cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dry fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry fires
form: dry firing
form: dry fired
form: dry fired
form: dryfire
form: dry-fire
Senses: examples: text: Rob finished cleaning his empty gun then pointed it at an imaginary target and dry fired.
ref: 2009, Debra Parmley, A Desperate Journey, →ISBN, page 32:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To discharge a weapon without ammunition in the chamber.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To draw and release a bow without an arrow loaded.
black babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jim met his wife when she was collecting for the black babies.
qualifier: potentially offensive
glosses: Third-world charities, the missions.
sweating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛtɪŋ/
Forms: form: sweatings
Etymology: From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).
Senses: examples: text: In its favour may be urged, I. That in healthy persons, in every case of increased action of the heart and arteries, a sweating takes place, and is, seemingly, the means of preventing the bad effects of such increased action.
ref: 1797, Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig, Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: In this early stage there is generally a tendency to constipation of the bowels, and in the intervals between the sweatings the urine remains clear, though not abundant. In the second degree, the emaciation is more noticeable.
ref: 1870, Timothy Holmes, A System of Surgery: Theoretical and Practical, volume 1, page 288:
text: Her jet-black hair would be heavily braided, and her face chalky-white from its coating of powder (she suffered from constant sweatings and seborrhoea).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
synonyms: word: perspiration
word: ;
english: in medical usage
translation: in medical usage
word: diaphoresis
word: hidrosis
word: sudation
word: sudoresis
glosses: The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: steaming#Noun
sautéing
boiling#Noun
frying#Noun
glosses: The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.
Derived terms: Picardy sweating sickness
sweating sickness
sweating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛtɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweat
sweating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more sweating
form: most sweating
Etymology: From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).
Senses: examples: text: A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.
synonyms: word: asweat
word: sudorific
word: sudoriferous
word: sweaty
glosses: Giving off sweat.
Derived terms: sweating industry
sweating iron
moaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊnɚ/
ipa: /ˈməʊnə/
homophone: Mona (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: moaners
Etymology: From moan + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Elena was a moaner. Sex and moaning had become synonymous to Grace. She had no trouble conceptualizing sex between any two creatures capable of moaning.
ref: 1997, Nancy Rawles, Love Like Gumbo, page 164:
glosses: One who makes a moaning sound.
examples: text: In any big outfit, including this one, you're going to get some bitchers and some moaners.
ref: 1998, Saul W. Gellerman, How People Work:
glosses: One who complains.
Derived terms: moaner's bench
Remoaner
moans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moan
moans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moan
radiotelegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotelegraphs
Etymology: From radio- + telegraph.
Senses: glosses: wireless telegraphy
radiotelegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radiotelegraphs
form: radiotelegraphing
form: radiotelegraphed
form: radiotelegraphed
Etymology: From radio- + telegraph.
Senses: glosses: To communicate or transmit by wireless telegraphy.
radiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiometers
Etymology: From radio- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The geometry of the cone θ and the irradiance at the image of the carbon block were used to determine the absolute steradiancy of the energy in the cone θ as a radiometer calibration value.
ref: 1959, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Technical Note (issues 3641-3650, page 15)
glosses: A device that measures radiant energy.
Derived terms: Crookes radiometer
photoradiometer
spectroradiometer
radiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiographers
Etymology: From radiography + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who works with radiography. This term seems to be more common in British English.
Synonyms: word: radiographist
word: radiology nurse
ranching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchings
Senses: examples: text: Ranching is his way of life.
glosses: The business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock.
examples: text: At a later stage we may presume that other plants were found useful, such as the artificial fodder plants which began to be cultivated for cattle when the purely pastoral system of husbandry by nomad tribes came to an end, just as cattle ranchings will do in America at no distant date, it is said.
ref: 1889, an article on The Migrations of Plants by de Candolle, Stallybrass, Hooker and Wallace, published in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 169, page 465
text: (I am taken to mountains so high you can't breathe; step out of your capsule: zam! you are flat in the aspens. Surrounded in every dimension by solitary ranchings; no sound but the lowing of kine, the flashings of cow-grass.)
ref: 1938-1968, published in 2001 in When prophecy still had a voice: the letters of Thomas Merton & Robert Lax, edited by Arthur W. Biddle, page 401
glosses: A ranch.
ranching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ranch
Derived terms: ocean ranching
ratatouille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/
ipa: /ɹæt.əˈtwiː/
rhymes: -uːi
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ratatouilles
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.
