cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
humanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/
Forms: form: humanizes
form: humanizing
form: humanized
form: humanized
form: humanise
Etymology: From human + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: VVas it the buſineſs of magic to humanize our natures with compaſſion, forgiveneſs, and all the inſtances of the moſt extenſive charity?
ref: a. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, “Section II. The Power and Wisdom of God in the Creation.”, in The Evidences of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], published 1730, →OCLC, subsection IV, page 16:
text: A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
 ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter V, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To make human; to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.
examples: text: I think they would try to humanize the worst villains in history out of their fear that the audience might not like the central character.
ref: 2000, Robert J. Emery, The directors: in their own words, volume 2, page 267:
text: The Oscar-winning film The Iron Lady humanised Thatcher.
ref: 2012 January 9, “Margaret Thatcher: Let's hear it for the Iron Lady, comedy's greatest straight man”, in The Independent:
text: Like the three ceremonial functions based on the Constitutions, these informal chief of state activities emphasize the president's role as the leader of the nation, but many of them also serve to humanize the president and symbolically bridge the gap between the president and the people.
ref: 2012, CQ Press, The Powers of the Presidency, pages 40–41:
text: We can also expect the company to continue to humanize data in creative ways like it did when it used its vast amounts of data to launch a global ad campaign that highlighted some of the more bizarre user habits of 2016.
ref: 2017 October 30, Bernard Marr, “The Amazing Ways Spotify Uses Big Data, AI And Machine Learning To Drive Business Success”, in Forbes:
glosses: To make sympathetic or relatable.
examples: text: to humanize vaccine lymph
text: humanized monoclonal antibodies
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To convert into something human or belonging to humans.
Derived terms: humanizable
humanization
humanizer
overhumanize
rehumanize
unhumanize
humanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/
ipa: /hjuːˈmeɪn.aɪz/
ipa: /ˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/
Forms: form: humanizes
form: humanizing
form: humanized
form: humanized
form: humanise
Etymology: From humane + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In China, as in India, Buddhism humanized the government and the people. It was a Chinese Emperor, Ming-Ti (a.d. 58-76), converted to Buddhism that abolished the penalty of death.
ref: 1932, Mariadas Ruthnaswamy, The making of the state, page 102:
text: And consequently he humanized the company. He instituted excellent employee benefits.
ref: 1974, Al Parsons, Lightning in the Sun: A History of Florida Power Corporation, 1899-1974, page 154:
text: Some leftists believed that Cardenas humanized the government and harmonized its workings with the needs of the common people at the same time that peasant and worker activists placed demands on the political system.
ref: 1995, John A. Britton, Revolution and Ideology: Images of the Mexican Revolution in the United States, page 145:
glosses: To make humane.
glosses: To become humane or civilized.
humanizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humanizers
form: humaniser
Etymology: From humanize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who humanizes.
humanizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humanizer
humbleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humblenesses
form: humblenesse
Etymology: From Middle English humblenesse; equivalent to humble + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Modesty, humility; the property of being humble.
hurtfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurtfulnesses
Etymology: From hurtful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being hurtful.
housebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From house + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.
ref: 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:
glosses: Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
Derived terms: houseboundness
nonhousebound
Related terms: shut-in
hosteler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostelers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hosteller.
hostelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosteler
horribleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horriblenesses
Etymology: From Middle English horriblenesse, equivalent to horrible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: horribility
glosses: The property of being horrible.
honker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: honkers
Etymology: From honk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Elmo flat-out ignored me, and Big Bird was busy flipping off honkers in the traffic jam they'd caused.
ref: 2015, Eric Gober, Men In Uniform:
glosses: One who honks.
glosses: A large nose.
glosses: A wild goose.
glosses: A woman's breast.
examples: text: I caught a real honker of a fish.
glosses: Anything impressively large; a whopper.
examples: text: I would have given a million dollars to fart a good loud juicy honker, right then and there […]
ref: 2016, Steve Vernon, Flash Virus Omnibus: The First Five Episodes, page 39:
glosses: A loud burst of flatulence.
