cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bimeby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "You'll be wantin' to get married bimeby, and then it'll be convenient to have some money to begin with."
ref: 1874, Horatio Alger, Jr., Risen from the Ranks:
text: "Oh, I's middlin'; hain't got noth'n' to complain of, I's gwine to come a-court'n you bimeby, Roxy."
ref: 1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson:
text: And bimeby I'll come home, bringin' loads of gold and di'mon' rings; My, won't all the boys be jealous when they see those kind of things! '
ref: 1902, Joseph C. Lincoln, Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse:
text: "That'll give the blank, blank, blank of a blank some idea of the fun we'll have watching him squirm bimeby!"
ref: 1927, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in Elmer Gantry:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of by and by.
clost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Senses: examples: text: Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful.
ref: 1904, Rex Beach, Pardners:
text: "It won't get clost to there," put in Jack.
ref: 1910, Stewart Edward White, The Rules of the Game:
text: Don't waste no powder--let 'em come up clost as they will.
ref: 1922, Emerson Hough, The Covered Wagon:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of close.
carpentering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carpenter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Frequently, at one and the same time, you see every trade in operation on the gun-deck--coopering, carpentering, tailoring, tinkering, blacksmithing, rope-making, preaching, gambling, and fortune-telling.
ref: 1892, Herman Melville, White Jacket:
text: I always had a fancy for carpentering, and was handy with tools.
ref: 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates:
text: Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts [...]
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: Sixteen years after he started Lumpen in Champaign, Marszewski is supporting his empire by carpentering, designing Web sites, and working at his mother's Bridgeport bar.
ref: 2007 January 26, Deanna Isaacs, “Have Your Rebellion and Deduct It Too”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Carpentry.
carpentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From carpenter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of carpenter
chokingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chokingly
form: most chokingly
Etymology: From choking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Quirr, quirr! her hot head buzzed, and her dry mouth opened chokingly, and she called him till she was dumb, till she could neither hear nor see.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:
text: Ye say I played checkers with him--and--" "Uncle Pros, you used to talk to him by the hour, when you didn't know me at all," Johnnie told him chokingly.
ref: 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
text: In a number of paintings Hatch imposes totemic animals--lizards, dinosaurs, lions--in unexpected places: as decorative pins, unwieldy ties, chokingly large necklaces.
ref: 1992 May 15, Effie Mihopoulos, “Silent Messengers”, in Chicago Reader:
text: His fiction, which has only recently been appearing here, can be stylistically elusive, but in essence it is chokingly direct.
ref: 2007 April 12, Richard Eder, “A Line Divides Art and Life. Erase It at Your Own Risk.”, in New York Times:
glosses: While or as if choking, or in such a way as to cause one to choke.
Related terms: chokily
cavilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cavil
cavilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cavil
cavilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavillings
Senses: examples: text: God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school.
ref: 1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis, page iii:
glosses: cavillation
Istriot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Istria + -iot.
Senses: glosses: A Romance language spoken in western Istria.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Istriot terms
Istriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Istriots
Etymology: From Istria + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Any of the people of Istria who speak this language.
desmo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “band, connection”).
Senses: glosses: bond, connection, ligament
contrarieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Emily sat in the window, sometimes pondering on objects without, and then on those within, when Lorraine's entrance interrupted a very profound meditation on the strange contrarieties of love affairs in this world.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 324:
glosses: plural of contrariety
glosses: plural of contrarietie
coquetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coquetry
disrelish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/
Etymology: From dis- + relish.
Senses: examples: text: Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.
ref: 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, volume I:
text: The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.
ref: 1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea:
text: Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
ref: 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs:
text: […] that those eyes may glow
With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene II, verses 40-42:
text: "I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian.
ref: 1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo:
text: They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 685:
glosses: A lack of relish: distaste
examples: text: [T]hey fonldy thinking to allay / Thir appetite with guſt, inſtead of Fruit / Chewd bitter Aſhes, which th'offended taſte / With ſpattering noiſe rejected: oft they aſſayd, / Hunger and thrift conſtraining, drugd as oft, / With hatefulleſt diſreliſh writh'd thir jaws / With ſoot and cinders fill'd [...]
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 268:
glosses: Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
disrelish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/
Forms: form: disrelishes
form: disrelishing
form: disrelished
form: disrelished
Etymology: From dis- + relish.
