cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
much
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ (Southern England, US, Canada)
Etymology: From Middle English muche (“much, great”), apocopated variant of muchel (“much, great”), from Old English myċel, miċel (“big, much”), from Proto-West Germanic *mikil, from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“big, stour, great”). See also mickle, muckle.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mickle, mukill, mekil, mikil (“big, large, great, much”), Middle Dutch mēkel (“great, many, much”), Middle High German michel ("great, many, much"; > German michel (“great, big, large”)), Norwegian Bokmål mye (“much”), Norwegian Nynorsk mykje (“much”), Swedish mycket (“much”), Danish meget (“much”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils, “great, many”), Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large, great”), Modern Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “large, great”).
Note that English much is not related to Spanish mucho, and their resemblance in both form and meaning is purely coincidental, as mucho derives from Latin multus and is not related to the Germanic forms. Instead, related to Spanish maño.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne launcelot vnbarred the dore / and with his lyfte hand he held it open a lytel / so that but one man myghte come in attones / and soo there came strydyng a good knyghte a moche man and large / and his name was Colgreuaunce / of Gore / and he with a swerd strake at syr launcelot myȝtely and he put asyde the stroke
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:
glosses: Large, great.
glosses: Long in duration.
much
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʌt͡ʃ/
ipa: /mʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ (Southern England, US, Canada)
Etymology: From Middle English muche (“much, great”), apocopated variant of muchel (“much, great”), from Old English myċel, miċel (“big, much”), from Proto-West Germanic *mikil, from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“big, stour, great”). See also mickle, muckle.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots mickle, mukill, mekil, mikil (“big, large, great, much”), Middle Dutch mēkel (“great, many, much”), Middle High German michel ("great, many, much"; > German michel (“great, big, large”)), Norwegian Bokmål mye (“much”), Norwegian Nynorsk mykje (“much”), Swedish mycket (“much”), Danish meget (“much”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils, “great, many”), Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large, great”), Modern Greek μεγάλος (megálos, “large, great”).
Note that English much is not related to Spanish mucho, and their resemblance in both form and meaning is purely coincidental, as mucho derives from Latin multus and is not related to the Germanic forms. Instead, related to Spanish maño.
Senses: examples: text: From those to whom much has been given much is expected.
text: We lay awake for much of the night.
glosses: A large amount or great extent.
Derived terms: a bit much
as much
as much again
as much as
as much as possible
as much sinning as sinned against
as much use as a chocolate fireguard
as much use as a chocolate teapot
enough is too much
forasmuch
fuck you very much
how much does it cost
how much do I owe you
how much do you charge
how much is it
in as much as
insomuch
leave much to be desired
make much
methinks the lady doth protest too much
methinks thou dost protest too much
much ado about nothing
much appreciated
much as
Much Birch
Much Dewchurch
much good may it do someone
much grass
Much Hadham
Much Hoole
much less
muchly
Much Marcle
muchness
much obliged
much of a muchness
much to be said
Much Wenlock
muchwhat
much what
much-what
not give much for someone's chances
not much chop
not much cop
not much of anything
not much to look at
not so much
overmuch
pretty much
protest too much
so much
so much as
so much for
so much so
so much the better
so much the worse
so much the worse for
spank you very much
thank ye so very much
thank you very much
the lady doth protest too much
the world is too much with someone
think much of
think too much
this much
too much bed makes a dull head
too much information
too much of a good thing
too much pudding will choke a dog
too much water drowned the miller
very much
without so much as a by your leave
roast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rōst
ipa: /ɹoʊst/
enpr: rōst
ipa: /ɹəʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: roasts
form: roasting
form: roasted
form: roasted
form: rost
Etymology: From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).
Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”).
Senses: examples: text: to roast meat on a spit
coordinate_terms: bake
boil
broil
fry
grill
poach
toast
glosses: To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
examples: text: to roast a potato in ashes
text: In eggs boiled and roasted […]there is scarce difference to be discerned.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
examples: text: Coffee beans need roasting before use.
text: to roast chestnuts or peanuts
glosses: To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
examples: text: roasted in wrath and fire
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
examples: text: I'm late home for the fourth time this week; my mate will really roast me this time.
glosses: To admonish someone vigorously.
examples: text: He roasted a bully who then fought with him.
text: The class clown enjoys being roasted by mates as well as staff.
glosses: To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
Derived terms: roasting cylinder
roasting ear
roasting jack
roasting pan
roasting tin
roast up
there is reason in the roasting of eggs
roast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōst
ipa: /ɹoʊst/
enpr: rōst
ipa: /ɹəʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: roasts
form: rost
Etymology: From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).
Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: joint
text: Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.
hypernyms: cut#Noun
coordinate_terms: steak#Noun
filet#Noun
glosses: A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
examples: text: Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
glosses: A meal consisting of roast foods.
examples: text: Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.
glosses: The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
examples: text: “He ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have to be bachelor girls to-night.”
ref: 1899, Archibald Clavering Gunter, M.S. Bradford, Special, page 58:
glosses: An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
glosses: A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
examples: text: On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.
glosses: A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
synonyms: burn
glosses: A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
Derived terms: bull roast
corn roast
crown roast
nut roast
pot roast
prate-roast
roastage
roastmaster
rule the roast
spit roast
Sunday roast
wiener roast
roast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rōst
ipa: /ɹoʊst/
enpr: rōst
ipa: /ɹəʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: rost
Etymology: From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *rews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”).
Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”).
Senses: synonyms: roasted
glosses: Having been cooked by roasting.
glosses: Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
Derived terms: roast beef
roast-beef plant
roast dinner
roast iron
roast-meat clothes
roast pork
Related terms: barbecue
chargrill
grill
joint
roasties
entail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈteɪl/
ipa: /ɪnˈteɪl/
ipa: /ənˈteɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: entails
form: intail
Etymology: From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
Senses: examples: text: A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
ref: 1754–1762, David Hume, “(please specify the page)”, in [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]:
glosses: That which is entailed.
glosses: That which is entailed.
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
examples: text: All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.
ref: 1907, Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, The Khasis, page 88:
glosses: That which is entailed.
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
examples: text: A worke of rich entayle.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
glosses: Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Derived terms: disentailment
assuage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
ipa: /əˈswɑʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: assuages
form: assuaging
form: assuaged
form: assuaged
form: asswage
form: suage
form: swage
form: tasswage
Etymology: From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuāviō (“I sweeten, I butter up, I calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (“sweet”) + -iō.
Senses: examples: text: Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
text: the fount at which the panting mind assuages
 her thirst of knowledge
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CX:
text: 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost.
glosses: To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.).
glosses: To pacify or soothe (someone).
glosses: To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate.
Derived terms: assuageable
assuagement
assuager
assuagingly
unassuaged
unassuaging
pelican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈpɛl.ə.kən/
Forms: form: pelicans
form: pelecan
Etymology: From Middle English pellican, pellicane, from Old English pellican (“pelican”), from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán),
πέλεκυς (pélekus, “hatchet”).
Senses: examples: text: The old have outlived that mental world we so misname in calling it a world of enjoyment;—they have outlived the feverish dreams which waste those keen hopes—the pelicans of the heart, feeding on the life-blood of their parent;—they have now no part in the excitement of success, whether in its desire or disappointment.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:
text: Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch.
glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: dental pelican
glosses: A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A waterbomber.
glosses: An ageing prostitute.
Derived terms: Australian pelican
brown pelican
dental pelican
pelican crossing
pelican eel
pelican flower
pelican gulper
pelicanish
Pelican Island
pelicanist
pelicanlike
pelican pot
pelicanry
pelican spider
Pelican State
spot-billed pelican
penile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiː.naɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈpiː.nəl/
rhymes: -iːnaɪl
rhymes: -iːnəl
homophone: penal stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From pen(is) + -ile.
Senses: examples: text: penile strength
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:penile.
glosses: Pertaining to the penis.
Synonyms: phallic
Coordinate terms: peniform
Derived terms: hemipenile
micropenile
neopenile
nocturnal penile tumescence
nonpenile
parapenile
pearly penile papules
penile abscess
penile bone
penile cancer
penile cancers
penile duplication
penile foreskin
penile glans
penile implant
penilely
penile pearl
penile prosthesis
penile sheath
peripenile
pubopenile
spiral penile deviation
summer penile syndrome
urethropenile
waiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English waitinge, waytynge, waitende, weytende, waitand, waytand, equivalent to wait + -ing.
