cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
caught and bowled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Out by being caught by the bowler.
caught behind
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Out by being caught by the wicketkeeper.
caught behind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caught behinds
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of being out by being caught behind the wicket by the wicketkeeper.
redeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeyes
Senses: examples: text: Redeyes inhabit clear-water streams with an abundance of shoals and are usually confined to headwater sections.
ref: 1970 April, A. J. McClane, “The Sunfish Family”, in Clare Conley, editor, Field and Stream, volume LXXIV, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 116, column 2:
text: This is probably less of a barrier to mesopelagic species such as lanternfish (Lampanyctodes hectoris), redeye (Etrumeus whiteheadi) or gobies (Sufflogobius bibarbatus), all of which are capable of more extensive vertical migration than the small epipelagic fish.
ref: 2006, Carl van der Lingen et al., “Forecasting Shelf Processes of Relevance to Living Marine Resources in the BCLME”, in Vere Shannon et al., editors, Benguela: Predicting a Large Marine Ecosystem (Large Marine Ecosystems Series; 14), Amsterdam; Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Elsevier, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 330:
text: The Common Redeye (Matapa aria Moore) is much smaller (wingspan: 40–55 mm), plain brown without any markings, but as in the Giant Redeye its eyes are red.
ref: 2000, Krushnamegh Kunte, “Family Hesperiidae: Skippers [Giant Redeye]”, in Madhav Gadgil, editor, India—a Lifescape: Butterflies of Peninsular India, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh: Universities Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 213, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of red-eye.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Micropterus coosae
word: redeye bass
taxonomic: Micropterus coosae
word: redeye black bass
taxonomic: Labeo cylindricus
word: redeye labeo
taxonomic: Serrasalmus rhombeus
word: redeye piranha
monkeyshine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnkiˌʃaɪn/
Forms: form: monkeyshines
form: monkey-shine
Etymology: From monkey + shine.
Senses: examples: text: I have seen about as many monkeyshines from you as I will tolerate.
text: You may have noticed barefooted boys cutting up monkey-shines on trees with entire safety to themselves.
ref: 1878, Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Popular Science Monthly, XIII. 435:
synonyms: mischief
buffoonery
tomfoolery
monkeyism
shenanigan
glosses: A puerile prank or trick.
Related terms: barrel of monkeys
monkey around
gnarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːli/
enpr: närʹli
ipa: /ˈnɑɹli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: gnarlier
form: gnarliest
Etymology: From gnarl (“knot in wood”) + -y. The slang senses were particularly popularized by US surf culture in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deep-shaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.
ref: 1892 January, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall Paper, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, published 1901, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled.
examples: text: There ain't nothing gnarlier (apparently) than slapping on some brightly coloured sunblock to ward off the blinding spectre of dangerous, snow-reflected sunlight.
ref: 2000 January 16, Sunday Herald, Glasgow:
glosses: Excellent; attractive.
examples: text: a gnarly problem
text: When the swell struck, the North Shore got gnarly, and the wise ones hit the outer islands where the energy was just as juicy but a bit more organized.
ref: 1977 March, Surfer:
text: Work that makes you unhappy is what I mean by "a gnarly problem." The trouble is, the market pays for solutions to gnarly problems, not solutions to easy problems. As the Yorkshire lads say, "Where there's muck, there's brass."
ref: 2008, [Avram] Joel Spolsky, More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters that will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those who, whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Dangerous; difficult.
examples: text: We're not talking about a lame chick and a gnarly guy. We're talking about a couple of far-out dudes.
ref: 1981, Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books, ISBN 978-0-689-11173-0; reprinted New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1982, ISBN 978-0-671-45163-9, page 269
text: Funky Kong: 'Those Snowmads are a gnarly bunch! I hear they're enjoyin' your island. Go get 'em, DK!'
ref: 2014 February, Retro Studios, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Nintendo, level/area: Funky's Fly 'n' Buy:
glosses: Unpleasant, awful, ugly.
examples: text: [She] displays the same love of gnarly fuzztones and shout-it-out-loud choruses that began back in her daze^([sic]) with local all-girl rockers the Runaways.
ref: 1986 October 12, Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Unpleasant, awful, ugly.
Of music or a sound: harsh.
Synonyms: sense: gnarled
word: gnarled
sense: gnarled
word: knobbly
sense: gnarled
word: knobby
sense: slang: excellent; attractive
word: awesome
word: cool
word: rad
word: wicked
sense: US: unpleasant, awful
word: awful
word: dreadful
word: nasty
sense: US: harsh (of music or sound)
word: discordant
Derived terms: gnarliness
gnarlsome
laid-back
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laid-back
form: most laid-back
Etymology: From U.S. slang (circa 1950s).
