cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wallop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒl.əp/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: wallops
form: walloping
form: walloped
form: walloped
Etymology: From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.
Senses: glosses: To rush hastily.
glosses: To flounder, wallow.
examples: text: Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte.
ref: 1579, Laurence Thomson, A wee note on Calvin's (wordy) sermons:
glosses: To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
examples: text: Tony got walloped round the face by Mike.
glosses: To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
examples: text: The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them.
glosses: To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
glosses: To wrap up temporarily.
examples: text: Saluting the far loin of his mare[…]with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop.
ref: 1822, James Hogg, Siege of Roxburgh:
text: The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration.
ref: 1872, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin: Or, The Whale-fisherman, page 208:
glosses: To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
examples: text: St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew.
ref: 1910, Hilaire Belloc, On Something - Volume 10, page 69:
text: A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
ref: 2010, William Routledge, Oh Yes, Oh Yes, We are the PPS:
text: "Huh! Touch o' green was a fig-leaf, I s'pose—hope so, anyhow!" said Mrs. Botlisch, and "wallopped" down another oyster.
ref: 2019, Mary S. Watts, The Tenants: An Episode of the '80s:
glosses: To eat or drink with gusto.
Derived terms: walloper
walloping
wallop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒl.əp/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: wallops
form: walloping
form: walloped
form: walloped
Etymology: Clipping of write to all operators.
Senses: glosses: To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
fang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: făng
ipa: /fæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: fangs
Etymology: From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“canine tooth”, literally “snag-tooth, catch-tooth”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand.
Senses: examples: text: The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123:
glosses: A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
glosses: A long pointed tooth in snakes, for injecting venom.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.
Derived terms: defang
fangalicious
fangaroo
fangblenny
fangboy
fangdom
fanged
fangful
fangfully
fang job
fangless
fanglet
fanglike
fangsmith
fangsome
fangtastic
fangtasy
fangy
unfang
fang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: făng
ipa: /fæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: fangs
form: fanging
form: fanged
form: fanged
Etymology: From an abbreviation of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“canine tooth”, literally “snag-tooth, catch-tooth”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand.
Senses: glosses: To strike or attack with the fangs.
examples: text: chariots fang'd with scythes
ref: 1722, Ambrose Philips, The Briton:
glosses: To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
fang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: făng
ipa: /fæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: fangs
form: fanging
form: fanged
form: fanged
Etymology: From Middle English fangen, fongen, from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).
Cognate with North Frisian fo, fu, füünj (“to get, obtain, receive”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen, fahen (“to catch”), Low German fangen (“to catch”), Luxembourgish fänken (“to catch”), Faroese fá, fáa (“to get; to catch”), Icelandic fá (“to get, receive”), Danish, Norwegian, Swedish få (“to get, receive”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).
Senses: examples: text: Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged.
ref: 1605, John Webster, Northward Ho, act 1, scene 2:
text: Destruction fang mankind.
ref: c. 1605–1606, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3:
synonyms: word: clasp
word: grasp
word: grip
word: clutch
word: lay hold of
word: beclasp
word: begrasp
word: begrip
word: belock
word: clasp
word: clench
word: clinch
word: cling
word: clutch
word: enclasp
word: fang
word: fondle
word: glaum
word: grab
word: grabble
word: grasp
word: grip
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold tight
word: hold
word: nab
word: nim
word: seize
word: stranglehold
word: take
glosses: To catch, capture; seize.
synonyms: word: land
word: lay hands on
word: score
word: acquire
word: accept
word: attain
word: come by
word: cop
word: enlist
word: fang
word: gain
word: garner
word: get
word: get hold of
word: get one's hands on
word: land
word: lay hands on
word: lay hold of
word: obtain
word: procure
word: receive
word: secure
word: score
word: snag
word: take
word: win
word: appropriate
word: bag
word: catch
word: expropriate
word: grab
word: grasp
word: grip
word: help oneself
word: hook
word: impropriate
word: make free with
word: nab
word: nim
word: pocket
word: sack
word: seize
word: take
glosses: To take; receive with assent; accept.
synonyms: greet
welcome
glosses: To receive with hospitality.