Senses: examples: raw_tags: participle used as adjective
text: Your guest has been waiting for you. (progressive) They hurried into the waiting car. (participle used as adjective)
text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of wait
waiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: waitings
Etymology: From Middle English waitynge, waytynge, equivalent to wait + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding.
examples: text: Waiting for any news in a waiting room. (gerund)
text: In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
ref: 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122:
text: There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.
ref: 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets:
glosses: The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
examples: text: But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
ref: 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXVI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 227:
glosses: Attendance, service.
Derived terms: call waiting
-in-waiting
in waiting
ready and waiting
waiting area
waiting game
waiting mode
waiting period
waiting room
waiting shed
waiting shelter
waiting time
wait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪt/
ipa: /weɪt/
ipa: [weɪ̯ʔt]
note: Indic
ipa: /wɛjʈ/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /weʈ/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: weight
Forms: form: waits
form: waight
Etymology: From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”).
Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch.
In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan.
Senses: examples: text: I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
glosses: A delay.
examples: text: They lay in wait for the patrol.
text: an enemy in wait
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, 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 ambush.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of wait state.
glosses: One who watches; a watchman.
examples: text: […]as he returned home to his owne house, the waits should sound the hautboies all the way
ref: 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XVII]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
examples: text: Hark! are the waits abroad?
ref: 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
text: 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
text: […] the waits begin their rounds, and going from house to house, […] they sing carols and Christmas hymns until […] another Christmas-day has dawned.[…]
ref: 1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England:
glosses: Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
Derived terms: lie in wait
lying in wait
two-week wait
wait time
wait unemployment
Related terms: wake
watch
wait
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪt/
ipa: /weɪt/
ipa: [weɪ̯ʔt]
note: Indic
ipa: /wɛjʈ/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /weʈ/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: weight
Forms: form: waight
Etymology: From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”).
Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch.
In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan.
Senses: examples: text: - And so I went upstairs—
- Wait. Your house has two floors?
synonyms: hold on
wait a minute
just a minute
glosses: Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification.
eating establishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eating establishments
Senses: glosses: A public place where food and drinks are served for a fee.
Related terms: bar
bar and grill
bistro
buffet
cafe
café
diner
grill
restaurant
sandwich shop
wait for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits for
form: waiting for
form: waited for
form: waited for
Senses: examples: text: Wait for the light to change before you cross the street.
text: What are you waiting for?
text: And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
synonyms: word: await
word: wait on
glosses: To wait until the specified event occurs.
examples: text: I'm waiting for my date.
text: I'm waiting for the train.
synonyms: word: await
word: wait on
glosses: To await the arrival of.
Synonyms: word: abide
word: attend
word: await
word: bide
word: expect
word: hold up
word: keep
word: remain
word: stay
word: tarry
word: tend
word: wait
word: wait on
word: wait for
Hyponyms: word: listen
word: anticipate
word: look forward to
Related terms: word: deferment
word: procrastinate
wait on someone hand and foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits on someone hand and foot
form: waiting on someone hand and foot
form: waited on someone hand and foot
form: waited on someone hand and foot
Senses: examples: text: Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy.
glosses: To attend to (someone's) every need, to the point of excess.
Hypernyms: serve
Related terms: fetch and carry
wait state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wait states
Senses: examples: text: With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved.
fluke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fluk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fljuːk/
enpr: flyo͞ok
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: flukes
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps dialectal. It seems to have originally referred to a lucky shot at billiards. Possibly connected to sense 3, referring to whales' use of flukes to move rapidly.
Senses: examples: text: We've classified by a fluke; actually, the first goal was just a total fluke.
text: “[…] That's the first time in the history of Bierce's Cove that two men made that jump on the same sea. And all the risk was yours, coming last.”
“It was a fluke,” Billy insisted.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, chapter VIII, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: Three of the best hitters in the Eastern retired on nine strikes! That was no fluke.
ref: 1920, Zane Grey, “The Rube”, in The Redheaded Outfield:
text: "And I say," said Wimsey, "that it would be better for her to be hanged outright than to live and have everybody think her a murderess who got off by a fluke."
ref: 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:
text: It's Christmas at ground zero / Now the missiles are on their way / What a crazy fluke / We're gonna get nuked / On this jolly holiday
ref: 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
text: And before I forget... that was one amazing kiss, mister. Could have been a fluke, though. Guess we have to keep trying.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Garden:
text: That this was not just a fluke was proved by a further profit the following year, albeit cut due to industrial action - jam at last!
ref: 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.