Presumably originally a metaphor — literally, "sitting in a tilted-back chair", a relaxed posture.
Senses: examples: text: The V-2's directional system was notoriously erratic. In May 1947, a V-2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground headed south instead of north, missing downtown Juarez, Mexico, by 3 miles. The Mexican government's response to the American bombing was admirably laid back. General Enrique Diaz Gonzales and Consul General Raul Michel met with United States officials, who issued apologies and an invitation to come to "the next rocket shoot" at White Sands. […
ref: 2010, Mary Roach, “You Go First: The Alarming Prospect of Life Without Gravity”, in Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 90:
text: You have to accept the deliberate unspeed of Italian timetables if you want the right to be liberated by their correspondingly laid-back lifestyle.
ref: 2019, Susan Levenstein, Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome, page 6:
synonyms: word: easygoing
word: unconcerned
word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Relaxed and easy-going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
elenctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɨˈlɛŋktɪk/
ipa: /əˈlɛŋk.tɪk/
Forms: form: more elenctic
form: most elenctic
form: elenchtic
form: elenchtical
form: elenctical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐλενκτικός (elenktikós, “refutative”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘What lady?’ he asked in the elenctic tones of Lewis Carroll's caterpillar.
ref: 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 101:
glosses: Serving to refute, refutative, especially as part of a systematic interrogation; pertaining to rhetorical elenchus or cross-examination.
Derived terms: elenctic method
condominium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒn.dəˈmɪn.ɪ.əm/
ipa: /kɑn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/
Forms: form: condominiums
form: condominia
Etymology: From Latin condominium.
Senses: examples: text: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a condominium ruled jointly by Egypt and the United Kingdom.
text: The strategic location of the condominiums […] made them important for the Confederacy's territorial integrity even if they produced little revenue.
ref: 2013, Clive H. Church, Randolph C. Head, A Concise History of Switzerland, Cambridge, page 76:
qualifier: international law
glosses: Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries.
qualifier: international law
glosses: Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries.
A region or territory under such rule.
synonyms: condo building
glosses: A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly.
The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate.
synonyms: condo building
condo
glosses: A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly.
An individual unit (such as an apartment) in such a complex.
synonyms: condo building
glosses: A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly.
The legal tenure involved.
Synonyms: sense: building, unit, title
word: strata
Derived terms: word: barndominium
word: condo-hotel
word: condop
word: dockominium
word: noncondominium
word: quadrominium
word: tridominium
sense: unit
word: condo
umbrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: umbrages
Etymology: From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).
Senses: examples: text: Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.
ref: 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser
text: —He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: She looked very neurotic, moving in a jerky way, her body giving little twitches of habitual umbrage.
ref: 1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 10, in The Bachelors, London: Macmillan:
text: If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI:
text: When the call is over, Cooper thanks her — for leashing the dog, but for also endangering him, for living down to herself, for quite a performance of umbrage.
ref: 2020 June 3, Wesley Morris, “The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2020:
synonyms: annoyance
displeasure
odium
offense
resentment
huff
miff
peeve
pique
glosses: A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
synonyms: suspicion
glosses: A feeling of doubt.
examples: text: It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 325:
glosses: Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
examples: text: [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Shadow; shade.
Derived terms: take umbrage
umbrageous
umbrage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: umbrages
form: umbraging
form: umbraged
form: umbraged
Etymology: From Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbrāticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).
Senses: glosses: To displease or cause offense.
glosses: To shade.
off-the-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-the-wall
form: most off-the-wall
form: off the wall
Etymology: Perhaps from baseball or other games played with a ball, alluding to unpredictable bounces; but compare also bounce off the walls.
Senses: examples: text: What kind of a harebrained, off-the-wall idea is that?
text: She is a very off-the-wall character.
text: What makes it surprising, though, are the glimmers of wit and self-awareness beneath all the rap star swagger and over-the-top confrontations. Even the fervid finale had a few off-the-wall side jokes.
ref: 2015 March 19, Alessandra Stanley, “'Empire' Finale Review: A Sizzling End to Season One”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd.
examples: text: All of their friends were amazed that they were familiar with a war hero. Some began to understand Chips' moods and drinking. His "off the wall" behaviour at times. And unknowingly they were "forgiving" him.
ref: 2012, Reginald Pierce, The Paladin, page 204:
glosses: Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate.
