cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tweedle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwiːdəl/
Forms: form: tweedles
form: twidle
Etymology: said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle
Senses: glosses: A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.
examples: text: Reggie had a way with him. People trusted him, and he could always pick up a few pounds when he needed them from the jargoons and the tweedle.
ref: 2013, John Pearson, The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins:
glosses: A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.
taped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tape
tapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tap
tapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Forms: form: more tapped
form: most tapped
Senses: examples: a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree
glosses: Having a tap or taps.
topics: card-games
games
qualifier: board games
glosses: Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn.
examples: text: This is one weird tribe, who get their kicks from electrocution, poisoning and causing car crashes (and that's when they're in a good mood!). They consider a holiday in the Bermuda Triangle the ultimate and anyone who keeps floating hands as pets has to be a bit tapped.
ref: 1992, Lucy Hickman, The Addams Family (video game review in Crash issue 98, April 1992)
text: His eyes danced with delight, and he laughed and told me I was tapped in the head as he mussed up my hair, provoking me to kick him in the butt.
ref: 2021, Dorothy Preston, Getting Off the Radiator:
glosses: Crazy, eccentric.
Related terms: tapped out
topped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having or consisting of a top; covered with a top layer.
topped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of top
Derived terms: black-topped
carrot-topped
flat-topped
open-topped
tank-topped
trashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trash
trashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Forms: form: more trashed
form: most trashed
Senses: examples: text: I thought, let's go out and get trashed.
ref: 1996, Spock's Beard (band), "Thoughts"
text: Gotta go, my love. Todd's buying pink panty droppers. Oh my, oh me, I'm trashed.
ref: 2013, Greg Kleiner, Georgie Mills, Strings, page 48:
glosses: drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
junked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of junk
Derived terms: unjunked
junk yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk yards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of junkyard.
junkyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: junkyards
form: junk-yard
form: junk yard
Etymology: From junk + yard.
Senses: glosses: A place where rubbish is discarded.
glosses: A business that sells used metal or items.
Synonyms: sense: place where rubbish is discarded
word: dump
sense: place where rubbish is discarded
word: dumpyard
sense: place where rubbish is discarded
word: landfill
sense: place where rubbish is discarded
word: scrapheap
sense: place where used metal is handled
word: wreck yard § Synonyms
Derived terms: junkyard dog
Related terms: junk
bonded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒndɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɑndɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bond
bonded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒndɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɑndɪd/
Senses: examples: bonded duties
glosses: Secured by bond.
examples: text: To save weight, good use is made of resin-bonded glass fibre.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:
glosses: Joined securely, either with adhesive, heat process or pressure.
examples: text: Harry Meadows ... was in his late forties, ate too much, chain-smoked cheap cigars, drank bonded Bourbon, and was, in the words of his doctor, the Western world's leading candidate for a huge coronary infarction.
ref: 1974, Peter Benchley, “Chapter Three”, in Jaws:
glosses: Synonym of bottled in bond.
synonyms: word: bottled in bond
Derived terms: bonded debt
bonded labour
bondedly
bondedness
bonded warehouse
bonded winery
fluid-bonded
heterobonded
hydrogen-bonded
nonbonded
spunbonded
unbonded
inglorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡlɔɹi.əs/
ipa: /ɪnˈɡloʊɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more inglorious
form: most inglorious
Etymology: From Latin inglōriōsus. By surface analysis, in- + glorious.
Senses: examples: text: Oh inglorious league: / Shall we vpon the footing of our land, / Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimiſe, / Inſinuation, parley, and baſe truce / To Armes Inuaſiue?
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 18, column 2:
text: Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
ref: 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter VI, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:
text: [H]e cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, “The Famine”, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 173:
text: The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
ref: 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
glosses: Ignominious; disgraceful.
examples: text: Great Julius [Caesar], whom now all the world admires / The more he grew in years, the more inflam’d / With glory, wept that he had liv’d ſo long / Inglorious: but thou yet art not too late.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 56, lines 39–42:
glosses: Not famous; obscure.