Senses: examples: September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished
glosses: To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
examples: text: And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd / For dinner favourie fruits, of taſte to pleaſe / True appetite, and not diſreliſh thirſt
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
ecstacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecstacy
betther
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbɛt̪ɚ]
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈbet.t̪͆əɹ/
Senses: examples: text: "Will you, thin?" demanded Pat. "Thin the sooner you do it the betther.
ref: 1872, Horatio Alger, Jr., Phil, The Fiddler:
text: An' whin ye've been at it an hour ye'll find it goes betther wid a little blasphemin';" and he gave his end of the saw to the reluctant Potts.
ref: 1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North:
text: "'Tis the soldiers have betther treatment than the officers whin it comes to boardin' transports," said the friendly policeman.
ref: 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Come, gintlemen, show them what’s betther than fifty posts—
ref: 1892, William Carleton, Amusing Irish Tales:
qualifier: imitating Irish accent
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of better.
cabined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cabin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment.
ref: 1906, Herbert M. Hopkins, The Mayor of Warwick:
text: They feel themselves in a state of thraldom; they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man, or some body of men, dependent on their mercy.
ref: 1920, Clarence Stratton, Public Speaking:
text: Then, if there comes a click in his internal time-clock, he may set out upon another quest--more cabined, cribbed, and confined than any member of a Cook's tourist party.
ref: 1921, William Beebe, Edge of the Jungle:
glosses: Confined at close quarters
glosses: Circumscribed; restricted; having a narrow scope
Derived terms: uncabined
cabined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cabin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cabin
creetur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹi.təɹ/
Forms: form: creeturs
Senses: examples: text: "Ah, poor young creetur," croaked the old woman; "it's a pity he's come to this."
ref: 1872, T.P. Wilson, Frank Oldfield:
text: "Stop there by himself, poor creetur, without nobody to take his part!
ref: 1897, Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds., The World's Greatest Books, Vol III:
text: "She were gentle, an' sweet, an' the mos' beautiful creetur in all--in--in the place where we lived.
ref: 1908, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville:
glosses: Alternative form of creature.
creeturs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creetur
daies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daie
cunningest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the Commonwealth.
ref: 1858, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858:
text: The cunningest hunter is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other.
ref: 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:
text: They are the cunningest little ears you've ever saw.
ref: 1912, Kate Langley Bosher, The Man in Lonely Land:
glosses: superlative form of cunning: most cunning
daie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daies
Senses: examples: text: O graunt sweet God my daies may end with hers, That I with her may dye and live againe.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
text: Go downe and see; pray God my man keep close; If he prove long-tongd then my daies are done.
ref: 1601, Robert Yarington, “Two Lamentable Tragedies”, in A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of day.
depredator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depredators
Etymology: From depredate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of his apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 61:
text: Orders were now given to fire on all depredators, royal or plebeian; and after a few shots had been discharged without producing any fatal effects, the thieves hid themselves amongst the rocks, and were merely seen peeping through the crevices.
ref: 1836, Robert Huish, Lander’s Travels:
text: The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The ‘Norah Creina’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, pages 191–192:
glosses: One who depredates, or commits depredation.
depredators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depredator
dessay
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I've nothing partickler against him--he's steady enough, I dessay.
ref: 1884, F. Anstey, The Giant's Robe:
text: "I dessay they're sent for some wise purpose," said Mr. Coombes.
ref: 1896, H. G. Wells, The Purple Pileus:
text: Emma resumed an air of prudery, 'Before very long, I dessay.'
ref: 1906, George Gissing, The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories:
text: "Not exactly wot you could call nasty," ses Mr. Goodman, "though I dessay it would seem so to you.
ref: 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Peter's Pence:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of daresay.
durned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Take the durned thing away.
ref: 1912, Kate Langley Bosher, The Man in Lonely Land:
text: I liked your nerve, too, durned if I didn't!"
ref: 1916, Fannie Hurst, Every Soul Hath Its Song:
text: All four are hoping to enjoy some quiet time at the women's bass fishing tournament, but durned if wimpy Talmadge and grumpy Mel don't tag along and upset everything.
ref: 1995 April 28, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Zara Spook and Other Lures”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Darned.
