cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aggro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/
rhymes: -æɡɹəʊ
Forms: form: agro
Etymology: From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.
Senses: examples: text: But the thing to remember was that some women were prepared to provide an outlet, in spite of all the aggro, if the money was right. And lots of guys were prepared to pay, in spite of the aggro. And what the aggro boiled down to, if you thought about it, was the shame of being known to be the person who had been involved.
ref: 2011, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods, page 25:
glosses: Aggravation; bother.
examples: text: Move along, lads; we don't want any aggro.
text: That is the case because, according to Marsh, soccer hooliganism is one of Britain's principal forms of aggro. If it is true that there is an absence of aggro traditions in the USA — and there is a wealth of evidence which suggests that Marsh is wrong on this score — then it is reasoble to deduce from Marsh′s arguments that it is unlikely that phenomena such as soccer hooliganism could or ever will develop there.
ref: 1999, Eric Dunning, Sport Matters : Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation, page 162:
text: ‘We ain′t got a name yet. We′re into aggro.’
‘Aggro?’
‘Yeah, you know, aggression, aggravation. Aggro’.
ref: 2011, Jake Arnott, The Long Firm, unnumbered page:
glosses: Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
examples: text: To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own.
ref: 2007, Bendik Stang, Morten A. Osterholt, Erik Hoftun, The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference on PC & Video Games, page 98:
text: What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.
ref: 2008 April, GameAxis Unwired, page 54:
text: We asked for an ability to trasnfer^([sic]) our aggro to another player—were told that could cause some abuse.
ref: 2010, Luke Cuddy, John Nordlinger, editors, World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King, page 187:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies.
examples: text: You just pulled aggro off the tank and wiped the raid.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Hostile attention from an enemy that should target players with better defenses.
Derived terms: aggrotech
aggro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/
rhymes: -æɡɹəʊ
Forms: form: more aggro
form: most aggro
form: agro
Etymology: From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.
Senses: examples: text: “The Chuckster say you two be finding aggro idiot who kilt Long,” said Dude.
I thought I understood but looked at Charles for help.
“Aggro means pissed off.” translated Charles. He still hadn't cracked a smile. Tardiness made Charles aggro.
ref: 2011, Bill Noel., The Marsh: A Folly Beach Mystery, page 70:
glosses: Angry.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters).
glosses: Designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game. (of a player) Favoring such decks.
raw_tags: of a deck
examples: text: At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre.
ref: 2005, Peta Tait, Circus Bodies: cultural identity in aerial performance, page 131:
text: Each Black Flag line-up had a personality and vibe. They were all totally aggro and totally rocking.
ref: 2013, Stewart Dean Ebersole, Barred for Life:
glosses: Hardcore, aggressive.
aggro
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/
rhymes: -æɡɹəʊ
Forms: form: aggros
form: aggroes
form: aggroing
form: aggroed
form: aggroed
form: agro
Etymology: From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.
Senses: examples: text: They'll aggro on you if you get too close.
topics: games
gaming
antonyms: deaggro
glosses: To become aggressive towards the player's character.
examples: text: I aggroed the dragon by stealing from its hoard, and it killed me.
topics: games
gaming
antonyms: deaggro
glosses: To cause (a non-player character) to become aggressive towards the player's character.
Derived terms: deaggro
Fijian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fē-jē'ən
enpr: fĭ-jē'ən
ipa: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/
ipa: /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: Fijians
form: Feejeean
form: Fejeean
Etymology: From Fiji + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
Fijian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fē-jē'ən
enpr: fĭ-jē'ən
ipa: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/
ipa: /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: Feejeean
form: Fejeean
Etymology: From Fiji + -an.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, pages 37–38:
glosses: Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
Derived terms: Fijianness
Fijian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fē-jē'ən
enpr: fĭ-jē'ən
ipa: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/
ipa: /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: Feejeean
form: Fejeean
Etymology: From Fiji + -an.
