cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
microserf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microserfs
form: Microserf
Etymology: Blend of Microsoft + serf. Probably coined by Douglas Coupland in his 1995 novel Microserfs, which chronicles the lives of coders who work for Microsoft.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A person working for Microsoft in a low-level position.
glosses: A person working in a low-paid service industry position using information technologies, usually with only basic qualifications, unable to move to a higher-paid position.
Related terms: McJob
antitrust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈtɹʌst/
Etymology: From anti- + trust.
Senses: examples: text: The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.
text: If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
ref: 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878, archived from the original on 18 May 2020:
text: When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
ref: 2022 January 15, Binyamin Appelbaum, “Building a Better Meatpacking Industry”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2022:
topics: law
glosses: Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.
Derived terms: antitruster
Related terms: antimonopoly
amant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amants
Etymology: Borrowed from French amant, from Latin amantem, present participle of amō.
Senses: glosses: A lover, especially if illicit; a paramour.
hang up one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs up one's boots
form: hanging up one's boots
form: hung up one's boots
form: hung up one's boots
Senses: glosses: to retire, call it a day
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To stop playing a field sport.
Synonyms: hang up one's fiddle
Related terms: hang up one's hat
pitch-black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pitch-black
form: most pitch-black
form: pitchblack
form: pitch black
Etymology: From pitch (“tar”) + black. Compare West Frisian pikswart (literally “pitch-black”), Dutch pikzwart (literally “pitch-black”), German pechschwarz (literally “pitch-black”), Swedish becksvart (literally “pitch-black”), Icelandic biksvartur (literally “pitch-black”).
Senses: synonyms: black as coal
black as tar
black as night
tar-black
glosses: Very dark; without light.
Derived terms: pitch-blackened
pitch-blackness
resonance effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the mesomeric effect
mesomeric effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the increased stability of organic compounds having alternate single and double bonds
Synonyms: resonance effect
metalloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtəlɔɪd/
Forms: form: metalloids
Etymology: From metal + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An element, such as silicon or germanium, intermediate in properties between that of a metal and a nonmetal; especially an elemental semiconductor.
examples: text: By some they [metals of the alkalies] were called metalloids; by some their simple nature was objected to
ref: 1836, Sir Humphry Davy, Memoirs:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; applied to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nonmetal.
metalloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtəlɔɪd/
Forms: form: more metalloid
form: most metalloid
Etymology: From metal + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the metalloids.
examples: text: Graham Massey of 808 State turns a Björkian moan into a vibrating siren and powers his strangely metalloid version of "Army Of Me" with it; the Brodsky String Quartet turns "Hyperballad" into a stately 3-D chess game.
ref: 1997, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 43, page 12:
text: It expanded from bleary delay rippling with looped phrases to embrace molten metalloid raunch and blues grit, acoustic guitars and pedal steels.
ref: 2004, Gene Santoro, Highway 61 Revisited:
glosses: Characteristic of the metal music genre.
nonmetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmetals
form: non-metal
Etymology: From non- + metal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An element, such as phosphorus or chlorine, that does not have the chemical or physical properties of a metal.
Derived terms: nonmetallic
avoiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdɪŋ/
Senses: examples: Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)
I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)
I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact. (as gerund)
glosses: present participle and gerund of avoid
avoiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdɪŋ/
Forms: form: avoidings
Senses: examples: text: Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.
ref: 1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?, page 9:
glosses: Avoidance.
broods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of brood
broods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brood
brooding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːdɪŋ
Forms: form: more brooding
form: most brooding
Senses: examples: text: A brooding hen can be aggressive.
glosses: Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
raw_tags: of a bird
examples: text: You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.
text: his brooding good looks and distinct Scottish brogue won him legions of fans worldwide.
ref: 2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
Derived terms: broodingly
broodingness
unbrooding
brooding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brood
brooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːdɪŋ
Forms: form: broodings
Senses: examples: text: The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings, thick with doubt and fear.
ref: 2009 June 22, Jon Caramanica, “Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen”, in New York Times:
glosses: A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
Derived terms: mouthbrooding
brooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: Having broods
Derived terms: multibrooded
unbrooded
brooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brood
AYH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Youth Hostels.
