cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in the closet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ðə ˈklɑzɪt/
ipa: /ɪn ðə ˈklɔzɪt/
ipa: /ɪn ðə ˈklɒzɪt/
Senses: examples: text: Was he in control of that narrative? Most likely not. If he’d had the choice, he would have stayed in the closet.
ref: 2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
examples: text: She's in the closet about her gambling addiction.
text: She's in the gambling-addiction closet.
glosses: Not open about some feature of one's life; often construed with about.
Synonyms: closeted
Related terms: word: closet
word: closeted
word: closet case
word: come out of the closet
word: come out
english: to be accepted by others as a member of a group one would not usually be regarded as belonging to
translation: to be accepted by others as a member of a group one would not usually be regarded as belonging to
word: pass
come out of the closet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes out of the closet
form: coming out of the closet
form: came out of the closet
form: come out of the closet
Senses: examples: text: He came out of the closet as gay to his friends.
text: Now, we're coming out / Out of our closets / Out on the streets / Yeah, we're coming out
ref: 1972, Lou Reed, “Make Up”, in Transformer:
synonyms: come out
antonyms: remain in the closet
woodwork#Verb
glosses: To disclose to others about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity, where previously this had been kept secret.
examples: text: She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism.
glosses: To self-disclose about one's minority or disapproved-of identity, belief, preference, etc.
Derived terms: english: come out as a pagan
translation: come out as a pagan
word: come out of the broom closet
word: coming-out
Related terms: word: closeted
english: appear as if from nowhere
translation: appear as if from nowhere
word: come out of the woodwork
word: in the closet
bender
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛndə/
enpr: bĕnʹdər
ipa: /ˈbɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Etymology: Hypotheses:
* bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”.
* In Britain, for about four centuries, a sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’.
* (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder.
Senses: glosses: Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
examples: text: O yes, I'll do it — bender!
glosses: Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
Synonyms: sense: disbelief
word: bullshit
word: I don't think
word: not
word: over the bender
word: over the left
word: over the left shoulder
ufo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈju.foʊ/
Forms: form: ufos
Etymology: Reading of UFO as a word in its own right.
Senses: glosses: A UFO.
bi-curious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌɪˈkjʊə.ɹɪəs/
ipa: /bʌɪˈkjɔː.ɹɪəs/
ipa: /baiˈkjɚ.i.ɪs/
Forms: form: more bi-curious
form: most bi-curious
form: bicurious
Etymology: From bi + curious. First appears c. 1984 in a personal ad in the newspaper The Orange County Register.
Senses: examples: text: Bi curious M/F or cpls.
ref: 1984, anonymous author, Register (Orange County, California):
text: "Does this make us bi-curious, or are some dudes just that girly?"
ref: 2014 October 8, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Oct 8, 2014:
text: Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.
ref: 2016 October 7, Juliet Bennett Rylah, “Skirt Club Is a Sex Club for the Casually Bisexual Modern Woman”, in VICE:
text: Although Katy has admitted to being bi-curious in the past, the reason a lot of fans wanted clarity on her sexuality was to ensure she wasn't queer-baiting and benefiting from a culture she isn't actually part of.
ref: 2023 September 14, Grazia Contributor, “This Is Why Katy Perry’s Sexuality Can Be A Controversial Talking Point”, in Grazia:
glosses: Interested in having relationships with both men and women, curious about one's potential bisexuality; especially, of heterosexual people, considering a first sexual experience with a member of the same sex.
wikipedia: The Orange County Register
Related terms: bi-curiosity
heteroflexible
homoflexible
lesbiflexible
trans-curious
boy band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy bands
form: boy-band
form: boyband
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: boy group
coordinate_terms: girl band
girl group
glosses: A pop group whose members are all (usually attractive) young men.
Related terms: haircut band
girl group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girl groups
Senses: coordinate_terms: boy group
glosses: A pop group made up of (usually attractive) young women.
Hyponyms: girl band
Related terms: boy band
unidentified flying object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unidentified flying objects
Etymology: The phrase is usually attributed to US Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) who coined it as a replacement of the terms flying saucer and flying disk.
