cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
welterweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welterweights
Senses: examples: text: Undoubtedly, his record versus welterweights (147 pounds) is better than against full-blown middleweights (160 pounds). Being a tweener, Graziano probably would have campaigned as a junior middleweight (154 pounds) if he fought today.
ref: 2023, Rod Honecker, Brick City Grudge Match: Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano Battle in Newark, 1948, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.
ref: 2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:
glosses: Alternative spelling of welter-weight.
welter-weight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: welterweight
Etymology: Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: between lightweight and middleweight
welter-weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welter-weights
form: welterweight
Etymology: Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A weight of 28 pounds (or 40 pounds: a heavy welterweight), sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races.
Coordinate terms: lightweight
middleweight
heavyweight
molecular sieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular sieves
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A material, usually a zeolite silicate mineral, having pores of a precise and uniform size, that can be used to separate molecules of different shape and size.
orthomolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + molecular.
Senses: glosses: relating to the theory that mental illness is the result of chemical deficiencies, and can be cured with vitamins and the like
gum acacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gum acacias
Senses: glosses: gum arabic
supramolecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + molecular.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Consisting of many molecules; of scale or complexity greater than that of a molecule.
Derived terms: supramolecular assembly
supramolecular chemistry
supramolecularly
Related terms: supermolecule
superatomic
lissome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lissomer
form: lissomest
Etymology: See lissom.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he most striking object was the long array of shoes and boots of all lengths, breadths, and thicknesses; high-lows, low-highs, lace-ups, mud-boots, waders, and snow-boots. If they were not waterproof, as they professed to be, the only question was, as it appeared to me, how they ever got dry and lissome again, when they were once wet.
ref: 1841, Joseph Thomas James Hewlett, chapter I, in Theodore [Edward] Hook, editor, Peter Priggins, the College Scout. … In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 29–30:
text: Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand; / Her eyes a bashful azure, and her hair / In gloss and hue the chestnut, when the shell / Divides threefold to show th'fruit within.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Brook; an Idyl”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 105:
text: [A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 104–105:
text: We have the hot women and the passionate men. We have lissome forms clinging. We have hot kisses showered. We have hero and heroine, by the merest accident of course, placed in exciting situations.
ref: 1870 April, William Mackay, “A Council of Three”, in William Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, volume CXLVI, number DXCII, London: Adams and Francis, […], →OCLC, page 475:
text: Well, let me tell you, Jeeves, and you can paste this in your hat, shapeliness isn't everything in this world. In fact, it sometimes seems to me that the more curved and lissome the members of the opposite sex, the more likely they are to set Hell's foundations quivering.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Reading about their exploits is like watching lissome cows graze in a field.
ref: 2013 June 4, Dwight Garner, “A Literary Mind, Under the Spell of Drugs and a MacBook”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lissom.
Derived terms: lissomely
lissomeness
self-dual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + dual.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a vector space, isomorphic to its dual space.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a proposition that is equivalent to its dual.
raw_tags: in projective geometry
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a graph or polyhedron, being the dual of itself.
Derived terms: anti-self-dual
self-evident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + evident.
Senses: examples: text: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
ref: 1776, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America:
text: Who were these people who took refuge behind a few honoured but misguided names? What right had they to expect serious men of science to suspend their labours in order to waste time in examining their wild surmises? Some things were self-evident and did not require proof.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Can we then find axioms as self-evident as those of Arithmetic, on which we can build as on a sure foundation, which could be shaken only by a scepticism which should attack the whole fabric of our knowledge?
ref: 1999, Bertrand Russell, Charles R. Pigden, Russell on Ethics:
text: I guess I'm supposed to figure these things out
Or maybe it's supposed to be self-evident
ref: 2000, “Family Happiness”, in The Coroner's Gambit, performed by Mountain Goats:
text: Although the starting point of this article was the '70 years before all stations are made accessible' headline, it is self-evident that many of the requirements for disabled people will also make the railway a more welcoming place for families and the elderly.
ref: 2023 August 23, Anthony Lambert, “Expanding the family and disabled markets”, in RAIL, number 990, page 53:
glosses: Obviously true, and requiring no proof, argument or explanation, axiomatic.
