cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
peewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːwiː/
rhymes: -iːwi
Forms: form: peewees
Etymology: Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).
Senses: glosses: A short or small person; a small object.
examples: text: You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
ref: 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008:
glosses: A kind of small marble in children's games.
examples: text: Is five too young for peewee football?
text: 1971 November, Pat Strange, Mini Judoka in Aussie Ladies Tourney, Black Belt, page 61,
Each year, younger and younger girls line up for competition on the mats, and at this year′s Western Australia Women′s Judo Tournament extra peewee divisions were added to accomodate the young ladies.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player in a sports league for very young children.
Derived terms: peewee golf
peewee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːwiː/
rhymes: -iːwi
Forms: form: peewees
Etymology: Probably from onomatopoeia of the birds' songs.
Senses: examples: text: A large flock of black and white peewees—magpie larks—passed over our heads from a patch of mangrove[…].
ref: 1939, Francis Ratcliffe, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia, page 43:
text: The studies of A. H. Robinson in Western Australia indicate that Peewees tend to pair for life, and hold the same territory on successive seasons.
ref: 1964, Carl Weismann, Australian Bird Songs, page 15:
text: Many Kimberley languages call the peewee or mudlark diyadiya (pronounced like ‘dear-dear’) after one of its calls;[…].
ref: 2004, William McGregor, The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia, page 2:
qualifier: New South Wales and Queensland
glosses: A magpie-lark or mudlark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
glosses: A pewee.
dykon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.kɒn/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.kɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -aɪkən
homophone: daikon
Forms: form: dykons
Etymology: Blend of dyke + icon
Senses: examples: text: LESBIAN ICONS AND REAL LESBIAN ICONS
If Madonna is the first among equals, the major female icon of the moment, she now has competition for dykon status in k. d. lang, who to many lesbians represents their very own 'real life' lesbian hera.
ref: 1994, Diane Hamer, Belinda Budge, The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous, page 36:
text: […] Singer-songwriter Hawkins has become a '90s dykon, due to her free-spirited sensuality […]
ref: 1998, Raymond Murray, Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film, page 599:
text: Deneuve was more articulate when she said of her own dykon status, "The Hunger has a very strong image of beautiful women, so perhaps it is true. […] Yes, I showed you can be beautiful and be a lesbian."
ref: 1999, Ellis Hanson, Michael Moon, Michele Aina Barale, Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, page 190:
text: She [the television presenter Kirstie Allsopp] says the screen Kirstie – who is now something of a dykon thanks to her bossiness, her spike heels, her 'luscious dark hair' – is pretty close to the real thing, 'just more domineering'.
ref: 2004 September 5, The Observer Magazine, page 17:
glosses: A celebrity, especially a woman (often a lesbian), who is much admired by lesbians.
Hypernyms: gay icon
gay icon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪ ˈaɪ.kɒn/
ipa: /ɡeɪ ˈaɪ.kɑn/
Forms: form: gay icons
Senses: glosses: A celebrity who is much admired by gay men and/or lesbians.
Hyponyms: english: celebrity much admired by lesbians
translation: celebrity much admired by lesbians
word: dykon
hebrephrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hebephrenic.
hebrephrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hebephrenic.
dramaturge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramaturges
Etymology: * Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge.
* Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: dramaturgist
glosses: Someone who writes or adapts theater plays, a playwright, dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: dramaturg
glosses: A literary adviser or editor in a theater, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work.
Related terms: dramaturgic
dramaturgical
dramaturgically
dramaturgist
dramaturgy
dramaturge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dramaturges
form: dramaturging
form: dramaturged
form: dramaturged
Etymology: * Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge.
* Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg.
Senses: examples: text: It expresses concerns about programming (“We have watched you program play after play, written, directed, cast, choreographed, designed, acted, dramaturged and produced by your rosters of white theatermakers for white audiences”); […]
ref: 2020 June 9, Michael Paulson, “Theater Artists Decry Racism in Their Industry”, in The New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To act as a dramaturge.
wright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: right
homophone: rite
homophone: write
homophone: Wright
Forms: form: wrights
Etymology: From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Cognate with wrought, dated Dutch wrecht, work.
