cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
okey dokey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Okey dokey. I just got off the phone with Gizmo and gave him our locaysh.”
ref: 2024 December 2, Shana Gohd & Paul Simms, “Come Out and Play” (15:33 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 9, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: Alternative form of okey-dokey.
kippah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪpə/
ipa: /kɪˈpɑː/
ipa: /ˈkɪpə/
ipa: /ˈkipə/
ipa: /kɪˈpɑ/
ipa: /kiˈpɑ/
rhymes: -ɪpə
rhymes: -iːpə
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: keeper (non-rhotic, /ˈkiːpə/ pronunciation)
homophone: kipper (non-rhotic, /ˈkɪpə/ pronunciation)
Forms: form: kippahs
form: kippot
form: kippoth
form: kippa
form: kipah
form: kipa
form: kippoh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כִּיפָּה (kipá).
Senses: examples: text: In response, Germany’s most popular daily newspaper asked readers to wear the cut-out kippah as a mark of solidarity with the Jewish community, and even posted a video on its website showing how to make it.
ref: 2019 May 27, Jack Guy, “German newspaper prints cut-out kippah, urging readers to wear it in solidarity with Jews”, in CNN:
text: Some Jewish Americans told CNN they are now hiding their kippahs, refusing to wear their Star of David necklaces and changing long-held traditions for religious holidays.
ref: 2023 November 21, Nicquel Terry Ellis, “The Israel-Hamas war is driving a surge in US hate crimes. These Jewish Americans say it’s changing the way they live”, in CNN:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: The cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews.
Synonyms: yarmulke
skullcap
Derived terms: kippahed
E number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E numbers
Senses: examples: text: The E number E100 represents turmeric.
glosses: Any of a range of European abbreviations for food additives used on labels.
examples: text: I finger Padre Pio paperweights and Our Lady of Knock sticks of rock that are packed with more e-numbers than could be safe at one sitting.
ref: 2003, Deirdre Brennan, Maighread Medbh, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Divas!:
text: ...how long it took corpses to go off these days, because everyone was so full of E-numbers and preservatives.
ref: 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering:
glosses: Any such additive, often regarded as undesirable.
ranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rangers
Etymology: From range (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ranges; a rover.
glosses: One who ranges; a rover.
A roving robber; one who seeks plunder.
glosses: A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region (generally of wilderness) to protect the area or enforce the law.
examples: text: The tamis raunger.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: That which separates or arranges; a sieve.
glosses: A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In some modern armies, an elite soldier, similar to special forces but often operating in larger units.
topics: literature
media
publishing
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A warrior character, often with wilderness and stealth skill, who typically travels the countryside.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A character skilled in the use of ranged weapons.
Derived terms: long-ranger
long ranger
PowerPoint ranger
Rangerette
ranger file
ranger panties
ranger vest
rump ranger
ranger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rangers
form: rangering
form: rangered
form: rangered
Etymology: From range (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Just like down in Texas when I was rangering, you just keep turning over rocks […]
ref: 1993, Robert Kammen, Rattlers Roost, page 59:
text: He saw men long dead whom he had rangered with, saw Pedro Flores and Pea Eye and a redheaded whore he had taken up with for a month in his riverboating days.
ref: 2011, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove:
glosses: To work as a ranger.
food additive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food additives
Senses: glosses: Any nonfood substance added to food in order to improve its flavour, appearance or shelf life.
Related terms: E number
rigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪɡd/
rhymes: -ɪɡd
Forms: form: more rigged
form: most rigged
Etymology: From rig + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: There was a vicious rumour that the final was rigged, as the defense seemed useless.
text: If these rates are rigged, markets are rigged — against bank customers, like everyday borrowers, and against parties on the other side of a bank’s derivatives deals, like pension funds.
ref: 2012 July 3, “Rigged Rates, Rigged Markets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has been re-elected by a landslide in an election described by the opposition as the most rigged contest in the four decades since the Sandinista leader first came to power.
ref: 2016 November 7, Jonathan Watts, “Nicaragua president re-elected in landslide amid claims of rigged vote”, in The Guardian:
text: The contemporary scandal, it is often said, is not that criminal corruption occurs but rather that the political system is legally rigged. It supposedly takes the form of campaign contributions that, Mr. Sanders says, enable corporations to “literally buy elections.”
ref: 2019 August 25, Greg Weiner, “The Shallow Cynicism of ‘Everything Is Rigged’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: stacked
glosses: Prearranged and fixed so that the winner or outcome is decided in advance.
examples: text: We were ready to embark upon our journey now the vessel was rigged.
