cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
manchineel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmæntʃɪˈniːl/
Forms: form: manchineels
Etymology: From Spanish manzanillo, from manzana (“apple”), from Latin malum Matianum (“a kind of apple”).
Senses: synonyms: beach apple
manchineel tree
glosses: A tropical American tree (Hippomane mancinella), having apple-like, poisonous fruit, and a sap that causes blisters on contact with the skin.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cameraria latifolia
word: bastard manchineel
word: manchineel tree
bigotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡ.ə.tɹi/
Forms: form: bigotries
Etymology: From French bigoterie, from bigot. By surface analysis, bigot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The remarkable resilience of the Ku Klux Klan is a sad reminder of the persistence of racial and religious bigotry in the United States. No terrorist organization can match the Klan's mystique or long history, and few can match its success.
ref: 1979, Ted Robert Gurr, Violence in America: Protest, Rebellion, Reform, page 131:
text: For boys like Battuta, white women — never mind fat, Jewish, non-deferential white women — were for fucking and throwing over. What one hates in whites — love of brown sugar — one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black. Bigotry is not only a function of power.
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 272:
glosses: The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
glosses: Obstinate prejudice or opinionatedness.
Synonyms: bigotness
Derived terms: antibigotry
niggatry
reverse bigotry
soft bigotry of low expectations
Related terms: bigot
bigoted
on the bench
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, bench.
topics: law
glosses: Presiding over a court.
raw_tags: of a judge
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not playing in an ongoing game, either waiting to replace an active player or removed from competition by injury, penalty, etc.
raw_tags: of a member of a team in competition
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Waiting to command his first vessel and assume the position of post-captain, ensuring further promotion will remain a matter of seniority rather than merit or ability.
raw_tags: of a captain
Related terms: bench
benched
bench-warmer
deep bench
substitutes' bench
RTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rapid thermal processing.
glosses: Initialism of Real-time Transport Protocol.
glosses: Abbreviation of ribavirin triphosphate.
glosses: Initialism of Research Triangle Park (and metonymically referring to the Research Triangle region).
glosses: Initialism of Royal Thai Police.
Related terms: sense: ribavirin
word: ribavirin
sense: ribavirin
english: ribavirin monophosphate
translation: ribavirin monophosphate
word: RMP
sense: ribavirin
english: ribavirin diphosphate
translation: ribavirin diphosphate
word: RDP
dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dictionary
dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dictionary
Hawai'i
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The evidence from Hawai’i, Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and Old World Bronze Age cultures indicates that transient celestial events were not only recognized and categorized, but formed a critical component of mythology, cosmology, politics, religion, and formative science.
ref: 2000, “Abstracts”, in Rebecca Paulson, editor, Science in an Uncertain Millennium: 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition: February 17-22, 2000 Washington, DC, →OCLC, page A43, column 1:
text: Greg Asner and colleagues are using remote sensing and high-altitude aircraft combined with field studies to understand the changing ecology in Hawai'i. Their field site on the island of Kauai is shown here.[…]
Using a different approach to map invasives, Greg used satellite data from Tahiti to develop a signature for Miconia calvescens, a destructive invasive plant on both Tahiti and Hawai’i.
ref: 2005, Christopher Field, “Director’s Report”, in Year Book 03/04 President’s Report, Carnegie Institution of Washington, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 73, 76:
text: Billboard Magazine dubbed Hawai’i-based Hapa “the hottest Hawai’ian band,” and PBS did a whole feature on them. Well, move over, Hapa, because the Barefoot Natives are coming to town. And for local lovers of island grooves, the addition of this amazing two-man band to the Hawai’ian roster illustrates the saying that you can’t have too much of a good thing.
ref: 2006 July 6, Melissa Bearns, “Sweet Summer Melodies”, in Eugene Weekly, What's Happening, Inc., →OCLC, page 37, column 1:
text: Everybody loves food especially food from Hawai’i.
