cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
boots
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: examples: text: That dress is fierce boots!
text: Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.
ref: 2021 December 2, Raffy Ermac, “Meet the Sickening Queens of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 14”, in Out:
text: As for Lindsay [Hubbard], it’s like this Courrèges dress was hand dyed to look as excellent on her as a dress could possibly look. Her breasts are sat, her waist snatched, and all the other sorts of things I could possibly say about a girl boss queen who slays boots the house.
ref: 2024 May 16, Joan Summers, “So Chic, Very Chic: Trade of the Season”, in Paper:
text: [see title]
ref: 2024 June 12, Jess Reynolds, “47 pics from D.C.'s Capital Pride Parade 2024 that are boots the house (and Senate) down queer joy”, in Out:
text: “Bring your best burns to the main stage and roast your partner down the house boots. The winner of each battle will earn themselves a top placement. While the loser will be in the bottom and possibly up for elimination,” Brad Goreski explained to the contestants.
ref: 2024 August 11, Jordan Robledo, “Drag Race: Here’s why Miss Fiercalicious is “furious” over latest Canada vs the World episode”, in Gay Times:
text: There’s some people in the world who treat the girls differently based on their track records, which is crazy boots, but now you can clock the tea, clock the track record, clock the win, clock the tiara and… you could never.
ref: 2024 September 6, Sam Damshenas, quoting Lemon, “Drag Race winner Lemon on fulfilling her zestiny and prioritising “party girl vibes””, in Gay Times:
synonyms: word: above a bit
word: absolutely
word: abundantly
word: all too
word: but good
word: completely
word: eminently
word: ever so
word: exceedingly
word: excessively
word: extremely
word: greatly
word: highly
word: in spades
word: main
word: mightily
word: murrain
word: passing
word: positively
word: pretty
word: quite
word: right
word: simply
word: sore
word: specially
word: strongly
word: swith
word: truly
word: vastly
word: very
word: very much
word: way
word: way too
word: wicked
qualifier: drag slang
glosses: Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.
boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boot
yummy mummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yummy mummies
Senses: examples: text: I'm not a yummy mummy. No matter what you actually look like after you've had a baby, you just will feel frumpy.
ref: 2004, Kate Taylor, A Woman's Guide to Sex:
text: It was a guessing game about which car was going to leave next, who was going to come home next and would Yummy Mummy be wearing the tight tights again.
ref: 2005, Chris Cooper, Behind the Private Eye - The private Investigator's Secrets - Surveillance tales and techniques:
text: Formes is the freshest of the major maternity chains, but the staid selection is more French-mumsy than yummy-mummy.
ref: 2005: Fairchild and Gallagher, Where to wear London 2006
synonyms: yummy
MILF
hypernyms: mamacita
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woman
<
person
coordinate_terms: trophy wife
glosses: A mother who is sexually attractive.
launderette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːnˈdɹɛt/
ipa: /lɔndəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: launderettes
form: laundrette
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Launderette; originally a proprietary name (1940s) of Bendix corporation, from launder + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use.
examples: text: The distinction is by no means watertight as any 'money launderette' may become a money launderer – and hence be guilty of a money laundering offence – the moment it knowingly engages in a money laundering operation.
ref: 2000, Guy Stessens, Money Laundering: A New International Law Enforcement Model, page 133:
text: From drug money to terrorist finance: the launderette's many different washing cycles
ref: 2009, Christine Jojarth, Crime, War, and Global Trafficking, page 140:
text: This is a stage at which the proceeds of illegal activity are introduced into the financial system and therefore it is the most vulnerable stage in the launderette. Perhaps this is why anti-money laundering measures are concerned about “Know Your Customer Principle.
ref: 2015, Ibrahim Abdul Abubakar, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing, page 63:
glosses: A money laundering operation.
Synonyms: sense: self-service laundry facility
word: laundromat
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: laundrette
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washateria
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washeteria
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washery
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washette
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: coin laundry
sense: money-laundering operation
word: laundromat
manet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin manet (“he remains”), manent (“they remain”), inflections of maneō.
Senses: examples: text: Exeunt Princess and maidens. Manet Lady Blanche.
ref: 1884, W.S. Gilbert, Princess Ida:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.
Coordinate terms: exit
exeunt
yep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛp/
ipa: [jɛp̚]
ipa: [jɛʔ]
ipa: [jɛʔp̚]
rhymes: -ɛp
Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).