Related terms: durnedest
durndest
elegances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elegance
eulogiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulogium
discomposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discompose
discomposing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discomposing
form: most discomposing
Senses: examples: text: […] a death which overtook one galloping frantically over a desert was wholly irregular and discomposing.
ref: 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tragedy of The Korosko:
text: By that time the fellow had managed to tug and jerk his hat clear of his head, and advanced with slight bows at Ruthvel, who told me the sight was so discomposing that for some time he listened, quite unable to make out what that apparition wanted.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 5, in Lord Jim:
text: The prospect was discomposing.
ref: 1900, George MacDonald, Paul Faber, Surgeon:
text: The news has had a decidedly discomposing effect already.
ref: 1917, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152. January 17, 1917:
glosses: Unsettling; tending to discompose
Derived terms: discomposingly
discomposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discompose
fopperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foppery
forebore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Jasper was walking about among them alone, but I forebore to join him.
ref: 1889, Henry James, A London Life and Other Tales:
text: With this she threw herself, sobbing, upon a sofa, and Louise and Beth, shocked to learn that after all their cousin had conspired against them, forebore any attempt to comfort her.
ref: 1906, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces:
text: Out of pity she forebore, and he went on.
ref: 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden:
text: The advent of the mobile phone gradually wore that addiction down to the point that I forebore to have a landline number activated every time I moved adresses^([sic]) or rented another flat.
ref: 2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2015:
glosses: simple past and past participle of forebear
fightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fighting
fetich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetiches
Senses: examples: text: In intimate circles I am called my aunt's fetich, which makes her very angry.
ref: 1893, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma:
text: We've made a perfect fetich of loyalty.
ref: 1911, Susan Glaspell, The Visioning:
text: The one thing that no democrat may assume is that the people are dear good souls, fully competent for their task. The most valuable leaders never assume that. No one, for example, would accuse Karl Marx of disloyalty to workingmen. Yet in 1850 he could write at the demagogues among his friends: “While we draw the attention of the German workman to the undeveloped state of the proletariat in Germany, you flatter the national spirit and the guild prejudices of the German artisans in the grossest manner, a method of procedure without doubt the more popular of the two. Just as the democrats made a sort of fetich of the words, ‘the people,’ so you make one of the word ‘proletariat.’” John Spargo quotes this statement in his “Life.” Marx, we are told, could use phrases like “democratic miasma.” He never seems to have made the mistake of confusing democracy with demolatry.
ref: 1913: Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Politics, pages page 152 (2008 publication)
text: However, I am not prone to sensitiveness, and the following of a sense of duty, wherever it may lead, has always been a kind of fetich with me throughout my life; which may account for the honors bestowed upon me by three republics and the decorations and friendships of an old and powerful emperor and several lesser kings, in whose service my sword has been red many a time.
ref: 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “On the Arizona Hills”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 6:
text: Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6):
glosses: Dated form of fetish.
Derived terms: fetichism
fetichist
fetichize
foine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: foiner
form: foinest
Senses: examples: text: Now you've got her, foine and dandy."
ref: 1919, Grace S. Richmond, The Brown Study:
text: Ye see, Pat Callahan gave me three foine Leghorns, an'--" "Never mind the Leghorns.
ref: 1911, Chester K. Steele, The Mansion of Mystery:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fine.
foller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follers
form: follering
form: follered
form: follered
Senses: examples: text: They got on a bus, and as Sam was about to foller Ginger and Peter on top, Mr. Goodman took hold of 'im by the arm and said they'd go inside.
ref: 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Peter's Pence:
text: The widder, pore soul, suspicioning trouble, follered Jake, and found him with a bullet plumb through his heart.
ref: 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:
text: The minute he was out of sight I follered him, but when it come into view, him and Gaspar was high-tailing through the hills.
ref: 1924, Max Brand, The Rangeland Avenger:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of follow.
follers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foller
follering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foller
follered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foller
fetiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetich
glosses: plural of fetiche
extry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Lord," he said, "it being Thanksgiving, I do hereby give Thee a few extry thanks."
ref: 1904, Robert W. Chambers, A Young Man in a Hurry:
text: The crackers come extry, Mr. Merrick," said the landlady, "but seein' as milk's cheap I thought you might like 'em."
ref: 1912, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation:
text: 'Very thoughtful of 'ee, only 'twas not necessary, for we had just laid in an extry stock of eatables and drinkables in preparation for the coming event.'
ref: 1913, Thomas Hardy, A Changed Man:
text: "Ye'll give me an extry spoonful."
