cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: flounces
Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin, from Norwegian flunsa (“hurry”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Or, perhaps formed on the pattern of pounce, bounce.
Senses: examples: text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
examples: text: Emma Watson’s approach is in stark contrast to that of Daniel Day-Lewis; a man who, despite being the greatest actor on earth, is somewhat prone to a flounce. […] Day-Lewis announced that he had retired from acting, putting out a statement that read: “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor.”
ref: 2025 September 24, Stuart Heritage, “Go quietly and get a side hustle: how to quit acting properly”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
examples: ref: 2008, David Attenborough, Life in Cold Blood, section 252:
glosses: A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.
Derived terms: word: afflouncement
word: flounce post
word: flouncey
word: flouncy
hebetude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛb.ə.tjuːd/
ipa: /ˈhɛb.ə.tuːd/
ipa: /ˈhɛb.ə.tjuːd/
Etymology: From Late Latin hebetūdō.
Senses: examples: text: 1600, translation attributed to Thomas Nashe, The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by Tomaso Garzoni, London: Edward Blount, Discourse 6, pp. 32-33,
The intemperature of the braine is the cause of al this (as phisitions affirme) which maketh all the officiall, and functiue parts full of heauines and indisposition, and so through this hebetude (to vse their terme) vnapt to keepe in minde any thing.
text: [T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]
ref: 1735 March 5, “Craftsman, Feb. 22 [Julian calendar]. Nº 451.”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume V, London: […] Edward Cave, […], published February 1735, →OCLC, page 85, column 1:
text: It would be a supposition attended with very little probability, to believe that a complete and full formed spirit existed in every infant; but that it was clogged and impeded in its operations, during the first twenty years of life, by the weakness, or hebetude, of the organs in which it was enclosed.
ref: 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, chapter 8, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, pages 354–355:
text: Hirsch, with his arms tied behind his back, had been bundled violently into one of the smaller rooms. For many hours he remained apparently forgotten, stretched lifelessly on the floor. From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude.
ref: 1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 9, in Nostromo:
text: Incuriousness was the most potent ally of our imposed order; for Eastern government rested not so much on consent or force, as on the common supinity, hebetude, lack-a-daisiness, which gave a minority undue effect.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 84, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Dell, published 1962, page 471:
text: 1985, Oliver Sacks, “The Lost Mariner”, chapter 2 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Reset 2007 edition), page 33, footnote 2,
This dwelling on the past and relative hebetude towards the present – this emotional dulling of current feeling and memory – is nothing like Jimmie’s organic amnesia.
glosses: Mental lethargy or dullness.
Derived terms: hebetudinous
Related terms: hebetate
hemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: hemps
Etymology: From Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.
Senses: examples: text: Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 113:
glosses: A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
glosses: Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.
examples: text: A hundred and fifty years ago, Cotton Mather bewails the carnal attractions of the tavern and the training field, and tells of an old Indian, who imperfectly understood the English tongue but desperately mastered enough of it to express a desire for instant hemp rather than listen to any more ghostly consolations.
ref: 1864, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels:
glosses: The gallows.
Derived terms: bastard hemp
bowstring hemp
brown hemp
Canadian hemp
crack-hemp
false hemp
hemp bush
hempcrete
hempen
hemp heart
hempish
hemplike
hemp milk
hemp-nettle
hemp nettle
hemp palm
hemp seed
hempseed
Hemp State
hemp tree
hemp-vine
hempvine
hempweed
hemp-widow
hempwort
hempy
Indian hemp
Jubbulpore hemp
Madras hemp
Manila hemp
Manilla hemp
riverhemp
sann hemp
stretch hemp
Sunn hemp
wag hemp
Related terms: cannabis
marijuana
ganja
bhang
THC
pygmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡmi/
Forms: form: pygmies
form: pigmy
Etymology: From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”).
