cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪə/
ipa: /ˈmaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈmaɪɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mires
Etymology: From Middle English mire, from Old English *mȳre, *mīere, from Proto-West Germanic *miurijā, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ (“ant”). Cognate to Old Norse maurr, Danish myre, Middle Dutch miere (“ant”) (Dutch mier). All probably from Proto-Indo-European *morwi- (“ant”), whence also cognate to Latin formīca.
Senses: examples: text: "Having been seriously interrupted by small brown ants or mires working in my cutting bench, digging holes down the side of my cuttings, thereby arresting the process of rooting. […]"
ref: 1866, The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser Devoted, page 149:
text: Wen I lay down behine dat log I plunk masef right een one dem aunty mire nest an bout 10 million of dem leetle devil begin to heat me.
ref: 1915, Daniel T. Trombley, Batiste of Isle La Motte, page 24:
text: The ant figures in the Bestiary, which tells us that the 'mire' is mighty; toils much in summer and in soft weather; stores wood and seed, corn and grass; in winter she is not harmed: she likes wheat, but shuns barley […]
ref: 1939, original c. 1300, Publications - Volume 103; Volume 105, page 267:
glosses: An ant.
Related terms: antmire
pismire
mirier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of miry: more miry
mitral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪtɹəl/
Etymology: From mitre + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.
glosses: Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
examples: text: Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the mitral valve.
Derived terms: aortomitral
inframitral
mitral annulus
mitral cell
mitral facies
mitralic
mitral prolapse
mitral regurg
mitral regurgitation
mitral stenosis
mitral valve
perimitral
submitral
supramitral
transmitral
mitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪtəɹ/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mitres
form: miter
Etymology: From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr.
Senses: glosses: A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
glosses: The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
glosses: A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
glosses: A gusset in sewing, etc.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
glosses: A mitre shell
Derived terms: mitral
mitrate
mitre box
mitre joint
mitreless
mitre line
mitre saw
mitre shell
mitre wheel
mitrewort
mitriform
unmitre
Related terms: sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: pollard
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: rosary
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: crockard
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: leonine
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: scalding
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: steeping
sense: 13th-c. counterfeit coin
word: eagle
word: alb
word: epigonation
word: epimanikion
word: epitrachelion
word: maniple
word: omophorion
word: rhason
word: sakkos
word: sticharion
word: zone
mitre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪtəɹ/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mitres
form: mitring
form: mitred
form: mitred
form: miter
Etymology: From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr.
Senses: glosses: To adorn with a mitre.
glosses: To unite at an angle of 45°.
mob cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒb kap/
Forms: form: mob caps
form: mob-cap
form: mobcap
Etymology: From mob (“unruly group”) + cap (“hat”), in reference to the riots of French Revolution.
Senses: examples: text: You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 305–306:
text: She was dressed entirely in flowing black cerements and wore a little lacy mob-cap on a mass of dead-looking yellowish white hair; her features were still beautiful, but her face was completely covered with mauve face-powder.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 161:
glosses: A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band, and having a puffy crown and frills.
qualifier: modern-day use
glosses: A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings.
mod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑd/
ipa: /mɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: Maud (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: mods
form: modding
form: modded
form: modded
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.
synonyms: trick
trick out
glosses: To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object.
examples: text: Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
topics: video-games
glosses: To install or create a mod.
examples: text: Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.
text: I used to mod that forum.
glosses: To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
Derived terms: case mod
demod
mod con
moddable
modder
mod man
mod pack
pod mod
pot mod
unmodded
mod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑd/
ipa: /mɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: Maud (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of moderate.
mod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑd/
ipa: /mɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: Maud (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: mods
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic mòd.
Senses: glosses: A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
mod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑd/
ipa: /mɒd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: Maud (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: modder
form: moddest
Etymology: Probably reflecting a Jamaican pronunciation of mad.