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: typically not comparable
glosses: Having the rigging up.
Derived terms: cat-rigged
Eastern-rigged
fore-and-aft-rigged
full-rigged
fully rigged
fully-rigged
gaff-rigged
jerry-rigged
jury-rigged
nigger-rigged
purser rigged and parish damned
ship-rigged
square rigged
square-rigged
rigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪɡd/
rhymes: -ɪɡd
Etymology: From rig + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rig
kippot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kippah
bulletin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝olˈ-ə-tən
enpr: -ət-ən
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ə.tən/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.əʔ.n̩/
enpr: bo͝olˈ-ĭ-tĭn
enpr: -ə-tĭn
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ɪ.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ə.tɪn/
Forms: form: bulletins
Etymology: Borrowed from French bulletin.
Senses: examples: text: A company bulletin announced changes to the policy.
glosses: A short report, especially one released through official channels to be immediately broadcast or publicized.
examples: text: The evening news bulletin reported on the earthquake.
synonyms: alert#Noun
breaking news
newsflash
update#Noun
glosses: A time-sensitive news item or short news report.
synonyms: newsletter
organ#Noun
periodical
glosses: A short printed publication, especially one produced regularly by an organization.
Derived terms: all-points bulletin
bulletin board
bulletin board service
bulletin board system
bulletinize
e-bulletin
bulletin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝olˈ-ə-tən
enpr: -ət-ən
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ə.tən/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.əʔ.n̩/
enpr: bo͝olˈ-ĭ-tĭn
enpr: -ə-tĭn
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ɪ.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ə.tɪn/
Forms: form: bulletins
form: bulletining
form: bulletined
form: bulletined
Etymology: Borrowed from French bulletin.
Senses: examples: text: to bulletin an employment vacancy
glosses: To announce (something) by means of such a report or publication.
bulletin
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝olˈ-ə-tən
enpr: -ət-ən
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ə.tən/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.əʔ.n̩/
enpr: bo͝olˈ-ĭ-tĭn
enpr: -ə-tĭn
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ɪ.tɪn/
ipa: /ˈbʊl.ə.tɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from French bulletin.
Senses: synonyms: hello#Interjection
newsflash#Interjection
glosses: Introduces a fact (presumed to be obvious) of which the person addressed is ostensibly not aware.
consulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnsjʊlət/
ipa: /ˈkɒnsələt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəlɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsələt/
Forms: form: consulates
Etymology: From Middle English consulat, consulate, from Latin consulātus, from consul + -ātus. In some senses, via French consulat. By surface analysis, consul + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: Rule by consuls, as during most periods of the Roman Republic or in France between 1799 and 1804.
glosses: The office of a consul, in its various senses.
glosses: The term of office of a consul.
glosses: The business office of a consul; a minor embassy.
glosses: Any town or city council.
Synonyms: sense: rule
word: capitoulate
sense: office and term of office
word: consulship
sense: office and term of office
word: capitoulate
Derived terms: consulate general
honorary consulate
Related terms: consul
embassy
curcumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)kjəmɪn/
Forms: form: curcumins
Etymology: From translingual Curcuma, from Arabic كُرْكُم (kurkum, “turmeric”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyphenol (1E,6E)-1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)hepta-1,6-diene-3,5-dione; a major constituent of the spice turmeric.
