – let me preface this. I'm in central California, which is very conservative. And...
 Condolences.
ref: 2008 July 15, NPR, “When Does It Go Too Far?”, in Talk of the Nation:
glosses: Expressing sympathy to someone, especially after learning of a close death.
shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, shop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shop
shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃɒpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: shoppings
Etymology: By surface analysis, shop + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
text: After a hard day's shopping, they had come home laden with bargains, and the dressing-room was strewed with Indian fans, ivory boxes, and lace.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Opinions”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 280:
text: Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 132:
text: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
examples: text: I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
glosses: Recently bought goods.
examples: text: Boston has good shopping.
glosses: An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
examples: text: The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The roller-bearing A1s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 643:
glosses: Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
Derived terms: asylum shopping
body shopping
comparison-shopping
comparison shopping
doctor shopping
e-shopping
forum shopping
home shopping
jurisdiction shopping
law shopping
mystery shopping
personal shopping
revenge shopping
sex and shopping
shopping agent
shopping bag
shopping basket
shopping bot
shopping cart
shopping center
shopping centre
shopping guide
shopping list
shopping mall
shopping net
shopping precinct
shopping spree
shopping trolley
vaccine shopping
window-shopping
window shopping
essays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛseɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of essay
essays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈseɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of essay
failing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
ref: 1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
glosses: present participle and gerund of fail
failing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: failings
Senses: examples: text: His worst failing is his temper.
text: At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
synonyms: trouble
shortcoming
glosses: weakness; defect
failing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.
glosses: If what follows is not possible; without.
Derived terms: failingly
failingness
nonfailing
unfailing
concentrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnsəntɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒnsəntɹeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more concentrated
form: most concentrated
Senses: examples: text: We made a drink from concentrated orange juice.
synonyms: strong
antonyms: diluted
glosses: Not dilute; having a high concentration.
examples: text: The concentrated fire from the enemy destroyed our fortifications.
synonyms: word: centered
word: concentrated
word: focused
word: inspissated
word: intensive
word: telic
word: intent
antonyms: haphazard
sporadic
glosses: Intense; directed towards a specific location.
Derived terms: concentratedly
concentratedness
equiconcentrated
hyperconcentrated
nonconcentrated
overconcentrated
preconcentrated
superconcentrated
ultraconcentrated
unconcentrated
concentrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnsəntɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒnsəntɹeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concentrate
pop the question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops the question
form: popping the question
form: popped the question
form: popped the question
Senses: examples: text: I was not able to learn what particular ceremony was observed in forming the marriage contract, but am inclined to think that it must have been of a very simple nature. Perhaps the mere "popping the question", as it is termed with us, might have been followed by an immediate nuptial alliance.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, chapter 26, in Typee:
text: [A]t a pic-nic to Kenilworth, where we drank a good deal of champagne, I actually popped the question, and was accepted. In another month, Robert Stubbs, Esq., led to the altar, Leah, widow of the late Z. Manasseh, Esq., of St. Kitt's!
ref: 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Stubb's Calendar, or The Fatal Boots:
text: If ever I do pop the question, I shall do it on the spur of the moment. There'll be no preparation with me, nor yet any beating about the bush. "Would it suit your views, my dear, to be Mrs. Spooner?" that's about the long and the short of it.
ref: 1874, Anthony Trollope, chapter 19, in Phineas Redux:
text: 70% of men welcome the idea of women's proposing marriage; 48% of women say they'd be willing to pop the question.
ref: 2003 July 13, “He Says and She Says”, in Newsweek, retrieved 14 Feb 2014:
glosses: To propose marriage.
horse puckey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse pucky.
lifeboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/
ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/
Forms: form: lifeboats
Etymology: From life + boat.
