cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carbonado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈneɪdəʊ/
ipa: /-ˈnɑː-/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹbəˈneɪdoʊ/
Forms: form: carbonados
form: carbonadoes
Etymology: The noun is derived from Spanish carbonada (“carbonized”) (from carbonar (“to carbonize”)) + -ado (suffix forming past participles of regular verbs ending in -ar). Carbonada appears to have been modelled after Italian carbonata (“coal pile; stew of beef in red wine”), from carbone (“coal; charcoal”) (from Latin carbō (“coal; charcoal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“to burn”)) + -ata.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Take it vp Villain, and eat it, or I will make thee ſlice the brawnes of thy armes into carbonadoes, and eat them.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv:
text: […]to ſay the Troth on't before Corioles, he ſcotcht him, and notcht him like a Carbinado.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 23, column 1:
text: Our giants again found their way to the larder, and broke theirfast with collops, rashers, carbonados, a shield of brawn and mustard, and a noble sirloin of beef, making sad havoc with the latter, and washing down the viands with copious draughts of humming ale.
ref: 1861, William Harrison Ainsworth, “The Constable of the Tower. An Historical Romance.”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XLIX, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I, chapter XIX (Pulvis Pulveri, Cinis Cineri), page 390:
text: The carbonadoes consisted of any meat scotched on both sides and sprinkled with seasonings in various combinations, and then either broiled over the fire or before it.
ref: 1867, John Timbs, “The English Housewife”, in Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present, 2nd edition, London: Griffith and Farran, (successors to Newbery and Harris,) […], →OCLC, page 163:
text: With a quick sweep of my eye, I see fricassées, steamed bass and poached salmon, roast snipe, peacock, teal, mallard and quail, game pies and carbonados, tarts of marrowbone, neats' tongues, venison pasties, baked guinea fowl, compound salads, dishes of cream, quinces, comfits and marzipans, preserves, cheeses and fruits.
ref: 1989, Rose Tremain, “Wedding Games”, in Restoration: A Novel, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; republished London: Random House, 2010, →ISBN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: carbonade
glosses: Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.
carbonify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbonifies
form: carbonifying
form: carbonified
form: carbonified
Etymology: From carbon + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To convert to carbon; to burn or caramelize.
carbonigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carbon + -i- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Carboniferous.
Haken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: For Wolfgang Haken, who studied these manifolds.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).
raw_tags: of a 3-manifold
wikipedia: Wolfgang Haken
fallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of fallow (uncultivated land)
fallows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fallow
green fallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green fallows
Senses: glosses: Fallow ground which is planted with a different crop, e.g. a pease field planted with turnips.
Related terms: fallow
powerbock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powerbocks
form: powerbocking
form: powerbocked
form: powerbocked
Etymology: From power and the name of the German inventor of this type of device, Alexander Böck.
Senses: examples: text: The park is my favorite place to powerbock.
glosses: To take part in an activity involving running, jumping and performing various acrobatics with the aid of vertically mounted curved springs attached to one's legs for exercise, pleasure or entertainment purposes.
Synonyms: bocking
fallow crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallow crops
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The crop taken from a green fallow field.
Related terms: fallow
Avogadro's number
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Italian physicist Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Avogadro constant
Avogadro's constant
glosses: The number of elementary entities (atoms or molecules) comprising one mole of a given substance, being precisely 6.02214076 × 10²³. Formerly defined as the number of atoms present in 12 grams of isotopically pure carbon-12.
roué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːeɪ/
rhymes: -uːeɪ
Forms: form: roués
form: roue
Etymology: Borrowed from French roué. Doublet of rotate.