examples: text: He supposed Pangborn was around someplace, and pretty soon old Bill Fullerton would get him on the honker and tell him who was back in town. Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
text: I kidded him about the length of the call, and he said that he'd also been on the honker with A.R. […]
ref: 2001, Paul M. Levitt, Chin Music: A Novel of the Jazz Age, page 283:
glosses: The telephone.
honer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honers
Etymology: From hone + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hones.
glosses: A tool used to hone.
honer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honers
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of honor and honour.
honer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: honers
form: honering
form: honered
form: honered
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of honor and honour.
databank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: databanks
form: data bank
Etymology: From data + bank.
Senses: examples: text: The FBI, in cooperation with states' crime laboratories, has established its own databank called Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
ref: 1997, Paul G. Stimson, Curtis A. Mertz, Forensic dentistry, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A database (collection of organized information in a regular structure)
glosses: An organization dedicated to maintaining a database.
donated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊˈneɪtɪd/
ipa: /dəˈneɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈdoʊneɪtɪd/
ipa: /doʊˈneɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of donate
donated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊˈneɪtɪd/
ipa: /dəˈneɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈdoʊneɪtɪd/
ipa: /doʊˈneɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: Having been given freely rather than purchased.
Derived terms: nondonated
predonated
undonated
ditched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: Having a ditch
Derived terms: unditched
ditched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ditch
backfired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backfire
hallucinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hallucinate
remarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remarry
remarried
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remarrieds
Senses: glosses: A person who has remarried.
remarried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: being married a second or third etc. time.
faxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: făkst
ipa: /fækst/
rhymes: -ækst
Forms: form: more faxed
form: most faxed
form: fixed
Etymology: From Middle English *faxed, from Old English feaxed, ġefeaxed (“haired; having hair”), from Old English feax (“hair”). More at fax.
Senses: examples: text: A comet is a ‘faxed’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star. But ‘faxed’ got corrupted into ‘fixed’ star during the seventeenth century.
ref: 1859, The London review: Volume 11
glosses: Having a head of hair; hairy.
Derived terms: faxed star
faxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: făkst
ipa: /fækst/
rhymes: -ækst
Etymology: From fax (“to send a fax/facsimile”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fax
misjudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misjudge
British bulldog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: British bulldogs
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A children's game similar to tag in which players try to run from one zone to another without being caught by the catchers.
glosses: Synonym of English bulldog: a breed of bulldog, the original breed.
synonyms: word: English bulldog
extra: a breed of bulldog, the original breed
I spy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: I-spy
Etymology: From the phrase I spy with my little eye used in the game.
Senses: examples: text: - Let's play I spy! I spy with my little eye something beginning with W.
- Is it a watering-can?
topics: games
hypernyms: guessing game
glosses: A game where players have to guess what one can see, based on the initial letter of the object.
topics: games
glosses: A children's game of hide and seek, so called from the cry when one is found.
ubersexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ubersexuals
form: übersexual
Etymology: From uber- (“above”) + sexual.
Senses: examples: ref: 2005 August 25, Marian Salzman, Ira Matathia, Ann O'Reilly, The Future of Men: The Rise of the Ubersexual and What He Means for Marketing Today, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: First it was Metrosexuals. Now it's Ubersexuals. Everyone wants to tell men how they should dress, groom themselves and behave.
ref: 2005 November 3, “Enough Already With The Trends And Labels”, in Business Wire:
text: Unlike the effeminate metrosexual, the ubersexual’s sexuality is not in question.[…] And he won't mind being grouped with the trendsetters' top three ubersexuals Bono, George Clooney and Bill Clinton.
ref: 2006, Femina, numbers 2517-2520, Associated Magazines, page 16:
glosses: A heterosexual male displaying confidence and concern for others.
ubersexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ubersexual
form: most ubersexual
form: übersexual
Etymology: From uber- (“above”) + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: A comparative study across 13 nations showed that a majority of Indian men were displaying signs of schizophrenia, torn between traditional machoism and the sensitive new age ubersexual male.