Senses: examples: text: The lights seen over the city last night, originally termed unidentified flying objects, turned out to be spotlights from a car dealership reflecting on low clouds.
hypernyms: UAP
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phenomenon#Noun
synonyms: UFO
UAP
unidentified aerial phenomenon
unexplained aerial phenomenon
coordinate_terms: TLE
;
USO
glosses: Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
examples: text: She said that the unidentified flying object then turned around, zoomed to a higher altitude, and loitered briefly before speeding off.
text: The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
ref: 2023 February 12, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Edward Wong, “What’s Going On Up There? Theories but No Answers in Shootdowns of Mystery Craft.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: UAP
<
phenomenon#Noun
UAP
unidentified aerial phenomenon
unexplained aerial phenomenon
synonyms: UFO
UAP
unidentified aerial phenomenon
unexplained aerial phenomenon
coordinate_terms: TLE
;
USO
glosses: Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
Such things as seem to be discrete objects and comparable to aircraft.
qualifier: especially and originally
examples: text: He said that the strange beings then took him aboard their unidentified flying object and examined his body.
hypernyms: spacecraft#Noun
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craft#Noun
vessel#Noun
vehicle#Noun
glosses: An alien spacecraft.
flying saucer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying saucers
Etymology: From an interview given by amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold who described seeing nine flying objects that were "moving like saucers being skimmed across a lake". The description was not meant to describe the shape of the objects, only how they maneuvered, yet the misinterpretation took hold and gained popularity.
Senses: examples: text: Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project.
text: An engram is NOT [...] One of the little green men Americans claim have crashed in flying saucers.
ref: 1950 December 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 3, column 5:
glosses: A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction.
glosses: A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.
Synonyms: sense: flying craft
word: saucercraft
Coordinate terms: alien
ET
extraterrestrial
foo
foo fighter
little green man
Martian
mothership
UFO
Derived terms: flying saucer group
Related terms: flying disc
bubble butt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble butts
Senses: examples: text: Tall, skinny, bubble butt, lonely.
ref: 1985 February 9, Omar Hassan, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 16:
text: But her skin was sallow, her face covered in pimples, and she never wore makeup. Then there was her bubble butt and her thunder thighs. Oh, call it what it was: fat. She was fat.
ref: 2010, Ninie Hammon, Home Grown, Kingstone Media, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Maxwell spun Jhonny and pulled him close until his hot ass pressed firmly against his dick, he grinded^([sic]) that bubble butt of his until he could tell Jhonny was sweating in all the right spots.
ref: 2012, A. Scott Boddie, The Hook-Up: Adventures of Maxwell Hunter, link:
glosses: Large, rounded buttocks.
glosses: A fat person.
fortissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈtɪsɪməʊ/
ipa: /fɔːˈtɪsəməʊ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈtɪsɪmoʊ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈtɪsəmoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪməʊ
rhymes: -ɪsəməʊ
Forms: form: more fortissimo
form: most fortissimo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fortissimo.
Senses: examples: text: (abbreviation) ff
text: He claims he was doing no more than repeating the standard nationalist account. So he was, but he was also repeating that passionate liberal critique which had resounded, often fortissimo, in British debate when Indian nationalism was still a half-formed dream.
ref: 2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Indicating that the piece is to be played very loudly.
fortissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈtɪsɪməʊ/
ipa: /fɔːˈtɪsəməʊ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈtɪsɪmoʊ/
ipa: /fɔɹˈtɪsəmoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪməʊ
rhymes: -ɪsəməʊ
Forms: form: fortissimos
form: fortissimi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fortissimo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The dynamic sign indicating that the piece should be played fortissimo.
Derived terms: blastissimo
fortississimo
pianissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪməʊ/
ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəməʊ/
ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪmoʊ/
ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəmoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪməʊ
rhymes: -ɪsəməʊ
Forms: form: more pianissimo
form: most pianissimo
Etymology: From Italian pianissimo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Indicating that the piece is to be played very softly.
pianissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪməʊ/
ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəməʊ/
ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪmoʊ/
ipa: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəmoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪməʊ
rhymes: -ɪsəməʊ
Forms: form: pianissimos
form: pianissimi
Etymology: From Italian pianissimo.