Senses: glosses: A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.
scope creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: project management
glosses: Uncontrolled growth in the scope or requirements of a project.
wikipedia: scope creep
hurly-burly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Senses: examples: text: Yaroslav went about his duties with a straight back and a firm, springy step, enjoying it all: the hurly-burly in Smolensk, getting the rustics into uniform, and, better still, the train journey.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hurlyburly.
hurlyburly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: hurlyburlies
form: hurly-burly
Etymology: A combination of hurling and burling.
Senses: examples: text: ...for nought is ceaſſed and gone already, what an hurlyburly (?) inconvenience ſhoulde followe or it maye be eaſely perceived.
ref: 1550, Steuen Mierdman, The market or fayre of usurers:
text: 1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 131:
text: Why is it that civilized humanity / Can make the world so wrong? / In this hurly-burly of insanity / Our dreams cannot last long
ref: c. 1933, “Twentieth-Century Blues”, performed by Noël Coward:
glosses: A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
Related terms: hustle and bustle
hurluberlu
reality television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reality TV
Senses: examples: text: Live, Reality Television
ref: 1991, Fred D'Ignazio, "D'Iversions", COMPUTE, November 1991, COMPUTE Publications, page G–22
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A genre of television programming portraying one or more people who are not professional actors and depicting their reactions to given stimuli or goals.
Related terms: reality show
tablespoonful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablespoonfuls
form: tablespoonsful
Etymology: From tablespoon + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The capacity of a tablespoon (table implement).
glosses: A tablespoon (measure of volume).
Hypernyms: spoonful
Coordinate terms: spoonful § Hyponyms
killeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: kill + -eth
Senses: examples: text: And he that killeth a beaſt, shall make it good; beaſt for beaſt.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 24:18, column 1:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kill
tableland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablelands
form: table land
form: table-land
Etymology: From table + land.
Senses: examples: text: One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
ref: 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
glosses: A relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to surrounding terrain.
Derived terms: Northern Tablelands
Southern Tablelands
Related terms: plateau
plain
prairie
meaneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 2:12:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mean
openeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 36:15:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of open
possesseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From possess + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 36:8:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of possess
tachometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈkɒmətə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tachometers
form: tachometre
Etymology: From tacho- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile.
glosses: A device for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of blood, a river, a machine, etc.
Synonyms: word: rev counter
english: clipped form
translation: clipped form
word: tach
Coordinate terms: word: speedometer
alt: tacho
word: tachograph
Related terms: tachygraphy
tachymeter
putteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Lamentations 3:29:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put
rejoiceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English rejoyseth, reioyceth, reioyceþ, reioyseþ, equivalent to rejoice + -eth (the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 13:9:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rejoice
Les Bleus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
glosses: “The Blues”; nickname for the French national team in various sports.
Related terms: Les Bleuets
returneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: return + -eth
Senses: examples: text: As a dog returneth to his vomit, a fool returneth to his folly.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 26:11:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of return
tachymeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachymeters
Etymology: From tachy- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A surveying instrument for quickly finding distances.
glosses: A speed indicator; a tachometer.
Derived terms: hydrotachymeter
phototachymeter
tachymetry
Related terms: tachometer
riseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 31:4:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rise
ruleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 22:7:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rule
telegraphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləɡɹɑːfɪst/
ipa: /təˈlɛɡɹɑːfɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɛləɡɹæfɪst/
ipa: /təˈlɛɡɹæfɪst/
Forms: form: telegraphists
Etymology: From telegraph + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
text: But the next stations, Wamphray, and Dinwoodie, were small places, very probably with no night telegraphists.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:
glosses: A telegrapher or telegraph operator.
sendeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 12:15:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of send
telegrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraphers
Etymology: From telegraph + -er.
Senses: glosses: A telegraph operator, one who sent telegrams.
Synonyms: telegraphist
serveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Malachi 3:17:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serve
no glove, no love
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: no glove no love
Etymology: Employing glove, US slang for a condom, and love as a euphemism for sex. Used as a safe-sex slogan since at least 1986. Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Without a condom, there will be no sex.