Senses: synonyms: word: See Thesaurus:yay
word: See Thesaurus:wow
antonyms: nope
glosses: Yes.
yep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛp/
ipa: [jɛp̚]
ipa: [jɛʔ]
ipa: [jɛʔp̚]
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: yeps
Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll take that as a yep, then.
glosses: Yes.
pertaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈteɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /pəˈteɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪn
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pertain
pertaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈteɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /pəˈteɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: pertainings
Senses: examples: text: When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.
ref: 1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature, page 90:
glosses: Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
pertain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈteɪn/
ipa: /pəˈteɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: pertains
form: pertaining
form: pertained
form: pertained
Etymology: From Middle English pertenen, from Old French partenir, pertenir (modern French appartenir), in turn from Latin pertineō, pertinēre.
Senses: examples: text: That spare wheel pertains to this car.
synonyms: belong
glosses: To belong to or be connected as a part, adjunct, attribute, or accessory.
examples: text: That question doesn't pertain to the topic, so I'm not going to answer it.
synonyms: relate
concern
glosses: To relate to, concern, or be relevant to.
examples: text: An explanation offered is that every Sabbath Va'ani Tefilati is said in praise of the people of Israel, who, though they eat and drink, read the Torah and pray. However, on Yom Kippur this does not pertain.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 340:
synonyms: apply
glosses: To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable.
synonyms: suit
befit
glosses: To be appropriate or suitable.
Synonyms: word: appertain
word: affect
word: bear upon
word: bear on
word: concern
word: impact
word: involve
word: pertain
word: refer
word: regard
word: relate
word: touch
Derived terms: pertainment
pertainym
unpertaining
Related terms: word: pertinent
word: pertinence
word: pertinency
word: pertinently (adverb}}
mansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈmæn.t͡ʃən/
Forms: form: mansions
form: mansioun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”).
Senses: glosses: A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
glosses: A luxurious flat (apartment).
glosses: An apartment building.
raw_tags: used in names
glosses: A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
examples: text: According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192:
glosses: A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
glosses: An astrological house; a station of the moon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
examples: text: In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John XIV:2:
text: These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.
ref: 1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets:
text: The many mansions in one east London house of God.
ref: 2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003
glosses: An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
glosses: Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
Derived terms: cinemansion
executive mansion
lunar mansion
mansional
mansioned
mansionette
mansionization
mansionless
mansionlike
mansionry
McMansion
megamansion
minimansion
tract mansion
Related terms: maison
maisonette
manor
manse
mansionette
mansion house
mansion place
mansionry
mansion stage
menage
menial
capital messuage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital messuages
Etymology: capital + messuage
Senses: glosses: A house together with its yard, outbuildings, and land.
clergyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɝd͡ʒimən/
ipa: /ˈklɜːdʒimən/
Forms: form: clergymen
Etymology: From clergy + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: clergy
text: I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.
ref: 1883, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 128:
text: The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 263:
hypernyms: clergyperson
cleric
coordinate_terms: clergywoman
glosses: A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
Derived terms: nonclergyman
ordained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹˈdeɪnd/
ipa: /ɔːˈdeɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: Established by authority.
examples: text: There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.
glosses: Admitted to the ministry of the church.
Derived terms: nonordained
self-ordained
unordained
ordained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹˈdeɪnd/
ipa: /ɔːˈdeɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ordain
ordain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹˈdeɪn/
ipa: /ɔːˈdeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: ordains
form: ordaining
form: ordained
form: ordained
Etymology: From Middle English ordeynen, from Old French ordiner, from Latin ordinare (“to order”), from ordo (“order”). Doublet of ordinate.
Senses: examples: text: What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 15, lines 248–251:
glosses: To prearrange unalterably.
examples: text: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
glosses: To decree.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
glosses: To predestine.
Synonyms: foresay
Derived terms: coordain
disordain
foreordain
misordain
ordainable
ordainee
ordainer
ordainment
preordain
reordain
unordain
Related terms: ordination
decree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: decrees
Etymology: From Middle English decre, decree, from Old French decré (French décret), from Latin dēcrētum.
Senses: examples: text: There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:1:
text: Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: edict
glosses: An edict or law.
topics: law
glosses: The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
topics: law
glosses: The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.
Derived terms: consent decree
counterdecree
decree absolute
decree arbitral
decree nisi
decreer
decree time
final decree
imperial decree
postdecree
predecree
decree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: decrees
form: decreeing
form: decreed
form: decreed
Etymology: From Middle English decre, decree, from Old French decré (French décret), from Latin dēcrētum.