Derived terms: ingloriously
ingloriousness
disgraceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]
ipa: [dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ]
Forms: form: more disgraceful
form: disgracefuller
form: most disgraceful
form: disgracefullest
form: disgracefull
Etymology: From disgrace + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time.
ref: 1668, Slingsby Bethel, The world's mistake in Oliver Cromwell, page 9:
text: Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;
ref: 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292:
text: From Zoilus to Dennis, no disgracefuller outrage on taste had been committed.
ref: 1883, Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, editor, The poetical works of Thomas Gray, Thomas Parnell, William Collins, Matthew Green, & Thomas Warton.:
text: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: disgusting
glosses: Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
examples: text: I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here.
ref: 1854, Mary Hayden Green Pike, Ida May: A Story of Things Actual and Possible, page 76:
text: To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.
ref: 1953, Arnold Gingrich, The Esquire Treasury:
glosses: Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
Derived terms: disgracefully
disgracefulness
goop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: goops
Etymology: 1930s, perhaps a variant of goo; compare gloop, and glob.
Senses: examples: text: The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
ref: 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, page 7]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2014:
glosses: A thick, slimy substance; goo.
examples: text: I pointed out that Stiffy, who is pure padded cell from the foundation up, was planning to marry the Rev. H.P. Pinker, himself as pronounced a goop as ever preached the Hivites and Hittites
ref: 1963, P.G. Wodehouse, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 22:
glosses: A silly, stupid, or boorish person.
Derived terms: gook
goopy
goop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: goops
form: gooping
form: gooped
form: gooped
Etymology: 1930s, perhaps a variant of goo; compare gloop, and glob.
Senses: examples: text: Airstream, 1977. He showed her ones on eBay that looked like blunt rifle slugs, went for crazy money in any condition at all. The uncle had gooped this one over with white expansion foam, gone gray and dirty now, to stop it leaking and for insulation.
ref: 2014, William Gibson, The Peripheral, G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: To apply a thick, slimy, or goo-like substance.
examples: text: Young John blushed at being found “gooping” at himself in the glass.
ref: 1925, Margaret Turnbull, Alabaster Lamps:
text: He always said vegetables are grown to be eaten, not gooped at. Even a donkey doesn't want a carrot a foot long. I've always remembered. Of course he never won a thing at the Show.
ref: 1955, Ring Up the Curtain: Four Plays:
text: it was dreadful, it was frightening, to be the sort of woman that, for some unknown reason, all men looked at, all men gooped at, all men—wanted.
ref: 1968, Christianna Brand, What Dread Hand: A Collection of Short Stories, The Hornet's Nest:
glosses: To stare; gawk.
duologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duologues
Etymology: From duo- + -logue.
Senses: examples: text: This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of [myself].
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:
glosses: A conversation between two persons; dialogue.
glosses: A dramatic performance or piece in the form of a dialogue limited to two speakers.
debates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debate
debates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debate
dissension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnʃən/
Forms: form: dissensions
form: discention
form: dissention
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissencioun, from Middle French dissention, discention, from Old French dissension, from Latin dissensio.
Senses: glosses: An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
examples: text: […]wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde[…]
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Best Governance”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 11:
text: The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension, of the supporters of each region.
ref: 1843, E. A. Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon:
text: In Biblical times the resort to chance was an agreed-upon way of making many decisions because it ended dissension among opposing, often powerful, parties.
ref: 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 34f:
glosses: Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
chit-chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chit-chats
form: chitchat
form: chit chat
Etymology: Reduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc.
Senses: examples: text: He speaks rapidly, with clarity and with obvious enthusiasm. No time is wasted on idle chit-chat.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50:
text: “What are you doing down here, father?” “Just having a bit of chitchat with your curious creation.” “Right.”
ref: 2024 November 11, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Laszlo's Father” (20:06 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 6, spoken by Lord Roderick Cravensworth (Steve Coogan):
glosses: Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters.
glosses: Gossip.
Synonyms: sense: overlapping both senses
word: chinwag
word: claver
word: small talk
english: meaningless types
translation: meaningless types
word: chatter
chit-chat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chit-chats
form: chit-chatting
form: chit-chatted
form: chit-chatted
form: chitchat
form: chit chat
Etymology: Reduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc.
Senses: glosses: To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.
Related terms: chitter-chatter
double talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-talk
form: doubletalk
Etymology: From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.