There is an upcoming event called the National Restaurant Association Show and Hawai’i is being represented by the one and only Adela’s Country Eatery in Kāne’ohe.
ref: 2023 May 18, Kamaka Pili, “Kāne’ohe eatery representing Hawai’i in National Restaurant Association Show”, in KHON-TV, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Hawaii: a state of the United States.
radiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrædɪeɪ̯tə/
ipa: /ˈrɛjdɪjɛjtə/
ipa: /ˈreːdijeː(j)tɐ/
ipa: /ˈɹej.di(j)ˌej.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈɹadieːtɚ(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈɹeːɾieːɾɚ(ɹ)]
note: Ottawa-Valley dialect
ipa: [ˈɹadɪɛ(ː)təɹ]
note: Ottawa-Valley dialect
ipa: [ˈɹɛːɾiɛ(ː)təɹ]
Forms: form: radiators
Etymology: From radiate + -or. Doublet of radiatori.
Senses: glosses: Anything which radiates or emits rays.
examples: text: The car overheated because of a broken radiator.
topics: automotive
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A device that lowers engine coolant temperature by conducting heat to the air, through metal fins.
examples: text: The radiator kept the apartment warm during winter.
text: Steam hissed from the old iron radiator.
glosses: A finned metal fixture that carries hot water or steam in order to heat a room.
raw_tags: of buildings
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of antenna.
Derived terms: honeycomb radiator
radiator hose
radiator plant
Bett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Betts
Etymology: * As an English surname, from personal names based on pet forms of Beatrice or Elizabeth, also masculine pet forms of Bertram and Bartholomew.
* As a German surname from the noun Bett.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
suns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: sons
Senses: glosses: plural of sun
suns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
homophone: sons
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sun
buz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
homophone: buzz
Forms: form: buzzes
Senses: examples: text: As soon as a general buz gave him shelter, he added, in a low voice directed at Fanny, […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: The buz of flies has been found no less difficult to explain than the hum of bees.
ref: 1831, James Rennie, Insect Architecture: Volume 3, page 90:
glosses: Obsolete form of buzz (“humming sound”).
examples: text: […] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest and to think of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake she had to have a lamplighter stuck in her hair.
ref: 1876, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume 44, page 590:
glosses: Obsolete form of buzz (“counting game, fizz-buzz”).
buz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌz/
rhymes: -ʌz
homophone: buzz
Forms: form: buzzes
form: buzzing
form: buzzed
form: buzzed
Senses: examples: text: Buz the bottle.
ref: 1817, Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt:
glosses: Obsolete form of buzz.
rakija
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːkɪə/
Forms: form: rakijas
form: rakia
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian rakija/ракија, from Ottoman Turkish راقی (rakı), assumed from Arabic عَرَق (ʕaraq, “sweat; wine”) (as rakija or wine vapor drops are similar to drops of sweat). Doublet of raki.
Senses: examples: text: As in most Balkan countries rakija (pronounced 'RAK-eeyah') is the national drink of Macedonia. While rakija in the surrounding countries is made mainly from fruits such as plums (slivovice) or pears (viljemovka), Macedonian rakija is exclusively made from grapes.
ref: 2012, Thammy Evans, Macedonia, 4th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 306:
synonyms: pálenka
coordinate_terms: brandy
glosses: A strong distilled alcoholic beverage made from various fruits, varieties of which (such as slivovitz) are found across the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
nef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Forms: form: nefs
Etymology: Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.
Senses: glosses: An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
Related terms: cadenas
navicula
nef
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Etymology: Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.
Senses: examples: text: […] this condition is the numerical consequence of the condition that for some mgt;0, the linear system #124;mD#124; is effective and free; thus nef = "numerically (effective and free)".
ref: 1983, Miles Reid, “Minimal Models of Canonical 3-Folds”, in Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, volume 1, page 131:
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.
Derived terms: nefness
Hausa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.
Senses: glosses: A people living in Nigeria and part of Niger.
Derived terms: Hausaland
Hausa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa Hausa.
Senses: examples: text: She tells me she’s been intensively studying Hausa these past weeks, that it’s such a unique and precise language, one that you write the way you speak it, very historical and more Arabian than she’d thought.
ref: 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 191:
glosses: The Chadic language spoken by these people.
Derived terms: Hausa genet
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Hausa terms
koru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: korus
form: koru
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori koru.