Senses: examples: text: Have you listened to Kendrick's new album? It's absolutely mod!
text: now mans have to beat uruguay to advance, dec 2nd gonna be the moddest day revenge for 2010
ref: 2022 November 28, @187Caution, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:
text: What he did was actually mod. Man fuck cancer for real
ref: 2023 March 10, “original trapstar, caught a leg shot and still took it OT til death”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:
text: Ngl this one of the moddest tweets 😭😭
ref: 2024 March 27, “Whyg with a tweet about Zombie (Lane)”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:
text: Why would Drake orchestrate a shooting and blame it on someone not in this country? Are you mod?? Y'all obsessive discoursing has you paranoid.
ref: 2024 May 7, @leavem3al0ne90, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024:
synonyms: word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Crazy, insane.
moire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mwɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: moires
Etymology: Borrowed from French moire, itself from English mohair.
Senses: glosses: Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat.
glosses: Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given.
molal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊləl/
Etymology: From mol(e) + -al in the chemistry usage.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per 1000g of solvent
Derived terms: equimolal
molal concentration
molality
moline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molines
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman molin (“mill”), from Late Latin molinum (“mill”), from molere (“to grind”). Doublet of moulin and mill.
Senses: glosses: The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
Related terms: cross moline
moline cross
moll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
homophone: mall
homophone: maul stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: mole stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /mɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
homophone: mall
homophone: maul stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: mole stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: molls
form: mole
Etymology: From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).
Senses: examples: text: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
text: The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.
ref: 2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
glosses: A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
glosses: Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
examples: text: The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
ref: 1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 209:
text: ‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it′s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.
ref: 1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, page 76:
text: Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974).
ref: 2009, Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, page 142:
glosses: A girlfriend of a bikie.
glosses: A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
glosses: A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.
Synonyms: sense: surfie's girlfriend
word: chick
Derived terms: moll buzzer
wapping moll
moll
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
homophone: mall
homophone: maul stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: mole stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle (“flat (in music)”).
Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål moll.
Senses: examples: text: Bach's Gavotte in B Moll
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: minor; in the minor key.
molter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molters
Etymology: From molt + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, molts or sheds.
monad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnæd/
ipa: /ˈmoʊnæd/
rhymes: (US) -oʊnæd
Forms: form: monads
Etymology: From Latin monas (“unit”) (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monás), from μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men-) + -ad.
Senses: glosses: One thing, one being, one item.
glosses: A group of entites or items treated as one entity.
examples: text: Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component parts of matter, were simple substances with powers of representation, in one word, monads.
ref: 1787, Immanuel Kant, translated by John Meiklejohn, The Critique of Pure Reason, published 1855:
text: “If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be unable in its new condition to enter into the highest combinations that are possible in this universe.
ref: 1813, J. D. Falk, quoting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by David Luke and Robert Pick, Goethe: Conversations and Encounters, London: O. Wolff, published 1966, page 88:
text: Pythagoras considered numbers as the essence and principle of all things, and attributed to them a real and distinct existence; so that, in his view, they were the elements out of which the universe was constructed. […] The "Monad" or unit he regarded as the source of all numbers.
ref: 1855, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter XXXIV, in The Age of Fable:
text: More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God[…]. Perhaps these two atoms, or essences, or monads indestructible, did but repeat an adventure, or many, many adventures.
ref: 1918, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter I, in Love Eternal:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A single-celled organism.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: comonad
glosses: A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
examples: text: The properties that make the Maybe type a monad are its type constructor Maybe a, our chaining function (>>?), and the injector function Just.
ref: 2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, chapter 14, in Real World Haskell, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 328:
qualifier: functional programming
glosses: A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".
