cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
regret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/
ipa: /ɹəˈɡɹɛt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɡɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: regrets
Etymology: From Middle English regretten, regreten, from Old French regreter, regrater (“to lament”), from re- (intensive prefix) + *greter, *grater (“to weep”), from Frankish *grātan (“to weep, mourn, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *grētaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d- (“to sound”); and Frankish *greutan (“to cry, weep”), from Proto-Germanic *greutaną (“to weep, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd- (“to weep, be sad”), equivalent to re- + greet. Cognate with Old High German grāzan (“to cry”), Old English grǣtan (“to weep, greet”), Old English grēotan (“to weep, lament”), Old Norse gráta (“to weep, groan”), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰𐌽 (grētan, “to weep”). More at greet.
Senses: examples: text: What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe?
ref: 1828, Thomas Macaulay, John Dryden:
text: Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
text: From its peaceful bosom [the grave] spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
ref: 1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: nostalgia
word: remorse
word: repentance
word: unsatisfaction
word: agenbite
word: remorse
word: rue
word: ruth
word: compunction
word: contrition
word: penitence
word: repentance
word: self-reproach
word: sorriness
glosses: Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
examples: text: Is it a vertue to have some ineffective regrets to damnation, and such a Vertue too, as shall serve to ballance all our vices?
ref: 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety:
glosses: Dislike; aversion.
examples: text: Under squared errorloss we show that there exists unique minimax regret solution for the problem of selecting the threshold.
ref: 2002, Bernd Droge, On the Minimax Regret Estimation of a Restricted Normal Mean, and Implications:
text: Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө). Subtracting these unavoidable losses, we obtain the regret table, Table 1.7, and the average regret table, Table 1.8.
ref: 2012, Herman Chernoff, Lincoln E. Moses, Elementary Decision Theory, page 12:
qualifier: decision theory
glosses: The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action.
glosses: A person invited to an event who was unable to attend, but notified the organizer of this beforehand; a nonattendee.
Derived terms: letter of regret
postdecisional regret
regret letter
regret rape
regretful
friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnd.li/
ipa: /ˈfɹɛn.li/
rhymes: -ɛndli
rhymes: -ɛnli
Forms: form: friendlies
Etymology: From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English frēondlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndlīkaz, equivalent to friend + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”).
Senses: examples: text: This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
text: Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.
ref: 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.
examples: text: These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
ref: 1898, Ernest Bennett, The Downfall of the Dervishes:
text: You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).
ref: 2008, Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity, page 44:
text: "What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies."
ref: 2017 July 6, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2024:
text: Reports from SMS Kaiser indicate scouting destroyers attacked and destroyed a large submarine to the north. Hipper orders the destroyers to be more careful; the High Seas Fleet is approaching the U-boat patrol line, and he has a feeling they've just sunk a friendly.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnd.li/
ipa: /ˈfɹɛn.li/
rhymes: -ɛndli
rhymes: -ɛnli
Forms: form: more friendly
form: most friendly
Etymology: From Middle English frendly, frendliche, from Old English frēondlīċe (“in a friendly manner”), equivalent to friend + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And looke we friendly on them when they come:
But if they offer word or violence,
Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one,
Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: In a friendly manner; like a friend.
Synonyms: amicably
friendlily
halal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlɑːl/
ipa: /həˈlæl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
Etymology: From Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).
Senses: examples: text: […] broadening the demand for halal across all product categories, not just in their consumption of meat products […]
ref: 2014, Professor Nilüfer Göle, Islam and Public Controversy in Europe, →ISBN, page 176:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Allowable, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Allowable, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
raw_tags: of food
examples: text: Is this kosher? I hear you ask. Is it halal? Can this really be viewed as strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the competition?
ref: 2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 120:
glosses: In accordance with standards or usual practice; allowable.
Synonyms: word: nonharam
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: qingzhen
Derived terms: halal cart
halalflation
halalify
halalisation
halalization
halalize
halalness
halal net
halal snack pack
nonhalal
unhalal
halal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlɑːl/
ipa: /həˈlæl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
Etymology: From Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).
