cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tinsel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪns(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtɪnsəl/
rhymes: -ɪnsəl
Forms: form: tinsels
form: tinseling
form: tinselling
form: tinseled
form: tinseled
form: tinselled
form: tinselled
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English tinsel (“cloth containing gold or silver thread”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman tincel, tincelle, tencele, and then:
* from Old French estincelle, estencele (“a spark”) (modern French étincelle), from Vulgar Latin *stincilla, a metathesis of Latin scintilla (“a glimmer; a spark”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“to shimmer, shine”); and
* from Old French estincelé, the past participle of estinceler, estenceler (“to produce sparks”) (modern French étinceler (“to sparkle, twinkle; (archaic) to produce sparks”)), from Vulgar Latin *stincillāre, a metathesis of Latin scintillāre, the present active infinitive of scintillō (“to scintillate, sparkle”), from scintilla (“a glimmer; a spark”) (see above) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
The English word is a doublet of scintilla, scintillate, and stencil.
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun; while the verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Hir daintie lims tinſill hir ſilke ſoft ſheets, / Hir roſe-crownd cheekes eclipſe my dazeled ſight, […]
ref: 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, “The Vnfortunate Traueller”, in The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton, London: […] T. Scarlet for C[uthbert] Burby, […], →OCLC:
text: And all the ſhrubs, vvith ſparkling ſpangles, ſhevv / Like Morning-Sun-ſhine tinsilling the devv.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Apparition of His Mistresse Calling Him to Elizium”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 240:
glosses: To adorn (something) with tinsel.
To ornament (fabric, etc.) by weaving into it thread of gold, silver, or some other shiny material.
examples: text: She, tinſel'd o'er in robes of varying hues, / With ſelf-applauſe her wild creation views, / Sees momentary monſters riſe and fall, / And with her own fools-colours gilds them all.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 5, lines 69–72:
text: […] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
ref: 1848 June 28, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Before the Curtain”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], →OCLC, page vii:
glosses: To adorn (something) with tinsel.
To deck out (a place or something) with showy but cheap ornaments; to make gaudy.
examples: text: I could tell them vague tales of their poetry, and cruel wars: but it seemed distant and tinselled an age.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 105, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
glosses: To give (something) a false or superficial attractiveness.
Derived terms: word: tinseled
word: tinselled
word: tinseling
word: tinselling
tinsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪns(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtɪnsəl/
rhymes: -ɪnsəl
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English tinsel (“destruction, loss; damnation, spiritual loss; state of damnation”) [and other forms], probably from Old Norse *týnsla (modern Norwegian tynsla (“damage, destruction”)), from týna (“to destroy; to lose; to perish”) (whence Middle English tinen (“to be deprived of, lose; to fail to maintain; to forfeit; to lose track of; to mislay; to be separated from; to escape; to be defeated or forced to withdraw; to waste; to consume, use up; to be destroyed, perish; to damn; to remove, take”)) + -sla (suffix forming nouns from verbs, either denoting the action of the verb or the medium or product of the action). Týna is derived from tjón (“damage; loss”), from Proto-Germanic *teuną (“damage; destruction, ruin; lack”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *duH- (“to torment, vex”) or *deh₂w- (“to burn”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: Damage, detriment; loss.
topics: law
glosses: Deprivation; forfeiture.
tinsel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪns(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtɪnsəl/
rhymes: -ɪnsəl
Forms: form: tinsels
form: tinselling
form: tinselled
form: tinselled
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English tinsel (“destruction, loss; damnation, spiritual loss; state of damnation”) [and other forms], probably from Old Norse *týnsla (modern Norwegian tynsla (“damage, destruction”)), from týna (“to destroy; to lose; to perish”) (whence Middle English tinen (“to be deprived of, lose; to fail to maintain; to forfeit; to lose track of; to mislay; to be separated from; to escape; to be defeated or forced to withdraw; to waste; to consume, use up; to be destroyed, perish; to damn; to remove, take”)) + -sla (suffix forming nouns from verbs, either denoting the action of the verb or the medium or product of the action). Týna is derived from tjón (“damage; loss”), from Proto-Germanic *teuną (“damage; destruction, ruin; lack”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *duH- (“to torment, vex”) or *deh₂w- (“to burn”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: synonyms: word: endamage
glosses: To cause (someone) damage or loss; also, to impose a fine on (someone); to mulct.
giving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, give + -ing.