Synonyms: circumin
E100
Hypernyms: curcuminoid
Derived terms: curcuminoid
nanocurcumin
rubrocurcumin
tetrahydrocurcumin
nutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: nuttier
form: nuttiest
Etymology: From nut + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This is a nutty chocolate bar.
glosses: Containing nuts.
examples: text: Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a pleasantly nutty flavor.
ref: 1997, Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook, Rodale, →ISBN, page 210:
text: David Mason, Beverage and Bar Manager at St. Regis, describes the complex aromas and layered palate of the cognac thus: “It’s kind of autumn flavors. Really nutty, almondy – kind of fig, plum, dried fruits. But it finishes off really smoothly but with a little bit of tobacco leaf.”
ref: 2016 December 16, Peter Shadbolt, “What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: nuttish
english: resembling or characteristic
translation: resembling or characteristic
word: ;
english: resembling
translation: resembling
word: nutlike#Adjective
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of nuts.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: nuts; see also Thesaurus:insane
text: That student's parents seem to be nutty as a fruitcake.
synonyms: squirrelly
glosses: Barmy: eccentric, odd; crazy, mad, insane.
examples: text: Skinner's friendship with his nutty pals seemed to have come to a sudden end.
ref: 1932, Frank Richards, “The Complete Outsider”, in The Magnet:
glosses: Extravagantly fashionable.
Derived terms: nuttily
nuttiness
nutty as a fruitcake
nutty Irishman
nutty slack
Related terms: coconutty
coco-nutty
nutter
dumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmpstɚ/
Forms: form: dumpsters
Etymology: Genericized brand name, from blend of dump + Dempster. The original brand (and some associated things) are no longer trademarked, because the three trademarks involved have either expired or been cancelled. By surface analysis, dump + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: He realized with a brief shudder that Kurt probably used this flashlight while nipple-deep in dumpsters, had an image of Kurt transferring it from his gloved hands to his mouth and back again as he dug through bags of kitchen and toilet waste, looking for discarded technology.
ref: 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town:
text: […]with the uncanny ability to always look like he just woke up in a dumpster
ref: 2020 December 27, Dave Barry, “Dave Barry's Year in Review 2020”, in The Washington Post Magazine:
synonyms: skip
communal bin
glosses: A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.
Derived terms: cum dumpster
dumpster bandit
dumpster diving
dumpster fire
dumpster juice
dumpster panda
Related terms: dumpcart
dump cart
dumper
dumping
dump truck
dumptruck
polyphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyphenols
Etymology: From poly- + phenol.
Senses: examples: text: Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other plant foods, like nuts and legumes, are rich in polyphenols — antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds that some research suggests can support healthy aging.
ref: 2024 September 2, Alice Callahan, “How to Eat for a Long and Healthy Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large class of organic compounds, of plant origin, having more than one phenol group; they tend to be colourful and to have antioxidant properties.
Derived terms: phytopolyphenol
polyphenolic
Related terms: polyhydroxyphenol
tannin
choo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: choos
Senses: examples: text: We could hear the choo choo choo
glosses: The sound of a locomotive whistle
Derived terms: choo-choo
Related terms: a-choo
choo pattern
active ingredient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active ingredients
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The specific compound in a natural or man-made mixture that is responsible for the mixture's activity.
Related terms: API
inactive ingredient
gloat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡloʊt/
ipa: /ɡləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: gloats
form: gloating
form: gloated
form: gloated
form: glote
form: glout
Etymology: From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).
Senses: examples: text: You did well to win the game, but there's no need to gloat about it.
glosses: To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.
glosses: To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.
Derived terms: gloatation
gloater
gloaty
gloat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡloʊt/
ipa: /ɡləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: gloats
form: glote
form: glout
Etymology: From Middle English *gloten, glouten, from Old Norse glotta (“to grin, smile scornfully”) or Old English *glotian, both from Proto-Germanic *glutōną (“to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shine”), related to dialectal Swedish glotta, glutta (“to peep”), Middle High German glutzen, glotzen (“to stare”), Modern German glotzen (“to gawk, goggle”).
Senses: examples: text: They spun wildly on their heels, jodelling after the accepted manner of a 'gloat,' which is not unremotely allied to the primitive man's song of triumph […]
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co, page 13:
glosses: An act or instance of gloating.
coaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊstə/
ipa: /ˈkoʊstɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʌʊstə/
rhymes: -əʊstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coasters
Etymology: From coast (“to glide along without adding energy; to make a minimal effort; to slide downhill (especially, to slide on a sled upon snow or ice)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) [and other forms] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
The sense 2.1 (“small stand or tray”) is from the fact that the object and the decanter or wine bottle on it “coast” or travel around a tabletop from person to person. The sense 2.2.2 (“useless compact disc or DVD”) refers to the fact that the object is only useful as a drink coaster.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of coast: one who coasts.