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: extra
Related terms: wuxtry
fadeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fade + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Stranger! new flowers in our vales are seen,
With a dazzling eye, and a fadeless green,—
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, The Stranger's Flower, page 197:
text: Palms of vict'ry thou shall bear, / And a crown of fadeless light / Will be given thee to wear, / And a robe of spotless white.
ref: 1887, Various, The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland:
text: That look is the fadeless, ever infantile immortality within.
ref: 1892, Herman Melville, White Jacket:
text: […] And beyond the radiant walls of living stones / They dreamed vast meadows and hills of fadeless green.
ref: 1910, Helen Keller, The Song of the Stone Wall:
glosses: Not fading; eternal
Derived terms: fadelessly
fadelessness
faithfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faithfuller
form: more faithfull
form: faithfullest
form: most faithfull
Senses: examples: text: Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture, where it appeareth that the faithfull haue leaped and daunsed: they thinke verily that they haue founde the beane in the cake, as though this were a proper couerture & cloke to couer the infection and filthines of their daunces.
ref: 1581, anonymous author, A Treatise Of Daunses:
text: NAVARRE. It is enough if that Navarre may be Esteemed faithfull to the King of France: Whose service he may still commaund to death.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
text: Thy faithfull and unwearied servant SAMUEL HARTLIB.
ref: 1650, John Dury, The Reformed Librarie-Keeper:
glosses: Archaic spelling of faithful.
floweret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerets
form: flowerette
form: flow'ret
Etymology: From Middle English flourette, from Old French florete. By surface analysis, flower + -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.
Senses: examples: text: No more ſhall trenching Warre channell her fields, / Nor bruiſe her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 46, column 1:
text: And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!
ref: 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828):
text: Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.
ref: 1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879:
text: The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.
ref: 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
glosses: A floret, or small or component flower
flowerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floweret
firelit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fire + lit.
Senses: examples: text: We took a few puffs, he watching the fire, and I his firelit face.
ref: 1897, E. W. Hornung, Dead Men Tell No Tales:
text: Shall I make a gentle song Here in my firelit study, When outside the winds blow strong And the lanes are muddy?
ref: 1918, Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers:
text: The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.
ref: 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
glosses: Illuminated by a fire
findest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English findest, from Old English findest, findst, fintst, finst, from Proto-Germanic *finþizi, equivalent to find + -est.
Senses: examples: text: The drop which thou shakest from thy wet hand, rests not where it falls, but to-morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North-wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:
text: Remember, that as thou findest favor with the council, thine own fate will be decided."
ref: 1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo:
text: Seek and what thou findest that is thine, take with thee.
ref: 1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of find
finde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [F] The other argument drawen from a mistaken experience, is but the more particular probation of this generall, because it is alleaged to be found true by proofe, that by the taking of Tobacco diuers and very many doe finde themselves cured of diuers diseases as on the other part, no man euer receiued harme thereby.
ref: 1604, King James I, A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco:
text: Which Sea, though it will yeeld good plenty of such like presidents, and we may finde them in authenticall records of Histories, yet I content my selfe with this one.
ref: 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:
text: Strange things are told of this vessel, and he concludes his letter with this position, "I only affirm that the perfection of sayling lies in my principle, finde it out who can."
ref: 1663, Samuel Pepys, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Archaic spelling of find.
discrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discrowns
form: discrowning
form: discrowned
form: discrowned
Etymology: From dis- + crown.
Senses: examples: text: He discrowned, in rapid succession, one after another of the United States' most, accomplished and admirable commanders.
ref: 1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee:
text: "Never attempt to discrown the king."
ref: 1897, Hezekiah Butterworth, True to His Home:
text: Not, even indirectly, the discrowned Turk, for if he were not banned by his crimes he would still be doomed by his incapacity.
ref: 1917, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Turkey= A Past and a Future:
glosses: To remove the crown from; thus, to deprive of royal status.
Synonyms: decrown
dethrone
uncrown
discrowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discrown
discrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discrown
discrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discrown
fergit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I never seed sich a' out-an'-out onry-lookin' chap, and I'll never fergit the first time I set eyes on him.
ref: 1895, James Whitcomb Riley, Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury:
text: Doggone it, I'll never fergit that feller who got my pockit-book out to Central Park that time.
ref: 1907, George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow:
text: I could not fergit the sting of the words he had spoken to me.
ref: 1908, R. Henry Mainer, Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of forget.
feastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feasting
fashionables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fashionable
druv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɹʌv/
Senses: examples: text: I done druv him off wunst.
ref: 1886, Frank Richard Stockton, The Late Mrs. Null:
text: "'She's druv him crazy,' a man shouted.
ref: 1903, Irving Bacheller, Darrel of the Blessed Isles:
text: "Well, I expect that little creetur hain't druv herself?"
ref: 1907, Elizabeth Wetherell, Melbourne House:
glosses: past participle of drive
drawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He was the cruellest, wickedest, out-and-outerest old flint that ever drawed breath.'