Senses: examples: text: A taste and knowledge of wines and cookery appears to them to be the sign of an accomplished roué and manly gentleman.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 185:
text: The old roué, twice married and patriarch of an extended family, never concealed the fact that he was “a ladies’ man”.
ref: 2005 August 14, Richard Brooks, Stuart Wavell, “Rumpole takes a great big spanking”, in The Sunday Times:
text: Would you trust him alone with your young daughter? Certainly not, though who could blame her for being captivated? In this day and age especially, a good roué is hard to find.
ref: 2014 August 27, Stephanie Zacharek, “The Last of Robin Hood Wrestles with a Star's Underage Love”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014:
synonyms: word: rake
word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
glosses: A debauched or lecherous person.
overprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpɹɪnt/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɹɪnt/
Forms: form: overprints
Etymology: From over- + print.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The addition of new text on a previously printed stamp, usually to add a surcharge or change the face value.
examples: text: Although we do not exclude that some of the observed Moodies laminae were originally microbial mats, the mineral assemblage of the studied anastomosing and wavy laminae (i.e., mainly sericite associated with Ti oxide and rare carbonaceous material) shows a substantial metamorphic overprint, implying that similar laminae cannot be unambiguously associated with the concept of a flourishing Paleoarchean microbial life at 3.22 Ga.
ref: 2021 August, Masafumi Saitoh, Nicolas Olivier, Marion Gar on, Maud Boyet, Christophe Thomazo, Julien Alleon, Jean-François Moyen, Vincent Motto-Ros, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, “Metamorphic origin of anastomosing and wavy laminas overprinting putative microbial deposits from the 3.22 Ga Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt)”, in Precambrian Research, volume 362, Elsevier BV, →DOI, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2024, page 106306:
text: This is the first report from the Alps of eclogite-facies rocks of supposed Alpine age showing a granulite-facies metamorphic overprint, which is, in contrast, well documented in the Variscan belt.
ref: 2018 January, Simone Tumiati, Stefano Zanchetta, Luca Pellegrino, Claudia Ferrario, Stefano Casartelli, Nadia Malaspina, “Granulite-facies Overprint in Garnet Peridotites and Kyanite Eclogites of Monte Duria (Central Alps, Italy): Clues from Srilankite- and Sapphirine-Bearing Symplectites”, in Journal of Petrology, volume 59, number 1, Oxford University Press (OUP), →DOI, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2023, pages 115–151:
text: The metasomatic overprint is represented mainly by enrichments in Na, K, Ba, Ti and LREE and the original source of this fluid remains unknown.
ref: 2017 April, Ekaterina S. Kiseeva, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Gregory M. Yaxley, Simon R. Shee, “Mantle melting versus mantle metasomatism – "The chicken or the egg" dilemma”, in Chemical Geology, volume 455, Elsevier BV, →DOI, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024, pages 120–130:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics superimposed onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.
surcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
Forms: form: surcharges
Etymology: From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Doublet of supercharge.
Senses: examples: text: Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge.
glosses: An addition of extra charge on the agreed, stated, or baseline price.
glosses: The part of the price of a subsidized good or service that is not covered by the subsidy and so must be paid by the consumer.
glosses: An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting in lighter enamel over a darker one that serves as the ground.
topics: law
glosses: A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party
topics: law
glosses: A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
examples: text: A Numerous Nobility, cauſet Pouerty, and Inconuenience in a State: For it is a Surcharge of Expence;
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Nobility. XIIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: An excessive load or burden.
topics: law
glosses: The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
Derived terms: victim surcharge
Related terms: surtax
surcharged
surcharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
Forms: form: surcharges
form: surcharging
form: surcharged
form: surcharged
Etymology: From Middle French surcharge, from Old French. By surface analysis, sur- + charge. Doublet of supercharge.
Senses: glosses: To apply a surcharge.
examples: text: to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
text: My heauy hart I feare will breake in twaine,
Surcharged with a heauie loade of thoughts.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: Your head reclin’d, (as hiding grief from view,) / Droops, like a Roſe ſurcharg’d with morning Dew.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act III, page 33:
text: The threat was soon fulfilled; the evening came on, prematurely darkened by clouds that seemed surcharged with a deluge.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: The first, on January 1, 1883, was attributed to the overlay becoming surcharged with water, due to insufficient drainage, and causing a slip.
ref: 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
glosses: To overload; to overburden.
examples: text: Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.
ref: 1768, William Blackstone, “Of Disturbance”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book III (Of Private Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 237:
topics: law
glosses: To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
examples: text: The Idle multitude surcharge their laies
ref: 1599, Samuel Daniel, Musophilus:
glosses: To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
Related terms: supercharge
no thanks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no, thanks.
packrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pack rat.