Related terms: love glove
don't be a fool, wrap your tool
wrap it before you tap it
setteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 2:21:
text: My father he setteth his champions in ring,
And in iron arrayeth them he.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 165:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set
shineth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:5:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shine
sleepeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sleep + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
Senses: examples: text: And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:52:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sleep
soweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sow + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sow
striketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: strike + -eth
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strike
sweareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 23:20-21:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swear
teacheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 35:11:
text: Heraclitus, Fragment 40: "The learning of many things teacheth not understanding, else would it have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes and Hekataios." R. P. 31.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teach
telephoto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + photo.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a lens system used to produce an enlarged image of a distant object.
Derived terms: telephoto lens
supertelephoto
telephoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephotos
Etymology: From tele- + photo.
Senses: glosses: A photograph taken through a telephoto lens.
telephoto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telephotos
form: telephotoing
form: telephotoed
form: telephotoed
Etymology: From tele- + photo.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of telephotograph.
synonyms: word: telephotograph
Socceroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Socceroos
Etymology: Blend of soccer + kangaroo.
Senses: examples: text: While still playing for Marconi, just prior to joining Lierse, I had debuted as a Socceroo.
ref: 2010, Archie Thompson, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, page 68:
text: A sensation as fullback on the tour, Williams remained in the Socceroo squad for the historic 1974 World Cup campaign in West Germany.
ref: 1990, Bret Harris, The Proud Champions: Australia′s Aboriginal sporting heroes, page 106:
text: Kosmina equalled Atti Abonyi′s record of 25 Socceroo goals at full international level and is the National Soccer League′s highest goal-scorer, with 133 goals.
ref: 1994, Wray Vamplew, The Oxford Companion to Australian sport, 2nd edition, page 235:
glosses: A member of the Australian national soccer team, the Socceroos.
tercentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tercentennials
Etymology: See tricentennial.
Senses: examples: text: 2006 was the tercentennial of Benajmin Franklin's birth.
glosses: The three-hundredth anniversary of an event; tricentennial.
Related terms: tercentenary
Soca Warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Trinidad and Tobago national football team.
terraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrarium
terrarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹɛəɹ.ɪ.əm/
ipa: /təˈɹɛɹ.i.əm/
ipa: /təˈɹeːɹ.i.əm/
ipa: /tɘˈɹiəɹ.i.ɘm/
Forms: form: terrariums
form: terraria
Etymology: From Latin terra (“earth”) + -arium, by analogy with aquarium.
Senses: glosses: An enclosure wherein small animals are displayed, usually with some plants, in a naturalistic setting.
glosses: A partially enclosed glass container for displaying plants, especially plants that need high humidity.
terrycloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrycloths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of terry cloth.
Dundee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌnˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Dùn Dè (“good fort”).
Senses: examples: text: On Friday, at a former Michelin factory in the north-east of the city, the finishing touches were being put in place for the fifth Dundee design festival, which opens on Monday.
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A city in Scotland.
glosses: A council area of Scotland including the city, one of 32 created in 1996.
glosses: A rural locality in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A town in the Northern Territory, Australia.
glosses: A community in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A small community in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A township municipality of Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Geneva County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Polk County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kane County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pipe Creek Township, Madison County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Delaware County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barton County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ohio County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and village therein, in Monroe County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Nobles County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tunica County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Yates County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Walsh County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Wayne Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Yamhill County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Archer County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A coal mining town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Related terms: Dundonian
Dundee cake
unoriginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoriginal
form: most unoriginal
Etymology: From un- + original.
Senses: examples: text: 1758, William Hawkins, Tracts in Divinity, Oxford, Volume 2, Letter 12 [on Pope’ translations of Homer], pp. 418-419,
Redundancies are as unoriginal as Insipidities, and the Spirit of an Author may be as much overwhelmed in Exuberance on the one Hand, as it evaporates in Frigidity on the other.
text: Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. They cannot see what it is to do for them: how should they?
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, “Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 117:
text: “[…] Everything in its proper time and season,” he added, with the unoriginal man’s fondness for proverbial philosophy.
ref: 1902, William Somerset Maugham, Mrs Craddock:
text: 2008, André Brink, Other Lives, Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, “Mirror,” Chapter 8, p. 185,
“Stories come from other stories.”
“Then there is no originality anywhere.”
“Does it matter? Perhaps our very idea of originality is overrated. And unoriginal.”
text: If you’re a writer, you will write a lot of unoriginal work before you write something original.
ref: 2023 February 9, Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Lacking originality.
examples: 1894, Joseph Jacobs (editor), More Celtic Fairy Tales, London: David Nutt, Notes and References, “The Leeching of Kayn’s Leg,” p. 232,
[This tale] occurs in an MS. of the fifteenth century in an obviously unoriginal form which shows that the story-teller did not appreciate the significance of many features in the folk-tale he was retelling […]
glosses: Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original.
examples: text: [I] plung’d in the womb
Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, 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, lines 476-477:
glosses: Without an origin or source.