Senses: examples: text: A court decrees a restoration of property.
text: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 22:28:
text: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:
text: The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan traditions meet. China has decreed that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province.
ref: 2022 November 8, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Why Does This Tibetan Kitchen Also Cook Sichuan Food?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2022, Food:
glosses: To command by a decree.
Derived terms: decreeable
redecree
undecreed
edict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.dɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: edicts
Etymology: From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
Senses: examples: text: By this time the edict had gone forth that the railways were to be nationalised on January 1, 1948.
ref: 1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 844:
text: It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out.
ref: 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2019:
glosses: A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
Derived terms: edictal
proclamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɑkləˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒkləˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: proclamations
Etymology: From Middle English proclamacion, from Anglo-Norman and Old French proclamacion, from Late Latin proclāmātiō, from the verb Latin prōclāmō.
Senses: examples: text: The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.
glosses: A statement which is proclaimed; formal public announcement.
Related terms: proclaim
formal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹməl/
ipa: /ˈfɔːməl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: formals
Etymology: From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I open up the door / And much to my surprise / The girls were wearin' formals / And the boys were wearin' ties
ref: 1965, Shadow Morton, “Sophisticated Boom Boom”, performed by The Shangri-Las:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An evening gown.
examples: text: Jenny took Sam to her Year 12 formal.
glosses: An event with a formal dress code.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A formal parameter.
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: Ellipsis of formal hall.
Derived terms: formal swap
formal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹməl/
ipa: /ˈfɔːməl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: formals
Etymology: See formo-.
Senses: glosses: Formalin.
glosses: An acetal formed from formaldehyde.
Related terms: hemiformal
attachment disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attachment disorders
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A condition where a person, especially a child, has difficulty, or is incapable of, bonding with others.
commute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːt/
ipa: /kəˈmjut/
ipa: /kəˈmjʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: commutes
Etymology: From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.
Senses: examples: text: PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.
ref: 2012 July 12, Nathan Pachal, “TomTom Congestion Index Useless for Metro Vancouver”, in The South Fraser Blog:
glosses: A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
glosses: The route, time or distance of that journey.
commute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːt/
ipa: /kəˈmjut/
ipa: /kəˈmjʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: commutes
form: commuting
form: commuted
form: commuted
Etymology: From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.
Senses: examples: text: I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
text: My convention diary is unusually disjointed, since I was mingily commuting from Berkshire rather than pay £65 per night for a single room.
ref: 2005, David Langford, The Sex Column and Other Misprints, page 66:
text: MRS. PATERSON, a runner and semilapsed vegetarian — she eats meat once a week to fend off anemia — spends weekdays in Manhattan with her son and commutes to Albany most weekends; she and her husband rented out their house in Guilderland, an Albany suburb, and have moved into the Executive Mansion, where she is continuing Ms. Wall Spitzer’s “greening” initiative.
ref: 2008 June 6, Robin Finn, “No Bed of Roses for a Sudden First Lady”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
glosses: To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
examples: text: By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
glosses: To journey, to make a journey
Derived terms: commuter
counter-commute
postcommute
reverse-commute
reverse commute
telecommute
outlive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈlɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: outlives
form: outliving
form: outlived
form: outlived
Etymology: From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
Senses: examples: text: And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
ref: 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.
text: If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.
ref: 2003, Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving,, page 1:
glosses: To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
examples: text: This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: To live through or past (a given time).
glosses: To surpass in duration; outlast.
glosses: To live longer; continue to live.
Synonyms: sense: live longer than
word: survive
Hyponyms: sense: live longer than
word: postdecease
Derived terms: outliver
laksa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laksas
Etymology: From Malay laksa.
Senses: glosses: A spicy noodle stew from Indonesia or Malaysia.
Derived terms: Penang laksa
boozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuː.zə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boozers
Etymology: From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: “Tess is a fine figure o′ fun, as I said to myself today when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest,” observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented, published 1963, page 25:
text: But they have only one insurance rate for ordinary men — drinkers and non-drinkers, and they compel the man who doesn′t booze to make up for the extra amount that the boozer should pay.
ref: 1918, Charles Stelzle, Why Prohibition!, published 2008, page 49:
text: "You were actually taking that old boozer seriously."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 171:
text: 2009 November, Neville Franks, The Lost Boy of the Ozarks, Backpacker, page 82,
Every swig made me more relaxed, and happy, and I was definitely a boozer again, and I wondered why I had ever thought I wasn't a boozer and I took another pull and I was going to clap BC on the back and thank him for being such a good hotel manager, and faithful guide, for being my friend, and then I passed out.