An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
examples: text: It was cold but still, and Polly trotted down the smooth, snow-covered mall, humming to herself, and trying not to feel homesick. The coasters were at it with all their might, and she watched them, till her longing to join the fun grew irresistible.
ref: 1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Polly’s Troubles”, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: Agent noun of coast: one who coasts.
A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
qualifier: winter sports
examples: text: In Prashar's opinion, there are two types of manager: "coasters, who coast along in a job, and sprinters, who have a challenge, deal with it and then move on."
ref: 2019, Santiago Iñiguez, In an Ideal Business, page 155:
glosses: Agent noun of coast: one who coasts.
One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
glosses: Something that coasts or is used to coast.
A small stand or tray, sometimes with wheels, used to pass something such as a decanter or wine bottle around a tabletop.
glosses: Something that coasts or is used to coast.
A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
synonyms: beermat
beer mat
coordinate_terms: saucer
trivet
pot stand
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something that coasts or is used to coast.
A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
glosses: Something that coasts or is used to coast.
Ellipsis of rollercoaster.
glosses: Something that coasts or is used to coast.
A sled or toboggan.
qualifier: winter sports
Derived terms: beer coaster
coaster brake
coaster bus
coaster step
coasterware
hypercoaster
megacoaster
Related terms: tegestology
huddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌdl̩d/
Etymology: From huddle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of huddle
huddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌdl̩d/
Etymology: From huddle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Ken Cuccinelli tweaked the famous poem from Emma Lazarus – whose words, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” are long associated with immigration to the US and the nation’s history as a haven – as part of a case for strict new measures pushed Monday by the Trump administration that could dramatically change the legal immigration system.
ref: 2019 August 13, Devan Cole and Caroline Kelly, “Cuccinelli rewrites Statue of Liberty poem to make case for limiting immigration”, in CNN:
glosses: Crowded together in a huddle
glosses: Crouched.
Derived terms: unhuddled
pageant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæd͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: pageants
form: pageaunt
Etymology: Late 14th c. as Middle English pagent, from Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin pāgina (“page of a book”).
Senses: examples: text: For a few moments the events of the day floated in disastrous pageant through my brain, till sleep bathed it in forgetfulness […]
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: The artists who painted these murals brought the pageant of America vividly to life. Everyone knew that the construction of this pageant, and the celebration of America that it implied, was the work of the New Deal.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 1, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:
synonyms: spectacle
glosses: An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
glosses: A spectacular ceremony.
synonyms: beauty contest
beauty pageant
glosses: Ellipsis of beauty pageant.
glosses: A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.
Derived terms: beauty pageant
be part of life's rich pageant
pageanteer
pageanter
pageant fever
pageant-goer
pageantic
pageantitis
pageantlike
pageantry
Related terms: page
pageant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæd͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: pageants
form: pageanting
form: pageanted
form: pageanted
form: pageaunt
Etymology: Late 14th c. as Middle English pagent, from Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin pāgina (“page of a book”).
Senses: examples: text: He pageants us.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.
fatass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat-ass.
adiós
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Adiós, first-rate bagels and cream cheese and marmalade, fresh-squeezed juice and fresh-ground coffee, as we’ve adiósed already our fine firm king-size bed: […]
ref: 1994, The Iowa Review, page 29:
text: I say that if this is all the proof they have, adiós, you can go on your way.
ref: 1996, Catalina de Erauso, translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto, “She moves on to Lima, […]”, in Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Victor finished his report to us with a big grin on his face. “Adiós losers!” as he waddled out the door.
ref: 2019, Don McLean, “How to Play”, in The Game, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: Alternative spelling of adios.
adiós
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adióses
Senses: examples: text: We began making our adióses.
ref: 1947, Hudson Strode, Now in Mexico, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 211:
text: The virgins of the village, Rosalina ironically among them, circled and recircled the plaza clockwise, replying adiós to the adióses of the eligible young men who were circling and re-circling the plaza counter-clockwise.
ref: 1950, Martin M. Goldsmith, The Miraculous Fish of Domingo Gonzales, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, page 72:
text: As the adióses were said, Dan led Elizabeth around to the front of the wagon.
