cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Anglo-Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈsæk.sən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈsæk.sən/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: Anglo-Saxons
form: Anglosaxon
Etymology: From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Angli Saxones (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
glosses: A person of English ethnic descent.
qualifier: Mexican-American
glosses: A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.
Derived terms: Anglo-Saxon America
Anglo-Saxondom
Anglo-Saxonism
Anglo-Saxonist
Anglo-Saxonization
Anglo-Saxonize
Anglo-Saxonry
WASP
Anglo-Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈsæk.sən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈsæk.sən/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: more Anglo-Saxon
form: most Anglo-Saxon
form: Anglosaxon
Etymology: From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Angli Saxones (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons.
Senses: glosses: Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
examples: text: [...] Ethnography thus aims at record-
 ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various
 groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative
 purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data
 provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same
 meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately
 to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth-
 nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.
ref: 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Schoepf, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 2:
glosses: Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Favouring a liberal free-market economy.
glosses: Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).
Related terms: Germanic
Indo-Germanic
costa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.stə/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.stə/
rhymes: -ɒstə
Forms: form: costas
form: costae
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of rib.
synonyms: word: rib
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
The vein forming the leading edge of most insect wings.
synonyms: C
Derived terms: basicosta
costal
costapalmate
costiferous
costiform
costovertebral
subcosta
Related terms: word: bone
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: guarda costa
grip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grĭp
ipa: /ɡɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: grips
form: gripping
form: gripped
form: gripped
Etymology: Verb from Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.
Noun from Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).
Senses: examples: text: That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly.
text: Unfortunately the glue didn't grip, and the whole thing came apart.
text: After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement.
text: "Grip tightly on the rope!" — "I'm gripping! I'm gripping!"
text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
examples: text: We need to grip this problem, not shut our eyes and hope it goes away.
glosses: To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
examples: text: As the water level began to rise, I was gripped by panic.
text: […] I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
examples: text: The movie gripped me from beginning to end.
glosses: To firmly hold the attention of.
Synonyms: sense: take hold of
word: clasp
word: grasp
Derived terms: begrip
grip off
grip oneself with both hands
grippable
gripping
gripping beast
grippy
gription
grip up
misgrip
on the gripping hand
regrip
ungrip
grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grĭp
ipa: /ɡɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: grips
form: gripe
Etymology: From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.
Senses: glosses: A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
glosses: A channel cut through a grass verge, especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway.
Derived terms: gripple
grip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grĭp
ipa: /ɡɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: grips
form: gripping
form: gripped
form: gripped
form: gripe
Etymology: From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.
Senses: glosses: To trench; to drain.
violent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.lənt/
rhymes: -aɪlənt
Forms: form: violenter
form: more violent
form: violentest
form: most violent
Etymology: From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). Displaced native Old English stræc. For the verb, compare French violenter.
Senses: examples: text: A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
glosses: Involving extreme force or motion.
examples: text: We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.
text: Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns.
ref: 2019 May 13, David Robson, “The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world”, in BBC:
glosses: Involving physical conflict.
examples: text: The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
glosses: Likely to use physical force.
examples: text: The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
text: We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Intensely vivid.
examples: text: These violent delights have violent ends.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
text: Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
examples: text: Palace made it 3-1 on 81 minutes, Nketiah nipping in to finish nicely, then doing a no-celebration pose in front of the away fans. Nketiah grew up a couple of miles from the Den. It felt, at the very least, like a neighbourly overture, and in violent contrast to the opening act at the other end.
ref: 2025 March 1, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Acute, extreme, sharp.
Derived terms: non-violent
silent-but-violent
violentism
violent presumption
violent profits
violent relaxation
violent storm
Related terms: violence
violent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.lənt/
rhymes: -aɪlənt
Forms: form: violents
form: violenting
form: violented
form: violented
Etymology: From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). Displaced native Old English stræc. For the verb, compare French violenter.
