cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grăpʹəl
ipa: /ˈɡɹæpəl/
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: graple
Etymology: Blend of grape + apple
Senses: examples: text: Lady Cheron looks at the cupboards. Both apple butter and apple jelly, as well as "grapple" (grape-apple) jelly are sitting in little mason jars on the top shelf.
ref: 1997 July 28, LadyCheron, “A Pawned Pond”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):
text: Bradley’s mother prefers grapple juice that is 25 percent grape and 75 percent apple.
ref: 2001, Charlene Beckmann, Esther Billings, “Menu of Problems: April 2001”, in Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, volume 6, number 8, NCTM, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 464–472:
text: This is a bit like pouring grape juice from one pitcher and apple juice from another pitcher into a common pitcher. You'd end up with neither grape juice or apple juice, but with some new mixture possibly called grapple juice.
ref: 2009 March 31, Bruce A. Ware, Big Truths for Young Hearts, Crossway, →ISBN, pages 122–123:
text: The parrot plant shook its beak and leaves wildly, almost tipping itself and the little pot over, with drops of grapple juice spraying in all directions.
ref: 2010, Anthony E. Southby, Green Planet, page 153:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A combination of grape and apple flavors.
greatcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greatcoats
Etymology: From great + coat.
Senses: examples: text: The members quietly rose from the board and took their hats from the hat-pins, and the geggee took down his greatcoat, and, with the most satisfied air possible, buttoned it across his breast.
ref: 1864 January 24, John Strang, Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters, and Oddities of the City, During the Past and Present Centuries, page 337:
synonyms: watchcoat
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hypernyms: overcoat#Noun
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glosses: A heavy overcoat.
Derived terms: greatcoated
archeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.kiːˈɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: archeologies
form: archaeology
form: archæology
Etymology: From Middle French archéologie, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογία (arkhaiología, “antiquarian lore, ancient legends, history”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “primal, old, ancient”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, study”). By surface analysis, archeo- + -logy, but not coined in that way.
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.
ref: 1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:
glosses: Alternative spelling of archaeology.
Derived terms: archeological
archeologist
paleoarcheology
phytoarcheology
pseudoarcheology
zooarcheology
stele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːli/
ipa: /stiːl/
homophone: steelie
homophone: steely
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: steles
form: stelai
form: stélé
form: stelè
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”), plural form στῆλαι (stêlai). Doublet of stela.
Senses: examples: text: A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
ref: 1820, T. S. Hughes, Trav. Sicily, I x 303:
text: It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb.
ref: 1825, T. D. Fosbroke, Encycl. Antiq., I v 70:
text: In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars).
ref: 1847, C. O. Müller, translated by J. Leitch, Anc. Art, §224 193:
text: The Australian stele, or grave-pillar.
ref: 1884, A. Lang, Custom & Myth, section 285:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
examples: text: Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
ref: 1877, A. B. Edwards, Thousand Miles up Nile, VI 143:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any carved or engraved surface.
examples: text: Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
ref: c. 1840, Hosking, "Architecture" in Encyclopædia Britannica, III 470
topics: archaeology
architecture
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
Synonyms: stela
stele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːli/
ipa: /stiːl/
homophone: steelie
homophone: steely
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: steles
Etymology: From 1886 French stèle, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”).
Senses: examples: text: The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.
ref: 1895, Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany, section 179:
text: The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).
ref: 1898, Eduard Strasburger et al., translated by Hobart Charles Porter, A Text-book of Botany, section 109:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
Derived terms: actinostele
atactostele
dictyostele
eustele
haplostele
plectostele
protostele
siphonostele
solenostele
Gregorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪˈɡɔːɹi.ən/
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.
examples: text: An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Gregorian calendar.
glosses: Of or relating to James Gregory (mathematician), inventor of the Gregorian telescope.