Synonyms: sense: lacking originality, referring to people
word: uncreative
sense: lacking originality, referring to people
word: unimaginative
sense: lacking originality, referring to people
word: uninventive
sense: lacking originality, referring to things
word: clichéd
sense: lacking originality, referring to things
word: derivative
sense: lacking originality, referring to things
word: predictable
sense: lacking originality, referring to things
word: slavish
Derived terms: unoriginality
unoriginally
unoriginal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unoriginals
Etymology: From un- + original.
Senses: examples: text: Ahmad (1969) studied the personality differences among middle school girls identified as originals and unoriginals on the Minnesota's test of creative thinking.
ref: 1975, The Educational Trends, volumes 10-14, page 59:
text: The originals or the creatives were more dominant than the unoriginals or the low creatives.
ref: 2010, A. Kusuma, Creativity and Cognitive Styles in Children, page 73:
glosses: A person or work that does not exhibit originality.
thalami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalamus
thundershower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundershowers
Etymology: From thunder + shower.
Senses: examples: text: The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.
text: [S]ometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72:
glosses: A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
Related terms: cloudburst
tibiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tibia
tibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪbi.əl/
Etymology: From Latin tībiālis, equivalent to tibia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: tibial plateau
text: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
ref: 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tibia or a structure associated with a tibia.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to a pipe or flute.
Derived terms: astragalotibial
femorotibial
iliotibial
intratibial
meniscotibial
metatibial
posttibial
pretibial
protibial
tibial plafond
transtibial
Related terms: tibia
tibial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪbi.əl/
Forms: form: tibials
Etymology: From Latin tībiālis, equivalent to tibia + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tibial bone.
timberland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timberlands
form: timber-land
Etymology: From Middle English *tymbre-lond, from Old English timberland, tymberlond, equivalent to timber + land.
Senses: glosses: Forested land thought of in terms of its potential and value as timber.
Related terms: forestland
woodland
tree farm
national forest
tree farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree farms
Senses: glosses: A privately-owned farm where trees, usually softwoods, are grown for eventual harvest.
Related terms: forestland
timberland
forestland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestlands
Etymology: From forest + land.
Senses: glosses: Land covered by trees; forests; woodlands.
tinny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: tinnier
form: more tinny
form: tinniest
form: most tinny
Etymology: From tin + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The object had a tinny appearance.
glosses: Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
examples: text: The shop was filled with tinny tourist geegaws.
glosses: Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
examples: text: The piano was not simply out of tune, but had become downright tinny.
text: You might find yourself listening to the sound your car door makes when it shuts. Is it a cheap tinny sound or a strong clunky sound like the VW?
ref: 2012, Mike Brent, Fiona Dent, The Leader's Guide to Influence:
text: The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604:
glosses: Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
tinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: tinnies
Etymology: From tin + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tinnie.
tinniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tinny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The qualities of tin, particularly in the sense of being a cheap, low-quality metal.
glosses: The thin, unpleasant sound of an instrument made of tin, or any tinny object used to make a sound.
tintype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪntaɪp/
Forms: form: tintypes
Etymology: From tin + type.
Senses: examples: text: She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]
ref: 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:
text: They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, hell, they love em chavalitos.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 885:
glosses: An early, remarkably durable form of photograph (technically a photographic negative), printed on a tin plate, then varnished.
Derived terms: not on your tintype
tintype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪntaɪp/
Forms: form: tintypes
form: tintyping
form: tintyped
form: tintyped
Etymology: From tin + type.
Senses: glosses: To produce a tintype image of.
toadyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊdi.ɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈtoʊdi.ɪzəm/
Forms: form: toadyisms
Etymology: From toady + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure.
ref: 2018 May 9, George F. Will, “Trump is no longer the worst person in government”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Sycophancy; fawning, obsequious behavior.
tollway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tollways
Etymology: From toll + way.