Senses: examples: text: Although Pygmies are relatively protected against gene flow from other populations, many Pygmy tribes show extensive gene replacement and few have remained relatively unaltered.
ref: 2018, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, The History and Geography of Human Genes:
glosses: A member of one of various Ancient Equatorial African tribal peoples, notable for their very short stature.
examples: text: Ctesias lived in Persia for several years, as the personal physician of King Ataxerxes II, and would have had contact with travellers to India, and Indian visitors to Persia. He describes dog-headed humans, pygmy men who grow their beards so long that they can be used as clothes, and affirms that it never rains in India.
ref: 2015, Sam Miller, A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of a race of dwarfs.
examples: text: It was so high up that the people walking about in the street below looked like pygmies.
ref: 2015, Rosie Harris, Moving On: A family saga set in 1970’s Liverpool:
glosses: Any dwarfish person or thing.
examples: text: On the world stage Germany is an economic giant but a political pygmy, Britain in comparison a political giant but an economic pygmy.
ref: 2016, Hugh Miall, Beyond Deterrence: Britain, Germany and the New European Security Debate:
glosses: An insignificant person, at least in some respect.
Synonyms: dwarf
midget
Derived terms: word: African pygmy goat
word: American pygmy goat
taxonomic: Nettapus coromandelianus
word: cotton pygmy goose
word: Eurasian pygmy owl
word: pygmy backswimmer
word: pygmy blue whale
word: pygmy chimpanzee
word: pygmy cormorant
word: pygmydom
word: pygmy falcon
word: pygmy giant panda
word: pygmy hippo
taxonomic: Choeropsis liberiensis
word: pygmy hippopotamus
word: pygmy hog
word: pygmyish
word: pygmyism
word: pygmy killer whale
word: pygmy marmoset
word: pygmy owl
word: pygmy percher
word: pygmy placed on the shoulders of giants
word: pygmy possum
taxonomic: Brachylagus idahoensis
word: pygmy rabbit
word: pygmy right whale
word: pygmy sperm whale
word: pygmy squid
word: pygmy tyrant
word: pygmy woodpecker
word: snake and pygmy pie
word: western pygmy blue
Related terms: pygmoid
pygmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡmi/
Forms: form: more pygmy
form: most pygmy
form: pigmy
Etymology: From Latin Pygmaeī, from Ancient Greek πυγμαῖος (pugmaîos, “a member of a race of dwarves”), from πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist (as small as a fist)”).
Senses: glosses: Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.
examples: text: Amongst foodgrains, as we travelled from the green South and East towards the dry North and West, the pygmy crop of rice gave way to the tall bajra and jowar.
ref: 1999, Ashok V. Desai, The Price of Onions, page 73:
glosses: Like a pygmy; unusually short or small for its kind.
Synonyms: pygmyish
dwarfish
Related terms: Negrito
inductive reasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of making inferences based upon observed patterns, or simple repetition. Often used in reference to predictions about what will happen or does happen, based upon what has happened.
Related terms: induction
reasoning
recalcitrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkæl.sɪ.tɹənt/
Forms: form: recalcitrants
Etymology: Borrowed from French récalcitrant, from Latin recalcitrāns, recalcitrantis, present participle of recalcitrō, recalcitrāre (“be disobedient, kick back [as a horse]”), from calx (“heel”), 1820s.
Senses: glosses: A person who is recalcitrant.
DIY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: DIYs
Etymology: Initialism of do it yourself.
Senses: examples: text: According to market research, many men list DIY as one of their main hobbies.
ref: 1990, David Cohen, Being a Man:
glosses: Initialism of do it yourself.
Derived terms: DIY gun
DIY
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: DIYs
form: DIYing
form: DIY-ing
form: DIYed
form: DIYed
Etymology: Initialism of do it yourself.
Senses: examples: text: 2007 [publication date], Maggie Bullock, "Home Improvement", Elle, January 2008 ed., page 108,
Huber was a physicist. Even top Estée Lauder chemists who took over for Huber in 1995 found that... any attempt to cheat on his original formula produced disappointing results, which demands the question: If they couldn't DIY, can you?
text: Ukrainian civilians have been DIY-ing hedgehogs, welding two bars or beams at an angle to make a cross and then adding a third to ensure it holds its shape even if it's knocked over.
ref: 2022 March 21, Bill Chappell, “SWIFT, hedgehog, MiG: Here's a guide to the terms of war in Ukraine”, in SPECIAL SERIES: Ukraine invasion — explained, NPR, retrieved 21 Mar 2022:
glosses: To perform oneself a task usually relegated to an expert.