Senses: examples: text: Just like eating halal is not a choice for our Muslim brothers and sisters, for us, eating kosher is not voluntary; it’s who we are and as necessary as the oxygen we need for sustenance.
ref: 2020 August 20, Eliezer Brand, “ICE is forcing Muslims to eat pork. My fellow Orthodox Jews: This is our fight!”, in The Forward:
glosses: In a halal manner; in accordance with Muslim religious customs.
halal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlɑːl/
ipa: /həˈlæl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: halals
form: halalling
form: halalled
form: halalled
Etymology: From Arabic حَلَال (ḥalāl).
Senses: glosses: To make halal.
glosses: to allow
Related terms: kosher
free time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I love to play football in my free time.
text: If you have some free time tomorrow, let’s go and watch a film.
synonyms: spare time
leisure time
leisure
downtime
idle time
glosses: Time when one is not working.
pragmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹæɡˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more pragmatic
form: most pragmatic
form: pragmatical
form: pragmatick
form: pragmatique
Etymology: From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).
Senses: examples: text: The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.
text: Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the heed-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
 (61) !That man will eat any car which thinks heʼs stupid
 which is purely pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesnʼt happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars donʼt think, and people donʼt eat cars).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 423:
text: Another increasing concern with both ideological and pragmatic elements related to the situation of wickerworkers.
ref: 2013, Joong-Seop Kim, The Korean Paekjong Under Japanese Rule:
glosses: Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
examples: text: Polybius’s pragmatic history is simply the history of affairs, as distinguished from the descriptive and often poetical character which much history before his time had.
ref: 1854 March, J. G., “On the Dating of Ancient History”, in Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, volume 1, page 53:
text: […]such objects belonged to the domain of the comic poet, and of the lighter kinds of poetry. For the more serious kinds, for pragmatic poetry, to use an excellent expression of Polybius, they were more difficult and severe in the range of subjects which they permitted.
ref: 1856, Matthew Arnold, Poems, page 16:
glosses: Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
glosses: Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.
Synonyms: sense: practical
word: down-to-earth
sense: practical
word: functional
sense: practical
word: practical
sense: practical
word: utilitarian
sense: practical
word: realistic
Derived terms: word: antipragmatic
word: apragmatic
word: cyberpragmatic
word: grammaticopragmatic
word: lexicopragmatic
word: metapragmatic
word: nonpragmatic
word: polypragmatic
word: pragma
word: pragmatically
word: pragmaticism
word: pragmaticist
word: pragmaticistic
word: pragmaticize
word: pragmatics
word: pragmatic sanction
word: psychopragmatic
word: semantic-pragmatic disorder
word: sociopragmatic
word: unpragmatic
Related terms: practical
pragmatism
pragmatist
pragmatize
pragmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹæɡˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: pragmatics
form: pragmatical
form: pragmatick
form: pragmatique
Etymology: From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).
Senses: glosses: A man of business.
glosses: A busybody.
glosses: A public decree.
laughing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːfɪŋ
Forms: form: laughings
Etymology: From Middle English lawghynge; equivalent to laugh + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to laugh.
laughing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːfɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English lawghynge; equivalent to laugh + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laugh
Synonyms: word: hilarity
word: laughter
Derived terms: burst out laughing
die laughing
laughing academy
laughing boy
laughing death
laughing dove
laughing-eyed
laughing falcon
laughing gas
laughing-gear
laughing gear
laughing goose
laughing group
laughing gull
laughing heir
laughing heir statute
laughing hyaena
laughing hyena
laughing jackass
laughing juice
laughing kookaburra
laughingly
laughing owl
laughing sickness
laughing soup
laughing stalk
laughing stock
laughingstock
laughing-stock
laughing tackle
laughingthrush
laughing thrush
laughing turtle dove
laughing water
no laughing matter
nonlaughing
unlaughing
laugher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: läfʹə
ipa: /ˈlɑːfə/
enpr: lăfʹə
ipa: /ˈlæfɚ/
rhymes: -æfə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: laughers
Etymology: From Middle English lawȝar, lawher(e); equivalent to laugh + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Well then—if I must neither stir out of the gate nor look out at window, I will at least see what the inside of the house contains that may help to pass away one’s time—peradventure, I may light on that blue-eyed laugher in some corner or other.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: He and his companions[…] were exchanging jokes with that sort of ostentatious laughter which implies a desire to prove that the laugher is not mortified though some people might suspect it.
ref: 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “At the Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book III, page 309:
text: These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.
ref: 1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119:
glosses: One who laughs.
glosses: A game in which an opponent is defeated by a sizable margin; a blowout.
glosses: A variety of the domestic pigeon.