Derived terms: bimonad
diplomonad
haptomonad
leptomonad
metamonad
monadic
monadiform
monadism
monadist
monadology
nectomonad
pseudomonad
xanthomonad
mooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooters
Etymology: From moot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A disputer of a mooted case.
mooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish mota.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mootah.
morel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: morels
form: morell
form: moril
Etymology: Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom”)), from Middle High German morhel, morchel (“edible fungus, morel”), from Old High German morhila (“edible root”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *morhā (“tree root, plant root”), from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhijǭ (“edible root”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb”). Akin to German Morchel (“morel”), Middle Low German morke (“mushroom, morel”), German Möhre (“carrot”). Equivalent to dialectal more (“carrot, root”) + -el (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Morchella septentrionalis
word: black morel
taxonomic: Morchella deliciosa
word: white morel
word: yellow morel (Morchella esculenta
taxonomic: Gyromitra spp.
word: false morel
morel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: morels
Etymology: From Middle English morel, morell, from Anglo-Norman and Old French morel, morele, morelle and their etymon Medieval Latin maurella, morella, from Late Latin maurus, morus (“black”) + Latin ella (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The insects which injure the morel cherry-trees so much in Pennsylvania, I perceive, here occasionally act in the same way upon the branches of the wild cherry […]
ref: 1821, Thomas Nuttall, A journal of travels into the Arkansa Territory, page 122:
glosses: Synonym of morello (“type of cherry”).
synonyms: word: morello
extra: type of cherry
examples: text: It exists in both these plants, but whilst the leaves of the last one contain it in some quantity, none is found in those of the morel.
ref: 1836, François Magendie, A Formulary for the Preparation and Medical Administration of Certain New Remedies, page 142:
glosses: Certain plants or genera Solanum, Atropa, and Aralia, with dark, cherry-like berries.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Atropa belladonna
word: great morel
english: probably an alteration
translation: probably an alteration
word: morello
taxonomic: Aralia racemosa
word: petty morel
mort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːt/
ipa: /mɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: morts
Etymology: From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Senses: examples: text: If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
examples: text: The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
glosses: The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A variety of dummy whist for three players.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
Derived terms: micromort
morkin
mort bell
mort cloth
morthouse
mortling
mort stone
Related terms: alamort
all-a-mort
mort d'ancestor
mort de chien
mort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːt/
ipa: /mɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: morts
Etymology: Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).
Senses: examples: text: a mort of water
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 63, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: 1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham
As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.
glosses: A great quantity or number.
mort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːt/
ipa: /mɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: morts
Etymology: Clipping of mortal.
Senses: glosses: A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Derived terms: remort
mort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːt/
ipa: /mɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: morts
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A three-year-old salmon.
mort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːt/
ipa: /mɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: morts
form: mot
form: mott
Etymology: UK circa 1560–1890. Unknown. Documented possibilities include:
* From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.
* From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)
* From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)
* From French amourette (“a crush”)
* From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.
* From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)
* From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.
Senses: examples: text: Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
ref: 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:
text: "Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.
ref: 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
text: KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they[…]
ref: 1896, John Stephen Farmer, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... with Synonyms in English, French ... Etc. Compiled by J.S. Farmer [and W.E. Henley], page 109:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A woman; a female.
Synonyms: woman
Derived terms: autem mort
ben mort
dimber mort
gentry mort
kinchin mort
mort dell
mort wap-apace
nazie mort
queer mort
rum mort
strolling mort
walking mort
wapping mort
motet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊˈtɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: motets
Etymology: From French motet.
Senses: examples: text: Singing their holiday concert from memory, the group sounded confident and expressive in pieces ranging from a medley of Barry Manilow songs to renaissance motets.
ref: 1987 December 27, Frank K. Owen, “It's True What They Say About Choir Boys”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 7:
glosses: A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
Derived terms: motettist
motif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊˈtiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: motifs
Etymology: From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.
Senses: examples: text: See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?
glosses: A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
glosses: A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.
topics: business
dressmaking
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In a nucleotide or aminoacid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.
Derived terms: antimotif
BACH motif
biomotif
intermotif
minimotif
motifeme
motific
motifless
motivic
network motif
pseudomotif
submotif
supermotif
Related terms: motive
phosphomotif
leitmotif
motify
mottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒt.əl/
enpr: mǒt'l
ipa: /ˈmɑ.təl/
ipa: [ˈmɑ.ɾɫ]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
homophone: model (t-flapping)
Forms: form: mottles
form: mottling
form: mottled
form: mottled
Etymology: 1670-80. Probably back-formation from motley.
