cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌf/
ipa: /t͡ʃɐf/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: chough
Forms: form: chuffs
form: chuffing
form: chuffed
form: chuffed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare chug and puff.
Senses: examples: text: The horses stumbled along, coughing and chuffing.
ref: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman At The Store”, in Selected Short Stories:
text: […] and the small lit up train that chuffed past in the cutting made it seem like real night.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: They walk together in silence while behind them a freight train chuffs and screaks through the crossing.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 64:
text: The pigeons chuff and chortle off in indignant disappointment.
ref: 1990, John Updike, 'Rabbit at Rest':
text: Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
glosses: To break wind.
examples: text: 1967 Leo Allen Lukenas: The ignition transient in small solid propellant rocket motors. Princeton University
Double base propellants often require ignition pressures of as much as 400 psia to avoid the problem of chuffing or hangfires.
text: The original work of Huffington on chuffing and oscillatory burning of cordite goes back to the beginning of the 1950s.
ref: 1992, Luigi De Luca, Martin Summerfield, Nonsteady Burning and Combustion Stability of Solid Propellants, →ISBN:
text: Chuffing followed by full recovery to normal functioning (Figure 3)
ref: 1999, William G. Reinecke, Ballistics 18th International Symposium, →ISBN, page 357:
text: The pressure at which chuffing occurs depends on the powder composition and on the temperature of the charge. The lowering of the initial charge temperature facilitates chuffing.
ref: 2014, V. I. Feodosiev, G. B. Siniarev, Introduction to Rocket Technology, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
chuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌf/
ipa: /t͡ʃɐf/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: chough
Forms: form: chuffs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare chug and puff.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
scriptwriting
writing
glosses: Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
examples: text: Then the brass bell on top of the boiler rings out and a single massive chuff! of steam issues from the bowels of the loco. Then another chuff! – a blast of steam – another chuff! and the huge drive shafts tighten against the wheels.
ref: 2010, Don Gayton, Okanagan Odyssey: Journeys Through Terrain, Terroir and Culture, page 82:
glosses: A noisy puffing sound.
glosses: A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
chuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌf/
ipa: /t͡ʃɐf/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: chough
Forms: form: more chuff
form: most chuff
Etymology: 1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”. Possibly related to “coarse, stupid, fat-headed” sense (see etymology 1 above). Or, perhaps a euphemistic alteration of fuck or another expletive.
Senses: glosses: Pleased, proud.
glosses: Swollen with fat.
glosses: Swollen.
raw_tags: of cheeks
Synonyms: sense: swollen
word: chuffy
Derived terms: sense: pleased
word: chuffed
chuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌf/
ipa: /t͡ʃɐf/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: chough
Forms: form: chuffs
Etymology: 1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”. Possibly related to “coarse, stupid, fat-headed” sense (see etymology 1 above). Or, perhaps a euphemistic alteration of fuck or another expletive.
Senses: glosses: The vagina.
examples: text: The car behind was following too close — it was right up my chuff.
glosses: The anus.
Derived terms: gnat's chuff
the chuff
chuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌf/
ipa: /t͡ʃɐf/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: chough
Forms: form: chuffs
form: chuffing
form: chuffed
form: chuffed
Etymology: 1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”. Possibly related to “coarse, stupid, fat-headed” sense (see etymology 1 above). Or, perhaps a euphemistic alteration of fuck or another expletive.
Senses: examples: text: Oh chuff off! I'm so chuffing fed up with all of the spam posts on my timeline.
glosses: Used as a replacement for obscenities, particularly fuck.
chug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭg
ipa: /t͡ʃʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: chugs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, in imitation of a working steam engine. The racial slur sense derives from the stereotype of Native Americans chugging alcohol.
Senses: glosses: A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
examples: text: He drank his beer in three chugs.
glosses: A large gulp of drink.
glosses: A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
glosses: A person of Native American descent.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (Especially in metal) A palm muted note on a distorted electric guitar.
Derived terms: chugalug
chuggy
chug-wagon
kerchug
chug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭg
ipa: /t͡ʃʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: chugs
form: chugging
form: chugged
form: chugged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, in imitation of a working steam engine. The racial slur sense derives from the stereotype of Native Americans chugging alcohol.
