cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
know-it-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʉ.ɪt.oːl/
Forms: form: know-it-alls
form: know-all
Etymology: From know + it + all.
Senses: examples: text: We had it all figured out, but this know-it-all marched in with "the correct way of solving it", leaving our experiment in shambles.
text: The same holds true for supporting details—they help you to learn more about a topic. Be a know it all by sharing these details and supporting details with friends.
ref: 2004, Princeton Review, Know It All! Grades 9-12 Reading, The Princeton Review, →ISBN, page 22:
text: She's a mean, bossy know-it-all.
ref: 2005, Pansie Hart Flood, Tiger Turcotte Takes on the Know-it-all, Carolrhoda Books, →ISBN:
text: Have you ever gone shopping with a Know-It-All girlfriend and she insists, without your consent or consulting you first, to choose your outfits for you?
ref: 2012, Joe Ike, How do I relate with a “know-it-all”?, xBusinessServices Corp., page 60
glosses: Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others.
Synonyms: word: Buddha
word: clever clogs
word: clever dick
word: know-all
word: know-it-all
word: smart aleck
word: smart ass
word: smarty
word: smarty pants
word: wiseacre
word: wiseass
word: wise-ass
word: wisenheimer
Hypernyms: word: intelligent person
word: jerk
Derived terms: know-it-allery
know-it-allism
Related terms: word: ultracrepidarian
word: know-it-allery
word: malapert
put to rest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to rest
form: putting to rest
form: put to rest
form: put to rest
Etymology: From put + to + rest.
Senses: examples: text: Let's try to put this question to rest once and for all.
glosses: To settle or finish, especially a question or discussion.
Related terms: put to bed
put to death
ABC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ biː ˈsiː/
Forms: form: ABCs
form: ABC's
form: absey
Etymology: From Middle English abece, ABC, from the first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet.
Senses: examples: Do you know your ABC? (US: Do you know your ABCs?)
synonyms: word: absey
word: alphabet
glosses: The English alphabet.
raw_tags: in Canada
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
glosses: A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
examples: text: the ABC of finance
text: This was the Alma Mater of the Brigade, where it learned its A B C of military tactics.
ref: 1866, D. P. Conyngham, The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns: With Some Account of the Corcoran Legion, and Sketches of the Principal Officers, Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson, page 28:
text: With her expert guidance, even a novice like me can have a taste of the focused, structured world of a Cunningham dance. The solo is possibly his plainest, almost an ABC of his meticulous approach to subdividing the body in motion — twist, bend, reach, step.
ref: 2020 April 21, Marina Harss, “Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: basics
fundamentals
glosses: The fundamentals of any subject.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.
examples: text: For this reason his heart sank when, emerging from his study into the great hall at quarter to eleven, he met Beaver already dressed and prepared to be entertained; it was only a momentary vexation, however, for while he wished him good morning he noticed that his guest had an A.B.C. in his hands and was clearly looking out a train.
ref: 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapman & Hall:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations.
Derived terms: ABC book
ABC guide
easy as ABC
Related terms: alphabet
bopomofo
futhark
futhorc
ABC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ biː ˈsiː/
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: NBC
glosses: Initialism of atomic, biological and chemical, the three main categories of weapon of mass destruction.
examples: text: She'd chew the gum until she was finished with it for the day and store it in a tiny box in the refrigerator until she wanted another chew. If I accidentally threw out her gum, she was able to find someone else's ABC gum (already been chewed).
ref: 2010, Leverda Watkins, Pinnacle of Faith, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: Initialism of already been chewed.
raw_tags: of a piece of chewing gum
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of activated B-cell-like.
raw_tags: of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Related terms: sense: atomic, biological and chemical
word: CBRN
sense: activated B-cell-like
word: GCB
ABC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ biː ˈsiː/
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: examples: text: He thought he was up-to-date on all the latest wine lingo until a longtime wine writer returned his sample request card with a bold, hand-written note on it that stated, “Send me all samples—ABC!” ¶ “ABC” threw my friend for a loop. When he called me, I translated the cryptic phrase—ABC is winespeak for “Anything But Chardonnay.”
