cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
upblow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upblows
form: upblowing
form: upblew
form: upblown
Etymology: From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.
Senses: examples: text: 1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,”
[…] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]
text: And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,
Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne,
His belly was vpblowne with luxury;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 51:
text: With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown,
And feels a Power which he believes his own;
ref: 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 16, p. 214:
glosses: To inflate.
examples: text: 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,
Ingyniers in the trench
earth, earth uprearing,
Gun-powder in the mynes,
Pagans upblowing.
text: The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!
ref: 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 117:
glosses: To explode, blow up.
examples: text: The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste
Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 447:
text: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,
The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
text: Here the rocky precipice
Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim
A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff
Driveth them back,
ref: 1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25:
text: The woods break down, the sand upblows
In blinding volleys warm;
ref: 1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3:
text: 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,
A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.
glosses: To blow in an upward direction.
gray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grā
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: grey
homophone: (one pronunciation) greige
Forms: form: grays
form: graying
form: grayed
form: grayed
form: grey
Etymology: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, grǣw (“grey”), from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: My hair is beginning to gray.
glosses: To turn gray.
examples: text: the graying of America
text: It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.
ref: 2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:
topics: demographics
demography
glosses: To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
gray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grā
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: grey
homophone: (one pronunciation) greige
Forms: form: grays
form: grey
Etymology: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, grǣw (“grey”), from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
Senses: glosses: An achromatic colour between black and white.
glosses: An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
examples: text: Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.
ref: 1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 411:
glosses: A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: Synonym of grey alien.
synonyms: word: grey alien
qualifier: two-up
glosses: A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
Derived terms: shades of gray
gray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grā
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: grey
homophone: (one pronunciation) greige
Forms: form: grays
form: grey
Etymology: Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).
Senses: related: word: mul:Gy
coordinate_terms: rad
glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass.
Derived terms: centigray
kilogray
microgray
milligray
skimmed milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlk
Forms: form: skimmed milks
form: skim milk
Senses: examples: text: We like to drink skimmed milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.
glosses: British standard form of skim milk.
TLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TLAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of three-letter acronym/abbreviation.
glosses: Initialism of 3-letter agency: the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trilaurylamine.
TLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Tlaxcala: a state of Mexico.
indigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn'dĭgō
ipa: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/
enpr: ĭn'dĭgō
ipa: /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/
Forms: form: indigos
form: indigoes
Etymology: 16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.
Senses: examples: text: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: A purplish-blue color.
glosses: An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
glosses: An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Indigofera linnaei
word: Birdsville indigo
taxonomic: Persicaria tinctoria
word: Chinese indigo
taxonomic: Drymarchon couperi
word: Eastern indigo snake
taxonomic: Baptisia australis
word: false blue indigo
taxonomic: Amorpha spp.
word: false indigo
word: green indigo
taxonomic: Indigofera suffruticosa
word: Guatemalan indigo
word: hendigo
word: indigoberry
word: indigobird
taxonomic: Viduidae family
word: indigo bird
word: indigo blue
word: indigo brown
taxonomic: Passerina cyanea
word: indigo bunting
word: indigo carmine
word: Indigo child
word: indigo copper
word: indigoferous
word: indigogen
word: indigoid
word: indigo red
taxonomic: Drymarchon spp.
word: indigo snake
word: indigo white
word: indin
word: indium
word: indogen
word: indole
taxonomic: Persicaria tinctoria
word: Japanese indigo
taxonomic: Indigofera arrecta
word: Natal indigo
taxonomic: Baptisia tinctoria
word: wild indigo
taxonomic: Baptisia tinctoria
word: yellow false indigo
Related terms: indican
indicolite
indium
indoxyl
induline
indigo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn'dĭgō
ipa: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/
enpr: ĭn'dĭgō
ipa: /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/
Forms: form: more indigo
form: most indigo
Etymology: 16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic.
Senses: glosses: having a deep purplish-blue colour
Related terms: anil
aniline
Baptisia tinctoria
rainbow
Saxon blue
ivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪv(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: ivories
Etymology: From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).