Senses: examples: text: I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat
ref: 1971, Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, “Halo of Flies”, in Killer, performed by Alice Cooper:
text: In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 322, about Port Eynon:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
Synonyms: quarter boat
rowboat
raft
Derived terms: LEM lifeboat
lifeboat ethics
lifeboatism
lifeboatman
lifeboatsman
LM lifeboat
lunar lifeboat
lifeboat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌbəʊt/
ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌboʊt/
Forms: form: lifeboats
form: lifeboating
form: lifeboated
form: lifeboated
Etymology: From life + boat.
Senses: glosses: To rescue; to carry to safety
life expectancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life expectancies
Senses: examples: text: Great Danes have relatively short life expectancies compared to smaller dogs, living for an average of 8-10 years, and males are typically about 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) tall, according to the American Kennel Club.
ref: 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN:
text: People born in 2023 are now estimated to live 78.4 years, according to the CDC. That’s still shy of the 78.8-year life expectancy from 2019, but it’s a significant improvement driven by lower death rates in each of the 10 leading causes of death.
ref: 2024 December 19, Deidre McPhillips, “US life expectancy has rebounded closer to pre-pandemic levels”, in CNN:
glosses: The amount of time one is expected to live.
raw_tags: of a person or other living being
glosses: The amount of time something is expected to last.
raw_tags: of an idea or an object
Related terms: afterlifetime
lifework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeworks
form: life's work
Etymology: From life + work. Compare Saterland Frisian Lieuwendswierk, West Frisian libbenswurk, Dutch levenswerk, German Low German Levenswark, German Lebenswerk, Danish livsværk, Swedish livsverk.
Senses: glosses: The main occupation or vocation of a person's life.
life span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life spans
Senses: examples: text: The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 250:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lifespan.
lifeguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: lifeguards
form: life-guard
Etymology: From life + guard, calque of Dutch lijfgarde, where life has the sense of Dutch lijf (“body”) (hence literally “bodyguard”). Compare German Leibgarde (“bodyguard”), Danish livgarde (“bodyguard”), Swedish livgarde (“bodyguard”). Compare also Old English līfweard (“guardian of life”).
Senses: glosses: A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
examples: text: "The people's love is the king's lifeguard."
ref: 1776, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer:
text: [I]n the reserve were the king's lifeguard, commanded by the earl of Lindsey, and prince Rupert's regiment of foot[.]
ref: 1843, Edward Hyde, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, page 553:
text: Constantine the Great is known to have raised the five scholae of horsemen who formed the actual lifeguard of the prince, and followed his person whenever he went out to war.
ref: 2012, Charles Oman, A History of the Art of War: The Middle Ages:
glosses: A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.
examples: text: It also looked at what effect stronger lifeguards might have had. They protect the leading wheels from small obstacles and in modern trains have coped with hitting landslip debris.
ref: 2022 March 23, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Driver of ScotRail HST had only seconds to react, says RAIB”, in RAIL, number 953, page 11:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.
Derived terms: lifeguarded
lifeguarding
conquered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɚd/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkəd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋkəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conquer
send someone packing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends someone packing
form: sending someone packing
form: sent someone packing
form: sent someone packing
Senses: examples: text: [T]he parliament, to their immortal honour, presently sent him packing.
ref: c. 1695, Dr. Robert South, “To Archbishop of Dublin”, in Sermons, Vol. III:
text: Two ladies called one day, pale and anxious, and begged earnestly, humbly, to be allowed to see Mr. Moore one instant: Mrs. Yorke hardened her heart, and sent them packing,—not without opprobrium.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Schoolboy and the Wood-Nymph”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 203:
text: "Monsieur, you and yours are not for me. Seek elsewhere." . . .
"You send me packing!" he blurted out, getting red in the face.
ref: 1904, Gilbert Parker, chapter 2, in Michel and Angele:
text: [L]eague authorities sent him packing after ruling he was registered with a fake Dominican passport under circumstances that remain murky.
ref: 2014 June 14, Anne Marie Garcia, “Cuba ballplayers chase dreams, big bucks, overseas”, in Businessweek, retrieved 08 Jul 2014:
glosses: To expel, eject, or dismiss someone; to send away, chase off, or force out; (from a job or employment position) to fire.