Senses: examples: 1981, fa.human-nets, 6 May 1981 0359-EDT, Gary Feldman at CMU-10A
These bright surfaces are sprayed with a fine spray of ink, thus giving them an even surface.
glosses: present participle and gerund of give
examples: text: This dress is giving summer and margaritas. Love it!
text: Stop texting me! It's giving "desperate", honestly.
glosses: giving off a certain vibe or aesthetic.
examples: text: Your outfit is giving!
text: There were lots of statement nail moments at the 2022 MTV VMA‘s, and Latto‘s metallic french tip manicure was one of them. [see title]
ref: 2022 August 29, Stixx M, “Latto's French Chrome Manicure Was "Giving" at the MTV VMAs”, in Hypebae:
text: Next, the TikTok user showed her followers the $15 solid scoop neck tank dress in mocha brown. / "This one is giving. I love this, this is so cute. I think my body shape looks really cute in it," she told her followers.
ref: 2022 October 30, Roisin Chapman, “I’m mid-size – my Shein haul included multiple dupes of Kim Kardashian’s Skims with prices from $13”, in The Sun:
text: The fashion influencer also posts content showing off her corporate looks, demonstrating how she can be professional and stylish. / In the comments, people seemed less concerned with her outfit than her hair styling. / "Okay but the fringe is giving," wrote one person.
ref: 2023 January 26, Roisin Chapman, “Trolls tell me my work skirts are ‘too short’ for the office – but my boss doesn’t care, so I don’t know why they do”, in The Irish Sun, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023:
glosses: exuding, radiating, stunning.
giving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: more giving
form: most giving
Etymology: By surface analysis, give + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: To become like Christ involves everything else: becoming a loving and giving person, having confidence enabling you to be vulnerable (psychologically and physically; Jesus did both), having the wisdom to see people's needs and the desire to meet them.
ref: 1984, Jeff Sargent, net.flame, 26 Mar 1984
glosses: Having the tendency to give; generous.
giving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: givings
Etymology: By surface analysis, give + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
examples: text: his gains were sure, His givings rare
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A gift; a benefaction.
examples: text: [U]pon the first giving of the weather.
ref: 1710 December 4 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Thursday, November 23, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 254; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
Derived terms: almsgiving
card giving
caregiving
gaingiving
gift-giving
gift that keeps on giving
giving birth
givingness
Giving Tuesday
Indian giving
lawgiving
life-giving
misgiving
non-giving
nongiving
outgiving
prize-giving
prizegiving
ring-giving
self-giving
Thanksgiving
thanksgiving
ungiving
making
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɛkɪn/
ipa: /ˈmækɪn/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: makeing
form: makin
form: makkin
form: makin'
form: mekin
form: myekin
Etymology: From make + -ing.
Senses: examples: 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas
Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat.
glosses: present participle and gerund of make
hectored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of hector
glosses: past participle of hector
burrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹiː.təʊ/
ipa: /bʊˈriːtəʊ/
ipa: /bəˈɹi.toʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bəˈɾiʈo/
note: approximation of original Spanish pronunciation
ipa: /bʊˈrit̪o/
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: burritos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish burrito, diminutive of burro (“donkey”), from burrico (“donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). The food is so called because of its resemblance to a rolled up pack as typically carried by donkeys, making it an example of synecdoche.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc.
Derived terms: breakfast burrito
burrito bowl
burritolike
burrito taxi
burroti
enchirito
human burrito
Mission burrito
neato burrito
pizzarito
purrito
quesarito
sushi burrito
sushirrito
burrito
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹiː.təʊ/
ipa: /bʊˈriːtəʊ/
ipa: /bəˈɹi.toʊ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bəˈɾiʈo/
note: approximation of original Spanish pronunciation
ipa: /bʊˈrit̪o/
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: burritos
form: burritoing
form: burritoed
form: burritoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish burrito, diminutive of burro (“donkey”), from burrico (“donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). The food is so called because of its resemblance to a rolled up pack as typically carried by donkeys, making it an example of synecdoche.