Related terms: self-evidence
self-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + made.
Senses: examples: text: My father was the quintessential self-made man.
text: There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter LV, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 531:
text: “These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.
ref: 2021 November 9, Max Harrison-Caldwell, quoting Peter Sokolowski, “Words Full of Sound and Fury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: self-structured
self-formed
antonyms: nepotistic
cronyish
glosses: Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Near-synonyms: homemade, homebrew, homespun, handmade; see also Thesaurus:custom-made
text: Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.
ref: 1905, Fielding Yost, Football for Player and Spectator:
glosses: Made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
raw_tags: of a thing
Related terms: bootstrapping
Horatio Algerian
rags to riches
self-defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-defenses
form: self defense
form: self-defence
form: self defence
Etymology: From self- + defense. First used by Hobbes in the 1650s.
Senses: glosses: The means of defending oneself from physical attack.
examples: text: The case inspired widespread rallies and “Million Hoodie Marches” in early 2012, after Sanford, Fla., police refused to charge Zimmerman with a crime, saying they couldn’t counter his self-defense claim. A special state prosecutor indicted him 44 days later. The trial began June 10.
ref: 2013 July 10, Patrik Jonsson, “George Zimmerman speaks, but won’t testify in his defense”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
topics: law
glosses: The right to protect oneself against violence by using reasonable force, which can be used as justification in several charges including murder, assault, and battery.
Related terms: stand-your-ground law
castle doctrine
self-defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-defences
Etymology: From self- + defence.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-defense.
self-centeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-centerednesses
Etymology: From self-centered + -ness.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: autocentrism, self-absorption, egoism, egotism
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being self-centered; concern only for oneself.
Related terms: self-centered
egress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹgrĕs
ipa: /ˈiːɡɹɛs/
enpr: ĭ-grĕsʹ
ipa: /ɪˈɡɹɛs/
enpr: ēʹgrĕs
ipa: /ˈiːɡɹɛs/
Forms: form: egresses
form: egressing
form: egressed
form: egressed
Etymology: From Latin egressum, past participle egredi.
Senses: glosses: To exit or leave; to go or come out.
Synonyms: sense: exit
word: come out
sense: exit
word: depart
sense: exit
word: exit
sense: exit
word: go out
sense: exit
word: leave
cancelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canceled
Senses: examples: text: The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.
glosses: simple past and past participle of cancel
cancelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: canceled
Senses: examples: text: The cancelled show would have drawn some 5,000 fans.
glosses: No longer planned or scheduled.
examples: text: Most of the cancelled specimens were somewhat less valuable philatelically.
glosses: Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.
raw_tags: of a mail item
examples: text: On the question of rehabilitation for cancelled celebrities, the nature of the offence is relevant: a bad day is different from a life of abusive crime.
glosses: Socially censured in a way expected to be durable rather than transient. Or, otherwise a permanent and irrevocable state of social isolation, esp. from interactive media.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: cancelled to order
noncancelled
yenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yentas
form: yente
form: yentl
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish יענטע (yente).
Senses: examples: text: Please don't tell your girlfriend what I said; she's a yenta!
text: And you had to marry that yenta West Side broad from a family of ward politicians and punchboard gamblers of candy-store kikes and sewer inspectors.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.
scofflaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɔfˌlɔ/
ipa: /ˈskɒfˌlɔ/
Forms: form: scofflaws
Etymology: From scoff + law. Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in 1923 in which a word for "a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor" was sought during the Prohibition era.
Senses: examples: text: The scofflaw entered the scoflsloon. He leaned an elbow on the scoffbar and rested a foot on the scoffrail.
 'Waddle'y' have?" said the scoffbartender.