Synonyms: hand someone his hat
send about one's business
Coordinate terms: send someone to the showers
fie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪ/
homophone: phi
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: fy
form: fye
Etymology: From Middle English fy, from Old French fi, from Latin fī. (with a possible additional influence from Old Norse). Compare Swedish fy.
Senses: examples: text: Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:
text: Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 89:
text: "Fie upon them, forgetting their philosophy!"
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: I pleaded with my companions to spare his life, and they said, ‘Fie! shame upon you! You have a Chinese heart.’ Then they turned upon me to kill me as well, so I withdrew my petition. After that they cut off the woodsman's head, and we returned home.
ref: 1920 March, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff (quote sourced to Kim Soan), “Formosa the Beautiful”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 284–285:
text: But the orthodox scientific world says fie! to the religious impulse. The scientist wants to discover a cause for everything.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
Derived terms: befie
Related terms: faugh
fie away
out upon
éclat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈklɑː/
ipa: /eɪˈklɔː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: éclats
form: eclat
Etymology: Borrowed from French éclat, from éclater (“to burst out”). Akin to Old English slītan (“to split”). More at slice, slit. Doublet of slate and slat.
Senses: examples: text: The distressing explanation she had to make to Harriet, and all that poor Harriet would be suffering, with the awkwardness of future meetings, the difficulties of continuing or discontinuing the acquaintance, of subduing feelings, concealing resentment, and avoiding éclat, were enough to occupy her in most unmirthful reflections some time longer, and she went to bed at last with nothing settled but the conviction of her having blundered most dreadfully.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 16, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
text: "All she needs is a year or two at a fashionable finishing school, so that at eighteen she can come out with éclat," put in Aunt Clara.
ref: 1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Eight Cousins:
text: Most objects of this general class, with the partial exception of articles of personal adornment, would serve all other purposes than the honorific one equally well, whether owned by the person viewing them or not; and even as regards personal ornaments it is to be added that their chief purpose is to lend éclat to the person of their wearer (or owner) by comparison with other persons who are compelled to do without.
ref: 1899, Thorstein Veblen, “Pecuniary Canons of Taste”, in The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC:
text: Against this background, made mutable by T. J. Gerckens's ethereal lighting, simple props and gestures are used with startling visual éclat.
ref: 2002 March 5, Ben Brantley, “Theater Review”, in New York Times, page E1:
text: The same cannot be said for the writing of Oriana Fallaci, the celebrated Italian journalist whose high-octane interviews with powerful men had such éclat in the seventies, and whose memoir of her dead lover, the Greek resistance fighter Alexander Panagoulis, might be described as a classic of hysterical materialism.
ref: 2003 April, Christopher Hitchens, “Holy Writ”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A brilliant or successful effect; brilliance of success or effort; splendor; brilliant show; striking effect; glory; renown.
lardoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː(ɹ)ˈduːn/
Forms: form: lardoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lardon.
grandam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandams
form: grandame
form: granddam
Etymology: From Middle English graundame, from Old French grant dame. Doublet of grande dame.
Senses: glosses: A grandmother.
glosses: An old lady, an elderly woman.
Derived terms: granny
grannam
nerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerddom
Etymology: From nerd + -dom; attested in the USA from 1983. Note that -dom is used both in the sense of “domain” (nerds, as a group) and in the sense of “characteristics” (being a nerd, nerdiness).