raw_tags: as a guest
synonyms: word: cop
word: get
word: acquire
word: accept
word: attain
word: come by
word: cop
word: enlist
word: fang
word: gain
word: garner
word: get
word: get hold of
word: get one's hands on
word: land
word: lay hands on
word: lay hold of
word: obtain
word: procure
word: receive
word: secure
word: score
word: snag
word: take
word: win
qualifier: a thing given or imposed
glosses: To receive.
glosses: To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
Derived terms: befang
fanger
fangle
fire-fang
healsfang
infang
outfangthief
underfang
yesterfang
fang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: făng
ipa: /fæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: fangs
Etymology: From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).
Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).
Senses: glosses: A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
glosses: That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
examples: text: Now take out your Indian Tuberoſes, parting the Off-ſets (but with care, leſt you break their fangs) then pot them in natural (not forc'd) Earth; [...] the protuberant fangs of the Yuca are to be treated like the Tuberoſes.
ref: 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [April.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
topics: business
mining
synonyms: cage-shuts
glosses: Catches on which the coal mining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The coil or bend of a rope; (by extension) a noose; a trap.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The valve of a pump box.
Synonyms: sense: stolen goods
word: booty
Derived terms: fanging
lose the fang
fang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: făng
ipa: /fæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: fangs
form: fanging
form: fanged
form: fanged
Etymology: From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”).
Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).
Senses: glosses: To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.
fang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: făng
ipa: /fæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: fangs
form: fanging
form: fanged
form: fanged
Etymology: The Macquarie Dictionary and the Australian National Dictionary Centre derive it from the name of Juan Fangio, Argentinian racing driver.
Senses: examples: text: Soph was probably out drag-racing with Draz, or fanging down some brightly lit street somewhere hanging out Draz's brother's sunroof and waving at passers-by and screaming.
ref: 2008, Mardi McConnochie, “The Mission”, in Dangerous Games:
text: The question of whether rail might be a better long-term option than road is passed over with the speed of a merchant banker fanging up the toll road to Mount Buller for the weekend[…]
ref: 2014 August 1, Michael West, “Victoria's $1 billion per kilometre road - who wouldn't rail against that?”, in The Age:
text: Batman changed gears and fanged the car a little too fast around a corner, almost skidding onto Elizabeth Street at the back of Redfern.
ref: 2017, Karen M. Davis, Fatal Mistake:
glosses: To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.
Related terms: fang it
mucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: muckers
Etymology: From muck + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Fancy a pint, me old mucker?
glosses: Friend, acquaintance.
examples: text: Go and talk to your mucker!
text: Too fucking late, son. I didn't want my mucker blown into tiny bits.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 246:
glosses: A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.
glosses: A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
glosses: A low or vulgar labourer.
Synonyms: sense: friend
word: friend
Derived terms: go a mucker
hand mucker
muckerish
muckerism
mucker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: muckers
form: muckering
form: muckered
form: muckered
Etymology: From muck + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe.
ref: 1548, William Forrest, Pleasaunt Poesye of Princelie Practise:
glosses: To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
muck in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mucks in
form: mucking in
form: mucked in
form: mucked in
Senses: examples: text: If we all muck in, we can get this room cleaned in next to no time.
glosses: To join in with work.
glosses: To share in.
fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: fens
Etymology: From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”).
See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: marsh, swamp, bog, mire
text: Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity.
ref: 1996, Geological Survey (U.S.), National Water Summary on Wetland Resources, →ISBN, page 214:
text: Bogs are acidic peatlands, while fens are non-acidic peatlands.
ref: 2019 February 19, Sincere Humphrey, Freshwater Microbiology, Scientific e-Resources, →ISBN, page 24:
text: [...] fens are alkaline. In fact, the precise acidity of a fen depends on the soil through which in-seeping waters have percolated. Northeastern fens vary from somewhat acidic to highly basic (Johnson, 1985, p. 27).
ref: 2023 September 26, Rick Cech, Guy Tudor, Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 15:
coordinate_terms: moor#Noun
slough
water meadow
glosses: A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
examples: text: Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
text: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters […]
ref: 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807)
text: In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; …
ref: 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery
text: As the sob of the breeze/Sweeps over the trees/And the mists lie low on the fen...