Senses: examples: text: “Leave the ivory!” he cried. “Leave the ivory! Dead men have no use for ivory!” Some of the Manyuema started to lay down their loads, but this was altogether too much for the avaricious Arabs.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 145:
glosses: The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
glosses: A creamy white color, the color of ivory.
glosses: Something made from or resembling ivory.
glosses: The teeth.
examples: text: to tickle the ivories
text: Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories.
ref: 2016, Peter Wendt, Nikki Magee, Lulu.com, page 52:
coordinate_terms: ebony
glosses: The keys of a piano; or, the white keys, as opposed to the black keys (ebonies).
synonyms: word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
glosses: A white person.
examples: c. 1846, Alexandre Dumas (translated by William Barrow), The Three Musketeers
The triumphant Englishman did not give himself the trouble even to shake the dice; and, so sure was he of winning, that he threw the ivory on the table without looking.
glosses: A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance).
Derived terms: black ivory
gate of ivory
ivoride
ivoried
ivorine
ivoriness
ivorist
ivoroid
ivory-bill
ivorybill
ivory bush coral
ivorylike
ivory porcelain
ivory-pounder
ivorysmith
ivory-thumper
ivory tickler
ivory tree
ivorytype
ivoryware
pink ivory
purple ivory
red ivory
sea ivory
tickle the ivories
tickle the ivory
vegetable ivory tree
Related terms: Galalith
ivory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪv(ə)ɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).
Senses: examples: text: Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Made of ivory.
examples: text: The walls and ceiling of this drawing-room in Montague Square are painted ivory.
ref: 1938, Interior Decoration To-day, page 132:
glosses: Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
Derived terms: ivory-billed woodpecker
ivory black
Ivory Coast
ivory gull
ivory nut
ivory-nut palm
ivory palm
ivory shell
ivory tower
ivory-white
vegetable ivory
Related terms: chryselephantine
eburnation
odontolite
scrimshaw
whalebone
navy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪvi/
rhymes: -eɪvi
Forms: form: navies
Etymology: From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”).
Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”).
Senses: examples: text: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.
glosses: A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel.
glosses: A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force.
synonyms: word: marine#English:_fleet of ships
glosses: Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both.
glosses: A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.
Derived terms: sense: fleet of any particular nationality
word: merchant navy
word: antinavy
word: internavy
word: navarch
word: navyish
word: navyless
word: navyspeak
word: pronavy
Related terms: fleet
maroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-ro͞onʹ
ipa: /məˈɹuːn/
ipa: /məˈɹəʉn/
ipa: /məˈɹʉːn/
rhymes: -uːn
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: maroons
form: Maroon
Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 193:
text: Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved.
ref: 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 14:
synonyms: word: Bush Negro
word: Boschneger
glosses: An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person.
synonyms: castaway
marooner
glosses: A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
Derived terms: maroonage
maroon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-ro͞onʹ
ipa: /məˈɹuːn/
ipa: /məˈɹəʉn/
ipa: /məˈɹʉːn/
rhymes: -uːn
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: In her discussion of Michelle Cliff's Abeng, a novel that historicizes maroon culture and the Jamaican warrior heroine Nanny of the Maroons, Francoise Lionnet examines linguistic “metissage” […]
ref: 2002, Cynthia James, The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature in English Across Boundaries, Ethnicities, and Centuries, Heinemann Educational Books:
glosses: Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
maroon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-ro͞onʹ
ipa: /məˈɹuːn/
ipa: /məˈɹəʉn/
ipa: /məˈɹʉːn/
rhymes: -uːn
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: maroons
form: marooning
form: marooned
form: marooned
Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty.
ref: 1963 April, “Winter on the Waverley”, in Modern Railways, page 281, photo caption:
text: After the harrowing stories of being marooned at sea and stranded in the frozen wastelands of Alaska and the Poles, one would think that survival on dry land would be easier […]
ref: 2010, Brogan Steele, From the Jaws of Death: Extreme True Adventures of Man vs. Nature, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 231:
text: The Trump administration’s argument, that no court could order it to retrieve Abrego Garcia despite his being deported by mistake, has broader implications: It means that the administration could similarly maroon U.S. citizens abroad “by mistake” and abandon them.
ref: 2025 April 10, Adam Serwer, “The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.
Derived terms: marooner
maroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-ro͞onʹ
ipa: /məˈɹuːn/
ipa: /məˈɹəʉn/
ipa: /məˈɹʉːn/
rhymes: -uːn
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: maroons
Etymology: Etymology tree
Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon)bor.