ref: 1997 March, Ron Loutherback, “Beyond the Label: The ABCs of white wine”, in Orange Coast, volume 23, number 3, page 168:
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Initialism of anything but Chardonnay, a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
examples: text: A final example of the iatrogenic effects of international public interventions is the impact on condom use that resulted from the “ABC” (Abstinence, Be Faithful, Use Condoms) approach to AIDS prevention, which has dominated programmatic efforts in Nigeria since about 2000. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created under US President George W. Bush's administration, promoted a conservative approach to AIDS prevention through its ABC messages, which were (1) abstinence is the only true prevention; (2) if one is in a sexual relationship, stay faithful to one partner; and (3) if one can't do either, use condoms.
ref: 2014, Daniel Jordan Smith, “Introduction”, in AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 15:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, a sex education policy developed in response to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
topics: automotive
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
transport
vehicles
qualifier: electric vehicles
glosses: Initialism of always be charging, a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of anything but Conservative.
ABC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ biː ˈsiː/
Forms: form: ABCD
form: ABCDE
Etymology: Like QWERTY, the name is based on the first letter keys.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.
output
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtpʊt/
rhymes: -aʊtpʊt
Forms: form: outputs
Etymology: From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.
Senses: examples: text: The factory increased its output this year.
text: Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
ref: 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284:
text: It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
ref: 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid and unique to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
examples: text: a six-page output; six pages of output
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
The amount of power produced by a particular system.
topics: business
computing
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.
Derived terms: cardiac output
economic output
industrial output
input-output section
input-output table
multioutput
netput
nonoutput
output area
output arm
output rating
Related terms: input
output
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtpʊt/
rhymes: -aʊtpʊt
Forms: form: outputs
form: outputting
form: output
form: output
form: outputted
form: outputted
Etymology: From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.
Senses: examples: text: We output 1400 units last year.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To produce, create, or complete.
examples: text: When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.
Derived terms: outputter
reoutput
Wikipedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪ.kɪˈpiː.dɪ.ən/
Forms: form: Wikipedians
Etymology: From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).
Senses: examples: text: He is proud to be a Wikipedian.
text: That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.
ref: 2001 September 20, Peter Meyers, “Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Britannica, somewhat representative of old media in general, instinctively regards Wikipedia as a threat, whereas Wikipedians are not the least bit tempted to reciprocate.
ref: 2006 April 22, The Economist:
text: This change takes care of casual or heat-of-the-moment vandalism, but it does little to address a new category of Wikipedian somewhere between committed community member and momentarily vandalizing teenager, one that creates tougher problems.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, page 139:
hypernyms: Wikimedian
<
contributor#Noun
<
person#Noun
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the website.
Wikipedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪ.kɪˈpiː.dɪ.ən/
Etymology: From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).
Senses: examples: text: Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.
ref: 2006 April 19, “The Wikipedia FAQK”, in Wired News:
text: In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.
ref: 2007 September 6, GALE ZOË GARNETT, “The language of the love of language”, in Globe and Mail:
text: If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"
ref: 2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent:
glosses: Of or relating to Wikipedia.
Related terms: Wikipedic
bath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bäth
ipa: /bɑːθ/
ipa: [bɑːθ]
ipa: [bäːt̪ʰ]
ipa: [bäːt̪]
ipa: /bɐːθ/
enpr: băth
ipa: /bæθ/
ipa: [bæθ~bɛəθ~beəθ]
ipa: [baθ~bäθ]
rhymes: -ɑːθ
rhymes: -æθ
homophone: barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Forms: form: baths
form: bathing
form: bathed
form: bathed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
ref: 1990, Mukti Jain Campion, The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability., →ISBN, page 41:
text: For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.
ref: 2006, Sue Dallas, Diana North, Joanne Angus, Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 91:
text: If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.
ref: 2007, Robin Barker, Baby Love, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: To wash a person or animal in a bath.
examples: text: “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”
ref: 1815, anonymous author, The Observant Pedestrian Mounted, volume 3:
text: A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.
