cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: fuckin
form: fuckin'
Etymology: From fuck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This is fucking ridiculous!
text: I'm not fucking well paying this time.
text: You've never seen a bunch of guys more fucking shocked to lose
ref: 2004, Tommy Lee with Anthony Bozza, Tommy Land, page 79:
text: A bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 81:
glosses: Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.
fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: infix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfʌkɪn/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: fuckin
form: fuckin'
Etymology: From fuck + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: New Fucking York.
text: She had been, as I say, drinking all afternoon and she suddenly howled, “Ten o’clock! It’s ten o’fucking clock! Why doesn’t he come? Why in God’s name doesn’t he come?” Something along those lines.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 27:
text: […] I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.
ref: 1992, Roger Waters, Q Magazine:
text: If you wanted some background information on me, Holden, all you had to do was ask. I would have gladly volunteered it. You didn't have to go playing Hercule fucking Poirot!
ref: 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy (motion picture), spoken by Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams):
text: Far out, man. Far fucking out!
ref: 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):
glosses: Alternative form of -fucking-, used when the infix is put between two words.
motherfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Back-formation from or clipping of motherfucker.
Senses: glosses: A more intense form of fuck.
motherfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherfucks
Etymology: Back-formation from or clipping of motherfucker.
Senses: examples: text: “We oughta make the motherfucks fry in hell,” the second boy said; too quickly for the program editor to beep out the profanity.
ref: 2000, Toby Murray, Ten to Midnight, page 418:
glosses: A motherfucker.
examples: text: I don't give a motherfuck about that!
glosses: A damn; the least amount of concern.
motherfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: motherfucks
form: motherfucking
form: motherfucked
form: motherfucked
Etymology: Back-formation from or clipping of motherfucker.
Senses: synonyms: fuck
bugger
eff
to hell with
screw
glosses: Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
Related terms: motherfucker
fuckup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkʌp/
Forms: form: fuckups
form: fuck-up
form: fuck up
Etymology: Deverbal from fuck up.
Senses: examples: text: Forgetting our anniversary was a major fuckup.
text: The gate was high; it had been a nine-foot drop; she had landed wrong and broken her arm. Oh Jesus Christ, what a fuckup.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, Firestarter, Simon and Schuster, published 2016, →ISBN, page 464:
synonyms: word: screwup
word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A serious mistake.
examples: text: You've got to fire that fuckup.
text: I can't believe she's dating that colossal fuckup. All he does is yap about baseball.
text: Family? Family? Friends? Drugged-up wandering suicidal search-of-the-self fuck-ups don't have families.
ref: 1994, John Hodge, Shallow Grave, spoken by Alex Law (Ewan McGregor):
ref: 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements […] Having a monarchy means the fate of your country is basically a genetic lottery, because every family has the one fuckup they talk about behind their backs. And if you’re thinking, “my family doesn’t,” then I’m afraid it’s you. I’m sorry about that.”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 8, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
synonyms: screwup
glosses: One who continually makes mistakes; a person who fucks up a lot.
synonyms: screwup
glosses: A mentally or emotionally damaged person.
Related terms: fuckuppery
Eeyore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.jɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: Eeyores
Etymology: From the donkey in A.A. Milne's books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, whose name is onomatopoeic from a donkey's bray (compare hee-haw).
Senses: examples: text: SVEN nods toward SNORRI THE MISERABLE - an Eeyore of a Viking if ever there were one.
ref: 1989, Terry Jones, Erik the Viking, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 1990, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Ecclesiastes, who sometimes seems to cast himself as the Eeyore of the Old Testament, would simply shrug his shoulders and tell you to make the best of what you had.
ref: 2003, The Resurrection of the Son of God, volume 3, of Christian origins and the question of God, Nicholas Thomas Wright, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 108:
text: You can't succeed as a Pollyanna or an Eeyore in the Product Management role — the glass is neither half full nor half empty, simply something that must eventually be washed.
ref: 2008, Steven Haines, The Product Manager's Desk Reference, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: An excessively negative or pessimistic person.