Related terms: bounce off the walls
Selene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭlēʹnĭ
ipa: /sɪˈliːnɪ/
ipa: /səˈlini/
rhymes: -iːni
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, proper noun), from σέλας (sélas, “light”).
Senses: examples: text: Balancing Arria is the union of Selene and Endymion. In the center of the main panel Selene descends from her chariot, whose horses are held by a nymph, to join Endymion, who lies to the right.
ref: 1999, Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, page 43:
text: In the other, more famous story, the moon goddess Selene fell in love with him^([Endymion]) while he was asleep.
ref: 2005, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, volume 4, page 473:
text: This fragmentary front panel of a sarcophagus preserves two episodes from the story of Endymion and Selene. Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with Endymion, a beautiful young mortal.
ref: 2010, J. Paul Getty Trust, Kenneth Lapatin, Karol Wight, editors, The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection, 2nd edition, page 169:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of the Moon.
examples: text: “Selene, I am going to get you out of bed and sit you in the chair for a minute. I want to put this heavy blanket and sheet on your bed so it will keep your new bedding clean.”
ref: 2008, Diane M. Unger, A Colonial Lieutenant Beckons, page 143:
text: In the opening sequence of the film Underworld (2004), the beautiful vampire assassin Selene, clad in tight black rubber and leather, is perched beside gargoyles on top of a soaring Gothic tower.
ref: 2012, Johan Höglund, “10: Militarizing the Vampire: Underworld and the Desire of the Military Entertainment Complex”, in Tabish Khair, Johan Höglund, editors, Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires: Dark Blood, page 173:
text: We also made arrangements with my sister Marion and brother-in-law Richard for Selene to stay with them over long school holidays, like Thanksgiving and Easter, when the campus would be closed for a few days.
ref: 2013, Arnold E. van Beverhoudt, Jr., Island Boy: My Life on the Rock, page 157:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: The Moon.
Related terms: Selena
selenography
selenology
selenium
selenite
Endymion
Luna
Akihabara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)葉(は)原(ばら) (Akihabara).
Senses: examples: text: Akihabara means Field of Autumn Leaves, but the fields and leaves have all been replaced by electronics stores, and these days people call it Akiba or Electricity Town.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 311:
glosses: A neighborhood of Chiyoda, Tokyo prefecture, Japan, known primarily for its shopping and the mass availability of electronics, manga, anime, and other goods.
Synonyms: english: shortening
translation: shortening
word: Akiba
telltale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlteɪl/
Forms: form: more telltale
form: most telltale
form: tell-tale
form: tell tale
Etymology: From tell + tale, perhaps dissimilated from earlier taleteller, from Middle English tale tellere (literally “tale teller”).
Senses: examples: text: I noticed the snow was dirty, a telltale sign of recent human presence.
text: A telltale blush crept into her cheeks as he approached.
glosses: Revealing something, especially something not intended to be known.
Derived terms: telltale compass
miss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: misses
Etymology: Verb from Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Icelandic missa (“to lose”) and Latin mittere (“to send, let go”).
Noun from Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).
Senses: examples: text: In eight shots at the target he had six misses.
text: "I ran from one place to another, and as it was not difficult to get a shot at him, I fired several times, but only made miss after miss."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 76:
glosses: A failure to physically hit.
examples: text: After four top-ten singles, the band's next release was a miss.
text: Your answer isn't exactly right, but it's a very close miss.
text: Jones put the penalty shot over the bar — what a terrible miss.
glosses: A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
examples: text: I think I’ll give the meeting a miss.
glosses: An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
examples: text: Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United.
glosses: Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
examples: text: Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.
ref: 1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
glosses: Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
glosses: Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
glosses: Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
Derived terms: airmiss
a miss is as good as a mile
give something a miss
missout
near miss
swing and a miss
miss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: misses
form: Miss
form: meess
form: Meess
Etymology: From mistress.
