cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hû(r)t
ipa: /hɜːt/
enpr: hûrt
ipa: /hɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: more hurt
form: most hurt
Etymology: From Middle English hurten, hirten, hertan (“to injure, scathe, knock together”), from Old Northern French hurter ("to ram into, strike, collide with"; > Modern French heurter), perhaps from Frankish *hūrt (“a battering ram”), cognate with Welsh hwrdd (“ram”) and Cornish hordh (“ram”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to fall, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *krew- (“to fall, beat, smash, strike, break”); however, the earliest instances of the verb in Middle English are as old as those found in Old French, which leads to the possibility that the Middle English word may instead be a reflex of an unrecorded Old English *hyrtan, which later merged with the Old French verb. Germanic cognates include Dutch horten (“to push against, strike”), Middle Low German hurten (“to run at, collide with”), Middle High German hurten (“to push, bump, attack, storm, invade”), Old Norse hrútr (“battering ram”).
Alternate etymology traces Old Northern French hurter rather to Old Norse hrútr (“ram (male sheep)”), lengthened-grade variant of hjǫrtr (“stag”), from Proto-Germanic *herutuz, *herutaz (“hart, male deer”), which would relate it to English hart (“male deer”). See hart.
Senses: synonyms: word: imbrued
word: injured
word: wounded
word: banged up
word: crocked
word: fucked up
word: gimped
word: hurt
word: imbrued
word: injured
word: jacked up
word: messed up
word: tore up
word: vulnerated
word: wounded
glosses: Wounded, physically injured.
synonyms: word: aching
word: sore
word: suffering
word: achesome
word: aching
word: achy
word: raw
word: hurt
word: hurty
word: griefful
word: pained
word: painfilled
word: painful
word: smartful
word: smarting
word: sore
word: suffering
word: tender
word: tormented
glosses: Feeling physical or emotional pain.
Derived terms: butt hurt
butt-hurt
hurt locker
hurt people hurt people
retire hurt
unhurt
hurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hû(r)t
ipa: /hɜːt/
enpr: hûrt
ipa: /hɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: hurts
Etymology: Unclear. Suggestions include: from its resemblance to a blue hurtleberry, or from French heurt (a blow, leaving a blue bruise), the latter of which would make it a doublet of hurt Etymology 1; compare the theories about golpe (“purple roundel”)).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
Derived terms: hurty
input
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnpʊt/
ipa: [ˈɪnpʊt]
ipa: [ˈɪmpʊt]
Forms: form: inputs
form: imput
Etymology: From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of putting in; infusion.
glosses: That which is put in, as in an amount.
examples: text: You can provide input via this form.
glosses: Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice.
examples: text: sound input
glosses: Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.
examples: text: model with A/V input
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An input jack.
Derived terms: comprehensible input
input arm
input device
input field
input method
input method editor
input neuron
input-output section
input-output table
inputtable
inputter
misinput
noninput
reinput
Related terms: output
input
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnpʊt/
ipa: [ˈɪnpʊt]
ipa: [ˈɪmpʊt]
Forms: form: inputs
form: inputting
form: input
form: input
form: inputted
form: inputted
form: imput
Etymology: From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.
Senses: examples: text: "Following the removal of the Golborne Link from the current Bill and, given the direct importance of maintaining the benefits that the Golborne Link would have delivered for Scotland, the Transport Minister has sought and received confirmation from the UK Minister of State for Transport that Scottish Government Officials will input to the consideration being given to the alternative."
ref: 2023 January 25, “Network News: Sturgeon and Burnham in secret talks to boost Scottish high-speed link”, in RAIL, number 975, page 11:
glosses: To put in; put on.
examples: text: The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
text: An artificial-intelligence application called Sudowrite wrote the paragraph above. I inputted the text of the first section of “The Metamorphosis” and then pressed a button called Wormhole. The computer composed the continuation.
ref: 2021 April 30, Stephen Marche, “The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing”, in The New Yorker:
text: "The timetable is then produced using a desktop publishing package with data inputted manually, and the files then sent to the editor, Chris Woodcock, for proof-reading and conversion to PDF format.
ref: 2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65:
glosses: To enter data.
examples: text: The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.
ref: 2009, J Stanley Warford, Computer Systems:
glosses: To accept data that is entered.
inset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsɛt/
rhymes: -ɪnsɛt
Forms: form: insets
form: insetting
form: inset
form: inset
form: insetted
form: insetted
Etymology: From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).
Senses: glosses: To set in; infix or implant.
glosses: To insert something.
glosses: To add an inset to something.
inset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsɛt/
rhymes: -ɪnsɛt
Forms: form: insets
Etymology: From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).