Senses: glosses: an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
ǃXũ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: anglicized
ipa: /kuː/
Senses: glosses: A Northern Khoisan language of Namibia, Angola, and Botswana. This language has about 5,000 speakers in the Kalahari Desert.
Synonyms: ǃKung
Kung-ekoka
salvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sălʹvō
ipa: /ˈsælvəʊ/
enpr: sălʹvō
ipa: /ˈsælvoʊ/
Forms: form: salvos
form: salvoes
Etymology: From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salvāre (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”).
Senses: examples: 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike
They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.
glosses: An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
Derived terms: sense: salvo clause
word: in legal documents
sense: salvo clause
word: audit reports details reservations
sense: salvo clause
word: limitations
salvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sălʹvō
ipa: /ˈsælvəʊ/
enpr: sălʹvō
ipa: /ˈsælvoʊ/
Forms: form: salvos
form: salvoes
Etymology: A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
examples: text: “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:
glosses: A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
examples: text: It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Together, Johnson's plans mean that the clashes in parliament and the Supreme Court may be only the opening salvos in what promises to be the biggest constitutional storm in centuries.
ref: 2019 October 6, Tim Shipman, Caroline Wheeler, “'Sack me if you dare,' Johnson will tell Queen”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,178, page 1:
glosses: Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
glosses: The combined cheers of a crowd.
salvo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sălʹvō
ipa: /ˈsælvəʊ/
enpr: sălʹvō
ipa: /ˈsælvoʊ/
Forms: form: salvos
form: salvoing
form: salvoed
form: salvoed
Etymology: A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).
Senses: glosses: To discharge weapons in a salvo.
Related terms: the Salvos
wymyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmɪn
Etymology: A respelling of women in order to deliberately exclude the string men.
Senses: glosses: Feminist spelling of women (Compare womyn.)
wimmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wimmen
form: wymyn
form: womyn
Etymology: Eye dialect, also used as a feminist spelling of the word women in order to deliberately exclude the word men, which is synchronically a component of women.
Senses: examples: text: I thank the lord that thare aint menny wimmin in the wurld who want tu know evry thing. I kalkerlate that 9 out ov evry 10 ov the wimmin who luv their huzbands and glory in their children, will sa that tha had ruther be looked down upon in luving tenderniss than tu be looked up tu in silent aw.
ref: 1871, Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings, page 27:
text: "Damn waste of time," he always said of the convention. "Nothin but drinkin and wimmin, and none of the wimmin even worth lookin at, let alone that other thing."
ref: 2009, Stephen King, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, page 195:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of women.
examples: text: This is about wimmin sticking together (bois too), and fighting for equal rights and opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
ref: 2005, Dawn Keetley, Public Women, Public Words, page 425:
text: So eager was I to meet new wimmin-lovin' wimmin—or even just some womyn-lovin' womyn—one didn't need a Ouija board to figure out that I would fling myself forthwith into the world of regional Amazonia.
ref: 2011, Terry Castle, The Professor: And Other Writings, page 215:
glosses: Feminist spelling of women.
Yoruba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒɹʊbə/
ipa: /ˈjɔːɹəbə/
Forms: form: Yoruba
form: Yorubas
form: Yorùbá
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Yorùbá.
Senses: examples: text: Approximately 40 percent of Yorubas in Nigeria are Muslim and 60 percent are Christian. […] Its members express a strong preference for being among Yorubas during their worship service: “Since I am a Yoruba and we Yorubas have our own Church. . . ."
ref: 2014 April 7, Claire L. Adida, Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
Derived terms: Yorubaland
Yoruban
Yorubian
Yorubic
Yoruba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒɹʊbə/
ipa: /ˈjɔːɹəbə/
Forms: form: Yorùbá
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Yorùbá.