Derived terms: Gregorian calendar
Gregorian chant
Gregorian mode
Gregorian reform
Gregorian staff
Gregorian telescope
Gregorian tone
Gregorian year
Gregorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪˈɡɔːɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Gregorians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory
stretch mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretch marks
Senses: examples: text: Nobody in Cameron's family has stretch marks, and he thinks it's because their tissues grow slowly enough for the skin to catch up.
text: She hadn't even looked pregnant, especially with her clothes on. She'd gotten only one stretch mark. A thin, jagged line on her left booty cheek.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 99:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a series of red (or purple or faded), irregular stripes on the surface of the skin caused by rapid growth of the tissues lying just underneath. They may appear as a result of pregnancy, puberty, obesity, rapid muscle growth or family history.
Synonyms: word: stria
word: striae
word: striae atrophicae
word: striae distensae
word: striae gravidarum
word: vergetures
œstrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œstrogens
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of oestrogen.
estrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛstɹəd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈiːstɹəd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: estrogens
form: oestrogen
form: œstrogen
Etymology: From estro- (estrus) + -gen (“a producer of”).
Senses: examples: text: secondly, in many hormone-target organ interactions including the effect of estrogen on rat uterus, growth hormone and hydrocortisone on rat liver and thyroid hormone on toadpole liver, newly formed microsomes have been isolated which have increased protein synthesizing ability (Tata, 1968).
ref: 1970, Harvey W. Mohrenweiser, Role of Hormones in Controlling Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis During Lactogenesis, Michigan State University. Departments of Biochemistry and Dairy, page 36:
text: It is known as Hatschek's pit and has been found to react positively to antibodies against substance P, met-enkephalin, cholecystokinin (CCK), mammalian luteinizing hormone (LH), and the enzyme aromatase (P450ₐᵣₒ), which converts certain androgens into estrogens (see Chapter 3).
ref: 2013, David O. Norris, Vertebrate Endocrinology, page 151:
text: Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.
ref: 2023 July 21, Amanda Musa, “The FDA approved the US’ first over-the-counter birth control pill. What happens next?”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.
Synonyms: word: E
word: estro
Derived terms: antiestrogen
antiestrogenic
antioestrogen
archiestrogen
estrogened
estrogenemia
estrogenic
estrogenism
estrogenization
estrogenized
estrogenlike
hypoestrogenism
metalloestrogen
mycoestrogen
neuroestrogen
nonestrogen
phytoestrogen
xenoestrogen
Related terms: estrogenemia
estrogenic
estrogenism
oestrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oestrogens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of estrogen.
Derived terms: oestrogenism
shredded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shred
shredded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shredded
form: most shredded
Senses: synonyms: shred
glosses: Cut or torn into narrow strips or small pieces.
examples: Near-synonyms: jacked, ripped
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having very pronounced muscular definition.
Derived terms: shredded wheat
bodybuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒ.diˌbɪl.dɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪldɪŋ
Forms: form: body-building
Etymology: From body + building.
Senses: examples: text: Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture, in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
ref: 1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 7:
glosses: A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition.
examples: text: In my day, if you filled out your shirt, people assumed you played football or wrestled. The term bodybuilding had more to do with cars than lifting weights.
ref: 2006 — Larry Scott (interview), Iron Man 65(5): 258
glosses: Work done to construct or repair the body of an automobile.
Derived terms: powerbuilding
Related terms: bodybuilder
defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfʌɪnd/
ipa: /dɪˈfaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more defined
form: most defined
Senses: glosses: Having a definition or value.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having extreme muscle separation as a result of low body fat.
Hyponyms: application-defined
client-defined
defined term
hardware-defined
ill-defined
library-defined
piecewise-defined
pre-defined
self-defined
server-defined
software-defined
user-defined
well-defined
Derived terms: definedness
nondefined
regiodefined
stereodefined
underdefined
Related terms: definition
defined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfʌɪnd/
ipa: /dɪˈfaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of define
ludophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludophiles
Etymology: From Latin ludō (“play”) + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who loves games and puzzles.
weightlifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪtˌlɪftɚ/
Forms: form: weightlifters
form: weight lifter
Etymology: From weight + lifter.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
glosses: A person who uses weights to train the muscles of the body, usually for strength or for improved performance in a sport.