Derived terms: DiWHY
DIYer
DIY
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdi.aɪˈwaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: more DIY
form: most DIY
Etymology: Initialism of do it yourself.
Senses: examples: text: Do you know where I could find a DIY pipe repair kit?
text: The product knowledge of salespeople is very high, which enables them to serve the demanding customer groups such as professional painters and builders, in addition to the usual DIY consumers.
ref: 2008, Sami Finne, Hanna Sivonen, chapter 4, in The Retail Value Chain: How to Gain Competitive Advantage through Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Strategies, page 154:
text: That is more DIY, more punk, anyway.
ref: 2016, Michael Croland, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt! Jews and Punk: Jews and Punk:
text: A temple abbot who used a DIY guillotine to behead himself in hope of attaining enlightenment might have misinterpreted some things along the way, Thailand’s religious authorities said yesterday.
ref: 2021 April 19, “Thai monk who beheaded himself with guillotine to reach nirvana may have been misguided: Buddhist authority”, in Coconuts Bangkok, Bangkok: Coconuts, retrieved 20 Apr 2021:
glosses: Do-it-yourself.
cooperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /koʊˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [kɵwäpʰəˈɹe̞jʃɪn]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cooperations
form: co-operation
form: coöperation
Etymology: First attested in 1620–1630. Borrowed from French cooperation, from Late Latin cooperātiō. By surface analysis, co- + operation or cooperate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of cooperating.
examples: text: South Korea is seeking cooperation from China to produce artificial rain to help fight increasing pollution.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: Active help from a person, organization, etc., such as an orderly sharing of space or resources.
glosses: Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.
Derived terms: cooperationism
coopetition
noncooperation
protocooperation
uncooperation
Related terms: cooperative
great-nephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-nephews
Etymology: From great- + nephew.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grandnephew.
synonyms: word: grandnephew
Derived terms: great-great-nephew
mimophant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪməfənt/
Forms: form: mimophants
Etymology: Blend of mimosa + elephant, coined by Arthur Koestler in 1972.
Senses: examples: text: Sunday, 16th June [1985]...Nico has invented a portmanteau word which applies to people like Garrett and Derek Hill, who are keenly sensitive about their own feelings while treading on the toes of others. It is ‘mimophant’. The mimosa is reputed to curl up when touched; the elephant - well!
ref: 2003, James Lees-Milne, Beneath A Waning Moon; Diaries, 1985–1987, page 31:
text: In Rejkjavik to cover the match, the novelist Arthur Koestler famously coined the neologism "mimophant" to describe Fischer. "A mimophant is a hybrid species: a cross between a mimosa and an elephant. A member of this species is sensitive like a mimosa where his own feelings are concerned and thick-skinned like an elephant trampling over the feelings of others."
ref: 2004, David Edmonds, John Eidinow, Bobby Fischer Goes To War, page 24:
hypernyms: narcissist
glosses: A person with extreme social self-centered double standards, especially about personal feelings.
Related terms: narcissistic
Narcissistic personality disorder
contort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɔː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: contorts
form: contorting
form: contorted
form: contorted
Etymology: Equivalent to con- + -tort; from Middle English, borrowed from Latin contortus, past participle of contorqueō, from com- + torqueō (“twist, turn”).
Senses: examples: text: features contorted with fury
glosses: To twist in a violent manner.
glosses: To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
Synonyms: deform
detort
twist
Derived terms: contorter
contortion
contortionist
contortive
phlegmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlegmons
Etymology: From Latin phlegmōn, phlegmonē (“inflammation beneath the skin”), from Ancient Greek φλεγμονή (phlegmonḗ, “inflammation, fiery heat”), from φλέγω (phlégō, “burn”).
Senses: glosses: A solid mass formed by inflamed connective tissue, such as forms around an appendix in appendicitis.