Senses: examples: text: a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To urge with violence.
violent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/
ipa: /ˈvaɪ.lənt/
rhymes: -aɪlənt
Forms: form: violents
Etymology: From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). Displaced native Old English stræc. For the verb, compare French violenter.
Senses: examples: text: Did the Covetous extortioner observe that he is involv'd in the same sentence, [and] remember that such Violents shall take not heaven, but hell, by force.
ref: 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety:
glosses: An assailant.
verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɝs/
ipa: /ˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: verses
Etymology: From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
Senses: examples: text: Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
synonyms: poetry
glosses: A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
examples: text: The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.
glosses: Poetic form in general.
examples: text: Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
synonyms: stanza
glosses: One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
holonyms: chapter
glosses: A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Derived terms: Alcaic verse
blank verse
chapter and verse
clobber verse
free verse
heroic verse
Leonine verse
neck verse
Pythian verse
serpentine verse
society verse
sword verse
verse-chorus
versecraft
Related terms: versification
versify
verse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɝs/
ipa: /ˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: verses
form: versing
form: versed
form: versed
Etymology: From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
Senses: examples: text: It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
ref: a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
glosses: To compose verses.
examples: text: playing on pipes of corn and versing love
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To tell in verse, or poetry.
examples: text: He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
text: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:
glosses: to educate about, to teach about.
verse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɝs/
ipa: /ˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: verses
form: versing
form: versed
form: versed
Etymology: Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb verses.
Senses: examples: text: When teams play now they "verse" each other. "Who did you verse?" (Forget "whom". It's long dead.) "We're versing you next." Pity the Latin scholar who might feel the loss of "versus" more keenly than many.
ref: 2007 March 26, Nick Green, “Being illiterate and innumerate shouldn’t shame anyone”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: If you've got Onslaught let me know and I'll verse you.
ref: 2009 August 11, CrazyGunner [username], “Verse me on Onslaught”, in Nintendo Life:
text: Ariel is worried for the race, because she is versing her best competitor, and she really wants to win.
ref: 2020 April 9, AgentPigeon122 [username], “The Graphic Organizer Information”, in Course Hero:
text: There was an ODI last year where the Blackcaps versed Ireland, and we almost lost, but we didn't.
ref: 2023, “There had to be blood” (4:13 from the start), in Taskmaster NZ, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Mel Bracewell:
glosses: To oppose, to compete against.
blank verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blank verses
Senses: examples: text: Milton's command of blank verse exceeds even Shakespeare's.
text: [T]here is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and beeing an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey.
ref: 1592, Robert Greene, Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance, London: imprinted for William Wright, folio F¹v:
text: I could have spoken in blank verse of Shakespearean beauty, all sorts of great ideas flashed through my mind; it was as though the bonds of my flesh had been loosened, and left the spirit free to soar to the empyrean of its native power.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 288:
text: Soon after Surrey's translation of Virgil, blank verse became a persuasive rival to the heroic couplet.
ref: 2006, Philip Hobsbaum, “The heroic couplet”, in Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poetic form with regular meter, particularly iambic pentameter, but no fixed rhyme scheme.
free verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A calque of French vers libre.
Senses: examples: text: Whitman uses free verse to achieve effects impossible under even the broad restrictions of blank verse.
glosses: A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.
Im
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ims
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: irregular galaxy with no coherent structure
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Sm
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Irr
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: IrG
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: dI
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: dIG
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: DIG
Im
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 임(林) (Im) or Korean 임(任) (Im).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
toy with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toys with
form: toying with
form: toyed with
form: toyed with
Senses: examples: text: You shouldn't toy with someone's feelings.
text: Roy Hodgson's team had toyed with everyone's nerves. They had come across a Poland side that gave everything on a night when Wembley often sounded more like Warsaw, and Gerrard's late, decisive strike came at a stage of the night when England's management was thinking about little more than protecting Wayne Rooney's first-half goal.
ref: 15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To handle something in a careless or frivolous manner.
glosses: To play, especially with or as with a toy.