Senses: qualifier: archaic except in compounds and in Scotland
glosses: A builder or maker of something.
Hyponyms: arkwright
boatwright
bookwright
bridgewright
candlewright
cartwright
castlewright
cheesewright
coachwright
fanwright
filmwright
gemwright
ginwright
gunwright
housewright
ironwright
leatwright
millwright
novelwright
playwright
ploughwright
plowwright
scenewright
shieldwright
shipwright
smithwright
speechwright
stagewright
steelwright
stonewright
timberwright
treewright
waggonwright
wagonwright
wainwright
wheelwright
woodwright
Derived terms: arkwright
boatwright
bookwright
bridgewright
candlewright
cartwright
castlewright
cheesewright
coachwright
fanwright
filmwright
gemwright
ginwright
gunwright
housewright
ironwright
leatwright
millwright
novelwright
playwright
ploughwright
plowwright
scenewright
shieldwright
shipwright
smithwright
speechwright
stagewright
steelwright
stonewright
timberwright
treewright
waggonwright
wagonwright
wainwright
wheelwright
wheelwrighting
woodwright
wright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: right
homophone: rite
homophone: write
homophone: Wright
Forms: form: wrights
form: wrought
form: wrighten
form: wrighten
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of write.
surat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sura (“A chapter of the Qur'an”).
senang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈnɑŋ/
Forms: form: more senang
form: most senang
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay senang.
Senses: examples: text: He candidly admitted to me that his job to maintain gym equipment is very "senang" (easy).
ref: 2005, Choon Wee Tey, quoting Howe Liang, Achievements Off the Beaten Track: Stories of Singapore Sport Veterans, Candid Creation, →ISBN:
glosses: Relaxed, easy (of a job, etc.)
Syracusan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Syracuse + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Syracusan expedition was the deathblow of the Athenian Empire.
ref: 1921, John Buchan, chapter XL, in A History of the Great War, volume II, London; Edinburgh; New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., page 344:
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.
Syracusan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syracusans
Etymology: From Syracuse + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Dionysius...obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins.
ref: 1875, William Stanley Jevons, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.
RMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RMAs
Senses: examples: text: Shipments without a valid RMA number will not be accepted.
glosses: Initialism of return merchandise authorization /return merchandise authorisation.
examples: text: Several of the recruits had special leadership responsibilities within the Company, the most significant being the Recruit Chief Petty Officer (RCPO) and the Recruit Master at Arms (RMA). […] The person responsible for being RCPO changed during the end of our training, but the RMA, who was responsible for maintaining good order and discipline, did not make it past the mid point.
ref: 2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: RMAA
glosses: Initialism of recruit master-at-arms.
ruddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: ruddier
form: ruddiest
Etymology: From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu (“redness”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.
Senses: examples: text: Drystone walls, farm buildings and stone cottages, roofed with ruddy tiles, line the way and blend gently into the surrounding countryside.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 143:
text: Frank, who is narrow and ruddy, and who tended to wear a shirt and tie with a cherry-red beanie pulled low over one ear, swapped his white butcher’s coat for a puffer jacket, and led me outside
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
examples: text: in ruddy health
glosses: Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one).
examples: text: “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. “With a million ruddy names to choose from, these ruddy Creams call one ruddy son Wilbert and the other ruddy son Wilfred, and both these ruddy sons are known as Willie. Just going out of their way to mislead the innocent bystander. You'd think people would have more consideration.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Michael, you have been sitting on your butt for the last two hours! Why didn't you mow the ruddy lawn?!!
ref: 1991, Lynn Johnston, What, Me Pregnant? (For Better or For Worse) (comic), page 37:
text: I shall monitor your behaviour carefully during Marge’s visit. If, at the end of it, you’ve toed the line and kept to the story, I’ll sign your ruddy form.
ref: 1999, J. K. Rowling, chapter 2, in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury:
text: If he moved a muscle, they would both be in DEEP TROUBLE.
“It must have been a bird, Mr Big,” said Dad.
“Ruddy big bird,” muttered the little man. “Now we have to get out of here before the fuzz start sniffing around. Fingers, get the Rolls resprayed and change the number plates in case they trace it.”