ref: 2006, India Today, volume 31, numbers 1-12, Thomson Living Media India, page 52:
text: In the midst of “the crisis,” men tend not to acknowledge or embrace new masculinities — despite discourses regarding metrosexual or ubersexual masculinities — but rather retrench themselves into traditional, essentialized and hegemonic masculine images and embodied performances.
ref: 2006 September, Dennis Waskul, Phillip Vannini, editors, body /embodiment: symbolic interaction and the sociology of the body, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, pages 248–249:
text: So far he’s redecorated my apartment in the most awesome jungle motif, and we can wear each other's clothes. He’s mad ubersexual. We haven’t had sex yet, but it’s only been six months, […]
ref: 2007, Willow Kincaid, Tragic Hero: A Teacher Accused, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Peter was übersexual, gorgeous, sensitive, and holistic, yet manly—check his motorcycle!
ref: 2009, Sandy Summers, Harry Jacobs Summers, Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk, Kaplan Publishing, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: Having the qualities of an ubersexual.
Simon says
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪmən sɛz/
Etymology: From Simon and say.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A children's game where players must carry out only those commands that are preceded by the utterance "Simon says".
pig in the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigs in the middle
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monkey in the middle.
synonyms: word: monkey in the middle
wink murder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A children's game in which a designated player attempts to wink at as many people as possible in order to "kill" them, without being caught by the player who has to find out who the murderer is.
split up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits up
form: splitting up
form: split up
form: split up
Senses: examples: text: After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.
text: The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.
qualifier: Of a group of people
glosses: Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
examples: text: The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam.
glosses: separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
split up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Divided or separated.
examples: text: He should preferably be tall, weighty, well split up in the legs (especially from the hip-joint to the knee), neatly turned at the knee and ankle joints […]
ref: 1913, S. A. Mussabini, Charles Ranson, The Complete Athletic Trainer, page 17:
glosses: Of a person: having long legs.
playact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: playacts
form: playacting
form: playacted
form: playacted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of play-act.
criminal procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal procedures
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The legal process for adjudicating claims that someone has violated criminal law.
aquariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: aquaria
glosses: plural of aquarium
husker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌskɚ/
Forms: form: huskers
Etymology: From husk + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who husks (as one who removes the husks, leaves, from ears of corn).
glosses: A fan or supporter of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the sports teams of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Derived terms: cornhusker
rice husker
huskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of husker
hummocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hummocky
form: most hummocky
Etymology: From hummock + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having hummocks.
Synonyms: hummocked
Derived terms: hummocky ice
horsewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsewomen
Etymology: From horse + -woman; compare horseman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who is skilled with horses; a female equestrian.
Coordinate terms: horseman
Derived terms: Headless Horsewoman
horsewomanship
Related terms: horse boy
horse girl
horsewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsewoman
few sandwiches short of a picnic
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: a few sandwiches short of a picnic
Senses: examples: text: I think the lady down the road is a few sandwiches short of a picnic—you often hear strange bangings at odd hours in the morning.
text: He said to hang on, then went to his bike and came back with a black case. When he opened it I suddenly thought I was dealing with someone a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
ref: 2013, A. American, Surviving Home, Penguin, →ISBN, page 238:
text: “He was a nice fellow, but we all know he was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.”
ref: 2014, Sheila Connolly, Scandal in Skibbereen, Penguin, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Exhibiting disquiet or unsoundness of mind; not sane; mad.
honorableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From honorable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: honorificabilitudinitatibus
word: honorificabilitudinity
glosses: The property of being honourable.
hams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ham
examples: text: Powerful hip extension is essential if you hope to squat heavier, jump higher or run faster, making it essential to train the hams using focused hip-extension exercises (like the romanian deadlift).
ref: 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The hamstring muscles; the biceps femoris
hellishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellishnesses
Etymology: From hellish + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: infernalism
glosses: The property of being hellish.
heinousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heinousnesses
Etymology: From heinous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But again that last scene at Compiegne rose visibly before her; not only his falsehood to her, but his slander of her, came to mind. It seemed as if she had never felt their full heinousness till now—now that with shame she owned that for a moment she had relented in his favour.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 212:
glosses: The property of being heinous.
heftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hefty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being hefty.
heftily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heftily
form: most heftily
Etymology: From hefty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [A] lightly moustached and heftily corseted matron, true blue and scaresomely indigenous, cried out in reply, ‘Not at all, dear. What's Irish about him? He's a British subject living in Ulster!’
ref: 1990, Richard Kearney, Migrations: The Irish at Home & Abroad, Wolfhound Press, published 1976, page 23:
glosses: In a hefty manner; heavily.
heavyhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heavy + hearted.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heavy-hearted.
Derived terms: heavyheartedly
heavyheartedness
zebrawood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebrawoods
Etymology: From zebra + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any wood with a figure (grain pattern) like the striping of a zebra, most often wood of the genus Microberlinia.
Synonyms: zebron
zebrawoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebrawood
lowp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lowps
form: lowping
form: lowpt
form: lowpt
form: lowped
form: lowped
Senses: glosses: To leap.
pre-teens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-teen
imperence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperences
form: imperance
Senses: examples: text: 'Don't go away, Mary,' said the black-eyed man. 'Let me alone, imperence,' said the young lady.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: I don’t want none of your imperence, young man. I’ve seen you before, — you’ve been hanging about here the whole day long!
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: "Augustus, show this imperence to the door; and if he tries to come in again, call a policeman: do you hear?"
ref: 1852, William Thackeray, Men's Wives:
glosses: impertinence
wud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wud
form: most wud
Etymology: Variant of standard English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”).
Senses: examples: text: Janet ran to him - she was fair wud wi' terror - an' clang to him, an' prayed him, for Christ's sake, save her frae the cummers; an' they, for their pairt, tauld him a' that was ken't, and maybe mair.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Thrawn Janet”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables:
glosses: Mad.
wud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I wud proue ’hem Mother beſt be truſt: why doe not I know you Granam? and that Suger-loafe? ha! doe I not Magæra.
ref: 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, signature H, verso:
glosses: Alternative form of would.
wud
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: wyd
glosses: Initialism of what('re) you doing (“what are you doing”).
arithomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arithmancy.
arythmancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of arithmancy.
smutch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smʌt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smutches
form: smutching
form: smutched
form: smutched
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.
Senses: examples: text: Why, that’s my bawcock. What, hast smutch’d thy nose?
They say it is a copy out of mine.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Have you seene but a bright Lilly grow,
Before rude hands have touch’d it?
Have you mark’d but the fall of Snow,
Before the soyle hath smutch’d it?
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Divell is an Asse, London, published 1641, act II, scene 6, page 26:
text: And then in came a wee girl of seven, with dirty face and pure blue eyes and a smutched and insufficient dress.
ref: 1909, O. Henry, “Supply and Demand”, in Options, New York: Harper, page 126:
text: Receive them all—and should you choose to touch them
With one slant ray of quick, American light,
Even the dust will have no power to smutch them,
Even the worst will glitter in the night.
ref: 1928, Stephen Vincent Benét, “Invocation”, in John Brown’s Body, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 7:
glosses: To soil, stain or smudge.
smutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smʌt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: smutches
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of smudge, smatch, or smooch.
Senses: examples: text: As let a man sticke a Candle to a stone wall, though the Candle do not burne through it, yet it will leaue a shrewd smutch behind it, soyling the wall, so as it will not easily be wyped out. Thus it is with tentations, though they doe not all the mischiefe they would and might doe, they will yet be sure to leaue an impression of filth and staines behinde them.
ref: 1629, John Smith, “An Exposition of the Lord’s Prayer”, in Essex doue, presenting the world with a few of her oliue branches, London: George Edwardes, page 124:
text: […] Examine well
His milk-white hand. The palm is hardly clean—
But here and there an ugly smutch appears.