 "A little tea," said the scofflaw.
ref: 1925, Wholesale Grocery Review:
text: If we are to scour out the scofflaws, we must first remove those particular laws at which nearly everybody scoffs.
ref: 1926, The Independent, volume 117:
text: Within six months, with the full cooperation of police throughout the state, the scofflaw rate was down to 22 per cent.
ref: 1967, Police: The Journal Covering the Professional Interests of All Law Enforcement Personnel, volumes 12-13:
text: At that time, appellant was informed that because there were unpaid tickets in the amount of $2,725.00, his Datsun had been declared a "scofflaw" car.
ref: 1990, West's New York Supplement:
text: 2001: 10th International Conference on High-Occupancy Vehicle Systems: Compendium of Technical Papers
The signage will make it clear that if a motorist is an HOV scofflaw (i.e., violator of the vehicle code driving in the HOV-Only zone) that they will be subject to HOV violation fine of at least $271.
text: Unrepentant scofflaw on the lam
Layin' waste to all the best-laid plans
ref: 2001, J. G. Thirlwell, “Heuldoch 7B”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:
text: Given Montana's continued, fretful association with various scofflaw organizations and its unwanted reputation as a place without speed limits or other boundaries on personal behavior, we might do well to acknowledge the excesses and inherent abuse of power carried out by men who for too many years refused to bow to the police and courts and rule of law.
ref: 2013: A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes by Frederick Allen (University of Oklahoma Press)
glosses: One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets).
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Related terms: law unto oneself
Dei gratia
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin Deī grātiā (“by the grace of God”).
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Regina
text: Charles III, Dei Gratia Rex
glosses: by the Grace of God.
ancho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːnt͡ʃəʊ/
Forms: form: anchos
Etymology: From Spanish (chile) ancho (literally “wide chile”).
Senses: examples: text: Add stock, tomato sauce, beans, roasted red pepper, garlic, paprika, ancho powder, ground chipotles and habaneros, cocoa powder, salt and pepper.
ref: 2009 January 30, “Fire-roasted hot chili”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A broad, flat, dried poblano pepper, often ground into a powder.
work wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work wives
Senses: glosses: A woman with whom another person has a platonic intimacy at work.
Related terms: ice wife
work husband
work marriage
work spouse
work husband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work husbands
Senses: glosses: A man with whom another person has a platonic intimacy at work.
Related terms: ice husband
work wife
work spouse
work marriage
work marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work marriages
Senses: glosses: A platonic intimacy between two people (often a man and a woman) who work at the same workplace.
Related terms: work husband
work spouse
work wife
Windsor knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Windsor knots
Senses: glosses: A wide triangular knot of a particular sort in a necktie.
whump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍʌmp/
ipa: /wʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: whumps
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A thumping sound.
examples: text: By embracing dark genres of slash such as ‘squick’ and ‘whump’, the art of mythagowood purposely skirts parameters of taste and acceptability.
ref: 2014, Joseph Brennan, “'Fandom is full of pearl clutching old ladies': Nonnies in the online slash closet”, in International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 17, number 4, page 365:
text: Narrative devices shared by Hannibal and fanfiction include “whump,” the vivid abuse and torture of a character, a popular convention across certain types of fanfiction: Graham is knocked out, shot, stabbed, gutted, sawed open, and subjected to induced seizures.
ref: 2018, Naja Later, “Quality Television (TV) Eats Itself: The TV-Auteur and the Promoted Fanboy”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 35, number 6, page 540:
text: However, further research with a larger sample and encompassing more fandoms would be necessary to confirm this potential explanation of this trend and to explore the impact of other factors, such as assigning characters a physical and/or mental disability or illness for the purpose of whump or hurt/comfort stories.
ref: 2019 April, Adrienne E. Raw, “Normalizing Disability: Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction”, in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, volume 8, number 2, pages 202–203:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A genre of fan fiction in which a character endures injury, torture, or other forms of physical and mental suffering.