Derived terms: packrattery
packrat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packrats
form: packratting
form: packratted
form: packratted
Senses: synonyms: word: amass
word: amound
word: engross
word: get up
word: hoard
word: intreasure
word: niggard
word: packrat
word: rathole
word: squirrel away
word: uphoard
glosses: To hoard things.
UPU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Universal Postal Union.
Morocco agencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: The British post offices in Morocco; used as an overprint on British stamps.
On HMS
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
qualifier: overprint on British Empire stamps
glosses: On Her (or His) Majesty's Service.
Related terms: HMS
OHMS
needlepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdl̩ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: needlepoints
Etymology: From needle + point.
Senses: glosses: A craft involving pulling yarn, thread, or floss through a canvas mesh to produce a decorative design.
glosses: An object made using that craft.
Derived terms: needlepointer
needlepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdl̩ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: needlepoints
form: needlepointing
form: needlepointed
form: needlepointed
Etymology: From needle + point.
Senses: glosses: To produce a decorative design by this means.
Related terms: embroidery
needlecraft
resonates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪts/
ipa: /ˈɹez.əˌnæɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resonate
flared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛəd/
ipa: /flɛɹd/
ipa: /fleːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fleəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fliəd/
ipa: /fleɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /flɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flare
flared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛəd/
ipa: /flɛɹd/
ipa: /fleːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fleəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fliəd/
ipa: /fleɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /flɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: She was wearing a black and white striped slack-suit with flared bottoms.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 16:
glosses: Of trousers, etc., widening towards the lower parts of the legs; bell-bottomed.
Derived terms: nonflared
unflared
are your ears burning
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Are your ears burning? We were just talking about you.
glosses: Asked of somebody who was not present but was the topic of discussion.
Related terms: ears are burning
speak of the devil
Kathryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.
ref: 1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
text: "Having lunch with the Gorgons today?" Andrew had asked her. It was his oft-stated opinion that the "y"'s in Kathryn and Jayne's names were their compensation for a missing, but coveted, male chromosome.
ref: 1997, Sharyn McCrumb, “The Luncheon”, in Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine.
glosses: A city and village in North Dakota.
Katy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪti/
ipa: [ˈkʰeɪ̯ɾi]
rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: Katys
form: Katies
form: Catie
form: Caty
form: Katie
Senses: examples: text: The very first thing, however, Ernest annoyed me by calling me Katherine, though he knows I hate that name, and want to be called Katy as if I were a lovable person, as I certainly am (sometimes).
ref: 1876 Elizabeth Prentiss: Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's Hero. Ward, Lock&Tyler 1876. page 87
text: Come along, you’re the first of the Katies. Now Katy was a tom-boy, […] Have you got a copy of the script?
ref: 1961, Rosemary Weir, “Television Centre”, in Tania Takes the Stage, London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., →OCLC, pages 88–89:
text: Katy Carr serves her sentence with pain and her character changes as a result – or so the author implies; but the two Katys, the hoyden and the high-principled young lady, hardly seem to be the same girl.
ref: 1975, Margery Fisher, “Katy Carr”, in Who’s Who in Children’s Books: A Treasury of the Familiar Characters of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 166, column 1:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Katherine, variant of Katie.
examples: text: When the Katy came through, the town’s entire economy and culture changed.
ref: 1968, Taj Mahal, Yank Rachell, “She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)”, in The Natch’l Blues, →OCLC
related: word: Katie
glosses: The Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city in Texas; named for the MKT railroad.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Missouri.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
glosses: A village in Subcarpathia, Poland.