“Yes, guv’nor.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
Synonyms: sense: reddish in color
word: rosy
word: bally
word: bleeding
word: blimming
word: bloody
word: blooming
Derived terms: ruddy diver
ruddy Nora
ruddy shelduck
ruddy-tailed flycatcher
ruddy turnstone
ruddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Etymology: From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu (“redness”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.
Senses: examples: text: “So, you made quite a splash on Question Time, my homeless pal,” he continued. “Ruddy hilarious. Ha ha ha!”
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: 'You're not ruddy going anywhere,' he said, slamming the door behind him.
ref: 2017, June Francis, When the Clouds Go Rolling By:
glosses: A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
ruddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: ruddies
Etymology: From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu (“redness”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.
Senses: examples: text: In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies, greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls.
ref: 2007 November 4, Deborah Baldwin, “Close to Nature, and the Airport”, in New York Times:
glosses: A ruddy duck.
examples: text: Ground doves — two ruddies are shown here — are so called because they feed on the ground.
ref: 1987, Jürgen Nicolai, A Complete Introduction to Finches, Tfh Publications Incorporated, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Understandably, birders in the U.S. are advised to carefully distinguish Ruddies from the usually more-expected Common Ground-Doves [...]. (Brightly-colored, pinkish adult male Common Ground-Doves have been misidentified as male Ruddies on several occasions, however.) Unless the fortunate birder happens upon a Ruddy Ground-Dove amongst a flock of sparrows, it will often be necessary to sort through innumerable Inca Doves.
ref: 1994, Birding, page 298:
text: Common Ground-Dove — Fairly common permanent resident of better-watered valleys at lower elevations. Avoids town [...] Ironically, Ruddies often ignore the little flocks of closely related Commons, and choose to associate with Inca Doves.
ref: 2005, Richard Cachor Taylor, A Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona, page 237:
text: Out-of-state birders seeking Ruddy Ground Doves should be aware of two things. Ruddies associate much more frequently with Inca Doves than with Common Ground Doves. In fact, in eleven personal sightings of this species in Arizona, I have never seen a Ruddy with a Common nor has anyone else I know. [...] Perhaps this is a slow invasion, and forty years hence Ruddies will be so common ...
ref: 2008, Jim Burns, Jim Burns' Arizona Birds: From the Backyard to the Backwoods, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A ruddy ground dove.
ruddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: ruddies
form: ruddying
form: ruddied
form: ruddied
Etymology: From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu (“redness”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.
Senses: examples: text: The sunset ruddied our faces.
text: It ruddied all the copse-wood glen
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make reddish in colour.
murmurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː(ɹ).mə.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)m.ɹəs/
Forms: form: more murmurous
form: most murmurous
Etymology: From murmur + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave
Hath long bene underkept, and down supprest,
With murmurous disdaine doth inly rave,
And grudge, in so streight prison to be prest,
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Throughout all the isle
There was no covert, no retired cave
Unhaunted by the murmurous noise of waves,
Though scarcely heard in many a green recess.
ref: 1818–1819, John Keats, “Hyperion, a Fragment”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, page 193:
text: He felt some dark presence moving irresistably upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
text: Waiting, with a glass in my hand
—three girls in crimson satin
pass close before me on
the murmurous background of
the crowded opera—
ref: 1917, William Carlos Williams, “Good Night”, in Al Que Quiere, Boston: The Four Seas Company, page 43:
text: Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled
By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge,
ref: 1920, Wilfred Owen, “Spring Offensive”, in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, page 20:
text: And if she speaks in her frail way,
it is wholly to bewitch
my smallest thought with a most swift
radiance wherein slowly drift
murmurous things divinely bright;
ref: 1921, E. E. Cummings, “Puella Mea”, in George J. Firmage, editor, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, New York: Liveright, published 1991, page 21:
text: The seeming remoteness of its source was because of its murmurous indistinctness since it came from close-by, even from the men massed on the ship's open deck.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: 1959, Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, in The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable, London: Calder, 1994, p. 397,
It will be the same silence, the same as ever, murmurous with muted lamentation, panting and exhaling of impossible sorrow, like distant laughter, and brief spells of hush, as of one buried before his time.
glosses: Low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur.