ref: 1912, James Ward, quotee, “Report on the Royal Commission on Mines”, in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Wellington, page 141:
text: In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.
ref: 2007, “Doctors, Regeneration, and the Revolutionary Crucible, 1789-1804”, in Sean M. Quinlan, The Great Nation in Decline (The History of Medicine in Context), Aldershot: Ashgate, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.
ref: 2017 February 9, “Very Early Spring”, in Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bäth
ipa: /bɑːθ/
ipa: [bɑːθ]
ipa: [bäːt̪ʰ]
ipa: [bäːt̪]
ipa: /bɐːθ/
enpr: băth
ipa: /bæθ/
ipa: [bæθ~bɛəθ~beəθ]
ipa: [baθ~bäθ]
rhymes: -ɑːθ
rhymes: -æθ
homophone: barf (non-rhotic, trap–bath split, th-fronting)
Forms: form: baths
Etymology: From Hebrew בַּת (baṯ).
Senses: examples: text: Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
ref: 1769, Bible (KJV), Ezekiel, 45:10–11
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
Meronyms: sense: liquid volume
word: log (1⁄72 bath)
sense: liquid volume
word: cab
sense: liquid volume
word: kab (1⁄18 bath)
sense: liquid volume
word: hin (1⁄6 bath)
sense: liquid volume
word: cor
sense: liquid volume
word: kor
sense: liquid volume
word: homer
sense: liquid volume
word: chomer (10 baths)
appendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɛndmənt/
Forms: form: appendments
Etymology: From append + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Provision of integrity service requires the calculation of Integrity Checksum Value (ICV) and its appendment to the data.
ref: 1997, Vijav Varadharajan, Josef Pieprzyk, Yi Mu, Information Security and Privacy, →ISBN:
text: Many commenters strongly encouraged the Secretary to adopt “appendment” rather than “amendment and correction” procedures. They argued that the term “correction” implies a deletion of information and that the proposed rule would have allowed covered entities to remove portions of the record at their discretion. Commenters indicated that appendment rather than correction procedures will ensure the integrity of the medical record and allow subsequent health care providers access to the original information as well as the appended information.
ref: 2001, The New HIPAA Privacy Rule: Guiding Your Clients Through the Implementation Process:
text: The songs of the first section of the Rig Veda that offer approbations to Indra and Varuna are believed to have been composed by Parukshepa the son of a devadasi, whose name attains a special significance, since it suggests a steep departure from the then ensuing practice of appendment of only a patriarchal surname.
ref: 2017, Sarada Thallam, Rajam Krishnan and Indian Feminist Hermeneutics, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: The act or practice of appending.
uh-oh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʔʌʔoʊ/
ipa: [ˈʔʌ̆ʔ˦oʊ˨]
ipa: /ˈʔʌʔəʊ/
ipa: [ˈʔʌ̆ʔ˦əʊ˨]
Forms: form: uh oh
form: uhoh
form: oh-oh
form: oh oh
form: ruh-roh
Senses: examples: text: Uh-oh! I made a mistake.
text: Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.
ref: 2024 August 21, Philip Haigh, “Stranded trains: problems for passengers and operators”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 52:
synonyms: uh-oh, Spaghetti-O
glosses: An exclamation of error, concern, or awareness of a problem.
Derived terms: uh-oh, Spaghetti-O
Related terms: oh
oops
uh
uh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌː/
ipa: /ə/
rhymes: -ʌ
Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.
Senses: examples: text: Uh, who was that?
glosses: Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
examples: text: Uh, let me see...
text: As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
text: And the very highly paid legal defense team for Alec Baldwin, uh basically Manhattan lawyers from uh Emmanuel Quinn, a top 50 worldwide law firm, highly paid.
ref: 2024 June 24, “Baldwin Judge on FIRE!”, in Law of Self Defense, page 1:
glosses: Space filler or pause during conversation.
Related terms: huh-uh
nuh-uh
uh-huh
uh-uh
unh-uh
yuh-uh
er
erm
um
uh-oh
oh
uh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌː/
ipa: /ə/
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: uhs
Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.