Derived terms: phlegmonic
phlegmonoid
phlegmonous
octave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒkteɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑktɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑkteɪv/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒktɪv
rhymes: (UK) -ɒkteɪv
rhymes: (US) -ɑktɪv
Forms: form: octaves
form: octaving
form: octaved
form: octaved
Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octavate.
octave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktɪv/
ipa: /ˈɒkteɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑktɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑkteɪv/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒktɪv
rhymes: (UK) -ɒkteɪv
rhymes: (US) -ɑktɪv
Etymology: From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.
Senses: examples: text: Boccace[…] is said to have invented the octave rhye
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Consisting of eight; eight in number.
peasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛzənt/
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: peasants
Etymology: From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.
Senses: examples: text: The Ambassador warned him of the consequences if his mission to Moscow were a failure, both to Churchill's position at home and to Russia's prospects in the war. He insisted that he should not allow himself to be offended 'by a peasant who didn't know any better'. Churchill listened in silence, then returned to the dacha leaving Clark Kerr outside.
ref: 1986, Martin Kitchen, British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:
synonyms: peon
serf
glosses: A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
synonyms: churl
rustic
villager
glosses: A country person.
synonyms: word: boor
word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
qualifier: strategy games
glosses: A worker unit.
Derived terms: antipeasant
nonpeasant
peasant blouse
peasantess
peasanthood
peasantish
peasantism
peasantist
peasantize
peasantless
peasantlike
peasantly
peasantness
peasantry
peasantship
peasant shirt
peasant top
peasantwear
peasanty
Russian peasant multiplication
technopeasant
peasant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛzənt/
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Etymology: From Late Middle English paissaunt, from Anglo-Norman paisant, from Old French païsant, païsan (“countryman, peasant”), from païs (“country”), from Latin pāgus (“countryside”) + Old French -enc (“member of”), from Frankish -inc, -ing "-ing"; which was an alteration of earlier Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”). Doublet of paisano.
Senses: examples: text: peasant class
text: 2007, Brad Bird, Ratatouille, spoken by Colette
Ratatouille? It's a peasant dish. Are you sure you want to serve this to Ego?
glosses: Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated.
examples: text: Oh what a Rogue and Pesant slave am I?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 520:
glosses: Lowly, vulgar; reprehensible; dishonest.
anyroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.nɪ.ɹəʊd/
ipa: /ˈɛ.ni.ɹoʊd/
Forms: form: any road
form: any road up
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anyway.
synonyms: word: anyway
obfuscation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒb.fəˈskeɪ.ʃən/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌɑb.fəˈskeɪ.ʃən/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌɒb.fəˈskeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔb.fəˈskæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɒb.fəˈskæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌɔ̟b.fəˈskæɪ.ʃən]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: obfuscations
Etymology: From Middle English obfuscacioun, from Latin obfuscātiō, obfuscātiōnem, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) + fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
Senses: examples: text: Until the 1920s, American newspapers heavily relied upon their London correspondents, the British Press and Reuters (which had a mutually beneficial, monopoly agreement with the Government of India for preferential access) for news about India. The news was hence generally from the British perspective and news obfuscation attempts on events that cast the Raj in a poor light, like details of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, usually succeeded.
ref: 2023 August 25, Nandini Rathi, “Making of the Mahatma: How Gandhi became a US news star in the 1930s”, in The Indian Express:
glosses: The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
examples: text: You need to turn on obfuscation for these classes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
glosses: Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
examples: text: During the debate, the candidate sighed at his opponent's obfuscations.
glosses: A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
Derived terms: deobfuscation
obfuscational
Related terms: obfuscate
obfuscatory
budda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buddas
Senses: glosses: Eremophila mitchellii, a sandalwood-like plant native to Australia.
Aramaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Forms: form: Aramaïc
Etymology: From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of the Arameans from the tenth century BC: often called Old Aramaic.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of the administration in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires from the seventh to fourth centuries BC: often called Imperial Aramaic or Official Aramaic.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of portions of the Hebrew Bible, mainly the books of Ezra and Daniel: often called Biblical Aramaic.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of Jesus of Nazareth: a form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Galilean Aramaic.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The language of Jewish targums, Midrash and the Talmuds, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The liturgical language of various Christian churches: often called Syriac.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
The liturgical language of the Mandaeans: usually called Mandaic.
glosses: A subfamily of languages in the Northwest Semitic language group, including, but not limited to:
Any language of this family today called Neo-Aramaic, and separated by religion also Judeo-Aramaic and Syriac
Synonyms: word: Chaldee
Derived terms: Achaemenid Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic
Christian Palestinian Aramaic
Egyptian Aramaic
Galilean Aramaic
Imperial Aramaic
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Jewish Literary Aramaic
Judean Aramaic
Judeo-Aramaic
Melkite Aramaic
Middle Aramaic
Modern Aramaic
Neo-Aramaic
Neo-Assyrian Aramaic
Neo-Babylonian Aramaic
Official Aramaic
Old Aramaic
Qumran Aramaic
Standard Aramaic
Syro-Aramaic
Syropalestinian Aramaic
Western Aramaic
Aramaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Forms: form: Aramaïc
Etymology: From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Referring to the Aramaic language, alphabet, culture or poetry.
Derived terms: Hebrew-Aramaic Scriptures
Aramaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ɹəˈmeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.əˈmeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Forms: form: Aramaics
form: Aramaïc
Etymology: From Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός (Aramaïkós), itself a calque of Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ / אָרָמָיָא (ʾārāmāyā, “Aramean”) using Ἀράμ f (Arám, “Aram”, the name of a land originally covering central regions of what is now Syria) (from Aramaic ܐܪܡ / ארם (ʾarām)) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix) (compare with Ἀραμαῖος (Aramaîos, “Aramean”), and the latter with Χαναναῖος (Khananaîos, “Chananean”), from Χαναάν f (Khanaán, “Canaan”) + -αῖος (-aîos)). By surface analysis, Aram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An Aramean.
Related terms: Aram
Arama-
Aramaism
Aramaist
Aramaization
Aramaize
Aramea
Aramean
Arameo-
Arameogram
Arameophone
Syria
Syriac
Syrian
bouquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːˈkeɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bʊˈke/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /boʊˈkeɪ/
note: Indic
ipa: /bɵˈke/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: bouquets
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *buskaz
Frankish *buskbor.
Early Medieval Latin boscus
Old French boisder.
Old French bochet
French bouquetubor.
English bouquet
Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.
 Doublet of bosket.
Senses: examples: text: For my birthday I received two bouquets.
glosses: A bunch of cut flowers.
examples: text: Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
text: Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.
ref: 2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs, page 10:
glosses: A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
examples: text: This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.
glosses: The scent of a particular wine.
examples: text: The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.
glosses: The middle note of a perfume.
examples: text: Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag.
ref: 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:
glosses: A compliment or expression of praise.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bouquet of circles.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
Derived terms: bouquetlike
bouquet of circles
bouquet of spheres
bouquets and brickbats
fruit bouquet
kitchen bouquet
Related terms: ambush
bush
bouquet garni
nosegay
corsage
posy
glabrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪbɹəs/
ipa: /ˈɡlæ-/
ipa: /ˈɡleɪbɹəs/
rhymes: -eɪbɹəs
Forms: form: more glabrous
form: most glabrous
Etymology: From Latin glaber (“smooth; bald, hairless”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives, denoting possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance). Glaber is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth; bright, shining”), possibly from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Vernacula or French Elm, whoſe leaves are thicker, and more florid, glabrous and ſmooth, delighting in the lower and moiſter grounds, where they will ſometimes riſe to above an hundred foot in height; […]
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, “. Chapter IV. Of the Elm.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 28:
text: [Crotalaria obtecta] Stems tall, erect, branched: stipules not decurrent: leaves simple, usually glabrous on the upper side: […] legumes oblong, many-seeded, glabrous or softly pubescent.