Senses: glosses: A dynamic sign indicating that a portion of music should be played pianissimo.
examples: text: If the Randall Thompson Alleluia lacked the otherworldly awe and mystery the composer intended, the BGMC offered a fair accounting of the work with some wonderfully hushed pianissimos and clearly delineated contrasts in mood.
ref: 1984 December 29, Charles Henry Fuller, “Music For The Holidays”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25:
glosses: A portion of music that is played very softly.
Synonyms: pp
Derived terms: pianississimo
refold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfoʊld/
Forms: form: refolds
form: refolding
form: refolded
form: refolded
Etymology: From re- + fold.
Senses: examples: text: 'We must leave this place directly,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he refolded the note.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: To fold again.
Derived terms: refoldase
otiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.ʃi.əʊs/
other: /ˈəʊ.ti.əʊs/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.ʃi.oʊs/
other: /ˈoʊ.ti.oʊs/
Forms: form: more otiose
form: most otiose
Etymology: From Latin ōtiōsus (“idle”), from ōtium (“ease”).
Senses: examples: text: The most eminent jurists have not even yet decided on a satisfactory definition of piracy. […] One school holds that it is any felony committed on the High Seas. But that does little except render a separate term otiose. Moreover, it is not accepted by other schools of thought.
ref: 1929, Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica:
glosses: Having no effect.
examples: text: It may seem otiose thus to have re-examined the elements of a distant controversy. I have sought only to indicate that there are several perfectly respectable reasons why British opinion should have been so utterly bewildered between 1793 and 1783. Such an examination, even if it manages not to cause offense, is bound itself to become confused and to reflect the cloudy muddle of the period. It is preferable therefore to elucidate the conflict by describing its changing effects on a single individual.
ref: 1961, Harold Nicolson, “Thirteen Colonies”, in The Age Of Reason (non-fiction), Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 203:
glosses: Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
examples: text: Pemulis, w/ aid of 150mg. of time-release Tenuate Dospan, almost danced a little post-transaction jig on his way up the steps of the otiose Cambridge bus.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
glosses: Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
examples: text: On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;
ref: 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 3, in Vailima Letters:
text: Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.
ref: 1969, G. R. Elton, The Practice of History:
glosses: Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
Synonyms: sense: resulting in no effect
word: futile
sense: resulting in no effect
word: ineffective
sense: reluctant to work
word: indolent
sense: reluctant to work
word: lazy
sense: reluctant to work
word: sluggish
sense: having no reason or purpose
word: superfluous
sense: having no reason or purpose
word: irrelevant
sense: having no reason or purpose
word: pointless
Derived terms: otiosely
otioseness
otiosity
Related terms: negotiate
negotiation
colonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colonises
form: colonising
form: colonised
form: colonised
form: colonize
Senses: examples: text: “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.
ref: 2022 August 1, Josh Butler, quoting Lidia Thorpe, “Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser while being sworn in to parliament”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.
Derived terms: colonisable
colonisee
decolonise
uncolonise
prude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞od
ipa: /pɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: prudes
Etymology: From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.
Senses: examples: text: He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]
text: If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
ref: 1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:
glosses: A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
Synonyms: word: prig
word: goody-goody
word: puritan
word: celibacist
word: erotophobe
word: antisexualist
word: bluenose
word: goody two shoes
word: killjoy
word: moralist
word: priss
Hypernyms: word: person
Derived terms: prudely
prudery
prudish
prudist
Related terms: proud
prude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pro͞od
ipa: /pɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more prude
form: most prude
Etymology: From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.
Senses: glosses: Prudish.
medallion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdæljən/
Forms: form: medallions
Etymology: Borrowed from French médaillon.
Senses: glosses: A large medal, usually decorative.
examples: text: pork medallion
synonyms: medaillon
glosses: A cut of meat resembling a large medal.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A usually round or oval frame (often made of stucco) containing a decoration.
glosses: A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab.
glosses: A yellowish brown.
Derived terms: medallionist
medallionlike
medallion man
Related terms: medal
medallion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdæljən/
Forms: form: medallions
form: medallioning
form: medallioned
form: medallioned
Etymology: Borrowed from French médaillon.