glosses: One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.
examples: text: Zoe’s dad went to the same boozer every day, a flat-roofed pub on the edge of the estate, with the cross of St George hanging above the door and a ferocious-looking Rottweiler tied up outside.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: During the week, the players were just as likely to be spotted out together in a local pub such as the Four in Hand. It was even known for them to frequent the Marksman off Carters Green, one of the town’s roughest boozers.
ref: 2014 July 25, The Guardian:
glosses: A public house, pub.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.
examples: 2010 June 8, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2,
Mr. Mututho: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister should assure the people of Vihiga that they will get a water boozer because the sick people are not party to this complication. Could he assure the people that he can send a boozer in his capacity even if he cannot supply power or a standby generator, so that they can have a small well?
glosses: A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.
Synonyms: sense: drunkard
word: drunkard
sense: public house
word: pub
sense: water-supply vehicle
word: bowser
sense: water-supply vehicle
word: tanker
Related terms: booze
bewail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈweɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: bewails
form: bewailing
form: bewailed
form: bewailed
Etymology: From Middle English bewailen, equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + wail.
Senses: examples: text: […] Though in this city he
Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury,
Yet he shall have a noble memory.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
text: And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 8:52:
text: […] when the wind
Blows keenly, it sends forth a creaking sound
(Above the general roar of woods and crags)
Distinctly heard from far--a doleful note!
As if (so Grecian shepherds would have deemed)
The Hamadryad, pent within, bewailed
Some bitter wrong.
ref: 1820, William Wordsworth, The Haunted Tree:
text: About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
ref: 1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale Bishop, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 18, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
text: Far from bewailing the existence of mysteries-for-humans, we should be extremely grateful for it.
ref: 2016, Noam Chomsky, What Kind of Creatures Are We?, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Boxed out of federal governing, Democratic voters have bewailed the impotence of their party’s leaders as the Republican administration has dismantled government agencies, claimed wartime powers to deport immigrants – and, last week, imposed an unprecedented level of tariffs that sparked a rout in global financial markets.
ref: 2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its voice again?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: word: bemoan
word: grieve
word: lament
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.
Derived terms: bewailable
bewailer
bewailing
bewailingly
bewailment
unbewailed
unbewailing
lament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: laments
Etymology: From French lamenter, from Latin lāmentor (“I wail, weep”), from lāmenta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.
Senses: glosses: An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
glosses: A song expressing grief.
Derived terms: word: lamentacious
word: lamentful
word: lamentless
lament
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: laments
form: lamenting
form: lamented
form: lamented
Etymology: From French lamenter, from Latin lāmentor (“I wail, weep”), from lāmenta (“wailings, laments, moanings”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.
Senses: examples: text: Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 16:20:
synonyms: word: grieve
word: mourn
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
word: beef
word: bellyache
word: bemoan
word: bitch
word: bleat
word: carp
word: chunter
word: complain
word: crab
word: croak
word: dump on
word: frine
word: girn
word: give out
word: grumble
word: grotch
word: grouse
word: grouch
word: grump
word: gruntle
word: gripe
word: harp
word: inveigh
word: kvetch
word: latrate
word: make a stink
word: murmur
word: mutter
word: moan
word: nag
word: nark
word: nudzh
word: pinch
word: piss and moan
word: rail
word: rail out
word: repine
word: ride
word: snivel
word: whine
word: whinge
glosses: To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
examples: text: Euston is so traditionally a part of the London scene that many will lament the passing of the old station when rebuilding is complete in readiness for the new electric service, which will probably be by multiple-units between Euston and Wolverhampton.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
text: By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:
text: One laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
synonyms: bemoan
bewail
glosses: To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.
Synonyms: word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
Hypernyms: word: feel
Hyponyms: word: despair
Related terms: word: lamentability
word: lamentable
word: lamentation
word: Lamentations
word: lamenting
word: be sad
word: sad
word: sadden
disapproval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈpɹuvəl/
ipa: [dɪsəˈpɹuːvəɫ]
Forms: form: disapprovals
Etymology: From dis- + approval.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone glared in disapproval at the man talking loudly on the phone.
glosses: The act of disapproving; condemnation.
Synonyms: disapprobation
dispraise
Related terms: disapprobation
disapprove
prone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊn/
ipa: /pɹoʊn/
ipa: /pɹəʉn/
ipa: /pɹɐʉn/
ipa: /pɹɐʉn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: proner
form: more prone
form: pronest
form: most prone
Etymology: From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from prō (“forward”).