IM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IMs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of information management.
examples: text: Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.
ref: 2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49:
glosses: Initialism of instant message.
examples: text: Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
ref: 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:
text: Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy.
ref: 2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:
glosses: Initialism of instant messaging.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of inner marker.
examples: text: "When I first joined ACAC (Ames Cyclones Aquatics Club), we were swimming together in a lane and I ended up going behind her," Hala said. "We were doing IM (individual medley) in warm-up and I was on her feet and I was like I'm an IMer, can I go ahead of you? She told me no."
ref: 2021 August 11, Joe Randleman, “Magnificent Meghan: Donald ready to defend state swimming titles for Ames High”, in Ames Tribune:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: Initialism of individual medley.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of information memorandum.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of innovation management.
glosses: Initialism of idea management.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Initialism of International Master.
IM
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: IMs
form: IMing
form: IMed
form: IMed
Senses: examples: text: IM me when you get home.
text: You won't pick up, you won't IM, you won't return my six (seven?) phone calls. So I'm resorting to email for this. First of all, don't get mad at Julie. She did the right thing. But, sweetie, why are you hiding this from the people who love you?
ref: 2004, Rocki St. Claire, Hit Reply, New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 160:
text: “WDYT,” she IM'd Sophie, wondering what her new friend thought of the idea. Sophie, sitting next to her, quickly IM'd back “G4I” to show her support.
ref: 2010, Jeanne C. Meister, Karie Willyerd, The 2020 Workplace […] , Harper Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of instant message (verb).
Coordinate terms: DM
PM
IM
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
related: word: im
word: I.M.
word: i.m.
glosses: Initialism of intramuscular.
glosses: Initialism of intramedullary.
conspiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈspɪɹəsi/
ipa: /kənˈspəɹəsi/
Forms: form: conspiracies
form: conspiracying
form: conspiracied
form: conspiracied
Etymology: From Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman conspiracie, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, from conspire + -acy.
Senses: examples: text: He knew I would come for him when I discovered what he did, so he, he conspiracied to put me in prison.
ref: 2007, Brian Francis Slattery, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, page 45:
text: “What are you two conspiracying about up here?” asked Kira, walking up next to me.
ref: 2019, Vincent Trigili, Rise of the Goblin King:
text: Promoters of the CrowdStrike theory often claim that CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is Ukrainian, which they see as “proof” of his willingness to conspiracy with the Ukrainian government and Democrats against Putin and Trump in 2016.
ref: 2019 November 21, Alex Henderson, “The looney CrowdStrike conspiracy claims debunked by Fiona Hill during her bombshell impeachment testimony”, in AlterNet:
glosses: To conspire.
epee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpeɪ/
ipa: /ˈeɪpeɪ/
rhymes: -ɛpeɪ
homophone: epees
Forms: form: epees
form: épee
form: épée
Etymology: Borrowed from French épée, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spatha, spathe, and spade.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
Coordinate terms: foil
sabre
Derived terms: epeeist
moi
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /mwɑː/
homophone: mwah
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From French moi.
Senses: examples: text: Don't you be so cheeky. — Cheeky? Moi?
text: Who'd have thought that such a thing would happen to little old moi!
text: Kid Rock: Yo, let's waste that biotch. / Homer: Biotch? Moi?
ref: 2000 April 30, John Swartzwelder, “Kill the Alligator and Run”, in The Simpsons, season 11, episode 19:
text: There's only one Miss Piggy, and she is moi.
ref: 2011, Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets, spoken by Miss Piggy:
glosses: Me.
raw_tags: used questioningly to express mock surprise
Related terms: culte du moi
ménage à moi
épée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛpeɪ
-eɪ
Forms: form: épées
Etymology: Borrowed from French épée, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spade and spatha.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of epee.
pronuntiatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin prōnūntiātiō. Doublet of pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the discipline of delivering speeches.
Related terms: dispositio
elocutio
inventio
memoria
asshat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæshæt/
Forms: form: asshats
form: arsehat
Etymology: From ass + hat, from the slang expression have one's head up one's ass, thus, wearing the ass as a hat. The term is extended to people who are clueless or bumbling, who don't understand what is going on.