Jekyll and Hyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒɛkəl ænd haɪd/
/dʒiːkəl ænd haɪd/
Forms: form: Jekylls and Hydes
form: Jekyll and Hydes
form: Jekyll-and-Hyde
form: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Etymology: From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Senses: examples: text: The public will be better off if United and Western are true competitors, instead of a pair of Jekylls and Hydes.
ref: 1944, United Air Lines, Inc, Before the Civil Aeronautics Board: Briefs, Exhibits, etc. (page 28)
text: America! / The international Jekyll and Hyde / The land of a thousand disguises / Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises
ref: 1974, “H2Ogate Blues”, in Winter in America, performed by Gil Scott-Heron:
text: Charles Xavier: That was my… Evil self, X-Men. The Charles Xavier who would use his powers for personal gain and conquest--The Mr Hyde to my Dr Jekyll.
ref: 1977, “Dark Shroud of the Past!”, in Uncanny X-Men, number 106, page 31:
text: GizmoDuck: Excuse me! Just a little case of Jekyll and Hyde, that's all!
ref: 1989, “Super DuckTales Part 3: Full Metal Duck”, in DuckTales, season 3, episode 8:
text: Studying geometry is sort of a Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde thing. You have the ordinary geometry of shapes (the Dr. Jekyll part) and the strange world of geometry proofs (the Mr. Hyde part).
ref: 2011, Mark Ryan, Geometry Essentials For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Someone or something that has two sides: one good (the "Dr Jekyll") and one bad (the "Mr Hyde").
wikipedia: Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Related terms: Janus
volumizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volumizers
Etymology: From volumize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic product that adds volume to the hair.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dietary supplement that increases water uptake in muscle cells, causing the muscles to temporarily swell.
bulky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌlki/
Forms: form: bulkier
form: bulkiest
Etymology: From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Action such as this, filmed under great difficulty with a bulky, hand-cranked camera, revealed the possibilities of the movies and was quite startling in those early days.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
text: Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 140:
glosses: Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.
glosses: Unwieldy.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Derived terms: bulkily
bulkiness
bulky refuse
bulky waste
nonbulky
overbulky
superbulky
unbulky
bulk up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʌlk ˈʌp/
Forms: form: bulks up
form: bulking up
form: bulked up
form: bulked up
Senses: glosses: To gain weight.
glosses: To increase the weight of.
examples: text: A review of studies done on runners and strength training showed generally positive impacts and no negative consequences. You won’t hulk out or bulk up just fine-tune some lean muscle in ways that running alone can’t do.
ref: 2017 January 9, Molly Hurford, “Cross-Training Workouts Every Runner Should Try”, in MapMyRun, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2017:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To train the body with a high-calorie diet and intense weightlifting in order to increase the overall mass of the body, especially the muscles.
Synonyms: sense: increase muscle mass
word: hulk out
hard gainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard gainers
form: hardgainer
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who has difficulty gaining weight through either diet or exercise.
Synonyms: ectomorph
mesomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛsəʊmɔːf/
ipa: /ˈmɛzəʊmɔːf/
ipa: /ˈmɛzoʊmɔːɹf/
ipa: /ˈmɛzəmɔːɹf/
Forms: form: mesomorphs
Etymology: Derived from mesoderm + -morph by William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to meso- + -morph.
Senses: examples: text: They found that endomorphs had significantly greater asymmetry in arm fat than mesomorphs and ectomorphs. […] They can also achieve mesomorph qualities through resistance training (which builds muscle) and a balanced diet rich in protein.
ref: 2025 February 4, Laura Schober, “What Does It Mean To Have an Endomorph Body Type?”, in Health:
glosses: A person with pronounced muscular development and low body fat.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Theoretical body type in which a person naturally has lower body fat and greater ability to achieve muscular development than average.