CYO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Catholic Youth Organization.
intergender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + gender.
Senses: examples: ref: 1999, Joanna Lynn McAfee., Differences in Intergender Communication Within Task-oriented Dyads:
text: intergender friendship, intergender wrestling
glosses: Taking place between people of opposite genders.
examples: text: Their art focuses on people who are non-gendered or intergender.
glosses: Having a gender identity midway between male and female.
Synonyms: word: intergendered
intergender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intergenders
Etymology: From inter- + gender.
Senses: glosses: A person whose gender identity is midway between male and female.
glosses: An intersex person whose gender identity is influenced by being intersex.
Related terms: androgynous
intersex
bigender
genderqueer
non-binary
mole fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mole fractions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the ratio of the number of moles (not the animal) of one component of a mixture to the total number of moles
covalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more covalently
form: most covalently
Etymology: From covalent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Using covalent bonds.
Derived terms: monocovalently
noncovalently
nitrogen inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrogen inversions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rapid inversion of the lone pair in a molecule such as a tertiary amine which prevents it from being chiral.
Angus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡəs/
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Aonghas, perhaps literally "one choice".
Senses: examples: text: Angus was a great enlargement of experience for me, because he illustrated how haphazardly Fate attributes names to her unoffending children. Angus McGubbin: a Scots giant, red-haired and scowling - wouldn't you think so?
ref: 1994, RobertsonDavies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic of mostly Scottish usage.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A former county of Scotland, which became a local government district in 1975 in Tayside Region (abolished 1996).
glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
glosses: A black, hornless breed of beef cattle, originally from Scotland.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A nickname for the 0-8-8-0 train configuration.
Derived terms: Coupar Angus
Related terms: Aberdeen Angus
Angus Og
Black Angus
Forfarshire
airfreight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air freight
form: air-freight
Etymology: From air + freight.
Senses: glosses: The transportation of freight by air.
glosses: The amount charged for such transport.
airfreight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airfreights
form: airfreighting
form: airfreighted
form: airfreighted
form: air freight
form: air-freight
Etymology: From air + freight.
Senses: examples: text: And I've told you a hundred times, Mac, draft beer is too expensive to airfreight in.
ref: 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.
ref: 2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times:
glosses: To transport by air.
arcmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcmins
Etymology: Shortening. See min (“minute (abbreviation)”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of arcminute.
Derived terms: subarcmin
Related terms: arcsec
Raleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːliː/
enpr: rôʹlē
enpr: räʹlē
ipa: /ˈɹɔːli/
ipa: /ˈɹɑli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
rhymes: -ɔːli
Etymology: From Old English rā, rāha (“roe deer”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”). Equivalent to roe + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A medieval manor in Devon, England.
glosses: An English habitational surname from the manor in England.
glosses: A male given name, transferred from the surname.
glosses: Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer and soldier.
glosses: The capital city of North Carolina, United States and the county seat of Wake County; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
glosses: A town in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Smith County, Mississippi; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
A neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee; named for the city in North Carolina.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
A village in Illinois; named for the city in North Carolina.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
A census-designated place in Florida.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
A census-designated place in North Dakota; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Georgia; named for Raleigh Bowden.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for the city in North Carolina.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Iowa.
glosses: Multiple smaller locales in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia; named for its county, which was named for Sir Walter Raleigh.
glosses: An English bicycle manufacturer.
Derived terms: Raleigh County
Related terms: Rawley
Rayleigh
Deerfield
malfeasant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malfeasant
form: most malfeasant
Etymology: From malfeasance, after such pairs as assistance, assistant, or adapted from French malfaisant.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to malfeasance or misconduct.
malfeasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malfeasants
Etymology: From malfeasance, after such pairs as assistance, assistant, or adapted from French malfaisant.
Senses: glosses: Someone guilty of such conduct; a malefactor.
disencumber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disencumbers
form: disencumbering
form: disencumbered
form: disencumbered
Etymology: From dis- + encumber.