ref: 1834, Robert Wight, G[eorge] A[rnott] Walker-Arnott, “Order LVI.—Leguminosæ. Juss.”, in Prodromus Floræ Peninsulæ Indiæ Orientalis: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the Plants Found in the Peninsula of British India, Arranged According to the Natural System [Preliminary Publication of the Flora of the Peninsula of Oriential India], volume I, London: Parbury, Allen, & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 572, page 186:
english: Preliminary Publication of the Flora of the Peninsula of Oriential India
translation: Preliminary Publication of the Flora of the Peninsula of Oriential India
text: 'I am bound by precedent,' said the First Lord, turning a vast glabrous expressionless face from Harte to Sir Joseph.
ref: 1973, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 1, in HMS Surprise, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Adriaan rose, pulling out his limbering glabrous cock, his eyes happy.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 190:
text: The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.
ref: 1981, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Mo O Mo Inta Allo”, in Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series), New York, N.Y.; London: Penguin Books, published 1983, →ISBN, part 1 (The Niger), page 143:
synonyms: calvous
antonyms: word: nonglabrous
word: bald
word: callow
word: calvous
word: depilous
word: glabrous
word: hairless
word: smooth
glosses: Bald, hairless; smooth.
wikipedia: Pietro Perugino
Vallombrosa Abbey
Vallombrosa Altarpiece
Derived terms: glabrity
glabrously
glabrousness
glabrous skin
nonglabrous
subglabrous
Related terms: glabrate
glabrescent
salient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.ljənt/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.li.ənt/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.ljənt/
Forms: form: salients
Etymology: The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “projecting outward” are borrowed from Latin salientem, the accusative form of saliēns (“springing, leaping”), present participle of saliō (“leap, spring”, verb). The senses “prominent” and “pertinent” are relatively recent, and derive from the phrase salient point, which is a calque of the Latin punctum saliēns, a translation of Aristotle's term for the embryonal heart visible in (opened) eggs, which he thought seemed to move already. Compare also the German calque der springende Punkt.
Senses: examples: text: On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
ref: 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9:
text: The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
ref: 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: enclave
exclave
glosses: A protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
examples: text: Orogenic arcs are made up by more advanced segments (salients) separated by less advanced zones (recesses) (Miser, 1932). Within salients, the critical taper is lower, the distance among thrust ramps is larger, and there may be more ramps departing from the basal décollement layer with respect to the recess areas.
ref: 2018 April 17, Michele Livani, Davide Scrocca, Paola Arecco, Carlo Doglioni, “Structural and Stratigraphic Control on Salient and Recess Development Along a Thrust Belt Front: The Northern Apennines (Po Plain, Italy)”, in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, volume 123, number 5, →DOI, pages 4360-4387:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
antonyms: recess
glosses: An overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
Derived terms: salient pole
Related terms: english: to leap forth; cognate; both of these military terms come from a verb meaning but in different ways
translation: to leap forth; cognate; both of these military terms come from a verb meaning but in different ways
word: sally
oligarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligarchy
hoodwink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
ipa: /ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk/
Forms: form: hoodwinks
Etymology: The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”). (< C16 'to blindfold').
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.
ref: a. 1733, [John] Gay, The Distress’d Wife. A Comedy, London: […] Thomas Astley […], published 1743, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 8:
text: Here were old buildings, and mazy webs of wandering; soft cliff was handy, dark wood and rushing waters, tangled lanes, fuzzy corners, nooks of overhanging, depths of in-and-out hood-winks of nature, when she does not wish man to know everything about her.
ref: 1894, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “The Pride of Life”, in Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company […], →OCLC, page 417:
glosses: An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
examples: text: Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, “The Thirtieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […], London: […] Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, →OCLC, page 164:
topics: games
synonyms: word: hoodman-blind
glosses: The game of blind man's buff.
warez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /wɑːɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: wares
homophone: wears
homophone: where's (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: warez
form: juarez
Etymology: The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software.
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the day Mad Hatter, a ringleader of the software piracy group called the Inner Circle, will have poured 300 Mbytes of illegal “warez” onto the Internet.
ref: 1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: Too many gamers see nothing wrong with downloading “warez” (usually pronounced “wares,” but also “wah-rez”), retail software products that have been “ripped” to make them smaller and remove copy protection.
ref: 1999 April, T. Liam McDonald, “WaReZ the Logic?”, in Maximum PC, →ISSN, page 41:
text: Warez appeared in the 1980s with the advent of Bulletin Board Systems.
ref: 2012, Eric Diehl, Securing Digital Video […] , Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.
warez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /wɑːɹɛz/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: wares
homophone: wears
homophone: where's (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: warezes
form: warezing
form: warezed
form: warezed
form: juarez
Etymology: The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software.