Derived terms: flukeless
flukish
fluke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fluk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fljuːk/
enpr: flyo͞ok
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: flukes
form: fluking
form: fluked
form: fluked
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps dialectal. It seems to have originally referred to a lucky shot at billiards. Possibly connected to sense 3, referring to whales' use of flukes to move rapidly.
Senses: examples: text: I fluked a pass in the multiple-choice exam.
glosses: To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
examples: text: He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
Derived terms: fluke out
fluke up
Related terms: flukey
fluky
fluke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fluk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fljuːk/
enpr: flyo͞ok
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: fluke
form: flukes
Etymology: From Old English flōc (“flatfish”), of Germanic origin, related to German flach (“flat”), Old Norse floke (“flatfish”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.
Senses: glosses: A summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus)
examples: text: The man became infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.
glosses: A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda, related to tapeworms (class Cestoda).
Derived terms: word: Flatworms
alt: Fascioloides magna
word: American fluke
taxonomic: Clonorchis sinensis
word: bile fluke
taxonomic: Schistosomatidae spp.
word: blood fluke
taxonomic: Schistosoma haematobium
word: bladder fluke
taxonomic: Opisthorchis felineus
word: cat liver fluke
taxonomic: Postharmostomum gallinum
word: cecal fluke
taxonomic: Clonorchis sinensis
word: Chinese liver fluke
alt: Fascioloides magna
word: deer fluke
word: eye fluke
word: flukelike
word: flukeworm
word: flukicide
alt: Fasciolopsis buski
word: giant intestinal fluke
alt: Fascioloides magna
word: giant liver fluke
word: lancet fluke
taxonomic: Dicrocoelium dendriticum
word: lancet liver fluke
word: liver fluke
alt: Paragonimus spp.
word: lung fluke
taxonomic: Fasciola hepatica
word: sheep liver fluke
word: other
english: Rhombus maximus
translation: Rhombus maximus
word: bannock fluke)
alt: Paralichthys albiguttus
word: Gulf fluke
alt: Hippoglossoides limandoides
word: long fluke
taxonomic: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: pole fluke
word: sail fluke
taxonomic: Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis
word: sail-fluke
alt: Hippoglossoides limandoides
word: sand fluke
fluke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fluk/
enpr: flo͞ok
ipa: /fljuːk/
enpr: flyo͞ok
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: flukes
Etymology: Mid-16th century in the sense of “anchor blade”. Probably the same word as in etymology 2 above or else a related word for something flat (cf. Proto-Germanic *flakaz). A derivation from Middle Low German vlögel (“wing”), from Proto-Germanic *flugilaz, seems phonetically impossible. If anything, related vlōch, vlucht (“flight”, both also “wing”) or even *vlunke (modern Low German Flunk (“wing, pinion”)) are more plausible candidates. Note that the kind of whale's fin is called Fluke in contemporary German, but this is likely from English.
Senses: examples: text: The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.
text: The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
ref: 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
examples: text: The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.
text: But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 55, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: As Walter de la Mare writes, "How uncomprehendingly must an angel from heaven smile on a poor human sitting engrossed in a romance: angled upon his hams, motionless in his chair, spectacles on nose, his two feet as close together as the flukes of a merman's tail, only his strange eyes stirring in his time-worn face."
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, chapter IX, in The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
examples: text: The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point.
glosses: A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
examples: text: After casting the bronze statue, we filed down the flukes and spurs from the molding process.
glosses: In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
glosses: Waste cotton.