Italian marronebor.
French marronbor.
English maroon
Borrowed from French marron (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón. Doublet of marron (“sweet chestnut”).
Senses: examples: text: Is it a really dark maroon or a lighter maroon or a maroon that leans toward the red side? Or the magenta side? To address this issue, scientists use something called a color space.
ref: 2009, Ben Long, The Nikon D90 Companion: Practical Photography Advice You Can Take Anywhere, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
Derived terms: Maroon Bells
Maroon Creek
maroon cucumber
maroonish
maroon lake
Maroon Lake
Maroon Peak
North Maroon Peak
maroon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-ro͞onʹ
ipa: /məˈɹuːn/
ipa: /məˈɹəʉn/
ipa: /məˈɹʉːn/
rhymes: -uːn
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: more maroon
form: most maroon
Etymology: Etymology tree
Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon)bor.
Italian marronebor.
French marronbor.
English maroon
Borrowed from French marron (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón. Doublet of marron (“sweet chestnut”).
Senses: glosses: Of a maroon color
maroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-ro͞onʹ
ipa: /məˈɹuːn/
ipa: /məˈɹəʉn/
ipa: /məˈɹʉːn/
rhymes: -uːn
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: maroons
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to the sense “castaway” (etymology 1), or owing to the fact that the color of a fired flare was commonly red (etymology 2).
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday afternoon a serious firework explosion occurred in Lambeth, whereby three persons were seriously injured. Two lads […] purchased a firework called a “maroon”, which is a bomb consisting of a small ball of string covered with a red composition. It is loaded with gunpowder, and there is also a fuse attached.
ref: 1887 November 5, “Metropolitan Reports”, in The Chemist and Druggist, page 564:
text: As the evening falls, colored lamps and Chinese lanterns are lighted around the venerable oak which stands in the middle of the fairground and boys climb about among its topmost branches with maroons and Bengal lights.
ref: 1891, Alexander Kielland, “At the Fair”, in William Archer, transl., Tales of Two Countries, New York: Harper, page 73:
text: Many a seaman’s life may have depended on equine speed and strength. Some of these ‘Lifeboat Horses’ used to recognise the maroon which was fired to summon the Lifeboat crew. Long after its retirement one of the horses which regularly helped to haul the Hoylake Lifeboat heard a maroon fired one day when it was working in the neighbouring fields. It immediately became very excited and made for the boathouse.
ref: 1900, Alan C. Jenkins, Introducing Horses, London: Spring Books:
text: tallboys […] And now I am off to inspect stores. There is a shortage of maroons that I don't understand. / the countess. What a pity! I love maroons. They have such nice ones at that confectioner's near the Place Vendôme. / tallboys. Oh, youre thinking of marrons glacés. No: maroons are fireworks: things that go off with a bang. For signalling.
ref: 1931 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Too True to Be Good: A Political Extravaganza”, in Too True to Be Good, Village Wooing & On the Rocks. Three Plays, London: Constable and Company, published 1934, →OCLC, Act II, page 58:
text: The big air raids […] were much more dreadful than the air raids of the World War. They began with a nightmare of warning maroons, sirens, hooters and the shrill whistles of cyclist scouts, then swarms of frantic people running to and fro, […]
ref: 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Last War Cyclone, 1940–50”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 2nd book (The Days after Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration), page 203:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid).
room
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊm/
ipa: /ɹuːm/
ipa: /ɹum/
ipa: /ɹʉm/
ipa: /ɾʉm/
note: New England, Tidewater, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ɹʊm/
homophone: rheum (/ɹu(ː)m/, /ɹʉm/)
homophone: rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -uːm
rhymes: -ʊm
Forms: form: rooms
form: rooming
form: roomed
form: roomed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH-.
Cognate with Low German Ruum (“space, room”), Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, room”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin rūs (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European; more at rural. Doublet of Raum, a surname from German.
The word superficially appears to be an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which might have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but the retention of Middle English /uː/ before /m/ is regular. In fact, /aʊ/ does not occur before non-coronal consonants in Standard Modern English native vocabulary. Some dialects did undergo diphthongization in such position and the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ occurs, for example, in Lancashire.