Derived terms: murmurously
murmurousness
unmurmurous
fruition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹuˈɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /fɹuˈɪʃ.ən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfru(wɪ)ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: fruitions
Etymology: From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”).
Senses: examples: text: After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition.
text: […] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt,
Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all,
That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie,
The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
text: Perhaps,—for the Divine purpose runs through every aim of our being,—the disappointment and the endurance are but sent to raise those hopes above, which else might cling too fondly to their fruition below.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 310–311:
text: The myths possess us: through our agony / They work to new fruition.
ref: 1914, John Jay Chapman, “The Wrath of Achilles. 1. The Embassy to Achilles.”, in Homeric Scenes: Hector’s Farewell and The Wrath of Achilles, New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme, →OCLC, scene II, page 23:
text: Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.
ref: 1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
text: That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:
glosses: The fulfillment of something worked for.
glosses: The enjoyment derived from a possession.
Derived terms: come to fruition
nonfruition
fruition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹuˈɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /fɹuˈɪʃ.ən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfru(wɪ)ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: fruitions
Etymology: Erroneously from fruit (though now standard usage)
Senses: glosses: The condition of bearing fruit.
GNOME
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈnəʊm/
ipa: /ɡəˈnoʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
ipa: /nəʊm/
ipa: /noʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
homophone: gnome
Etymology: Originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, but this meaning is now officially deprecated.
Senses: glosses: An open-source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.
desktop environment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desktop environments
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A complete graphical user interface solution to operate a computer.
pilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pilāris, from Latin pilus (“a hair”) + -ar.
Senses: examples: pilar muscle; pilar cyst
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to hair.
glosses: Covered in hair; hairy.
RDO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RDOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of regular day off, an official public holiday.
Heidi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdi/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Etymology: From Swiss German Heidi, a pet form of Adelheid, equivalent of English Adelaide and Alice. The name became internationally popular due to the children's book Heidi (1880).
Senses: examples: text: "Heidi?" Kurtz echoed. "Heidi? That's a damned odd name for an English elder sister, isn't it?" "Not for Heidi, it isn't," she replied buoyantly, and scored an immediate laugh from the kids beyond the lighting. Heidi because her parents went to Switzerland for their honeymoon, she explained; and Switzerland was where Heidi was conceived. "Among the edelweiss," she added, with a sigh.
ref: 1983, John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 142:
text: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
wikipedia: Heidi
stet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: stets
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“I stand”).
Senses: examples: text: [O]ne particular sub-editor […] would proof-read my book reviews and archly insert literally dozens of little commas – each one of which I felt as a dart in my flesh. […] I would thank her, glance at the blizzard of marks on the galley proof, wait for her to leave the room, and then (standing up to get a better run at it) attack the proof, feverishly crossing out everything she had added, and writing “STET”, “STET”, “STET”, “STET”, “STET” all down the page, until my arm got tired and I was spent.
ref: 2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, pages 31–32:
text: And my copyeditors at HarperCollins want me to use the word “commodified” exclusively, since it’s the only one in Websters. But I see the words as very different, and have issued a big STET on that one.
ref: 2005, Douglas Rushkoff, "Commodified vs. Commoditized", 2005-09-04
glosses: A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain.
stet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: stets
form: stetting
form: stetted
form: stetted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“I stand”).
Senses: examples: text: Stet that colon.
text: Truly, American copy-editing has fallen into a state of demoralized confusion over hyphenated and unhyphenated compounds—or at least, I am demoralized and confused, having just gone through the manuscript of a novel in which a very smart and careful and goodnatured copy-editor has deleted about two hundred of my innocent tinkertoy hyphens. I wrote “stet hyphen” in the margin so many times that I finally abbreviated it to “SH”—but there was no wicked glee in my intransigence: I didn’t want to be the typical prose prima donna who made her life difficult.
ref: 1993 November 4, Nicholson Baker, “Survival of the Fittest”, in The New York Review of Books, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2024:
glosses: To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was.