Hyponyms: topics: lifestyle
word: hurt/comfort
whump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍʌmp/
ipa: /wʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: whumps
form: whumping
form: whumped
form: whumped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To strike something with a whump.
wheresoever
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wheresoe'er
Etymology: From Middle English hwer se eaver, hwer-se-eaver, hwer so ever, qheresoevere, quar-sua-ever, quere-so-ever, wer so ever, wharsoever, where-sere, wheresoever, where so evere, wher ser, wher-sever, wher-so-ever, wher so evere, wher-so-evere, whe[r] so er, whor so ever. By surface analysis, where + so + ever. Cognate with West Frisian hwērsāea (“wheresoever”).
Senses: examples: text: While wee, returning again to embark our ſelvs for Greece, underſtood that the mightie Otanes (brother to Barzanes, ſlain by Muſidorus, in the battell of the ſix Princes) had entred upon the kingdom of Pontus, partly upon the pretences hee had 20 to the crown, but principally, becauſ hee would revenge upon him (whom hee knew wee loved) the loſs of his brother, thinking (as indeed he had cauſ) that whereſoëver wee were, hearing of his extremity, wee would com to reliev him;
ref: 1655, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, the tenth edition, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 186:
text: We have said that in our judgment there was no evidence which would justify a jury in finding that the defendants, for a valuable consideration, sold the working right to the entire Heathcock range, wheresoëver it might run on lands owned by them.
ref: 1881, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume LII, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 571:
glosses: wherever
wheresoever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wheresoe'er
Etymology: From Middle English hwer se eaver, hwer-se-eaver, hwer so ever, qheresoevere, quar-sua-ever, quere-so-ever, wer so ever, wharsoever, where-sere, wheresoever, where so evere, wher ser, wher-sever, wher-so-ever, wher so evere, wher-so-evere, whe[r] so er, whor so ever. By surface analysis, where + so + ever. Cognate with West Frisian hwērsāea (“wheresoever”).
Senses: glosses: wherever
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
when all is said and done
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: when all's said and done
form: after all is said and done
Senses: examples: text: When all is said and done, you will find it is a smaller project than it appears.
text: when all was said and done, nothing that was said was done.
synonyms: at the end of the day
glosses: In the end; ultimately.
pro-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-life
form: most pro-life
Etymology: From pro- + life.
Senses: examples: They were pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the life or health of the mother.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.
Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
synonyms: anti-abortion
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.
Opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.
examples: ref: 2005, Guerrilla Apologetics for Life Issues, page 60:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.
Opposed to the legalization of capital punishment.
examples: text: Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.
ref: 2016, Jennings Brown, The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.
Opposed to suicide.
Synonyms: word: antichoice
Hypernyms: consistent life ethic
Derived terms: claims to be pro-life
pro-lifer
pro-lifeism
Related terms: pro-birth
pro-choice
right to choose
pro-choice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: prochoice
Etymology: From pro- + choice.
Senses: examples: text: When I defend my pro-choice position in the debate over abortion in our country, I frequently refer to Romania, where pregnancy could be monitored on behalf of the state, and to China, where it could be forcibly terminated.
ref: 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Prague Summer”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 354:
text: But if past is prologue, it’s hard to predict what our prochoice Republican governor will do. […] “You’re totally prochoice and bipartisan,” Caroline says in the ad, as they sit together on a park bench surrounded by trees and grass.
ref: 2022 July 26, Shirley Leung, “Charlie Baker is ‘100% prochoice.’ He shouldn’t veto the new reproductive rights bill.”, in The Boston Globe:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
examples: text: These cases help create and sustain an essentially pro-choice regime, at least with respect to passive euthanasia and arguably with respect to physician-assisted suicide as well.
ref: 1994, Tom Stacy, “Euthanasia and the Supreme Court's Competing Conceptions of Religious Liberty”, in Issues in Law and Medicine, volume 10, number 1, page 62:
text: Two other sites worthy of note are http://www.efn.org/~ergo/ (Pro-Choice) and http://www.euthanasia.com (Pro-Life).