Senses: examples: text: When she [Valerie Mahaffey] was 17 she fell in love with a schoolmate named Ben: 'Together, we pulled each other out of nerddom,' she said.
ref: 1983 April 1, Nan Robertson, “Tigers or ‘top girls,’ Valerie Mahaffey adjusts”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2016:
text: The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction [title]
ref: 1997 August, Douglas Eby, “James Woods: The self-described "exemplar of nerdom" feels right at home with Carl Sagan's speculative science-fiction”, in Cinefantastique, volume 29, number 2, Forest Park, IL: Frederick S. Clarke, →ISSN, page 28:
text: Even movies that first appear to add a promising element of nerdom always end up doing something dumb, like tarnishing a tense computer-based drama with idiotic and unusable (but oh so very sexy) 3D interfaces.
ref: 2008 October, Will Smith, “Why Does Hollywood Give Nerds a Bad Rap?”, in Maximum PC, San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, →ISSN, page 9:
glosses: The attitudes and behaviours of a nerd; nerdiness.
examples: text: I still chuckle at some of [the] jokes that we targeted to very narrow slices of nerdom.
ref: 2009, Mark Dalrymple, “Foreword”, in Jack Nutting; Dave Mark; Jeff LaMarche, Learn Cocoa on the Mac (Books for Professionals by Professionals), [New York, N.Y.]: Apress, page xi
glosses: Nerds considered as a group.
Related terms: geekdom
prefatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛfət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛfəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more prefatory
form: most prefatory
form: præfatory
Etymology: From Medieval Latin *praefator + -ory (“agent”), from Medieval Latin prefatia (whence preface), for classical Latin praefatio (“a saying beforehand”) – see preface for details.
Note that this is borrowed from Latin, not derived in English from preface, as in occasional misspelling *prefecatory.
Senses: examples: text: We must begin by showing how the Diamond first fell into the hands of my uncle Herncastle, when he was serving in India fifty years since. This prefatory narrative I have already got by me in the form of an old family paper, which relates the necessary particulars on the authority of an eye-witness.
ref: 1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “First Period. The Loss of the Diamond (1848). […]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, →OCLC, chapter I, pages 13–14:
text: The "5th Mo. (May) 1939" issue of Bradshaw's Railway Shipping, and Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland appears in a cream cover printed in blue and gold, and a prefatory note explains that, as 1939 is being celebrated as the centenary year of Bradshaw, it is intended to adopt this livery from now until the September issue inclusive. For October, the centenary month, Bradshaw will be published in a gold cover printed in red and blue.
ref: 1939 June, “Railway Literature: Bradshaw's Guide”, in Railway Magazine, page 465:
text: This dialogue over coinage was itself prefatory to the attempt to cover up the mosaics of the Great Mosque in Damascus with white cloths by Caliph Umar II (who reigned from 717 to 720 and was the defeated party when Emperor Leo III broke the Muslim siege of Constantinople in 717–18) and to the subsequent edict against images by Umar’s successor, Yazid II (r. 720–24), although doubt has been cast on whether this edict really happened.
ref: 2012, Jaś Elsner, “Iconoclasm as Discourse: From Antiquity to Byzantium”, in The Art Bulletin, volume 94, number 3, pages 368-394:
glosses: Serving as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.
introductory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈdʌktəɹi/
ipa: [ˌɪntɹəˈdʌktɹi]
ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈdʌktɚi/
ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈdɐktəɹi/
ipa: [ˌɪntɹəˈdɐktɹi]
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin intrōductōrius, from Latin intrōductus.
Senses: examples: text: He enrolled in an introductory wine-making course.
glosses: Introducing; giving a preview or idea of.
Synonyms: prefatory
Derived terms: introductorily
introductoriness
introductory subject
nonintroductory
postintroductory
preintroductory
subintroductory
Related terms: introduce
introduction
degrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /dɪˈɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /diˈɡɹeɪd/
ipa: /dɪˈɡɹæɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: degrades
form: degrading
form: degraded
form: degraded
Etymology: From Middle French dégrader.