Senses: examples: text: "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]
ref: 1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:
glosses: Doublespeak.
glosses: Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
examples: text: [Sid] Caesar's vaudeville format included burlesques—in the nineteenth-century meaning of parody—featuring silent-film and film noir send-ups; Italian opera produced in Caesar's ad-libbed, faux-Italian double-talk;[…]
ref: 2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15:
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.
glosses: A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.
Synonyms: doublespeak
double Dutch
gibberish
jibber-jabber
nonsense
Derived terms: double talker
bicker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bickers
form: bickering
form: bickered
form: bickered
Etymology: From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (compare Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). Compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).
Senses: examples: text: They bickered about dinner every evening.
text: petty things about which men cark and bicker
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: Travelling with their granny, who seems more interested in her crossword puzzle than them, they bicker and fight in a futile bid to get her attention. Oh, the joys of travelling during the school holidays!
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
examples: text: Mean time unnumber'd glittering Streamlets play'd, / And hurled every-where their Waters ſheen; / That, as they bicker'd through the ſunny Glade, / Though reſtleſs ſtill themſelves, a lulling Murmur made.
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto I”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza III, page 2:
text: I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
ref: 1886, Tennyson, The Brook:
glosses: To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
glosses: To patter.
raw_tags: of rain
examples: text: And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Flavius Vespatianus Augustus”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 5, page 243:
glosses: To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
Synonyms: wrangle
Derived terms: bickerer
bicker like a married couple
bicker like an old married couple
bickerment
bickersome
bicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bickers
Etymology: From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (compare Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). Compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”).
Senses: glosses: A skirmish; an encounter.
examples: text: Even if he did not take part in the fighting himself, he was no doubt familiar with those who had been taught, ass Darsie Latimer was by Alan Fairford, to "smoke a cobbler, spin a lozen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets" - in other words, to break a window, head a skirmish with stones, and hold the bonnet[…]
ref: 1773, R. Ford, “Biographical Introduction”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Ferguson:
glosses: A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
glosses: A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
examples: text: Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]
ref: 2005, Alison Fraser, Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey, College Prowler, Inc, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
bicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bickers
Etymology: From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker.
Senses: examples: text: …the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 6:
glosses: A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
thickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪknəs/
rhymes: -ɪknəs
Forms: form: thicknesses
Etymology: From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).
Senses: glosses: The property of being thick (in dimension).
examples: text: The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
text: Guitar picks come in different thicknesses.
text: The newest form of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study. It’s only 0.47 nanometers thick, which is one million times thinner than a human finger nail.
ref: 2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN:
text: Whether made by a small business or a household name like Scotch, washi tape comes in countless colors, patterns and thicknesses and can be used for just as many adhesive-related projects, from decorating envelopes and empty jars to creating section dividers and adhering photos/ephemera in journals.
ref: 2025 January 6, Daniel Toy, “I’ve been journaling for more than 20 years. Here are my 25 favorite journaling supplies”, in CNN:
glosses: A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
examples: text: We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
glosses: A layer.
examples: text: Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
glosses: The quality of being thick (in consistency).
glosses: The property of being thick (slow to understand).
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into.
Synonyms: sense: the property of being thick in dimension
word: fatness
sense: measure
word: depth
sense: layer
word: layer
sense: layer
word: stratum
sense: in consistency
word: density
sense: in consistency
word: viscosity
sense: property of being stupid
word: denseness
sense: property of being stupid
word: slowness
sense: property of being stupid
word: stupidity
sense: property of being stupid
word: thickheadedness
Derived terms: dry film thickness
half-value thickness
thickness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪknəs/
rhymes: -ɪknəs
Forms: form: thicknesses
form: thicknessing
form: thicknessed
form: thicknessed
Etymology: From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”).
Senses: examples: text: Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
ref: 2003, Garrett Hack, The Handplane Book, page 143:
glosses: To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer.
announcements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of announcement
vulturine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulturine
form: most vulturine
Etymology: From Latin vulturinus (“vulture-like”).