Senses: examples: text: Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
text: Even without looking up, I knew right away who it was. It was Robert Ackley, this guy that roomed right next to me.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 25:
text: But, then, running into the guy who rooms across the hall from me—in the Paris Metro?
ref: 1971 June 13, Paul Goldberger, “On the Champs — Elysees: ‘Hey, Aren't You the Girl Who Sits Across From Me in Abnormal Psych?’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
examples: text: […] convinced (with no scientific evidence) that they would contract the dread disease by breathing the same air in which the patient was roomed, by touching the patient or even by changing the sheets of a patient's bed.
ref: 1988, Arthur Frederick Ide, AIDS hysteria, page 12:
glosses: To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the room (verb)
word: roomer
sense: Terms derived from the room (verb)
word: room together
sense: Terms derived from the room (verb)
word: roomy
room
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊm/
ipa: /ɹuːm/
ipa: /ɹum/
ipa: /ɹʉm/
ipa: /ɾʉm/
note: New England, Tidewater, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ɹʊm/
homophone: rheum (/ɹu(ː)m/, /ɹʉm/)
homophone: rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -uːm
rhymes: -ʊm
Forms: form: more room
form: most room
Etymology: From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English rūm (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).
Senses: glosses: Wide; spacious; roomy.
room
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊm/
ipa: /ɹuːm/
ipa: /ɹum/
ipa: /ɹʉm/
ipa: /ɾʉm/
note: New England, Tidewater, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ɹʊm/
homophone: rheum (/ɹu(ː)m/, /ɹʉm/)
homophone: rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -uːm
rhymes: -ʊm
Forms: form: more room
form: most room
Etymology: From Middle English rome, from Old English rūme (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).
Senses: glosses: Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Off from the wind.
room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊm/
ipa: /ɹuːm/
ipa: /ɹum/
ipa: /ɹʉm/
ipa: /ɾʉm/
note: New England, Tidewater, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /ɹʊm/
homophone: rheum (/ɹu(ː)m/, /ɹʉm/)
homophone: rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -uːm
rhymes: -ʊm
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
Synonyms: word: room
Hyponyms: word: kitchen
word: living room
word: parlor
word: drawing room
word: entrance hall
word: front room
word: dining room
word: study
word: bedroom
word: chamber
word: bathroom
word: toilet
word: lavatory
word: pantry
word: utility room
word: guest room
word: lounge
word: waiting room
word: dorm
word: dormitory
word: changing room
word: dressing room
word: locker room
word: classroom
word: workroom
word: workshop
word: studio
Related terms: word: :Category:Rooms
word: Template:Room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: tans
Etymology: From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu).
Senses: glosses: A light, brown-like colour.
examples: text: She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico.
text: I'm hoping to get a tan this weekend at the beach.
glosses: A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
examples: text: In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.
ref: 1848, John Hannett, Bibliopegia, or, The Art of Bookbinding in all its branches, page 65:
glosses: The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
Derived terms: catch a tan
farmer's tan
flowers of tan
gyle tan
permatan
spray tan
suntan
tan balls
tanbark
tan bed
tan heat
tan line
tan liquor
tannist
tan ride
tantoo
tan track
truck driver's tan
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: tanner
form: tannest
Etymology: From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu).
Senses: examples: text: Mine is the white car parked next to the tan pickup truck.
glosses: Yellowish-brown.
examples: text: You’re looking very tan this week.
synonyms: suntanned
tanned
glosses: Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.
Derived terms: black and tan
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: tans
form: tanning
form: tanned
form: tanned
Etymology: As a verb, from Middle English tannen, from late Old English tannian (“to tan a hide”), from Latin tannare.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan, though I do burn.
glosses: To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
glosses: To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
examples: text: "Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
glosses: To spank or beat.
Derived terms: Black and Tan
spray-tan
tanbark
tanner
tannery
tanoak
tan out
tan someone's hide
tan up
Related terms: tannic acid
tannin
tawny
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: From a Brythonic language; influenced in form by yan (“one”) in the same series.
Senses: glosses: The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting.
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian թան (tʻan).
Senses: glosses: An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: tans
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 擔／担 (daam3).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
synonyms: word: picul
word: particularly in Cantonese contexts
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: tans
Etymology: From Middle English *tan, from Old English tān (“twig, shoot, switch”), from Proto-West Germanic *tain, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“rod, twig, straw, lot”).