ref: 1887, “When the Night Wind Howls”, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Arthur Sullivan (music):
text: He was freezing to death in the flat mud of the Suffolk fens, too proud to go home without a catch.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
Derived terms: fenberry
fen cricket
Fen Drayton
fen fire
fen goose
fenland
fenlike
fenman
fen nettle
fen nightingale
Fenning
fennish
fenny
Fenway
fenwoman
Mareham le Fen
Silicon Fen
Related terms: word: bog
word: everglade
word: marsh
word: swamp
alt: vinewed
word: vinnewed
word: wetland
fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: fen
form: fens
Etymology: From Chinese 分 (fēn). Doublet of hoon and fan.
Senses: examples: text: One poster, which appeared on the Barkhor on 20 May, ridiculed the way neighbourhood committees were recruiting participants: “We paid 30 fen for one stone, but you hire people for 30 yuan for the picnic in the Norbulingka” (“30 fen” — one hundred fen is one yuan — is a joking reference to Chinese accusations that Tibetans were paid 30 fen by splittists for each stone thrown on 1 October 1987).
ref: 1994, Ronald David Schwartz, “[Martial Law and After] Symbolic competition”, in Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, published 1996, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.
Senses: examples: text: Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. […] But the Europeans could be counted on to take the long view, and many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.
ref: 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, page 127:
text: So I’m glad the attached hotel block is entirely reserved for disabled fen! Traveling on mass transit is tiring even when everything’s up to code.
ref: 2016 September 3, lurkertype, “Worldcon 75 Chair Responds”, in File 770, Comments:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: a plural of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
Coordinate terms: fenne
Derived terms: acafen
aca-fen
aca/fen
actifen
confen
eofen
fake fen
fakefen
fake-fen
femfen
femme fen
femmefen
fringefen
furfen
litfen
mediafen
neofen
passifen
stfen
Trekfen
trufen
zinefen
fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: fens
Etymology: Clipping of fennec (“a small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.”).
Senses: examples: text: Your fursona holding mine while she's arguing with some random person
Like you're cradling the little fen & she's screaming out threats
ref: 2018 December 30, @FENNERGY, Twitter:
text: I always wondered why foxes go flat-ear mode whenever they are happy or screaming, very cute fen btw
ref: 2022 September 15, “Fem”, in r/foxes, Reddit:
text: Just because an animal doesnt fight when you pet them doesn't mean they like it. If a fen's ears are back like that leave them the fuck alone
ref: 2023 February 11, @alvocet, Twitter:
text: What a little tooty! BTW I really liked your post on information about fens! Thank you for getting more info out there❣️
ref: 2025 January 24, u/Synpharia, “Sleepy Fen says I'm her bed now”, in r/fennecfoxes, Reddit:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fennec fox.
fen
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: Compare fend.
Senses: glosses: Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.
fen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.
Senses: examples: text: […]whereby the ſtagnating ſap corrupts, and breeds mouldy fen, which often ſpoils whole tracts of, till then, flouriſhing hop-grounds.
ref: 1769, The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry, 2nd edition, page 339:
text: Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.
ref: 1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary, Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:
text: The mould, the fen, or the mouldy-fen, prevails more on hop-grounds which are low, moist, and sheltered, than on such as are high, dry, and open[…]
ref: 1848, John Marius Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia, volume 2, A. Fullarton, page 698:
glosses: A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
orc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹk/
ipa: /ɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: ork
homophone: awk
homophone: auk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: orcs
form: ork
Etymology: From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”). Doublet of orca.