Related terms: laugh
laughingly
laughter
laughable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaːfəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈlɑːfəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈlæfəbl̩/
enpr: ˈlăfəbl̩
ipa: /ˈlæfəbl̩/
Forms: form: more laughable
form: most laughable
Etymology: From laugh + -able.
Senses: examples: text: At this our first dinner at the Government House a very laughable incident occurred.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91
synonyms: comical
droll
humorful
ludicrous
risible
ridiculous
glosses: Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
examples: text: It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: “Maybe it made them feel better about their lives that a young prince’s life was laughable. Never mind that my mother didn’t meet Major Hewitt until long after I was born,” he wrote.
ref: 2023 January 6, “Prince Harry book Spare: King Charles made ‘sadistic’ joke about Prince Harry’s ‘real’ dad”, in NZ Herald:
synonyms: derisible
pathetic
risible
glosses: Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.
Derived terms: laughableness
laughably
unlaughable
Related terms: jocular
lauder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔː.də/
ipa: /ˈlɑ.dəɹ/
rhymes: -ɔːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lauders
Etymology: From laud + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lauds (communicates high praises)
glosses: A follower of Archbishop William Laud
Synonyms: extoller
laudatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːdətɹi/
Forms: form: more laudatory
form: most laudatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laudatōrius: compare Old French laudatoire.
Senses: examples: text: laudatory verses
text: The comparison of these two passages will probably have suggested to you the fact of the immense superiority of the satirical over the laudatory powers of Dryden.
ref: 1853, Sir James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:
glosses: Of or pertaining to praise, or the expression of praise.
Derived terms: laudatorily
overlaudatory
unlaudatory
Related terms: laudatories
laudator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laudators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laudator.
Senses: examples: text: As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.
ref: 1992, Historia, page 293:
text: To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.
ref: 2007, Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes, page 172:
text: When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.
ref: 2012, Tuana Dowan, Thena: Fight for the Future, page 377:
glosses: One who lauds.
laudative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laudative
form: most laudative
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laudativus (“laudatory”): compare French laudatif.
Senses: glosses: laudatory
laudative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laudatives
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laudativus (“laudatory”): compare French laudatif.
Senses: examples: text: men have entered into a purpose to enter into a laudative of learning
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A panegyric; a eulogy.
laudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɔːˈdeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: laudations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laudatio; compare Old English taudation. See laud.
Senses: examples: text: […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]
ref: 1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498:
text: Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
glosses: The act of lauding; high praise or commendation.
Derived terms: overlaudation
Related terms: applaud
applause
plaudit
laudanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːdənəm/
ipa: /ˈlɔːdnəm/
ipa: /ˈlɒdənəm/
ipa: /ˈlɒdnəm/
Forms: form: laudanums
Etymology: From New Latin, from lādanum (“a gum resin”), from Ancient Greek λᾱ́δανον (lā́danon). Originally the same word as ladanum, labdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. Perhaps influenced by Latin laudō (“to praise”). See ladanum.
Used by Paracelsus to refer to ladanum gum, and to a compound recipe containing pearls, but apparently not to any preparation of opium; this modern sense was introduced by his followers (Sigerist 1941:540–1).