ref: 1989, Barbara Faith, Capricorn Moon, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 59:
text: We said our adióses and Chulo left, leaving me sitting, waiting, and drinking whiskey.
ref: 1994, Giles Tippette, Wilson’s Gold, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 63:
text: After a bit, she and Son say their adióses and head out the door and get into the pickup truck, and the two of them damned bandits just drive right off.
ref: 2010, Susan Froderberg, Old Border Road, Back Bay Books, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Okay, Jefe, I’ll get us a car while you two say your adióses.
ref: 2019, Michael Curran, Connor Race: The Tontine Plot, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of adios.
adiós
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adióses
form: adiósing
form: adiósed
form: adiósed
Senses: examples: text: Adiós, first-rate bagels and cream cheese and marmalade, fresh-squeezed juice and fresh-ground coffee, as we’ve adiósed already our fine firm king-size bed: […]
ref: 1994, The Iowa Review, page 29:
text: Apparently deciding there might be more to this gringo than he was willing to deal with, the man adiósed.
ref: 1996, Frances Williams, Unbroken Vows, Silhouette Books, →ISBN:
text: It was hard, but adiósing the drama-loving diva needed to be done.
ref: 2007, TV Guide, page 69:
glosses: Alternative spelling of adios.
quo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəʊ/
ipa: /kwoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: See quoth.
Senses: glosses: quoth
preview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːvjuː/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːvʉu/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈpɹiːvjuː/
Forms: form: previews
Etymology: From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).
Senses: examples: text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
synonyms: foretaste
glosses: An experience of something in advance.
glosses: An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
glosses: A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer.
glosses: Something seen in advance.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
Synonyms: forelook
foreview
Derived terms: preview-quality
sneak preview
preview
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːvjuː/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːvʉu/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈpɹiːvjuː/
Forms: form: previews
form: previewing
form: previewed
form: previewed
Etymology: From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).
Senses: examples: text: Vidal's talk was caled "The Screening Of History," and it was a free-ranging meditation on the United States, the movies, on Vidal's personal history and numerous interconnections. (It also previewed a forthcoming book by the same name.)
ref: 1991 August 24, Lewis Gannett, “Gore Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 8:
glosses: To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
cocky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒki/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑki/
ipa: /ˈkɔki/
ipa: /ˈkɒki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: cockies
form: cockey
form: cockie
Etymology: From cock (“male domestic chicken”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Nay Cocky, Cocky, nay dear Cocky, do not cry, I was but in Jeſt, I was not ifeck [in faith?].
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 31:
text: Lu[cretia]. Ah, ah, are we not by our ſelves already, my Cocky? So[phronius]. Let us go out of the Way ſomewhere, into a more private Place.
ref: 1725, Desiderius Erasmus, “The Young Man and the Harlot”, in N[athan] Bailey, transl., All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things, Translated into English, London: Printed for J. Darby, […], →OCLC, page 196:
text: Now, cocky, ye may gang about your buſineſs; when ye come back, I'ſe tauk with you in another ſtile.
ref: 1757, [Tobias Smollett], The Reprisal: Or, The Tars of Old England. […], London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ix, page 41:
text: Hobhouse's insolence to Mr. Hunt is not seen in its true light, unless we remember, that the latter is held under heavy recognizances to keep the peace! The little cocky seems to have been half mad; and well he might.
ref: 1825 April 2, “To the Freeholders of Ireland. Letter II.”, in William Cobbett, editor, Cobbett’s Weekly Register, volume LIV, number 1, London: Printed and published by C. Clement, […], →OCLC, column 22:
text: "Go on board that little cockleshell of yourn?"—pointing to the splendid yacht—"not if I knows it, my cockeys! This old oss is spry to when he is well off—so make tracks and be off, before you gits this old coon's dander up.
ref: 1870 July, “Old Calabar” [pseudonym], “A Sporting Story”, in Baily’s Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Turf Guide, volume XVIII, number 125, London: A. H. Baily & Co., […], →OCLC, chapter VI (Mr. Bouncer Brag Composes), page 306:
text: They're not going to stand for a couple of actors bossing the place [The Old Vic theatre] around any more. We shall be out, old cockie.