ref: 1998, C. G. Prado, The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, page 103:
text: Whether we are pro-choice on euthanasia or anti-euthanasia, we can all agree that leaving patients in pain is abhorrent, ethically, and morally reprehensible, and should be punished severely by the law.
ref: 2014, Margaret Somerville, Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, 2nd edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia.
examples: text: Individualism, self-determination, and pro-choice rhetorics are additional cultural discourses that play into this experience as well: the ability to make your own choices in life and to be able to succeed with those choices is the quintessential American dream.
ref: 2010, Sara Hayden, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice, page 102:
glosses: Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.
Synonyms: word: proabortion
word: antilife
word: prodeath
Derived terms: pro-choicer
Related terms: pro-life
soccer mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccer moms
form: soccer mum
Senses: glosses: A woman with school-age children, likely boys, especially one who spends time transporting them between sporting activities.
glosses: A stereotypical woman, typically middle-class, who is overprotective of her children and often overambitious and bragging about their success.
Synonyms: word: hockey mom
Coordinate terms: ballet dad
Related terms: bakfietsmoeder
gabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæb.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gabbers
Etymology: From gab + -er.
Senses: glosses: A liar; a deceiver.
examples: text: The gabbers’ job today, and in the future, is to sneak up on the listening prospect and sell before he knows it.
ref: 1943 November 20, “Gabbers Sell in New Garb”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., page 8:
glosses: One who is addicted to idle talk.
glosses: A radio commentator or disc jockey.
gabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæb.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gabbers
form: gabba
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch gabber (literally “friend”), from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver). Doublet of chaver.
Senses: examples: text: This, in turn, birthed all kinds of mainly regional variations that have lasted from the 90s to today, most notably gabber—a relentless mix of superfast BPMS, distorted kickdrums and roared vocals that evoked the distilled nihilism of Rotterdam skinheads.
ref: 2020 January 10, Joe Muggs, “Gabber: return of dance music’s gloriously tasteless subgenre”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by an intense, distorted kick sound and controversial lyrics or samples.
glosses: A fan of this music, usually dressed in a tracksuit, often with a completely shaved head (or partially for women), seen primarily in the 1990s.
Derived terms: gabberhouse
laggard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæɡəd/
ipa: /ˈlæɡɚd/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more laggard
form: most laggard
Etymology: From lag + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: But come let's wing our Steps with utmost Speed,
The swiftest Haste is laggard to the Deed.
ref: 1752, Francis Gentleman, Ben Jonson, Sejanus, A Tragedy, act 5, scene 1, pages 54–55:
text: O! drowsy wind of the drowsy west,
Sleep, sleep,
By your mountain steep,
Or down where the prairie grasses sweep!
Now fold in slumber your laggard wings,
For soft is the song my paddle sings.
ref: 1912, E. Pauline Johnson, “The Song My Paddle Sings”, in Flint and Feather:
text: Between blinks Tommy saw Temple in the path, her body slender and motionless for a moment as though waiting for some laggard part to catch up.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 66:
text: [...] and we were twice slowed badly because of a laggard stock train ahead stowing itself away at Enfield Lock; [...].
ref: 1959 September, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 431:
text: A particularly robust intervention will be required if Ireland’s disbalance between Dublin’s primacy and its laggard provincial cities, is to be addressed.
ref: 2016 November 30, Emma Gilleece, “Take the spat out of spatial”, in Village:
glosses: Lagging behind; taking more time than the others in a group.
examples: text: The laggard broilers are euthanized and incinerated.
qualifier: animal husbandry
glosses: Not growing as quickly as the rest of the flock or herd.
laggard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæɡəd/
ipa: /ˈlæɡɚd/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: laggards
Etymology: From lag + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: 1733, William Havard, Scanderbeg: A Tragedy, London: J. Watts, Act II, Scene 4, p. 17,
Blushing I look upon my poor Resolves,
A Laggard in the Race, and faintly striving
To follow Excellence that soars so high.