Senses: examples: text: Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
ref: 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013:
glosses: An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
uh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌː/
ipa: /ə/
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /ˈʌ/
ipa: /ʌː/
ipa: /ə/
rhymes: -ʌ
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of a (“The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).
oh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: [ö̞]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: O
homophone: owe
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English o.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! I didn't see you there.
glosses: Expression of surprise.
examples: text: Oh, wow! That's amazing.
glosses: Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
examples: text: Oh, so that's how it works.
glosses: Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.
examples: text: Oh, leave me alone.
glosses: A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.
examples: text: Oh, and don't forget your coat.
glosses: A word to precede an added comment or afterthought.
examples: text: Oh, gosh
text: Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know / That something wasn't right here?
ref: 1998, Max Martin, ...Baby One More Time (song performed by Britney Spears)
glosses: An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.
examples: text: Oh, when will it end?
text: And oh how stingingly acute, and pungently grievous and tormentive, are the remembrancing Reflections of a separate uncloathed Soul in the other World, upon a review of its mad Choice, foolish Hopes, fruitless Desires […]
ref: 1703, Lawrence Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, page 143:
text: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
examples: text: Oh! That hurt.
text: "Oh! . . . oh! . . . I can't bear it . . . It is too much . . . I die . . . I am going . . ." were Polly's expressions of extasy
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: Expression of pain. See ouch.
examples: text: I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-oh.
ref: 1968, MacKinlay Kantor, Beauty Beast:
glosses: Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
examples: "You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"
glosses: Expression of mild scepticism.
examples: text: What if he says "Oh, I need to see your ID"?
glosses: A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.
Derived terms: oh ar
oh boy
oh dear
oh girl
oh God
oh gods
oh hell
oh joy
oh man
oh me of little faith
oh me oh my
oh my
oh my Allah
oh my days
oh my fuck
oh my God
oh my Goddess
oh my gods
oh my goodness
oh my goodness gracious
ohmygosh
oh my gosh
oh my heck
oh my hell
oh my lanta
oh my life
oh my Lord
oh my stars
oh my word
oh my Zeus
oh no
oh noes
oh oh
oh really
oh snap
oh so
oh well
oh worm
oh yeah
oh ye of little faith
soot-oh
uh oh
uhoh
why oh why
Related terms: ah
o
O
ooh
uh-oh
oh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: [ö̞]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: O
homophone: owe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: ohs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English o.
Senses: examples: text: There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.
ref: 2011, Seabert Parsons, The Lost Codex of Palenque, page 240:
glosses: An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
oh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: [ö̞]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: O
homophone: owe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: ohs
form: ohing
form: ohed
form: ohed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English o.
Senses: examples: text: A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal of ohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.
ref: 1852, Merry's museum and Parley's magazine, volumes 23-24, page 46:
glosses: To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
oh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: [ö̞]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: O
homophone: owe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: ohs
form: o
Etymology: From Middle English o, oo, from Old English ō, from Latin ō.
Senses: examples: text: One genuine recycled local glass of aitch-two-oh
ref: 2006, Ben Bova, Titan, page 33:
text: Exes and Ohs: A Downtown Girl's (Mostly Awkward) Tales of Love, Lust, Revenge, and a Little Facebook Stalking
ref: 2011, Shallon Lester, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter O/o.
Derived terms: Oh Em Gee
oh em gee
oh-em-gee
oh zee
oh-zee
ohzee
oh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ/
ipa: [ö̞]
ipa: /oʊ/
homophone: o
homophone: O
homophone: owe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: ohs
Etymology: From o (“zero”).
Senses: examples: text: My telephone number is four-double-three-two-oh-nine.
text: .08 reads point oh eight.
text: We'll meet from three minutes past eight to eight (oh) five.
glosses: the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
Derived terms: four oh four
oh dark hundred
oh dark thirty
oh-dark-thirty
ah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From Middle English ah, aa, a (“ah”), of imitative origin, or from Old English ēa, *eah (“oh, alas”), from Proto-West Germanic *a, *ah (“ah”). Earliest recorded use is circa 1175 in the Ormulum: A, Maȝȝstre! icc wat tatt tu full wiss Arrt Godess Sune ("Ah, Master! I know for sure that thou art God's Son"). Some propose that the Middle English is borrowed from Old French a (“ah!, oh!, hey!”) (represented by modern French ah).