Senses: examples: text: Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
text: […] [William] Prynne was sentenced by the Star-Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar, to stand in pillory at two places in London and lose an ear at each, to be branded on the forehead, to pay a fine of five thousand pounds, and to be imprisoned for life.
ref: 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XIV, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, pages 563–564:
glosses: To lower in value or social position.
examples: text: The DNA sample has degraded.
glosses: To reduce in quality or purity.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Synonyms: debase
demean
Derived terms: biodegrade
degradability
degradable
degradant
degradation
degradee
degrade gracefully
degradement
degrader
degradome
degradomics
degradosome
degron
photodegrade
retinue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.tɪ.njuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɛtɪn(j)uː/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɪnjuː/
Forms: form: retinues
Etymology: From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
Senses: examples: text: the queen’s retinues
text: And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.
ref: 1915 April, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “Spring in Town”, in Fifty-one Tales, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, →OCLC:
text: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
synonyms: word: entourage
word: retain
glosses: A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
examples: text: Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
ref: 1992, J. A. V. Haney and Eric Dahl, “On Igor’s Campaign” (translation of Слово о плъку Игоревѣ)
glosses: A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
glosses: A service relationship.
Derived terms: queen retinue pheromone
Related terms: hangers-on
trident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ̯dənt/
Forms: form: tridents
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin tridēns, from tri- (“three”) + dēns (“tooth”).
Senses: examples: text: Poseidon's trident
text: I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:
glosses: A three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork.
examples: xy+ax³+bx²+cx=d,
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve of third order of the form
Synonyms: sense: curve
word: trident curve
Derived terms: impossible trident
tridental
trident bat
Trident Board
tridentlike
Related terms: english: Hindu trident
translation: Hindu trident
word: trisula
english: Ukrainian trident
translation: Ukrainian trident
word: tryzub
aeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeon
genial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiːnɪəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəl/
ipa: /-ni.əl/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːnɪəl
Forms: form: more genial
form: most genial
Etymology: From Middle French génial, from Latin geniālis (“of or pertaining to marriage; festive, genial”), from genius (“guardian spirit”) + -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.
ref: 1953 March, Baynham Honri, “Filming "The Titfield Thunderbolt"”, in Railway Magazine, page 164:
glosses: Friendly and cheerful.
glosses: Pleasantly mild and warm.
raw_tags: of weather
examples: text: Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.
ref: 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
text: About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
ref: 2003, Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, Courier Dover Publications, page 111:
glosses: Marked by genius.
examples: text: The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: the genial bed
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Creator Venus, genial power of love.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
examples: text: natural incapacity and genial indisposition
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
glosses: Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary spirit)
Derived terms: congenial
geniality
genialize
genially
genialness
overgenial
ungenial
genial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒiːnɪəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəl/
ipa: /-ni.əl/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːnɪəl
ipa: /dʒɪˈnʌɪəl/
ipa: /-ˈniːəl/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈnaɪəl/
ipa: /-ˈni.əl/
rhymes: (General American) -aɪəl
ipa: /ˈdʒiːnɪəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒinjəl/
ipa: /-ni.əl/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːnɪəl
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “chin”) + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the chin; genian.
Yaldabaoth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌjɑːldəˈbeɪɒθ/
Forms: form: Jaldabaoth
form: Jaltabaoth
form: Yaltabaoth
Etymology: Possibly from ילדא (yaldā, “begetter”) and Abaoth from Ancient Greek Σαβαώθ (Sabaṓth), from Biblical Hebrew צבאות (tsabāʾōθ), plural of צבא (tsābāʾ)
Senses: topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Demiurge or 'False God'. Created when Sophia (one of the lesser aeons) tried to emanate without her counterpart (Christ).
ew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.uː/
ipa: /iːˈjuː/
ipa: /iːu̯/
ipa: /(j)ɪu̯/
ipa: /ɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -iːuː
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: eww
form: euw
form: ieuw
form: ehw
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.
Senses: examples: text: Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.
text: Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!
synonyms: word: ack
word: agh
word: argh
word: bah
word: barf
word: bleah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: bleh
word: eugh
word: eurgh
word: ew
word: eww
word: faugh
word: feh
word: foh
word: gah
word: gack
word: ick
word: no
word: pah
word: pew
word: phew
word: poo
word: pooh
word: uck
word: ugh
word: urgh
word: yech
word: yeurgh
word: yeugh
word: ych a fi
word: yuck
glosses: Expression of disgust or nausea.