Derived terms: sail-fluke
snow fluke
turn flukes
Scottish Gaelic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Gaelic
Scots Gaelic
hypernyms: Erse
Gaelic
glosses: The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Scottish Gaelic terms
Highland Gaelic
Scots Gaelic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Scottish Gaelic.
synonyms: word: Scottish Gaelic
office
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒf.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈɔ.fɪs/
ipa: /ˈɑ.fɪs/
rhymes: -ɒfɪs
Forms: form: offices
form: officing
form: officed
form: officed
Etymology: From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
Senses: examples: text: Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA?
ref: 1966, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 8, page 451:
text: Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building.
ref: 1976, General Technical Report RM., page 128:
glosses: To provide (someone) with an office.
examples: text: "I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together.
ref: 1988 December 2, Grant Pick, “He Survived Operation Greylord”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2010:
glosses: To have an office.
radii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.aɪ/
Senses: examples: text: The radius of the Sun is equal to about 109 Earth radii.
text: Now the centrifugal forces of bodies revolving in the ſame time in different circles being to one another as the radii of the circles (as ſhall be ſhewn when I come to treat of thoſe forces) it follows that the centrifugal force muſt be greateſt at the æquator, and thence be continually diminished towards the poles.
ref: 1767, Richard Helsham, Bryan Robinson, A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, page 31:
glosses: plural of radius
fortis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tɪs/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and forte.
Senses: examples: text: All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).
ref: 2004, Stephan Gramley, Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 80:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: tense
antonyms: lenis
glosses: Strongly articulated, hence voiceless.
raw_tags: of a consonant
Derived terms: fortition
fortis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tɪs/
Forms: form: fortes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and forte.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A fortis consonant.
Derived terms: pre-fortis
Related terms: aqua fortis
palabra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɑːbɹə/
/pəˈlæbɹə/
Forms: form: palabras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish palabra (“word”). Doublet of parable and parabola.
Senses: examples: text: Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbor Verges.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A word; idle talk.
Related terms: word: palaver
word: parable
word: parabola
english: Italian, casual talk
translation: Italian, casual talk
word: parlare
english: homosexual slang, urban English
translation: homosexual slang, urban English
word: Polari
manus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈmɑːnəs/
ipa: /ˈmænəs/
Forms: form: manus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”). Doublet of mano.
Senses: glosses: A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
topics: law
glosses: The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.
Derived terms: amanuensis
Bimana
bimanous
command
immane
longimanous
mainpast
mainport
maintain
manacle
manciple
maniable
manichord
manicure
manifest
maniform
manilla
maniple
manitrunk
manmotive
manner
manoeuvre
manual
manuduct
manufact
manufaction
manufacture
manumotor
manuprisor
manuscribe
manuscript
manuscription
manutergium
manu-tract
massage
masturbate
mortmain
pedimane
Quadrumana
signum manus
manus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnəs/
ipa: /ˈmɑːnəs/
ipa: /ˈmænəs/
Senses: glosses: plural of manu
astroturfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and Astroturf."
Senses: topics: business
marketing
qualifier: now social media
glosses: The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.
wikipedia: Lloyd Bentsen
Synonyms: front organization
Related terms: astroturf
astroturfer
kike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: kikes
Etymology: The most dominant theory is from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X. The latter symbol was associated by these Jews with the Christian cross, a symbol that, to them, represented millennia of persecution.
Other theories also exist, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase “Ikey-Kikey”, an American-origin reduplication of Ikey, which in turn is a British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac.
Senses: examples: text: "Now you quit kidding me! What's the nice little name?" "Oh, it ain't so darn nice. I guess it's kind of kike. But my folks ain't kikes. My papa's papa was a nobleman in Poland, and there was a gentleman in here one day, he was kind of a count or something--"
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “24”, in Babbitt:
text: In one tweet, Weisman was referred to as a "kike." Another threatened to have him put "in the oven."
ref: 2016 June 8, Tom Kludt, “New York Times editor quits Twitter over anti-Semitic tweets”, in CNN Business:
text: Potok in case you don’t know, is a devious kike who works for the Southern Poverty Law Center which is a notorious anti-White hate group.
ref: 2019 February 2, “SPLC Kike Mark Potok Tracks America’s Declining White Population”, in Infostormer, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025:
synonyms: word: heeb
english: not always pejorative
translation: not always pejorative
word: Hymie
word: sheeny
word: shylock
word: yid
glosses: A Jew.
examples: text: That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food.
synonyms: see Thesaurus:miser
glosses: A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one.
Derived terms: kike dyke
kikeface
kikeish
kikeroach
kikesucker
kikey
TKD
kike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: kikes
form: kiking
form: kiked
form: kiked
Etymology: The most dominant theory is from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X. The latter symbol was associated by these Jews with the Christian cross, a symbol that, to them, represented millennia of persecution.