Senses: glosses: To make dull explosive sounds.
examples: text: We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.
text: The inn also offers adventure packages, including ziplining and a truck safari, where a military vehicle chugs up the side of a muddy mountain.
ref: 2008 May 6, Katie Zezima, “Can M-U-D Really Spell M-O-N-E-Y?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
examples: text: Outside, beyond the sun-baked station yard, a rice mill chugged away in the distance, and sweating coolies unloaded bags of rice from creaking bullock carts.
ref: 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
text: Before the year was out, the girls were out of school and the foursome's "Tell Him" was chuggin’ up the charts.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 130:
text: As the escort carriers chug away south, their single 5-inch rear guns are now cleared to open fire as the range closes.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 24:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
text: I kept chugging away on ion, adjusting my path so I'd hit perikron in the B ring with orbital velocity.
ref: 2008 February 24, James L. Cambias, “Balancing Accounts”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 114, page 20:
text: For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace.
examples: text: Chug! Chug! Chug!
text: I can't believe he chugged three beers.
glosses: To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.
examples: text: My game chugs every time too many NPCs are onscreen.
topics: video-games
glosses: To function or perform with difficulty, typically due to inadequate resources or performance limitations.
Derived terms: butt chug
chug away
chuggable
chugger
chuggingly
plug and chug
chug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭg
ipa: /t͡ʃʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: chugs
Etymology: Blend of chihuahua + pug
Senses: glosses: A dog that is a cross between a pug and a chihuahua.
chug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭg
ipa: /t͡ʃʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: chugs
form: chugging
form: chugged
form: chugged
Etymology: Blend of charity + mug (“to violently rob on the street”)
Senses: examples: text: I got chugged in the town centre today.
glosses: To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner.
cite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sīt
ipa: /saɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: sight
homophone: site
Forms: form: cites
form: citing
form: cited
form: cited
Etymology: From Old French citer, from Latin citare (“to cause to move, excite, summon”), frequentative of ciēre (“to rouse, excite, call”). Sense 4 is the original one.
Senses: examples: text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
examples: text: Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To mention; to make mention of.
examples: text: Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay person and a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in her local, though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.
ref: 1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 18:
text: Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths in Morocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
ref: 2018 October 26, Chris Fitch, “Reintroduction of military conscription in Morocco”, in Geographical, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
glosses: To mention; to make mention of.
To mention by way of explanation.
glosses: To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
examples: text: According to the tribe’s chairman, rangers cited five of the demonstrators, who had traveled to Nevada from New York, Washington, California and the European country of Malta. The chairman did not say what they were cited for.
ref: 2023 August 29, “Tribal ranger draws weapon on climate activists blocking road to Burning Man; conduct under review”, in AP News:
topics: law
glosses: To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
Derived terms: citability
citable
cital
cocite
miscite
overcite
re-cite
subcite
Related terms: citation
attest
quote
cite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīt
ipa: /saɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: sight
homophone: site
Forms: form: cites
Etymology: From the first syllable of citation. Analogous to quote, from quotation.
Senses: examples: text: We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
related: word: cit
glosses: A citation.
Derived terms: citeless
citogenesis
citied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more citied
form: most citied
Etymology: From city + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Hast any mortal name, / Fit appellation for this dazzling frame? / Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth, / To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part II, page 32:
glosses: Containing, or covered with, cities.
citric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹɪk/
Etymology: From citrus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: An orange-scented road to Harbor was what Christine expected, because three times the aroma had accompanied her escapes. The first was on foot, the second by bus, and each time the orange trees lining the road marked her flight with a light citric perfume.
ref: 2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 82:
synonyms: citrous
citrus#Adjective
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, citrus fruit.
Derived terms: citraconic
citrate
citric acid
homocitric
isocitric
noncitric
pyrocitric
clad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæd/
rhymes: -æd
Etymology: From Middle English clad, cladde, cled(e), cledde, past tense and past participle forms of clethen (“(also figurative) to put clothing on, clothe, dress; to provide clothing to; to arm, equip; to cover, envelop; to conceal; to adorn”), from Old English clǣþan (past tense clǣþde, *clædde), from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþijan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to adhere, cling, stick to”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clothe
clonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈklɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more clonic
form: most clonic
Etymology: From clonus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Hospital attendants stand by to drag the children off, drooling, screaming, having clonic convulsions.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: Pertaining to clonus; having irregular, convulsive spasms.
Derived terms: clonicity
tonic-clonic
clot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: clots
form: clout
Etymology: From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.