Senses: examples: text: Francesca was soon disencumbered of her riding-hood and cloak; and the three young people, left together, became rapidly acquainted.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: To remove an encumbrance or burden from (someone or something); unburden.
soundproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soundproof
form: most soundproof
Etymology: From sound + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: The contestant was placed in a soundproof booth so he could not receive help from the audience.
text: The electrical activity of the subject's cerebral cortex was recorded in a state of relative rest, after a 5 min adaptation of the subject to a dark soundproof chamber. The biopotentials were recorded from the electroencephaloscope screen […]
ref: 2013, K. H. Pribram, A. R. Luria, Psychophysiology of the Frontal Lobes, page 92:
glosses: Not allowing sound through.
Derived terms: soundproofing
soundproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soundproofs
form: soundproofing
form: soundproofed
form: soundproofed
Etymology: From sound + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: We soundproofed the room so we couldn't hear the road noises; unfortunately we couldn't hear the fire alarm either.
text: It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
text: Soundproofing a room may be as simple as sealing gaps around a door, or it may require rebuilding an entire wall or lowering a ceiling.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: To make resistant to transmitting sound.
responsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒn.sɪv/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɑn.sɪv/
Forms: form: more responsive
form: most responsive
Etymology: From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.
Senses: glosses: Answering, replying or responding
glosses: Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
glosses: Using antiphons; antiphonal.
glosses: Susceptible to the feelings of others.
examples: text: Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.
ref: 2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space.
examples: text: The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book VIII”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: Suited to something else; correspondent.
examples: text: he [the bishop] must be responsive for all his diocese
ref: 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:
glosses: Responsible.
Derived terms: alloresponsive
bioresponsive
chemoresponsive
corresponsive
electroresponsive
hyperresponsive
hyporesponsive
immunoresponsive
irresponsive
isoresponsive
magnetoresponsive
mechanoresponsive
normoresponsive
osmoresponsive
overresponsive
photoresponsive
responsively
responsiveness
responsive web design
responsorial
seroresponsive
thermoresponsive
underresponsive
vasoresponsive
polarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpoʊlərɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: polarizations
form: polarisation
Etymology: Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarize + -ation or polar + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The subtopologies that we discovered include: a glide-symmetric analog of the quantum spin Hall effect, an hourglass-flow topology (exemplified by our recently-proposed KHgSb material class), and quantized non-Abelian polarizations.
ref: 2016, A. Alexandradinata, Zhijun Wang, B. Andrei Bernevig, “Topological Insulators from Group Cohomology”, in arXiv:
glosses: The production or the condition of polarity.
examples: text: What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candidates for office need is a fresh source of hot-eyed national polarization.
ref: 2004 February 6, William Safire, “Abolish the Penny”, in The New York Times:
text: Polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey.
ref: 2019 October 1, Thomas Carothers, Andrew O’Donohue, “How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization”, in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2023:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The production or the condition of polarity.
The grouping of opinions into two extremes.
examples: text: We don’t usually notice polarization because direct sunlight and light from ordinary incandescent and fluorescent bulbs is unpolarized: it contains equal mixtures of horizontally and vertically polarized light.
ref: 2013 July 16, skullsinthestars, “Simple fun with polarizers!”, in Skulls in the Stars:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The production or the condition of polarity.
The production of polarized light; the direction in which the electric field of an electromagnetic wave points.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The production or the condition of polarity.
The separation of positive and negative charges in a nucleus, atom, molecule or system.
Derived terms: affective partisan polarization
bipolarization
depolarization
eigenpolarization
hyperpolarization
hypopolarization
interstellar polarization
millipolarization
mispolarization
multipolarization
overpolarization
polariton
polarization time
polarization vector
prepolarization
repolarization
spin polarization
strongman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongmen
Etymology: From strong + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Giovanni Battista Belzoni, the famous Egyptian archeologist, who was a man of gigantic stature, began his public career as a strongman at the Bartholomew Fair, under the management of Gyngell, the conjuror, who dubbed him The Young Hercules.
ref: 1920, Harry Houdini, chapter 11, in Miracle Mongers and Their Methods:
text: Opposite him was the Fat Lady, red-faced and laughing. Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy. Further down the table, the Strong Man, an overcoat covering his leopard-skin, talked garrulously.
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 26:
glosses: A man who performs feats of strength, as in competitions or as an attraction in a circus.
examples: text: Since the Cold War’s end, a staggering 70 percent of governments headed by strongmen collapsed after the ruler departed, according to one data set.
ref: 2022 January 7, Max Fisher, “Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.