Senses: glosses: A twig or small switch.
Related terms: mistletoe
tan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: tans
form: tanning
form: tanned
form: tanned
Etymology: It may either be a figurative use of the usual verb tan (“to cause to acquire a brownish colour”) or a Jamaican Creole pronunciation of turn, compare bun (“to kill particularly by gunshot”).
Senses: examples: text: Step on the wing, see an opp and I'll whack it
Do it like Super Savage
Who's the yute I Jet-Li-rise that dots and tan him (whoosh)
Rise that dots and tan him
ref: 2019 September 29, Moscow17, “All For The Cause”:
glosses: To kill by gun, to shoot.
Related terms: on the ran tan
sar tan se juda
lob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏb
ipa: /lɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: lobs
form: lobbing
form: lobbed
form: lobbed
Etymology: First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
Senses: examples: text: The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
text: The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
glosses: To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
examples: text: In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
ref: 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 06 Apr 2019:
text: I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw.
examples: text: Lob the bacon in the pot.
synonyms: lay
lay down
put down
set down
deposit
glosses: To put, place.
examples: text: Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
ref: 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
examples: text: And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To let fall heavily or lazily.
examples: text: So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 204:
glosses: To reach or arrive at (a place).
lob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏb
ipa: /lɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: lobs
Etymology: First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
Senses: examples: text: The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
text: Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
ref: 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
Derived terms: lob jam
lob wedge
lob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏb
ipa: /lɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: lobs
Etymology: From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).
Senses: examples: text: And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —
ref: 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin, page 126:
glosses: A lump.
examples: text: Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]
ref: 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:
synonyms: word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A country bumpkin; a yokel.
glosses: A clumsy person.
glosses: The person who comes last in a race.
glosses: A lob-worm.
Derived terms: hoblob
lob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏb
ipa: /lɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: lobs
Etymology: From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."
Senses: glosses: A fish, the European pollock.
lob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏb
ipa: /lɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: lobs
Etymology: Blend of long + bob.
Senses: glosses: A long bob haircut.
lob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏb
ipa: /lɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: the lob
Senses: examples: text: Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.
ref: 1703, Hell Upon Earth, page 4:
glosses: A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
Related terms: word: lob-crawling
word: lob-sneaking
topics: etymology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: lob-on
sombrero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səmˈbɹɛɹ.əʊ/
ipa: /sɒmˈbɹɛɹ.əʊ/
ipa: /səmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /sɑmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /soʊmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɛɹəʊ
Forms: form: sombreros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat.
Senses: examples: text: Beatrice looked up and saw a man standing before her; the huge sombrero overshadowed his face, but the light of the lamp shone on a large and glittering knife in his girdle.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 135:
text: `Hey listen Pancho, take your hands off me or I'll stick your sombrero up your Khyber.'
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 42:
glosses: A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered, made of plush felt.
glosses: A mixed drink with coffee liqueur and cream.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A series of four consecutive strikes.
Derived terms: golden sombrero
platinum sombrero
titanium sombrero
benzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From benzene + -oic. Compare French benzoïque.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from benzoic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: alkylbenzoic
aminobenzoic
benzoate
benzoic acid
benzoic anhydride
bromobenzoic
dihydroxybenzoic
halobenzoic
hydroxybenzoic
iodoxybenzoic
nitrobenzoic
oxybenzoic
perchlorobenzoic
thiobenzoic
trihydroxybenzoic
Related terms: benzaldehyde
benzoate
benzocaine
benzofuran
benzol
benzoyl
khaki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /xɑki/
note: Indic
ipa: /kʰɑki/
enpr: kä-k'ē
ipa: /ˈkɑː.ki/
enpr: kă-k'ē
ipa: /ˈkæ.ki/
enpr: kär-k'ē
enpr: kä-k'ē
enpr: kă-k'ē
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.ki/
ipa: /ˈkɑː.ki/
ipa: /ˈkæki/
homophone: cocky (some accents with the father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɑːki
rhymes: -æki
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: more khaki
form: most khaki
form: carkee
form: carky
form: karkey
form: khakee
form: kharkee
form: kharki
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی (xākī) / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خَاکِی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”).