Foh! ’twas a bribe that left it.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book IV. The Winter Evening.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 168:
text: I could favour you with sundry touches
Of the paint-smutches with which the Duchess
Heightened the mellowness of her cheek’s yellowness
ref: 1849, Robert Browning, “The Flight of the Duchess”, in Poems, volume 2, London: Chapman and Hall, page 390:
text: Strether felt his character receive, for the instant, a smutch from all the wrong things he had suspected or believed.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Looking out of her window, she was alerted by a smutch of bronze light glowering on this Anglo-Flemish landscape.
ref: 1979, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, Penguin, published 1981, Part 3, p. 411:
glosses: A stain, smudge or blot.
Related terms: smut
smudge
ticket tout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket touts
Senses: examples: text: Skinner told the court he was an experienced ticket tout who travelled the world buying and selling tickets and merchandise to sporting events, concerts and festivals.
ref: 2008 December 5, “Grand Prix ‘fakes’ men convicted”, in BBC News, retrieved 16 Dec 2008:
synonyms: word: scalper
glosses: A person who resells tickets for events at more than the official price.
Related terms: tout
ticket touts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket tout
vina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinas
Etymology: From Sanskrit and Hindi वीणा (vīṇā).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veena.
quarter bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter bottles
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, one quarter of the volume of a standard bottle.
Synonyms: piccolo
snipe
snipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snaɪps/
rhymes: -aɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of snipe
examples: text: a pair of snipes
glosses: Obsolete form of snips (“shears, scissors”)
snipes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snaɪps/
rhymes: -aɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snipe
clavelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavelins
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine containing 62 centiliters of fluid, traditionally used for vin jaune.
Marie Jeanne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marie Jeannes
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
Synonyms: tregnum
tappit hen
double magnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double magnums
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle.
Rehoboam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rehoboams
Etymology: After Rehoboam, Judean king, the name of which in Biblical Hebrew was רְחַבְעָם (Rəḥaḇʿām)
Senses: glosses: A bottle of Champagne or Burgundy wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
Rehoboam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Rehoboam, Judean king, the name of which in Biblical Hebrew was רְחַבְעָם (Rəḥaḇʿām)
Senses: examples: And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen* years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
glosses: King of Israel after Solomon, whose folly split the kingdom in two; the father of Abijah (biblical character)
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in rare use.
vin jaune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vins jaunes
Etymology: French vin (“wine”) and jaune (“yellow”).
Senses: glosses: An unusual white wine made in the Jura region of France from late harvest Savagnin grapes, a local white variety.
Related terms: clavelin
the size of bottle in which vin jaune is usually sold
tregnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tregnums
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
Synonyms: Marie Jeanne
tappit hen
tappit hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tappit hens
Etymology: Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.
Senses: glosses: A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
examples: text: Blyth , blyth , blyth was she,
Blyth was she but and ben;
And well the loo'd a Hawick gill,
And leugh to see a tappit hen
ref: a. 1740, unknown author, Andro and his Cutty Gun:
glosses: A hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.
Synonyms: sense: bottle
word: Marie Jeanne
sense: bottle
word: tregnum
port wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: port wines
Etymology: Calque of Portuguese vinho do Porto, wherein the city name Porto is etymologically identical to the word porto (“port”).
Senses: glosses: A type of fortified wine traditionally made in Portugal.
Synonyms: port
Porto
Derived terms: port-wine stain
port-winey
port-winy
play-by-play
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From play + by + play.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: ball-by-ball
topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Describing a sports commentary in which a commentator describes every action in some detail as it occurs, often assisted by a second commentator who provides background information and other comments.
play-by-play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play-by-plays
Etymology: From play + by + play.