Senses: glosses: A spiral shape that symbolizes growth, strength and peace, used in Māori art.
tennis player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennis players
Senses: examples: text: By way of analogy, let us consider what it takes to be a good or bad tennis player. An extremely good tennis player must possess a mastery of the many different activities that are part of the game—serving, returning, and running around the court […]
ref: 2014, Luke Russell, Evil: A Philosophical Investigation, page 166:
glosses: A person who plays tennis. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Synonyms: word: tenniser
Hyponyms: english: non-native speakers' English
translation: non-native speakers' English
word: tennisman
english: non-native speakers' English
translation: non-native speakers' English
word: tenniswoman
surma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soorma.
tennis elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennis elbows
Etymology: tennis + elbow, from the classic/archetypal source of such injury, tennis.
Senses: glosses: A painful inflammation of the extensor tendon of the humerus caused by overuse of the muscles of the lower arm.
Synonyms: lateral epicondylitis
lateral humeral epicondylitis
Coordinate terms: golfer's elbow
runner's knee
text neck
tennis racket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennis rackets
form: tennis-racket
form: tennis racquet
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings
surra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Marathi [script needed] (sūra, “air breathed through the nostrils”), imitative of heavy breathing through the nostrils.
Senses: examples: text: Whether the disease caused was Surra or Ngana time would not permit me to judge[…]
ref: 1901 May 24, “Veterinary Work at Uganda”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 6, page 178:
glosses: A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy.
alus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alu
geminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛmɪnət/
Etymology: First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: paired, doubled, twinned
glosses: Forming a pair.
examples: text: For example, Martin (2007) notes that compounds in several languages (including English and Turkish) violate the general phonological principles in the language (e.g., English only allows geminate consonants in compounds).
ref: 2008, Sara Finley, Review of “The Representation and Processing of Compound Words”:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: geminated
glosses: Pronounced longer and considered as being doubled.
raw_tags: of a consonant
Derived terms: geminately
nongeminate
geminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: geminates
form: geminating
form: geminated
form: geminated
Etymology: First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).
Senses: glosses: To arrange in pairs.
glosses: To occur in pairs.
Derived terms: bigeminate
degeminate
geminable
geminatable
gemination
quadrigeminate
trigeminate
Related terms: Gemini
geminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geminates
Etymology: First attested in 1589; borrowed from Latin geminātus, perfect passive participle of geminō (“to double”), see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3).
Senses: examples: text: The attested forms show variation in the unstressed vowels (Srd. lèppere, lèpporo, lèppore, léppuri etc.) but agree on the labial geminate. We can thus reconstruct *leppVr-.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 405:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound.
pseudo-anglicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-anglicisms
form: pseudo-Anglicism
Etymology: From pseudo- + anglicism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but does not exist in English itself.
wikipedia: Phison Electronics Corporation
Related terms: pseudo-English
pseudo-Latinism
pseudo-latinism
Anglicism
Englishism
wasei eigo
-ton
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /tən/
[tn̩]
Forms: form: -tone
form: -town
Etymology: From Middle English -ton, -tone, -tune, from Old English -tūn, derived from Old English tūn (“town”). Doublet of town.
Senses: examples: text: Washington
glosses: Place-name suffix, originally denoting a town or enclosure of buildings.
examples: text: singleton
topics: bridge
games
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of specific objects or persons.
bote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊt/
ipa: /boʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -oʊt
Forms: form: botes
form: bot
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
topics: law
glosses: A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
topics: law
glosses: A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Synonyms: estovers
Derived terms: boteless
burghbote
cartbote
firebote
frithbote
haybote
hedgebote
housebote
maegbote
manbote
plowbote
ploughbote
theftbote
wainbote
gemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmas
form: gemmae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”). Doublet of gem and Gemma.
Senses: examples: text: I know of no other genera with such intramarginal formation of true gemmae.
ref: 1969, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume 1, Columbia University Press, page 527:
text: Gemmae are frequently longer than wide or of irregular shape.
According to Degenkolbe, gemmae-bearing leaves are always different in form from normal leaves.
ref: 1990, Anthony John Edwin Smith, The Liverworts of Britain and Ireland, page 2:
text: In Marchantia polymorpha, high temperature promotes germination of gemmae (Dacknowski, 1907), and heat absorbed by the gemmae accelerates their germination (Fitting, 1942).
ref: 2005, R. N. Chopra, Biology of Bryophytes, page 32:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: gemmule
glosses: An asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), consisting of a cluster of cells from which new individuals can develop; a bud.