Senses: examples: text: Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face.
ref: 1912, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Prince and Betty, New York: W.J. Watt, page 10:
text: Taking the cooked bird in her gnarled hands she stripped off the flesh with the few teeth she still had left in her head, gnawing on it with a vulturine concentration until it was just grey bones.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 6, in Small Island, London: Review, pages 87–88:
glosses: Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures.
examples: text: A species of crow in vast numbers is generally found to attend the larger kind of birds of prey. It is uncommonly bold and ravenous, and all its habits are vulturine […]
ref: 1806, John Barrow, chapter 2, in Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, volume I, London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, page 178:
glosses: Predaceous.
Synonyms: vulturelike
vulturish
vulturous
Derived terms: vulturine parrot
breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread
breads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bread
predaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more predaceous
form: most predaceous
form: predacious
Senses: glosses: Surviving by preying on other animals.
Related terms: predatory
cliches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliche
cliches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cliche
gaudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔː.di/
ipa: /ˈɡɔ.di/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.di/
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Forms: form: gaudies
Etymology: From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.
Senses: examples: text: In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace.
ref: 1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 356–7:
text: The circling year was to him like the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set at regular intervals along the string, […]
ref: 1919, Frederic William Moorman, Plays of the Ridings, pages 8–9:
text: She wore a coral trinket on her arms, / A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, / Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen […]
ref: 1952 [1387–1400], Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales, page 29:
glosses: One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
gaudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔː.di/
ipa: /ˈɡɔ.di/
ipa: /ˈɡɑ.di/
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Forms: form: gaudies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gaudium (“joy”). Doublet of joy and jo.
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.
Derived terms: gaudy night
ASTMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: trade union
glosses: Initialism of Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, a trade union.
MSF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Manufacturing, Science and Finance, a British trade union (now part of Unite).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: initialism of Médecins Sans Frontières
MSF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSFs
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of main support frame.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: MSF time signal, also known as Time from NPL.
MSF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: M4F
coordinate_terms: MSM
FSF
FSM
glosses: Initialism of male seeking female or masc seeking femme.
raw_tags: in personal ads or Internet slang
AScW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: labor union
glosses: Abbreviation of Association of Scientific Workers.
UNISON
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: labor union
glosses: A public-sector trade union in the United Kingdom.
surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgeon
nieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niece
santoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santokus
form: santoku
Etymology: Japanese 三徳 santoku, the three virtues, from 三 san: three + 徳 -toku: virtue.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese knife for general culinary usage.
hayseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪˌsid/
Forms: form: hayseeds
Etymology: From hay + seed.
Senses: examples: text: I lay and lay, and was doctored and doctored,; until at last I drove the physicians from me, and called in an apothecary from Nicolai who had cured an old woman of a malady similar to my own—cured her merely with a little hayseed.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IX):
glosses: Seeds from grass that has become hay.
glosses: Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc.
synonyms: word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin.
hayseed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪˌsid/
Forms: form: more hayseed
form: most hayseed
Etymology: From hay + seed.
Senses: examples: text: The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know.
ref: 1892, John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, volume II, published 1969, page 241:
text: And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now.
ref: 1988, Richard Sapir, Quest:
glosses: Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater.
salami technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salami techniques
Etymology: From the idea of cutting a salami one small slice at a time.
Senses: examples: text: The salami technique was developed by the Communists in response to the need for fooling the majority of the people in any given country during the critical period of the Red takeover.
ref: 1955, Marguerite Higgins, News is a Singular Thing
text: Bliss recommends using a salami technique to overcome procrastination. Whether dealing with salami or a task, cut the subject into as many small manageable slices as possible and both become more appetizing.
ref: 1986, Ann Smith Rice, Suzanne M. Tucker, Family Life Management
text: The salami technique is a special case of the Trojan Horse. The idea here is to use program to remove many small quantities, each quantity being so small in itself that no one notices what is happening.
ref: 1992, Lars Frank, EDP-security
text: Divide the large, difficult job into small, manageable, bite-sized pieces. Then assign a deadline to each step. Were it not for the salami technique, you would not be reading these words because I would never have written them. I despised writing for the first 33 years of my life.
ref: 1998, Rick Howard, Jamie Lash, This Was Your Life!
text: The government used something called the salami technique—discrimination enacted one thin slice at a time.
ref: 2008, James R. Norton, The Holocaust: Jews, Germany, and the National Socialistshttps://books.google.com/books?id=nXgTEnJMYNoC&pg=PA23&dq=%22salami+technique%22
glosses: The reaching of a goal by using small, consistent steps.