Senses: examples: text: So I collected a cross section of play-by-plays, definitely not as many as I'd like to collect but enough to feel pretty comfortable with what I was seeing.
ref: 2004, Dean Oliver, Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A detailed description or analysis of sporting events as they occur in succession, one play at a time.
ball-by-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: play-by-play
glosses: Describing a commentary (especially on the radio) in which a commentator describes every ball bowled, every shot hit, and the positions of the fielders; normally assisted by a summarizer who describes the game as a whole and provides other comments and a scorer who keeps a record of all statistics.
Latin cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latin crosses
Senses: glosses: A cross consisting of a vertical bar intersected by a shorter horizontal one above its midpoint; the form of the Christian cross: ✝
Related terms: cross of Lorraine
mailing list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ lɪst/
Forms: form: mailing lists
Senses: examples: text: New York, I love you but you're bringing me down / […] / And oh! Take me off your mailing list / For kids who think it still exists
ref: 2007, “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”, in Sound of Silver, performed by LCD Soundsystem:
glosses: A collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material (such as letters or junk mail) to multiple recipients.
glosses: An email list.
Related terms: direct mail
mail merge
Ebenezer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛbəˈnizɚ/
ipa: /ɛbəˈniːzə/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר (éven ha`ézer, “stone of help”).
Senses: examples: text: Then Samuel tooke a ſtone, and ſet it betweene Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-Ezer, ſaying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped vs.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 7:12:
text: Here I raiſe my Eben-ezer,
Hither by thy Grace I'm come;
So I hope by thy good Pleaſure,
Shortly to arrive at Home:
ref: 1759, Robert Robinson, “Hymn I”, in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Church of Christ: Meeting in Angel-Alley, page 3:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The stone memorial in Israel erected by Samuel.
examples: text: "I have none to give," the Ghost replied. "It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men."
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew taken up by Puritans in the 17th century.
glosses: A ghost town in Georgia, United States.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Ebenezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛbəˈnizɚ/
ipa: /ɛbəˈniːzə/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Ebenezers
Etymology: From Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר (éven ha`ézer, “stone of help”).
Senses: glosses: A chapel or meetinghouse.
blatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblat.ə/
ipa: /ˈblæt.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈblat.ər/
Forms: form: blatters
Etymology: From Latin blaterāre. Influenced by other expressive verbs ending in -er.
Senses: glosses: Blather; foolish talk.
glosses: A sound of rapid motion.
examples: text: Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]
ref: 1901, Good Words, volume 42, page 7:
text: Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.
ref: 1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 8:
glosses: A hard battering of rain.
blatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblat.ə/
ipa: /ˈblæt.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈblat.ər/
Forms: form: blatters
form: blattering
form: blattered
form: blattered
Etymology: From Latin blaterāre. Influenced by other expressive verbs ending in -er.
Senses: glosses: To blather.
glosses: To hurry or rush noisily.
Derived terms: blatteration
blatterer
blatteroon
Finnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From Finn + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: Baltic-Finnic
Baltic-Fennic
Balto-Finnic
Balto-Fennic
Fennic
glosses: Of the branch of the Uralic language family that includes Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Livonian, Ingrian and Votic.
glosses: Of the hypothetical Finno-Volgaic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Baltic-Finnic, Sami, Mordvinic and Mari languages.
synonyms: Finno-Permic
Finno-Permian
Fenno-Permic
Fenno-Permian
Fennic
glosses: Of the hypothetical Finno-Permic subgrouping of the Uralic languages that includes the Finno-Volgaic and Permic languages.
glosses: Finnish.
playgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌɡɜːl/
ipa: /ˈpleɪˌɡɝl/
Forms: form: playgirls
Etymology: From play + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Lolly Mulberry, a notorious playgirl, was an old flame of Tudy’s and an old enemy of Materkins’.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 50:
glosses: The female counterpart to a playboy: a woman, specially a wealthy one, who devotes herself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.
Synonyms: hedonist
valley girl
Coordinate terms: playboy
playroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playrooms
form: play-room
Etymology: From play + room.