Senses: examples: text: Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214:
glosses: To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
mottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒt.əl/
enpr: mǒt'l
ipa: /ˈmɑ.təl/
ipa: [ˈmɑ.ɾɫ]
rhymes: -ɒtəl
homophone: model (t-flapping)
Forms: form: mottles
Etymology: 1670-80. Probably back-formation from motley.
Senses: glosses: A distinguishing blotch of colour.
examples: text: The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.
text: SLRSV, being mostly latent in strawberries and other fruit crops, is of very minor importance. It can cause some mottle and decline in certain strawberry cultivars.
ref: 1992, Quarantine Pests for Europe, Wallingford, Oxfordshire: CAB International, →ISBN, page 972:
glosses: A mottled or spotted pattern.
Derived terms: mottlement
mottler
mouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊzə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmaʊsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mousers
Etymology: From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache.
Senses: glosses: A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
examples: text: He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 20:
glosses: A moustache.
Related terms: sense: Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
word: the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street
mucosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈkəʊzə/
ipa: /mjuːˈkəʊsə/
ipa: /mjuˈkoʊzə/
ipa: /mjuˈkoʊsə/
rhymes: -əʊzə
rhymes: -əʊsə
Forms: form: mucosae
form: mucosas
Senses: examples: text: The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] during oestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.
ref: 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mucous membrane.
synonyms: word: mucous membrane
Derived terms: word: mucosal
word: mucosal
word: mucosectomy
word: mucositis
word: submucosa
word: tunica mucosa
Related terms: mucous
mucus
mudded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mudded
form: most mudded
Etymology: From mud + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with mud.
Derived terms: unmudded
mudded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mud + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mud
muff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌf/
ipa: /mɐf/
ipa: /mʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: muffs
Etymology: Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).
Senses: examples: text: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
examples: .
synonyms: word: muffin
word: axe wound
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: berk
word: bonne bouche
word: box
word: bun
word: bush
word: cavern
word: clunge
word: coin slot
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: cookie
word: cooter
word: cooze
word: crack
word: crevice
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: fish lips
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: front bum
word: front hole
word: gash
word: ginch
word: girl
word: Grand Canyon
word: honeypot
word: hoo-ha
word: innie
word: juice box
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: la-la
word: love box
word: love tunnel
word: minge
word: minnie
word: monosyllable
word: moocha
word: muff
word: muffin
word: nonny
word: pee-pee
word: penis fly trap
word: pink
word: pink bits
word: poontang
word: pump
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quim
word: sausage wallet
word: sheath
word: slit
word: snapper
word: snatch
word: squish mitten
word: stench trench
word: strange
word: sugar walls
word: tuppence
word: trap
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vag
word: vagina
word: vaginer
word: va-jay-jay
word: vertical smile
word: Virginia
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
word: whisker biscuit
word: wizard's sleeve
glosses: The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
glosses: A woman or girl.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
glosses: The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
glosses: A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
Synonyms: word: whiskers
word: beard
english: bird feathers
translation: bird feathers
word: muff and beard:
Derived terms: earmuff
furry muff
marry-muff
muff diver
muff-diving
muff pistol
twiddle muff
muff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌf/
ipa: /mɐf/
ipa: /mʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: muffs
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”).
Senses: examples: text: Can you fancy that such an old creature (an old muff, as you call him, you wicked, satirical man!) could ever make en impression on my heart?
ref: 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lovel the Widower:
glosses: A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
glosses: A bird, the whitethroat.
muff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌf/
ipa: /mɐf/
ipa: /mʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: muffs
form: muffing
form: muffed
form: muffed
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above; or perhaps related to Dutch muffen (“to dote”) and German muffen (“to sulk”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
examples: text: Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 69:
glosses: To mishandle; to bungle.