Senses: examples: a sunset that medallioned the eastern sky
glosses: To mark with, or as with, a medallion or medallions.
Related terms: amulet
rosary
talisman
medal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕdʹ-əl
ipa: /ˈmɛdəl/
ipa: [ˈmɛd.ɫ̩]
homophone: meddle
ipa: [ˈmɛɾ.ɫ̩]
homophone: meddle
homophone: metal
homophone: mettle
ipa: [ˈmeɾ.ɫ̩]
homophone: meddle
homophone: metal
homophone: mettle
rhymes: -ɛdəl
Forms: form: medals
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Early Medieval Latin medālia, feminine derived via dissimilation (/dj–lj/ > /d–lj/) from mediālia, neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Classical Latin medius.
Senses: examples: text: Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?
ref: , II.i.3
glosses: A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
glosses: A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
Derived terms: bemedal
bronze medal
gold medal
medal game
medalist
medalless
medal play
medal table
putty medal
silver medal
tea and medals
what do you want, a medal
Related terms: medalet
medallic
medallion
medallist
medallurgy
medal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕdʹ-əl
ipa: /ˈmɛdəl/
ipa: [ˈmɛd.ɫ̩]
homophone: meddle
ipa: [ˈmɛɾ.ɫ̩]
homophone: meddle
homophone: metal
homophone: mettle
ipa: [ˈmeɾ.ɫ̩]
homophone: meddle
homophone: metal
homophone: mettle
rhymes: -ɛdəl
Forms: form: medals
form: medaling
form: medalling
form: medaled
form: medaled
form: medalled
form: medalled
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Early Medieval Latin medālia, feminine derived via dissimilation (/dj–lj/ > /d–lj/) from mediālia, neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Classical Latin medius.
Senses: examples: text: He medalled twice at the Olympics.
text: I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.
ref: 2004 October 29, Carol McAlice Currie, “Unposted laws make downtown seem unwelcoming”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 1C:
text: Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
ref: 2011 January 9, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian:
text: I wanted to medal. I was pregnant and I wanted to medal.
ref: 2013 January 13, “Je Ne Sais What?”, in The Good Wife, season 4, episode 12, spoken by Anna (Elizabeth Alderfer):
text: In 2008, after being passed over yet again for USA Basketball’s Beijing Olympics team, San Antonio Stars all-star Becky Hammon signed a four-year, $2m contract with CSKA Moscow that included a six-figure bonus for becoming a naturalised citizen and medaling at the Games.
ref: 2022 September 3, Andrew Lawrence, “Brittney Griner’s Russian ordeal is a byproduct of WNBA’s shoestring funding”, in The Guardian:
text: Rebecca Romero medaled in rowing and track cycling in 2004 and 2008, joining East German swimmer-turned-handball player Roswitha Krause and several swimmers/divers as two-sport medalists.
ref: 2024 July 30, Beau Dure, “What’s tougher than competing in an Olympic sport? Competing in two”, in The Guardian:
text: Though she never medalled at the Olympics, she did win a pair of golds at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in 2002.
ref: 2024 August 20, Edward Helmore, “Five-time Olympian cyclist found dead in Las Vegas after choking on food”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To win a medal.
glosses: To award a medal to.
Related terms: final
podium
glebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glēb
ipa: /ɡliːb/
ipa: /ɡlib/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: glebes
Etymology: From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
Senses: examples: 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
glosses: Turf; soil; ground; sod.
glosses: In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
examples: text: Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 151:
glosses: A field or meadow.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A piece of earth containing ore.
Derived terms: glebe-farm
glebe farm
glebe-house
glebe-land
glebeless
glebous
gleby
demarcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛm.ɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiː.mɑːˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdɛm.ɑɹˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdi.mɑɹˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌdiː.maːˈkæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demarcations
form: demarkation
Etymology: First recorded c.1752, from Spanish línea de demarcación and/or Portuguese linha de demarcação, the demarcation line laid down by the Pope on May 4, 1493, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal on a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Both derive from demarcar, from de- + marcar (“to mark”), from Italian marcare, from the same Germanic root as march.