Compare also West Frisian a, ah (“ah”), Dutch a, ah (“ah”), Middle Low German a (“ah”), Old High German a, aa, ah (“ah, oh”) (whence modern German ah), Faroese áh (“oh, ah, alas”), Icelandic æ, ai (“ah, oh”), Latin ah (“ah”).
Senses: examples: text: Ah, I understand now.
text: Ah! It's good to be back home!
text: Ah, the flowers of spring.
glosses: An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, etc. according to uttered inflection.
examples: text: Boy don't try to front, uh, I
Know just, just, what you are, ah, ah.
ref: 2008, Britney Spears, “Womanizer”:
glosses: A syllable used to fill space, particularly in music.
Derived terms: ah ah ah
ah-bup-bup
ah-choo
ah me
ah well
alack
ooh-ah-ah
ooh ah ah
Related terms: aah
aha
ha
oh
uh
ah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ahs
Etymology: From Middle English ah, aa, a (“ah”), of imitative origin, or from Old English ēa, *eah (“oh, alas”), from Proto-West Germanic *a, *ah (“ah”). Earliest recorded use is circa 1175 in the Ormulum: A, Maȝȝstre! icc wat tatt tu full wiss Arrt Godess Sune ("Ah, Master! I know for sure that thou art God's Son"). Some propose that the Middle English is borrowed from Old French a (“ah!, oh!, hey!”) (represented by modern French ah).
Compare also West Frisian a, ah (“ah”), Dutch a, ah (“ah”), Middle Low German a (“ah”), Old High German a, aa, ah (“ah, oh”) (whence modern German ah), Faroese áh (“oh, ah, alas”), Icelandic æ, ai (“ah, oh”), Latin ah (“ah”).
Senses: examples: the crowd's oohs and ahs at the fireworks
glosses: An instance of the interjection ah.
ah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ahs
form: ahing
form: ahed
form: ahed
Etymology: From Middle English ah, aa, a (“ah”), of imitative origin, or from Old English ēa, *eah (“oh, alas”), from Proto-West Germanic *a, *ah (“ah”). Earliest recorded use is circa 1175 in the Ormulum: A, Maȝȝstre! icc wat tatt tu full wiss Arrt Godess Sune ("Ah, Master! I know for sure that thou art God's Son"). Some propose that the Middle English is borrowed from Old French a (“ah!, oh!, hey!”) (represented by modern French ah).
Compare also West Frisian a, ah (“ah”), Dutch a, ah (“ah”), Middle Low German a (“ah”), Old High German a, aa, ah (“ah, oh”) (whence modern German ah), Faroese áh (“oh, ah, alas”), Icelandic æ, ai (“ah, oh”), Latin ah (“ah”).
Senses: examples: text: Mother and dad oohed and ahed over Cindy. She was only two months old but already was developing her personality.
ref: 2005, T. R. Rhoads, Sinner, Sailor: A Memoir, page 221:
glosses: To give a cry of "ah".
ah
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: we
form: mah
form: Ah
Senses: examples: text: Did ah ever say anything derogatory against ma man Franco? Well, likesay. . . he's no a bad punter.
ref: 1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Times Film School, page 50:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of I, most often indicating that the speaker is using a Scottish or American (particularly Southern) accent or African-American Vernacular English.
Derived terms: nah ah mean
ah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /ɑ(ː)/
ipa: [ä(ː)~ɐ(ː)]
ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: ar
form: arh
Etymology: From Hokkien 啊 (--a, a) and Teochew 啊 (a⁷). For Tamil speakers, its use as a particle is possibly reinforced by Tamil -ஆ (-ā, sense 1).
Senses: examples: Pitch contour: mid-falling /ɑ(ː)˧˨/, falling /ɑ(ː)˦˨/, sometimes nasalized
glosses: Used condescendingly, somewhat like “see?” or “I told you so”.