Derived terms: mesomorphic
mesomorphous
mesomorphy
Related terms: ectomorph
endomorph
ā
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the FACE vowel.
fullness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlnəs/
Forms: form: fullnesses
form: fulness
form: fulnesse
Etymology: From Middle English fulnesse, from Old English fulnes, fylnes, fyllnis (“completeness; abundance”), equivalent to full + -ness. Cognate with Old High German folnissi (“fullness”).
Senses: examples: text: feel a sense of fullness
text: The actor enjoyed the fullness of his success.
text: She lived life in all its fullness.
glosses: Being full; completeness.
glosses: The degree to which a space is full.
examples: text: in the fullness of time
text: fullness of life
glosses: The degree to which fate has become known.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.
Synonyms: sense: being full
word: entirety
word: whole
word: entirety
Derived terms: fullness of time
weight gainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weight gainers
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: mass gainer
glosses: A high-calorie beverage or powdered drink used to bulk up the physique, especially the muscles.
tenderloin steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderloin steaks
Senses: glosses: Any of several steaks cut from the tenderest part of the loin of beef.
Related terms: fillet of beef
filet mignon
tournedos
châteaubriand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: châteaubriands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chateaubriand.
pump up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pumps up
form: pumping up
form: pumped up
form: pumped up
Senses: glosses: To inflate by means of a pump.
glosses: To inflate with a pumping action.
examples: text: The singer has been pumping up the audience.
glosses: To excite a person or group to a frenzy.
examples: text: I want to pump you up.
text: He's gonna help me pump up.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focused weightlifting.
examples: text: You have to pump up the relatability of the characters in your screenplay.
glosses: To cause (something) to increase in intensity, salience or other traits beyond what is reasonable.
examples: text: Pump up the jukebox.
glosses: To increase the volume of (something)
pumped up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pumped up
form: most pumped up
Senses: synonyms: pumped
glosses: Excited, particularly due to anticipation.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: pumped
glosses: Having muscles in an engorged state following exercise due to increased blood flow.
pumped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pump up
pumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌmpt/
rhymes: -ʌmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pump
pumped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌmpt/
rhymes: -ʌmpt
Forms: form: more pumped
form: most pumped
Senses: examples: text: I'm feeling pumped for the game on Friday.
glosses: Pumped up; excited.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pumped up; having muscles in an engorged state following exercise.
examples: text: All the young gentlemen, tightly cravatted, curled, and pumped, and with their best hats in their hands, having been at different times announced and introduced, Mr Baps, the dancing-master, came, accompanied by Mrs Baps, to whom Mrs Blimber was extremely kind and condescending.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Wearing pumps (the type of shoe).
examples: text: I was so pumped by the end of the climb that I could barely hold onto the jugs.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: exhausted
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Very tired, especially when too fatigued to grip handholds well.
Related terms: pumped hydro
pumped-up
hud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: huds
Etymology: Compare hood (“a covering”).
Senses: examples: text: Almondes[…]blanched or made cleane from their skinnes or huddes.
ref: 1578, Henry Lyte, A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes:
glosses: A huck or hull, as of a nut.
pumping iron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pump iron
pumping iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And your partner will be a friend; pumping iron is not a competition.
ref: 1994, Aaron Binder, Pumping Iron After Fifty: The Golden Thread to the Self, page 29:
text: He's just another one of Leo's thugs from the east side. Too much pumping iron jarred his brain loose!
ref: 2002, James E. Wollrab, Malfeasance, page 91:
text: Pumping iron is potentially more productive than aerobic dance, requires less skill training than swimming, produces less damage to the body than running and is less hazardous than bike riding on the open road.
ref: 2003, Joseph F. Mullen, Strength Training for Women Only, page 35:
text: Before he left, however, he worked out with Chase one last time, and encouraged his protégé to keep up with his pumping iron, especially since the youngster was making such impressive strides.
ref: 2008, David Marlow, Muscle Bound, page 102:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: The activity of weightlifting, especially for the purposes of bodybuilding.
garden cress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːdn̩ kɹɛs/
Forms: form: garden cresses
Senses: glosses: A plant, Lepidium sativum.
glosses: The pungent leaves of the plant, used in salads.