Senses: glosses: A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
examples: text: and nothing elſe but euen, A heauie lump and clottred clod of ſeedes togither driuen)
ref: 1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:
text: Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: A solidified mass of any liquid.
glosses: A silly person.
Derived terms: anticlot
blood clot
clot retraction time
clotshot
clotty
clutter
coroner's clot
euglobulin clot lysis time
microclot
periclot
clot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: clots
form: clotting
form: clotted
form: clotted
form: clout
Etymology: From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.
Senses: examples: text: When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.
ref: 2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023:
glosses: To form a clot or mass.
examples: text: They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: To cause to clot or form into a mass.
Derived terms: clottability
clottable
clotting factor
clottish
kaolin clotting time
cloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: cloys
form: cloying
form: cloyed
form: cloyed
Etymology: From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.
Senses: glosses: To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
glosses: To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
examples: text: Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
Synonyms: sense: fill or choke up
word: block
sense: fill or choke up
word: block up
sense: fill or choke up
word: choke
sense: fill or choke up
word: fill
sense: fill or choke up
word: fill up
sense: fill or choke up
word: stop up
sense: fill or choke up
word: stuff
sense: fill or choke up
word: stuff up
sense: satiate
word: fill up
sense: satiate
word: glut
sense: satiate
word: gorge
sense: satiate
word: sate
sense: satiate
word: satiate
sense: satiate
word: satisfy
sense: satiate
word: stodge
sense: satiate
word: stuff
sense: satiate
word: stuff up
sense: fill to loathing
word: jade
sense: fill to loathing
word: nauseate
sense: fill to loathing
word: pall
sense: fill to loathing
word: sicken
sense: fill to loathing
word: surfeit
Derived terms: cloyless
cloyment
cloysome
overcloy
Related terms: clove
coaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalers
Etymology: From coal + -er.
Senses: synonyms: collier
coordinate_terms: oiler
oil tanker
glosses: A vehicle, especially a ship, used for carrying or supplying coal.
Related terms: coalfired
coalhouse
coal-smoke
coalworker
colliery
bunker
cobb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
homophone: cob
Forms: form: cobbs
Etymology: Variant spelling of cob.
Senses: glosses: A sea-cob or gull.
glosses: A pier made from cobblestones.
glosses: A hand-basket, especially made from wicker.
glosses: A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.
glosses: A knock or blow.
examples: text: His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.
ref: 1807, François Raymond J. de Pons, Travels in South America, during ... 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. Transl, page 249:
glosses: Alternative form of cob (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).
cobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒbɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cobbers
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver, “friend, comrade”), from Hebrew חבר (ḥāḇēr, “friend”), possibly via Dutch gabber; alternately, perhaps from the British dialectal term cob (“take a liking to”), or a conflation of both. The suggestion that it is a self-referential collective term for convicts and immigrants who departed for Australian shores from the Irish port of Cobh seems chronologically unlikely.
Senses: examples: text: What's up, cobber?
text: G'day cobber!
text: “He′s a good cobber, even if he is the parson,” he said at last. “He′s a good cobber.”
“That′s right,” said Jim patiently. “He′s a good cobber, and he′s the parson. Now you buzz off and leave him be. We′ve got business to talk here.”
ref: 1953, Nevil Shute, In the Wet, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: He was the first member of our forces we had seen for five months. “Hi ya, cobber,” muttered Don.
ref: 1955, Charles McCormac, “You′ll Die in Singapore!”, page 181:
text: A voice from out of nowhere challenged: “Who is going away cobber?” “Bob!” I shouted. “Boy, am I glad to see you ... Where the hell have you been, my dear bloody cobber?”
ref: 2009, George W. Adams, Under the Southern Cross, page 137:
glosses: A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another.
glosses: A sweet consisting of a small block of hard caramel covered in chocolate.
Derived terms: cobber up
coca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.kə/
rhymes: -əʊkə
Forms: form: cocas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.
Senses: glosses: Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
glosses: The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.
Derived terms: anticoca
Coca-Cola
cocaethylene
cocain
cocaine
coca paste
coca wine
coca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.kə/
rhymes: -əʊkə
Forms: form: cocas
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.
Senses: examples: text: A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.
ref: 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times:
glosses: A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
Cocos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coco
codder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codders
Etymology: From cod + -er.