Derived terms: muff up
muff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌf/
ipa: /mɐf/
ipa: /mʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: muffs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Skinny lattes and a couple of blueberry muffs.
ref: 2010, Lindsay G. Arthur, The Litigators, page 63:
glosses: A muffin.
mulct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌlkt/
rhymes: -ʌlkt
Forms: form: mulcts
Etymology: From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin multa (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk.
Senses: examples: text: juries cast up what a wife is worth, / By laying whate'er sum in mulct they please on / The lover, who must pay a handsome price, / Because it is a marketable vice.
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza LXIV:
text: […]by the Salic law, no higher mulct was imposed for killing, than for kidnapping a slave.
ref: 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC, 1st part (1406–1492), page xxxvi:
text: The Act of Uniformity had laid a mulct of a hundred pounds on every person who, not having received episcopal ordination, should presume to administer the Eucharist.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
mulct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌlkt/
rhymes: -ʌlkt
Forms: form: mulcts
form: mulcting
form: mulcted
form: mulcted
Etymology: From Middle French mulcter (“to fine, punish”), from Latin multa (“penalty, fine”). Possibly a doublet of milk.
Senses: examples: text: None of their numerous quarrels with Rome from 437 (?) B.C. onwards (Liv. 4. 17) led to any decisive result until their rebellion in the year 341 B.C., when the city, despite its strong position on a hill with steep sides, was taken (e.g. Polyb. 1. 65) and mulcted of half its territory.
ref: 1897, Robert Seymour Conway, The Italic Dialects, Cambridge University Press, page 370:
text: I say that I have seen the current issue of the Thursday Review, and I can quite understand him wanting to mulct the journal in substantial damages […]
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: To impose such a fine or penalty.
examples: text: Mr. Train's most celebrated real life case was said to have been the prosecution in 1914 of Henry Siegel, operator of a chain of dry-goods stores, who was accused of mulcting thousands in a savings account scheme.
ref: 1945 December 23, “Arthur Train Dead; Created Mr. Tutt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: However, the pressure on the legislature to license an occupation rarely comes from the members of the public who have been mulcted or in other ways abused by members of the occupation.
ref: 1962, Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, page 140:
glosses: To swindle (someone) out of money.
Derived terms: mulctable
unmulcted
mull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: mulls
form: mulling
form: mulled
form: mulled
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”).
Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.
Senses: examples: text: to mull a thought or a problem
text: he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
text: It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: But here’s a thought I had as you were speaking just now, and I’m mulling it over.
ref: 2010, Plato, “Euthyphro”, in Christopher Rowe, transl., The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Books Ltd., →ISBN, line 9c:
text: When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
glosses: To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
raw_tags: with over
glosses: To powder; to pulverize.
glosses: To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
glosses: To heat and spice something, such as wine.
glosses: To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
glosses: To dull or stupefy.
Derived terms: mulled wine
mulled cider
muller
mull over
unmulled
mull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: mulls
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”).
Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.
Senses: synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
glosses: A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
glosses: The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
glosses: An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
examples: text: Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought.
ref: 1904, Parliamentary Debates, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 83:
text: 2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck
After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look."
glosses: A mess of something; a mistake.
glosses: Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
mull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: mulls
Etymology: Shortened from mulmul.
Senses: examples: text: The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth.
ref: 1891, United States. Department of the Treasury, Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff, Navigation, and Other Laws for the Year Ended ..., page 631:
text: Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.
ref: 1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y.; London: The Butterick Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: A thin, soft muslin.
mull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: mulls
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic maol.
Senses: examples: the Mull of Kintyre
glosses: A promontory.
glosses: A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Derived terms: snuff-mull
mull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold.
Senses: glosses: Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
mullah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊ.lə/
ipa: /ˈmʌ.lə/
rhymes: -ʊlə
Forms: form: mullahs
Etymology: Derived from Classical Persian مُلَّا (mullā), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).