Senses: examples: text: You may sit here, miss.
text: You may sit here, Miss Jones.
glosses: A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
examples: text: Here's my report, Miss Smith.
coordinate_terms: sir
glosses: A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
examples: text: While thus the fiends, with wily art, Adroitly stole upon the heart, And with their complaisance, and tales, Had ruind more than half the males, Gay Vanity, with smiles, and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids, and misses.
ref: 1771, James Cawthorn, Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Cawthorn, Late Master of Tunbridge School:
glosses: An unmarried woman; a girl.
examples: text: courting a Miss
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kept woman; a mistress.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
Derived terms: junior miss
Miss Havishamesque
misshood
missie
missish
schoolmiss
Related terms: missis
missus
missy
misoneism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌmaɪsəˈniː.ɪzəm/
Forms: form: misoneisms
Etymology: From Italian misoneismo (after Cesare Lombroso). Equivalent to miso- + neo- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In politics this type of philistine has more than once denounced the "golden rule" as an "iridescent dream" of a lunatic. Such philistinism pleases the misoneism of the mediocre, whence the enthusiasm over platitudes and the reign of the philistine in newspaper art, literature and science.
ref: 1923 May, “Pornolagny and Realism”, in The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume XXVII, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: Urologic and Cutaneous Press, →OCLC, page 322, column 2:
text: Perché non mi adeguo all'introduzione di tali progressi anche nel calcolo delle probabilità, già universalmente accettata portando anche ivi grandiosi progressi? Si tratta di incomprensione? di misoneismo? di civetteria nel preferire utensili artigianali nell'era dell'automazione che permette la confezione in serie perfino di cervelli sia elettronici che umani?
ref: 1974, Bruno de Finetti, translated by Antonio Machí and Adrian Smith, Theory of Probability, volume 1, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1.2.2:
text: What really got his attention was the Lombrosian concept of “misoneism”. Radicals, militants, revolutionaries, however they styled themselves, all sinned against this deep organic human principle, which Lombroso had named after the Greek for “hatred of anything new.”
ref: 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:
synonyms: neophobia
neophobism
antonyms: neophilia
neophilism
philoneism
glosses: The distrust or hatred of new ideas or things.
wikipedia: Cesare Lombroso
Derived terms: misoneist
misology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισολογία (misología), from μισόλογος (misólogos), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + λόγος (lógos, “account, reason”).
Senses: glosses: Hatred or fear of reasoning or argument.
Related terms: misologist
promoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈmoʊtɚ/
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: promoters
Etymology: From promote + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a promoter of seditious ideas
antonyms: detractor
glosses: One who promotes.
examples: text: a music promoter
text: events promoter
antonyms: detractor
glosses: One who promotes.
One who promotes entertainment events or goods.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of a gene.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An accelerator of catalysis that is not itself a catalyst.
Derived terms: promoterless
stock promoter
mistress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹtrĭs
ipa: /ˈmɪstɹɪs/
enpr: mĭs-trĕs
note: Indic
ipa: /mɪs.ʈrɛs/
Forms: form: mistresses
form: mistressing
form: mistressed
form: mistressed
form: mistris
Etymology: From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: These films give a glimpse of women on the way to mistressing their own destiny.
ref: 2013, Andrea Khalil, North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora:
glosses: Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.
examples: text: […] housewifery, maternity, charity, the life conventual, the chatter of a court, the mistressing of a great house […]
ref: 1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Maid Margaret of Galloway:
glosses: To act or take the role of a mistress.
MUMPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System, a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.
Related terms: VistA
OpenVistA
GT.M
ISM
Caché
mumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Etymology: Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.
Senses: examples: text: At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.
ref: 2002 February 10, Sarah Lyall, “Britain Tries to Quell Fear Over Vaccine for Children”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2021:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
glosses: A gloomy or sullen silence.
Hypernyms: parotitis
Derived terms: antimumps
mumpish
mumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Etymology: Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mump
mumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Etymology: Circa 1600, from mump (“grimace”, noun), compare mump (verb), most likely referring to the painful difficulty in swallowing.
Senses: glosses: plural of mump
misfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.fɪt/
ipa: /mɪsˈfɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: misfits
Etymology: From mis- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: Mr Toots’s legs shake under him; and though he is splendidly dressed, he feels misfits, and sees wrinkles, in the masterpieces of Burgess and Co., and wishes he had put on that brightest pair of boots.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: An ill-fitting garment.
examples: text: And the fact that Christianity's Jesus is the resurrected Christ makes a vital point about the misfit between the Jesus whose teachings we have excavated and the Church which came after him.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 94:
glosses: A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
examples: text: Do you ever feel like a misfit?