Derived terms: gemmaceous
gemmal
gemmation
gemmiform
gemmiparous
gemmoid
spermatogemma
frustum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frustums
form: frusta
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frustum (“morsel”).
Senses: examples: text: In a parabolic conoid this difference vaniſhes, the fruſtum being always equal to a cylinder of the ſame height upon the ſection of the conoid that biſects the altitude of the fruſtum and is parallel to its baſes.
ref: 1742, Colin MacLaurin, A Treatise of Fluxions, volume 1, page 25:
text: This theorem holds good for complete solids as well as frustums, whether right or oblique, and not only of the solids generated from the conic sections, but also of all pyramids, cones, and in short of any solid, whose parallel sections are similar figures.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “FRUSTUM”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume III (E … I), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC:
text: Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
ref: 1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:
text: 2006, Pawan Harish Nirnimesh, P. J. Narayanan, Culling an Object Hierarchy to a Frustum Hierarchy, Prem Kalra, Shmuel Peleg (editors), Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: 5th Indian Conference, ICVGIP 2006, Springer, LNCS4338, page 252,
However, when there are multiple view frustums (as in a tiled display wall), visibility culling time becomes substantial and cannot be hidden by pipelining it with other stages of rendering.
text: Here, the dynamics of the fluid-filled frusta of cones are considered (see Figure 5.5). The frusta are clamped at their roots and free at their ends.
ref: 2008, R. Benjamin Davis, Techniques to Assess Acoustic-structure Interaction in Liquid Rocket Engines, page 122:
glosses: A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.
examples: text: In some women it^([the os uteri]) is flat, in many more tuberose, and forming, as it were, a frustum of a sphere;[…].
ref: 1840, James Blundell, Observations on Some of the More Important Diseases of Women, page 131:
text: Problem 22. Determine the volume of a frustum of a sphere of diameter 49.74 cm if the diameter^([sic]) of the ends of the frustum are 24.0 and 40.0 cm, and the height of the frustum is 7.00 cm.
ref: 2014, John Bird, Engineering Mathematics, page 183:
glosses: A portion of a sphere, or in general any solid, delimited by two parallel planes.
Derived terms: bifrustum
frustum culling
view frustum
viewing frustum
Related terms: bifrustum
frustoconical
rasorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈsɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more rasorial
form: most rasorial
Etymology: From Rasores, the obsolete taxonomic order of birds including chickens and other poultry, and + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Scratching the ground for food, as domestic fowl or other gallinaceous birds.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Pertaining to the now obsolete order Rasores.
trooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
homophone: trouper
Forms: form: troopers
Etymology: From troop + -er, from French troupe. The sense of “one who endures adversity” comes from trouper (“member of an acting troupe”) but through assimilation with the sense of “soldier” has come to be usually spelled “trooper”.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: word: cavalryman
word: horse soldier
word: crewman
word: armored soldier
word: zipperhead
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: Tpr
glosses: A soldier of private rank in cavalry or armor.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cavalry horse; a charger.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A soldier.
examples: text: She was built by William Denny & Bros. Ltd., and launched in 1939, but went immediately on active service as a trooper.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A troopship.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Ellipsis of state trooper.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A mounted policeman.
examples: text: He was a real trooper about taking care of the kids for the weekend.
text: Because his father and brothers were in the department, he had to be. She knew he was never really comfortable with the job but still he did it like a trooper.
ref: 2005, Justin Watral, Firehouse 101, page 272:
synonyms: survivor
tough cookie
glosses: Misspelling of trouper (“one who stoically endures adversity”) .