Senses: glosses: The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
examples: text: About sunset, he was leaning on the remains of an old wall, which had once probably surrounded a Roman encampment, and now served as a line of demarcation between two villages, as jealous of each other's claims as near neighbours usually are.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 48–49:
glosses: A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
examples: text: There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions.
text: In the sea there is no demarcation between the hunter and the hunted, as there is on the African plains.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Certainly no clear line of demarcation has as yet been drawn between species and sub-species—that is, the forms which in the opinion of some naturalists come very near to, but do not quite arrive at the rank of species; or, again, between sub-species and well-marked varieties, or between lesser varieties and individual differences. These differences blend into each other in an insensible series; and a series impresses the mind with the idea of an actual passage.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
glosses: Any strictly defined separation.
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: demarcate
word: demarcated
word: demarcational
Related terms: demarc
demarcation line
demarcation potential
demark
marcation
moral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmoɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹəl/
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: more moral
form: most moral
Etymology: From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)
(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).
Senses: examples: text: moral judgments; a moral poem
text: a moral obligation
text: She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
examples: text: a moral action
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
examples: text: a moral agent
glosses: Capable of right and wrong action.
examples: text: a moral certainty
glosses: Probable but not proved.
examples: text: a moral victory; moral support
glosses: Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
Synonyms: sense: conforming to a standard of right behaviour
word: incorruptible
sense: conforming to a standard of right behaviour
word: noble
sense: conforming to a standard of right behaviour
word: righteous
sense: conforming to a standard of right behaviour
word: virtuous
sense: probable but not proved
word: virtual
Coordinate terms: ethical
moral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmoɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹəl/
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: morals
Etymology: From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)
(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).
Senses: examples: text: The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.
text: We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
ref: 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)
glosses: The ethical significance or practical lesson.
raw_tags: of a narrative
examples: text: a candidate with strong morals
glosses: Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
glosses: A depiction of good or heroic actions.
raw_tags: of a media
glosses: A morality play.
glosses: A moral certainty.
glosses: An exact counterpart.
Synonyms: sense: moral practices or teachings
word: ethics
sense: moral practices or teachings
word: mores
sense: a depiction of good or heroic actions
word: message
Hyponyms: golden rule
moral
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmoɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹəl/
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: morals
form: moraling
form: moralling
form: moraled
form: moraled
form: moralled
form: moralled
Etymology: From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”)
(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).
Senses: glosses: To moralize.
Derived terms: double moral
ethicomoral
extramoral
hypermoral
juridico-moral
medicomoral
moral agency
moral agent
moral arithmetic
moral authority
moral bankruptcy
moral circle
moral code
moral compass
moral dilemma
moral distress
moral diversity
moral duty
moral event horizon
moralfag
moral fiber
moral fibre
moral futurism
moral hazard
moral high ground
moral imperative
moral injury
moralistic
moralization
moral leper
moralless
moral low ground
morally
Moral Majority
moral minimum
moralness
moral nihilism
moral objectivism
moral obligation
moral of the story
moral order
moral panic
moral philosophy
moralphobia
moral police
moral policing
moral realism
moral relativism
moral science
moral sense
moral suasion
moral support
moral system
moral turpitude
moral universe
moral victory
nonmoral
postmoral
premoral
psychomoral
sociomoral
Related terms: morale
morality
moralize
morals
mores
jailbait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jāl´bāt
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪlbeɪt/
Forms: form: jailbaits
form: gaolbait
form: jail bait
form: jail-bait
Etymology: From jail + bait, from the fact that statutory rape can result, for the adult committing it, in incarceration.
Senses: examples: text: "The first time she modelled for Edward Weston, in March 1934, Charis Wilson knew she didn’t look good. At 20 she was “a piece of jailbait”, a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair."
ref: 2009, The Economist, Charis Wilson, model and writer, died on November 20th, aged 95:
glosses: A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being sexually attractive and/or seductive.