Senses: examples: text: the same connotations as "FUCKWITS." for less extreme cases i suggest ASSHATS
ref: 1998 July 23, T..., “Re: GREEN RIVER NARROWS, NC: ALL PUTINS CLOSED!!”, in rec.boats.paddle (Usenet), retrieved 04 Oct 2018, message-ID <6p7j7t$r21$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
text: 1977 CHiPs 3 3/4" action figures (5 different: Ponch, Jon, Sarge,Jimmy Squeaks, Stupid Fucking Asshat Erik Mouse, and Wheels Willie) $10-15 each
ref: 1999 July 23, madge, “California Hustle,”, in alt.fan.erik (Usenet), retrieved 04 Oct 2018, message-ID <m-2307991051020001@ppp204184.asahi-net.or.jp>:
text: While I wait, the air is abuzz with tales of other marathons while many set of eyes cut in my direction. Eventually an asshat in a JUST DO IT T-shirt asks me, “How's your training going?”
ref: 2006, Jen Lancaster, Bitter is the New Black […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 224:
text: Anyone who would make a claim like this on national TV is a real asshat.
ref: 2007, John Hargrave, Prank the Monkey: The Zug Book of Pranks, Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: An obnoxiously ignorant person; a fool.
Derived terms: word: asshatness
word: asshattery
word: asshattish
alt: asshatitude
word: asshattitude
word: asshatty
Related terms: assclown
arseclown
county seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: county seats
Senses: examples: text: Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County.
text: Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down.
ref: 1960, Ching-wen Chow, “The Awakening of the Chinese People”, in Lai Ming, transl., edited by Lai Ming, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 305; republished as “China in Chains”, in The Truth About Communism, number 8, Milwaukee, Wis.: THE TRUTH, Inc., 1961, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
text: As the Yeh-Ho armies approached Swatow, peasants briefly captured two other county seats, Ch’ao-yang and Chieh-yang, but there was very little coordination between the local forces and the oncoming troops.
ref: 1984 [1983], C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: The city in which the offices of county government are located.
Related terms: word: county town
word: parish seat
english: typo potential
translation: typo potential
word: country seat
judoka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːˈdəʊkə/
Forms: form: judoka
form: judokas
form: jūdōka
Etymology: From Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう)家(か) (jūdōka).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo.
Synonyms: judoist
Derived terms: parajudoka
Related terms: budoka
karateka
kendoka
hijinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hi-jinks
Senses: examples: text: One could argue, of course, that most comedies about the risqué misadventures of teenagers are actually pretty wholesome. Horny hits like American Pie and last year's Blockers are, at heart, sweet coming-of-age stories, secretly reassuring everyone that the kids are all right—that no matter how many f-bombs they drop, no matter how raunchy their MPAA-antagonizing hijinks get, they're really just fumbling their inexperienced way through normal rites of passage.
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
glosses: Alternative spelling of high jinks.
Wien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Wien (“Vienna”); a habitational surname for the city. Doublet of Vienna.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
examples: text: The growth of Wien’s population during the first twelve months of the Nazi régime was due neither to biological reasons nor to immigration, but was caused by an extension of the administrative territory of the city.
ref: 1945, Austrian Basic Handbook, [London]: [Foreign Office], →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
text: Liebscher & Hübel and Neudorfer Griensteidl Hahnkamper & Stapf have until recently worked in co-operation but Dr Christoph Liebscher’s move to Wien to open an office has emphasised the incompatibility of two Kanzleien from the same city forming a close partnership.
ref: 1997, The European Legal 500, 7th edition, London: Legalease, →ISBN, page 19, column 2:
text: The city of Wien in Austria (also known as Vienna) is an instance of Smart City.
ref: 2017, Norman Flynn, Alberto Asquer, “Open Data, Open Government and Smart Cities”, in Public Sector Management, 7th edition, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of Vienna: the capital and largest city of Austria.