Related terms: word: what
word: lah1–14
word: lor2–3
word: lor1
word: ah6–7
word: leh1–2
word: mah
word: leh3–6
word: one1–3
word: hor1
word: know
word: nia
word: only
word: sia
word: hor2
word: ah1–3
word: hah1–3
word: meh
word: ba2
word: leh7–11
word: ba1
word: liao
word: already
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word: Gupta
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word: A. F. (1992)
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word: in
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: volume 18
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: number 1
urls: https://doi.org/10.1016%2F0378-2166%2892%2990106-l
word: →DOI
sense: question tags in Singlish
word: is it
sense: question tags in Singlish
word: ya
ah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /ɑ(ː)/
ipa: [ä(ː)~ɐ(ː)]
ipa: /æ/
ipa: /ɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /ɑ(ː)/
ipa: [ä(ː)~ɐ(ː)]
Etymology: Imitative of a person gagging.
Senses: glosses: Yuck.
aha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːhɑː/
enpr: ä-häʹ
ipa: [ɑˈhɑ]
ipa: [əˈhɑ]
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: a-ha
form: ah-ha
Etymology: From Middle English a ha, aha, natural expression. Equivalent to ah + ha!.
Senses: examples: text: Aha! That will work.
glosses: An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
examples: text: Aha! Now I've got you!
glosses: An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt.
Derived terms: aha effect
aha experience
aha moment
Related terms: ah
ha
eureka
ha
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a (“have”).
ha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Attested early 14th century, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Danish ha, Dutch ha, Finnish ha, Hungarian ha, Latin ha, Latvian ha, Swedish ha.
Senses: examples: text: Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.
glosses: A representation of laughter.
examples: text: Ha! Checkmate!
glosses: An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
glosses: An exclamation of grief.
glosses: A sound of hesitation: er, um.
Related terms: ah
aha
funny ha-ha
hah
haha
ha-ha
ha-ha funny
ha ha Herman
ha ha only serious
ha-ha pigeon
haw
he
heh
ho
hoo-ha
muahahaha
yeeha
ha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: "That's well. Well," cried he, now for my turn. Ha! a hit! a hit!"
ref: 1844 September, E.M. Walley, “Eighteen Months in Russia”, in The Covenant: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Cause of Odd-fellowship, volume 3, number 9, page 395:
text: I hit a cross-court forehand. “Ha ha haa. Great! Say, usin' cross-courts and angles like that is how O'Bramowitts beat Riggs."
ref: 1988, Albemarle - Issues 3-7, page 49:
text: Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a)
text: Ha! Take that, you ugly, stupid devil, you.
ref: 2008, Sheryl Foulk Rogers-Ramirez, Look What God Did for Our Marriage, page 37:
text: 'I'm armed, you lot. And if you think you can take me alive . . . Ha! Take that! And that! And that!'
ref: 2009, Elizabeth George, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner:
glosses: Said when making a vigorous attack.
ha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
ipa: [ha(ː)]
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: has
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian ḥꜥ.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: ka
glosses: The sum of bodily parts; the physical body.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "ha"
word: Altamaha-ha
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "ha"
word: ha-cha-cha
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "ha"
word: kig ha farz
oh no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)əʊ ˈnəʊ/
Forms: form: oh, no
Senses: examples: text: Oh, no! The rug is on fire!
text: Oh, no! Did I leave my keys in the car?
coordinate_terms: oh well
oh yeah
glosses: An exclamation or expression of alarm about a problem or error.
Derived terms: oh noes
ohnosecond
Related terms: no
oh
oops
uh-oh
kick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭk
ipa: /kɪk/
ipa: [kʰɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: kicks
form: kicking
form: kicked
form: kicked
Etymology: Shortening of kick the bucket.