Senses: glosses: A room, allocated as a children's play area, in which noisy or boisterous activities are tolerated.
examples: text: She'll take them to bed with her, and she'll give them stuff to make them feel like lords of creation, and they'll play round games. Then one day they'll wake up in shackles in her playroom.
ref: 2011, Sheri S. Tepper, Six Moon Dance:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
pleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːdə/
Forms: form: pleaders
Etymology: Partly from Middle English pleder, pledere, equivalent to plead + -er; and partly from Middle English pledour, plaidour, from Anglo-Norman plaidur, pledour, Old French plaidëor, pledëor.
Senses: examples: text: “My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of a native pleader's false reports. Oh, it's a heavenly place!”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
text: ‘Soon after I came out I asked one of the pleaders to have a smoke with me – only a cigarette, mind.’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 25:
text: That is the first duty of the juryman, just as it is the pleader's duty to speak the truth.
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:
topics: law
glosses: a person who pleads in court; an advocate
qualifier: generally
glosses: someone who pleads or implores
Derived terms: counterpleader
repleader
special pleader
parenchymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parenchyma + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to parenchyma.
Derived terms: diffuse parenchymal lung disease
extraparenchymal
intraparenchymal
neuroparenchymal
nonparenchymal
parenchymal blush
parenchymal jaundice
parenchymally
pleuroparenchymal
pleasureful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleasureful
form: most pleasureful
Etymology: From pleasure + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Schroeder's film shows that the overt S/M act is no different from the love affair, that pain is inherent in all relationships we prefer to think of as pleasureful.
ref: 1976 December 11, David Holland, “A Conversation With Maitresse”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 13:
glosses: That gives pleasure; delightful, pleasurable.
Derived terms: pleasurefully
praiseworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From praiseworthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Being motivated to the right things without any conscious grasp of the values involved is not sufficient for praiseworthiness.
ref: 2019, Elinor Mason, Ways to be Blameworthy: Rightness, Wrongness, and Responsibility, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or quality of being praiseworthy.
prancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prancers
Etymology: From prance + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or animal (especially a horse) that prances.
prater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: praters
Etymology: From prate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places: ... a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A person who prates; a chatterer.
prayerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛːfʊl/
Forms: form: more prayerful
form: most prayerful
Etymology: From prayer + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: His extrovert craziness is an interesting counterpoint or safety valve to the ethos of prayerful silence and traditional solemnity which is so much part of Orthodox identity.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 207:
glosses: That prays frequently; characterised by prayer, devout, reverent.
preachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preachments
Etymology: Partly from preach + -ment, partly after Anglo-Norman prechement.
Senses: examples: text: I have a reason, a new one, for this preachment upon a text you have given me.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: He refrained too from making the occasion an opportunity for any preachment as to the maintenance of discipline […]
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML 12].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
qualifier: now chiefly depreciative
glosses: Preaching; sermonizing.
examples: text: Many of the emerging powerhouses of globalization, like Brazil, are interested in democracy and the rule of law, but not in the preachments of the West, which they regard as laced with hypocrisy.
ref: 2015 September 12, Steven Erlanger, “Are Western values losing their sway? [print version: Did liberalism win? It's not clear, International New York Times, 14 September 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An instance of preaching; a sermon or homily.
precancel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precancels
form: precanceling
form: precancelling
form: precanceled
form: precanceled
form: precancelled
form: precancelled
Etymology: From pre- + cancel.
Senses: glosses: To cancel or frank (a postage stamp) prior to posting it.
precancel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precancels
Etymology: From pre- + cancel.
Senses: glosses: A postage stamp or mail item that has been precancelled.
preciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preciousnesses
Etymology: From Middle English preciousnesse; equivalent to precious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In a fascinating growth, when the preciousness of the new fades with no one noticing, the room had changed, evolving into something else.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 197:
glosses: The condition of being precious.
precipitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /prɪˈsɪpɪt(ə)nt/
ipa: /priˈsɪpətənt/
ipa: /prə-/
ipa: [-ɾənt]
Forms: form: more precipitant
form: most precipitant
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Middle French précipitant, Old French precipitant (“acting hastily, hasty, rash; acting, happening, or moving rapidly; pressing”) (modern French précipitant), and from their etymon Late Latin praecipitans (“hasty, rash”), an adjective use of Latin praecipitāns, the present participle of praecipitō (“to cast down; to throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head first, headlong; (figurative) hasty, rash”) (from prae (“before; in front”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + -ceps (suffix meaning ‘having a head with specified characteristics’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“a head”))).