Related terms: cress
mustard
watercress
macaroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæk.əˈɹuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: macaroons
Etymology: From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.
Senses: examples: text: I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208:
glosses: A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
glosses: Alternative spelling of macaron.
Derived terms: French macaroon
macaroonlike
macaroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæk.əˈɹuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: macaroons
Etymology: From Italian macarone.
Senses: examples: text: Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk on in vain.
ref: 1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, "Well; I may now receive, and die"
glosses: A coarse, rude, low fellow.
puff pastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puff pastries
Senses: glosses: A light, flaky pastry that is made of alternating buttery and floury dough layers by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers.
Synonyms: pate feuilletee
Coordinate terms: english: the butter layer
translation: the butter layer
word: beurrage
english: the flour layer
translation: the flour layer
word: detrempe
Related terms: phyllo
mille-feuille
shortcrust pastry
strudel
contest shape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɛst ˌʃeɪp/
ipa: /ˈkɑːntɛst ˌʃeɪp/
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A physique made ready for a bodybuilding contest, with minimal body fat and maximum muscle volume.
Related terms: cut
defined
ripped
shredded
distended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Forms: form: more distended
form: most distended
Etymology: Past participle of distend.
Senses: glosses: Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: gravid.
Derived terms: distendedly
hyperdistended
overdistended
undistended
distended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Etymology: Past participle of distend.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distend
dama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Turkish dama, Northern Kurdish دامە (dame).
Senses: glosses: The game of Turkish draughts.
Related terms: dama gazelle
dama wallaby
pale-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleo- used before vowels.
Derived terms: Palearctic
palae-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palaeo- before a vowel
lupanar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /luːˈpeɪnɑː/
Forms: form: lupanars
Etymology: From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).
Senses: examples: text: The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, / Reeked up to the heedless stars.
ref: 1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda, New York: George H. Doran:
text: A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.
ref: 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33:
glosses: A brothel.
Related terms: lupanarian
bak
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of back.
bak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baks
Etymology: From Korean 박 (bak).
Senses: glosses: A wooden clapper used in Korean courts and rituals
Related terms: bak tong gou
vill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪl
ipa: /vɪl/
Forms: form: vills
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vill, from Old French vile (“farm, country estate”) (French ville (“town”)), from Latin vīlla. Doublet of villa.
Senses: glosses: The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.
examples: text: Sometimes the kings in their country vills and seats of pleasure or retirement built a place of worship, which was the origin of royal free chapels.
ref: 1781, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law, volume 1, page 61:
glosses: A villa; a country residence.
vill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪl
ipa: /vɪl/
Etymology: From will.
Senses: examples: text: “My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”
ref: 2011, Roberta C. M. DeCaprio, chapter 9, in A Rose in Amber, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of will.
lind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
homophone: lend (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: linds
Etymology: From Middle English lind, linde, from Old English lind, from Proto-West Germanic *lindu, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.
Cognate with Dutch linde, German Linde, Swedish lind. Cognate to Albanian lëndë (“wood, timber, material”).
Senses: glosses: the lime tree, or linden tree
gaucherie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡoʊʃəˈɹiː/
Forms: form: gaucheries
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaucherie.
Senses: glosses: A socially tactless or awkward act.
glosses: Lack of tact; tactlessness; awkwardness.
shrub celery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The crisp, thick leafstalk of the celery plant; used as a vegetable, or eaten raw.
white bream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white breams
form: white bream
Etymology: From white + bream.
Senses: glosses: A European species of fish in the Cyprinidae family (Blicca bjoerkna, syn. Abramis bjoerkna, Cyprinus bjoerkna).
Synonyms: sense: Blicca bjoerkna
word: silver bream
Derived terms: White bream virus
ilooy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of illui.
rolled fillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolled fillets
Senses: glosses: Chopped veal rolled in a piece of bacon.
blood orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood oranges
Etymology: Derives its name from the crimson-colored flesh.