Derived terms: ewphoria
ewwie
ewwy
Related terms: pew
ew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.uː/
ipa: /iːˈjuː/
ipa: /iːu̯/
ipa: /(j)ɪu̯/
ipa: /ɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -iːuː
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: ews
form: ewwing
form: ewwed
form: ewwed
form: eww
form: euw
form: ieuw
form: ehw
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.
Senses: examples: text: “Brad went into a seething rage, as you do,” said Jack “and followed Harvey out of the restaurant, down the road and …” / “… Killed him with a muttonbird,” added Matahina / “A brick, then a muttonbird,” corrected Jack, to her horror. / “Ew!” she ewwed.
ref: 2012, Simon Dodd, Death by Muttonbird: A Lord Howe Island Murder Mystery, Sydney, N.S.W.: DBMB Publishing, →ISBN, page 201:
text: “Yes. But why did she target me? I don’t understand.” / “I think it’s kind of fun.” Gen smiled, pulling out her own pack of Marlboros and lighting one. / “Ew, you would think it’s fun. Try having a stalker.” / “Don’t ew me right now, Babe. Honestly.”
ref: 2014, Babe Walker, “Get Off My Dick”, in Psychos (A White Girl Problems Book; 2), New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Jayden […] showed them a large cache of vintage muscleman magazines. “Look at this. Look how hot.” […] “I’m gonna hang them up all over my room. My mom says it’s OK as long as they’re not showing meat.” / “Ew,” Ava said. / “I don’t ew the shit you like,” Jayden retorted. / “You ew girls all the time,” Ava said dismissively. “And I just meant ew to calling it ‘meat.’”
ref: 2022, Meg Elison, “Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley”, in Jonathan Strahan, editor, Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene (Twelve Tomorrows), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: To express disgust (at someone or something) by saying ew.
ew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.uː/
ipa: /iːˈjuː/
ipa: /iːu̯/
ipa: /(j)ɪu̯/
ipa: /ɪʊ̯/
rhymes: -iːuː
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yew.
eww
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of ew.
eww
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ewws
form: ewwing
form: ewwed
form: ewwed
Senses: examples: text: I spat the orange and yellow mush into a Kleenex. Annie, seeing this, eww'''ed.
ref: 2012, Evan Kuhlman, chapter 40, in Brother from a Box, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 212:
text: “What’chu want me to call you then?” Grip asked. “My girl?” / Kirby quickly turned him down. “Eww, no!” / “Don’t eww me, buster. Eww yaself, skinny ass. Lookin’ like a lil’ boy from the back.”
ref: 2015, Pebbles Starr, Your Spouse, My Sponsor: A Hood Romance, [Atlanta, Ga.]: Jaded Publications, →ISBN, page 55:
text: TAMI suggested they wanted Hotjax and/or Linda to sign exposed body parts. Radames resisted the urge to eww! Then, Radames noticed that some of the people wore bibs. Okay, she ewwed at the implications of that one, just a little.
ref: 2016, Ira Nayman, “The Digital Gods Have More Important Things to Worry About”, in It’s Just the Chronosphere Unfolding as it Should (Transdimensional Authority; 4), Dartford, Kent: Elsewhen Press, →ISBN:
text: Boutique food like that cost a mint and wasn't any more nutritionally balanced than a lot of the more affordable brands. I didn't want to switch him to something different and cause him gastric distress, as it was much harder to clean up after him in the park if he got a little runny because of the change. What? For dog walkers that is a genuine concern, so don't eww me.
ref: 2017, Erik Schubach, “New Roommate”, in Unleashed: Case of the Collie Flour, Nine Mile Falls, Wash., →ISBN:
text: “I think you and I both need to get laid,” Ruby said. “Eww, sis,” Oliver interrupted. “Don’t eww me, little brother.”
ref: 2020, Evie Wilde, “Cassandra”, in Spells of a Supreme, Wisteria Lane Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ew.
eew
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ew.
submitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: səbmĭtʹĭd
ipa: /səbˈmɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of submit
in lieu of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ljuː əv/
ipa: /ɪn ljuː ɒv/
ipa: /ɪn luː əv/
ipa: /ɪn luː ɑːv/
Etymology: From Middle English in liue of, a partial calque of Old French au leu de (modern French au lieu de).