Hyponyms: word: lolita
word: nymph
word: nymphet
word: nymphette
Coordinate terms: jail fodder
Related terms: english: an underage male perceived to be attractive by adult females
translation: an underage male perceived to be attractive by adult females
word: malebait
word: statutory rape
word: molest
word: paedophilia
word: pedophilia
word: paedophile
word: pedophile
ipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈi.peɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: ipes
form: ipé
form: ipê
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese ipê.
Senses: glosses: A type of wood of the genus Tabebuia, similar to teak, used for outdoor decking and furniture.
Synonyms: word: amapa
word: amata prieto
word: bethabara
word: Brazilian walnut
word: cortez
word: ebene vert
word: flor amarillo
word: greenhart*
word: guayacan
word: guayacan polvillo
word: ironwood
word: lapacho
word: madera negra
word: pau d’arco
word: tahuari
word: ipê
word: ipê tabaco
word: lapacho negro
ipé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ipe.
deft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Forms: form: defter
form: deftest
Etymology: From Middle English defte, daft (“gentle”), from Old English dæfte (“mild, gentle, meek”), from Proto-West Germanic *daftī (“fitting, suitable”), derived from *dabaną (“to be suitable”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₂ebʰ- (“fitting, fit together”). Near cognates include Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍉𐍆𐍃 (gadōfs, “suitable”), West Frisian deftich (“distinguished”), Dutch deftig (“distinguished”), German deftig (“coarse”). Further cognates include Russian добро (dobro, “wealth, good”) and Latin faber (“craftsman; skillful”).
Senses: examples: text: He assembled it in one fluid, deft motion.
text: Alvarez then got on the scoresheet after the hosts carved open the Huddersfield defence with some intricate passing before the Argentina forward's deft finish rolled into the net.
ref: 2024 January 7, Gary Rose, “Manchester City 5-0 Huddersfield Town”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Quick and neat in action; skillful.
Derived terms: defthanded
deft-handed
deftly
deftness
undeft
Related terms: daft
computability logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a formal theory of computability
lo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā (“exclamation of surprise, grief, or joy”). Conflated in Middle English with lo! (interjection), a corruption of lok!, loke! (“look!”) (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu (“lo”). See also look.
Senses: examples: text: Caliban: Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee.
ref: c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act III, scene ii:
text: Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
text: [...], Lo, these many years do I serve thee, [...].
ref: first published 1611, reprinted c. 1900, The Bible, King James version, Luke 15:29:
text: Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue. As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.
ref: 1925, Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, translation of original by Luo Guanzhong:
text: "Tambi will be here in..." He computed carefully. "... in exactly twenty seconds." And, lo, Tambi appeared at that very moment.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 588:
qualifier: archaic except in the phrase lo and behold
glosses: look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
Synonyms: word: behold
word: ecce
word: hark
word: lo
word: look
word: lookee
word: lookie
word: lookit
word: looky
word: see
word: voilà
Hypernyms: word: hey
Hyponyms: word: presto
word: ta-da
Derived terms: hallo
Related terms: lo and behold
lo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Variant of low.
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of low.
Derived terms: hi-lo
lo-cal
lo-fi
lo-tech
Related terms: hi
mid
lo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: 'lo
form: 'llo
Senses: glosses: Clipping of hello.
Synonyms: word: behold
word: ecce
word: hark
word: lo
word: look
word: lookee
word: lookie
word: lookit
word: looky
word: see
word: voilà
Hypernyms: word: hey
Hyponyms: word: presto
word: ta-da
lo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: los
Etymology: Clipping of location.
Senses: examples: text: Ayo, send me your lo.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Clipping of location.
lo
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lol.
Related terms: lo-lo
lo
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: [ˈloː˧˨]
ipa: /ləʊ/
ipa: /loʊ/
homophone: low
homophone: Lowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: loh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 囉 /啰 (--lo͘). Doublet of lor.
Senses: synonyms: word: liao
word: already
glosses: Sentence-final particle denoting finality or completion.
raw_tags: in set phrases
Related terms: lo hei
nowise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊwaɪz/
ipa: /ˈnəʊwaɪz/
rhymes: -əʊwaɪz
rhymes: -oʊwaɪz
Etymology: From Middle English nowyse, no-wyse, no wyse, equivalent to no (“none, not any”) + wise (“way, manner”).