Senses: glosses: A type of orange (a variety of Citrus sinensis) notable for its dark, crimson red flesh.
pils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pils
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Pilsner.
bros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹoʊz/
ipa: /bɹəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of bro
buckwheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌkʍiːt/
ipa: /ˈbʌkwiːt/
Forms: form: buckwheats
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen.
Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.
Senses: glosses: An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
examples: text: I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. I'll need some buckwheat flapjack mix.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
glosses: Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
examples: text: Mafia mythology has many believe that the method used to eliminate a person is often a reflection of the respect for that individual. In this case, the Profaci gunman must have witnessed a "buckwheat's" execution, where an example is being made of the victim by inflicting pain for a prolonged period.
ref: 2000, Olindo Romeo Chiocca, Mobsters and Thugs: Quotes from the Underworld, page 17:
text: Mob murders are seldom buckwheats, being instead simple business matters. An exception is made, however, for murders of example, such as in the case of informers, or mobsters who hold out on gang revenues […]
ref: 2006, Carl Sifakis, The Mafia Encyclopedia, page 66:
glosses: A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
glosses: Curly hair of a black person.
glosses: Pubic hair.
Derived terms: buckwheat cake
buckwheat coal
buckwheater
buckwheatlike
buckwheat note
buckwheaty
Conejo buckwheat
sulfur buckwheat
yarco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊ
Forms: form: yarcos
Etymology: Probably related to Great Yarmouth.
Senses: glosses: Someone from, or living in the area of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England, stereotypically a chav.
ZOMG
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zoʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/
ipa: /zəʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/
Forms: form: zOMG
form: zomg
Etymology: Variant of OMG, presumably from excited users accidentally hitting the Z key while attempting to press shift or from conscious imitation of such excitement. The earliest known existence of the term comes from the imageboard 4chan in 2004. The meme was spammed and eventually the name was given to the hidden board /z/.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that my initial reaction to this machine went something like: ZOMG it's an overgrown Blackberry.^([sic])
ref: 2007 August, Germaine Ong, “Sony Vaio VGN-UX38GN”, in GameAxis Unwired:
text: My fellow Tweeters were supportive, bless their hearts, but I know I was getting annoying constantly tweeting stuff like: "ZOMG I JUST BURNED 1K CALORIES!!11!"
ref: 2010, Shawn Collins, “Walking the Walk in Affiliate Marketing”, in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, page 204:
text: What was he doing pursuing me? He didn't seem happy about it, like, ZOMG, I met my soul mate and now my life can begin! It was more like he was being compelled against his will.
ref: 2012, Cate Tiernan, Darkness Falls, page 62:
glosses: An emphatic form of oh my God.
Synonyms: wow
Derived terms: ZOMFG
hexagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛkˈsæɡənəl/
rhymes: -æɡənəl
Etymology: From hexagon + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Nuts in engineering are generally hexagonal.
text: If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
ref: 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having six edges, or having a cross-section in the form of a hexagon.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three equal axes which cross at 60° angles, and an unequal axis which crosses the others at 90° angle.
Synonyms: word: sexagonal
Coordinate terms: triclinic
monoclinic
orthorhombic
rhombohedral
tetragonal
cubic
Derived terms: dihexagonal
hexagonal chess
hexagonality
hexagonally
hexagonal number
hexagonal prism
hexagonal water
nonhexagonal
orthohexagonal
pseudohexagonal
quasihexagonal
semihexagonal
subhexagonal
trihexagonal
word wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordwrap
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: wraparound
glosses: A word processing feature which automatically adjusts lines of text to fit within the page margins. Words exceeding the margins are set to begin a new line.
word wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: word wraps
form: word wrapping
form: word wrapped
form: word wrapped
form: wordwrap
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To adjust lines of text in this manner.