Senses: glosses: Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.
orc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹk/
ipa: /ɔːk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
homophone: ork
homophone: awk
homophone: auk (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: orcs
form: ork
Etymology: Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc, which he took to mean "demon". Both are from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre and Orcus.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian орк (ork, “evil monstrous humanoid creature; orc”) or Russian орк (ork), both from the English word and possibly under the influence of Russian у́рка (úrka, “criminal”, prison slang). Popularized in English in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Senses: examples: text: Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.
ref: 1656, Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo, I.1:
text: The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
ref: 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53
text: There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.
ref: 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
hypernyms: greenskin
glosses: A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
examples: text: Ukrainians themselves, including those on the right, preferred to call the events the 'Revolution of Dignity', depicted not in terms of ethnicity or class, but in simple civic black and white – a revolution of the people against Yanukovych's 'Mordor' and his 'Orcs'.
ref: 2015, Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, page 354:
text: And now we must watch the old world go up in flames, in the mad spectacle of Putin’s orcs descending upon Kyiv to execute his macabre plan.
ref: 2022 March 1, Bruno Maçães, “Europe’s Illusion of Peace Has Been Irrevocably Shattered”, in Time:
text: Plenty of Belarusian exiles have gone to Europe, but if you run West, then the Orcs [a Ukrainian slang term for "Russian soldiers"] will just follow you there. It's better to risk your life as a free person than to keep running.
ref: 2022 July 25, Michael Wasiura, “Belarusian Exiles Join Ukrainians in Taking Up Arms Against Russia”, in Newsweek, retrieved 25 Jul 2022:
glosses: A Russian soldier or gangster.
glosses: A Russian person.
Derived terms: half-orc
orcess
orcish
Orcish
orckind
orclike
orcling
she-orc
SMOrc
wereorc
New Orc Times
Orcban
Orcistan
Related terms: ogre
goblin
troll
Nork
fez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Forms: form: fezzes
form: fezes
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish فس (fes) (modern Turkish fes), named after Fez, Morocco, (capital of the Kingdom of Morocco until 1927), where the dye to color the hat was extracted from crimson berries.
Senses: synonyms: tarboosh
glosses: A felt hat in the shape of a truncated cone, having a flat top with a tassel attached.
Derived terms: befezzed
fezless
fezlike
fezzed
half-pint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-pints
Etymology: From half- + pint.
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint.
glosses: A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint.
Half a pint of beer or other drink.
glosses: A small or short person.
glosses: A small child.
pinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pīntʹə
ipa: /ˈpaɪnt.ə/
Forms: form: pintas
Etymology: From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa.
Senses: glosses: A pint of milk.
pinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pīntʹə
ipa: /ˈpaɪnt.ə/
enpr: pĭnʹtə
ipa: /ˈpɪn.tə/
rhymes: -ɪntə
enpr: pīntʹə
ipa: /ˈpaɪnt.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pinta.
Senses: glosses: A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis.
Derived terms: pintid
pinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pīntʹə
ipa: /ˈpaɪnt.ə/
enpr: pĭnʹtə
ipa: /ˈpɪn.tə/
rhymes: -ɪntə
enpr: pēnʹtə
ipa: /ˈpiːn.tə/
rhymes: -ɪntə
enpr: pīntʹə
ipa: /ˈpaɪnt.ə/
enpr: pĭnʹtə
ipa: /ˈpɪn.tə/
rhymes: -ɪntə
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish.
Senses: glosses: prison
pint glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pint glasses
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: beer glass
hypernyms: glass#Noun
<
dish#Noun
glosses: A glass that holds a pint (of beer, etc).
gallon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælən/
rhymes: -ælən
Forms: form: gallons
Etymology: From Middle English gallon, galoun, galun, from Old Northern French galun, galon (“liquid measure”) (compare Old French jalon), from Late Latin galum, galus (“measure of wine”), from Vulgar Latin *galla (“vessel”), possibly from Gaulish *galla, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“goblet”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “cup”), Sanskrit कलश (kalaśa, “jar, pitcher; measure of liquid”). Related to Old French gille (“wine measure”) (from Medieval Latin gillō (“earthenware jar”)), Old French jale (“bowl”), Old French jaloie (“measure of capacity”).
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
glosses: exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
glosses: 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
glosses: one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
examples: text: The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.
glosses: A large quantity (of any liquid).