Senses: examples: text: Leading Republicans do not sympathize with the mullahs, do not repeat their talking points, and do not seek to appease them when they make outrageous claims about other countries.
ref: 2024 April 15, Anne Applebaum, “Why Did U.S. Planes Defend Israel but Not Ukraine?”, in The Atlantic:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: cleric
coordinate_terms: elder
rabbi
glosses: An honorific title for a scholar of theology and sharia law.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: cleric
coordinate_terms: pastor
rabbi
glosses: An honorific title for a mosque leader.
examples: text: In the first week of March 2018, the Shia mullah issues a fatwa prohibiting vengeance killing and requiring reconciliation.
ref: 2021, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Renáta Katalin Nelson, Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue Methods and Frameworks, page 58:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
hypernyms: cleric
coordinate_terms: bishop
pontifex
dayan
glosses: A scholar and teacher of theology and sharia law, and an issuer of fatwas.
glosses: A conservative Muslim leader or cleric, especially one who is hostile against other religions.
glosses: A Muslim.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas.
See also: ruhani
See also: ruhani
Derived terms: mullahcracy
mullahism
mullah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊ.lə/
ipa: /ˈmʌ.lə/
rhymes: -ʊlə
Forms: form: mullahs
form: mullahing
form: mullahed
form: mullahed
Senses: examples: text: But I mullahed him. He may have been four inches taller but I punched him through the ropes and knocked the granny and the grandad out of him.
ref: 2009, Nigel Benn, The Dark Destroyer:
text: The Sevens practice session was touch rugby, but every time Harvey got the ball, I absolutely mullahed him. I pushed him, dumped him on his arse, ran through him. Every time.
ref: 2016, Ben Cohen, Carry Me Home: My Autobiography, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of muller (“to beat, thrash”).
mullen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mullens
Senses: examples: text: We have had a hard battle with the weeds and their roots in our lawn, the docks and the mullens and the pusley.
ref: 1904, James Power Smith, Brightside Idyls: Every Week of the Year, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of mullein.
muon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːɒn/
rhymes: -uːɒn
Forms: form: muons
Etymology: Contraction of the earlier term mu-meson; the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton. Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1951 in his book Elementary Particles.
Senses: examples: text: The μ-meson of Powell (called here muon) is instead a disintegration product of the pion, only weakly linked to the nucleons and therefore of little importance in the explanation of nuclear forces.
ref: 1951, Enrico Fermi, Elementary Particles:
text: The spectrum of electrons arising from the decay of the negative mu meson has been determined. The muons are arrested in the gas of a high pressure hydrogen filled diffusion cloud chamber.
ref: 1955 March, CP Sargent, “Diffusion Cloud-Chamber Study of Very Slow Mesons”, in Physical Review:
text: The data comes from experiments at the Fermilab US particle accelerator facility, which explored how subatomic particles called muons – similar to electrons but about 200 times heavier – move in a magnetic field.
ref: 2023 August 11, Nicola Davis, “Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature”, in The Guardian:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater.
Derived terms: antimuon
anti-muon
dimuon
muogenic
muonic
muonium
muonless
muon neutrino
muononium
smuon
trimuon
musher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌʃə/
ipa: /ˈmʌʃəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mushers
Etymology: From mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mush is probably derived from French marche or marchons, respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”), from *marką (“mark; sign; stamp”), possibly related to *markō (“border, boundary; area, region”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“(noun) border, boundary, edge; (verb) to divide”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty miles. For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “Who Has Won to Mastership”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110:
text: The youngest musher to enter was Dallas Seavey, who ran in the 2005 Junior Iditarod at age 17, then turned 18 one day before the Iditarod and ran that race in the same year. […] Dallas Seavey was also the youngest musher to win, taking the 2012 championship at age 25.
ref: 2014, Tricia Brown, “Champions and Record Breakers”, in Iditarod, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:
text: A sled dog learns that by the time she's hungry, her musher has already prepared a meal; by the time she's tired, she has a warm bed.
ref: 2020 September 23, Blair Braverman, “What my sled dogs taught me about planning for the unknown”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
synonyms: dog musher
glosses: One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
glosses: One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
Derived terms: dog musher