Derived terms: Eeyorish
fuckload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkˌloʊd/
Forms: form: fuckloads
Etymology: From fuck (“large amount”) + load.
Senses: examples: text: We're getting a fuckload of complaints about that product.
text: There're all kinds of ways to interact with our friends over the network: we can play hallucinogenic games, chat, send pictures, code, music, funny articles, metric fuckloads of porn… The interaction is high-quality!
ref: 2004, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, →OCLC:
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: An indeterminate but large number.
Related terms: fuck
fuckton
fuckwad
fuckwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckwads
Etymology: From fuck + -wad.
Senses: examples: text: That's going to cost a fuckwad of money.
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 amount; a fuckload.
examples: text: He put his shoes on the wrong feet!?! What a fuckwad.
glosses: Someone of substandard intelligence; dipshit; fuckwit.
Related terms: dickwad
dickwit
fuck
fuckload
fuckwit
shitwad
shitwit
wad
wit
nait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: naits
form: naiting
form: naited
form: naited
Etymology: From Middle English naiten, nayten, borrowed from Old Norse neita, later variant of níta (“to deny, refuse”). Cognate with Icelandic neita (“to deny”), Danish nægte (“to deny”), Old English nǣtan (“to annoy, afflict, press upon”). More at nyte, nay.
Senses: glosses: To refuse; deny; disclaim.
nait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: naits
form: naiting
form: naited
form: naited
Etymology: From Middle English naiten, nayten, from Old Norse neyta (“to use, employ”), from Proto-Germanic *nautijaną (“to use”). Cognate with Icelandic neyta (“to make use of, employ”). Related to Old English nēotan (“to use; to enjoy”). More at note.
Senses: glosses: To use; employ.
glosses: To go over; recite; repeat.
glosses: To exert oneself.
nait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naits
form: nate
Etymology: From Middle English naite, from Old Norse neyte, neyti (“use”), from Proto-Germanic *nautiz (“use”).
Senses: glosses: Use; profit; foredeal; advantage.
glosses: Use; end; purpose.
nait
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: naiter
form: more nait
form: naitest
form: most nait
Etymology: From Middle English nait, nayt, from Old Norse neytr (“in good order, fit, fit for use”), from Proto-Germanic *nautiz (“useful, helpful”). Compare Old English nyttol (“useful”).
Senses: glosses: Useful; good at need; fit; able.
glosses: Quick and effective; deft; skilful.
glosses: In good order; trim; tidy; dainty; clean.
Derived terms: naitly
hutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: hutches
Etymology: From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
(cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.
Senses: glosses: A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
examples: text: “No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”
ref: 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, New York: Covici Friede, page 100:
text: To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled[…]
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 16, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
text: In 1880, Punch commented that the London & South Western Railway directors must have been keen rabbit fanciers, "for the number of hutches scattered over their 'system' is enormous". Yet, "these hutches are not for rabbits, but for humans, and they are technically known as 'Country Stations'".
ref: 2023 September 6, David Turner, “Best-kept stations: roots in railway's past”, in RAIL, number 991, page 54:
glosses: A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
glosses: A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
glosses: A cabinet for storing dishes.
glosses: A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
glosses: A measure of two Winchester bushels.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The case of a flour bolt.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
glosses: A baker's kneading-trough.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The pavilion or dressing room.
examples: text: There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 35:
glosses: An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
Derived terms: booby hutch
hutchlike
Morant hutch
rabbit hutch
hutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
Forms: form: hutches
form: hutching
form: hutched
form: hutched
Etymology: From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut.
(cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor.
Senses: examples: text: She hutched the all-worshipt ore.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
topics: business
mining
glosses: To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
examples: text: And the mind was very disinclined to hutch out of the crevice and face what must be done. […] He hauled himself out of the crevice and the air was warm so that he undressed to trousers and sweater. […] He hutched himself back against a rock with his legs sprawled apart.
ref: 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin:
glosses: To move with a jerk; to hitch.