Derived terms: Wien approximation
Wien bridge
Wien effect
tupo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tupos
Etymology: Deliberate typographical error for typo. Compare tpyo.
Senses: glosses: A typographical error.
automagic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædʒɪk
Etymology: Blend of automatic + magic; from the principle (often called Clarke's third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Senses: glosses: A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be magic.
Derived terms: automagical
automagically
water tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water taps
Senses: glosses: A spout connected to a socket to provide water from the main water supply.
wikipedia: water tap
Related terms: keg tap
power tap
relocatable power tap
relocatable power tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relocatable power taps
Senses: glosses: A multi-socket power cord that can be used to channel electricity from a single socket.
Synonyms: power tap
power tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power taps
Senses: glosses: A multi-socket plug that can be used to channel electricity from a single socket.
Synonyms: word: relocatable power tap
english: Australia etc
translation: Australia etc
word: adapter
relocatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relocatable
form: most relocatable
Etymology: From relocate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: [Thoreau Type GWM Mid Age] Seeks similar independent person relocatable to idylic ^([sic]) remote area. Interests must include self sufficiency, honesty, value of quality of life over monetary gain.
ref: 1987 August 22, “Thoreau Type GWM Mid Age (personal advertisementR”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 13:
glosses: That can be relocated.
glosses: That can be relocated.
Movable, but not functional/usable while being transported.
raw_tags: of a device
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be relocated.
That functions identically at any address in memory.
raw_tags: of a machine code routine
Synonyms: mobile
movable
portable
transportable
Derived terms: relocatable power tap
relocatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relocatables
Etymology: From relocate + -able.
Senses: glosses: A temporary building that can be dismantled and set up in another location.
circumvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kəmˈvɛnʃən/
Forms: form: circumventions
Etymology: From Latin circumventio, equivalent to circumvent + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of evading or going around (bypassing).
examples: text: a school in which he learns sly circumvention
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
synonyms: deception
fraud
imposture
delusion
glosses: The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception.
Derived terms: anticircumvention
Related terms: circumvent
circumvental
mater lectionis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪtə lɛktiˈəʊnɪs/
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɚ lɛktiˈoʊnɪs/
Forms: form: matres lectionis
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin māter lēctiōnis (literally “mother of reading”), calque of Medieval Hebrew אֵם קְרִיאָה (ʾēm qərîʾā).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A consonant letter used to represent a vowel sound in Semitic scripts.
googlewhack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googlewhacks
Etymology: From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on January 8, 2002.
Senses: hypernyms: ghit
glosses: A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
Related terms: googlewhacker
googlewhacking
googlewhack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: googlewhacks
form: googlewhacking
form: googlewhacked
form: googlewhacked
Etymology: From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on January 8, 2002.
Senses: glosses: To search for something using Google, resulting in a single hit.
Related terms: hapax
googly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʉːɡli/
ipa: /ˈɡuɡli/
Forms: form: googlies
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps derived from googie (“an egg, in reference to the unusual direction of bounce”). Though the delivery was perfected and made famous by English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, circa 1900, the term is recorded earlier in Australian English (1896).
Senses: examples: text: His weakness in batting is against googly.
text: He bowled a googly that sparked a shout for LBW.
text: To go the whole round of bowlers before, again putting, on either Copplestone or B. Goodwin was a mistake, I thought, and equally so were Molyneau's repeated attempts at bowling slow "googlies."
ref: 1896 November 28, The Independent, Foostcray, Vic, page 3, column 3:
text: Pelham Warner says Bosanquet is really invaluable. He can bowl as badly as anyone in the world, but when he gets a length those slow googlies, as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.
ref: 1904 March 9, The Otago Witness, Otago, page 52:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: bosie
bosey
wrong 'un
glosses: A ball, bowled by a leg-break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
Derived terms: bowl a googly
google
Related terms: chinaman
cutter
doosra
full toss
inswing
leg break
off-break
outswing
screwball grip
seamer
yorker
googly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʉːɡli/
ipa: /ˈɡuɡli/
Forms: form: googlier
form: googliest
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from goo-goo (“amorous”), or directly from goggle. Attested from 1901.