Senses: examples: text: Ever since my recovery from the fever I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of laudanum; for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 4, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: Whatever else was wanting to a wise man's happiness, —of laudanum I would have given him as much as he wished, and in a golden cup.
ref: 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “[Part II.] Introduction to the Pains of Opium.”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC, pages 129–130:
text: Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XX, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: Laudanum, a derivative of opium, was the name given to a secret remedy concocted by the occultist Paracelsus, in the sixteenth century.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 171:
text: At the time, Wilson writes, England was “marinated in opium, which was taken for everything from upset stomachs to sore heads.” It was swallowed in the form of pills or dissolved in alcohol to make laudanum, the tincture preferred by De Quincey.
ref: 2016 October 16, Dan Chiasson, “The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir”, in The New Yorker:
text: In Sydenham’s 1683 treatise on the disease, for the sudden onset of violent symptoms he recommended laudanum — a tincture of opium and alcohol — to take the edge off the pain; […]
ref: 2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: tincture
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medicine
medication#Noun
medicament#Noun
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drug#Noun
glosses: Any of several tinctures of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.
Derived terms: Dutchman's laudanum
laudanine
Sydenham's laudanum
laudanum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːdənəm/
ipa: /ˈlɔːdnəm/
ipa: /ˈlɒdənəm/
ipa: /ˈlɒdnəm/
Forms: form: laudanums
form: laudanuming
form: laudanumed
form: laudanumed
Etymology: From New Latin, from lādanum (“a gum resin”), from Ancient Greek λᾱ́δανον (lā́danon). Originally the same word as ladanum, labdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. Perhaps influenced by Latin laudō (“to praise”). See ladanum.
Used by Paracelsus to refer to ladanum gum, and to a compound recipe containing pearls, but apparently not to any preparation of opium; this modern sense was introduced by his followers (Sigerist 1941:540–1).
Senses: glosses: To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
glosses: To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.
laudanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔː.də.niːn/
Etymology: From laudanum + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium
laudably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔː.dɪb.li/
rhymes: -ɔːdɪbli
Forms: form: more laudably
form: most laudably
Etymology: From laudable + -ly.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: admirably
glosses: In a laudable manner.
laudableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɔːdəbəlnɪs/
Etymology: From laudable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
laughing falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing falcons
form: laughing-falcon
Senses: synonyms: acauã
snake hawk
glosses: A South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans), so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing.
laughing gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its euphoric effects. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1799.
Senses: examples: text: "You know how matters stand, dear," said he. "I have explained it also to our friends here. You're not afraid are you?" "It won't be painful, George?" "No more than laughing-gas at the dentist's."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: ETSC’s Belgian member VIAS institute is calling for the development of a breath test to detect when a driver has consumed nitrous oxide, known as ‘laughing gas’.
Call for breath tests to detect drivers under the influence of nitrous oxide, ETSC, 20 February 2024
glosses: Nitrous oxide, especially when used as an anaesthetic.
laughing goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing geese
Senses: glosses: The European white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
laughing gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing gulls
Senses: glosses: A common European gull (Xema ridibundus).
glosses: An American gull (Leucophaeus atricilla); in summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.
Synonyms: sense: European gull
word: black cap
sense: European gull
word: pewit
sense: European gull
word: red-legged gull
sense: European gull
word: sea crow
laughing hyena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing hyenas
form: laughing hyaena
Senses: glosses: The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta); so called because of the resemblance of its call to human laughter.
Synonyms: spotted hyena
laughing jackass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing jackasses
Senses: glosses: The laughing kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae.
Synonyms: jackass kingfisher
gogobera
Hypernyms: kookaburra
Derived terms: jacko
laughing owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing owls
Senses: examples: text: Other birds, such as the emblematically distinctive huia and the laughing owl, followed soon after.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 185:
glosses: An owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, now probably extinct, named for its cry.
Synonyms: whekau
white-faced owl
simulacra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹə/
ipa: /ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin simulācra.
Senses: glosses: plural of simulacrum.
accurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɜːs/
ipa: /əˈkɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: accurses
form: accursing
form: accursed
form: accursed
form: accurst
Etymology: From Middle English acursen, acoursen, acorsen, equivalent to a- + curse.
Senses: examples: text: And the city shall be accursed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:17:
text: Thro' you, my life will be accurst.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 117:
synonyms: curse
execrate
anathematize
glosses: To damn; to wish misery or evil upon
accursed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/
ipa: /əˈkɝ.sɪd/
Forms: form: more accursed
form: most accursed
form: accurst
Etymology: From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- + cursen, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.