text: “Late come, late served, Mabel,” said her uncle, between mouthfuls of broiled salmon; […] “late come, late served; it is a good rule, and keeps laggards up to their work.” ¶ “I am no laggard, Uncle; for I have been stirring nearly an hour, and exploring our island.”
ref: 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 20, in The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea:
text: 1891, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Marque, New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell, 1899, Chapter 12, p. 141,
The State line, with the comparatively new branch to the Pachbadra salt-pits, pays handsomely, and is exactly suited to the needs of its users. True, there is a certain haziness as to the hour of starting, but this allows laggards more time, and fills the packed carriages to overflowing.
text: It rose as one watched it; if one looked away from it for a minute and then back, its outline had changed; it thrust out blunt congested branches until in a little time it rose a coralline shape of many feet in height. Compared with such a growth the terrestrial puff-ball, which will sometimes swell a foot in diameter in a single night, would be a hopeless laggard.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 8”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
text: It was 72 years ago when a French psychologist named Alfred Binet first devised a test that attempted to measure a child's intelligence. Seeking a way to distinguish truly retarded students from laggards with hidden ability, Binet developed a series of exercises involving completion of pictures and the assembling of objects, as well as problems in math, vocabulary and reasoning.
ref: 1977 December 19, “What Ever Became of ‘Geniuses’?”, in Time:
text: Canada and Ontario must bolster international trade with both the European Union and emerging economies like China in order shake our reputation as innovation laggards, says a new report.
ref: 2010 September 21, Rita Trichur, “Expanded international trade key to driving innovation in Ontario: report”, in Toronto Star:
text: Residential property prices in the United States climbed at their fastest pace in five months in October, suggesting that the housing market, a laggard of the economy, is gaining steam.
ref: 2020 January 1, James Dean, “House price recovery on track in US”, in The Times, number 73,044, page 32:
glosses: One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.
Derived terms: laggardism
laggardly
laggardness
marmalade dropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marmalade droppers
Etymology: Suggesting the idea of an astonished person dropping marmalade at the breakfast table while reading or hearing the news.
Senses: examples: 2023 'The return of David Cameron: What is going on?', BBC News.
"Just because something is a marmalade dropper, doesn't make it a good idea."
glosses: Astonishing information, especially something learned from the news media.
Synonyms: word: muffin choker
headline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd.laɪn/
rhymes: -ɛdlaɪn
Forms: form: headlines
Etymology: From head + line.
Senses: examples: text: The headline on today's newspaper reads "John Doe Wins Wood-Splitting Competition."
text: Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world
ref: 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:
text: Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
topics: journalism
media
synonyms: hed
lead
glosses: The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
synonyms: headliner
glosses: The top-billed attraction.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A headrope.
Coordinate terms: topics: heading
word: byline
topics: heading
word: dateline
Derived terms: Betteridge's law of headlines
coheadline
grab the headlines
hammer headline
headline-ese
headline-grabber
headline inflation
headlinese
headline style
hit the headlines
make the headlines
nonheadline
running headline
scarehead
subheadline
Related terms: sense: Glossary of journalism
word: Article components
headline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd.laɪn/
rhymes: -ɛdlaɪn
Forms: form: headlines
form: headlining
form: headlined
form: headlined
Etymology: From head + line.
Senses: examples: text: Once again I take typewriter in hand to express my opinion on two very different issues. Good luck in deciding what to headline this letter.
ref: 1974 February 2, Charles Bonnell, “Typewriter In Hand”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 4:
glosses: To give a headline to a page or section of a text.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: To present as the main attraction; to have top billing, to be the main attraction.
Derived terms: headliner
stress puppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stress puppies
Senses: glosses: One who seemingly requires stress in order to function well, yet voices dissatisfaction about it.
pleomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleomorphic
form: most pleomorphic
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or exhibiting pleomorphism.