Senses: examples: text: They gave him a cash award, in lieu of the promised prize package.
text: “Unfortunately for Interceptor—and any others who have relied upon 3DR’s personal assurances in lieu of federal registrations and the like—the 3DR Declaration makes it clear: 3DR no longer owns the unrestricted rights to Duke Nukem IP,and 3DR has no right or ability to make any agreements in violation of Gearbox’s exclusive rights.
ref: 2014 February 23, Julian Benson, quoting Gearbox spokesperson, “The strange case of Gearbox’s suit against 3D Realms and Interceptor”, in PCGamesN, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2017:
text: The first train carrying passengers to Alstom Transport Technology Centre in Widnes arrived on September 6. The Industria Ditat railtour from Watford Junction was operated by GB Railfreight 60087 and 57303. In lieu of an access fee, organiser UK Railtours made a donation to the centre's chosen charities, Halton Haven Hospice and Widnes Foodbank.
ref: 2025 October 1, “RAIL in focus: Railtour takes first passengers to Alstom's Widnes site”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 18, image caption:
glosses: Instead of; in place of.
examples: text: In lieu of recent events, more caution is needed.
glosses: In light of.
planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: plains
homophone: Plains
Senses: glosses: plural of plane
planes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: plains
homophone: Plains
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plane
feels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfi.jəlz/
ipa: /fiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Pope confirms my feels that the side is no better & the tenderness to the feel as great as when he was last here.
ref: 1809, King George III of England, The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 6, →ISBN, page 3987:
text: A large portion of natural magic and sleight of hand is only the severance of sights and feels that we are accustomed to experience in unison.
ref: 1856, Alexander Bryan Johnson, The Physiology of the Senses, page 65:
glosses: plural of feel, sensory perceptions that mainly or solely involve the sense of touch
feels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfi.jəlz/
ipa: /fiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Forms: form: feel
Senses: examples: text: hit me right in the feels
text: If I could remember exactly, then I would know for sure whether or not my feels are real or not.
ref: 2003, Brenda A. Donahue, C.G. Jung's Complex Dynamics and the Clinical Relationship: One Map for Mystery, →ISBN, page 100:
text: My feels were hurt.
ref: 2012, Hisoka Takara, Child Support, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Feelings; emotions; especially, tender sentiment.
Synonyms: sense: feelings
word: fee-fees
Derived terms: feels over reals
give feels
feels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfi.jəlz/
ipa: /fiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feel
feels
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfi.jəlz/
ipa: /fiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Forms: form: more feels
form: most feels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emotional.
synonyms: word: emotional
Edmund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdmənd/
Forms: form: Edmunds
form: Edmond
Etymology: From Old English Ēadmund, from ēad (“prosperity”) + mund (“protection”). Doublet of Eamon.
Senses: examples: text: This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke, / As I have read, laid claim unto the crown; / And but for Owen Glendower, had been king, / Who kept him in captivity till he died.
ref: Act II, Scene II
text: To me, the sound of Mr. Bertram is so cold and nothing-meaning—so entirely without warmth or character!—It just stands for a gentleman, and that's all. But there is nobleness in the name of Edmund. It is a name of heroism and renown—of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 79–80:
glosses: A male given name from Old English, borne by early English kings and saints.