Related terms: salami-slice
salami slicing
salami tactics
piecemeal
step-by-step
tactique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactiques
Senses: examples: text: The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes, when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Visits the Church of Chapelizod, and Zekiel Irons Goes A-fishing”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 202–203:
glosses: Obsolete form of tactic.
liverwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvəwɜːst/
ipa: /ˈlɪvɚwɝst/
Forms: form: liverwursts
Etymology: Partial calque of German Leberwurst, equivalent to liver + wurst.
Senses: synonyms: liver sausage
glosses: Spreadable sausage made with liver.
liver sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liver sausages
Senses: glosses: Spreadable sausage made with liver.
Synonyms: liverwurst
knackwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knackwursts
form: knockwurst
Etymology: Borrowed from German Knackwurst.
Senses: glosses: A highly seasoned scalded sausage made from beef, pork, and fatty tissue similar to a frankfurter, but shorter and thicker.
knockwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockwursts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knackwurst.
geezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡizɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡiːzə/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
homophone: geyser
homophone: Giza (in some dialects)
Forms: form: geezers
Etymology: See geyser.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”).
guiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guisers
form: guizer
form: guyser
Etymology: From guise + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person in disguise, as for a parade or festival.
Synonyms: mummer
slave-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave-girls
Senses: glosses: A female slave.
glosses: A female required to perform sexual acts, a sex slave.
bushwhack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bushwhacks
form: bushwhacking
form: bushwhacked
form: bushwhacked
Etymology: From bush + whack.
Senses: glosses: To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
glosses: To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.
glosses: To ambush.
Related terms: bushwhacking
bushwhacker
GQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of general quarters.
GQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Gentleman's Quarterly, a magazine.
GQ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of genderqueer.
glosses: Template:(of a man) well-dressed and good-looking..
RFT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RFTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of request for tender.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of relational frame theory.
RFT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: journalism
media
newspapers
glosses: Initialism of Riverfront Times.
G.I.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of GI.
psychiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sī'-ki-ătʹ-rĭk
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/
rhymes: -ætɹɪk
Etymology: From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.
Senses: examples: text: Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
ref: 1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
Derived terms: antipsychiatric
biopsychiatric
chemopsychiatric
ecopsychiatric
ethnopsychiatric
gerontopsychiatric
geropsychiatric
immunopsychiatric
medicopsychiatric
neuropsychiatric
nonpsychiatric
orthopsychiatric
pedopsychiatric
postpsychiatric
psychiatrically
psychiatric deluge
psychiatric hospital
psychiatric nurse
psychiatric ward
telepsychiatric
unpsychiatric
psychiatric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sī'-ki-ătʹ-rĭk
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/
rhymes: -ætɹɪk
Forms: form: psychiatrics
Etymology: From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric.
Senses: examples: text: They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.
ref: 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 907:
glosses: A person who has a psychiatric disorder.
Immaculate Conception
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Immaculate Conception
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived biologically but free from original sin.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: December 8th (The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary).
glosses: The conception or incarnation of Jesus as viewed by those who believe that he was conceived without sin.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A title of Mary, in particular reference to her unique status with regard to the aforementioned doctrine.
Related terms: immaculism
immaculist
maculism
maculist
Immaculate Conception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.
glosses: Any virgin birth or an event likened to one.
yashmak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yashmaks
form: yashmac
form: yashmack
Etymology: From Turkish yaşmak.
Senses: examples: text: Through her gauzy yashmak I could see that she was smiling.
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page ix. 88:
text: Mungo cannot make out her face, which is concealed behind a yashmak – the double horsehair veil worn by Muslim women in public – but he is immediately struck by her feet and hands.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 46:
glosses: A veil worn by Muslim women to cover parts of the face when they are in public.
Synonyms: sense: veil that covers parts of the face
word: niqab
sense: veil that covers parts of the face
word: veil
sense: veil that covers parts of the face
word: hijab
sense: veil that covers parts of the face
word: purdah
sense: veil that covers parts of the face
word: scarf
façade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: façades
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French façade.