Derived terms: Kate Greenaway
Katy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪti/
ipa: [ˈkʰeɪ̯ɾi]
rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: Katies
form: Catie
form: Caty
form: Katie
Senses: glosses: An apple cultivar from Sweden.
Jody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊdi/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdi
Forms: form: Jodi
form: Jodie
Etymology: Variant of Judy, diminutive of Judith, q.v.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Jody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊdi/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdi
Forms: form: Jodi
form: Jodie
Etymology: From a blend of Jo or Joe with Jody or Judy. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in relation to most derivations of Jo as a female name.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A male given name from French.
Jody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊdi/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊdi
Forms: form: Jodies
form: Jodi
form: Jodie
Etymology: From a blend of Jo or Joe with Jody or Judy. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in relation to most derivations of Jo as a female name.
Senses: examples: text: Even today in the Marine Corps or the Army, one calls a jody, not a marching chant. For the trainee, Jody is the clever civilian who brutally divorces the soldier from the civilian world by appropriating all his possessions and loved ones.
Ain't no use in callin home. Jody's on your telephone.
Ain't no use in lookin' back.
Jody's got your Cadillac.
Ain't no use in goin' home.
Jody's got your girl and gone.
Ain't no use in feelin' blue.
Jody's got your sister too.
ref: 2004, Carol Burke, Camp all-American, Hanoi Jane, and the high-and-tight, page 31:
text: “What is Jody? a Jody is the guy back home with your wife or your girlfriend. That is what a Jody is,” Harris explained.
ref: 2008, Richard Engel, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq, page 298:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The man who seduces a soldier or inmate's wife or girlfriend during his absence.
Jodi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊdi
Senses: examples: text: The baby has a name at last, I suppose if it had been left much longer Vinny, the Keeper of Cat Names, would have ended up christening it Tibbles or something. Although Tibbles might suit it better than the new-fashioned name it's been given - Jodi.
ref: 1997, Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet, Black Swan, published 1998, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: Alternative form of Jody in its female senses.
Darlene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːliːn/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːliːn
Forms: form: Darlena
form: Darleen
Etymology: A 20th-century coinage from darling and names like Charlene and Marlene.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English.
Related terms: Darla
Charlene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑɹˈlin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Sharlene
Etymology: A feminine form of Charles coined in the nineteenth century. Compare Marlene, Helene and Magdalene for the suffix.
Senses: examples: text: "Be grateful for our blessings, Charlie." My name's really Charlene. Sounds like a southern romance, Fabio drooling over Charlene's heaving bosom. I'm no Charlene, even at fourteen.
ref: 1997, Roderick Peter MacIntyre, Takes: Stories for Young Adults, Thistledown Press, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages; most used in the U.S. in the 1940s.
Jenni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Modern variant of Jenny.
Senses: examples: text: Me and Jenni went halves on six litres of White Lightning, […]
ref: 2023, Richard Milward, Apples:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jennifer.
Guinevere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɪ.nə.vɪə/
ipa: /ˈɡwɪ.nə.vɪɹ/
Forms: form: Gwenhwyfar
Etymology: From Middle English Gwenyver. Doublet of Jennifer.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh or Proto-Celtic.
qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: The wife of King Arthur.
Related terms: Gaynor
Ginevra
Guinevieve
Jennifer
Winifred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Winfriþ, from Welsh Gwenfrewi.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
Related terms: Winnie
Justine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Justine, from Latin Iūstīna, name of early saints, feminine of Iūstīnus, derivative of Iūstus, from iūstus (“just”). The feminine equivalent of Justin.
Senses: examples: text: O you who have wept tears upon hearing of Virtue's miseries; you who have been moved to sympathy for the woe-ridden Justine; the while forgiving the perhaps too heavy brushstrokes we have found ourselves compelled to employ, may you at least extract from this story the same moral which determined Madame de Lorsange!
ref: 1953 Austryn Wainhouse, Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised, Grove Press 1990, page 743 ( translation of 1788 Marquis de Sade, Justine )
text: "What are you going to call your noisy daughter?" he asked as the door closed and they were alone.