Derived terms: strongman game
Related terms: strongwoman
hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: plural of hound
hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hound
assented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assent
assented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛntɪd/
Senses: topics: business
finance
antonyms: nonassented
unassented
glosses: Of stocks or bonds: whose holders agree to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment.
missionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹiz/
ipa: /ˈmɪʃən(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of missionary
batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of battery
tumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭmʹbəld
ipa: /ˈtʌmbl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tumble
notifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊtɪfaɪz/
ipa: /ˈnəʊtɪfaɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of notify
embroidered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdɚd/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəd/
Forms: form: more embroidered
form: most embroidered
Senses: examples: text: The very embroidered arras, which hangs yon pavilion, is worthy to be observed; but the artificers here, who display their curious works in our native metals, deserve high praise.
ref: 1816, Miss Appleton, Elizabeth Lachlan, Edgar: A National Tale, page 65:
text: Surely he has appropriated wome of what should be his wife's jewelry, for in that very embroidered cambric shirt of his sparkle three splendid diamonds set in dark blue enamel.
ref: 1850 July, "A New Yorker", “Sketches of American Society: A Wedding "Above Bleeker"”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 20, number 3, page 422:
text: Luis de Avila and Lope de Soria often mention her in their letters; so for example, Avila: "I came to Correggio, where I had Luncheon. I saw Veronica in bed, with a very ornamental night-cap and a very embroidered coverlet."
ref: 2010, Hayward Keniston, Francisco de los Cobos: Secretary of the Emperor Charles V, page 135:
glosses: Decorated with embroidery; covered in decorative needlework.
examples: text: The man of business at his desk, the mechanic in his workshop, the idler on his couch, the man of letters in his study, has but to turn for a brief interval to these Lives, and he will behold, for every period and age, the very embroidered and moving scene that he has been seeking to understand and to sympathise with, in a way, in so far as the effect and the cause are concerned, not unlike that which Shakspeare's historical plays, and Walter Scott's historical romances, produce upon the vivid imagination.
ref: 1835, The Monthly Review, volume 3, page 298:
text: The orchestration is effective and ingenious, and some of the recitative is sustained with a very embroidered accompaniment.
ref: 1882 November 1, “Drama”, in The Artist, volume 3, number 35, page 352:
text: That is not a very embroidered account of an actual occurrence.
ref: 1946 October, E. J. Bradshaw, “Military Geology and What it Means”, in Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume 76, number 325:
glosses: Embellished; elaborate, especially when containing superfluous or fictitious details.
Derived terms: unembroidered
embroidered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdɚd/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embroider
ascending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From ascend + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ascend
ascending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Etymology: From ascend + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.
text: Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.
ref: 1954 July, C. R. L. Coles, “Memories of the Great Central”, in Railway Magazine, page 464:
glosses: Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)
examples: text: We used an ascending sort.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)
That causes a sequence to follow an ascending order.
synonyms: ascendant
glosses: Leading or sloping upwards.
Derived terms: ascending cervical artery
ascending chain condition
ascending colon
ascendingly
ascending node
ascending palatine artery
ascending pharyngeal artery
ascendostomy
parascending
subascending
ascending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: ascendings
Etymology: From ascend + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: continual ascendings and descendings
glosses: An ascent.
trusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English trustyng, trostinge, tristynge, equivalent to trust + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trust
trusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌstɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌstɪŋ
Forms: form: more trusting
form: most trusting
Etymology: From Middle English trustyng, trostinge, tristynge, equivalent to trust + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Inclined to believe the claims or statements of others; inclined to confide readily; trustful.
irritated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɹɪteɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of irritate
irritated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɹɪteɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more irritated
form: most irritated
Senses: examples: text: She felt irritated by the constant noise.
text: His irritated tone made the situation worse.
glosses: Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
examples: text: irritated skin
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflamed and painful.