Senses: examples: text: “You're stealing the blankets,” Zack complained, tugging at the duvet that, somehow, Aaron had completely burritoed himself in.
ref: 2020, Erin McRae, Racheline Maltese, Ink and Ice:
glosses: To wrap someone or something up like a burrito.
brainwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brān'wŏsh
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/
rhymes: -eɪnwɒʃ
Forms: form: brainwashes
Etymology: From brain + wash, calque of Chinese 洗腦 /洗脑 (xǐnǎo), literally "to wash the brain". Usage via U.S. military during Korean War.
Senses: glosses: A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
brainwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brān'wŏsh
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/
rhymes: -eɪnwɒʃ
Forms: form: brainwashes
form: brainwashing
form: brainwashed
form: brainwashed
Etymology: From brain + wash, calque of Chinese 洗腦 /洗脑 (xǐnǎo), literally "to wash the brain". Usage via U.S. military during Korean War.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
glosses: To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
examples: text: The news media brainwashed many people.
glosses: To persuade completely and forcibly.
Derived terms: brainwashable
brainwashedness
brainwashee
brainwasher
brainwashy
unbrainwash
trimmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Accompaniments to a meal.
examples: text: Don't forget to take the trimmings down by twelfth night.
glosses: Domestic decorations for a room, especially Christmas decorations.
Derived terms: boneless lean beef trimmings
trimmings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimming
trim up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trims up
form: trimming up
form: trimmed up
form: trimmed up
Senses: examples: text: "Have you trimmed up yet?"
glosses: To put up trimmings, especially at Christmas.
allotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lə.tɹəʊp/
Forms: form: allotropes
Etymology: Back-formation from allotropy, as allo- + -trope, from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”), and τρόπος (trópos, “way, manner”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of an element that has a distinctly different molecular structure to another form of the same element, with different physical properties and often different chemical properties.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An other form, a different shape of a lexical unit.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An alternative shape of a cognitive structure.
Derived terms: allotropize
Related terms: alloform
allotropic
allotropical
allotropism
allotropous
isoform
isotrope
allotropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allotropies
Etymology: Ancient Greek άλλοτροπἱα (állotrophia), from allo- + -tropy, coined by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A property, exhibited by some elements, of existing in multiple forms with different atomic structures.
Derived terms: allotrope
Related terms: allotropic
allotropical
allotropism
allotropous
allotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From allo- + -tropic, compare French allotropique.
Senses: examples: text: Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.
text: A symphony and a poem may be allotropic forms of the same matter: to use a common simile, there is red phosphorus and there is yellow, but both are phosphorus. Likewise there are different forms of art, but there is only one art.
ref: 1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
Derived terms: allotropically
babbittry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babbittry
Etymology: From Babbitt + -ry, after the character in Sinclair Lewis' novel Babbitt.
Senses: examples: text: For most of this century, writers on the left have portrayed small cities as stifling enclaves of Babbittry and reaction, but today they are seen as refreshing oases from commercialized mass society—potential centers of community and local activism.
ref: 1997 September 15, David Brooks, “The Rise of the Latte Town”, in Washington Examiner:
glosses: Narrow-minded materialism.
Old Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: (narrower terms)
synonyms: Byzantine Greek
Medieval Greek
Middle Greek
glosses: A form of the Greek language intermediate between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek; spoken roughly between the 1st and 16th centuries.
woody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdi/
rhymes: -ʊdi
homophone: woodie
Forms: form: woodier
form: woodiest
Etymology: From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
synonyms: sylvan
woodsy
glosses: Covered in woods; wooded.
glosses: Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
examples: text: with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
examples: text: Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Non-herbaceous.
examples: text: the woody parts of a plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lignified.