Derived terms: 10-gallon hat
ale gallon
corn gallon
gallonage
galloner
gasoline-equivalent gallon
gasoline gallon equivalent
kilogallon
megagallon
multigallon
Roman gallon
ten-gallon hat
Winchester gallon
wine gallon
capybara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kapɪˈbɑːɹə/
ipa: /ˌkæpiˈbɛɹə/
ipa: /ˌkæpiˈbɑɹə/
ipa: /ˌkæpiˈbæɹə/
rhymes: -ɑːɹə
Forms: form: capybaras
form: capibara
Etymology: From Spanish capibara, from Portuguese capivara, from Old Tupi kapi'iûara (literally “grass eater”).
Senses: synonyms: water pig
water hog
carpinchoe
cabiai
glosses: A large semi-aquatic South American rodent of the genus Hydrochoerus.
examples: text: “Our fires burned well,” continued Tom, “and we roasted our young capybara to perfection; we only wanted salt and pepper, and an onion or two to make it delicious.[…]"
ref: 1876, William H. G. Kingston, The Three Lieutenants, published 2010, page 430:
text: It was tenanted by the small caymans and by capybaras—the largest known rodent, a huge aquatic guinea-pig, the size of a small sheep.
ref: 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, published 2004, page 53:
text: The largest of all the 1,729 rodent species, the semi-aquatic capybara is extremely agile in the water, using its partly webbed toes like tiny paddles. Troops containing up to 20 animals live along riverbanks where young capybaras are sometimes preyed on by caimans.
ref: 2009, The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife, page 106:
glosses: The greater capybara.
Derived terms: word: bara
word: capy
taxonomic: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris
word: greater capybara
taxonomic: Hydrochoerus isthmius
word: lesser capybara
fine-tooth comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪntuːθ ˈkəʊm/
ipa: /ˌfaɪnˌtuθ ˈkoʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: fine-tooth combs
form: fine-toothed comb
Etymology: The noun is derived from fine (“particularly slender”) + tooth (“sharp projection”) + comb. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The practice of combing the heads of children too frequently with a fine tooth comb is a bad one, as the points of the teeth are quite sure to scratch and irritate the scalp, and are almost sure to produce scurf or dandruff.
ref: 1858, Lola Montez, The Arts of Beauty, Chapter 21:
text: 'Member dat rainy eve dat I drove you out,
Wid nothing but a fine tooth comb?
ref: 1902, Hughie Cannon, “Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?”:
synonyms: toothcomb
glosses: A comb with fine, closely spaced teeth, especially one used for removing head lice and their nits (eggs) from the hair; a nit comb.
examples: text: The police went through his possessions with a fine-tooth comb.
text: If you had to make some verses on the topics of the day,
You would read the morning papers rather fully;
For you’d like to find a theme to make your readers shout: “Hooray!”
And to make your Dear Employer say: “That’s bully!”
You would scan aforesaid journals with a very fine-tooth comb
(With the metaphors I’m something of a mixer.)
For a nifty little subject you could pad into a pome;
And you’d have to be about it pretty quick, sir.
ref: 1912, Franklin P. Adams, Of Course You Would:
synonyms: toothcomb
glosses: A means of making a thorough search.
Derived terms: toothcomb
Related terms: fingertip search
fine-tooth comb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪntuːθ ˈkəʊm/
ipa: /ˌfaɪnˌtuθ ˈkoʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
Forms: form: fine-tooth combs
form: fine-tooth combing
form: fine-tooth combed
form: fine-tooth combed
Etymology: The noun is derived from fine (“particularly slender”) + tooth (“sharp projection”) + comb. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To comb or go through (hair, an animal's fur, etc.) with a comb having fine, closely spaced teeth.
examples: text: "There's one other way of discovering the writer,—find a Rem-Smith typewriter with an alignment imperfect in just this way."
"Yes," said Astro. "We might begin and fine-tooth-comb the city for it.:Template:.."
ref: 1912, Frank Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries, Mrs. Stellery's Letters:
synonyms: comb over
comb through
leave no stone unturned
pore over
scour
turn upside down
glosses: To search (something or somewhere) meticulously.
conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒek.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: conjectures
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject.
Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
glosses: A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
examples: text: The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
glosses: A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
glosses: Interpretation of signs and omens.