Senses: glosses: A toll road or toll highway, where a fee is charged in order to travel on it; a turnpike.
tonsillectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: tonsillectomies
Etymology: From tonsil + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of the tonsils, especially the palatine tonsils. Frequently accompanied by an adenoidectomy.
tonsure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒn.ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑn.ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɒnʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tonsures
form: tonsuring
form: tonsured
form: tonsured
Etymology: From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To shave the crown of the head of (a person) as a sign of humility and religious vocation.
tonsure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒn.ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɑn.ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɒnʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tonsures
Etymology: From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).
Senses: glosses: A ritual shaving of this kind.
glosses: The hairstyle and characteristic bald patch resulting from being tonsured.
two-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: two-time winners of the World Cup
glosses: On two occasions; twice.
Derived terms: two-time loser
two-time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: two-times
form: two-timing
form: two-timed
form: two-timed
Senses: synonyms: word: behorn
word: cuckold
word: cuckoldize
word: cuck
word: horn
word: hornify
word: put horns on
word: two-time
glosses: To be unfaithful to one's (sexual) partner.
examples: text: One cowboy two-timed the other in a poker game.
glosses: To double-cross.
Derived terms: two-timer
two-timing
two-timing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of two-time
two-timing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That two-timing SOB really hurt my feelings.
text: The troubles can be endless: a mix-up on meals, a shortage of liquor, engine difficulties, other mechanical quirks, male pinchers, female whiners, vomiting children, two-timing stewardesses who steal your man, and, once in awhile,^([sic]) a plane that takes a good friend to a fiery death.
ref: 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 3:
glosses: Sexually or romantically unfaithful.
two-timing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His two-timing wrecked his marriage.
synonyms: word: adultery
word: cheating
word: cuckoldry
word: infidelity
word: promiscuity
word: two-timing
word: unfaithfulness
glosses: The practice of being sexually or romantically unfaithful.
two-timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-timers
Etymology: From two-time + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When you know she's no high climber / Then you find your only friend / In a room with your two timer / And you're sure you're near the end
ref: 1972, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, “Do It Again”, performed by Steely Dan:
text: So I went out with her for a couple of months but I didn't stop seeing Helen. I thought I was being smart—I had gone from being a total loser to being a two-timer.
ref: 1991, George Michael, Tony Parsons, Bare, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 129:
synonyms: word: cornutor
word: cuckolder
word: cuckold-maker
word: two-timer
glosses: A person who two-times another.
quack like a duck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quacks like a duck
form: quacking like a duck
form: quacked like a duck
form: quacked like a duck
Senses: examples: text: If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To appear to be exactly what one is.
Related terms: duck typing
sing like a bird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings like a bird
form: singing like a bird
form: sang like a bird
form: sung like a bird
Senses: examples: text: When she had gone on a little, she began to sing like a bird, her sweet young voice rising on the air as if it had wings […]
ref: 1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 709:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To have a beautiful singing voice.
examples: text: Totila will sing like a bird to the cops once I show the photocopies, […]
ref: 2004, Kasey Michaels, Maggie Without a Clue, page 397:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To divulge secrets with little coercion.
Related terms: kick like a mule
quack like a duck
float like a butterfly
songbird
sting like a bee
float like a butterfly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floats like a butterfly
form: floating like a butterfly
form: floated like a butterfly
form: floated like a butterfly
Etymology: Coined by US boxer Muhammad Ali.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To move effortlessly and in an agile fashion.
wikipedia: Muhammad Ali
Related terms: sting like a bee
sting like a bee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stings like a bee
form: stinging like a bee
form: stung like a bee
form: stung like a bee
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: to deliver a powerful punch
Related terms: float like a butterfly
eat like a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats like a horse
form: eating like a horse
form: ate like a horse
form: eaten like a horse
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To eat large amounts of food. (connoting a large quantity of food, but not one of gluttony or sloppiness)
Related terms: word: I could eat a horse
word: work like a horse
word: piss like a racehorse
word: eat like a pig
word: eat like a bird
english: as a verb, of eating ravenously
translation: as a verb, of eating ravenously
word: wolf
like the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: At any rate, in my experience, they could run like the wind, but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them.
ref: 1947 July and August, “Notes and News: Caledonian Reminiscences”, in Railway Magazine, page 256:
text: Although we took our eight bogies along to Whitstable at 60 m.p.h., and made a clean start from there, after Herne Bay the engine primed badly on Blacksole Bank and nearly stopped before we got over the top. Then we ran like the wind across the marshes with half-regulator, 30 per cent cut-off, and the engine blowing off.