Derived terms: woodily
woodiness
woody breast
Woody Creek
Woody Island
woody nightshade
woody pear
Related terms: wood
woodlike
woodsy
woody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdi/
rhymes: -ʊdi
homophone: woodie
Forms: form: woodies
Etymology: From wood + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woodie.
examples: text: And as climbing has evolved, so have woodies — the Moon Board established a worldwide standard for board climbing in 2016.
ref: 2022 January 13, Sam Anderson, “Decoy Board Jockeys Into Moon Board, Kilter Board Climbing Market”, in GearJunkie:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing.
glosses: An erect penis.
Related terms: wooden
wooded
schlong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɒŋ/
ipa: /ʃlɔŋ/
ipa: /ʃlɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: schlongs
form: shlong
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שלאַנג (shlang, “snake”; by extension, “a penis”) or German Schlange.
Senses: synonyms: word: cock
word: putz
word: schmuck
word: tadger
word: anaconda
word: baloney pony
word: bald-headed hermit
word: banana
word: birdie
word: bobby
word: boonga
word: cack
word: choad
word: choda
word: chode
word: chopper
word: cigar
word: cock
word: corey
word: crank
word: cucumber
word: custard launcher
word: D
word: dick
word: dicklet
word: diddle
word: diddly
word: dingaling
word: ding-a-ling
word: ding-dong
word: dinger
word: dingle
word: dingus
word: dingy
word: dink
word: dinkle
word: dipstick
word: dirk
word: disco stick
word: dog bone
word: dong
word: donger
word: Donkey Kong
word: doodle
word: dork
word: down
word: fire hose
word: fuckpole
word: gherkin
word: hairy canary
word: hammer
word: hog
word: hot dog
word: hot rod
word: hoo-hoo
word: hooter
word: it
word: jade stalk
word: jamoke
word: jigger
word: jimmy
word: jock
word: johnson
word: John Thomas
word: joint
word: Jonathan
word: joystick
word: kielbasa
word: knob
word: lad
word: langer
word: lingam
word: love muscle
word: love stick
word: love truncheon
word: love sausage
word: love wand
word: machine
word: magnum
word: Master John Goodfellow
word: male member
word: manhood
word: man-meat
word: meat
word: meat puppet
word: meat rod
word: meat scepter
word: meatstick
word: meat stick
word: member
word: membrum virile
word: nature's scythe
word: nob
word: old chap
word: old fellow
word: one-eyed trouser snake
word: organ
word: package
word: pecker
word: peen
word: pee-pee
word: pee-wee
word: pego
word: penis
word: Percy
word: peter
word: phallus
word: pickle
word: piece
word: piece of pork
word: pike
word: pillicock
word: pingas
word: pink cigar
word: pink oboe
word: pintle
word: pipe
word: pisser
word: piston
word: pizzle
word: plonker
word: pork sword
word: prick
word: pud
word: purple-headed yogurt slinger
word: putz
word: p-word
word: python
word: ramrod
word: rape tool
word: rod
word: root
word: rutter
word: salami
word: sausage
word: schlong
word: schmuck
word: sex tool
word: shaft
word: shlong
word: shmekl (qualifier
word: colloquial
word: Yiddish)
word: short arm
word: skin flute
word: snake
word: snausage
word: spitstick
word: stem
word: stretcher
word: sucker
word: swipe
word: tadger
word: tagger
word: tail
word: tallywhacker
word: tarse
word: thing
word: thingy
word: third leg
word: tic tac
word: todger
word: tool
word: trouser monkey
word: trouser snake
word: truncheon
word: tube steak
word: unit
word: virile member
word: wang
word: weapon
word: wee-wee
word: weenie
word: weeny
word: whang
word: wick
word: widgie
word: widdler
word: wiener
word: willie
word: willy
word: wingwang
word: winkle
word: winky
word: yard
word: ying-yang
glosses: A penis, especially a long one.
preferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈfɜːd/
ipa: /pɹɪˈfɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: præferred
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefer
glosses: simple past and past participle of preferre
preferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈfɜːd/
ipa: /pɹɪˈfɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more preferred
form: most preferred
form: præferred
Senses: glosses: favoured
Derived terms: preferred creditor
preferred number
preferred provider
preferred stockholder
preferred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈfɜːd/
ipa: /pɹɪˈfɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: preferreds
form: præferred
Senses: examples: text: Naturally, closed-end funds’ common shareholders love the juice that auction-rate preferreds provide.
ref: 2008 March 30, Gretchen Morgenson, “If You Can’t Sell, Good Luck”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Preferred stock.
pounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pound
pounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pounded
form: most pounded
Senses: glosses: Having undergone pounding.
glosses: Inebriated.