The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: The Hoary Froſts, and Northern Blaſts take care / Thy muddy Bev'rage to ſerene, and drive / Præcipitant the baſer, ropy Lees.
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: Synonym of precipitantly (“in a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste”).
synonyms: word: precipitantly
extra: in a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste
precipitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /prɪˈsɪpɪt(ə)nt/
ipa: /priˈsɪpətənt/
ipa: /prə-/
ipa: [-ɾənt]
Forms: form: precipitants
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from Middle French précipitant, Old French precipitant (“acting hastily, hasty, rash; acting, happening, or moving rapidly; pressing”) (modern French précipitant), and from their etymon Late Latin praecipitans (“hasty, rash”), an adjective use of Latin praecipitāns, the present participle of praecipitō (“to cast down; to throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head first, headlong; (figurative) hasty, rash”) (from prae (“before; in front”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + -ceps (suffix meaning ‘having a head with specified characteristics’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“a head”))).
The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
examples: text: [B]y putting ſome of the arſenical liquor into a ſtrong ſolution of common ſublimate made in fair vvater […] vve had a copious precipitate, ſuch as might have been expected from an alcaline precipitant; […]
ref: 1685, Robert Boyle, “Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 241, column 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
Derived terms: coprecipitant
immunoprecipitant
preciseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precisenesses
Etymology: From precise + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being precise; precision
glosses: pedantic behaviour
precociousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From precocious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Saucy precociousness in learning.
ref: 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses:
synonyms: precocity
glosses: The condition of being precocious
pregame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregames
form: pre-game
Etymology: From pre- + game.
Senses: examples: text: When the Brooklyn Nets are in town, there are office parties and tieless finance guys and pregame groups, like the one that showed up Wednesday night to celebrate the reunion of two old friends with a meal and some basketball (the Miami Heat, led by LeBron James, later trounced the home team).
ref: 2013 February 2, Alan Feuer, “A Pregame Reunion in Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023:
text: P: And what was going on there at Griffin Suite?
Julia: A pregame.
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 194:
glosses: A social gathering of several friends who get together to drink before going out to a party or a sports game, in order to get a "buzz" before going out for the night.
examples: text: "Hey sport, do you want to watch the pregame?" asked Justin.
ref: 2006, Greg Giesen, Ask Dr. Mac: Take the Journey to Authentic Leadership, page 43:
text: Izzy had gone to the bar to catch the pregame.
ref: 2007, Theo Gangi, BANg BAnG, page 26:
text: At the first Super Bowl, the pregame featured the marching bands from the University of Arizona and Grambling University.
ref: 2012, Tony DiPardo, Tony Dipardo: Life, Love, Music and Football:
glosses: A television show preceding a sports game wherein commentators discuss that game.
examples: text: You can see the entire thing on SpaceX’s website. It looks long—45 whole minutes!—but there’s really only a 20-minute pregame, and then the rocket takes off, and then it flies and the stages separate and then it lands.
ref: 2015 December 23, Robinson Meyer, “When a Rocket Launch Is a Cultural Event”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
glosses: A period of time before an important event.
Related terms: tailgate party
pregame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-game
Etymology: From pre- + game.
Senses: examples: text: Enough already with the predictions. Enough with the pregame analysis. Enough with the sidebars. Enough with the practices. Let the battle begin!
ref: 2012 March 14, Andrew Cohen, “Will the Affordable Care Act Argument Be Worth the Hype?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2015:
glosses: Taking place before, or in preparation for, a sporting event or other game.