Senses: examples: text: To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere.
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, “The present time”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets:
text: But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Heads or tails”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 445:
text: The division into paragraphs aims in nowise [translating durchaus nicht] at logical consistency :[…]
ref: 1904, James A. Crichton, transl., Compendious Syriac Grammar, London: Williams & Norgate, Preface to the First Edition, page XI; translation of Theodor Nöldeke, Kurzgefasste Syrische Grammatik, second edition, Leipzig, 1898:
text: His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns — nowise a modest sum at that time — despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter.
ref: 1996 summer, Raymond Jarvi, “Hjalmar Söderberg on August Strindberg”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 68, number 3, page 343:
text: I am going to create a trigger to the feelings of nostalgia, that this time at sea will nowise be lost.
ref: 2006 fall, Nate Haken, “Dolphins Dancing Somewhere off the Coast of Cuba”, in The Massachusetts Review, volume 47, number 3, page 410:
synonyms: nohow
glosses: (In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
Related terms: -wise
alwise
Unix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪks/
rhymes: -uːnɪks
homophone: eunuchs
Forms: form: UNIX
form: unix
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Multics
Ancient Greek εὐνή (eunḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *hékʰō
Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō)
Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos)bor.
Latin eunūchusder.
Middle English eunuk
English eunuchinflu.
English Unix
A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emasculated Multics (see multi- and uni-). Likely coined by Canadian computer scientist Brian Kernighan in 1970.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: UNIX
glosses: An operating system that shares the original source code by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: UNIX
glosses: An operating system largely compatible with Unix that qualifies for use of the UNIX trademark, currently owned by The Open Group.
Unix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪks/
rhymes: -uːnɪks
homophone: eunuchs
Forms: form: Unixes
form: Unices
form: Unixen
form: UNIX
form: unix
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Multics
Ancient Greek εὐνή (eunḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *hékʰō
Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō)
Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos)bor.
Latin eunūchusder.
Middle English eunuk
English eunuchinflu.
English Unix
A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emasculated Multics (see multi- and uni-). Likely coined by Canadian computer scientist Brian Kernighan in 1970.
Senses: examples: text: GNU is not Unix.
text: The Linux kernel operating system is one of the most popular Unixes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
related: word: unix
glosses: Any of the above plus Unix-like operating systems similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the UNIX trademark.
Hypernyms: *nix
UN*X
operating system
OS
Coordinate terms: DOS
kernel
userland
X
Windows
Derived terms: *nix
Tux
UN*X
Unix-like
Unix time
Related terms: Multics
POSIX
Red Rectangle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Rectangle
Etymology: Coined by astronomers Martin Cohen and Mike Merrill in 1973
Senses: examples: text: 1987, Beverly T. Lynds, “Optical observations of nebulae”, in A. Dalgarno and David Layzer (eds.), Spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12,
The Red Rectangle is only one example of an infrared object that is detectable in the infrared because of grain emission.
text: 1995, J.R. Miles, P.J. Sarre, and S.M. Scarrott, “Red Rectangle Emission Bands”, in Alexander G.G.M. Tielens and Theodore Peck Snow (eds.), The Diffuse Interstellar Bands, Springer, →ISBN, page 143,
The Red Rectangle is a bipolar nebula with a remarkable spectrum in which emission is excited by the light of the central star HD44179.
text: Figure 1 shows obtained images of the Red Rectangle. All of the sources consist of a bright core and an extended nebula.
ref: 2000 July, T. Miyata et al., “Spatially Resolved Spectra of the Red Rectangle in the N-band”, in Ryszard Szczerba, Sławomir K. Górny, editors, Post-AGB as a Phase of Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the Toruń Workshop held July 5-7, 2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, published 2001, →ISBN, page 352:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The nebula and binary star HD 44179.
godly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑdli/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdli/
rhymes: -ɑdli
rhymes: -ɒdli
Forms: form: godlier
form: more godly
form: godliest
form: most godly
Etymology: From god + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: her godly powers = her superhuman powers
glosses: Of or pertaining to a god
examples: text: For godly sorrow worketh repentance.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 7:10:
text: If you would know what a man is, whether he be a godly man or not, you must inquire what his God is. If the true God be he whom he respects as his God, [...] he is doubtless a godly man [...] if the man have some other god, something else to which he pays a greater respect than to Jehovah, he is not a godly man ...
ref: 1809, Jonathan Edwards, The Works of President Edwards:
glosses: Devoted to a god or God; devout; holy; righteous.
glosses: Gloriously good.