Senses: glosses: A gatherer of cods or peas.
glosses: A saddler or leatherworker.
codify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏdˈ-ĭ-fīˌ
enpr: kōˈ-dĭ-fīˌ
ipa: /ˈkɑd.ɪˌfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
rhymes: -ɑdɪfaɪ
rhymes: -oʊdɪfaɪ
enpr: kōˈ-dĭ-fīˌ
ipa: /ˈkəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
rhymes: -əʊdɪfaɪ
Forms: form: codifies
form: codifying
form: codified
form: codified
Etymology: From code + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
glosses: To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
examples: text: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
glosses: To enact as an official rule or law.
Synonyms: inscripturate
systematize
systematise
Derived terms: codifiability
codifiable
codification
codifier
decodify
geocodify
miscodify
noncodified
recodification
recodify
uncodifiable
uncodify
unicodification
Related terms: code
codex
codon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.dɒn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.dɑn/
Forms: form: codons
Etymology: From Latin codon, from Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).
Senses: glosses: A handbell used for summoning monks.
glosses: The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.
codon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.dɒn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.dɑn/
Forms: form: codons
Etymology: From code + -on.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.
Hyponyms: anticodon
dicodon
homocodon
stop codon
start codon
tricodon
initiation codon
termination codon
Meronyms: nucleotide
Derived terms: intercodon
intracodon
multicodon
cog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɒɡ/
enpr: kôg
ipa: /kɔɡ/
enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: cogs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”).
Cognates includes: Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog tooth”), Norwegian kugg (“cog”). The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. Compare Old Swedish koggavidher (“cog wood”), “wood reserved for a millwheel”.
See also dialectal English cag (“stump”), keg; Old Norse kaggi (“keg”) + -gi (diminutive suffix), from the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”); also found in Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”); dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump; piece of wood; post”), kagg or kagge (“scythe handle”); Norwegian Nynorsk kage or kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”), dialectal kagg (“scythe handle”); Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”), also Old English cyċġel, English cudgel (“knotty club”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog (“cargo boat”) (Dutch kogge), probably named for its “round swollen” appearance.
Senses: glosses: A tooth on a gear.
glosses: A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
examples: text: just a cog in the machine
text: 1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Victor Hugo (original French), Les Misérables
‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
text: 1988, David Mamet, Speed-the-Plow
Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do, then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.
glosses: An unimportant individual in a greater system.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
topics: business
mining
glosses: One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Derived terms: cog fog
Cogger
coggery
coggle
cog joint
cogless
coglike
cog mill
cograil
cog railway
cogset
cogsucker
cogwheel
cogwood
cudgel
hunting cog
oxtercog
cog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɒɡ/
enpr: kôg
ipa: /kɔɡ/
enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: cogs
form: cogging
form: cogged
form: cogged
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”).
Cognates includes: Swedish kugg, kugge (“cog tooth”), Norwegian kugg (“cog”). The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel. Compare Old Swedish koggavidher (“cog wood”), “wood reserved for a millwheel”.
See also dialectal English cag (“stump”), keg; Old Norse kaggi (“keg”) + -gi (diminutive suffix), from the Germanic base *kagô (“bush, branch, stalk, stump”); also found in Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”); dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump; piece of wood; post”), kagg or kagge (“scythe handle”); Norwegian Nynorsk kage or kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”), dialectal kagg (“scythe handle”); Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze, gorse”), whence English chag (“branch”), also Old English cyċġel, English cudgel (“knotty club”). The ultimate origin could be related to English cog (“cargo boat”) (Dutch kogge), probably named for its “round swollen” appearance.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with a cog or cogs.
glosses: Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
cog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɒɡ/
enpr: kôg
ipa: /kɔɡ/
enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: cogs
Etymology: From Middle English cogge, from Middle Dutch kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō, from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”) (compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”)), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). See etymology 1 above.
Senses: examples: text: The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
glosses: A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
glosses: The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
glosses: A small fishing boat.
cog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɒɡ/
enpr: kôg
ipa: /kɔɡ/
enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: cogs
Etymology: Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
Senses: examples: text: False suggestions, shamelesse cogs, and impious forgeries.
ref: 1602, William Watson, Quodlibets Religious and State:
glosses: A trick or deception; a falsehood.
