cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ristorante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ristorantes
Etymology: Italian
Senses: examples: text: Americans who patronized these ristorantes for their liquor often developed a fondness for spaghetti and meatballs...
ref: 2004, Kathleen Morgan Drowne, Patrick Huber, The 1920's:
text: The scene at the European-style bistros and ristorantes is all about business and social networking, just as much as it is at lunch at a restaurant like Michael’s (popular with the publishing crowd), or at dinner at Phillipe (hip-hop moguls, fashion designers).
ref: 2007 January 7, Julia Chaplin, “Breakfast Is Late, So Business Is Good”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Italian restaurant.
revising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revise
zamindar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəˈmiːndɑː/
ipa: /zəˈmiːndɑːɹ/
Forms: form: zamindars
form: zemindar
form: zumeendar
form: Zumeendar
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu زمیندار (zamīndār, “landlord”), from Persian زمیندار.
Senses: examples: text: 1861, Henry Mayhew et al., London Labour and the London Poor, London: C. Griffin, Volume 4, p. 120,
In Bengal there were […] many female zemindars, or village revenue administrators, who were, however, subject to the influence, but not to the authority, of the male members of their family.
text: An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality―a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood.
ref: 1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 2, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 63:
text: Indian princes, zamindars and industrialists engaged him as their counsel and paid him whatever he asked for as fees.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 6:
text: Thus it happened that the approach of the Ibis was witnessed by Raja Neel Rattan Halder, the zemindar of Raskhali, who was on board the palatial barge with his eight-year-old son and a sizeable retune of attendants.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 39:
text: The power of the zamindars, who were mainly Brahmin or Rajput, was challenged in a series of peasant movements between 1919 and 1921, when Charan Singh was in his late teens.
ref: 2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 402:
glosses: An Indian landowner who collected local taxes and paid them to the British government.
Derived terms: zamindari
zemindarate
rasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæs.tə/
rhymes: -æstə
Forms: form: rastas
Etymology: Short for Rastafarian or Rastafari.
Senses: glosses: Rastafarian
glosses: Diminutive of rastaquouère
Derived terms: rasta hat
Related terms: rasta roko
oxycodone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.sɪˈkəʊ.dəʊn/
ipa: /ˌɑk.sɪˈkoʊˌdoʊn/
Etymology: From (hydr)oxy + cod(eine) + -one.
Senses: examples: text: They ingest Ambien, Seroquel, LSD, Adderall, Oxycodone, cocaine, Flexeril, Percocet, psilocybin mushrooms and codeine.
ref: 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: oxy
hillbilly heroin
glosses: An addictive, semisynthetic opioid (trademark OxyContin) that is similar to morphine in effect and structure; C₁₈H₂₁NO₄.
Derived terms: noroxycodone
oxycodoned
peignoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peignoirs
Etymology: Borrowed from French peignoir.
Senses: glosses: A long outer garment for women, usually sheer and made of chiffon and often sold with matching nightgown, negligee or underwear.
glosses: A cape worn to protect the clothes while having one's hair cut.
jupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zho͞op
ipa: /ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: jupes
Etymology: From Middle English jupe, from Middle French jupe. Doublet of jubbah.
Senses: glosses: A style of skirt.
glosses: A style of short jacket, usually for a woman or child.
Related terms: jupe panel
jupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zho͞op
ipa: /ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
enpr: jo͞op
ipa: /d͡ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
enpr: zho͞op
ipa: /ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: jupes
Etymology: Apparently named after an EFnet user called Jupiter who did this to NickServ
Senses: topics: IRC
glosses: A block placed on a server, nickname or channel.
jupe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: zho͞op
ipa: /ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
enpr: jo͞op
ipa: /d͡ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
enpr: zho͞op
ipa: /ʒuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: jupes
form: juping
form: juped
form: juped
Etymology: Apparently named after an EFnet user called Jupiter who did this to NickServ
Senses: topics: IRC
glosses: To block a server (from joining the network) or a nickname or channel (from being used).