Senses: examples: text: “A shtinker,” the bug-eyed man said more loudly. […]“B'seder, fine, a shtinker rabbi,” the googly-eyed man amended, rubbing his lower gut. “But can’t you tell he’s an informer?”
ref: 2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, page 208:
glosses: Bulging.
raw_tags: of the eyes
examples: text: ‘Torture my foot! You think it’s torture for a man to ask his wife for attention? God save me from stupid women!’ – my father limped downstairs to make googly eyes at Colaba girls.
ref: 1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, page 131:
text: “Attractive enough? You should see how the mothers here act around him.” She sighed. “Everyone goes all googly when he’s around.”
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Harbison, Drive Me Wild, Harlequin:
glosses: Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.
raw_tags: of eyes
of persons
Related terms: googly-eyed
googly eye
googly-moogly
googly eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of googly eye
googly eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of googly eye
smeg
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology: A clipping of smegma, popularised by the British sitcom Red Dwarf.
Senses: glosses: Used as a swear word.
smeg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: smegs
form: smegging
form: smegged
form: smegged
Etymology: A clipping of smegma, popularised by the British sitcom Red Dwarf.
Senses: examples: text: "Sorry I smegged up your face, man." Curry shrugged.
ref: 2005, Michael Donnelly, Awakening Curry Buckle, →ISBN:
text: My finances are completely smegged.
ref: 2009, Bob Fischer, Wiffle Lever to Full!, →ISBN:
text: I stood there, smegged to silence by the colour screen and mini camera watching me like a suspicious eye.
ref: 2015, Naomi Jacobs, Forgotten Girl, →ISBN:
glosses: To mess up.
Derived terms: smegger
smegging
smeghead
spake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: more spake
form: most spake
Etymology: From Middle English spake, spak, from Old Norse spakr (“wise, gentle, quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *spakaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peǵ- (“to understand; intelligent, attentive”). Cognate with Swedish spak (“manageable”), Danish spag (“quiet, gentle, timid, tame”).
Senses: glosses: Quiet; tame.
glosses: Ready; prompt.
Derived terms: spakely
spake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Etymology: From Middle English spak, from Old English spæc, first and third person singular past tense of specan (“to speak”). More at speak.
Senses: examples: text: And God ſpake vnto Noah, ſaying, / Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy ſonnes, and thy ſonnes wiues with thee:[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 8:15–16, columns 1–2:
text: He answered me with pleasure and surprise; / And there was, while he spake, a fire about his eyes.
ref: 1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence:
text: But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it: Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!
ref: 1909 [1883–1885], “Zarathustra's Prologue”, in Thomas Common, transl., Thus Spake Zarathustra, translation of Also sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche:
glosses: simple past of speak
spake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: spakes
Etymology: Alternative form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoke (of a wheel).
spake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: spakes
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a variant of spoke, which has a variety of extended senses in English dialects and in Scots (including a tree branch or cutting, a windmill's arm, a birdcage's perch, and a bar for carrying a coffin), though none closely matching this.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A type of wagon on rails used for carrying workers in and out of a colliery.
intimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: intimations
Etymology: From Middle French intimation, from Latin intimatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of intimating.
glosses: The thing intimated.
examples: text: They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
glosses: Announcement; declaration.
examples: text: Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
ref: 1679, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England:
text: At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
ref: 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
text: And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end. But intimations weren't much use.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 378:
glosses: A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.
Derived terms: preintimation
Related terms: intimacy
intimate
Romeo and Juliet couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romeo and Juliet couples
Etymology: After the eponymous characters in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
Senses: glosses: A couple who have married without their parents' consent.
examples: text: There are, for example, the Romeo and Juliet couples, who come from warring or enemy nations and escape to a neutral third country […]
ref: 1988, Dugan Romano, Intercultural marriage: promises and pitfalls:
text: The incidence there was especially high among Indian and Pakistani teens, Romeo-and-Juliet couples.
ref: 1997, Lucia Nevai, Normal: stories:
glosses: By analogy with the two Shakespearean characters, a couple consisting of one member from each of two opposing families, parties, or countries.