Derived terms: hutch up
vespine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛspaɪn/
rhymes: -ɛspaɪn
Forms: form: more vespine
form: most vespine
Senses: examples: text: Ori braced himself, dropped with a cry when a ghost image of the wasp returned in air again momentarily varicose, and went, and came back once more, now nothing but a vespine insinuation, and was, finally, all gone.
ref: 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of wasps.
vespine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛspaɪn/
rhymes: -ɛspaɪn
Forms: form: vespines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any wasp of the subfamily Vespinae.
Related terms: vespid
hippo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɪpoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpəʊ
Forms: form: hippos
Senses: examples: text: There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218:
text: "I've seen them buryin' a chief up the Aruwimi River, and they ate a hippo that must have weighed as much as a tribe."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal.
ref: 2006 June 24, The Weekend Argus:
text: A group of hippos is called a bloat.
ref: 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
glosses: Clipping of hippopotamus.
coordinate_terms: mellow yellow
glosses: An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force.
synonyms: fatass
fatso
fatty
whale
glosses: An overweight or obese person.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Hippopotamus Defence.
Derived terms: hippo birdie two ewe
hippo fly
hippo grass
hippolike
pygmy hippo
velvet hippo
whippo
owlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊlət/
Forms: form: owlets
Etymology: From owl + -et. Compare howlet.
Senses: examples: text: And in faith Sir unlesse your hospitalitie doe releeve us, wee are like to wander with a sorrowfull hey ho, among the owlets, & Hobgoblins of the Forrest […]
ref: c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC:
text: Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: […] and bold with joy,
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place
(Portentous sight) the owlet, ATHEISM,
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,
And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
Cries out, “where is it?”
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, London: J. Johnson, pages 4–5:
glosses: Diminutive of owl.
glosses: A young owl; owling.
glosses: One of a species of small owls, such as Athene noctua.
examples: text: Noticeable features found in many of the owlets are two markings that often appear on the upper forewings.
ref: 2023, John Himmelman, Discovering Moths, page 39:
glosses: An owlet moth.
Synonyms: owling
howlet
houlet
Derived terms: word: false owlet moth
taxonomic: Xenoglaux loweryi
word: long-whiskered owlet
word: morbid owlet
english: Noctuidae
translation: Noctuidae
word: owlet moth
word: owlet-nightjar
word: spotted owlet
doe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: doh
homophone: d'oh
homophone: dough
homophone: do stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: doe
form: does
Etymology: From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.
Senses: examples: text: A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them
Across the wall, as near the wall as they.
She saw them in their field, they her in hers.
ref: 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Grace Notes.] Two Look at Two.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 95:
text: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
ref: 2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN:
glosses: A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
glosses: A female rabbit.
glosses: A female hare.
glosses: A female squirrel.
glosses: A female kangaroo.
Synonyms: sense: female deer
english: female red deer
translation: female red deer
word: hind
sense: female kangaroo
english: female red kangaroo
translation: female red kangaroo
word: blue flyer
Derived terms: blue doe
doe-eyed
doe eyes
doelike
doeling
doe party
doeskin
doey
doe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: doh
homophone: d'oh
homophone: dough
homophone: do stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: does
form: doing
form: doth
form: did
form: didde
form: done
Senses: examples: text: As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: […] a voyage to plant yͤ first colonie in yͤ Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in yͤ presence of God […]
ref: 1620, Mayflower Compact:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of do.
doe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: doh
homophone: d'oh
homophone: dough
homophone: do stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: though
hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hăch
ipa: /hæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: hatches
form: hatching
form: hatched
form: hatched
Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To close with a hatch or hatches.
hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hăch
ipa: /hæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: hatches
form: hatching
form: hatched
form: hatched
Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną.
Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.