Senses: examples: text: Who knows what will happen to his billions when the eighty-five-year-old kicks, but before he leaves the planet, Moon reportedly is hell-bent on creating a holy land in North Korea, dedicated to him.
ref: 2005, Melissa L. Rossi, What every American should know about who's really running the world, page 211:
glosses: To die.
kick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭk
ipa: /kɪk/
ipa: [kʰɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: kicks
form: kicking
form: kicked
form: kicked
Etymology: Shortening of kick ass
Senses: examples: text: That band really kicks.
synonyms: word: bang
word: slap
word: bang
word: devour
word: eat
word: eat and leave no crumbs
word: excel
word: go hard
word: kick
word: kick ass
word: rock
word: rule
word: shine
word: slap
word: slay
glosses: To be emphatically excellent.
vivisect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛkt
Forms: form: vivisects
form: vivisecting
form: vivisected
form: vivisected
Senses: glosses: To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
kick out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks out
form: kicking out
form: kicked out
form: kicked out
Senses: examples: text: They will kick out a disruptive patron.
text: I got kicked out for eating inside.
text: I've used her password before to get info for Abe Caldwell. But this time I barely finished downloading when the server kicked me out and wouldn't let me log in again.
ref: 2011, Cate Noble, Deadly Games:
text: Charybdis Point House Rules[…]
5. We hold the right to kick your ass out at any time.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rules and Regulations:
glosses: To eject, dismiss, expel, or forcefully remove (someone or something).
examples: text: I was driving and the motor just kicked out.
glosses: To stop, stall, or disconnect suddenly.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: To perform a kickout.
glosses: To improvise music.
Synonyms: sense: remove, expel
word: boot out
word: chase off
word: discharge
word: dismiss
word: drive out
word: eject
word: evict
word: exclude
word: expel
word: force out
word: hand someone his hat
word: kick out
word: oust
word: put out
word: send about one's business
word: send someone packing
word: shoo
word: throw out
word: toss
word: turf out
Hypernyms: word: remove
word: take away
Hyponyms: word: banish
word: lay off
word: send someone to the showers
Derived terms: word: kickout
word: kick out the jams
Related terms: word: kick down
word: kick in
word: kick off
word: kick upstairs
word: knock out
word: punch out
word: strike out
word: send away
word: shut out
vivisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪ.vɪˈsɛk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: vivisections
Etymology: From Latin vīvus (“alive”) + sectiō (“cutting”). Compare French vivisection. See also vivid and section.
Senses: glosses: The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
vivisectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vivisection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vivisection.
vivisectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivisectionists
Etymology: From vivisection + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
vivisector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivisectors
Etymology: From vivisect + -or.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of vivisection.
uh huh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uh-huh.
unh-uh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: unh-uh!
form: unh uh
form: uh-uh
form: uh uh
Senses: examples: Unh-uh. No way!
glosses: no; disagreement; negative reply
Related terms: uh
uh huh
kick wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick wheels
Senses: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A wheel or disc used to throw pots, turned by kicking or pushing a heavy stone or concrete base with the foot.
Synonyms: pottery wheel
can it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cans it
form: canning it
form: canned it
form: canned it
Senses: examples: text: Can it, you two! I'm trying to work.
text: I told him to can it, 'cause he was getting to be annoying.
glosses: To shut up, to be quiet; to quit doing something; to put an end to something.
Synonyms: put a sock in it
shut it
shut up
talk through one's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks through one's hat
form: talking through one's hat
form: talked through one's hat
form: talked through one's hat
Etymology: Attested from the late 19th century in the United States in the sense of “bluff”; the sense “speak without authority or knowledge” developed later. Although some people speculate a connection to a former requirement that British Members of Parliament wear hats, the connection is implausible.
Senses: examples: text: "Mr. Pride said to me a moment ago that they spoke better English in Boston than any other place in the world."
"Did he, though, Lady Lawless? That's good. Well, I guess he was only talking through his hat."
ref: c. 1900, Gilbert Parker, At The Sign Of The Eagle:
synonyms: talk through one's ass
glosses: To speak lacking expertise, authority, or knowledge; to invent or fabricate facts.
examples: text: No, sir, she yust standing pat, / And vonce more she tal her father, / “Yu ban talking tru yure hat!”
ref: 1905, “The Norsk Nightingale”, in Popular Mechanics, page 478:
text: He's conceited and opinionative and argues all the time, even when he knows perfectly well that he's talking through his hat.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
glosses: To assert something as true or valid; to bluff.