Senses: examples: text: Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.
ref: c. 1789, William Blake, Tiriel:
text: Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
ref: 1819, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, Chapter 35:
text: […]Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle;[…]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
synonyms: execrable
damnable
glosses: Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
examples: text: Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:
text: […]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.
ref: 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8:
text: For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]
ref: 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, chapter 7, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, translation of original in Russian:
text: We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone!
ref: 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, chapter 10, in The Return of the King, Book V:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
Derived terms: accursedly
accursedness
nonaccursed
unaccursed
accursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/
ipa: /əˈkɝ.sɪd/
Forms: form: accurst
Etymology: From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- + cursen, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accurse
accurst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈkɜːst/
ipa: /əˈkɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: more accurst
form: most accurst
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of accursed.
accurst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈkɜːst/
ipa: /əˈkɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Senses: glosses: past participle of accurse
accusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzəbl/
Forms: form: more accusable
form: most accusable
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin accūsābilis (“accusable”), corresponding to accuse + -able; compare French accusable.
Senses: examples: text: If you publish that article, you are accusable of libel.
glosses: Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or breach; blamable
Derived terms: accusably
unaccusable
accusal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuː.zəl/
ipa: /əˈkju.zəl/
Forms: form: accusals
Etymology: From accuse + -al.
Senses: glosses: An accusation
accusant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkjuːzənt/
Forms: form: accusants
Etymology: From Latin accusans, present participle of accusare. Compare French accusant.
Senses: glosses: An accuser.
accusatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin. Doublet of accusation.
Senses: glosses: Categoria.
Berlinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ).lɪn.iːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Berlin + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The regiolect spoken in the city of Berlin, Germany, and surrounding areas in Brandenburg.
Berlinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜː(ɹ).lɪn.iːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Berlinese
Etymology: From Berlin + -ese.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of the city of Berlin, Germany.
Synonyms: Berliner
Berlinian
arachnophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: a-rach*no-pho*bi-a
ipa: /æˌɹæk.nəˈfəʊ.bɪ.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: arachnophobias
form: arachnephobia
form: arachniphobia
Etymology: From arachno- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: (Editor’s note: Those who suffer from claustrophobia, kabourophobia, arachnophobia or thalassophobia are advised to skip the above trailer.)
ref: 2024 August 11, Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, “Start your week smart: Gymnast stripped of medal, Brazil plane crash, Trump campaign hack, fighting inside Russia”, in CNN:
glosses: An abnormal or irrational fear of arachnids, especially spiders.
Synonyms: sense: fear of spiders
word: araneophobia
sense: fear of spiders
word: spiderphobia
Derived terms: arachnophobe
arachnophobic
Iraqnophobia
Related terms: arachnid
spider
dice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dīs
ipa: /daɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Etymology: From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: plural of die
dice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dīs
ipa: /daɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: dices
form: dicing
form: diced
form: diced
Etymology: From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times — a week
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: Tyrion found Timmett dicing with his Burned Men in the barracks.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 407:
glosses: To play dice.
examples: text: And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan....
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, Hap:
text: Dice the vegetables and heat in the double boiler with butter, pepper and salt.
ref: 1928, “Carrots and Beets in Turnip Border”, in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 45, page 109:
text: But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To cut into small cubes.
glosses: To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Derived terms: dice up
dice with death
slice and dice
slogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊɡ(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈsloʊɡən/
rhymes: -əʊɡən
Forms: form: slogans
form: sloggorne
form: slughorn
form: slughorne
Etymology: From earlier sloggorne, slughorne, slughorn (“battle cry”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm (“battle cry”), from Old Irish slóg (“army; (by extension) assembly, crowd”) + gairm (“a call, cry”). Slóg is derived from Proto-Celtic *slougos (“army, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *slowgʰos, *slowgos (“entourage”); and gairm from Proto-Celtic *garsman (“a call, shout”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“to call, shout”). The English word is cognate with Latin garriō (“to chatter, prattle”), Old English caru (“anxiety, care, worry; grief, sorrow”).