Synonyms: sense: experiencing a feeling of irritation
word: annoyed
Derived terms: irritatedly
unirritated
spermatozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatozoon
revenues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕvʹə-no͞ozʹ
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəˌnuz/
ipa: /ˈɹɛvənjuːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of revenue
proving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːvɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English provyng, pryvynge, equivalent to prove + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prove
proving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːvɪŋ
Forms: form: provings
Etymology: From Middle English provyng, prevyng, provynge, prevynge, preovyng, prufunge, preofunge, from Old English *prōfung, equivalent to prove + -ing.
Senses: examples: a book of provings
topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested.
precautions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈkɔːʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of precaution
excused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭkskyo͞ozdʹ
enpr: ĕkskyo͞ozdʹ
ipa: /ɪkˈskjuːzd/
ipa: /ɛksˈkjuːzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excuse
drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of drive
drives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drive
reliquary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛlɪkwɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛlɪkwəɹi/
Forms: form: reliquaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“I relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“I leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.
Senses: examples: text: “… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”
ref: 1935, Francis Beeding, “4/1”, in The Norwich Victims:
text: And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.
ref: 2009 February 13, Holland Cotter, “To Bump Off Art as He Knew It”, in New York Times:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A container to hold or display religious relics.
glosses: An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
topics: law
glosses: A person who owes a balance.
Coordinate terms: word: fereter
word: feretery
word: feretory
word: chasse
word: philatory
topics: Buddhist
Buddhism
religion
lifestyle
word: stupa
Related terms: relic
expends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndz/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expend
encamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkæmpt/
rhymes: -æmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encamp
displeased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpliːzd/
Forms: form: more displeased
form: most displeased
Senses: examples: text: a displeased customer
glosses: Not pleased or happy with something.
Derived terms: displeasedly
displeasedness
undispleased
displeased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpliːzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of displease
excluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈkluːdɪd/
Forms: form: more excluded
form: most excluded
Senses: examples: text: For community development, the racism resulting from the global economic system is all too frequently played out in those communities that are most excluded – inner-city neighbourhoods and public housing estates.
ref: 2005, Paul Henderson, Including the excluded, page 94:
text: I was feeling very excluded from the group of people I had been mixing with for the past two years .
ref: 2012, Dennis J.Dodt, Intimate Expression: An Orphan’s Experience of Healing, page xi:
text: The figures also show a persistent pattern; black pupils are three and a half times more likely than their white peers to be excluded and boys are more likely to be ''excluded than girls; children with special needs are likely to be more excluded than others.
ref: 2013, Kay Andrews, Extra Learning, page 198:
glosses: Kept out; not permitted to enter or be a part; shunned.
Derived terms: bioexcluded
excludedness
law of excluded middle
law of the excluded middle
nonexcluded
present company excluded
principle of excluded middle
unexcluded
excluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪksˈkluːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exclude
devised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devise
Derived terms: undevised
paved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Etymology: From Middle English paved, ypavyd, equivalent to pave + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered in pavement; having a hard surface, as of concrete or asphalt.
examples: text: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
glosses: Laid out or made, as intentions, desires, plans, etc.
Synonyms: paven
Derived terms: crazy-paved
mispaved
nonpaved
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
the streets are paved with gold
unpaved
paved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Etymology: From Middle English paved, ypavyd, equivalent to pave + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pave
occupations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑkjəˈpeɪʃənz/
ipa: /ɒkjʊˈpeɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of occupation
choosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choose
choosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Forms: form: choosings
Senses: examples: text: Parents, of course, now have a choice among private schools, but their choosings are not normally supported by public funds.
ref: 2011, Kern Alexander, M. David Alexander, American Public School Law:
glosses: The act of making a choice.
Derived terms: of one's choosing
replies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reply
replies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of reply
inviting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more inviting
form: most inviting
Senses: examples: text: The station has a bright and airy feel and the refurbishment works have provided a modern and inviting station environment for passengers.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Coward, “New-look Reading is willing and able”, in Rail, page 59:
glosses: Alluring; tempting; attractive.