Related terms: nonsense
BS
lift a finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lifts a finger
form: lifting a finger
form: lifted a finger
form: lifted a finger
form: raise a finger
Etymology: Compare Matthew 23:4.
Senses: examples: text: She lets me do all the work and never lifts a finger to help.
text: They weep when they see the country being so much exploited and yet nobody lifts a finger.
ref: 1973, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard): June 12 - July 27, page 904:
text: You've known about it all along, you haven't lifted a finger, so don't come crying to me. I don't have time for it.
ref: 2004, Gerald Shapiro, Little men: novellas and stories, page 6:
text: Lifting a finger to greet is dangerous because it may make us feel guilty about not lifting a finger to help.
ref: 2005, Larry T. McGehee, B. J. Hutto, Southern Seen: Meditations on Past and Present, page 80:
text: Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?
ref: 2022, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: To make minimal effort; to help as little as possible.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: I think living conditions need to get a lot worse before voters start to lift a finger.
glosses: To take actual retaliatory or punitive action, as opposed to just complaining.
examples: text: So if your next note involves lifting''' a finger, you need to plan to lift the finger promptly to above its spot on the string so that it's ready to play again at any time.
ref: 2010, Katharine Rapoport, Violin For Dummies:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lift, finger.
Related terms: stroke of work
minutiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈn(j)uːʃ(ɪ)ˌiː/
ipa: /maɪˈn(j)uːʃ(ɪ)ˌaɪ/
ipa: /məˈn(j)uːʃ(ɪ)ˌiː/
ipa: /məˈn(j)uːʃ(ɪ)ˌaɪ/
ipa: /mɪˈnjuːʃieɪ/
Forms: form: minutiæ
Senses: glosses: plural of minutia
rein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: rain
homophone: reign
Forms: form: reins
Etymology: From Middle English rein, reyne, from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.
Displaced native Old English brīdel (“bridle, rein”), Old English wealdleþer, ġewealdleþer (“rein, bridle”, literally “control strap”), Old English sāl (“cord, rein”), Old English tiġel (“rein”), and Old English lāttēh, lāttēh (“leash, rein”).
Senses: glosses: A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
examples: text: The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.
text: Let their eyes rove without rein.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
Derived terms: bearing rein
bridoon rein
check-rein
free rein
gag rein
garde de rein
garde rein
hold the reins
keep a tight rein on
leading rein
lungeing rein
pull the reins in on someone
pull the reins in on something
rein-back
rein holder
rein hook
running rein
safety rein
take the reins
who died and gave you the reins
rein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: rain
homophone: reign
Forms: form: reins
form: reining
form: reined
form: reined
Etymology: From Middle English rein, reyne, from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.
Displaced native Old English brīdel (“bridle, rein”), Old English wealdleþer, ġewealdleþer (“rein, bridle”, literally “control strap”), Old English sāl (“cord, rein”), Old English tiġel (“rein”), and Old English lāttēh, lāttēh (“leash, rein”).
Senses: examples: text: He mounts and reins his horse.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
examples: text: Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: After an interval that he judged to have lasted twenty minutes, the bed began to shake with poorly reined sobs.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: To restrain; to control; to check.
examples: text: She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.
ref: 2011, Marie Claire Peck, Rocking Horse Ranch, page 40:
glosses: To obey directions given with the reins.
Derived terms: rein in
draw rein
free rein
hand over the reins
hold the reins
keep a tight rein on
rein back
rein up
take the reins
rein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: rain
homophone: reign
Forms: form: reins
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman reines, Middle French reins, and their source, Latin rēnēs. Doublet of ren.
Senses: examples: text: a man subject to these like imaginations[…]hath often the stone imaginarily, before he have it in his reines[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Lamentations 3:13:
glosses: A kidney.
examples: text: My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 23:16:
text: I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 2:23:
glosses: The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.