Senses: examples: text: If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
ref: 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
text: he wanted to know who she was deep down inside, the real Penny behind the pleasant, people-pleasing façade, as was her fate as a woman and mother
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 291:
text: From the 4th Century BCE onwards, the Lycians built rock-hewn "house" tombs – often funeral chambers carved into cliffs, with the rock face around the doorway cut to imitate the façade of a wooden Lycian house, complete with "timbers" and protruding "joists".
ref: 2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of facade.
conceptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛpʃənəl/
Forms: form: more conceptional
form: most conceptional
Etymology: From conception + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to conception.
glosses: Relating to a concept, idea, or thought. (More often, conceptual.)
Derived terms: conceptionalist
conceptionally
periconceptional
postconceptional
preconceptional
unrequited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /ˌʌnɹəˈkwaɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more unrequited
form: most unrequited
Etymology: From un- + requited.
Senses: examples: text: His expressions of love went unrequited.
text: Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scottish-man, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 196:
text: ONE of my comrades there—another of those victims of eighteen years of unrequited toil and blighted hopes—was one of the gentlest spirits that ever bore its patient cross in a weary exile: […]
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 439:
text: To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.
ref: 1912, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 27, in Miss Billy’s Decision:
synonyms: unreciprocated
glosses: Not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid.
raw_tags: of a feeling or emotion
Derived terms: unrequited love
highlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈhaɪləndəɹ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhaɪləndə/
homophone: islander (H-dropping accents)
Forms: form: highlanders
Etymology: From highland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands.
examples: text: He gave credence to the long-standing impression that southern highlanders were as a whole 'a hardy race of European dissenters' of very different stock from other southern colonists…. As backwoodsmen and highlanders, they opposed slavery formally, through abolitionist organizations, newspapers, or institutions of higher education….
ref: 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race, Introduction", page 1:
text: Other essayists, however, detect significant distinctions between highlander and lowlander—differences in racial attitudes (abolitionist or rabid racist), in the types of work that African Americans performed, and in the extent to which perceptions of whiteness shaped how outsiders understood the region and acted toward it.
ref: 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race, Introduction, page 10:
glosses: Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain.
glosses: The Igorot people, referring to them originating from the Cordillera Mountain Range.
Derived terms: Shanghailander
highlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈhaɪləndəɹ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhaɪləndə/
homophone: islander (H-dropping accents)
Etymology: From the tagline "There can be only one" of the film Highlander (1986).
Senses: examples: text: I have a blue/white highlander deck (every card is unique, including the lands) and I would like some help tuning it.
ref: 1995 May 18, Nick Clifton, “Help with a Highlander Deck”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <NICKC.95May18164750@betty.perihelion.co.uk>:
text: As an example, the "Highlander" tournaments (only one of any particular card) that have been springing up have proven to be a good way to re-energize the tournament scene for some games.
ref: 1996 October 18, Scott Schultz, “New Tournament Styles”, in rec.games.trading-cards.misc (Usenet), message-ID <3267BF69.1FAA@ceweekly.com>:
text: One of my favorite Highlander decks is listed below.
ref: 2000 June 2, End User, “Re: Type I Highlander - What to play?”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet), message-ID <3938182E.357BF7F4@tivoli.com>:
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks.
adown
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈdaʊn/
Etymology: From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way).
Senses: examples: text: Thrice did she sink adown.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:
text: Many a family circle wept as they looked upon the familiar places, which would know their lost ones no more; but ah, chide me not, kind reader, in thus leading you adown to the coldness of death, in setting before you that which causes your tender heart to shudder.
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
text: The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. […] Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace.
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “After Twenty Years”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
adown
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: /əˈdaʊn/
Etymology: From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way).
Senses: examples: text: I fell from one dream into another; found myself wandering through impossible places; […] peering out into the darkness, to catch a sight of a vague figure standing somewhere in the shadow, and looking, with the sun streaming into my eyes and blinding me, adown long white roads filled with a multitude of people […]
ref: 1875, Charlotte Riddell, The Uninhabited House:
glosses: Down.