Senses: examples: text: prone position
text: But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: prostrate
antonyms: supine
glosses: Lying face-down.
examples: text: The hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.
glosses: Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.
glosses: Having a downward inclination or slope.
topics: government
military
politics
video-games
war
glosses: Shooting from a position while lying down.
examples: text: prone to failure
text: Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 141”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: Predisposed, liable, inclined.
Synonyms: neveling
nuel
Derived terms: accident-prone
error-prone
fault-prone
flood-prone
floodprone
gossip-prone
injury-prone
pronate
pronation
-prone
prone-bone
proned
proneness
prone position
prone positioning
prone to
proning
prone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊn/
ipa: /pɹoʊn/
ipa: /pɹəʉn/
ipa: /pɹɐʉn/
ipa: /pɹɐʉn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: prones
form: proning
form: proned
form: proned
Etymology: From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from prō (“forward”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To place in a prone position, to place face down.
Derived terms: prone out
prone to
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prone to
form: most prone to
Senses: examples: text: Men are naturally exceeding prone to deceive themselves in the opinion they have of themselves.
text: Some trees are prone to disease in an urban setting.
text: Are people who report recovered memories more prone to developing false memories?
glosses: Inclined to; having a tendency to.
glosses: Having the potential to.
propanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The systematic name of the simplest ketone with formula C₃H₆O, usually called acetone.
condign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʌɪn/
ipa: /kənˈdaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: more condign
form: most condign
Etymology: From Middle English condigne, from Old French condigne, from Latin condignus, from con- + dignus (“worthy”). Compare deign.
Senses: examples: text: Vnlesse it were a bloody Murtherer,
Or foule felonious Theefe, that fleec'd poore passengers,
I neuer gaue them condigne punishment.
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 III, scene i], page 131, column 1:
text: Consider, then, who is your best friend: he that would have brought him to condign punishment, or he that has saved him?
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The conference between don Diego and John Bull.”, in John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 117:
text: When our Mahmouds or Selims of Baker Street or Belgrave Square visit their Fatimas with condign punishment, their mothers sew up Fatima’s sack for her, and her sisters and sisters-in-law see her well under water.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: Pooh-bah. […] And so, / Although / I wish to go, / And greatly pine / To brightly shine, / And take the line / Of a hero fine, / With grief condign / I must decline—
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, section I, page 18:
text: For a Christian, no Beyond is acceptable or imaginable without the participation of God in our eternal destiny, and this in turn implies a condign punishment for every sin, great and small.
ref: 1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Commentary”, in Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN, page 149, line 549:
text: Can liberals accept that an undervote usually reflects either voter carelessness, for which the voter suffers the condign punishment of an unrecorded preference, or it reflects the voter's choice not to express a preference?
ref: 2004 October 21, George F. Will, “"Disenfranchised' voters: victims of incompetence”, in The St. Petersburg Times:
glosses: Fitting, appropriate, deserved, especially denoting punishment.
Synonyms: just
merited
Derived terms: condignity
condignly
condignness
incondign
candy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'di
ipa: /ˈkæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: candies
form: candying
form: candied
form: candied
Etymology: From Middle English sugre candy, from Old French sucre candi (literally “candied sugar”), from Arabic سُكَّر قَنْدِي (sukkar qandī), from Arabic قَنْد (qand, “rock candy”), from Persian کند (kand) from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa, “piece, fragment, candied sugar, dried molasses”), root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”), or from Proto-Dravidian *kaṇṭu; compare Tamil கண்டு (kaṇṭu, “hard candy”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
examples: text: Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
glosses: To have sugar crystals form in or on.
glosses: To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăn'di
ipa: /ˈkæn.di/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: candies
form: candee
form: candie
form: candil
form: kandy
Etymology: From Marathi खंडी (khaṇḍī), from Sanskrit खण्डन (khaṇḍana), from root खण्ड् (khaṇḍ, “to divide, break into pieces”).
Senses: glosses: A unit of weight used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
Synonyms: maunee
Santa Claus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæn.təˌklɔːz/
ipa: /ˈsæn.təˌklɑz/
ipa: /ˈsæn.təˌklɔz/
ipa: /ˈsæːn.təˌkloːz/
Forms: form: Santa Clauses
form: Santa Clause
form: Santaclaus
form: Santa Klaus
form: Santiclaus
form: Santy Claus
form: Santeclaus
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Sinterklaas (“Saint Nicholas”). Doublet of Sinterklaas.