Related terms: autowrap
backwrap
older
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊldə/
ipa: /ˈoʊldɚ/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: My older brother and I are Catholic twins. He’s older by eleven months, not quite a year older than me.
text: I feel a hot wind on my shoulder / And the touch of a world that is older
ref: 1982, Wall of Voodoo, “Mexican Radio”, in Call of the West:
glosses: comparative form of old: more old, elder, senior
older
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊldə/
ipa: /ˈoʊldɚ/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: The thoughtful lad helped an older lady across the street.
glosses: elderly
suffering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɹɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.
ref: 1839 August, Beacon, “The deathbed of Voltaire”, in Charles Benjamin Tayler, editor, The Christian Beacon, number 8, page 118:
text: My heart is full, but my body too suffering to go on.
ref: 1862, Ruth Bryan, Handfuls of purpose, page 427:
text: I said that Miss Kinney opened the wound; I had not seen the burn then, myself; I was too ill and too suffering to rise up to see the whole surface of it; this was on Thursday morning, the morning after the operation, that I complained of such pain I must have something to relieve it, so she brought these strips of bandages and vaseline, and then she examined the wound, and without saying anything she took this brass pin and pricked it in several places;
ref: 1900 May 8, Abram I. Elkus, Supreme Court : Helen D. Ward, Plaintiff, against Saint VIncent's Hospital, of the City of New York, Defendant., page 28:
text: Just to hear them was very suffering ... It must have been so unbearable to have to yell like that.
ref: 2005, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill (HL), page 73:
text: I was listening her because she was telling me she was very suffering and that she was praying for her pains, for sinners, for poor, for ill people and for afflicted.
ref: 2014, Silvia Michela Carrassi, Travels Through Spirit, page 114:
synonyms: word: aching
word: in pain
word: sore
word: achesome
word: aching
word: achy
word: raw
word: hurt
word: hurty
word: griefful
word: pained
word: painfilled
word: painful
word: smartful
word: smarting
word: sore
word: suffering
word: tender
word: tormented
glosses: Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
suffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: sufferings
Etymology: By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
ref: 2010 August 22, “North Korea demands apology, reparations from Japan over colonization”, in CNN:
text: Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
ref: 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
Derived terms: long-suffering
pain and suffering
post-suffering
suffering catfish
suffering cats
suffering centipedes
suffering Moses
suffering Sappho
suffering succotash
suffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsʌfɹɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suffer
Related terms: sublate
sublation
didact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪdækt/
Forms: form: didacts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διδακτός (didaktós).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: teacher, instructor, preceptor, pedagogue
coordinate_terms: pedant
glosses: A didactic person.
examples: Near-synonyms: teacher, instructor, preceptor
glosses: A person gifted, trained, or intending to instruct.
glosses: Any teacher.
Related terms: autodidact
autodidactic
autodidacticism
autodidaction
autodidactism
didactic
didactical
didactically
didactician
didacticism
didacticist
didactics
didaction
nondidactic
undidactic
ch-
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /tʃ/
Etymology: Reduction of ich.
Senses: qualifier: attached to following verb
glosses: I; clitic form of ich.
Derived terms: chad
cham
chard
chave
chell
chill
chould
chwas
Related terms: utchy
meseems
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: meseemed
form: meseemeth
Senses: glosses: It seems to me. Compare methinks.
Related terms: methinks
cham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: chams
Etymology: From French cham, from Ottoman Turkish خان (han) (see there for more).
Senses: examples: text: And ſince we haue arriu’d in Scythia,
Beſides rich preſents from the puiſant Cham,
UUe haue his highneſſe letters to commaund
Aide and aſſiſtance if we ſtand in need.
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: But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter[…]
ref: 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War:
glosses: Archaic spelling of khan.
examples: text: Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
text: The Tonsons […] would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication
ref: 2007, Michael Dobson, “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 9, page 3:
glosses: An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
cham
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: chams
form: chamming
form: chammed
form: chammed
Etymology: See chap.