"Justine."
"It's a very good name, but why did you choose it?"
"I read it somewhere, and I liked it."
ref: 1977, Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 377:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A male given name from French and Latin, of chiefly Philippine usage, variant of Justin.
Paige
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: page
Forms: form: Paiges
Etymology: Variant of Page, from page, from Old French page, possibly via Old Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".
Senses: glosses: A southern English surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Page.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of American usage.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Paily
Beverly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beverlys
Etymology: A variant spelling of Beverley.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: Everybody in Washington's social and diplomatic circles admired the beautiful Beverly Calhoun.
ref: 1904, George Barr McCutcheon, Beverly of Graustark, Kissinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Mama had chosen the name Lark. - - - Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk.
ref: 1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1930s to the 1950s in the U.S., partly because of its association with Beverly Hills (where the stars live).
examples: text: Having a name some people thought of as feminine had turned Beverly Lamartine to building up his muscles in his youth, and they still bulged, hard as ingots in some places, now lost in others.
ref: 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love medicine, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
An unincorporated community in Elbert County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
A city in Lincoln County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
A city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
An unincorporated community in Hitchcock County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
A city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
A village in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A common place name from the surname or the given name:
A town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
metaphorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more metaphorically
form: most metaphorically
Etymology: From metaphorical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He conveyed his teachings metaphorically.
text: […] as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr Casaubon's feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope.
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.5:
topics: manner
synonyms: nonliterally
glosses: In a metaphorical manner; not literally; by means of metaphor.
examples: text: Metaphorically, he was crushed.
glosses: Used to draw attention that what follows is a metaphor, not to be taken literally
raw_tags: as a sentence adverb
Coordinate terms: as it were
figuratively
metonymically
synecdochically
pharmacognosist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacognosists
Etymology: From pharmacognosy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies, practices or is knowledgeable about pharmacognosy.
pharmacognosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacognosies
Etymology: From pharmaco- + -gnosy.
Senses: glosses: A branch of pharmacology that studies medical substances that are derived from natural sources, and their recognition.
Derived terms: zoopharmacognosy
Related terms: pharmacognostic
pharmacognosist
carminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈmɪnətɪv/
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)mɪnətɪv/
Forms: form: more carminative
form: most carminative
Etymology: From Latin carminō (“to card, hence to cleanse”), from carmen (“a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter”).
Senses: examples: text: If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]
ref: 1635, James Guillimeau [i.e., Jacques Guillemeau], “Of Gripings and Fretting in the Belly, which Trouble Little Children”, in The Nvrsing of Children […] , London: Printed by Anne Griffin […] ; published in Child-birth, or, The Happy Delivery of VVomen […] , London: Printed by Anne Griffih […] , 1635, →OCLC, page 52:
text: They used to give me cinnamon when I had a cold—quite useless, but not disagreeable. […] On the label was a list of its virtues, and among other things it was described as being in the highest degree carminative. I adored the word.
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 20, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 220:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relieving the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
Derived terms: acarminative
carminative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈmɪnətɪv/
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)mɪnətɪv/
Forms: form: carminatives
Etymology: From Latin carminō (“to card, hence to cleanse”), from carmen (“a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter”).
Senses: examples: text: “A mental carminative,” said Mr. Scogan reflectively. “That's what you need.”