Senses: examples: text: These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.
glosses: To emerge from an egg.
raw_tags: of young animals
examples: text: She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.
glosses: To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
raw_tags: of eggs
examples: text: I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.
glosses: To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
examples: text: World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.
text: As for Cersei, pretending to work with her enemies while secretly hatching some grander scheme was pretty much what I expected for the truce going into it.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: hatch up
glosses: To devise (a plot or scheme).
Derived terms: hatchability
hatchable
hatcher
hatchery
hatchling
hatch out
hatch up
nonhatched
posthatch
prehatch
prehatched
unhatched
hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hăch
ipa: /hæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: hatches
Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną.
Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.
Senses: glosses: The act of hatching.
examples: text: There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 266:
glosses: Development; disclosure; discovery.
examples: text: These pullets are from an April hatch.
qualifier: poultry
glosses: A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
examples: text: a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104,
The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
text: The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches, but it's also useful for midge hatches.
ref: 2004, Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies, page 118:
text: Many years the mayfly hatch begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong hatches by mid-May. The hatches continue through midsummer.
ref: 2007, John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest, page 70:
glosses: The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
raw_tags: as mayfly hatch
examples: text: hatch, match, and dispatch
glosses: A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
Derived terms: nuthatch
hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hăch
ipa: /hæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: hatches
form: hatching
form: hatched
form: hatched
Etymology: From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.
Senses: examples: text: Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
text: Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
examples: text: His weapon hatch'd in blood.
ref: 1619, John Fletcher, “The Humorous Lieutenant”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
glosses: To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Related terms: Chingford Hatch
Colney Hatch
Hatch End
Ivy Hatch
does
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: dŭz
ipa: /ˈdʌz/
note: stressed form
note: Dublin, Northern England
ipa: /ˈdʊz/
ipa: /dəz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Forms: form: diz
form: -'s
Etymology: From Middle English dos, variant of doth, doþ (“doth; doeth; does”), equivalent to do + -s.
Senses: examples: Likes her tea, my mom does.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do
does
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: dŭz
ipa: /ˈdʌz/
note: stressed form
note: Dublin, Northern England
ipa: /ˈdʊz/
ipa: /dəz/
rhymes: -ʌz
enpr: dōz
ipa: /doʊz/
enpr: dōz
ipa: /dəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: dohs
homophone: doughs
homophone: doze
homophone: dos stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
note: stressed form
enpr: dŭz
ipa: /ˈdʌz/
note: stressed form
note: Dublin, Northern England
ipa: /ˈdʊz/
ipa: /dəz/
rhymes: -ʌz
Etymology: From the noun doe (“female deer”).
Senses: glosses: plural of doe
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Forms: form: bucks
form: bucking
form: bucked
form: bucked
Etymology: From Middle English bukke, bucke, buc, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“ram”). Doublet of puck (“billy goat”).
Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).
The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”).
The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck.
Senses: glosses: To copulate, as bucks and does.
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Forms: form: bucks
Etymology: See beech.
Senses: examples: text: There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them.
ref: 1777, Mostyn John Armstrong, A Scotch Atlas; Or Description of the Kingdom of Scotland:
text: But, whilst we thus condemn the timber, we must not omit to praise the mast, which fats our swine and deer, and hath, in some families, even supported men with bread. Chios endured a memorable siege by the beniefit of this mast. And, in some parts of France, they now grind the buck in mills; it affords a sweet oil, which the poor people east most willingly.
ref: 1786, John Evelyn, Alexander Hunter, Silva: Or, A Discourse Of Forest-Trees, page 136:
text: The HORNBEAM ( provincially “HORSE-BEECH," in contradistinction to “buck beech” — the true beech) is, in many woods, the most prevalent species; and being drawn up in thickets with a rapid growth, becomes tall and straight enough for hop poles: and is even suffered to grow up, as a species of wood timber.
ref: 1798, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties:
text: The magnolia, buck [ beech?], and poplar never grow on lands subject to overflow.
ref: 1969, Samuel Henry Lockett, Lauren C. Post, Louisiana as it is, page 53:
text: The underbrush is all there, spice brush, buck beech, iron wood and alder and no doubt in the spring of the year, there is a wealth of flowers.
ref: 2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water:
glosses: The beech tree.