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
text: I jest bounced intew the kitchen, chucked my hat intew one corner, my coat intew 'nother, kicked the cat, cussed the fire, drawed up a chair, and set scaoulin' like sixty, bein' tew mad fer talkin'.
ref: 1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:
text: He was watchin' of you close, he said, an' just couldn't follow your hand when you drawed.
ref: 1915, Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger:
glosses: simple past and past participle of draw
distressfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distressfully
form: most distressfully
Etymology: From distressful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [4] And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow.
ref: 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers”, in Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson:
text: Oh, I don't understand you at all," Lydia said distressfully.
ref: 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
text: "Perhaps an hour and a half passed, quietly, except when, once in a way, the dogs would whine distressfully.
ref: 1912, William Hope Hodgson, Carnacki, The Ghost Finder:
text: "I know it is," she sighed, distressfully re-reading it.
ref: 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “The Evil that Men do-”, in Encounters, page 171:
glosses: In a distressful way; showing distress
Related terms: distressingly
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːt
Senses: examples: text: "Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad."
ref: 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows:
glosses: Doubt.
examples: text: Andrew knew that Geordie would not have had a smoke for a long time, and this was his way of leaving him with a pipeful of tobacco.
"I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty."
Andrew took down the pipe, filled it generously […]
ref: 1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld:
glosses: Think.
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːt
Forms: form: doots
Senses: examples: text: No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!"
ref: 1917, John Hay Beith, All In It: K(1) Carries On:
glosses: Doubt.
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːt
Forms: form: doots
form: dooting
form: dooted
form: dooted
form: dood
Etymology: By onomatopoeia, from Cantonese 嘟 (dut¹).
Senses: examples: text: Macau and Shenzhen will soon accept Octopus cards ...it'll be convenient at Lowu, but it won't quite be the same to 'doot' your card at the Lisboa's craps table.
ref: 2006 July 6, Andrew Sun, “Thursday Think Tank”, in South China Morning Post:
text: I had dragged myself to one of those exclusive vending machines (1/F, Windsor House); I dooted my Octopus card; I waited with anticipation; and then I finally dove in with faith.
ref: 2009 September 17, “Always Coca Cola...”, in South China Morning Post:
glosses: To tap (a smart card etc.).
examples: text: I'd like to work as a cashier in a supermarket. It has been my dream since childhood to "doot" things.
ref: 2015 May 22, “What is your ideal summer job?”, in SCMP Young Post:
text: On no more doot doot day...
Record temperature with a record time on a dootless day: 14C in water for 500 butt using 15m54s on this special day with a little bit more freedom than one day before.
ref: 2022 December 14, Robert Chung, Twitter:
glosses: To scan.
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːt
Forms: form: doots
form: dood
Etymology: By onomatopoeia, from Cantonese 嘟 (dut¹).
Senses: examples: text: In a landmark deal between Octopus Cards and the Hong Kong Council of Social Services, up to 30 charities could be giving you a doot as well as a thank you when you shell out to help the needy.
ref: 2011 September 29, “Octopus expands into worthy causes”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2021:
text: This card is used for almost all forms of public transportation in Hong Kong, and is also accepted is basically any major chain store, restaurant, fast food chain, etc. Just tap the card/your wallet to the reader, and wait for the doot sound, at which point it will flash your remaining balance on the screen.
ref: 2015 June 16, u/themdreamers, r/Hong Kong:
text: No, mine is the sort of green card that says “Deet!” instead of “Doot!” when I press it on the Octopus card reader on the bus. It then reduces my fare to HK$2.
ref: 2017 March 1, “Let’s stop thinking of 65 as the benchmark age of retirement”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2017:
glosses: Beep (electronically-produced tone).
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːt
Forms: form: doots
Etymology: By onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: A vote.