Related terms: g-line
k-line
Q-line
chaussure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊˈsjʊɚ/
ipa: /ʃəʊˈsʊɚ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chaussures
Etymology: Borrowed from French chaussure.
Senses: glosses: Any footwear.
culotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culottes
Etymology: Borrowed from French culotte f.
Senses: glosses: singular of culottes
chemise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈmiːz/
ipa: /ʃəˈmiːs/
ipa: /ʃəˈmiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: chemises
Etymology: From French chemise, from Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisa, camisia ("shirt, undergarment, nightgown"; whence Old English cemes (“shirt”)), from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”) (whence Old English hemeþe, Old High German hemidi, modern German Hemd (“shirt”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”).
Cognate also with Saterland Frisian Hoamd (“shirt”), Dutch hemd (“shirt”), Old English ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). See also shimmy, from a dialectal variant. More at hame.
Senses: glosses: A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
glosses: A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
glosses: A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
glosses: A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
Derived terms: chemiloon
chemise cagoule
chemised
chemise lifter
chemisette
Related terms: camis
shimmy
baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basket
baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of basket
ceinture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænˈt(j)ʊ(ə)r/
ipa: /sãˈtʃʊə/
Forms: form: ceintures
Etymology: Borrowed from French ceinture. Doublet of cincture.
Senses: examples: text: Beneath the cape she wears a bell-sleeved purple gown with gold ceinture.
ref: 2018, Will Eaves, Murmur, Canongate, published 2018, page 96:
glosses: A belt or girdle.
homosex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homosexes
Etymology: From homo- + sex. Attested since the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: "I don't know what they take me for, or how old they think their kids are. But I had to promise to watch you all 100% of the time to make sure there would be - and I quote - 'no sex or homosex'. Because I guess that's a word now."
ref: 2013 March 3, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 336 - Insufferable:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: word: gay sex
antonyms: heterosex
glosses: Homosexual sexual intercourse.
manche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
Forms: form: manches
Etymology: Borrowed from French manche. Doublet of maunch.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maunch (“a sleeve”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The neck of a violin.
pyjama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pajama
Senses: examples: text: They[…] have joined the pyjama parade, proposing sleepwear as outerwear as the new way to dress up for an evening of entertaining at home or on the town.
ref: 2009 February 12, Derick Chetty, “Proper attire for the bedroom”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Attributive form of pyjamas.
Derived terms: pyjama injunction
pyjama paralysis
pyjama party
pyjama shark
gurning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gurnings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of girning.
gurning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gurn
Rastafarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɑː.stəˈfɑːɹiən/
ipa: /ˌɹɑː.stəˈfɛəɹiən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Rastafarians
Etymology: From Rastafari + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Rasta
Rastafari
glosses: An adherent of Rastafarianism.
Derived terms: Pastafarian
Rastafarianism
RESTafarian
trustafarian
Rastafarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɑː.stəˈfɑːɹiən/
ipa: /ˌɹɑː.stəˈfɛəɹiən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Rastafari + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Rasta
Rastafari
glosses: Of or relating to Rastafarianism or its adherents.
couper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coupers
form: coper
Etymology: From coup (“to exchange, barter”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I think the Yorkshire story of the farmer who sold his old horse to a couper at a fair, then got very drunk on his good bargain, and bought him back at the end of the day with painted legs and filed teeth as a young horse, might have a kindred story among Daffodil-bulb buyers.
ref: 1893, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, page 95:
text: John Henderson, a cow couper in Swinton, Berwickshire, towards the close of the last century, was very fond of a dram.
ref: 1896, Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland, page 421:
glosses: A dealer in horses or other livestock.
commensurately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more commensurately
form: most commensurately
Etymology: From commensurate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to be a very fortuitous mistake for their targets for as long as it lasts.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 12:25 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
text: One thing heterofatalism reflects is a persistent lack of faith that those we desire will be able to recognize us as commensurately human.
ref: 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025:
synonyms: adequately
proportionately
glosses: In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate.
glosses: With equal measure or extent.
Bordeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bôr-dōʹ
ipa: /bɔɹˈdoʊ/
ipa: /bɔːˈdəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: bordeaux
Etymology: From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Gironde department, France; the capital city of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Derived terms: Lake Bordeaux B
Bordeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bôr-dōʹ
ipa: /bɔɹˈdoʊ/
ipa: /bɔːˈdəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Bordeaux
form: Bordeauxes
form: Bordeauxs
form: bordeaux
Etymology: From French Bordeaux (Middle French Bordeaulx), from Occitan Bordèu, from Old Occitan Bordel, from Latin Burdigala, from a Proto-Celtic root.
Senses: examples: text: We had a nice bottle of Bordeaux last night.
text: Some fine Bordeauxes and Cabernets actually grow smoother as they sit, and are better served seven or eight years old.
ref: 1989, Upscale: The Successful Black Magazine, page 68:
glosses: A wine coming from that area.
examples: text: The two Bordeauxs used differed only in the percentage of lime which they contained.
ref: 1898, Annual Report of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Stations:
text: The patent Bordeauxs which are on the market have not been shown to be any less liable to produce injury than the home-made mixtures, amd many of them have proven quite inefficient in controlling diseases.
ref: 1911, Station Bulletin, volumes 152–165, page 28:
text: Contrary to the views of many of the backers of Pickering Bordeaux, we have found a three to one Bordeaux just as good a fungicide as a Bordeaux in which only just enough lime is used to throw down all of the copper as a precipitate.
ref: 1925, Drug and Chemical Markets, volume 16, page 338:
text: Avoid overhead irrigation After harvest and before fall rains, prune out and destroy old wood and apply a Bordeaux or a fixed copper fungicide. Spray again in spring when new laterals are leafing out[.]
ref: 1998, Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide:
glosses: Ellipsis of Bordeaux mixture.
nympho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmfoʊ/
Forms: form: nymphos
form: nymphoes
Etymology: Clipping of nymphomaniac.
Senses: glosses: A nymphomaniac.
nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnætʃəʊz/
ipa: /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊz/
ipa: /nɑt͡ʃɒs /
rhymes: (General American) -ɑtʃoʊz
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish nachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio (“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican dish of tortilla chips, covered in melted cheese and sometimes other ingredients.
Derived terms: my very educated mother just served us nachos
naco
reheat nachos
reheat someone's nachos
totchos
want someone's nachos
nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnætʃəʊz/
ipa: /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊz/
ipa: /nɑt͡ʃɒs /
rhymes: (General American) -ɑtʃoʊz
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish nachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio (“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943.
Senses: glosses: plural of nacho
nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnætʃəʊz/
ipa: /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊz/
ipa: /nɑt͡ʃɒs /
rhymes: (General American) -ɑtʃoʊz
ipa: /ˈnɑxəs/
ipa: /ˈnætʃəʊz/
ipa: /ˈnɑt͡ʃoʊz/
ipa: /nɑt͡ʃɒs /
rhymes: (General American) -ɑtʃoʊz
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naches.
mont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒn/
ipa: /mɒ̃(n)/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: mon
homophone: monts
Forms: form: monts
Etymology: Borrowed from French mont.
Senses: glosses: mount; mountain.
Derived terms: Mont Blanc
Related terms: mount
mountain
Mont Blanc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒ̃ ˈblɒ̃(k)/
ipa: /ˌmɔn ˈblɑnk/
ipa: /ˌmɑn-/
ipa: /-ˈblɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: Borrowed from French mont Blanc (literally “white mountain”), from mont (“mount”) + blanc (“white”).
Senses: glosses: The highest mountain in Europe, in the Alps between France and Italy.