Derived terms: buckwheat
buckmast
buck-mast
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Etymology: From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken.
Senses: examples: 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236,
[…] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm.
glosses: Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
examples: text: Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
Derived terms: buck-basket
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Forms: form: bucks
form: bucking
form: bucked
form: bucked
Etymology: From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken.
Senses: glosses: To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
glosses: To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water
examples: text: This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.
ref: 1991, Joan Day, R. F. Tylecote, The industrial revolution in metals, page 89:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To break up or pulverize, as ores.
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Forms: form: bucks
form: bouk
Etymology: From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket.
Senses: glosses: The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Belly, breast, chest.
glosses: Size.
Derived terms: eelbuck
forebuck
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Forms: form: bucks
form: bucking
form: bucked
form: bucked
form: bouk
Etymology: From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket.
Senses: glosses: To swell out.
buck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌk/
ipa: /bʊk/
note: Dublin
ipa: /bʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
homophone: book (without the foot-strut split)
Forms: form: bucks
form: bucking
form: bucked
form: bucked
Etymology: From Hindi बकना (baknā, “babble, talk nonsense”).
Senses: examples: text: And then […] he bucks with a quiet stubborn determination that would fill an American editor, or an Under Secretary of State with despair. He belongs to the 12-foot-tiger school, so perhaps he can't help it.
ref: 1880, Ali Baba (page 164)
text: He was certainly bucking about his trophies, and for the sake of the argument you will be good enough to admit that you probably bucked about yours. What happens? You are overheard; you are followed; you are worked into the same scheme, and robbed on the same night.
ref: 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night:
glosses: To boast or brag.
Related terms: english: different etymology
translation: different etymology
word: buck hoist
word: buck buck
dray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drā
ipa: /dɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: drays
Etymology: From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.
Senses: examples: text: Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.
ref: 1710 September 28, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner:
text: Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a “jog” at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
text: The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, and little black broughams, made her think of the world she lived in.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
glosses: A kind of sledge or sled.
Coordinate terms: dumpcart
galamander
stoneboat
tumbril
Derived terms: dragnet
drayage
drayful
drayhorse
drayload
drayman
drayperson
draywoman
Related terms: flatbed
stakebody
dray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drā
ipa: /dɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: drays
form: draying
form: drayed
form: drayed
Etymology: From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.
Senses: glosses: To convey (goods) by dray.
dray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drā
ipa: /dɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: drays
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”).
drey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drā
ipa: /dɹeɪ/
homophone: dray
homophone: Dre
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: dreys
form: dray
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree.
glosses: A possum’s nest, built of twigs and leaves in a tree.
Derived terms: drey poking
disseminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈsɛməˌneɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈsemɪˌnæɪt/
Forms: form: disseminates
form: disseminating
form: disseminated
form: disseminated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also Middle English disseminat(e) (“disseminated”).
Senses: glosses: To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
examples: text: The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.
text: As the missletoe is disseminated by birds, its existence depends on birds; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
glosses: To become widespread.
Synonyms: spread
circulate
propagate
Coordinate terms: promulgate
Derived terms: autodisseminate
disseminatable
disseminative
disseminator
disseminatory
redisseminate
Related terms: dissemination
semen
crimp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Etymology: From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Fowler […] Treads the crimp Earth,
ref: 1708, John Philips, Cyder. A Poem, page 27:
glosses: Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
examples: text: The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves
ref: 1750, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:
glosses: Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
crimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: crimps
Etymology: From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
Senses: examples: text: The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
glosses: A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
glosses: The natural curliness of wool fibres.
glosses: Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
examples: text: Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, Act II, scene iv:
glosses: A card game.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small hold with little surface area.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A grip on such a hold.