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːt
Forms: form: doots
form: dooting
form: dooted
form: dooted
Etymology: By onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: To vote.
doot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːt
Forms: form: doots
Senses: glosses: Vagina, vulva.
dooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dooties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doody (“excrement”).
examples: text: Glad to see you back at the post of dooty.
ref: 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861:
text: When we gets back to the old Laughing Lass, then we drops back into our dooty again all right and proper.
ref: 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery:
text: It's your dooty to do just as she tells you, and you'll do right.
ref: 1910, Horatio Alger, Jr., Jack's Ward:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of duty.
drownded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drown
drownding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drownd
drownd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drownds
form: drownding
form: drownded
form: drownded
Senses: examples: text: By which the little brookes forsooke their boundes,
And water all the passages so drownds […]
ref: 1831, John Nichols, Accounts of Sixty Royal Processions and Entertainments in the City of London:
text: "I know now!" exclaimed Tom; "somebody's drownded!"
ref: 1876, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
text: "Next time yous come along we'll have had a drop o' rain, an' then you can drownd yourselfs if you want to," said the stationmaster.
ref: 1922, M. Leonora Eyles, Captivity:
glosses: To drown.
Derived terms: drownder
drownd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 5:
text: God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found, As if the world were in deep waters drownd.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:
glosses: Archaic spelling of drowned.
crost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Forms: form: crosts
Senses: examples: text: Them claims marked with a crost belongs to th' Company.
ref: 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cross.
crost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒst
Senses: examples: text: […] I did espie Where towards me a sory wight did cost*, Clad all in black, that mourning did bewray, And Iacob staffe in hand devoutly crost, Like to some pilgrim come from farre away.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cross
deucedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuːsɪdli/
ipa: /ˈdusɪdli/
Etymology: From deuced + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "You know, Kaspar," said he, in conclusion, to the excited Almayer, "it is deucedly awkward to have a half-caste girl in the house.
ref: 1895, Joseph Conrad, Almayer's Folly:
text: Then you load them deucedly badly,' said Lord Wellington.
ref: 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard:
text: Now I come to think of it, the case grows deucedly clear.
ref: 1904, Edith Ferguson Black, A Beautiful Possibility:
text: "Look above your head, Roger. Deucedly interesting, isn't it?" "Those insects, do you mean?"
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 154:
text: “My dearest Nadja, you must be deucedly cross with me for my subterfuge. But you have Gizmo at your side, if he has not expired or drowned in his own filth during the transatlantic crossing.”
ref: 2021 October 28, Sam Johnson & Stefani Robinson & Paul Simms & Lauren Wells, “The Portrait” (24:50 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 10, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
qualifier: degree
glosses: Quite; extremely; utterly.
Synonyms: awfully
cussedly
damnably
deuced
rather
developement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: developements
Senses: examples: text: Gentlemen, the complete developement of this business, however, now approached.
ref: 1814, William Brodie Gurney, The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane,:
text: When I mingled with other families, I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the developement of filial love.
ref: 1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, chapter II, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: "Pray, Mr. Truck," inquired S. R. P., "is it commonly thought in the English literary circles, that Byron was a developement of Shakspeare, or Shakspeare a shadowing forth of Byron?"
ref: 1838, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter VI, in Home as Found. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Isaac] Lea & Blanchard, successors to [Henry Charles] Carey & Co., →OCLC, page 107:
text: At the close of the second act, the Viennese Dancers tripped upon the stage—These, as you know, are twenty or thirty children, apparently from five years old to ten, who dress and dance like full-grown dancing girls and produce astonishing effects by their well drilled combinations—They are curiosities, if it were only for the robust developement of their little bodies.
ref: 1845 July 3, N[athaniel] P[arker] Willis, “From the New York Mirror. Willis’s Letters from London. […]”, in Rutland Herald, volume 51, number 33, Rutland, Vt., published 14 August 1845, front page, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of development.
doat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doats
form: doating
form: doated
form: doated
Senses: examples: text: Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.
ref: 1676, Aphra Behn, “The Town-Fop”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:
text: I took any means to get access to you. O speak to me, Sophia! comfort my bleeding heart. Sure no one ever loved, ever doated like me.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: --And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear the scorn that's in her e'e?
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in Spring”, in Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
text: “Is not she looking well?” said he, turning his eyes towards Jane. “Better than she ever used to do?—You see how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.”
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 346:
text: We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements^([sic]).
ref: 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Coleridge”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dote.
didna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdnə/
Forms: form: didnae
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots didna.