Derived terms: Mont Blanc ruby
Mont Blanc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒ̃ ˈblɒ̃(k)/
ipa: /ˌmɔn ˈblɑnk/
ipa: /ˌmɑn-/
ipa: /-ˈblɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: Mont Blancs
form: mont blanc
Etymology: Borrowed from French mont Blanc (literally “white mountain”), from mont (“mount”) + blanc (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: ... chestnut purée is often minimally altered. A Mont Blanc, for example, showcases its slightly sticky, candied attraction with only a little whipped cream and meringue to temper it.
ref: 2022 September 27, Aleksandra Crapanzano, Gateau: The Surprising Simplicity of French Cakes, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 116:
text: A Mont Blanc is a celebration of decadent chestnut cream, a particularly beloved and nostalgic French flavor, and is eaten primarily around Christmas.
ref: 2024 February 13, Kimberly Zerkel, The French Bakery Cookbook: Over 85 Authentic Recipes That Bring the Boulangerie Into Your Home, →ISBN, page 193:
text: "I cut a slice of Mont Blanc for you. Here you go." The Mont Blanc on the fork had been beautifully split into four, and the layers of cream and sponge cake inside were visible. "This is all yours! I added a whole chestnut on top too!"
ref: 2024 September 9, Itsuki Mizuho, To Another World... with Land Mines! Volume 9, J-Novel Club, →ISBN:
text: ... a Mont Blanc pudding of chestnut purée and cream. After Yvonne said this was one of Ninette's favourite dishes, he sent a bowl to the Palace with a card saying it was for the Dreyfus sisters and Manon. Ninette sent chocolates in[…]
ref: 2025 January 23, John Jay, Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France, Profile Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A dessert consisting of chestnut purée which has been riced or extruded into vermicelli-like noodles.
moisturiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moisturisers
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of moisturizer.
misspent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: examples: text: He had a misspent youth.
glosses: Spent in a bad way, squandered
misspent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misspend
miscarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈkæɹi/
rhymes: -æɹi
Forms: form: miscarries
form: miscarrying
form: miscarried
form: miscarried
Etymology: From Middle English miscarien, equivalent to mis- + carry.
Senses: glosses: To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
glosses: To go astray; to do something wrong.
glosses: To have a miscarriage; to involuntarily abort a foetus.
examples: text: So, if a Sonne that is by his Father ſent about Merchandize, doe ſinfully miſcarry vpon the Sea; the imputation of his vvickedneſſe, by your rule, ſhould be impoſed vpon his Father that ſent him: […]
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 IV, scene i], page 84, column 2:
text: Pluto observing, since the Peace,
The Burial Article decrease;
And, vext to see Affairs miscarry,
Declar'd in Council, Death must marry […]
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:
glosses: To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
examples: text: Sir Nathaniel, this Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: It likewise alluded to several letters, which, as it appeared to me, must have miscarried or have been intercepted,[…].
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 88:
text: Since the luckless Friday morning he had neither been seen nor heard of; day after day, Adeline had trusted to receive a letter, but in those times posts were slow and uncertain, messengers and couriers were often employed instead; and the hope might reasonably be clung to of a letter having miscarried.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter VII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 144:
glosses: Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.
Derived terms: miscarriage
kroner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Norwegian government said 1.25 billion kroner, or $186 million (U.S.), worth of Barrick stock and 249 million kroner ($67 million) worth of Textron stock was sold quietly ahead of the announcement to avoid influencing the market.
ref: 2009 January 31, “Norway sheds stock of Barrick, Textron”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: plural of krone
kissable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kissable
form: most kissable
Etymology: From kiss + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being kissed.
examples: text: She's got such a kissable face.
text: Us girls, we are so magical / Soft skin, red lips, so kissable / Hard to resist, so touchable / Too good to deny it / Ain't no big deal, it's innocent
ref: 2008 April 28, Katy Perry, Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, “I Kissed a Girl”, in One of the Boys, performed by Katy Perry:
glosses: Attractive, so as to invite kissing.
Derived terms: kissableness
kissably
unkissable
habilitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habilitate
form: most habilitate
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre (“to enable”).