Senses: examples: text: Many of these keys are, obviously, being used by people who've warezed XP, but there's also a reasonably large number of software professionals and refuseniks who have used them even though they have a legitimately bought version of XP.
ref: 2002 June 7, John Lettice, “MS turns up heat on warezed WinXP copies”, in The Register:
text: Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player [title]
ref: 2004 November 12, Timothy Lord, “Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player”, in Slashdot:
glosses: To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally.
astonish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɒnɪʃ/
ipa: /əˈstɑnɪʃ/
Forms: form: astonishes
form: astonishing
form: astonished
form: astonished
Etymology: Probably an alteration (due to words ending in -ish: abolish, banish, cherish, establish, furnish, etc.) of earlier astony, astone, astun (“to astonish, stun”), from Middle English astoneyen, astonen (“to stun, astonish”), variant of stonen, stoneyen (“to stun, astonish”) prefixed with a-. However, compare Old French estonir, a rare variant of estoner (“to stun, astonish”).
Senses: examples: text: "I have no right to give my opinion," said Wickham, "as to his being agreeable or otherwise. I am not qualified to form one. I have known him too long and too well to be a fair judge. It is impossible for me to be impartial. But I believe your opinion of him would in general astonish — and perhaps you would not express it quite so strongly anywhere else. Here you are in your own family."
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: astound
flabbergast
surprise
astony
glosses: To surprise greatly.
Derived terms: astonishable
astonished
astonishedly
astonisher
astonishing
astonishment
astonisht
reastonish
postcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌkɑɹd/
Forms: form: postcards
form: post card
form: post-card
Etymology: From post + card.
Senses: qualifier: postal
glosses: A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically used for sending messages by mail without the need for an envelope.
Derived terms: answer on a postcard
e-postcard
picture postcard
postcardish
postcardlike
postcardware
postcardy
postcard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌkɑɹd/
Forms: form: postcards
form: postcarding
form: postcarded
form: postcarded
form: post card
form: post-card
Etymology: From post + card.
Senses: examples: text: to postcard one's friends
glosses: To send a postcard to someone.
examples: text: to postcard one's news
glosses: To send by means of a postcard.
serf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːf/
ipa: /sɝf/
homophone: surf (fern–fir–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: serfs
Etymology: From Middle English serf, from Old French serf, from Latin servus (“slave, serf, servant”).
Senses: glosses: A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
glosses: A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
synonyms: peasant
peon
villager
qualifier: strategy games
glosses: A worker unit.
Derived terms: serfage
serfdom
serfhood
serfish
serfism
Related terms: service
servile
servitor
servitude
servo
slave
pastor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːstə/
ipa: /ˈpæstɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
homophone: pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)
Forms: form: pastors
form: pastour
Etymology: From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.
Senses: glosses: Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.
topics: Christianity
Protestantism
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: shepherd
elder
pastor-teacher
hypernyms: cleric
cleric
coordinate_terms: imam
guru
rabbi
sangha
glosses: Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
A minister or priest in a church.
examples: text: The pastor told CNN on Tuesday that no members of his megachurch have contracted the virus. MacArthur also said he doubted the accuracy of California’s coronavirus numbers. […] Most of the pastors who have bucked the rules are fringe figures in American Christianity.
ref: 2020 August 12, Daniel Burke, “California church defies public health orders, holds indoor services for thousands with no social distancing”, in CNN:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: shepherd
parish priest
hypernyms: cleric
cleric
coordinate_terms: imam
guru
rabbi
sangha
parochial vicar
glosses: Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people.
The main priest serving a parish.
examples: text: Agricultural officers have put it on record that the pastor must on balance be considered beneficial on account of the vast quantities of locusts which it destroys.
ref: 1944, Country Life, volume 95, page 820:
glosses: A bird, the rosy starling.