Other theories also exist, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase “Ikey-Kikey”, an American-origin reduplication of Ikey, which in turn is a British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac.
Senses: glosses: To render something more Jewish.
glosses: To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal from.
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
Etymology: Of uncertain origin, but apparently an extension (with diminutive -k) of Middle English chine, from Old English ċine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine + -k.
Alternatively, the -k may represent an earlier unrecorded diminutive, perhaps from Middle English *chinek, making it equivalent to chine + -ock (diminutive ending).
Senses: examples: text: What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:
text: Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
ref: 1834–1838 (date written), Thomas Babington Macaulay, “(please specify the page)”, in Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1842, →OCLC:
glosses: A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
examples: text: I noticed a chink of light under the door.
text: A chink of light offering a possible settlement to one part of the rail dispute comes as the RMT is to ballot its members at Network Rail on whether to accept an improved offer.
ref: 2023 March 22, Mel Holley, “Network News: RMT to ballot Network Rail members on improved offer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12:
glosses: A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
examples: text: The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
glosses: A chip or dent in something metallic.
examples: text: The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
text: The first chink in Arsenal's relaxed afternoon occurred when key midfielder Samir Nasri pulled up with a hamstring injury and was replaced.
ref: 2011 January 30, Kevin Darling, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC:
glosses: A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
Derived terms: chigger
chink in the armor
chink in the armour
chinkle
chinky
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
form: chinking
form: chinked
form: chinked
Etymology: Of uncertain origin, but apparently an extension (with diminutive -k) of Middle English chine, from Old English ċine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine + -k.
Alternatively, the -k may represent an earlier unrecorded diminutive, perhaps from Middle English *chinek, making it equivalent to chine + -ock (diminutive ending).
Senses: examples: text: to chink a wall
glosses: To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
glosses: To crack; to open.
glosses: To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Derived terms: chink up
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: She swallow, set the cup down like she want to break it, and the ice-blocks jump, make a chink sound.
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 138:
glosses: A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
examples: text: to leave his chink to better hands
ref: 1727, William Somerville, Occasional Poems, "The Fortune-Hunter":
text: I thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink, and all belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her when I wanted to […]
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, pages 47–8:
text: At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.
ref: 1855, Henry Augustus Wise, Tales for the Marines, page 121:
text: Now by [the] third part you will hear
This young man, as it does appear,
With care he then secur'd his chink,
And to this vintner went to drink.
ref: 1894, Francis James Child (from Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry), “267, The Drunkard's Legacy (The Heir of Linne)”, in The English and Scottish popular Ballads, volume V:
text: "I believe I could make a pudding that wasn't plain, if I tried," Alice said. "Why shouldn't we?"
"No chink," said Oswald, with brief sadness.
"How much would it cost?" Noël asked, and added that Dora had twopence and H.O. had a French halfpenny.
ref: 1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 2:
glosses: Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
Derived terms: chink-a-chink
chink cough
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
form: chinking
form: chinked
form: chinked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The coins were chinking in his pocket.
glosses: To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
examples: text: He chinks his purse
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
form: chinking
form: chinked
form: chinked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
chink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: chinks
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Chink.
gook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːk/
ipa: /ɡʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -uːk
ipa: /ɡuːk/
ipa: /ɡʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: gooks
Etymology: Possible blend of goop + gunk, or related to gobbledygook.
Senses: examples: text: "Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.
ref: 1983, Len O'Connor, A Reporter in Sweet Chicago, →ISBN, page 351:
glosses: Grime or mud.
Derived terms: gooky
gook up
gook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːk/
ipa: /ɡʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: gooks
Senses: examples: text: the poor old gook was spitting blood
ref: 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
glosses: A dull or hapless person.
gook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːk/
ipa: /ɡʊk/
rhymes: -uːk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -ʊk
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: gooks
Senses: examples: text: Some say 'Mar Teazer do live in pattens and gook; must go to bed in 'em I'm thinking!
ref: 1893, Dolly Pentreath, In a Cornish Township with Old Vogue Folk, page 26:
glosses: A bonnet (headwear).
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: garbley gook
english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: gook wagon
Neo Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Neo-Latin; Synonym of New Latin.