Senses: examples: text: persons[…]not legal, nor habilitate to serve in Parliament,
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Qualified or entitled.
habilitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: habilitates
form: habilitating
form: habilitated
form: habilitated
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre (“to enable”).
Senses: glosses: To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
glosses: To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
glosses: In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
glosses: To supply money to work a mine.
Synonyms: capacitate
Derived terms: habilitation
habilitative
habilitator
prehabilitated
unhabilitated
Related terms: enable
qualify
moisturizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moisturizers
form: moisturiser
Etymology: From moisturize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The oil acts as a moisturizer to the wood.
glosses: Something that causes moisture or a condition of wetness; something that makes things moist.
glosses: Moisturising cream, emollient.
copperhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copperheads
Etymology: From copper + head.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
glosses: Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
A water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
glosses: Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
A Chinese copperhead (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
glosses: Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
Any Australian copperhead (Austrelaps spp.), a venomous elapid found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
glosses: Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.
A copperhead rat snake (Coelognathus radiatus, syn. Elaphe radiata), a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia.
glosses: Someone with ginger hair.
cavemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caveman
bullion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl.jən/
Forms: form: bullions
Etymology: From Middle English bulloin, bullioun, from Anglo-Norman bullion, of obscure origin, perhaps from French bouillon, extending the sense to that of ‘melting’. Middle Dutch boelioen (“base metal”) seems to have come from the unrelated French billon.
Senses: examples: text: If the mint kept back one per cent, to pay the expense of coinage, it would be against the interest of the holders of bullion to have it coined, until the coin was more valuable than the bullion by at least that fraction.
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, chapter VI, in Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, book III (Exchange), page 25:
glosses: A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
examples: text: And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion, go for current now.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: Base or uncurrent coin.
examples: text: To beholde how it was garnysshyd and bounde, […]
The claspis and bullyons were worth a thousande pounde; […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 345, lines 1154–1165:
glosses: Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
examples: text: The hair was plaited with bullion and red riband, and then wound round the head, something after the fashion of a turban, save that it entirely displayed the forehead.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 257:
glosses: A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: bullseye
glosses: The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
Derived terms: bullionaire
bullioned
bullionism
bullionist
bullionize
bullionless
doré bullion
Related terms: word: billet
word: billon
english: possibly related
translation: possibly related
word: bouillon
belles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belle
whist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭst
ipa: /wɪst/
enpr: hwĭst
ipa: /ʍɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: wist (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whists
Etymology: Alteration of whisk, perhaps so called from the notion of “whisking” up cards after each trick. Altered perhaps on assumption that the word was an interjection invoking silence, by influence of whist (“silent”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
glosses: A session of playing this card game.
Derived terms: bid whist
bridge whist
Chinese whist
domino whist
dummy whist
German whist
honeymoon whist
long whist
Minnesota whist
Norwegian whist
Russian whist
Scotch whist
Scots whist
short whist
solo whist
Related terms: Whist in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
whist
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭst
ipa: /wɪst/
enpr: hwĭst
ipa: /ʍɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: wist (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From Middle English whist (“silent”), possibly onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: … for scarcely had they descended one hundred feet, when a low “whist” from the girl, warned them of present danger.
ref: 1860, anonymous author, Heroes and Hunters of the West, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
glosses: Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!
whist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭst
ipa: /wɪst/
enpr: hwĭst
ipa: /ʍɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: wist (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whists
form: whisting
form: whisted
form: whisted
Etymology: From Middle English whist (“silent”), possibly onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: o was the Titaness put downe and whist
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To hush or shush; to still.
examples: text: The fields whist, beasts, and fowls of divers bue
ref: 1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:
glosses: To become silent.
whist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭst
ipa: /wɪst/
enpr: hwĭst
ipa: /ʍɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: wist (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: more whist
form: most whist
Etymology: From Middle English whist (“silent”), possibly onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands: / Courtsied when you have and kiss'd / The wild waves whist, / Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Silent, hushed.
strip poker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of poker where a player removes an item of clothing each time they lose a round or hand.
snowcone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowcones
Etymology: From snow + cone.