Synonyms: sense: having undergone pounding
word: banged
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: pounded rice
pounded yam
unpounded
dusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dust
dusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Forms: form: dustings
Senses: examples: text: The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow.
glosses: A light snowfall.
examples: text: Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
glosses: A light covering of something.
examples: text: Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.
text: Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.
ref: 1908, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero:
glosses: The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.
glosses: A beating.
glosses: A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.
Related terms: angel dusting
crop-dusting
rusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Corroded; having been oxidized or covered in rust.
rusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rust
Derived terms: rust out
rusted-out
pepperoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛpəˈɹəʊni/
ipa: /pɛpəˈɹoʊni/
Forms: form: pepperonis
form: pepperoni
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian peperoni (“bell peppers”), the plural of peperone (“bell pepper”).
Senses: examples: text: He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
ref: 2006, George Galjan, Cops, Donuts, and Murder, page 107:
text: She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)
ref: 2019 May 9, Aisha Harris, “‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story”, in The New York Times:
hypernyms: salami
sausage
glosses: A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
examples: text: Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.
text: There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
ref: 2023 June 9, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023:
hypernyms: pizza
glosses: Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.
Derived terms: pepperonied
pepperoni nipple
pepperoni roll
ripperoni
vegaroni
yepperoni
barn door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barn doors
form: barndoor
form: barn-door
Etymology: From barn + door.
Senses: glosses: The large door of a barn.
examples: text: Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.
glosses: Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who blocks every ball.
examples: text: Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!
glosses: The groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.
Related terms: english: lighting equipment
translation: lighting equipment
word: barn doors
word: barn door wipe
word: close the barn door after the horse has bolted
word: not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
word: your barn door is open
barn door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barn doors
form: barn dooring
form: barn doored
form: barn doored
form: barndoor
form: barn-door
Etymology: From barn + door.
Senses: examples: text: Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.
ref: 2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light:
text: These backlights are placed in the ideal position, directly in line with each cross camera lens, barn doored to light only the back of the participants.
ref: 2012, E. P. J. Tozer, Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book, page 518:
glosses: To apply or adjust the barn doors as part of lighting.
political science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political sciences
Senses: glosses: The systematic study of government and politics.
glosses: The analytical study of public policy and policies, past, present, and prospective.
Related terms: political scientist
obscure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /əbˈskjʊə(ɹ)/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /əbˈskjɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /əbˈskjʊɹ/
ipa: /əbˈskjɝ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: obscures
form: obscuring
form: obscured
form: obscured
Etymology: From Middle English obscure, from Old French obscur, from Latin obscūrus (“dark, dusky, indistinct”), from ob- + *scūrus, from Proto-Italic *skoiros, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-. Doublet of oscuro.
Senses: examples: text: They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: c. 1688', William Wake, Preparation for Death
There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured in the writings of learned men as this.
glosses: To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
examples: text: It has been little altered over the years save for the addition of a platform awning which rather obscures the arcaded entrance to the booking hall.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529:
text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
text: However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...].
ref: 1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719:
text: I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
ref: 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, page 62:
glosses: To hide, put out of sight etc.
examples: text: How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it.
ref: 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
glosses: To conceal oneself; to hide.
Synonyms: sense: to render obscure, to darken, dim
word: becloud
sense: to render obscure, to darken, dim
word: bedarken
sense: to render obscure, to darken, dim
word: bedim
sense: to render obscure, to darken, dim
word: bemist
stranger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: Truth is stranger than fiction.
glosses: comparative form of strange: more strange
Derived terms: stranger things have happened
stranger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: strangers
form: strangering
form: strangered
form: strangered
Etymology: From Middle English straunger, from Old French estrangier (“foreign, alien”), from estrange, from Latin extraneus (“foreign, external”) (whence also English estrange), from extra (“outside of”). Cognate with French étranger (“foreigner, stranger”) and Spanish extranjero (“foreigner”). Displaced native Old English fremde (literally “strange or unfamiliar person”).