Senses: examples: text: In the parlour, she could hear Aunty Biola attempting to teach her father Yoruba, collapsing into helpless giggles whenever he mispronounced his vowels, giving them the flat English sound instead of lifting them upwards with the slight outward puff of breath that was required.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 48:
text: Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.
ref: 2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, page 25:
glosses: A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in The United States, Brazil and Cuba.
examples: text: The Yoruba practitioner describes it as a condition where a man's semen will flow out of the vagina before fertilization can take place.
ref: 1979, Zacchaeus Akin Ademuwagun, John A. A. Ayoade, Ira E. Harrison, Dennis M. Warren, African Therapeutic Systems, Crossroads Press, page 130:
text: The Yoruba practitioner has no difficulty in knowing the difference between what we have classified as magic, medicine or sorcery.
ref: 2003, P. Adelumo Dopamu, Samuel O. Oyewole, African Culture, Modern Science, and Religious Thought, African Centre for Religions and the Sciences, →ISBN, page 445:
text: This is because when the Yoruba practitioner heals a stomach ache, he uses medicine, when he protects someone from accident, he uses magic, and when he invokes for the purpose of harming or killing a person, he uses sorcery.
ref: 2011, Philemon Omerenma Amanze, African Traditional Medicine, Author House, →ISBN, page 20:
text: She was not a Yoruba practitioner but nevertheless had asked for a “birth reading” for her newborn daughter.
ref: 2012, Velma E. Love, Divining the Self: A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See Yoruba religion.)
Derived terms: Yoruban
Yoruboid
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Yoruba terms
fulfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊlˈfɪl/
ipa: /fəˈfɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: fulfills
form: fulfilling
form: fulfilled
form: fulfilled
form: fulfil
Etymology: From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”), corresponding to ful- + fill.
Senses: examples: text: You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.
text: Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
ref: 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:
synonyms: realize
perform
glosses: To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
examples: text: This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.
glosses: To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
examples: text: Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
glosses: To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
topics: business
glosses: To package, distribute, or ship goods.
examples: text: My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.
text: The silence which benumbs or strains the sense
Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
ref: 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
glosses: To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
Derived terms: word: fulfillment
word: fulfilment
word: fulfillable
word: fulfilled
word: fulfiller
word: fulfilling
word: overfulfill
word: self-fulfilling prophecy
word: unfulfill
word: unfulfilled
word: unfulfillment
word: wish-fulfilling
suss law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suss laws
form: sus law
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A former (1824–1981) law by which police officers were permitted to arrest anyone under suspicion of having committed a crime
fulfil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊlˈfɪl/
ipa: /fəˈfɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: fulfils
form: fulfilling
form: fulfilled
form: fulfilled
Senses: examples: text: It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.
ref: 1955 November, G. Machell, “Railway Development at Aylesbury - 1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 741-742:
text: While in the most serious cases mounting an investigation is usually mandatory, there are other occasions where it is less clear-cut or when it is concluded that an investigation would not fulfil RAIB's objectives to improve safety or prevent future accidents.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 30–31:
glosses: British English standard spelling of fulfill.
Derived terms: fulfillness
overfulfil
snobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɑbi/
ipa: /ˈsnɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: snobbier
form: snobbiest
Etymology: From snob + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His tastes are snobby.
glosses: Characteristic of a snob.
Synonyms: snobbish
Derived terms: snobbily
snobbiness
Related terms: snob
jobbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɔbi/
ipa: /ˈdʒɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: jobbies
form: jobby
Etymology: From job + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Ye had to watch no to step in mud or a puddle or else in jobby, dogs were aye doing jobbies, or else ye watched for broken glass.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 85:
qualifier: In particular Scotland
glosses: Faeces; a piece of excrement.
examples: text: Have a look at that jobbie!
synonyms: word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: A generic object; a thingy.
examples: text: I'll take care of the pasta jobbie, don't worry about that.
glosses: A job, normally a task rather than a form of employment for which one is paid.