Senses: glosses: A frozen dessert consisting of crushed ice and colored fruit flavoring, usually served in a cone or a cup.
Derived terms: snowclone
Related terms: frozen yogurt
ice cream
shaved ice
shortbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortbreads
Etymology: From short (“brittle, of pastry”) + bread.
Senses: glosses: A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.
Derived terms: double shortbread
millionaire shortbread
scientifiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.ən.tɪˈfɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Etymology: Blend of scientific + fiction. Coined by Hugo Gernsback in 1916.
Senses: examples: text: I am supposed to report Münchhaussen's^([sic]) doings; am supposed to be writing fiction, scientifiction, to be correct.
ref: 1916 January, Hugo Gernsback, Electrical Experimenter, page 474:
text: 1926, Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories, "A New Sort of Magazine"
There is the usual fiction magazine, the love story and the sex-appeal type of magazine, the adventure type, and so on, but a magazine of "Scientifiction" is a pioneer in its field in America. By "scientifiction" I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision.
text: Lewis's novels are the scientifiction of a philosopher.
ref: 1949, Chad Walsh, C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics:
glosses: Science fiction.
Synonyms: science fiction
sci-fi
SF
Derived terms: scientifictional
stf
Related terms: fantasy
speculative fiction
rambler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ramblers
Etymology: From ramble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Category B listing for this footbridge is well-warranted - just ask any rambler who has enjoyed it as an industrial jewel in the above-the-River-Teviot portion of Border Abbeys Way.
ref: 2023 October 18, Dr Joseph Brennan, “On the track of fabulous footbridges: Roxburgh”, in RAIL, number 994, page 59:
glosses: A recreational walker, a hiker.
glosses: A drifter, a vagabond
glosses: One who rambles.
glosses: Synonym of rambling rose.
synonyms: word: rambling rose
examples: text: I like being mother and wife. We've lived in a rambler in West Valley City, Utah for three years.
ref: 2002, Marcia Tuttle, Turning Thirty/Forty/Fifty: A Journal, page 3:
glosses: A ranch-style house.
Derived terms: rambler gate
rambler rose
Related terms: ramble
rambling
Oktoberfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oktoberfests
form: Octoberfest
Etymology: From German Oktoberfest.
Senses: examples: text: These Oktoberfests always resulted in bitter physical complaints, (“My liver is swelled to the thickness of seven inches, and I have spiders in my urine”), but they served for him the same peculiar function that all-night country-club gin parties were serving elsewhere.
ref: 1951, William Manchester, Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H. L. Mencken, page 143:
text: Joe Rogers writes that he and Jean are headed for Germany and are quite pleased with the prospect. They must have heard about these Oktoberfests.
ref: 1957, Assembly, page 61:
text: This includes interpreters for many of the world’s languages and 50 dirndl-clad waitresses versed in the intricacies of serving at Munich Oktoberfests.
ref: 1960, The Bulletin, page 8:
glosses: A two-week public festival in Munich (Bavaria, southern Germany), held yearly in late September and early October, known especially for the large party tents in which revellers consume beer on long benches.
hymnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪmnɪk/
Etymology: From hymn + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: hymnal
hymnical
glosses: Of or relating to hymns.
Derived terms: hymnically
lymphoproliferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphoproliferations
Etymology: From lympho- + proliferation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The excessive production of lymphocytes.
Related terms: lymphoproliferate
lymphoproliferative
tippler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪplə/
Forms: form: tipplers
Etymology: From tipple + -er (“agent”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.