Coordinate terms: cavalryman
cuirassier
dragoon
hussar
lancer
uhlan
yeoman
Derived terms: curse like a trooper
grouper trooper
moss-trooper
smoke like a trooper
storm trooper
swear like a trooper
Related terms: trouper
trooper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
homophone: trouper
Forms: form: troopers
form: troopering
form: troopered
form: troopered
Etymology: From troop + -er, from French troupe. The sense of “one who endures adversity” comes from trouper (“member of an acting troupe”) but through assimilation with the sense of “soldier” has come to be usually spelled “trooper”.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe I should quit troopering and hire on with Global Harvest.
ref: 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: To work as a trooper.
examples: text: Carrie handed out tools, helped hold a measuring tape, and troopered on where she could,
ref: 2011, G. Robert Jones, Discard, →ISBN, page 111:
text: But she troopered on, plastering a smile on her face and giving her a warm greeting and inwardly reminded herself that Ms. Madeleine was of no threat to her, as if she had a fear of Jack-in-the-boxes.
ref: 2013, C.A. McJack, Fate's Twisted Circle - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: To work steadily at an unpleasant job without complaint.
nacreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.kɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more nacreous
form: most nacreous
Etymology: From nacre + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.
ref: 2001, Neil Gaiman, chapter 11, in American Gods, Harper Collins, page 323:
glosses: Of, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).
glosses: Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors.
Derived terms: nacreous cloud
Related terms: opalescent
opaline
pearlescent
necromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: necromantick
Etymology: From Late Latin necromanticus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to necromancy: the resurrection of or communication with the dead, especially through the use of black magic.
Derived terms: necromantically
necromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necromantics
form: necromantick
Etymology: From Late Latin necromanticus.
Senses: examples: text: With all the necromantics of their art.
ref: 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or, The Man of the World Answer’d. In which are Considered, the Love of this Life; the Ambition and Pleasures, with the Wit and Wisdom of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] G. Hawkins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: conjuration
English Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the English Channel
Etymology: From being a channel separating England (“English”) from the continent of Europe.
Senses: glosses: The arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the British Isles from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
Synonyms: word: the Channel
word: British Sea
blockhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockheads
form: block head
form: block-head
Etymology: 1532, block (noun) + -head.
Senses: examples: text: [S]o I think, blockheads, ſaid Manfred; what is it has ſcared you thus?
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter I, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: […]like a conceited mechanic in a village ale-house, you would set down every one who differs from you as an ignorant blockhead[…]
ref: 1819, William Hazlitt, “A Letter to William Gifford, Esq.”, in A. R. Waller, Arnold Glover, editors, The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, volume 1, London: J. M. Dent & Co., published 1902, page 368:
text: "What a blockhead that Charlie Brown is!"
ref: 1953, Charles Schulz, Peanuts:
text: Not all of them, by no means anywhere close to all of them, just the most notable blockheads among them — three altogether, two freshmen and one sophomore, all of whom were among the first to be expelled the next day — masturbated into pairs of stolen panties[…]
ref: 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
glosses: A stupid person.
examples: text: Waldo was sent that from an elderly blockhead named Fuzzy in Gibtown, Florida. That's the town to which most freaks retire.
ref: 2005, Brian M. Wiprud, Stuffed, →ISBN, page 262:
text: He is a classic sideshow performer, entertaining crowds with feats such as sword swallowing, fire-eating, and chainsaw juggling. His specialty, however, is the human blockhead act, hammering six-inch nails up his nostrils.
ref: 2014, Louis J. Parascandola, John Parascandola -, A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion, →ISBN, page 306:
text: Burkhardt was a legendary figure in the sideshow world, a mentor and instructor to a new generation of blockheads and other working acts who now train in private classes at Coney Island USA's Sideshow School with Burkhardt's disciple Todd Robbins (Zigun 2006).
ref: 2016, M. Chemers, Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show, →ISBN:
glosses: Short for human blockhead
Derived terms: blockheaded
blockheadess
blockheadish
blockheadism
blockheadly
blockhead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blockheads
form: blockheading
form: blockheaded
form: blockheaded
form: block head
form: block-head
Etymology: 1532, block (noun) + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Like an old-time sideshow, the acts included lying on a bed of nails, blockheading and, of course, fire-eating.
ref: 2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, →ISBN:
glosses: To perform as a human blockhead.
examples: text: Two years' blockading made fair Malta ours: A noble struggle! -- yet 't is thought (at Rading) That Britain's island shews superior pow'rs, To bear, and to survive, two years blockheading !
ref: 1804, The Spirit of the Public Journals:
text: I have blockheading and boxing enough at Master Lovell's, I won't have it repeated here; and in a great passion, I threw the Virgil at his head, hit him in the face, and bruised his lip, and ran away.