Everything inside you is dark and twisted
Oh, but it's okay to be different
'Cause baby, so am I
ref: 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
text: Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
ref: 2008, Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 1 Mar 2008 Article
text: She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army.
text: The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.
glosses: A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
Synonyms: maverick
Derived terms: misfitdom
misfit stream
misfit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.fɪt/
ipa: /mɪsˈfɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: misfits
form: misfitting
form: misfitted
form: misfitted
Etymology: From mis- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.
glosses: To fit badly.
proposition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: of Canada
enpr: prŏ'pə-zĭshʹən
ipa: /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/
note: of Canada
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: propositions
form: propositioning
form: propositioned
form: propositioned
Etymology: From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.
Senses: examples: text: The Superintendent of the facility tried to proposition with me that if I snitched to the guards and would work with him, then he would put my friend and me back together again.
ref: 1984 April 7, anonymous author, “Isolate and Conquer”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
glosses: To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
synonyms: pass
come on to
hit on
Synonyms: make a pass
Related terms: propose
upward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpwɚd/
ipa: /ˈʌpwəd/
Etymology: From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: We ran upward.
text: Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.
examples: text: Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, / And downward fish.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: In the upper parts; above.
examples: text: From twenty years old and upward.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 1:3:
glosses: Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
Synonyms: cloudwards
up
upwards
Derived terms: fail upward
onward and upward
punch upward
upward compatible
upward-facing dog
upward lightning
upward mobility
upward of
upwards of
upward spiral
upward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpwɚd/
ipa: /ˈʌpwəd/
Etymology: From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: From the extremest upward of thy head.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: The upper part; the top.
upward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpwɚd/
ipa: /ˈʌpwəd/
Forms: form: more upward
form: most upward
Etymology: From Old English upweardes, equivalent to up + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: with upward eye; with upward course
glosses: Directed toward a higher place.
Synonyms: sense: toward a higher place
word: cloudward
-ward
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəd/
ipa: /wɚd/
ipa: /wɔːd/
ipa: /wɔɹd/
Etymology: From Old English -weard, from Proto-Germanic *wardaz, earlier *warþaz (“turned toward, in the direction of, facing”) (compare -wards, from -weardes).
Cognate with Dutch -waarts, Low German -warts, German -wärts, Old Norse -verðr, Icelandic -verðr, Swedish -vart, Gothic -𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍃 (-wairþs), Latin vertere (“to turn”) or versus (“toward”), and Sanskrit वर्तते (vártate, “he turns”). Also related to worth (“to become”). Compare verse.
Senses: glosses: Forming adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backward", "toward", "forward", etc.
glosses: Forming adjectives, as in "a backward look", "the northward road", etc; used even by speakers who usually use -wards for adverbs.
villa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪlə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈvɪllɑ/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: villas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian villa, from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.
Senses: examples: text: This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
examples: text: They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bath-room with hot and cold water, electric bells, French windows, and a good deal of white paint, and 'every modern convenience', as the house-agents say.
ref: 1905, E. Nesbit, chapter 1, in The Railway Children, page 1:
glosses: A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
glosses: One’s village or ancestral homeland.
Derived terms: Lake Villa
Villa Grove
Related terms: dacha
villa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪlə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈvɪllɑ/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: villae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of vill and ville.
Senses: glosses: A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
-wards
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /wədz/
ipa: /wɚdz/
ipa: /wɔːdz/
ipa: /wɔɹdz/
Etymology: From Middle English -wardes, from Old English -weardes, a variant of -weard; equivalent to -ward + -s (adverbial suffix). Cognate with German -wärts, Dutch -waarts.
Senses: examples: text: (Katisha:) At once I go Mikado-wards!
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Forming adjectives and adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backwards", "towards", etc.
Related terms: -ward
authentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ɑˈθɛn.tɪk/
Forms: form: more authentic
form: most authentic
form: authentical
form: authentick
form: authenticke
form: authentique
Etymology: From Middle English authentik, from Old French autentique, from Latin authenticus, from Ancient Greek αὐθεντικός (authentikós, “authentic, genuine”), from Ancient Greek αὐθέντης (authéntēs, “perpetrator, murderer, absolute ruler”). Doublet of effendi.
Senses: examples: text: The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.
glosses: Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
examples: text: an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information
text: The report was completely authentic.
glosses: Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating a mode having the final as the lowest note.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating a cadence in which the dominant chord precedes the tonic.
examples: text: [T]here they find Ignatius, and then they beleeve him not for his ovvn Authority, but for a truths ſake, vvhich they derive from elſ vvhere: to vvhat end then ſhould they cite him as authentick for Epiſcopacie, vvhen they cannot knovv vvhat is authentick in him, but by the judgement vvhich they brought vvith them, and not by any judgement vvhich they might ſafely learne from him.
ref: 1641 June or July, [John Milton], Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whither It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Vertue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises: […], London: […] R[ichard] O[ulton] & G[regory] D[exter] for Thomas Underhill, […], →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: Authoritative.