Synonyms: tantalizing
Derived terms: invitingly
invitingness
uninviting
inviting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invite
inviting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: invitings
Senses: glosses: invitation
victories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭkʹt(ə)riz
ipa: /ˈvɪkt(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of victory
victories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭkʹt(ə)riz
ipa: /ˈvɪkt(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of victory
necessities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɪˈsɛsətiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of necessity
adored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ədôrdʹ
ipa: /əˈdɔɹd/
enpr: ədôdʹ
ipa: /əˈdɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ədōrdʹ
ipa: /əˈdo(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈdoə̯d/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adore
relic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛlɪk/
Forms: form: relics
form: relicing
form: relicking
form: reliced
form: reliced
form: relicked
form: relicked
form: relick
form: relique
Etymology: From Middle English relik et al., from Old French relique, from Latin reliquiae (“remains, relics”), from relinquō (“I leave behind, abandon, relinquish”), from re- + linquō (“I leave, quit, forsake, depart from”). Doublet of relict, derelict, and relinquish.
Senses: examples: text: Age has become a fetish in the world of guitars where large amounts of money are paid for a specially “reliced” guitar. As one company, Relic Guitars, which offers this service claims, “The idea behind relicing a guitar is to artificially replicate the natural wear that occurs over many years […]”
ref: 2009, Trevor Pinch, David Reinecke, “Technostalgia: How old gear lives on in new music”, in Karin Bijsterveld, José van Dijck, editors, Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices, page 152:
text: The whole idea of relicing an instrument is to accelerate the wear and tear that normally occurs over decades.
ref: 2012, Will Kelly, How to Build Electric Guitars, page 81:
text: He's since run his own shop, building, winding/making pickups, doing restorations and relicing guitars.
ref: 2017 January 19, “Fender® Custom Shop Commemorates 30th Anniversary Milestone With Founders Design Project Debuting At 2017 Winter NAMM”, in PR Newswire:
glosses: To cause (an object) to appear old or worn, to distress.
raw_tags: of guitars
relic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛlɪk/
Forms: form: relick
form: relique
Etymology: From Middle English relik et al., from Old French relique, from Latin reliquiae (“remains, relics”), from relinquō (“I leave behind, abandon, relinquish”), from re- + linquō (“I leave, quit, forsake, depart from”). Doublet of relict, derelict, and relinquish.
Senses: examples: text: A more realistic model must include the presence of perturbations whose extra energy can produce distortions of the relic radiation spectrum.
ref: 1977, “The relic radiation spectrum and the thermal history of the universe”, in La rivista del Nuovo cimento, volume 7, number 3, page 299:
text: While Lasserre acknowledges that physicists are still decades away from observing a direct relic neutrino signal, he says that this work represents an important step forward in the search for the holy grail of neutrino physics.
ref: 2022 June 29, “A Step Closer to Detecting Ancient Neutrinos”, in APS (Synopsis), retrieved 02 Jun 2024:
text: We carry out model-independent analysis to obtain the temperature at the end of inflation and the estimate for the upper bound on the Hubble parameter to circumvent the problem due to relic gravitational waves
ref: 2017, “Relic gravitational waves from quintessential inflation”, in Physical Review, volume 96, number 6, page 2:
text: This has been very successfully employed by measuring the relic abundances of the light elements, which were synthesized about three minutes after the beginning of the universe during big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN).
ref: 2019, Wallisch, Benjamin, chapter 1, in Cosmological Probes of Light Relics, pages 1-2:
glosses: Pertaining to the Big Bang.
possesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈzɛsɪz/
rhymes: -ɛsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of possess
bunny hug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny hugs
form: bunnyhug
form: bunny-hug
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Saskatchewan
glosses: A hoodie; a sweatshirt with a hood lacking a zipper.
glosses: A style of early 20th-century dance, performed to ragtime music.
Synonyms: hoodie
kangaroo
kangaroo jacket
supplicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supplicant
lordship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːd.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈlɔɹd.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: lordships
Etymology: From Middle English lordshipe, laverdschipe, from Old English hlāfordsċiepe, equivalent to lord + -ship. Cognate with Scots lairdschip.
Senses: examples: text: For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service[…]
ref: 2004, Alice Sheppard, Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, page 27:
text: Lordship entails both privilege and responsibility. Lords have power over their subjects, but that power is granted them so that they can protect and provide for others.
ref: 2011, Daniel Frankforter, Word of God - Words of Men: The Use and Abuse of Scripture, page 93:
glosses: The state or condition of being a lord.
examples: text: May I ask that the order be granted, if your lordship so pleases?
text: 'He's had his bath,' she said. 'He's just had his bath, bless his little lordship's heart.'