Related terms: stet docket
stet processus
bunghole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bung-hole.
bunghole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bungholes
form: bungholing
form: bungholed
form: bungholed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bung-hole.
lave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: laves
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English laven (“to bathe, wash; to bail or draw water, drain, exhaust; to dampen, wet; to pour; of water, etc.: to flow, stream”), and then partly:
* from Old French laver (“to be washed; to wash”) (modern French laver (“to wash (oneself)”)), from Latin lavāre, the present active infinitive of lavō (“to bathe, wash; to dampen, wet”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”); and
* from Old English lafian (“to bathe; to make wet; to ladle out; to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *labōn (“to refresh, revitalize; to strengthen”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Latin lavō (see above) but this does not explain the change in meaning from “to wash; to wet” to “to refresh; to strengthen”. Perhaps Old English lafian is derived directly from the Latin word, and Proto-West Germanic *labōn and words in languages derived from it such as Dutch and German are coincidentally similar to the Old English word.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Once more Arion and his loving nymph / Together rest within their summer cave, / In the green woodland, where the crystal lymph / Through sands and ivy pulsed with ceaseless lave.
ref: 1865 September, “Glimpses of Greek Fableland. Arion’s Return.”, in Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume LXVI, number CCCXCIII, Dublin: George Herbert, […]; London: Hurst & Blackett, →OCLC, page 350:
glosses: An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash.
examples: text: When Nature, languid, seems to rest, / Nor moves a leaf, nor heaves a wave, / And Zephyrs sleep, by Sol caress'd, / And sportive swallows skim the lave; […]
ref: 1826, Bernard Blackmantle [pseudonym; Charles Molloy Westmacott], “Noon in the Isle of Wight”, in The English Spy: […], volume II, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […], →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: The sea.
lave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Etymology: The adjective is from Middle English lave (“of the ears: drooping, hanging down”), from Old Norse lafa, from Proto-Germanic *labēn- (“to dangle”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”).
The verb is probably derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: And I ſvveare by the bloud of my codpiece, / An I vvere a vvoman I vvould lug off his laue eares, / Or run him to death vvith a ſpit: […]
ref: 1606, A Pleasant Comedie. Called Wily Beguilde. […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Clement Knight […], →OCLC, page 58:
text: [C]omplexion here red, there tavvny, in another Country black vvins the prize: for proportion, here the tall, there the mean, here the ſlender, there the groſs, here the little Ear, there the lave Ear, here the thin Lip, there the Blubber-lip, here the ſtreight, there the die Neck are eſteemed moſt courtly.
ref: 1675, John Smith, “Reason Nonplus’d, Help’d by Religion, Acquiesceth in Her Resolutions”, in Christian Religion’s Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick, to the Bar of Common Reason. […], London: […] Nathanael Brook, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (The Apostles were Not Themselves Deluded, No Crack’d-brain Enthusiasticks, but Persons of Most Composed Minds), §. 1 (Man’s Supremacy over the Creatures, the Reason of It Not Cognoscible by Natural Light), pages 8–9:
glosses: Chiefly in lave ears: of ears: drooping, hanging down.
lave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: laves
form: laving
form: laved
form: laved
Etymology: The adjective is from Middle English lave (“of the ears: drooping, hanging down”), from Old Norse lafa, from Proto-Germanic *labēn- (“to dangle”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”).
The verb is probably derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: His mouth ſhrinks ſidevvard like a ſcornfull Playſe / To take his tired Eares ingratefull place; / His Eares hang lauing like a nevv-lug'd ſvvine / To take ſome counſell of his grieued eyne, […]
ref: 1598, [Joseph Hall], “Lib[er] 4. Sat[yr] 1. Che baiar Vuol, bai.”, in Virgidemiarum. The Three Last Bookes. Of Byting Satyres, London: […] Richard Bradocke for Robert Dexter […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: Of ears: to droop, to hang down.
lather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lä'thə
enpr: lăth'ə
ipa: /ˈlɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæð.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæð.ɚ/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːðə(ɹ)
homophone: lava
homophone: larva (Cockney)
Forms: form: lathers
Etymology: From Middle English lather, from Old English lēaþor (“a kind of nitre used for soap, soda”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauþr, from Proto-Germanic *lauþrą (“that which is used for washing, soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówh₃trom (“that which is used for washing”), from *lewh₃-, *lowh₃- (“to wash, bathe”). Cognate with Swedish lödder (“lather, foam, froth, soap”), Icelandic löður (“foam, froth, a kind of niter used for soap”), Old Irish loathar (“wash-basin”), Ancient Greek λουτρόν (loutrón, “a bath, wash-room”), Latin lavō (“I wash”), Albanian laj (“I wash”), Ancient Greek λούω (loúō). More at lye.