Senses: examples: text: It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.
ref: 1567, regulation, quoted in 1894, William John Monk, History of Witney, page 111
text: [...] and that expresse charge be given to every keeper of any Tavern, Inne, Cookshouse, Tobacco-house, Alehouse, or any other tipler or victualler whatsoever within your ward, [...]
ref: 1641 April 13, “By the Major. The Order of the House of Commons to the Lord Major, for the due observing the Sabbath day”, in Speeches and passages of this great and happy Parliament, page 400:
text: and a penalty is omposed on the sale or delivery of any ale or beer, except for household use, to any person who sells it as a common tippler or ale-house keeper, unless he has a license in force.
ref: 1876, Stephen Dowell, A sketch of the history of Taxes in England from the earliest times to the present day, vol. 1, page 356:
glosses: A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house or tavern.
examples: text: […]they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
text: He had, in truth, drunk very little - not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections[.]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 47:
glosses: A habitual drinker; a bibber.
glosses: A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
examples: text: Ackers was working as a tippler operator. His mate, L. Beveridge, saw that Ackers had tipped a full skip and Beveridge allowed another full skip to gravitate to Acker's tippler.
ref: 1955, New South Wales. Department of Mines, Report of the Department of Mines, New South Wales, page 44:
text: A shaft runround was made to conduct the empties from the tippler to the empty side of the shaft where they would rejoin the old circuit.
ref: 1960, The Iron and Coal Trades' Review - Volume 180, page 1411:
qualifier: railroad
glosses: An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
topics: business
mining
glosses: One who works at a tipple.
examples: text: Unloading is by tipplers on to a moving conveyor at the power station, which naturally involves uncoupling individual wagons.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: A Scottish coal circuit working”, in Modern Railways, page 299, photo caption:
glosses: Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.
Synonyms: sense: drinker
word: bibber
carillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carillon
carillons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carillon
Monophysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈnɒfɪsaɪt/
Forms: form: Monophysites
form: monophysite
Etymology: From Medieval Latin monophysita, from Byzantine Greek μονοφυσίτης (monophusítēs), from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “single”) + φύσις (phúsis, “nature”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of a Christian sect which held that Jesus Christ has one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian view that Christ has two natures, both fully man and fully God, and is co-eternal and co-substantial with the Father.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of the Oriental Orthodox Church.
Coordinate terms: Monothelete
Related terms: monophysitism
Monophysitism
Arianism
Nestorianism
obstreperously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more obstreperously
form: most obstreperously
Etymology: From obstreperous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: In an obstreperous manner.
Nestorianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nestorianisms
Etymology: From Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople (consecrated 428).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The Christological doctrine ascribed to Nestorius, condemned as heretical by the Council of Ephesus but later also ascribed to the Church of the East, holding that within Christ there are two distinct hypostases, divine and human.
glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Church of the East.
Related terms: Nestorian
Arianism
hypostatic union
monophysitism
crosier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊzi.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɹəʊʒə/
enpr: krōʹzhər
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊʒɚ/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊʒə
Forms: form: crosiers
form: crozier
Etymology: From Middle English ; originally referring to the staff bearer, from a merger of Old French words crocier (“bearer of a cross”) and croisier (“one who bears or has to do with a cross”), ultimately from Latin crux (“cross”).
Senses: glosses: A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead
Derived terms: belt of the crozier
crosiered
crozier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croziers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crosier.
3D job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3D jobs
Etymology: Literally: Dirty, Dangerous and Demanding (or Difficult, Demeaning) job. Calque of Japanese 3K (3K).
Senses: glosses: A menial blue-collar job often performed by migrants.
cruet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹu.ɪt/
Forms: form: cruets
form: crewet
Etymology: From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cruet, diminutive of Old French crue (“an earthen pot”), from Old Saxon krūka.
Senses: examples: text: "By Jupiter there's vinegar!" I heard him say to his friend, after he had stood on tiptoe an immense time, and had been crushed and beaten on all sides. "And there's oil!! I saw them distinctly, in cruets! Can any gentleman, in front there, see mustard on the table? Sir, will you oblige me! Do you see a Mustard-Pot?"