Derived terms: copastor
impastor
pastorage
pastoral
pastorate
pastoress
pastorhood
pastorize
pastorless
pastorlike
pastorly
pastorpreneur
pastorship
pastress
rose-colored pastor
rose-coloured pastor
rosy pastor
subpastor
Related terms: al pastor
pastor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːstə/
ipa: /ˈpæstɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
homophone: pasta (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)
Forms: form: pastors
form: pastoring
form: pastored
form: pastored
form: pastour
Etymology: From Middle English pastour, from Old French pastor (Modern French pasteur), from Latin pāstor.
Senses: examples: text: As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office.
ref: 2009 January 21, Shaila Dewan, “Epic Campaign Divided Family, Then United It”, in New York Times:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To serve a congregation as pastor
Related terms: cleric
father
minister
parson
priest
reverend
vicar
stochasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stochasticities
Etymology: From stochastic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan.
Synonyms: haphazardness
noise
randomness
Related terms: stochastic
haphazardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haphazard + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This low number points to the incompleteness and, with respect, haphazardness of the two selections.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 117:
synonyms: noise
randomness
stochasticity
glosses: The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan.
ignoble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnəʊbəl/
ipa: /ɪɡˈnoʊbəl/
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: ignobler
form: ignoblest
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ignoble, from Latin ignōbilis, from in- (“not”) + gnōbilis, later nōbilis (“noble”).
Senses: examples: text: I was not ignoble of descent.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third 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]:
glosses: Not noble; plebeian; common.
examples: text: A base, ignoble mind, / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second 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 II, scene i]:
text: far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
ref: 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
glosses: Not honorable; base.
glosses: Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of an element, dangerously reactive.
Synonyms: word: common
word: plebeian
word: vulgar
sense: not honorable
word: degenerate
sense: not honorable
word: mean
sense: not honorable
word: base
sense: not honorable
word: vile
sense: not honorable
word: low-minded
sense: not honorable
word: reproachful
sense: not honorable
word: shameful
sense: not honorable
word: disgraceful
Derived terms: ignobility
ignobleness
ignobly
ignoble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnəʊbəl/
ipa: /ɪɡˈnoʊbəl/
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: ignobles
form: ignobling
form: ignobled
form: ignobled
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ignoble, from Latin ignōbilis, from in- (“not”) + gnōbilis, later nōbilis (“noble”).
Senses: glosses: To make ignoble; to bring low.
artificers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificer
yakka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakker
Etymology: From Yagara yaga (“work”).
Senses: examples: text: The demand for work and abortion shows that feminists have been coopted by the wimps, whose ideal is the single mother yoked to tough yakka; for it frees them to drift between bedrooms and bathhouses.
ref: 1986, Quadrant, Volume 30, page 42:
text: The slaves who do all the yakka could be another species, small and easily bullied. Failing that, enslaved humans will do.
ref: 1991 July 3, Michael Barlow, “PURDITORY: Harridans [Harsoc]”, in aus.games.roleplay (Usenet):
text: I have seen way too many cheap cranksets go to the pack after a small amount of x-country and minor technical yakka off-road.
ref: 2002 October 22, MPD, “Drivetrain component upgrade”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):
glosses: Work.
Derived terms: hard yakka
yakka
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yakker
Etymology: From Yagara yaga (“work”).
Senses: glosses: To work.
time-tested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more time-tested
form: most time-tested
form: time tested
Senses: glosses: Tested and proved to be reliable over a period of time.
Related terms: test of time
khamsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.sɪn/
/kæmˈsin/
Forms: form: khamsins
form: chamsin
form: hamsin
form: khamseen
form: khamaseen
form: kamsin
form: kamseen
Etymology: From Egyptian Arabic خَمْسِين (ḵamsīn, “fifty”); see khamaseen for more.
Senses: examples: text: That second spring the khamseen was worse than I have ever known it before or since.
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, published 1968, page 121:
glosses: A hot, dry wind, common in Egypt, Sudan and the Levant towards the end of March and April, which blows (for about 50 days each year) from the desert, bringing with it hot weather and sand / sandstorms.
Synonyms: khamaseen