Senses: examples: text: Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To estrange; to alienate.
carnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹnəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: more carnal
form: most carnal
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin carnālis (“fleshly, of the flesh”), from carō (“flesh”).
Senses: examples: text: At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
glosses: Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.
glosses: Worldly or earthly; temporal.
glosses: Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Derived terms: carnalism
carnalist
carnality
carnalization
carnalize
carnal knowledge
carnally
carnalness
hypercarnal
noncarnal
uncarnal
Related terms: incarnate
incarnation
reincarnate
reincarnation
Waray-Waray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwa.ɾaɪ̯ ˈwa.ɾaɪ̯/
Etymology: Borrowed from Waray-Waray Waray-Waray, from Waray.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A central Philippine Visayan language from the islands of Samar, Biliran, and northeast Leyte.
Synonyms: Waray
redirect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: redirects
form: redirecting
form: redirected
form: redirected
Etymology: From re- + direct.
Senses: examples: text: redirect output to /dev/null
glosses: To give new direction to, change the direction of.
glosses: To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.
examples: text: You will be redirected shortly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.
Synonyms: reorient
Derived terms: autoredirect
redirection
hard redirect
soft redirect
redirect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: redirects
Etymology: From re- + direct.
Senses: glosses: A redirection.
topics: law
glosses: An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination, re-examination.
examples: text: On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
ref: 2025 May 22, Anil Dash, “Important Changes are Coming to Glitch”, in Glitch:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.
Synonyms: topics: legal
law
word: redirect examination
Derived terms: autoredirect
shank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: shanks
form: shanking
form: shanked
form: shanked
Etymology: From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Dutch schenkel, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).
Senses: synonyms: word: pedestrianize
word: walk
word: ambulate
word: pedestrianize
word: raik
glosses: To travel on foot.
synonyms: word: jab
word: shiv
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
synonyms: word: debag
word: depants
glosses: To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
examples: text: Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
tennis
qualifier: gridiron football
glosses: To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
examples: text: the gerrnens of these swelled, and on four out of the six I have now got fine pods, above 1% inch in length, with the seeds externally visible; whereas the flower stalks of the many other flowers all shanked off.
ref: 1861, Charles Darwin, Cause of the variation of flowers:
glosses: To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
examples: text: The system is suitable for shanking all kind of sewn buttons (jackets, coats, blouses, shirts, trousers).
ref: 2000, The Indian Textile Journal (volume 110, issues 7-12)
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
examples: text: I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.
ref: 1986 March 6, "Factory Work" [Poetry, 147], quoted in 2009, Deborah Boe, The Girl of the Early Race: Poems, Gegensatz Press
qualifier: shoemaking
glosses: To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
shank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: shanker
form: shankest
Etymology: From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Dutch schenkel, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).
Senses: glosses: Bad.
Related terms: word: shank it
sense: poorly played golf shot
word: thin
sense: poorly played golf shot
word: fat
sense: poorly played golf shot
word: toe
crimper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪmpɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪmpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crimpers
Etymology: From crimp + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the climbing hold, + -er (patient suffix).
Senses: glosses: A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
glosses: A person who crimps when climbing.
glosses: A hairdresser.
glosses: A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
glosses: Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
synonyms: crimping tool
crimping pliers
glosses: A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
glosses: An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
glosses: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
glosses: A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
jug hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jug holds
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: jug
glosses: A large climbing hold that is big enough to wrap a hand around, similar to the handle of a jug.
dyno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynos
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dynamic climbing move or jump to reach a hold that cannot otherwise be reached.
glosses: A dynamometer.
Derived terms: dyno torch
grigri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grigris
Etymology: From grigri, and possibly related to French grimper (“to climb”).
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A belay device that incorporates an assisted braking system, trademark of French company Petzl.
grigri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grigris
Etymology: See gris-gris.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gris-gris.
downclimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downclimbs
form: downclimbing
form: downclimbed
form: downclimbed
Etymology: From down + climb.