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 20, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 226:
text: But Master Nathaniel was indifferent to these manifestations of unpopularity. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 9, in Lud-in-the-Mist:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug or substance that relieves the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
Coordinate terms: diuretic
laxative
opiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opiate
opiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opiate
potentiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potentiate
kiss my ass
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: kiss my arse
Senses: examples: text: Then for a Jeſt, for this time let it paſs, / And he that takes it ill, may kiſs my Aſs.
ref: 1616, Beaumont, Francis, The Scornful Lady: A Comedy:
glosses: Go away!; an expression of disdain or dismissal.
examples: text: When he asked me to help him fix the bike, I told him to kiss my ass.
text: As I told to go meet at an invitation, you can kiss my ass.
text: Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.
ref: 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Bluto (John Belushi), Universal Pictures:
qualifier: sometimes considered
glosses: Rejection or refusal to perform a requested action.
suction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: suctions
Etymology: From Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). Attested in English since the early 17th century.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the first.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A force holding two objects together because the pressure in the space between the items is lower than the pressure outside that space.
examples: text: The first-named group — the insects that live by suction — include the scale insects, aphides, and sucking bugs[…]
ref: 1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, page 16:
glosses: The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.
examples: text: He's got some kind of suction with the Mayor's office.
ref: 2002 June 9, David Simon, “The Detail” (10:26 from the start), in The Wire, season 1, episode 2 (television production), spoken by Rhonda Pearlman (Deirdre Lovejoy), via HBO:
glosses: influence; "pull".
Derived terms: suction cleaner
suction cup
suction curettage
suction pad
suction pit
suction point
suction stop
suction tip
suction valve
suction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: suctions
form: suctioning
form: suctioned
form: suctioned
Etymology: From Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). Attested in English since the early 17th century.
Senses: glosses: To create an imbalance in pressure between one space and another in order to draw matter between the spaces.
glosses: To draw out the contents of a space.
kiang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kē-ängʹ
ipa: /kiˈɑŋ/
enpr: kē-ăngʹ
ipa: /kiˈæŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -æŋ
Forms: form: kiangs
form: kiyang
form: kyang
Etymology: From Tibetan རྐྱང (rkyang, “wild ass”).
Senses: glosses: A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Equus kiang holdereri
word: eastern kiang
taxonomic: Equus kiang polyodon
word: southern kiang
taxonomic: Equus kiang kiang
word: western kiang
suction cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌkʃən kʌp/
Forms: form: suction cups
Senses: glosses: A cup made of flexible material, such as rubber, that uses suction as an adhesive.
Coordinate terms: english: handtool to unblock a drain
translation: handtool to unblock a drain
word: plunger
english: round structure bodily organ that allows some insects, frogs, and octopuses to stick to surfaces
translation: round structure bodily organ that allows some insects, frogs, and octopuses to stick to surfaces
word: sucker
suction cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suction cup
magna opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnum opuses
form: magnum opi
Senses: glosses: plural of magnum opus
ministerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnəˈstɪɹi.əl/
ipa: /-ˈstɪəɹ-/
Forms: form: more ministerial
form: most ministerial
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ministeriel, equivalent to minister + -ial. Doublet of minstrel and ministerialis.
Senses: glosses: Related to a religious minister or ministry.
examples: text: In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.
ref: 2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 46:
glosses: Related to a governmental minister or ministry.
glosses: Having the power to wield delegated executive authority.
examples: text: Filling out the form under the direction of a lawyer is a ministerial task performed by a legal secretary.
topics: law
synonyms: instrumental
glosses: Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
Derived terms: antiministerial
interministerial
intraministerial
ministerial box
ministerial code
ministerialist
ministerialitis
ministerially
ministerialness
nonministerial
pseudoministerial
subministerial
unministerial
Related terms: minister
ministerium
ministry
prime ministerial
ministerial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnəˈstɪɹi.əl/
ipa: /-ˈstɪəɹ-/
Forms: form: ministerials
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ministeriel, equivalent to minister + -ial. Doublet of minstrel and ministerialis.
Senses: examples: text: By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.
ref: 2002, Francis G. Gentry, The Nibelungen Tradition, page 142:
glosses: A member of the mediaeval estate or caste of unfree nobles.
examples: text: The NATO ministerial was attended by the defence ministers of all member states.
glosses: A meeting of government ministers from partner countries.
purple patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple patches
Etymology: Calque from Latin, see purple prose.