cog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɒɡ/
enpr: kôg
ipa: /kɔɡ/
enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: cogs
form: cogging
form: cogged
form: cogged
Etymology: Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
Senses: glosses: To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
examples: 1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog
For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
glosses: To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
examples: text: I'll mountebank their loves,
Cog their hearts from them.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
examples: text: […] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization. Shakespeare and Eliot plagiarized; we grimly cogged in the early morning-oh, […]
ref: 1979, Tri-Quarterly, numbers 46-47, page 273:
text: Coming to journalism, how many of us have not been guilty at some stage of 'cogging' from other articles, […]
ref: 2006, Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman, volume 14, numbers 4-6, page 51:
text: I wasn't able to translate two verses in Virgil or Homer , without “ cogging " from some fellow - student ; but I was eternally repeating passages from the poems of Byron , Moore , and Scott ; while I gloried in the soul - stirring ...
ref: 1879, Dennis O'Sullivan, The Stirring Adventures of Corp'l Morgan Rattler, F. Tousey, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: To plagiarize.
examples: text: to cog in a word
text: October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour
Fustian tragedies […] have […] been cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.
glosses: To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
cog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɒɡ/
enpr: kôg
ipa: /kɔɡ/
enpr: kŏg
ipa: /kɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
rhymes: -ɔːɡ
Forms: form: cogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
cohosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈhɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: cohoshes
Etymology: From an Algonquian word meaning "rough", probably Eastern Abenaki / Penobscot *kkwὰhas. Compare Massachusett kushki (“(it is) rough”). Compare English cocash.
Senses: glosses: A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), the rough rootstock of which is used in medicine.
glosses: A smooth herb, Actaea racemosa, marketed for medicinal use.
Synonyms: sense: Caulophyllum thalictroides
word: blue cohosh
sense: Caulophyllum thalictroides
word: squaw root
sense: Caulophyllum thalictroides
word: papoose root
sense: Actaea racemosa
word: Cimicifuga racemosa
sense: Actaea racemosa
word: black cohosh
sense: Actaea racemosa
word: black bugbane
sense: Actaea racemosa
word: black snakeroot
sense: Actaea racemosa
word: fairy candle
coked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊkt
Forms: form: more coked
form: most coked
Senses: glosses: Intoxicated with cocaine.
coked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coke
Derived terms: coked out
coked up
uncoked
cole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊl/
ipa: /kɔʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /kɒl/
ipa: /koʊl/
homophone: coal
homophone: kohl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: coles
Etymology: From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, from Germanic, from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl, Danish kål, Norwegian Bokmål kål, Norwegian Nynorsk kål, Swedish kål. Doublet of caulis, gobi, and kale.
Senses: glosses: Cabbage.
glosses: Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
Derived terms: coleseed
coleslaw
pig's cole
sea cole
Related terms: borecole
cauliflower
colewort
cole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊl/
ipa: /kɔʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /kɒl/
ipa: /koʊl/
homophone: coal
homophone: kohl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: coles
Senses: examples: text: Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:
glosses: A stack or stook of hay.
cole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊl/
ipa: /kɔʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /kɒl/
ipa: /koʊl/
homophone: coal
homophone: kohl
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: coles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of coal.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: cole-prophet
coleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.li.əs/
Forms: form: coleuses
Etymology: From the genus name translingual Coleus, from Latin coleus, from Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós, “sheath”) in reference to the manner in which the stamens are united.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain plants in the mint family, many used as ornamentals for their colorful, variegated leaves, sometime included in genus Plectranthus (spurflowers), sometimes in their own genus Coleus,
glosses: Any of certain plants in the mint family, many used as ornamentals for their colorful, variegated leaves, sometime included in genus Plectranthus (spurflowers), sometimes in their own genus Coleus,
especially, Plectranthus scutellarioides, also known as Coleus scutellarioides and Coleus blumei.
colter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊltɚ/
Forms: form: colters
Etymology: See coulter.
Senses: examples: text: I lately left a furrow, one or twayne,
 Unplough'd, the which my coulter hath not cleft […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: What is it but a servitude like that impos'd by the Philistims, not to be allow'd the sharpning of our own axes and coulters, but we must repair from all quarters to twenty licencing forges.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: With colters bright the rushy sward bisect,
 And in new veins the gushing rills direct […]
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 150:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coulter.
colza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French colza, from Dutch koolzaad (“cabbage seed, (later) colza”), from Middle Dutch coolsaet, from kool (“cole”) + zaad (“seed”).
Senses: glosses: Oilseed rape (Brassica napus), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil, valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes.
Derived terms: colza oil
coney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coneys
form: conies
Senses: glosses: The Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica.
glosses: Ellipsis of Coney Island hot dog.
glosses: Alternative spelling of cony (“a rabbit, a hyrax”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of cony (“a species of fish”).