ref: 1856, John Adams, The works of John Adams, second President of the United States, →ISBN:
text: The operation of blockheading is much the same as that of beheading, which Charles I underwent. In both the head is severed from the body. The body goes around without benefit of head. The victim becomes a Headless Horseman, or that more common figure a Headless Pedestrian. In our day the operation is often done not on an executioner's block but on Paradise Avenue in Suburbia Manor.
ref: 1958, The Ethical Outlook: A Journal of the American Ethical Union:
glosses: To behave in a stupid manner.
wordiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)dɪnəs/
Forms: form: wordinesses
Etymology: From wordy + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: verbosity
glosses: The excessive, often unnecessary, use of words.
Related terms: sesquipedalophobia
talkativeness
borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːɹə/
ipa: /ˈboːɹɐ/
enpr: bôrʹər
ipa: /ˈbɔːɹɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: borers
Etymology: From bore + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool used for drilling.
synonyms: wetter
jook
jooker
chete
ching
ying
rambo
poker
pokey
bassy
shank
nank
splash
splasher
cheffer
cutter
glosses: A knife fit for a stabbing.
glosses: A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes.
examples: text: The boree has been heard from frequently since the Renaissance, and his sentiments have undergone little change. The borer hasn't had much to say for himself.
ref: 1896, Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine, volume 3, page 21:
text: Rennie was an expert on boredom, having done a piece on it for Pandora's “Relationships” column in which she claimed that there were two people involved in boredom, not just one: the borer and the boree.
ref: 2012, Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm:
glosses: A tedious person, who bores others; a bore.
glosses: An insect or insect larva that bores into wood.
glosses: One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock.
glosses: A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The penetrating root of a parasitic plant.
Derived terms: apple borer
ash borer
Asian corn borer
banded hickory borer
borer bomb
boxhole borer
bud borer
bumelia borer
cork borer
cork-borer
corn borer
crotalaria pod borer
emerald ash borer
European corn borer
fruit borer
increment borer
instep borer
jig borer
locust borer
loosestrife borer
macroborer
microborer
moth-borer
poplar borer
raise borer
raspberry crown borer
rock-borer
squash vine borer
stalkborer
stem borer
stemborer
stone-borer
sugar cane borer
sugar-maple borer
twig borer
two-lined chestnut borer
vine borer
wax-borer
well-borer
wharf borer
wood-borer
woodborer
yucca borer
borscht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːʃt/
ipa: /bɔɹʃt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃt
Forms: form: borschts
form: borsch
form: borschtsch
form: borsh
form: borshch
form: borsht
form: bortsch
Etymology: 1884 or 1808. Borrowed from Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). Doublet of barszcz.
Senses: glosses: A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream, called borsch in its countries of origin.
glosses: Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed
Synonyms: barszcz
Derived terms: cheap as borscht
cheap like borscht
Borscht Belt
bothersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔðəsəm/
ipa: /ˈbɒðəsəm/
enpr: bŏʹthərsəm
ipa: /ˈbɑðɚsəm/
rhymes: -ɒðə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more bothersome
form: most bothersome
Etymology: From bother + -some.
Senses: examples: text: bothersome detail
text: The mosquito bites were bothersome.
text: She found his questions increasingly bothersome.
synonyms: troublesome
annoying
inconveniencing
irritating
perplexing
glosses: Causing trouble, annoyance, inconvenience, irritation, or perplexity.
Derived terms: bothersomely
bothersomeness
nonbothersome
unbothersome
bourgeoisification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: bourgeoisifications
Etymology: From bourgeois + -ification (“becoming”).
Senses: examples: text: A general 'bourgeoisification', a deliberate destruction of the equalitarian spirit of the first few months of the revolution, was taking place.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter V, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: 2001, Mark Seymour, "Pasolini, Pier Paolo" in Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon (eds.), Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, from World War II to the Present Day, London and New York: Routledge, p. 316,
In early 1975 he declared himself against abortion, claiming that the so-called sexual revolution was part of the bourgeoisification of the masses.
glosses: The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; embourgeoisement.