Derived terms: do a jobbie
freakjob
jobbie jabber
Related terms: shit
shite
shicht
Bobbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bobby
form: Bobbi
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
gobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: gobbier
form: gobbiest
Etymology: From gob (“lump”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But if, however, the bees make from it a "gobby" article of comb honey, no one will be quicker to drop it than the Root Co.
ref: 1898, Gleanings in bee culture, Volume 26:
text: ...to have a gobby mess of unrelated and meaningless color hung in a metropolitan show...
ref: 1942, Frank Roy Fraprie, American photography:
text: He poured the Argentine stew in a gobby mess on top of the Spam.
ref: 1952, David Harry Walker, The pillar:
glosses: Marked by the presence of gobs (lumps).
gobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: gobbier
form: gobbiest
Etymology: From gob (“mouth”) + -y. The meaning "inclined to talk" is probably related to gabby.
Senses: glosses: Inclined to speak in a loud and offensive manner.
raw_tags: said of a person
gobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: gobbies
Etymology: From gob (“mouth”) + -y. The meaning "inclined to talk" is probably related to gabby.
Senses: examples: text: In year eight, crouched in a playground cubby, she gave Ryan Glover a gobby. Brief, busy, urgent. Then afterwards, slipping it back into his pants, he said thank you.
ref: 2004, John Charalambous, Furies, Queensland, →ISBN, page 164:
text: He bustles me into a cubicle and locks the door.
"I'm not really in the mood for a gobby," I slur, and laugh girlishly at my joke as I unzip my fly, "but if you insist..."
ref: 2007, Joe Lewis, The Insurmountable Malaise of Man, Lulu (self-published), page 278 http://google.com/books?id=myJ8WLBqDOcC&pg=PA278&dq=gobby
text: Have you seen the Colgate Total ad with the female Indian dentist? Would you let her give you a gobby? I would. She has a perdy mouth.
ref: 2007 July 17, Gordon Lightfoot III , “A Question for Darkfalz (colgate total)”, in aus.tv (Usenet), message-ID <1184667039.997405.66870@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>:
synonyms: word: fellatio
word: blowjob
word: gob job
word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
glosses: An act of fellatio.
offy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒfi
Forms: form: offies
form: offie
Etymology: From off (“first element of noun”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: An off-licence.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An off break.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An off spinner.
off-licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-licences
form: off licence
form: off-license
Etymology: From the fact that such stores have a licence only to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises.
Senses: examples: text: Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 40:
text: After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.
ref: 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 123:
glosses: A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises.
Synonyms: word: bottle shop
word: offy
word: beer-off
word: liquor store
Related terms: off-sale
off-trade
fully licensed
prolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.li/
ipa: /ˈprɑ.li/
rhymes: -ɒli
Etymology: Clipping of probably.
Senses: examples: text: I should prolly keep my eyes on the road.
text: Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:
text: Naw. That stream's so lazy, it prolly wouldn't even float thee.
ref: 2006 April 24, Videlectrix, Thy Dungeonman 3, Browser, level/area: Bridge which looks troll-friendly:
text: Prolly wouldn't be stopped by da cops all da time, even though I ain't doin' nothin' wrong. Prolly wouldn't have my teachers tryna put me in special ed all da time. And prolly would be in the Gifted and Talented Program wit' you and Echo.
ref: 2020, Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
text: "There's prolly good parts of the province. Only good part of the town is it's easy to sneak into the abandoned movie theater and throw expired Milk Duds to the rats."
ref: 2022, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4907: Sasratchewan:
glosses: Probably.
Synonyms: prob'ly
probly
Related terms: prolly tree
damask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæm.əsk/
Forms: form: damasks
Etymology: From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
Senses: examples: text: True damasks are pure silk.
text: […]but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
glosses: Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
examples: text: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
glosses: A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
glosses: Damascus steel.
glosses: The peculiar markings or water of such steel.
glosses: A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
examples: text: Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
Derived terms: satin damask
damask
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæm.əsk/
Forms: form: more damask
form: most damask
Etymology: From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
Senses: examples: text: My cage has many rooms / Damask and dark / Nothing there sings, / Not even my lark.
ref: 1973, Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:
text: But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
damask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæm.əsk/
Forms: form: damasks
form: damasking
form: damasked
form: damasked
Etymology: From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made.