Related terms: cheese coney
conics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.
conn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑn/
ipa: /kɒn/
homophone: con
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: conns
form: con
Etymology: Variant of cond, from Middle English conduen, condien, from Anglo-Norman conduire, from Latin condūcō (“lead, bring or draw together”), from con- (“with, together”) + dūcō (“lead”). Doublet of conduce.
Senses: examples: text: The officer of the deck has the conn of the vessel; the captain took the conn when he reached the bridge.
glosses: The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."
Derived terms: english: have the con
translation: have the con
word: have the conn
english: take the con
translation: take the con
word: take the conn
conn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑn/
ipa: /kɒn/
homophone: con
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: conns
form: conning
form: conned
form: conned
form: con
Etymology: Variant of cond, from Middle English conduen, condien, from Anglo-Norman conduire, from Latin condūcō (“lead, bring or draw together”), from con- (“with, together”) + dūcō (“lead”). Doublet of conduce.
Senses: examples: text: The pilot conned the ship safely into the harbor.
text: “Ay,” says I, “you’ll allow me to steer, that is, hold the helm, but you’ll conn the ship, as they call it; that is, as at sea, a boy serves to stand at the helm, but he that gives him the orders is pilot.”
ref: 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress, chapter 8:
glosses: To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).
Derived terms: conning line
conning officer
conning tower
coning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cone
conner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conners
Senses: glosses: A corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops)
synonyms: blue perch
bergall
chogset
choggie
conner
cunner
sea perch
glosses: A bergall (Tautogolabrus adspersus).
Related terms: aleconner
conns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conn
coot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: coots
Etymology: Compare cootie.
Senses: glosses: Body louse (Pediculus humanus).
Derived terms: cootfoot
cooty
cooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkutɚ/
Forms: form: cooters
Etymology: Borrowed from Gullah cootuh (“turtle”), from an African language, e.g. Bambara kuta (“turtle”). Attested in English from the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A freshwater turtle of the eastern United States of the genus Pseudemys.
glosses: A box turtle.
glosses: A redneck.
Related terms: Cooter Brown
cooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkutɚ/
Forms: form: cooters
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly identical to Etymology 1, above; compare clam, beaver. Alternatively, compare cooch from hootchy-kootchy.
Senses: examples: text: There was a bright red tongue tattooed over most of her cooter and there was a thick, gold ring that had been pierced through her clit.
ref: 2006, Tiva Wallon, A Donovan to Love, page 65:
glosses: Vagina or vulva.
cooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkutɚ/
Forms: form: cooters
Etymology: See couter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of couter (“a sovereign (coin)”).
copra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒ.pɹə/
Forms: form: copras
form: coprah
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese copra, from Malayalam കൊപ്ര (kopra). Cognate with Tamil கொப்பரை (kopparai), Kuvi କବ୍ରି (kobri), Sanskrit कूर्पस (kūrpasa), Hindi खोपा (khopā).
Senses: examples: text: The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.
ref: 1993, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018, page 188:
text: She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
glosses: The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
copter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒptə/
enpr: käpʹtər
ipa: /ˈkɑptɚ/
Forms: form: copters
form: 'copter
Etymology: Clipping of helicopter; see also -copter § Etymology.
Senses: examples: 2005, Sin City (the film),
Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter.
glosses: A helicopter.
Synonyms: heli
Derived terms: hydrocopter
jetcopter
quadcopter
quadrocopter
Related terms: english: and derivatives therefrom
translation: and derivatives therefrom
word: -copter
english: and derivatives therefrom
translation: and derivatives therefrom
word: heli-
copter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒptə/
enpr: käpʹtər
ipa: /ˈkɑptɚ/
Forms: form: copters
form: coptering
form: coptered
form: coptered
form: 'copter
Etymology: Clipping of helicopter; see also -copter § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
glosses: To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
examples: text: The sidelong whiplash of his arm sent the boomerang soaring, pushing the sky to the horizon until the blade just hung there, a black slash on the sun so far away it seemed not to move at all before it came whirling back larger and larger: would it hit him, would he die — and you ducked down, terrified, clinging to his thigh, its deathspin slowing as it coptered softly down and he snatched it from the air.
ref: 2015 July 24, Tom Sleigh, “‘Boomerang’”, in New York Times:
glosses: To move like a helicopter.
corona
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊ.nə/
enpr: kə-rō'nə
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊ.nə/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵˈronɑ/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Forms: form: coronas
form: coronaing
form: coronaed
form: coronaed
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Latin corōna (“crown; garland, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “type of crown; curved object (door handle, tip of a bow, stern of a ship, etc.)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). The English word is a doublet of crown, korona, koruna, krona, króna, and krone.