Derived terms: abc conjecture
Beal conjecture
Beal's conjecture
Brocard's conjecture
Collatz conjecture
conjecturingly
Cramér's conjecture
Dickson's conjecture
Dixmier conjecture
double bubble conjecture
Elliott-Halberstam conjecture
Fuglede's conjecture
Gilbreath's conjecture
Goldbach's conjecture
Heawood conjecture
Hedetniemi's conjecture
honeycomb conjecture
Ilieff's conjecture
Jacobian conjecture
Keller's conjecture
Langlands conjecture
Legendre's conjecture
Leopoldt's conjecture
Mach's conjecture
metaconjecture
Meyniel's conjecture
misconjecture
Oesterlé-Masser conjecture
Poincaré conjecture
Polignac's conjecture
Pólya's conjecture
Ramanujan conjecture
Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture
Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture
Sendov's conjecture
Singmaster's conjecture
SYZ conjecture
Szpiro's conjecture
Thurston's geometrization conjecture
twin prime conjecture
Zarankiewicz's crossing number conjecture
Related terms: conject
conjectural
conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛk.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒek.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: conjectures
form: conjecturing
form: conjectured
form: conjectured
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin coniectūra (“a guess”), from coniectus, perfect passive participle of cōniciō (“throw or cast together; guess”), from con- (“together”) + iaciō (“throw, hurl”); see jet. Compare adjective, eject, inject, project, reject, subject, object, trajectory, deject, abject, surjection, bijection, interject.
Compare typologically Russian прики́дывать (prikídyvatʹ) (akin to кида́ть (kidátʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
text: What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h.
ref: 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:
glosses: To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
examples: text: February 22, 1685, Robert South, All Contingences under the Direction of God's Providence (sermon preached at Westminster Abbey)
text: "Most likely he who is the shorter of the two;—no! he goes in the first, and is, of course, the eldest; but we have no time for conjecturing now."
Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
Derived terms: conjecturability
conjecturable
misconjecture
unconjectured
homeboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/
Forms: form: homeboys
Etymology: 20th century United States African-American urban slang. Originated from travelers to metropolitan areas derived from American English as a blend of hometown + boy. However, modern use is mostly by African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
Senses: examples: text: When the boy next door; Don't want to be my homeboy no more; Saw something that I never saw before; I think he wants to be my baby
ref: 2004, “Homeboy”, performed by JoJo:
glosses: Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.
glosses: A person.
homeboy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/
Etymology: 20th century United States African-American urban slang. Originated from travelers to metropolitan areas derived from American English as a blend of hometown + boy. However, modern use is mostly by African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.
Senses: examples: text: (1:38) If homeboy’s coming through with these, it’s quiet. Yeah no, it’s quiet for him. But, like, if he comes through with, y’know, these; you got some air maxes out here, you got some Jordans. Homeboy’s gonna, like, get it.
ref: 2017 October 2, Complex (@Complex), YouTube:
text: Homeboy rafikied a peacock with a squeegee.
ref: 2023 February 1, Fiona’s Videos 🎬 (@fiona_videos), Twitter:
text: He's talking about the jumpscare warnings in Dead Space. The ones you can turn off. Homeboy takes gaming way too fucking seriously.
ref: 2023 January 31, IStandWithVic Posting Their L's Online (@ISWV_Losers), Twitter:
text: He hit homeboy in his junk
ref: 2023 January 28, Jovani Vasquez (@JovaniVasquez25), Twitter:
text: Should’ve listen to homeboy
ref: 2023 January 28, LaughTalkTV (@LaughTalkTV), Twitter:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: he or him
Related terms: holmes
homegirl
homey
homie
evanescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛv.əˈnɛs.əns/
Forms: form: evanescences
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ēvānēscentia.
Senses: examples: text: We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful
ref: 1759 September 1, Samuel Johnson, The Idler:
glosses: The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance.
examples: the evanescence of the morning mist.
glosses: The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight.