Senses: glosses: To climb down a climbing route, often for endurance training.
dresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛsə/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dressers
Etymology: From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
Senses: examples: text: The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
ref: 1847, Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie:
text: But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
glosses: An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
Derived terms: dresserlike
kitchen dresser
Scotch dresser
Welsh dresser
dresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛsə/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dressers
Etymology: From Middle English dresser, equivalent to dress + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He's a very snappy dresser.
glosses: One who dresses in a particular way.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
examples: text: In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room.
ref: 1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:
text: The former royal butler Guy Hunting recalls the uphill task faced by the Princess's dresser, Isobel Mathieson, each morning. 'During her many years with Princess Margaret, the biggest challenge Isobel faced each day was separating the royal body from its bed.
ref: 2013, Craig Brown, Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, page 107:
hypernyms: body servant
glosses: A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
examples: text: On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Bart's.
ref: 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section I:
text: Boatmen and passengers — a Chinese assistant manager and a Tamil hospital dresser whom Crabbe had met before, two Malays of occupation undefined — helped Crabbe into the launch, but Vythilingam did not move, did not even seem to see.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
examples: text: Because we were the first by a long way to turn trendy, we're still the only dressers in Scotland and our enemies were easily recognised: denims and DM's, skinheads and parkas.
ref: 2015, Jay Allan, Bloody Casuals: Diary of a Football Hooligan:
glosses: A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
synonyms: bolt#Noun_2
bolter
glosses: A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
examples: text: ore dresser
coordinate_terms: breaker
crusher
glosses: A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
glosses: A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
examples: text: At the dressing sheds the slate-dresser saws the blocks into various sizes and then splits the smaller units into sheets.
ref: 2015, Frank Bennett, Alfred Pinion, Roof Slating and Tiling, page 7:
coordinate_terms: mason
stonemason
glosses: One who dresses or prepares stone.
Derived terms: cross-dresser
flax-dresser
power dresser
set dresser
stonedresser
vinedresser
window dresser
Related terms: word: dressing
word: dress-up
scullery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌləɹi/
Forms: form: sculleries
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman squillerie, from Old French escuelerie (“office of the servant in charge of plates”), from escuele (“bowl, dish”), from Latin scutella.
Senses: examples: text: With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
Derived terms: scullery girl
scullery maid
sculleryman
Related terms: word: scour
word: washery
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: backhouse
word: washhouse
refer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈfɜː/
enpr: rī-fûr
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɝ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɛr/
ipa: /ɹəˈføː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈfeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɹiːfə/
ipa: /ˈɹifɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːfə/
homophone: reefer
rhymes: -iːfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: refers
Etymology: From Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre. The noun (used in journalism) is from the verb. Doublet of relate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Senses: examples: text: A refer on page 1 of the Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, edition of The Herald-News contained incorrect information about the story “Neighbors at odds over Joliet liquor license” that appeared on Page 4 of the same edition.
ref: 2015 August 5, “Corrections”, in The Herald-News, Joliet, Illinois: Shaw Media, via Issuu, page 2:
text: Looking at the refers on page 2, it's obvious that May became something of an accidental women's issue.
ref: 2017 May 24, Amanda May Aruani, “Letter from the Editor”, in The Arts Paper, New Haven, Connecticut: The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, via Issuu, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2021, page 3:
text: The paper of Sept. 11 was not without its alarms. On Page One, an ominous “refer” (pronounced reefer) to an article inside the paper: Palestinian snipers had killed two Israelis, bringing a retaliatory shelling by Israeli tanks. On A3: A suicide bomber had killed two police officers in Istanbul.
ref: 2021 September 10, Ralph Blumenthal, “A Time Capsule in Two Front Pages”, in The New York Times, New York City:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.
scullery maid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scullery maids
form: scullery-maid
form: scullerymaid
Senses: glosses: A domestic servant, of lowest status, whose job is to wash dishes and do other menial chores.
raw_tags: in large houses
Synonyms: scullery girl
Coordinate terms: cook
kitchen maid
sculleryman
Related terms: butler
housekeeper
footman