The plural form coronae is borrowed from Latin corōnae.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The belly dancer shimmied on to the tiny floor, all flashing eyes, black hair coronaed with winking brilliants, undulating bare flesh with tasselled breasts and a turquoise G-string and an imitation ruby in her navel: she was barefooted, wearing a massive glittering anklet which made her look very Circassian and wanton.
ref: 1977, Richard Beilby, Gunner: A Novel of the Retreat from Crete, London: Angus and Robertson, →ISBN, page 285:
text: He was surrounded, encauled, coronaed with whispering figures. They fleeted in and out of visibility, made of dark light. They entered his body and exited it, they faded up, they ebbed out.
ref: 2010, China Miéville, chapter 39, in Kraken: An Anatomy, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 234:
text: The creatures lay with the humans, dead islanders alongside them. They'd worked with them. Worshipped with them, the scientists said, looking anew at the shards of illustration still visible, the extraterrestrial and the human at prayer together, coronaed, altar-top boxes glowing.
ref: 2015, China Miéville, “In the Slopes”, in Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, London: Picador, →ISBN, pages 64–65:
glosses: To surround with a luminous or crownlike ring like the solar corona.
Derived terms: word: coronaed
corona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊ.nə/
enpr: kə-rō'nə
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊ.nə/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵˈronɑ/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Forms: form: coronas
form: corone
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian corona.
Senses: examples: text: A favorite and most attractive combination is that of the corona or series of sonnets, employed to frame or develop some one theme. A list of these corone is given by Biadene, who selects and publishes from among them a series of three by Petrarch, and the famous corona of the months by Folgore da San Gemignano.
ref: 1889 May, F. M. Warren, “The Sonnet. Morfologia del Sonetto nei secoli xiii e xiv. L. Biadene [Studj di Filologia Romanza, Fasc. 10.]”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume IV, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins University Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 308:
text: But the poets of Siena, and particularly the Academy of the Intronati, found the proper way of constructing coronas—since the ones mentioned above should really be called sequences ['catene'] rather than coronas.
ref: 1997, Michael R. G. Spiller, The Sonnet Sequence: A Study of Its Strategies (Studies in Literary Themes and Genres; 13), New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:
text: [Lady Mary] Wroth alludes to these contexts as the corona of sonnets that crowns the sequence opens: "In this strang labourinth how shall I turne?" (Wroth, Poems 127).
ref: 2000, Mary B. Moore, “The Labyrinth of Style: Lady Mary Wroth and the Idea of Petrarchism”, in Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, Carbondale; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: Both sets of echoes derive from the poets' first poems, and since first poems in Petrarchan sequences set stylistic, tonal, and thematic expectations, Robert [Sidney]'s double allusion to first poems should color readings of this, the first poem of his corona.
ref: 2015, Mary B. Moore, “Robert Sidney’s Poetry”, in Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Ellen Lamb, Michael G. Brennan, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700, volume 2 (Literature), Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part VI (Poetry), page 250:
text: He is in search of a lost poem, the improbably named A Corona for Vivien, which Blundy wrote for his wife Vivien’s 50th birthday in 2014.
ref: 2025 September 16, Kevin Power, “What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: communications
journalism
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glosses: A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
corona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊ.nə/
enpr: kə-rō'nə
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊ.nə/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɵˈronɑ/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Forms: form: coronas
form: Corona
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish La Corona (literally “The Crown”), a brand of cigars from Havana, Cuba.
Senses: examples: text: HOWARD: [Entering; cheerfully] Got your coronas, Mr. Goldman! / GOLDMAN: [Glumly, taking the proffered cigars] Thanks, Howie. [Puts all but one in pocket.] / HOWARD: Where's Ma? / GOLDMAN: [Indicating with cigar] Inside the bedroom.
ref: 1977, Samuel Birnkrant, Mama, Say ‘I Do’: (Formerly Titled ‘A Whisper in God’s Ear’): A Comedy in Three Acts, Schulenburg, Tex.: I. E. Clark Publications, →ISBN, act I, page 22:
glosses: A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.