Senses: examples: text: He came with a disconcerting black-eye that he wouldn’t explain. “Not so much a black-eye,” he said, “as the aftermath of a purple patch.... What’s your difficulty?”
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Dawn Comes, and My Uncle Appears in a New Silk Hat”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 2nd book (The Rise of Tono-Bungay):
text: Paul Weller has been in a relentlessly innovative purple patch since 2008’s 22 Dreams, which is still surprising given the workmanlike nature of his previous decade’s output.
ref: 2017 May 14, Phil Mongredien, “Paul Weller: A Kind Revolution review – rich in warmth and optimism”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: This icy, strangely monochrome-sounding take on pop is enjoying a purple patch, and Stevie Parker is the latest to throw her tasteful and understated hat in the ring.
ref: 2017 May 18, Rachel Aroesti, “Stevie Parker: The Cure review – an icily restrained pop debut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Haig’s success in Spain continues a purple patch for Australian road cycling. Before 2020, no Australian had stood on a Grand Tour podium since Evans’ retirement.
ref: 2021 September 6, Kieran Pender, “Jack Haig defies odds to continue Grand Tour purple patch for Australian cyclists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A period of excellent performance where nearly everything seems to go right, contrasting with a lower general level of performance.
examples: text: To the picket Private Copper held forth for ten minutes on the life-history of his captive. Allowing for some purple patches, it was an absolute fair rendering.
ref: 1904, Rudyard Kipling, “The Comprehension of Private Copper”, in Traffics and Discoveries, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
text: The poet had continually to be performing acrobatic feats, now of rhetoric or epigram, now of learning, or again in the description of blood-curdling horrors, monstrous deaths and prodigious sorceries. Each work was overloaded with sententiae and purple patches.
ref: 1908, Harold Edgeworth Butler, Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal:
text: Utterly lacking in reverence for great thinkers, he dismissed the finest passages of poetry or prose from his consideration with light scorn as "purple patches," borrowing that hackneyed phrase from the lower walks of the press[…]
ref: 1914, Marie Corelli, Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact:
text: “Who was Ruskin anyway?” asked Flanagan.
“He was one of the Great Victorians. He was a master of English style.”
“Ruskin’s style—a thing of shreds and purple patches,” said Lawson.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
qualifier: originally
glosses: An ornate or elaborate section of a written work; a patch of purple prose.
Related terms: purple passage
purple prose
go along with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes along with
form: going along with
form: went along with
form: gone along with
Senses: examples: text: "Hm. I guess I did agree to go along with whatever her conditions were..." "We smooched on it. No backsies."
ref: 2013 May 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 6, 2013:
glosses: To acquiesce to or comply with a proposal, despite lacking a desire or value for it.
Synonyms: tolerate
Derived terms: go along with the gag
go along with you
sluts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: plural of slut
sluts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slut
marvelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːvələs/
ipa: /ˈmɑːvləs/
text: Audio (UK)
ipa: /ˈmɑɹvələs/
Forms: form: more marvelous
form: most marvelous
form: marvellous
Etymology: First attested from 1300 as Middle English merveilous, from Old French merveillus, from merveille (“a wonder”), equivalent to marvel + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: I went to a marvelous party last week.
text: The fifty little brown musicians rendered difficult selections with marvelous accuracy and gingersome dash and artistic enjoyment of the work.
ref: 1912, Daniel D. Bidwell, As Far as the East is from the West:
text: At first glance, importance sampling seems like a marvellous solution to any posterior simulation problem.
ref: 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., page 80:
synonyms: portentous
glosses: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Derived terms: marvelously
marvelousness
mauvelous
unmarvelous
syncronise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syncronises
form: syncronising
form: syncronised
form: syncronised
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of synchronise.
palladio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: palladium
Derived terms: palladio-bichloride
palladio-protochloride
palladio-phenyl-ammonium
pussyfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊs.iˌfʊt/
Forms: form: pussyfoots
form: pussyfooting
form: pussyfooted
form: pussyfooted
Etymology: From pussy (“feline”) + foot; because of the light and careful tread of cats.