Sense 5 was coined in reference to the colour of the uniform of British troops during the Second Boer War; compare rooinek.
Senses: glosses: Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.
Derived terms: khaki green
sorbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔɹˈbeɪ/
ipa: /ˈsɔːbeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɔːbeɪ
Forms: form: sorbets
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der.
Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor.
Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor.
Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor.
Italian sorbettobor.
Middle French sorbetbor.
English sorbet
Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba).
Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup.
Senses: examples: text: After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.
glosses: Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.
Synonyms: ice
Italian ice
Related terms: sherbet
tamale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tə-mä′lē
ipa: /təˈmɑː.liː/
ipa: /təˈmɑ.li/
ipa: /təˈmɒ.li/
ipa: /təˈmɐː.liː/
ipa: /təˈma.li/
ipa: /ʈaˈmaː.liː/
rhymes: -ɑːli
homophone: tomalley
Forms: form: tamales
Etymology: Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, derived from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”), derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan [Term?]. Compare O'odham čïmait (“tortilla”), Hopi tïma (“stone griddle for cooking corn flatbread”), Ute tïʔma- (“to roast under ashes”).
Senses: examples: text: She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.
ref: 2023, Justin Torres, Blackouts, Granta Books (2024), pages 70-71:
synonyms: humita
tamal
glosses: A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
Derived terms: big tamale
hot tamale
tamale pie
Related terms: tamalera
tamalero
tamalito
hot tamale
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Boy oh boy it’s cold today, hot tamale!
glosses: An exclamation of surprise.
hot tamale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tamales
Senses: examples: text: "Isn't he the cutest thing?" she whispered to Evelyn. "Have you noticed? This place is absolutely crawling with gorgeous men. The ticket-taker, that Latin hot tamale […]"
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:
text: After years of wearing her hair in braids and schlumping down Seventh Avenue all covered up in padded coats, sweaters, and undies, Wally reinvented herself as a hot tamale with a mane of wild ringlets and a Coca-Cola—shaped bod.
ref: 2010, Jenyne M. Raines, Beautylicious!: The Black Girl's Guide to the Fabulous Life, Crown, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: A physically attractive person.
examples: text: He' so funny; what a hot tamale he is!
glosses: A comical person or thing.
turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːtl̩/
enpr: tûrʹtəl
ipa: /ˈtɝtl̩/
ipa: [ˈtʰɝɾɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Forms: form: turtles
form: turtling
form: turtled
form: turtled
form: tortle
Etymology: Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Medieval Latin tortuca (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling (See birdling).
Senses: examples: text: Were speeding when car turtled […] Auto crashed into curb and turtled.
ref: 1919, Iowa Highway Commission, Service Bulletin, Issues 15-32, page 48
glosses: To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
examples: text: We turtled along in Manitoba, back into the heart of the prairies.
ref: 2012, Sophie B. Watson, Cadillac Couches, page 193:
glosses: To move along slowly.
examples: text: I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again.
ref: 2009, Amy Waeschle, Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering, page 149:
glosses: To turn and swim upside down.
examples: text: Of these, 80 turtled (65%), 26 hunted and turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%).
ref: 1973, Bernard Nietschmann, Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians, page 153:
glosses: To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
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glosses: To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
Related terms: word: chelonian
english: turtle young
translation: turtle young
word: hatchling
word: terrapin
word: tortoise
turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːtl̩/
enpr: tûrʹtəl
ipa: /ˈtɝtl̩/
ipa: [ˈtʰɝɾɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Forms: form: turtles
Etymology: From Middle English turtle, tortle, turtel, turtul, from Old English turtle, turtla (“turtledove”), ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: As the turtle, every day has been a black day with her since her husband died, and what should we unruly members make here?
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:
glosses: A turtle dove.
Synonyms: word: birdling
word: chelid
word: chelonian
word: shellpad
word: shield-toad
word: terrapin
word: testudine
word: tortoise
word: turpin
Hypernyms: word: Chelonia
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: jabuti
word: matamata
word: morrocoy
word: sea turtle
word: snapper
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtle-bird
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtle dove
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtle-dove
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtledove
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtleise
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtlise
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtleize
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtlize
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtleish
sense: terms derived from turtle in the above senses
word: turtlish
Related terms: word: :Category:Reptiles
word: reptilelike