Senses: examples: text: Madame de Mercœur had herself arranged her dress, which was splendid white silk, damasked with silver flowers; but it was with much internal misgiving that she put on the graceful cap and plume.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: To decorate or weave in damascene patterns
Derived terms: damascene
damascone
damask plum
damask rose
Damask steel
damasky
undamasked
Related terms: dornick
kincob
lampas
brolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: brollies
Senses: examples: text: It's going to rain today – you'd better take your brolly.
text: “The young lady’s hi,” he said suddenly, holding out the umbrella, “is fixed on this here. I am well aware that it is not for the lowest of the low to carry a gentleman’s brolly, and I ask your ladyship’s pardon for the liberty. I come by it accidental-like, and should be glad of a reasonable offer from any gentleman in want of a honest article.”
ref: 1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter III, in An Unsocial Socialist:
text: The only brolly that's in sight / Is the mini one that's in my drink / JD, coke and lime / This is how I want to spend my time
ref: 2010, “Hawaii”, performed by Tom Felton:
text: Look! The Gnome Girl believed the letter you sent and brought the magic brolly! […] Now, we just wait for the Wretch to eat her and we can finally grab it!
ref: 2023, A. C. MacDonald, Twistwood Tales (comic), Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Alternative form of brelly.
Derived terms: brolly dolly
Wally
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒli
Senses: examples: text: "'Mr. Szalla' is my eighty-two-year-old father, Nikki. Please call me 'Wally'."
"Well. 'Wally'."
I felt my face burn pleasantly. "Wally" was such a comfortable old-shoe kind of name.
ref: 2005, Joyce Carol Oates, Mother, Missing, Harper Perennial, page 108:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace.
Wally
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒli
Forms: form: the Wally
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The trophy awarded to winners of an NHRA national event (named after founder Wally Parks).
dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: UK, Cockney, Estuary, Jamaica
ipa: /ˈdɑːnsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdænsɪŋ/
ipa: [dɛənsɪŋ]
ipa: [deənsɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɑːnsɪŋ
rhymes: -ænsɪŋ
Forms: form: dancings
Senses: glosses: The activity of taking part in a dance.
examples: text: New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.
ref: 2001, William A. Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars:
text: Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.
ref: 2003, Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, page 44:
glosses: A dance club in France.
Derived terms: antidancing
ballroom dancing
barn dancing
belly dancing
border dancing
break dancing
break-dancing
breakdancing
Cotswold morris dancing
country dancing
dad-dancing
dad dancing
dancing bologna
dancing girl
dancing mania
dancing master's kit
dancing plant
dancing school
devil dancing
dirty dancing
disco dancing
folk dancing
grave dancing
Highland dancing
horizontal dancing
ice dancing
Irish step dancing
line dancing
morris dancing
pole dancing
ropedancing
skirt dancing
slam dancing
square dancing
swing dancing
table dancing
tap-dancing
tap dancing
wire-dancing
dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: UK, Cockney, Estuary, Jamaica
ipa: /ˈdɑːnsɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdænsɪŋ/
ipa: [dɛənsɪŋ]
ipa: [deənsɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɑːnsɪŋ
rhymes: -ænsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dance
Walter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒltə/
ipa: /ˈwɔːltə/
ipa: /ˈwɔltɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɑltɚ/
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
Etymology: A Germanic name, from Middle English Walter, from Old Northern French Waltier, from Frankish *Waltheri (compare Old High German Waltheri, which see for more details), from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“ruler”) + *harjaz (“army, host”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“be strong”) + *ker- (“army”). Related to Old English Waldhere. Compare herald and Harold, in which these elements are reversed.