Having a lifecycle whose stages involve embodiment in diverse forms.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or exhibiting pleomorphism.
Synonym of polymorphic.
synonyms: word: polymorphic
Derived terms: nonpleomorphic
nucleopleomorphic
Related terms: multiform
protean
vexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English vexynge (“harassment”); equivalent to vex + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vex
vexing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vexing
form: most vexing
Etymology: From Middle English vexynge (“harassment”); equivalent to vex + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Causing annoyance or pain; irritating.
Derived terms: most vexing parse
vexingly
vexingness
vexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vexings
Etymology: From Middle English vexynge (“harassment”); equivalent to vex + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Many unkindnesses as well as (one feels) many liberties and general vexings, were required to move her to this.
ref: 2002, Harold Bloom, American Women Poets, 1650-1950:
glosses: vexation
Derived terms: vexing glass
screech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skrēch
ipa: /skɹiːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [skɹiːt͡ʃ]
ipa: [skɹit͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːt͡ʃ
Forms: form: screeches
Etymology: 1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
glosses: A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
glosses: Newfoundland rum.
glosses: A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
Synonyms: screak
Derived terms: screech bird
screecher
screech hawk
screech-in
screech martin
screech owl
screech thrush
screech tunnel
screech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skrēch
ipa: /skɹiːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [skɹiːt͡ʃ]
ipa: [skɹit͡ʃ]
rhymes: -iːt͡ʃ
Forms: form: screeches
form: screeching
form: screeched
form: screeched
Etymology: 1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scricōn, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skrīhaną (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: "Have you not met them?" "No, I have met nothing but three cormorants, which were sitting on a bit of drift-wood screeching."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 48:
text: They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:
text: The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
text: AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.
ref: 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: To make such a sound.
examples: text: You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again.
ref: 2011 December 12, Sid Lowe, “Víctor Valdés epitomises Barcelona's bravery as Real Madrid falter”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To travel very fast, as if making the sound of a car that is driving too fast.
Derived terms: Cambondo screeching frog
screech out
DME
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of durable medical equipment.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of distance measuring equipment.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of dimethyl ether.
malls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mall
laps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăps
ipa: /læps/
homophone: lapse
homophone: Lapps
Senses: glosses: plural of lap
laps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lăps
ipa: /læps/
homophone: lapse
homophone: Lapps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lap
embarrassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪmˈbɛɹəsɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embarrass
embarrassing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪmˈbɛɹəsɪŋ/
Forms: form: embarrassings
Etymology: By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.
Senses: examples: May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow
It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission.
glosses: The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment.
embarrassing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋ/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪmˈbɛɹəsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more embarrassing
form: most embarrassing
Etymology: By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
text: “Barack Obama wrote the Epstein files? LOL. This is outright embarrassing,” Candace Owens wrote on X.
ref: 2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.
Synonyms: awkward
shameful
Derived terms: embarrassingly
embarrassingness
unembarrassing
diametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈmɛtɹɪk/
Forms: form: more diametric
form: most diametric
Etymology: 1802, probably shortened from diametrical (1550s).
Senses: examples: text: In some religions, good and evil are considered diametric opposites.
glosses: Directly opposing.
glosses: Of or relating to a diameter; diametral.
Synonyms: diametral
diametrical
Derived terms: anisodiametric
isodiametric
Related terms: diametrical
diametrically
brinksmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brinksmanships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brinkmanship.
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: brinksman
excursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/
ipa: /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/
ipa: /ekˈskɜː.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Forms: form: excursions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
text: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
glosses: A field trip.
examples: text: Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
Synonyms: sense: recreational trip
word: journey
sense: recreational trip
word: trip
sense: wandering from the main subject
word: digression
sense: wandering from the main subject
word: excursus
Derived terms: alarums and excursions
drift excursion
excursioner
excursion fare
excursionism
excursionist
excursionize
excursion rate
excursion steamer
power excursion
Related terms: excursus
expedition