ref: 1940s, Francis Beckett, quoting Ralph Richardson speaking to Laurence Olivier, “The War and the Old Vic”, in Laurence Olivier, London: Haus Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Somewhere, somehow, there had to be something more ennobling than that. But how to find it? Ah, there's the rub, my cockies.
ref: 2005, Martin Pilcher, chapter 12, in The Banana Skin Tango, [United Kingdom]: Aardvark-Zap Publishing, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
Derived terms: spud cocky
cocky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒki/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑki/
ipa: /ˈkɔki/
ipa: /ˈkɒki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: cockies
form: cockying
form: cockied
form: cockied
form: cockey
Etymology: The noun is derived from cock(atoo) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: But if we are bigger built than you blokes, I suppose it's 'coz we—most of us—live away from big cities, and everybody goes in for sport an' all that; plenty of ridin' an' walkin' an' swimmin' and football an' hard work. Most of us are off the land, cockeying, and the blokes who come from the cities, Sydney and places like that, they all go in for surfing an' all kinds of sport.
ref: 1919, C. Hampton Thorp, “About Various Things”, in A Handful of Ausseys, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, →OCLC, page 116:
text: I remained about a year, cockying, clearing land, and herd-recording as a servant of the Department of Agriculture.
ref: 1939 October, J[ohn] W[illiam] Robertson Scott, editor, The Countryman: An Illustrated Review & Miscellany of Rural Life and Work, volume XX, Idbury; Kingham, Oxfordshire: J. W. Robertson Scott, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 528:
text: [B]oys these days haven't got the guts to go cockying.
ref: 1946, Alan J[udge] Holt, Wheat Farms of Victoria: A Sociological Survey, [Melbourne, Vic.]: School of Agriculture, University of Melbourne, →OCLC, page 150:
text: When we arrived in Sydney, we were herded together, and a mob of cockies had their pick of us as cheap pommy labor. As assisted migrants, we were more or less doomed to work in cocky country, because bush workers generally don't much like cockying.
ref: 1969 December, A[lbert] L[ancaster] Lloyd; Mark Gregory, interviewer, Overland, Footscray, Vic.: O. L. Society, published 1970, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 1:
text: Perhaps I ought to try getting a job somewhere cockeying. But I was against this. I was after Hanabeke and, as far as I could work out, Womboolah was the most likely place for him to be.
ref: 1983, Dudley St. John Magnus, Hanabeke, London: Angus & Robertson, →ISBN, page 43:
synonyms: cockatoo
glosses: To operate a small-scale farm.
lotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊʃən/
ipa: /ˈləʊʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: lotions
Etymology: From Middle English locion, borrowed from Latin lōtiō, lōtiōnem (“a washing”), from lavō (“to wash”); see lave. Doublet of lavation.
Senses: examples: text: sun-tan lotion
glosses: A low- to medium-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to unbroken skin.
glosses: A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of beautification.
Synonyms: lavatory
Derived terms: body lotion
commotion lotion
hand lotion
lotional
lotiony
love lotion
motion lotion
shaving lotion
suntan lotion
Related terms: english: generally thicker than a lotion
translation: generally thicker than a lotion
word: cream
lotion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊʃən/
ipa: /ˈləʊʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: lotions
form: lotioning
form: lotioned
form: lotioned
Etymology: From Middle English locion, borrowed from Latin lōtiō, lōtiōnem (“a washing”), from lavō (“to wash”); see lave. Doublet of lavation.
Senses: examples: text: Grace lotions her arms and legs and joins him in the large walk-in closet where they change out of their clothes and into their pajamas—loose-fitting cotton bottoms for Mike and a lace-trimmed baby doll nightie for Grace.
ref: 2005, Ryan Phillips, Fall from Grace, page 52:
text: I would finish my daily ranging session by lotioning his legs, and lotioning and rubbing his feet.
ref: 2011, Jeanne Starr Gater, Bring Back Summertime, page 89:
synonyms: lotion up
glosses: To cover or treat with a lotion.
ooooh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of ooh.
glosses: Elongated form of oh.
dreidel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪdl̩/
rhymes: -eɪdəl
Forms: form: dreidels
form: draydel
form: dreydel
form: draydl
form: dreidl
form: dreydl
form: dreidle
form: dreydle
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish דריידל (dreydl, “dreidel; spinning top”), probably a blend of דרייען (dreyen, “to spin; to turn; to twist”) + טרענדל (trendl, “(dated) dreidel; spinning top”). דרייען (dreyen) is derived from Middle High German dræn, from Old High German drāen (“to turn; to twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to turn; to twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to turn; to rub; to drill, pierce”); and טרענדל (trendl) is derived from Middle High German trendel (“spinning top”), from Proto-Germanic *trandijaną (“to revolve, spin”).