Related terms: Capulet
Capulet party
Montague
Montague party
hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōp
ipa: /həʊp/
ipa: /hoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: hopes
Etymology: From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope.
Eclipsed non-native early modern English esperance, borrowed from Middle French esperance.
Senses: examples: text: All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
text: After losing my job, there's frail hope of affording my world cruise.
text: There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
text: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
glosses: The actual thing wished for.
examples: text: We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
glosses: A person or thing that is a source of hope.
examples: text: But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:13:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The virtuous desire for future good.
Derived terms: abandon hope, all ye who enter here
all hope abandon ye who enter here
beacon of hope
behope
Buckley's hope
Cape of Good Hope
dash someone's hopes
get one's hopes up
glimmer of hope
great white hope
hopeably
hope against hope
hope chess
hope chest
hopeful
hopeium
hopeless
hopemonger
hopenosis
hopepunk
hoper
hope springs eternal
hope springs eternal in the human breast
Hope Town
Hopewell
Hopey McChange
hopium
in the hope of
in the hope that
keep hope alive
live in hope
mishope
Mount Hope
no-hoper
overhope
prisoner of hope
ray of hope
underhope
unhope
wanhope
white hope
Related terms: forlorn hope
hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōp
ipa: /həʊp/
ipa: /hoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: hopes
Etymology: From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop.
Senses: glosses: A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
hope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōp
ipa: /həʊp/
ipa: /hoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: hopes
Etymology: From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.
Senses: glosses: A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
examples: text: Being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith, at Grauesend, in Tilberie hope.
ref: 1587, Abraham Fleming, Holinshed's Chronicles:
text: A little hamlet which straggled along the side of a creek formed by the discharge of a small brook into the sea[…]It was called Wolf's Hope (i.e. Wolf's Haven).
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
plosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpləʊsɪv/
ipa: /ˈpləʊzɪv/
enpr: plō'sĭv
enpr: plō'zĭv
ipa: /ˈploʊsɪv/
ipa: /ˈploʊzɪv/
rhymes: -əʊsɪv
Forms: form: plosives
Etymology: Clipping of explosive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: stop
occlusive
hypernyms: consonant
obstruent
glosses: A speech sound produced by opening a closed vocal tract.
Derived terms: applosive
Related terms: plosion
plosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpləʊsɪv/
ipa: /ˈpləʊzɪv/
enpr: plō'sĭv
enpr: plō'zĭv
ipa: /ˈploʊsɪv/
ipa: /ˈploʊzɪv/
rhymes: -əʊsɪv
Forms: form: more plosive
form: plosiver
form: most plosive
form: plosivest
Etymology: Clipping of explosive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage.
Derived terms: nonplosive
plosively
plosiveness
plosivity
plosivization
bandana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bænˈdæn.ə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: bandanas
form: bandanna
form: bandanno
form: bandannoe
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बंधन (bandhan, “the act of binding, a bond”), from Sanskrit बध्नाति (badhnāti, “he binds”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, bond”). Related to Hindi बांधना (bāndhnā, “to tie”). Doublet of bind.
Senses: examples: text: Neighbours now came hurrying in, and one after another missed some trifling article of property which the deceased was known to have possessed. There were three thin spoons, real silver, on which she greatly prided herself; they were gone. A large silver watch, together with a red silk shawl and a Bandana handkerchief, very regular parts of her Sunday attire, were also not to be found.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 123:
glosses: A large kerchief, usually colourful and used either as headgear or as a handkerchief, neckerchief, bikini, or sweatband.
glosses: A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed a uniform red or dark colour, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
Derived terms: bandana code
bandanaed
bandana of the Everglades
bandana thrash