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:
text: Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.
raw_tags: with "his" or "your"
glosses: A boy or man who is behaving in a seigneurial manner or acting like a lord, behaving in a bossy manner or lording it up
raw_tags: with "his" or "your"
examples: text: What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.
ref: c. 1690, Juvenal, translated by John Dryden, The Tenth Satire of Juvenal:
text: […]for whose ransom he compelled Lord Percy to build the castle of Punnoon, in the lordship of Eaglesham.
ref: 1832, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, volume I, page 425:
glosses: Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
examples: text: But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 10:42:
glosses: Dominion; power; authority.
Related terms: word: ladyship
english: form to address archbishops, and some bishops
translation: form to address archbishops, and some bishops
word: your Grace
word: Your Honour
english: for judges
translation: for judges
word: your Honor
bully
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊli/
rhymes: -ʊli
Forms: form: bullies
form: bullying
form: bullied
form: bullied
Etymology: From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( + -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English Bōla, Bōlla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *bō- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian bālinš (“brother”). More at boy.
The term acquired a negative connotation during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’. Possibly influenced by bull (“male cattle”) or via the ‘prostitute's minder’ sense. The positive senses are dated, but survive in phrases such as bully pulpit.
Senses: examples: text: You shouldn't bully people for being weak.
text: I won't have you bullying us out my own house.
text: Bradly's stomach kinked in on itself, thinking of Cora struck silly with that corpse on her hands and the copper bullying the truth out of her.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218:
text: United States Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Thursday became the latest member of Congress to visit Taiwan defying pressure from Beijing, saying, "I will not be bullied by Communist China into turning my back on the island."
ref: 2022 August 26, Brad Lendon, “'Xi Jinping doesn't scare me': US Sen. Marsha Blackburn lands in Taiwan, vows not to be bullied by China”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022:
synonyms: word: buffalo
word: bulldoze
word: bully
word: browbeat
word: cow
word: dastardize
word: daunt
word: dishearten
word: do down
word: domineer
word: drive
word: hector
word: intimidate
word: menace
word: strong-arm
glosses: To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
examples: text: The Potters know their strengths and played to them perfectly here, out-muscling Bolton in midfield and bullying the visitors' back-line at every opportunity.
ref: 2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 2 -03 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC:
synonyms: push around
ride roughshod over
glosses: To act aggressively towards.
Derived terms: bulliable
bullyable
outbully
bully
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊli/
rhymes: -ʊli
Forms: form: bullier
form: bulliest
Etymology: From 1530, as a term of endearment, probably a diminutive ( + -y) of Dutch boel (“lover; brother”), from Middle Dutch boel, boele (“brother; lover”), from Old Dutch *buolo, from Proto-Germanic *bōlô (compare Middle Low German bôle (“brother”), Middle High German buole (“brother; close relative; close relation”) (whence German Buhle (“lover”)), Old English Bōla, Bōlla (personal name), diminutive of expressive *bō- (“brother, father”). Compare also Latvian bālinš (“brother”). More at boy.
The term acquired a negative connotation during the 17th century; first ‘noisy, blustering fellow’ then ‘a person who is cruel to others’. Possibly influenced by bull (“male cattle”) or via the ‘prostitute's minder’ sense. The positive senses are dated, but survive in phrases such as bully pulpit.
Senses: examples: text: a bully horse
text: To sing a bully song I'll try, / Bully for you, bully for you, / Gay as they make them, here I am, / Bully for you, for you.
ref: 1861, Daniel Bryant, Bryant's Songs from Dixie's Land, page 19:
text: He looked down upon the girl beside him—a daughter of the desert walking across the face of a dead world with a son of the jungle. He smiled at the thought. He wished that he had had a sister, and that she had been like this girl. What a bully chum she would have been!
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 137:
text: She is a bully woman, not only a good mother, but a wonderful in-law
ref: 1916, The Independent, volumes 35-36, page 6:
synonyms: word: excellent
word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
glosses: Very good.
examples: text: Bless thee, bully doctor!
ref: 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act II, scene iii:
synonyms: dashing
glosses: Jovial and blustering.
Derived terms: bully boy
bully pulpit