Synonyms: sense: of the claimed origin
word: genuine
sense: of the claimed origin
word: real
sense: of the claimed origin
word: bonafide
sense: of the claimed origin
word: bona fide
sense: of the claimed origin
word: unfaked
sense: conforming to fact
word: reliable
sense: conforming to fact
word: trustworthy
sense: conforming to fact
word: credible
sense: conforming to fact
word: unfaked
Derived terms: authentically
authentic assessment
authenticate
authentication
authentic cadence
authenticism
authenticist
authenticity
authenticize
authentic learning
authenticly
authenticness
fauxthentic
hyperauthentic
superauthentic
submissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈmɪsɪv/
Forms: form: more submissive
form: most submissive
Senses: examples: text: The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court.
ref: 1756, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, G. Bell & sons, page 314:
text: If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
ref: 1913, Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology, Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92
text: Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive.
ref: 2007, Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda, HSRC Press, page 269:
glosses: Meekly obedient or passive; obsequious.
Synonyms: biddable
docile
meek
slavish
timid
obedient
subservient
cowed
Derived terms: word: submissively
word: submissiveness
Related terms: submit
submissive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈmɪsɪv/
Forms: form: submissives
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: sub
antonyms: dominant
;
dominatrix
dominator
dom
glosses: One who submits to a dominating partner in BDSM practices.
examples: text: These "submissives" continued to go along as near as possible following the old routine of their lives and did no overt act to annoy any of the parties of whites that persisted in traveling through their country.
ref: 1961, William Compton Brown, The Indian side of the story:
glosses: One who submits.
OFris.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Old Frisian.
Trevor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛvɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛvə/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -
ref: 1941, Graham Greene, “The Destructors”, in Collected Stories, Heinemann, page 327:
text: The designer of the study, Trevor Dupuy, was a decorated US Army colonel, a noted military historian and a founding faculty member of Harvard University’s Defense Studies Program.
ref: 2021 October 20, Jennifer Tucker, “Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
glosses: A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Trev
Trevor disease
Trevs
Related terms: Trefor
Trevorrow
OHG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OHG.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Old High German.
Icel.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Icelandic.
Goth.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Gothic.
OE.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OE.
OF.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OF.
misologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misologists
Etymology: From misology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who hates or dislikes reasoning or argument.
misoneist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪsəˈniː.ɪst/
/ˌmaɪsəˈniː.ɪst/
Forms: form: misoneists
Etymology: From miso- + neo- + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: neophobe
antonyms: neophile
philoneist
glosses: One who hates or dislikes what is new or innovative.
Derived terms: misoneistic
software architect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: software architects
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: software engineer
;
developer
;
designer
;
computer programmer
programmer
coder#Noun
code monkey
glosses: An architect (not to be confused with a designer) of software based on technology, who prepares plans and superintends construction of that software.
Related terms: architecting
architecture
rearchitecting
rearchitecture
software architecture
forty-two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
ref: 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
glosses: Forty plus two; the cardinal number following forty-one and preceding forty-three.
Synonyms: word: 42
word: XLII
naval architect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naval architects
Senses: glosses: A person who designs ships or who plans and superintends the construction of ships.
strumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Forms: form: strumpets
Etymology: From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).
Senses: examples: text: Em[ilia]. Fie, fie vpon thee ſtrumpet. / Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], pages 88–89:
glosses: A female prostitute.
glosses: A woman who is very sexually active.
glosses: A female adulterer.
glosses: A mistress.
examples: text: He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:
text: We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat; Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on!
ref: 1900, Mark Twain, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated:
text: However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
ref: 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
glosses: A trollop; a whore.
Synonyms: prostitute
promiscuous woman
sexual partner
Derived terms: crumpet
strumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Forms: form: strumpets
form: strumpeting
form: strumpeted
form: strumpeted
Etymology: From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).
Senses: examples: text: My blood is mingled with the crime of lust; / For if we two be one, and thou play false, / I do digest the poison of thy flesh, / Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 153:
glosses: To debauch.
examples: text: That proud man, that vvas / Deny'd the honour of your bed, yet durſt / VVith his untrue reports, ſtrumpet your fame, / Compell'd by mee, hath given himſelfe the lye, / And in his ovvne blood vvrote it, […]
ref: c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, signature G, verso:
glosses: To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.