Senses: examples: text: And he gi'ed him anither shake--then, laying haud of his nose, he swore that he would pu't as lang as a cow's tail, if he didna that instant restore him his lost property.
ref: 1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,:
text: Don't ye remember I wore it to the picnic? an' then it didna suit, an' I put it back in the box.
ref: 1888, Helen Hunt Jackson, Between Whiles:
text: When I said that a man's name was on a bullet, I didna mean that it was written there."
ref: 1917, John Hay Beith, All In It: K(1) Carries On:
glosses: did not
dinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dint
dinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dint
cosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosey
form: most cosey
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Pickwick expressed the pleasure it would afford him to meet the medical fellows; and Mr. Bob Sawyer had informed him that he meant to be very cosey, and that his friend Ben was to be one of the party, they shook hands and separated
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “How the Pickwickians Made and Cultivated the Acquaintance of a Couple of Nice Young Men Belonging to One of the Liberal Professions; […]”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 315:
text: The old ladies had cosey times together.
ref: 1861, Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl:
text: It was dry and cosey.
ref: 1905, Jack London, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Preferable is the cosey English walled villa of the middle class, even though it be a bit stuffy and suggestive of earwigs.
ref: 1906, Mabel Osgood Wright, The Garden, You, and I:
glosses: Archaic spelling of cosy.
cosey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coseys
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of cosy.
consumedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consumedly
form: most consumedly
Etymology: From consumed + -ly. In the sense "extremely", perhaps influenced by confoundedly and/or consummately.
Senses: examples: text: They give every token of hating their neighbors consumedly; argal, they are going to be madly enamored of them.
ref: 1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860:
text: The men took it as a huge joke, and at every pause laughed consumedly.
ref: 1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints:
text: And so, we are proud--yes! we are consumedly proud, and we know that we have earned the right to be proud.
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
glosses: In a way that entirely consumes one
examples: text: These border rascals are apt to be restless in the dark hours, and their knives prick most consumedly sharp!
ref: 1900, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Red Axe:
glosses: deucedly; extremely
consarned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "If Mr. Woods has gone into the hands of the Injins, in his church shirt," rejoined the overseer, "his case is hopeless, so far as captivity is consarned."
ref: 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte:
glosses: simple past and past participle of consarn
consarned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I believe you are one of them consarned student fellers."
ref: 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell at Yale:
glosses: darn; pestilent
consarned
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It looks consarned strange, that's what I say!
ref: 1902, James A. Braden, Far Past the Frontier:
glosses: darned; quite
consarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consarns
Senses: examples: text: Howsever, sir, that is a subject that need give us no consarn.
ref: 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of concern.
consarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consarns
form: consarning
form: consarned
form: consarned
Senses: examples: text: There isn't no place," said Phoebe, "where there isn't somethin' that Miss Panney wants to consarn herself in."
ref: 1898, Frank Richard Stockton, The Girl at Cobhurst:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of concern.
consarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consarned
Etymology: Alteration of confound.
Senses: examples: text: Consarn it, Jarius, you are a hog, and no mistake.
ref: 1870, George Melville Baker, Little brown jug, page 17:
text: Consarn ye, take thet ! " And he banged each of the inoffensive animals in the sides with the stock of his gun
ref: 1898, Edward Stratemeyer, The minute boys of Lexington, page 33:
text: "Leggo my whiskers, consarn ye!" it shouted.
ref: 1913, Janet Aldridge, The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas:
text: He came to camp follerin' this cat and a holloring, 'Here kitty-kitty-kitty' all over the consarned place.
ref: 2004, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, page 128:
text: Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps.
ref: 2008, George Barr McCutcheon, The Daughter of Anderson Crow, page 257:
glosses: Confound.
raw_tags: as imperative
in oaths
confest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛst
Senses: examples: text: […] I wish it may not displease others; for, I have confest there are many defects in it.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:
text: What though her face confest a darker shade?
ref: 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
text: Oh! bold Fighting Attie, the knowing, the natty, By us all it must sure be confest, Though your shoppers and snobbers are pretty good robbers, A soldier is always the best.
ref: 1840, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: simple past and past participle of confess
Derived terms: confestly
carpetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carpet + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: rugless
text: Presently a sudden silence fell upon the grumbling audience, and everybody's eyes sought a single point--the wide, empty, carpetless stage.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi, Part 9:
text: The little bare feet made no noise on the carpetless floor.
ref: 1898, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Giant Scissors:
text: His parlor was dingy and carpetless; one could smell distinctly there the vow of poverty.
ref: 1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
synonyms: uncarpeted
glosses: Not carpeted.
Derived terms: carpetlessness