Senses: synonyms: suds
soap suds
glosses: The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
glosses: Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
glosses: A state of agitation.
Derived terms: in a lather
latherin
latherless
latherwort
lathery
lather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lä'thə
enpr: lăth'ə
ipa: /ˈlɑː.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæð.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlæð.ɚ/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːðə(ɹ)
homophone: lava
homophone: larva (Cockney)
Forms: form: lathers
form: lathering
form: lathered
form: lathered
Etymology: From Middle English *lethren, from Old English lēþrian, lȳþrian, *līeþrian (“to anoint, smear, lather”), from Old English lēaþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”). See above.
Senses: examples: text: The young woman lathered her breasts with lavender-scented soap.
glosses: To cover with lather.
glosses: To beat or whip.
examples: text: I woke Corporal Honda to see to the horse. Heavily lathered and breathing hard, it had obviously come a long way at high speed.
ref: 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 147:
synonyms: spume
suds
foam
froth
glosses: To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
Derived terms: latherable
latherer
lather, rinse, repeat
lather up
nonlathering
amity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăm′ĭ-tē
ipa: /ˈæmɪti/
ipa: [ˈɛəmɪɾi]
Forms: form: amities
Etymology: From Middle English amite, from Old French amisté, amitie, amistiet, from Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”).
Senses: examples: text: To my native place ¶ Bent upon returning, ¶ Bosom all day burning ¶ To be where my race ¶ Well were known, 'twas much with me ¶ There to dwell in amity.
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “Welcome Home”, in Lyrics Late and Earlier:
glosses: Friendship; friendliness.
glosses: Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations; peace; accord.
Synonyms: friendliness
friendship
Related terms: amiable
amicable
amorous
friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛn(d)z/
rhymes: -ɛnz
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: plural of friend
friends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛn(d)z/
rhymes: -ɛnz
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of friend
Oriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈrijə/
Forms: form: Oorya
form: Ooriya
Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā).
Senses: glosses: Odia, the language spoken in the state of Odisha, India.
Oriya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˈrijə/
Forms: form: Oriyas
form: Oorya
form: Ooriya
Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Odisha.
starfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
Forms: form: starfishes
form: starfish
Etymology: From star + fish.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: Asteroidea
synonyms: sea star
asteroid
hypernyms: echinoderm#Noun
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animal#Noun
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creature#Noun
glosses: Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
examples: text: But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.
ref: 1755, Erik Pontoppidan, translated by Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway:
glosses: Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
synonyms: cold fish
dead fish
glosses: A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
examples: text: Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.
ref: 2021, Sophie Palmer, Hot Wife: Collection of Explicit Erotic Short Stories:
synonyms: chocolate starfish
glosses: The anus.
raw_tags: in translations of Japanese pornography
Derived terms: chocolate starfish
crown-of-thorns starfish
royal starfish
starfish-associated densovirus
starfish flower
starfishlike
starfish wasting disease
starfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
Forms: form: starfishes
form: starfishing
form: starfished
form: starfished
Etymology: From star + fish.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up.
ref: 1981, Kit Reed, Magic Time, page 229:
text: The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water.
ref: 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 95:
glosses: To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
glosses: To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
While floating on water
examples: text: The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands.
ref: 2011, Polly Williams, It Happened One Summer:
glosses: To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
Related terms: Starfish site
pathos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪˌθɒs/
ipa: /ˈpɑːθɒs/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈpæθɒs/
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌθɑs/
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌθɔs/
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌθoʊs/
ipa: /ˈpæˌθoʊs/
Forms: form: pathoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Senses: examples: text: His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd:
text: She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in
Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.
synonyms: patheticness
glosses: The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
examples: text: It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:
glosses: A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
glosses: Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Derived terms: hathos
pathotic
Related terms: antipathy
apathy
empathy
pathetic
pathic
pathogen
pathology
psychopathy
sympathy
heterography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛt.əˈɹɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
ipa: /hɛt.əˈɹɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: heterographies
Etymology: From hetero- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: An incorrect spelling; a spelling different from accepted spelling.
examples: text: Heterography in English makes it difficult for foreigners to learn pronunciation.
glosses: Spelling in which a particular letter represents more than one possible sound.