Derived terms: godlily
godliness
overgodly
supergodly
ungodly
godly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑdli/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdli/
rhymes: -ɑdli
rhymes: -ɒdli
Forms: form: more godly
form: most godly
Etymology: From god + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. — 2. Tim. iii. 12.
glosses: In a godly manner; piously; devoutly; righteously.
godlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑdlaɪk/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdlaɪk/
Forms: form: more godlike
form: most godlike
Etymology: From god + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Man himself had been his greatest blunder; he had created a rival to himself; science makes men godlike — it is all up with priests and gods when man becomes scientific!
ref: 1895, H. L. Mencken, transl., The Antichrist, translation of Der Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, §48:
text: When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate.
ref: 1990 September 1, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game, Baen Books, →ISBN, →OL:
text: Godlike aliens! Man, do I hate godlike aliens! I'll trade a critter for a godlike alien, any day!
ref: 2001 July 14, Meltdown (Farscape), season 3, episode 12, spoken by John Crichton (Ben Browder):
glosses: Having the characteristics of a god.
examples: text: And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep / Of godlike hardship tells me I must die / Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
ref: 1817, John Keats, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles:
text: Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts.
ref: 1850, Horace Mann, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man:
text: It took the combined skills of three great civilizations far apart in time to frame that godlike concept in which the tangible universe itself was only a single factor.
ref: 1949, Henry Kuttner, The Time Axis, published 1965, →OL:
glosses: Characteristic of a god.
Derived terms: godlikeness
ungodlike
demigod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmiɡɒd/
ipa: /ˈdɛmiɡɑd/
Forms: form: demigods
form: demi-god
Etymology: From demi- + god. Calque of the Latin semideus (“half-god”), which is probably a coining by the Roman poet Ovid for less important gods such as dryads.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
examples: text: "Ah! he is one of your idols, I suppose," said Lord Norbourne, with a slight approach to a sneer. "Youth is prone to admire; but it is odd how, in a few years, we discover the defects of our demigods...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Views of Youth and Age”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 99:
text: He finds, not “demigods” but “ a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
ref: 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy:
glosses: Someone held up for reverence as a supreme example.
Synonyms: sense: offspring of a deity and a mortal
word: half-god
sense: offspring of a deity and a mortal
word: hero
sense: someone held up in reverence
word: icon
sense: someone held up in reverence
word: idol
Derived terms: demigodhood
Jeopardy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined when Ed Vane, a skeptical producer, rejected an earlier concept of the show, claiming “it doesn’t have enough jeopardies”, according to creator Merv Griffin.
Senses: examples: text: 1986, Shane Black, Lethal Weapon (released 1987), scene 12, Warner Bros.
Murtaugh: Honey, what’s this on my tie?
She looks.
Trish: An ugly spot?
Murtaugh: Thanks. Sharp as a pin.
Trish: I’m thinking of going on ‘Jeopardy’.
text: 1999, Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan, analyze this, Warner Bros.
Ben: You know, normally a patient wouldn’t smoke or drink during a session.
Vitti: (blowing smoke) That’s an interesting fact I’ll have to remember if I’m ever on ‘Jeopardy’.
text: […] after Wheel we’d watch Jeopardy which again she was much better at than me […] and after Jeopardy we’d watch prime-time lineup—usually NBC because she likes their sitcoms better […]
ref: 2003, Matthew McIntosh, Well, Grove Press, →ISBN, pages 43–44:
glosses: Jeopardy!, a popular US television game show in which contestants answer clues by responding in the form of a question, hosted originally by Art Fleming and most notably by Alex Trebek.
wikipedia: Merv Griffin
Derived terms: Double Jeopardy
Triple Jeopardy
Related terms: Wheel of Fortune