Senses: examples: text: I have a little dreidel. I made it out of clay. / And when it's dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play. / Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. / Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, then dreidel I shall play.
ref: 1927, “I Have a Little Dreidel”, Samuel S. Grossman (lyrics), Samuel Eliezer Goldfarb or Mikhl Gelbart (music):
text: The dreidel is a spinning toy, painstakingly fashioned out of plastic polymer by Jewish craftsmen in Vietnam. Used for tabletop gambling games during Hanukkah, the dreidel often ends up on the floor and sometimes in the dog's small intestine.
ref: 2005 December 23, Jonathan Safran Foer, “A Beginner's Guide to Hanukkah”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2023:
text: Erickson shared images on CNN iReport that show mixed holiday decorations in their Falmouth, Massachusetts, home, from a menorah and advent calendar to stockings bearing the phrase “shalom” and plates decorated with dreidels on a red plaid table cloth. […] Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night.
ref: 2012 December 14, Emanuella Grinberg and Christina Zdanowicz, “Celebrating Chrismukkah: Shalom stockings and Hanukkah bushes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2013:
text: Students from the Yeshiva Beth Yehudah School danced in dreidel costumes at a menorah lighting in Detroit on Thursday.
ref: 2023 December 7, Jacey Fortin, “For Some, the Symbols of Hanukkah Bring Extra Concern This Year”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2023, image caption:
glosses: A four-sided spinning top, inscribed with the four Hebrew letters נ (nun), ג (gimel), ה (hey), and ש (shin) (or פ (pey)) on each side, often used to play a traditional game during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
examples: text: We do not spend our days huddled in smoke-filled rooms plotting world domination while Jared Kushner plays dreidel in the back with Noam Chomsky and George Soros sneaks the last latke.
ref: 2022 January 19, Yair Rosenberg, “Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2022:
glosses: A gambling game played using this top.
Related terms: teetotum
sponsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɒn.sə/
ipa: /ˈspɑn.sɚ/
Forms: form: sponsors
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).
Senses: examples: text: He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.
text: They were my sponsors for immigration.
text: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
hyponyms: word: godparent
word: gossip
glosses: A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
examples: text: My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.
text: Members also choose a sponsor, with whom they are supposed to remain in regular, even daily, contact—and that, too, is a powerful boost for monitoring.
ref: 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 173:
hyponyms: word: godparent
word: gossip
glosses: A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.
examples: text: And now a word from our sponsor.
synonyms: patron
underwriter
glosses: A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
sponsor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɒn.sə/
ipa: /ˈspɑn.sɚ/
Forms: form: sponsors
form: sponsoring
form: sponsored
form: sponsored
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).
Senses: examples: text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: To be a sponsor for.
Derived terms: cosponsor
sponsor-free
sponsorial
sponsorship
Related terms: patron
snoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snuːp/
enpr: sno͞op
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: snoops
form: snooping
form: snooped
form: snooped
Etymology: From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
Senses: glosses: To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
examples: text: If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.
text: “Look, I tell you what, Mac. Seeing how as you're my best friend” “Yeah!” “Maybe you can look into it for me. Go snoop around the shop.” “Can-can I stop you for a second? I'm sorry. I'm a little confused here. You-you just said that he was your best friend? How is he your best friend over me?” “Well, I mean... You banged the waitress. Do I even have to explain that to you? That kind of rubbed me the wrong way, dude.” “Okay. I mean, you know, I don't see how that should factor into whether we're best friends or not. Y'know, to be honest with you, man, I'm a little shocked. I'm-I'm kinda-- I'm thunderstruck.” “Oh, well, I'm sorry, man. But y'know I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to thunderstrike you. But that's just-- I don't know what to tell you. What do you want to hear?” “I need for you to explain to me how it is that you consider Mac to be a better friend to you.” “Look, now this is just becoming awkward when I have a real problem! And all of a sudden it's about some weird feelings thing! And it's not about your feelings right now! It's about my feelings 'cause I have a problem, okay?. Now, Mac, please, do you think you can find this guy and kick his ass for me?”