Senses: examples: text: Last Monday the Anniversary of St. Nicholas, otherwise called St. A Claus, was celebrated at Protestant-Hall.
ref: 1773 December 26, New York Gazette, p. 3
text: The noted St. Nicholas, vulgarly called Santaclaus—of all the saints in the kalendar the most venerated by true hollanders, and their unsophisticated descendants.
ref: 1808 January 25, Salmagundi, p. 407
text: Here, too, the winter festivals are just commencing; and the toy-shops are full of dolls and gew-gaws for the Bifana, who acts here the same comedy for children that Santiclaus does in America.
ref: 1828 November, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to his mother from Italy
text: This is one of the developments Karl Marx failed to predict. Had he foreseen it he might have expired in guffaws, rolling in the aisle of the British Museum Library amid the notes for Das Kapital, that bearded Santa Claus of the revolution who slipped the unwanted gift of communism down the world's chimneys.
ref: 1937 August, Lawrence Martin, "The Odyssey of a Bogeyman", Esquire, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 39
text: Emmeline: Oh Richard, you can't know everything. Only God knows everything.
Richard: God—He can't find us any better than Santa Claus.
ref: 1980, Douglas Day Stewart, The Blue Lagoon:
text: By 1900, department-store Santa Clauses were common – lodged in grottoes, cottages, and workshops or on thrones, they presided over a never-ending stream of children.
ref: 2005, Gerry Bowler, “Santa the Adman”, in Santa Claus: A Biography, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: Father Christmas
Kris Kringle
Mr. Claus
Saint Claus
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nick
Santa
glosses: A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
examples: text: I then probe as to whether he is waiting for some Santa Claus to make him well, strong, and happy, or whether he is waiting for rigor mortis to deliver him from his earthly troubles.
ref: 1978, Henry Grayson, Clemens A. Loew, Changing approaches to the psychotherapies, page 314:
glosses: A generous source of free gifts or benefits.
glosses: A town in Spencer County, Indiana. Original name: Santa Fe.
glosses: A city in Georgia, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Arizona.
Derived terms: Mistress Santa Claus
Mrs Santa Claus
Mrs. Santa Claus
Santa
Santa Claus melon
Santa Paws
Related terms: word: Father Frost
word: Jesus
word: Mrs. Claus
english: holiday gift bringers in some cultures
translation: holiday gift bringers in some cultures
word: Three Wise Men
funda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundas
form: fundae
form: fundaes
Etymology: Contraction of fundamental, originating in Indian English.
Senses: examples: text: Get your funda correct before you submit the paper.
text: What is the funda behind relativity?
text: 1992 http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.invest/msg/0fe47958fa1d469a
In my opinion, the funda is as follows:
glosses: Basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit.
examples: text: You did not have the funda to realize that the statistics is an ass.
ref: 1993, http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/b39dd8393c559598
text: But then, your funda is weak.
ref: 1993, http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/4596874842587e78
glosses: Understanding.
Related terms: fundu
supercilious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuː.pəˈsɪ.li.əs/
ipa: /ˌsu.pɚˈsɪ.li.əs/
rhymes: -ɪliəs
Forms: form: more supercilious
form: most supercilious
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin superciliōsus (“haughty”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 206:
text: "I've tried to be a good man, sir, and do my duty honest, and if it wasn't for the supercilus^([sic]) kind of way in which father carried on last night - a sort of sniffing at me as it were, as though he hadn't no opinion of my references and testimonials - I should feel easy enough in my mind."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
ref: 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:
synonyms: word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
glosses: Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
Derived terms: superciliously
superciliousness
Huancayo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and province, the capital of the Junín region, Peru.
on the same page
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I want to make sure we're all on the same page with the game plan for the Acme account.
text: Our unions want to see their members protected, and we have no desire to get into conflict with them on this. We're all on the same page.
ref: 2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Confusion and dissent over face mask requirements”, in RAIL, number 936, page 9:
text: He later emailed OpenAI’s executives, telling them that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner. “I did not feel we’re on the same page on the damage of all this,” he wrote.
ref: 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, quoting Sam Altman, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In broad agreement or sharing a common general understanding or knowledge (common in office environments).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: on the same page.
Related terms: on board
eye to eye
agreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From agree + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agree
Derived terms: agreeingly
agreeingness
disagreeingly
nonagreeing
unagreeing
agreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agreeings
Etymology: From agree + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He had many wars; inextricable coil of claimings, quarrellings and agreeings […]
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Called Frederick the Great:
glosses: An agreement.