Senses: examples: text: But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]
ref: 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue:
glosses: To chew.
cham
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Middle English icham, equivalent to ch- + am, from ich + am.
Senses: glosses: I am
Synonyms: I'm
chave
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From Middle English ichave, equivalent to ch- + have, from ich + have.
Senses: examples: text: Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.
ref: 1839, An Exmoor Scolding, London: John Russell Smith, page 11:
glosses: I have
Synonyms: I've
chell
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From ch- + shall, from ich or che + shall.
Senses: examples: text: Me a strat in the chups? Dest hire ma? Come aneest me, chell pummel tha, chell vag tha, chell lace tha.
ref: 1839, An Exmoor Scolding, London: John Russell Smith, page 4:
glosses: I shall
utchy
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /ˈʌt͡ʃɪ/
Forms: form: utch
Etymology: A modification of utch, ich, iche, from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun), from Old English iċ (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm (“I”). Doublet of che.
Recorded in use in the area around Yeovil in southern Somerset.
Senses: examples: text: What shall utchy do?
text: [It is, manifestly, a corrupt pronunciation of Ich, or Ichè, pronounced as two syllables, the Anglo-Saxon word for I. What shall utchy do? What shall I do. I think Chaucer sometimes uses iche as a dissyllable; […]]
ref: 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England: Particularly Somersetshire, page 69:
text: [page 11:] As valled out, utchy come across en out to Clinkerbell Barn[…]
[page 63:] Let utchy bide, cassen!
[page 81:] Only let en lay 's han' 'pon u t c h y! 'Ch'ill zmoor en doown! 'Ch'ill gie en the backzwrd cut!
ref: 1916, John Read, Latter-Lammas:
qualifier: Somerset
glosses: I
Related terms: ch
ch-
utchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌt͡ʃɪ/
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: Chilly, parky.
acker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.kə/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ackers
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps a variant of eagre.
Senses: examples: text: The wide lovely lake lay in dreamy serenity, fretted with green undulations, ruffed with blue, patched with glades of lucid smoothness between the ackers [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 436:
glosses: A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
acker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.kə/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ackers
Etymology: Variant forms.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of acre.
Related terms: topics: money
finance
business
word: ackers
affeard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affeard
form: most affeard
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of affeared (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)
Related terms: affear
ageest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ageest
form: most ageest
Etymology: From Middle English ageasten. Used at the turn of the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: afraid, astonished
agging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agg
akether
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aketha
Etymology: Possibly from the phrase “ah,” quoth he. First appears in the 1867 work Jim an' Nell.
Senses: examples: text: "Us wur betwitting Bob to-day,
Vor gieing all es things away,
Begummers, us wur cort,
Akether, 'bin ma kit's ago,
I can't work w'e'r I wull or no,
I'll maunch an' drink vor nort.'
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon, page 20:
text: Then she walked away, not even stopping to listen to the servant's fearless denunciation of her as "a chittering, raving, rixy, louching, haggaging moil, an nor a bent th' worserer nar hot sh' art ter be, th' wapper-eed deave-nort. Giggling akether!" shrieked the old woman, wild with resentment […]
ref: 1876, Oliver Madox Brown, chapter 1, in The Dwale Bluth, volume 1, pages 57–58:
glosses: quoth he.
saur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'saur (“a dinosaur”).
harfang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harfangs
Etymology: Borrowed from French harfang, itself borrowed from Swedish harfång.
Senses: examples: text: At La Madelaine, also, it was the leavings of the meals that brought about the accumulation of bird-bones; but, together with numerous Tetraones and Cocks, we find the remains of several Harfangs. […] It seems […] that the men of the Lherm Cave ate this Owl; […]
ref: 1875, Édouard Amand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, Henry Christy, Thomas Rupert Jones, Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, page 247:
glosses: snowy owl
snowy owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowy owls
Senses: glosses: A large, white, nomadic Arctic owl (Bubo scandiacus).
Synonyms: word: arctic owl
word: great white owl
word: snowy
word: Nyctea scandiaca