Senses: examples: text: Whitmore. And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
Suffolk. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by Water I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - Gaultier, being rightly sounded.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.
ref: 1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Walter complained about the assault and isolation of the volunteers. Two policemen immediately grabbed him and dragged him to the punishment cells.
ref: 2003, Elinor Sisulu, Walter & Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime, page 151:
text: On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).
ref: 2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
Derived terms: Waltman Walter syndrome
Walterboro
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Wally
sense: pet forms
word: Walt
sense: pet forms
word: Wat
word: Fitzwater
word: Gwatkin
word: Walters
word: Waters
word: Waterson
word: Watkin
word: Watkins
word: Watkinson
word: Watson
word: Watt
word: Watts
Walt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːlt/
ipa: /wɒlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: Walts
form: Walt.
Etymology: Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Walter.
Walt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːlt/
ipa: /wɒlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: Walts
form: Walt.
Etymology: Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles.
Senses: examples: text: You're just a bloody Walt!
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Someone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces).
darling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/
enpr: där'lĭng
ipa: /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Forms: form: darlings
form: darlinging
form: darlinged
form: darlinged
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English dereling, derelyng (“beloved person; beloved of God, devout Christian”), from Old English dīerling, dēorling (“favourite, darling; minion”), from Proto-West Germanic *diuriling, from Proto-Germanic *diurijalingaz, from *diurijaz (“beloved, dear; expensive”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“hot, warm; to burn”), or *dweh₂- (“distant, long; to remove, separate”)) + *-ilingaz (suffix forming (diminutive) nouns with the sense of ‘belonging to; coming from’). By surface analysis, dear + -ling (suffix meaning ‘immature; small’).
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. The verb is also derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The frisky female, we have noticed, has one most unpleasant trick; it is that of darlinging and duckeying and otherwise spooneying her husband … in public. He is invariably, invariably set down as an ass, without its being in the least his fault.
ref: 1870, Hugh Rowley, chapter XVIII, in Gamosagammon; or, Hints on Hymen. […], London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC, page 139:
text: Hullo! oh! Maud, darling, I wanted to know— / Great snakes, it's not she!—I want Miss Maud DeVaux.— / I think that I "darlinged" the old man that time. / If I did, I'll sell cheap,—this lot marked down,—one dime.
ref: 1882 September 22, “By Telephone”, in H. S. Underwood, editor, The Argo, volume II, number 6, Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College, →OCLC, page 75, column 2:
text: Wonderful the way you stage people darling each other. To hear you sometimes, you'd think you were passionately in love.
ref: 1941 (date written), Terence Rattigan, Flare Path: A Play in Three Acts, London; New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, published 1943, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 40:
text: All the Marys, Janes, Francoises and Mikis darlinged and honeyed me for a day or two then vanished for ever. After a few weeks I could not recall their names or faces.
ref: 1990, Khushwant Singh, “Bhagmati”, in Delhi, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, →ISBN, pages 108–109:
text: He was darlinging his wife at every opportunity. They were going to have a silver wedding party. And, according to Geraldine, this was meant to be a dead marriage.
ref: 2000, Maeve Binchy, Scarlet Feather, London: Orion, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: To call (someone) "darling" (noun sense 1).
dateless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtlɪs/
Etymology: Coined between 1585 and 1595 from date + -less
Senses: examples: text: The other day was dateless, even for my dateless life; for I had forgotten time and had no notion of anything anywhere, when in a small French town I strolled into a cafe noisy with French talk.
ref: 1936, G. K. Chesterton, The Autobiography:
glosses: Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
examples: text: It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.
text: They were good friends, completely at ease with each other, and when they both ended up dateless on a Friday night, as they often did, they usually ended up eating pizza and watching scary movies together.
ref: 2015, Cathryn Fox, Love Lessons, →ISBN:
glosses: Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.
examples: text: the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: Timeless; immortal
glosses: Without a start; immemorial
examples: text: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 30”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: Without an end; endless
Derived terms: datelessness
dearer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, / A dearer birth than this his love had brought, / To march in ranks of better equipage
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 32”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: comparative form of dear: more dear
dearer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 115”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: comparative form of dearly: more dearly
dearest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈdɪɹɪst/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪəɹɪst
rhymes: (General American) -ɪɹɪst
Senses: examples: text: So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, / Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 37”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of dear: most dear
Derived terms: nearest and dearest
dearest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈdɪɹɪst/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɪəɹɪst
rhymes: (General American) -ɪɹɪst
Forms: form: dearests
Senses: glosses: A beloved person; a term of endearment.