Derived terms: Bury St Edmunds
Caistor St Edmund
Edmunds
Edmundston
Lloyd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: Lloyds
Etymology: From Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
Senses: examples: text: a ... young saxophonist named Charles Lloyd
ref: 1967 June 9, Richard Saltonstall Jr., “New Surge for a Tired Old Idiom”, in LIFE:
glosses: A surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.
examples: text: According to a list of participants on the forum’s website, the CEOs of Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) still plan to go. Both banks declined to comment. But a person familiar with the situation said Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein was “unlikely to attend.”
ref: 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenup County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Ulster County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former settlement in Portage County, Ohio.
Derived terms: Dwight-Lloyd
Floyd
Lloyd-Georgian
Lloydie
Lloyds
Lloyd's
Adolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adolfs
Etymology: From Old High German adal (“noble”) + wulf (“wolf”). Doublet of Ethelwolf from Old English Æþelwulf.
Senses: examples: text: The house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born will be converted into a human rights training center for police officers, Austria’s Interior Ministry announced Wednesday.
ref: 2023 May 24, Amarachi Orie and Chris Stern, “Hitler’s Austrian birthplace to become human rights training center”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Adolph.
inspect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈspɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: inspects
form: inspecting
form: inspected
form: inspected
form: enspect
Etymology: From Latin inspectum, past participle of inspicere (“to look into”), from in (“in”) + specere (“to look at”), equivalent to in- + -spect.
Senses: examples: text: Inspect the system for leaks.
glosses: To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
examples: text: The general inspected the troops and their barracks.
text: ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To view and examine officially.
Synonyms: sense: to examine critically or carefully
word: examine
Derived terms: inspectability
inspectable
inspectee
inspecter
inspectingly
inspection
inspector
inspectoscope
inspect the plumbing
misinspect
preinspect
reinspect
superinspect
uninspected
mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːsi/
enpr: mûrʹsē
ipa: /ˈmɝsi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)si
Forms: form: mercies
Etymology: From Middle English mercy, merci, from Anglo-Norman merci (compare continental Old French merci, mercit), from Latin mercēs (“wages, fee, price”), from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Displaced native Old English mildheortnes (literally "mildheartedness"). Cognate with French merci, whence the doublet merci.
Senses: examples: text: She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.
synonyms: ruth
kindness
leniency
antonyms: mercilessness
ruthlessness
cruelty
glosses: Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
examples: text: Have mercy on the poor and assist them if you can.
text: He despaired of God's mercy in the same fact, where this presumed of it; he by a decollation of all hope annihilated his mercy, this by an immoderancy thereof destroyed his justice
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: pity
word: sympathy
word: bowels
word: commiseration
word: compassion
word: empathy
word: fellow feeling
word: mercy
word: pity
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sympathy
word: tenderheartedness
word: loving-kindness
glosses: Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
examples: text: Mercy is one of his many virtues.
glosses: A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
examples: 1982, Bible (NKJV), Psalm 40:11a
Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord
glosses: Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
examples: text: It was a mercy that we were not inside when the roof collapsed
glosses: A blessing; something to be thankful for.
glosses: A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.
Derived terms: angel of mercy
at the mercy of
bemercy
Feast of the Divine Mercy
God-a-mercy
grand mercy
have mercy
house of mercy
lawks a-mercy
laws-a-mercy
may God have mercy on your soul
merciful
mercify
merciless
merciness
mercy bucket
mercy buckets
mercy chair
mercy flush
mercy fuck
mercy killer
mercy killing
mercy-killing
mercy me
mercy rule
mercy sake's alive
mercy seat
nonmercy
throw oneself on someone's mercy
unmercied
unmercy
mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːsi/
enpr: mûrʹsē
ipa: /ˈmɝsi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)si
Etymology: From Middle English mercy, merci, from Anglo-Norman merci (compare continental Old French merci, mercit), from Latin mercēs (“wages, fee, price”), from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Displaced native Old English mildheortnes (literally "mildheartedness"). Cognate with French merci, whence the doublet merci.
Senses: examples: text: Mercy! Look at the state of you!
glosses: Expressing surprise or alarm.