Synonyms: word: incorrect spelling
Derived terms: heterographic
Related terms: orthography
blather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blathers
form: blathering
form: blathered
form: blathered
form: blether
Etymology: From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”).
Senses: examples: text: “There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.
ref: 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 249:
text: It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows.
ref: 1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 210:
text: On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.
ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, published 2014, section 5:
glosses: To talk rapidly without making much sense.
examples: text: Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!
ref: 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, act I, scene i, page 31:
text: […] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.
ref: 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 3, page 214:
glosses: To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.
Derived terms: blatherer
blatherskate
blatherskite
blathersome
blatherstorm
blathery
blather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blether
Etymology: From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”).
Senses: examples: text: That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;
ref: 1897, G. A. Henty, chapter 1, in With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, page 16:
text: Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
ref: 1922, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 23, in Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 265:
text: With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.
ref: 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, part 5, page 280:
synonyms: word: blither
word: babble
word: bavardage
word: bibble-babble
word: blab
word: blabber
word: blabbing
word: blather
word: blathering
word: chatter
word: chinwag
word: chit-chat
word: claver
word: clepe
word: gabble
word: hot air
word: mardle
word: natter
word: palaver
word: prate
word: prattle
word: scuttlebutt
word: small talk
word: tattle
word: twaddle
word: waffle
word: yackety-yak
word: yap
word: yatter
glosses: Foolish or nonsensical talk.
blather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blathers
Senses: examples: 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,
[…] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe
A blather, where the windes imboweld were,
glosses: Obsolete form of bladder.
Norge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A brand name of major household appliances.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
forty minutes of hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reportedly coined by Arkansas Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game.
marsh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑɹʃ/
ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ʃ/
ipa: /mæʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ
Forms: form: marshes
Etymology: From Middle English merssh, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) + -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere.
Senses: examples: text: Many animals live in the marsh.
text: Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.
coordinate_terms: bog
fen
swamp
slough
moor
glosses: An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants. (Compare swamp, bog, fen.)
Derived terms: word: Bacchus Marsh
word: Berkley Marsh
word: black marsh turtle
word: blue marsh hawk
word: Burgh le Marsh
word: Canon's Marsh
word: Dilton Marsh
word: green marsh hawk
word: Hardington Marsh
word: Marsh Baldon
word: Marsh Barton
word: marsh beetle
word: Marsh Benham
word: marshberry
word: marshbird
word: marsh buck
word: marsh crake
taxonomic: Blastocerus dichotomus
word: marsh deer
taxonomic: Iva spp.
word: marsh elder
word: marsh fever
word: marsh fritillary
word: marsh gas
word: marsh gentian
word: Marsh Gibbon
word: marsh grass
word: marsh harrier
word: marsh hawk
word: marsh hawksbeard
word: marsh hen
word: marsh horsetail
word: marshland
word: marshless
word: marsh light
word: marshlike
word: marsh lynx
word: marsh-mallow
word: marsh mallow
word: marshman
word: marsh marigold
word: Marsh Mills
word: marsh pink
word: marsh rabbit
word: marsh rice rat
word: marsh rosemary
word: marsh sandpiper
word: marshscape
word: marsh shrew
word: marshside
word: marsh snake
word: marsh thistle
word: marsh tit
word: marsh treader
word: marsh violet
word: marsh warbler
word: marsh willowherb
word: marshwort
word: marsh wren
word: marshy
word: megamarsh
word: Moreton-in-Marsh
word: Netley Marsh
word: Romney Marsh
word: rosy marsh moth
word: salt marsh
word: salt-marsh caterpillar
word: salt marsh hay
word: salt-marsh terrapin
word: St Mary in the Marsh
word: St Philip's Marsh
word: Thorpe Marsh
word: western marsh harrier
Related terms: marshmallow
slack