Synonyms: beloved
honey
darling
sweetheart
limey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Forms: form: limier
form: limiest
Etymology: In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y.
In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy.
Senses: glosses: Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like.
examples: text: This drink is full of limey goodness.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).
limey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Forms: form: limeys
form: Limey
Etymology: In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y.
In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy.
Senses: glosses: An English or British ship.
examples: text: Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking.
ref: 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever:
synonyms: pommy
pom
glosses: An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant.
Derived terms: Limeyland
mommy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒmi/
ipa: /ˈmɑmi/
rhymes: -ɒmi
Forms: form: mommies
Etymology: From mom + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The only bad-karma-reducing sposie on the market is a new line of biodegradable (meaning here "useless") sposie that won't last through the lightest of baby pees and will force you to change baby approximately once every thirty seconds, thereby completely undoing any so-called karma reduction. Only bad mommies use sposies.
ref: 2012, Willow Yamahchi, Bad Mommy, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: They will never part even though in mommy's heart she wishes daddy would leave forever. One grief-some January 25 mommy rested never to return for her and daddy went on a walk. “Where is mommy”, said baby but daddy couldn't talk.
ref: 2015, Paul Easter, Consciousness Before Conscience:
synonyms: word: ma
word: mama
word: mamma
word: mom
english: US & Canada
translation: US & Canada
word: momma
word: mum
word: mummy
glosses: Mother.
synonyms: MILF
glosses: A sexually attractive mother.
glosses: Any sexually attractive woman.
Derived terms: godmommy
grandmommy
momminess
mommy-and-me
mommy blogger
mommy brain
mommyhood
mommyish
mommyism
mommy issues
mommy juice
mommyless
mommylike
mommy milker
mommy porn
mommy tax
mommy track
mommy wars
muscle mommy
sanctimommy
stepmommy
sugar mommy
mommy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒmi/
ipa: /ˈmɑmi/
rhymes: -ɒmi
Forms: form: mommies
form: mommying
form: mommied
form: mommied
Etymology: From mom + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.
mommy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒmi/
ipa: /ˈmɑmi/
rhymes: -ɒmi
Forms: form: mommier
form: mommiest
Etymology: From mom + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She is the mommiest of mommies.
text: I am smack-dab in the middle of the mommiest years of my life. There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.
ref: 2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby:
glosses: Characteristic of a mother; motherly.
raw_tags: in the superlative
Kabyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: Kabyles
Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”).
Senses: synonyms: Kabylian
glosses: A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language.
Kabyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: more Kabyle
form: most Kabyle
Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”).
Senses: examples: text: Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 24:
synonyms: Kabylian
glosses: Pertaining to these people or their language.
Kabyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”).
Senses: synonyms: Kabylian
glosses: A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.
Derived terms: Kabylian
Kabylia
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kabyle terms
kab ⁠
debtor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛt.ə/
ipa: /ˈdɛt.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈdet.ə/
rhymes: -ɛtə
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: debtors
form: debtour
Etymology: From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor, equivalent to debt + -or. Doublet of debitor. Displaced native Old English *sċola.
Senses: examples: text: The debtor agreed to repay the loan within six months.
text: The law protects both the debtor and the creditor.
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: creditor
glosses: A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
examples: text: As a debtor, he faced constant letters from the bank.
topics: law
glosses: One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding.
Derived terms: codebtor
debtor in possession
debtorship
homedebtor
nondebtor
zombie debtor