Derived terms: boot crimp
put a crimp in
crimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: crimps
form: crimping
form: crimped
form: crimped
Etymology: From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
Senses: examples: text: Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
text: Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards.
ref: 1983, The Pacific Reporter, page 636:
glosses: To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
examples: text: He crimped the wire in place.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
glosses: To pinch and hold; to seize.
glosses: To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
glosses: To bend or mold leather into shape.
glosses: To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to hold using a crimp
Derived terms: crimpage
crimper
crimping house
crimping pin
crimping pliers
crimping tool
crimple
crimpness
crimpy
uncrimp
crimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: crimps
Etymology: Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, when a maſter of a ſhip, ſuppoſe at Jamaica, hath loſt any of his hands, he applies of courſe to a crimp[…]who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip,
ref: 1758, John Blake, A Plan, for regulating the Marine System of Great Britain, page 44:
text: Walking the street very hungry, and not knowing what to do with himself, a crimp's bill was put into his hand, offering immediate entertainment and encouragement to such as would bind themselves to serve in America. He went directly, sign'd the indentures, was put into the ship, and came over, never writing a line to acquaint his friends what was become of him.
ref: 1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 159:
text: Among his men I recollected one Cordus, a gentleman's ſon from Hamburgh, in which character I had known him, and who had been trepanned into the Weſt India Company's ſervice by the crimps or ſilver-coopers as a common ſoldier.
ref: 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVII, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 28:
text: Jack and Metsy at Portsmouth, fitting out the vessel, and offering three guineas ahead to the crimps for every good able seaman
ref: 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy, page 350:
text: I hear there are plenty of good men stowed away by the crimps at different places.
ref: 1842, Frederick Marryat, Percival Keene, page 215:
text: As Count Antoine was in the habit of sallying forth at night[…]he came near being carried off by a gang of crimps
ref: 1840, Washington Irving, “The Count Van Horn”, in The Knickerbocker, page 243:
text: The World Went Very Well Then—in the high and palmy days of the crimp, the pirate, the press-gang, and the smuggler—is a case in point.
ref: 1887 May 21, “Mr Besant's romance of the sea”, in The Spectator, volume 60, page 691:
glosses: An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
topics: law
glosses: One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
glosses: A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
crimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: crimps
form: crimping
form: crimped
form: crimped
Etymology: Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.
Senses: examples: text: […]nay, where in any corner he can spy a tall man, clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him.
ref: 1831 March, Thomas Carlyle, “Historic Survey of German Poetry By W. Taylor”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 53, page 168:
text: To the Reverend Fathers, it seemed that Denis would make an excellent Jesuit; wherefore they set about coaxing and courting, with intent to crimp him.
ref: 1833 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Mémoires, Correspondance, et Ouvrage inédit de Diderot”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 269:
text: It appears that that officer, instead of attending to interesting events likely to occur in this quarter, is desirous of plundering corn and crimping recruits
ref: 1837, Arthur Wellesley, edited by John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington during his Various Campaigns, volume 9, pages 235-6:
text: —why not create customers in the Queen's dominions for our own manufacturing produce, instead of trying at enormous expense to crimp them in other countries?
ref: 1839 February 11, The Standard, London, page 4:
text: Voltaire is never so good as when he is ridiculing the cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform, teaches them to march and wheel, and sends them off to kill and be killed.
ref: 1867, Goldwin Smith, Three English Statesmen, page 235:
text: On this the Egyptian Government crimped negroes in the streets of Cairo, appointed the most notorious ex-slave-dealer in the Soudan to command them, converted policemen into soldiers, and announced that these negroes and policemen were to be sent to the Soudan
ref: 1884 February 1, Henry Labouchere, “Scuttling out of Egypt”, in The Pall Mall Budget, page 7:
synonyms: shanghai
glosses: To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.