ref: 2008 September 25, David Hornsby, “Mac's Banging the Waitress” (1:38 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day):
glosses: To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
examples: text: 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
ref: 1956, Charles Hamilton, The Banishing of Billy Bunter:
glosses: To steal.
Related terms: snoop around
snoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snuːp/
enpr: sno͞op
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: snoops
Etymology: From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
Senses: glosses: The act of snooping.
examples: text: Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.
glosses: One who snoops.
examples: text: She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.
text: Garrison's snoops regularly stole Kirkwood's mail while he was in New Orleans—only a federal offense.
ref: 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12:
glosses: A private detective.
choo-choo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃuːˌtʃuː/
Forms: form: choo-choos
form: choochoo
form: choo choo
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: The sound made by a steam locomotive or ship.
synonyms: choo-choo train
glosses: A locomotive, especially a train or ship.
mafia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑfi.ə/
ipa: /ˈmæfi.ə/
Forms: form: mafias
Etymology: See Mafia. The sense "entity which attempts to control a specified arena" makes an analogy to crime-syndicate mafias' attempts to control certain kinds of business in the regions in which they exist.
Senses: glosses: A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
glosses: A crime syndicate.
glosses: A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
examples: text: moral mafia
text: Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.
ref: 1994, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, page 161:
text: Since the victory of gadgetry is "inevitable," you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.
ref: 2000, Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century, page 432:
text: I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]
ref: 2019, Anne Holt, In Dust and Ashes, page 83:
glosses: An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.
Derived terms: alphabet mafia
mafia hypothesis
mafialike
mafia state
mafiocracy
Murphia
nonmafia
rainbow mafia
Taffia
who're
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: [hʊɚ]
ipa: [huːɹ]
Senses: examples: text: It is you who're in the wrong.
glosses: Who are.
boathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊtˌhaʊs/
rhymes: (US) -oʊthaʊs
Forms: form: boathouses
Etymology: From boat + house.
Senses: examples: text: […] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
Hypernyms: house
Derived terms: boathouse rum
boathouse rummy
miscarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪskaɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.əd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɛɹ.əd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: miscarriages
Etymology: From mis- + carriage.
Senses: examples: text: for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
qualifier: now rare except in miscarriage of justice
glosses: A failure; a mistake or error.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pregnancy loss
spontaneous abortion
glosses: The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
Derived terms: antimiscarriage
delayed miscarriage
missed miscarriage
silent miscarriage
yoo
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of you.
Related terms: yoo hoo
yoo hoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Yoo hoo! Over here!
glosses: Alternative form of yoohoo.
ole
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: From Spanish olé.
Senses: examples: text: Harry Hooper living in No. 10 / He bought a toupee and glued it to his head / "It looks very natural" everybody said / But then his wife said "Toupee, isn't that a French word?" / And Harry said "Ole!" / She said "That's a Spanish word." / And he said "O.K., can't tell the difference these days."
ref: 1979, The Boomtown Rats, “Nothing Happened Today”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing:
glosses: An interjection used to stir up excitement.
ole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /əʊl/
ipa: [oʊl]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɒl/
ipa: /ol/
rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /oʊˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Senses: examples: text: D'you see the ole guy sitting over there?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of old.
Derived terms: big ole
caddy ole punch
good ole
little ole
li'l' ole
li'l ole
lil ole
Related terms: ol'
houseboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌboʊt/
Forms: form: houseboats
Etymology: From house + boat.
Senses: examples: text: Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:
text: Hiro ducks out of Tranny's celebratory dinner rather early, drags Reason off the zodiac and onto the front porch of the houseboat, opens it up and jacks his personal computer into its bios.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 364:
glosses: A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.
Derived terms: houseboater
houseboating
Related terms: boathouse