Senses: glosses: To move silently, stealthily, or furtively.
examples: text: — So are you going to practice what you’re preaching and stop pussyfooting around with Faye?
— Hey, I’m 0 for 1 when it comes to practicing what I preach. These feet stay pussied for the time being.
ref: 2004, Jeph Jacques, Fripp and Eno:
text: The TSSA union said the Government should "stop pussyfooting around" and place Euston at the heart of the transformative rail project.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Network News: NAO: Use HS2 Euston pause to put project on a stable footing”, in RAIL, number 980, page 13:
glosses: To act timidly or cautiously.
examples: text: "Then you talk up! And plain! What's there to be so pussyfooting about?"
ref: 1946, Tennessee Williams, The Unsatisfactory Supper:
synonyms: pollyfox
glosses: To use euphemistic language or circumlocution.
pussyfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊs.iˌfʊt/
Forms: form: pussyfoots
Etymology: From pussy (“feline”) + foot; because of the light and careful tread of cats.
Senses: examples: text: "We keep off that road like a pussyfoot keeps off whiskey. Get it out of your bean that we're exploring a deserted ruin."
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xi. 103:
glosses: A teetotaller.
Related terms: pussytoe
walk on eggshells
beat about the bush
go around the houses
pampas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpampəs/
Forms: form: pampas
form: pampa
Etymology: From (plural of) American Spanish pampa, from Quechua pampa (“land, ground”).
Senses: examples: text: The pampas are flat, and present no significant barriers to the building of roads or railways. Even more important, the pampas are close to the major Argentine ports of Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Bahia Blanca.
ref: 1987, Carl E. Solberg, John D. Wirth, Thomas C. Heller, editors, The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930, page 113:
text: The pampas is an ecological wonderland, teeming with life and natural beauty. The pampas is renowned for its sprawling grasslands, which are home to unique species of grasses, including Paspalum, Aristida, and Stipa.
ref: 2025, Joann Mendez, Pampas Paradise: Embracing the Natural Beauty of Argentina's Grasslands:
text: […] that the pampa is above all, fit for the cereals. […] that is to say, on plains without trees analogous to our pampas, as also the maize on the savannahs which are the pampas of Louisiana, […] the soil of the pampa is "excessively fertile," and […]
ref: 1876, Richard Napp, The Argentine Republic, written in German by Richard Napp, assisted by several fellow-writers for the Central Argentine Commission on the centenary exhibition at Philadelphia (with several Maps), page 289
glosses: The extensive plains of South America south of the Amazon.
Derived terms: Japanese pampas grass
pampas cat
pampas deer
pampas fox
pampas grass
pampasic
charmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹmɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: charmers
Etymology: From Middle English charmer, charmere, equivalent to charm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless.
ref: 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News:
glosses: A charming person; one who charms or seduces; a smoothie.
glosses: An enchanter or magician.
examples: text: What a charmer, Karl Lagerfeld
ref: 2012 December 27, The G2 Supplement, “Best slapdowns of 2012”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A rude or unpleasant person.
Derived terms: charmeress
Related terms: charm
charming
snake charmer
potassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From potassium + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing potassium.
Derived terms: dipotassic
hydropotassic
iridico-potassic
mercurico-potassic
monopotassic
potassic-arfvedsonite
potassic carbonate
potassic-chloro-hastingsite
potassic-hastingsite
potassicleakeite
potassicpargasite
potassic-richterite
potassicsadanagaite
sodipotassic
ultrapotassic
uranosopotassic
heptaselenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptaselenides
Etymology: From hepta- + selenide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: rhenium heptaselenide
marras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marra
Wedgwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English wice (“wych elm”) + wudu (“wood”).
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname from a place in Staffordshire.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ceramic ware with white embossed cameos made by Josiah Wedgwood, English potter.
Derived terms: Wedgwood blue
Wedgwood green
Wedgwoodian
Related terms: jasperware