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 220:
text: How she would fly like the wind, up that road in front of the house, and away.
ref: 2006, Bridgette Z. Savage, Fly Like the Wind, →ISBN:
text: Even if I don't run like the wind I have my own bag of tricks.
ref: 2011, V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind, →ISBN:
qualifier: simile
glosses: quickly, at a high speed.
examples: ref: 2011, David Roberts, Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, →ISBN:
qualifier: simile
glosses: changeably, freely and at liberty.
examples: text: The Spirit Of God is like the wind. Note well that his operation is unexpected. The wind bloweth where it listeth, so that thou knowest not what wind to expect.
ref: 1889, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit:
qualifier: simile
glosses: invisibly, mysteriously, unpredictably.
fuck like rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks like rabbits
form: fucking like rabbits
form: fucked like rabbits
form: fucked like rabbits
Senses: examples: text: man, my girlfriend and I fuck like rabbits. It's great.
qualifier: simile
glosses: To have copious amounts of coitus.
Synonyms: fuck like bunnies
Related terms: breed like rabbits
eat like a bird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats like a bird
form: eating like a bird
form: ate like a bird
form: eaten like a bird
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To eat in small amounts rather than in a single full meal.
Related terms: english: something
translation: something
word: watch like a hawk
watch like a hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: watches like a hawk
form: watching like a hawk
form: watched like a hawk
form: watched like a hawk
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To observe (someone or something) closely and keenly.
hung like a horse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Having a large penis.
raw_tags: of a man
Synonyms: macrophallic
Related terms: eat like a horse
hung like a donkey
wiggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡl̩i/
ipa: /ˈwɪɡ(ə)li/
rhymes: -ɪɡəli
Forms: form: wigglier
form: wiggliest
Etymology: From wiggle + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiggelg, wiggelch (“wiggly”), German Low German wiggelig (“wiggly, restless, fidgety”).
Senses: examples: text: It is not easy to get a diaper onto a wiggly little baby.
synonyms: fidgety
jiggly
jumpy
squirmy
wigglesome
glosses: Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.
glosses: Of a line: made up of many curves.
first footing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-footing
Etymology: From Scots tae first-fit (“to be the first to visit at the new year”, literally “to first-foot”).
Senses: glosses: The practice, during Hogmanay, of visiting friends and family, especially to be the first person to cross a home's threshold after midnight on New Year's Eve bearing a small gift.
Related terms: first-foot
volute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: volutes
Etymology: From French volute, from Italian voluta, from Latin volūta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō. Doublet of vault.
Senses: examples: text: This example is much richer, yet no less elegant, than the other; the volute, instead of a single spiral, is formed by three; the sculptured echinus beneath is surmounted by a guilloched moulding, and separated from the shaft by a neck […]
ref: 1856, Edward Shaw, The Modern Architect, Or, Every Carpenter His Own Master:
topics: architecture
glosses: The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
examples: text: Common shells include frog-shells, distorsios, volutes, tulips, murex, cones, olives, marginellas, cowries, augers and the Florida horse conch, the state's official shell, which can grow up to 24in (6 1 cm) long.
ref: 2002, Don Philpott, Florida: Gulf Coast, page 16:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A spiral or scroll form.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.
Derived terms: elephant's snout volute
music volute
volutite
volutoid
volute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Etymology: From French volute, from Italian voluta, from Latin volūta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō. Doublet of vault.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a spring: having a spiral curve on its tail.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Rolled up in any way.
viscountess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪkaʊntəs/
Forms: form: viscountesses
form: V
form: Vis.
form: Visc.
form: Visct
form: Vtesse
Etymology: From Middle English viscountes, viscountesse, probably from Middle French viscontesse; equivalent to viscount + -ess. Doublet of vicomtesse.
Senses: glosses: The wife of a viscount.
examples: text: Before his own elevation to an earldom, Disraeli's wife was created Viscountess Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.
glosses: A woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right.
Hyponyms: english: French viscountess
translation: French viscountess
word: vicomtesse
murine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
rhymes: -ʊəɹaɪn
Forms: form: more murine
form: most murine
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).
Senses: examples: text: They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while.
ref: 2023, Kate Atkinson, “Existential Marginalisation”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), page 133:
coordinate_terms: mouselike
mousy
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
examples: text: 1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾
Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?
text: One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
ref: 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:
glosses: More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
Hypernyms: rodential
Derived terms: antimurine
murinise
murinization
murinize
murinometric
muromonab
nonmurine