Related terms: evanesce
ephemeral
pastoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæs.tə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːstə.ɹəl/
enpr: păs"tōr-al
ipa: /ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: more pastoral
form: most pastoral
Etymology: From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:
glosses: Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
examples: text: We were living a pastoral life.
text: […] these pastoral farms, / Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
ref: 1798, Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Lines Above Tintern Abbey, lines 16–18:
text: There was a tone, too, of pastoral poetry shed over the new scenes to which they were just introduced, that had a greater effect from the contrast to those, artificial and crowded, which they had just left.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 219–220:
text: He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.
examples: text: pastoral duties
text: a pastoral letter
text: “In terms of pastoral consequences,” Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who leads the Vatican’s office on doctrine, said in a news conference Monday, “the principle of welcoming all is clear in the words of Pope Francis.”
ref: 2024 April 8, Jason Horowitz, Elisabetta Povoledo, quoting Víctor Manuel Fernández, “Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.
Derived terms: agropastoral
antipastoral
cyberpastoral
neopastoral
nonpastoral
pastoral care
pastoral charge
pastoralise
pastoralism
pastoralist
pastoralize
pastoral letter
pastorally
pastoralness
pastoral staff
pastoral theology
prepastoral
semipastoral
silvipastoral
silvopastoral
unpastoral
Related terms: al pastor
pastoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæs.tə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈpɑːstə.ɹəl/
enpr: păs"tōr-al
ipa: /ˌpæsˈtɔːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: pastorals
Etymology: From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: Ethel was silent from surprise: she had prepared herself for anger—even sorrow; but ridicule left her without an answer. What could she say to a hearer, who only smiled, and to whom emotion was only a scene in a pastoral?
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
slut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
ipa: /slʊt/
ipa: /ˈsɫɐt/
Forms: form: sluts
form: slutting
form: slutted
form: slutted
form: s**t
Etymology: From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet.
Senses: examples: text: In an effort to avoid any spontaneous slutting out, I give myself a stern look in the mirror. "You can make out with him, but that's it," I tell my boy-crazed reflection.
ref: 2009, Shauna Cross, Whip It, →ISBN:
glosses: To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner.
examples: text: Shirley, you slut around here again, and I swear to God I'll break your neck.
ref: 1998, David Baldacci, The Winner:
text: The radicals are reluctant to admit that slutting around is a phase that most gay men go through, but not a permanent — what's that phrase? Oh, yes — "lifestyle choice."
ref: 2001 January, Dan Savage, “Sluts Like Us”, in Out, volume 9, number 7, page 37:
glosses: To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.
raw_tags: with around
Synonyms: sense: behave in a slutty manner
word: harlotize
sense: visit places frequented by men
word: cruise
sense: visit places frequented by men
word: troll
Related terms: bitch
herd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːd/
ipa: /hɜɹd/
homophone: heard
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: herds
Etymology: From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Senses: examples: text: a herd of cattle
text: a herd of sheep
text: a herd of goats
text: The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
ref: 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
glosses: A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
examples: text: Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
ref: 2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47:
text: Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.
ref: 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
glosses: Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
examples: text: I was never one to follow the herd.
text: But far more numerous was the Herd of ſuch, / Who think too little, and who talk too much.
ref: 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC, page 15:
text: You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
ref: 1833 June 8, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk:
text: There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
Hyponyms: sense: group of elephants
word: parade
Derived terms: beeherd
bot herd
flerd
herd behaviour
herd boar
herdbook
herdboy
herd cats
herdess
herdful
herdgroom
herd immunity
herd instinct
herdless
herdlike
herdman
herd mentality
herdowner
herd path
herdsboy
herdswoman
herdthink
herdwide
interherd
intraherd
put the herd on someone
share-herd
share herd
subherd
thin the herd
thundering herd
thundering herd problem
herd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːd/
ipa: /hɜɹd/
homophone: heard
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: herds
form: herding
form: herded
form: herded
Etymology: From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Senses: examples: text: Sheep herd on many hills.
text: The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.
ref: 1953, Janice Holt Giles, The Kentuckians:
text: Any predator that preys on animals that herd or school, has to be able to single out one individual to attack.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
glosses: To unite or associate in a herd
examples: text: He is employed to herd the goats.
synonyms: wrangle
glosses: To manage, care for or guard a herd
examples: text: I’ll herd among his Friends, and ſeem
One of the Number, […]
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, pages 39–40:
text: "[W]hy, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
examples: text: On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.
glosses: To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
Derived terms: herdable
herd together
misherd
unherded