Synonyms: embourgeoisement
Related terms: upwardly mobile
boyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪˌhʊd/
Forms: form: boyhoods
Etymology: From boy + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest one —
For all we live to know is known
And all we seek to keep hath flown — […]
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
text: It is certainly my personal favourite, for it was by way of Hardwick's great Doric arch that I first sampled the roar and clatter of London streets, the trip being a boyhood reward for achieving (unexpected) success in a school examination!
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
coordinate_terms: girlhood
;
manhood
womanhood
glosses: The state or condition of being a boy.
coordinate_terms: girlhood
glosses: The childhood of a boy.
Related terms: good old boyhood
brahman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brahmans
form: brāhman
Etymology: From Hindi ब्राह्मण (brāhmaṇ) / Urdu براہمن (brāhman).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brahmin (member of the Hindu priestly class).
Derived terms: brahmaness
brahmanicide
diarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪəɹɪst/
Forms: form: diarists
Etymology: From diary + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Two typical weeks (selected at random and separated by a long interval) are set out in the accompanying tables, and indicate the clear and concise method adopted by the diarist throughout his 42 working years.
ref: 1951 May, R. S. McNaught, “A Veteran Driver's Diary”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
glosses: Someone who keeps a diary.
Derived terms: diaristic
rappee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rappees
Etymology: From French (tabac) râpé (“grated (tobacco)”), past participle of râper (“to grate”), from Old French rasper "to scrape"; of Germanic origin.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art like my rappee here, [takes out his box.] a moſt ridiculous ſuperfluity, but a pinch of thee novv and then is a moſt delicious treat.
ref: 1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 58:
text: The fellow wears a solitaire, uses paint, and takes rappee with all the grimace of a French marquis.
ref: 1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC:
text: ‘Why, it is difficult, sir, I confess,’ said the tall footman. ‘It may be done by degrees, Sir. Coffee is the best practice. I carried coffee, Sir, for a long time. It looks very like rappee, sir.’
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXV, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: A dark, coarse, strongly flavoured snuff.
nullah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nullahs
form: nala
form: nalla
form: nallah
form: nulla
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali নালা (nala), Hindi नाला (nālā), from Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī).
Senses: examples: text: About this time a large gole of horsemen came on towards me, and I proposed to charge; but as they turned at once from the fire of the guns, and as there was a nullah in front, I refrained from advancing after them.
ref: 1849, Brigadier Lockwood, Report of 2nd Cavalry Division at Battle of Goojerat:
text: It was just after the exit from a bridge; the animal had probably come up out of the nullah.
ref: 1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC:
text: Until a few years ago, much of the city’s sewage was released untreated into the Ganges via public drains, or nullahs, which discharged along the same bank as the ghats, where people habitually bathe.
ref: 2023 November 30, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, “Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: A stream-bed, ravine, or other watercourse; a drain for rain or floodwater.
examples: text: On all sides, wild mountains rise precipitously above wooded nullahs, and we have a clear view, to the right, of the famous Amah Rock, with its singular resemblance to a Chinese woman carrying her baby on her back in the traditional fashion.
ref: 1954 October, 'Boscawen', “The Kowloon-Canton Railway of Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 712:
glosses: An open-air, concrete-lined channel for draining rain or wastewater; a storm drain.
Related terms: nullah-nullah
obsequy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔbsɪ.kwiː/
Forms: form: obsequies
form: obsequie
Etymology: From Middle English obseque, from Old French obseque, osseque, from Latin obsequiī (“complaisant, yielding”), alteration of obsequia (“compliance”) (by confusion, in association with exsequia (“funeral rites”), from exsequī (“follow or accompany to the grave”)).
Senses: glosses: The last office for the dead.
examples: text: And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe.
ref: 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
english: And to the ladies he restored again / The bodies of their husbands that were slain / To do obsequies as then was the custom.
translation: And to the ladies he restored again / The bodies of their husbands that were slain / To do obsequies as then was the custom.
bold_translation_offsets: 91
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text: It was a rather ghastly ceremony, but it was the only means in our power of showing our respect to the faithful dead and of celebrating his obsequies.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: But, to-day, there were no obsequies to observe at all.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 13
glosses: A funeral rite or service.
Derived terms: obsequence
obsequial
unisonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unisonal
form: most unisonal
Etymology: From unison + -al.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: unisonant
unisonous
glosses: being in unison
puffery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌfəɹi/
Forms: form: pufferies
Etymology: From puff + -ery.