Senses: examples: text: "Right-ho," I [Bertie Wooster] said, not much liking the assignment, but liking less the idea of endeavouring to thwart this incandescent aunt in her current frame of mind. Safety first, is the Wooster slogan.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A distinctive phrase of a person or group of people (such as a movement or political party); a motto.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
synonyms: word: motto
word: strapline
word: tagline
glosses: A catchphrase associated with a product or service being advertised.
examples: text: His bugle Wat of Harden blew; / Pensils and pennons wide were flung, / To heaven the Border slogan rung, / "St Mary for the young Buccleuch!"
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXIV, page 115:
glosses: A battle cry among the ancient Irish or highlanders of Scotland.
Derived terms: word: sloganeer
word: sloganeering
word: sloganise
word: sloganize
word: sloganising
word: sloganizing
word: sloganization
word: sloganizer
safety
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪfti/
rhymes: -eɪfti
Forms: form: safeties
form: safetying
form: safetied
form: safetied
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English savete, from Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem, from Latin salvus.
Senses: glosses: To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
examples: text: Time went back to normal for him; he safetied his own weapon and dropped it, jumping forward.
ref: 2011, Time Crime, page 92:
text: Osborne lay propped up on one elbow, his pistol cocked, his aim wavering in the general direction the man had gone. Finally he safetied it, stuffed it in the holster on his right hip, and reached for his cell phone in his jacket pocket. But it was gone.
ref: 2012, Blowout, page 343:
glosses: to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
produce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prŏd'yo͞os
ipa: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒdjuːs/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.dus/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.dus/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.dus/
Etymology: From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: output
proceeds
product
yield
glosses: That which is produced.
examples: text: All fruits, vegetables, and dairy and poultry-yard produce are, in the Australian capitals, dear, and of very easy sale.
ref: 1852, F. Lancelott, Australia As It Is: Its Settlements, Farms and Gold Fields, page 151:
text: Taking a retrospect, then, of fourteen years preceding 1860, and making two periods of seven years each, the value of the exports of the produce or manufactures of this country to Australia has been, for the annual average of the first seven years, 1846-52, 2½ millions sterling; while for the second period, 1856-59, the annual average has been 11 millions.
ref: 1861, William Westgarth, Australia: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, page 54:
text: While it is true that New Zealand′s economic stake in the region [of Oceania] remained relatively small when compared with the major markets for New Zealand produce in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe, it nevertheless remained the region through which trade must pass on its way to these larger markets.
ref: 1999, Bruce Brown, Malcolm McKinnon, New Zealand in World Affairs, 1972-1990, page 291:
text: A farm supervisor is employed to coordinate the planting and harvesting of produce by volunteers.
ref: 2008, Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings, Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices, page 230:
glosses: Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs, dairy products and meat; the saleable food products of farms.
examples: text: With regard to the mare that has proved herself of the first class during her racing career, let us contrast the probable success of her produce […]
ref: 1865, The Turf and the Racehorse:
glosses: Offspring.
glosses: Livestock and pet food supplies.
Hypernyms: sense: items produced
word: output
sense: items produced
word: products
Derived terms: produce broker
produce race
problem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒbləm/
ipa: /-ɪm/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑbləm/
Forms: form: more problem
form: most problem
form: probleme
Etymology: From Middle English probleme, from Middle French probleme, from Latin problēma, from Ancient Greek πρόβλημα (próblēma, “anything thrown forward, hindrance, obstacle, anything projecting, a headland, promontory”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “to throw or lay something in front of someone, to put forward”), from προ- (pro-, “in front of”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, to cast, to hurl”). Doublet of problema.
Senses: glosses: Difficult to train or guide; unruly.
raw_tags: of a person or an animal
examples: text: It is more problem to my family than to me.
ref: 2010, A. M. Aleksander, The Pride of the King:
glosses: Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome.
Related terms: trouble
own
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊn/
ipa: /ɑːn/
ipa: /aʊn/
ipa: /əʊn/
enpr: ōn
ipa: /oʊn/
ipa: /uŋ/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: owns
Etymology: A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.
Senses: examples: text: the amount of bigots that just screenshot my profile thinking it's the biggest own is insane.
ref: 2023 June 10, @__Happyface, Twitter:
glosses: A crushing insult.