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, “Rome”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 223:
text: The sideboard was covered with glistening old plate—old cups, both gold and silver; old salvers and cruet-stands, like Rundell and Bridge's shop.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter VIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: It must always be done at night, so that Jurgis could go along; and even if it were only a pepper cruet, or half a dozen glasses for ten cents, that was enough for an expedition.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter V, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
synonyms: caster
glosses: A small bottle or container used to hold a condiment, such as salt, pepper, oil, or vinegar, for use at a dining table.
examples: text: He[…]even had a second slice of lamb, for he was hungry. During the meal, as was his custom, he read from a book propped up against the cruet.
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
glosses: A stand for these containers.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A small vessel used to hold wine or water for the Eucharist.
Derived terms: cruet set
errands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of errand
errands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of errand
tombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomb
tombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tomb
complexity theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The professor of complexity theory says that the problem can be solved in polynomial time.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The study and classification of decision problems by the computational resources—such as time and space—needed by the programs that solve the problems.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: chaos theory
Derived terms: complexologist
Related terms: complex
complexitism
complexitist
complexologist
complexology
incomprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + comprehension.
Senses: examples: text: Stephen blushed; and his father looked from one to the other in a state of utter incomprehension.
ref: 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes:
text: (...) and the wearied worker, borne at evening through crowded undergrounds, might read his name with a listless incomprehension.
ref: 1901, M. P. Shiel, The Lord of the Sea:
text: Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.
ref: 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies:
text: The aide gave the old men in Ward Two their medicine, and they joked with her. Shevek watched with dull incomprehension.
ref: 1974, Ursula Leguin, The Dispossessed:
text: 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
As a guest lecturer in Nelson's class, Miller ran through his ideas for a Xanadu-like software system. Afterward, he was approached by one of the students, Stuart Greene. Miller asked Greene what the reaction to his ideas had been. Not so good, Greene informed him. As always, the class had listened in dumb incomprehension. They seldom understood what Nelson was talking about […]
glosses: Lack of comprehension or understanding; inability to understand.
Derived terms: incomprehensible
incomprehensive
forint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒ.ɹɪnt/
ipa: /ˈfɔ.ɹɪnt/
Forms: form: forints
Etymology: From Hungarian forint, from Italian fiorino (“florin, former currency of Tuscany”). Doublet of florin.
Senses: examples: text: Better yet, there were no cover charges, and we didn’t bother to order drinks in half the spots. So, despite having a Slovak beer and shots of both the traditional Hungarian fruit spirit palinka and the bittersweet digestif Unicum, the entire evening cost 2,000 forints, under $10.
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The basic unit of currency of Hungary; formerly subdivided into 100 fillér.
hostname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostnames
Etymology: From host + name.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: domain name
word: nodename
glosses: The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer or other network device's Internet domain name; a fully qualified hostname.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period; an unqualified hostname.
Related terms: domain name
Internet address
IP address
TLD
URL
shamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmbl̩/
Forms: form: shambles
form: shambling
form: shambled
form: shambled
Etymology: From Middle English schambyll, shamyll, schamel, from Old English sċeamol, scamol (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil, from Proto-Germanic *skamulaz, *skamilaz, from Latin scamellum, a variant of scabellum (“footstool”). Cognate with Dutch schemel (“footstool, bench”), German Schemel (“stool”), Danish skammel (“stool”). Icelandic skemill (“footstool”).
Senses: examples: text: I wasn't too impressed with the fellow, when he shambled in unenthusiastically and an hour late.
text: The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; [...]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 64, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 328:
glosses: To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
Synonyms: shuffle
stagger
Related terms: amble
shamble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmbl̩/
Forms: form: shambles
Etymology: From Middle English schambyll, shamyll, schamel, from Old English sċeamol, scamol (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil, from Proto-Germanic *skamulaz, *skamilaz, from Latin scamellum, a variant of scabellum (“footstool”). Cognate with Dutch schemel (“footstool, bench”), German Schemel (“stool”), Danish skammel (“stool”). Icelandic skemill (“footstool”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.
Related terms: shambles
stumble