Senses: glosses: An act of puffing.
glosses: Excessive or false public praise.
examples: text: Harvest was promptly pegged as a "lite" group, a purveyor of pop puffery.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: Superficial or insubstantial material; fluff.
Derived terms: puff piece
incrassation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrassations
Etymology: From incrassate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The process of thickening.
glosses: A thickening or swelling.
Related terms: incrassate
dabster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæbstə/
Forms: form: dabsters
Etymology: Derived from dab + -ster.
Senses: glosses: An expert; one who is master of their profession.
glosses: A handy person.
glosses: A dabbler or bungler.
Celticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celticists
Etymology: From Celtic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An authority on Celtic languages and literature.
frivol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frivols
form: frivoling
form: frivolling
form: frivoled
form: frivoled
form: frivolled
form: frivolled
Etymology: From French frivole, from Latin frīvolus (“trifling, worthless”).
Senses: examples: text: “I will act, dance, ride, frivol, talk scandal, dine out, and appropriate the legitimate captives of any woman I choose, until I d-r-r-rop, or a better woman than I puts me to shame before all Simla, — and it's dust and ashes in my mouth while I'm doing it!”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 20:
glosses: To behave frivolously.
glosses: To trifle.
frivol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frivols
Etymology: From French frivole, from Latin frīvolus (“trifling, worthless”).
Senses: glosses: An unserious person; a shallow person.
glosses: An idle diversion or pastime; a frivolity.
Derived terms: frivolous
frivolity
mizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪzl/
ipa: /ˈmɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
homophone: misle
Forms: form: mizzles
form: mizzling
form: mizzled
form: mizzled
Etymology: From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).
Senses: synonyms: drizzle
glosses: To rain in very fine drops.
mizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪzl/
ipa: /ˈmɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
homophone: misle
Etymology: From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).
Senses: glosses: Misty rain; drizzle.
examples: text: But he knows he need never be in dread
of your blade making a mizzle of his blood
or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 20:
text: When a gawping Byzantine head bounced past his feet, and a mizzle of blood settled upon him, something changed.
ref: 2023, Gordon Doherty, Strategos: Island in the Storm, Canelo + ORM:
glosses: A mist; a fine spray; a spattering.
Derived terms: mizzly
mizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪzl/
ipa: /ˈmɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
homophone: misle
Forms: form: mizzles
form: mizzling
form: mizzled
form: mizzled
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).
Senses: examples: text: As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.
ref: 19th c. Epigram quoted by Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913
text: “Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: 1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA
“Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”
glosses: To abscond, scram, flee.
glosses: To yield.
glosses: To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)
Derived terms: mizzler
hurcheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurcheons
Etymology: A variant of urchin, from Middle English hirchoun (“hedgehog”), from Old French heriçon (“hedgehog”). Compare Scots hurcheon.
Senses: glosses: A hedgehog.
entotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Etymology: From ento- + otic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the interior of the ear
glosses: Relating to entosis
rebill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebills
form: rebilling
form: rebilled
form: rebilled
Etymology: From re- + bill.
Senses: glosses: To bill again.
shovel-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shovel-nosed
form: most shovel-nosed
Senses: glosses: Having a flattened beak or snout.
horsehair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsehairs
Etymology: From Middle English hors her, horshere, hors-here, hors heer (also hors-hore), equivalent to horse + hair. Compare Old Norse hross-hár (“horsehair”).
Senses: glosses: The hair of a horse, especially from the mane and tail, used for upholstery.
synonyms: haircloth
glosses: A fabric made from this.
Derived terms: horsehaired
horsehair shirt
horsehair worm
horsehairy
malison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmælɪzən/
/ˈmælɪsən/
Forms: form: malisons
Etymology: From Middle English malisoun, from Old French maleison, from Latin maledictiō, from the past participle stem of maledīcō (“I speak ill of”), from male (“wickedly, badly”) + dīcō (“say, speak”). Doublet of malediction.
Senses: examples: text: A hide of land I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God’s malison on his head who this gainsays!
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Rascality male and female is prowling in view of him. His fasting stomach is, with good cause, sour; he perhaps cannot forbear a passing malison on them; least of all can he forbear answering such.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: A curse, a malediction.