Derived terms: self-own
buffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: buffles
Etymology: From Middle French buffle. Doublet of bubale and buffalo.
Senses: examples: text: [the Malayan tongue word list] An Oxe or Buffle: Cambi
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: A buffalo.
Derived terms: bufflehead
buffle-headed
buffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: buffles
form: buffling
form: buffled
form: buffled
Senses: glosses: To puzzle; to baffle.
Related terms: baffle
mazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæzə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -æzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: mazards
form: mazzard
Etymology: Probably from mazer, the head being compared to a large goblet.
Senses: examples: text: Why ee'n ſo: and now my Lady Wormes, / Chapleſſe, and knockt about the Mazard with a Sextons Spade;
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 277:
text: This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
ref: 1808, Richard Graves, The Spiritual Quixote, page 127:
text: For the poor things [worshippers] would have other idols in place of those he [the iconoclast] thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth.
ref: 1906, Ambrose Bierce, “Iconoclast”, in The Cynic’s Word Book, London: Arthur F. Bird […], →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: Head; skull.
mazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæzə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -æzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: mazards
Etymology: Compare French merise (“wild cherry”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of small black cherry.
Related terms: mazzard
loggets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɡ.ɪts/
ipa: /ˈlɑɡ.ɪts/
ipa: /ˈlɒɡ.ɪts/
note: late Early Modern English
ipa: /ˈlɒɡəts/
Senses: glosses: plural of logget
loggets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɡ.ɪts/
ipa: /ˈlɑɡ.ɪts/
ipa: /ˈlɒɡ.ɪts/
note: late Early Modern English
ipa: /ˈlɒɡəts/
Senses: examples: text: Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A game involving throwing pieces of wood at a stake.
vague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪɡ/
note: Canada, Upper Midwestern US
ipa: /væɡ/
rhymes: -eɪɡ
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: vagues
Etymology: From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
Senses: examples: text: the Scots had some leasure to plaie their vagues
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: A wandering; a vagary.
examples: text: The gray vague of unsympathizing sea.
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:
glosses: An indefinite expanse.
vague
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪɡ/
note: Canada, Upper Midwestern US
ipa: /væɡ/
rhymes: -eɪɡ
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: vagues
form: vaguing
form: vagued
form: vagued
Etymology: From Middle French vague, from Latin vagus (“uncertain, vague”, literally “wandering, rambling, strolling”).
Senses: examples: text: [The soul] doth vague and wander.
ref: 1603, Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals:
glosses: to wander; to roam; to stray.
examples: text: Vaguely, yes. I've vagued all my life; that's been my curse.
ref: 1894, Mrs. Campbell Praed, Christina Chard, page 52:
text: A man's mind vagued up a little, for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion?
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, East of Eden:
text: What's with you? You're all vagued out.
ref: 2009, Zoe Foster Blake, Air Kisses, →ISBN:
glosses: To become vague or act in a vague manner.
synonyms: vaguepost
glosses: To make vague negative comments publicly; to make highly veiled complaints or insults.
accusatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkju.zəˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more accusatory
form: most accusatory
Etymology: From Middle English accusatorie, from Middle French accusatorie and its etymon Latin accūsātōrius. By surface analysis, accuse + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: This conclusion will certainly be strengthened by reading the accusatory speech composed by Deinarchus […]
ref: 1846-1856, George Grote, A History of Greece:
text: Had she heard the same Bob Dylan singing “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” his accusatory song about the fatal caning of a 51-year-old black barmaid by a young white patrician, “The Help” might have ventured outside its harsh yet still comfortable, reader-friendly world.
ref: 2009 February 18, Janet Maslin, “Racial Insults and Quiet Bravery in 1960s Mississippi”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation.
Derived terms: accusatorily
nonaccusatory
unaccusatory
accuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkju.zɚ/
ipa: /əˈkjuː.zə/
rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: accusers
form: accusor
form: accusour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English acuser, accusour, borrowed from Old French accusour, from Latin accūsātor, from accūsāre. Equivalent to accuse + -er. Doublet of accusator.
Senses: antonyms: accused
glosses: One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Derived terms: accuseress
accuser of the saints
hackuser