Senses: examples: text: The inset of figure 1 shows the geometry of the samples.
ref: 1990, M. E. Cage, D. Y. Yu, G. Marullo Reedtz, “Observation and an Explanation of Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect”, in Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, volume 95, number 1:
glosses: A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one.
glosses: Anything inserted.
glosses: A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment.
examples: text: Microphone insets can deteriorate and older examples may produce a permanent frying noise.
ref: 1998, Andrew Emmerson, Electronic Classics: Collecting, Restoring and Repair, page 99:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An opening partway down a shaft, giving access to the intermediate levels.
inset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsɛt/
rhymes: -ɪnsɛt
Forms: form: further inset
form: farther inset
form: furthest inset
form: farthest inset
Etymology: From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).
Senses: examples: text: the inset diamonds
text: the inset liners
coordinate_terms: embedded#Adjective
recessed#Adjective
glosses: Having been inset.
Related terms: carbon inset
INSET day
pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪ.dʒən/
ipa: /ˈpə.dʒən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpi.dʒ(ɪ)ən/
rhymes: -ɪdʒən
rhymes: -ɪdʒɪn
rhymes: (Indic) -iːdʒən
homophone: pidgin
Forms: form: pigeons
form: pigeoning
form: pigeoned
form: pigeoned
form: pidgeon
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin pīpiō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂-der.
Latin -ō
Latin pipio
Old French pyjonbor.
Middle English pygeoun
English pigeon
Inherited from Middle English pygeoun, borrowed from Old French pyjon, inherited from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), derived from Latin pīpiāre (“to chirp”), of imitative origin. Partly displaced native English dove.
Senses: glosses: To deceive with a confidence game.
Related terms: dove
pidgin
piper
squab
squeaker
pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɪ.dʒən/
ipa: /ˈpə.dʒən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpi.dʒ(ɪ)ən/
rhymes: -ɪdʒən
rhymes: -ɪdʒɪn
rhymes: (Indic) -iːdʒən
homophone: pidgin
Forms: form: pigeons
Etymology: From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. See pidgin.
Senses: examples: text: It's their pigeon.
glosses: Concern or responsibility.
drunken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkən
Etymology: From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).
Senses: qualifier: still occasionally in juxtaposition with eaten
glosses: past participle of drink
drunken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkən
Forms: form: more drunken
form: most drunken
Etymology: From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).
Senses: examples: text: What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning.
ref: a. 1830, Drunken Sailor (traditional sea shanty)
text: I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well.[…]
ref: 2014 December 23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval, Author House, →ISBN, page 389:
glosses: Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage.
glosses: Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
examples: text: a drunken display of crude exuberance
text: Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy.
ref: 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:
glosses: Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
glosses: Saturated with liquid
examples: text: drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice
glosses: Saturated with liquid
Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
Synonyms: drunk
Derived terms: drelfie
drunken boxing
drunken chicken
drunkendom
drunken driving
Drunken Knight Opening
drunkenly
drunkenness
drunken noodles
drunkenship
drunken shrimp
drunkensome
drunken trees
drunken words are sober thoughts
nondrunken
overdrunken
undrunken
drunken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌŋkən/
rhymes: -ʌŋkən
Forms: form: drunkens
form: drunkening
form: drunkened
form: drunkened
Etymology: From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanōną (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, upon a stoned couch and drunkened unto death upon the bittered draught of Rome!
ref: 1917, Patience Worth, The Sorry Tale, page 153:
text: The dreamy coloring of the land is just too drunkening.
ref: 1985, Kay Dreyfus, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Farthest North of Humanness: Letters, page 31:
text: Dogma drunkens the Spirit, and while we indulge in our stupor, it robs us of our innate Spiritually Divine and Creative acuity . . . Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties of redemption.
ref: 2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, page 31:
glosses: To make or become drunk or drunken; to intoxicate.
abattis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbətəs/
ipa: /ˈæbəti/
Forms: form: abattis
form: abattises
Senses: examples: text: He withdrew Torfrida and his men into the heart of the forest,—no hint of the place is given by the chronicler,—cut down trees, formed an abattis of trunks and branches, and awaited the enemy.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 34, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 469:
glosses: Alternative spelling of abatis.
implied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: more implied
form: most implied
Senses: examples: text: her implied disapproval of the plan
glosses: Suggested without being stated directly; implicated or hinted at.
Derived terms: implied consent
implied line
impliedly
impliedness
implied odds
nonimplied
reverse implied odds
unimplied
Related terms: implicit
implied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈplaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imply
infer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜː/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɝ/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɛr/
ipa: /ɪnˈføː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪnˈfeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪnˈfɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪnˈfɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: infers
form: inferring
form: inferred
form: inferred
Etymology: From Latin inferō, from Latin in- (“in, at, on; into”) + Latin ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”) (cognate to Old English beran, whence English bear), from Proto-Italic *ferō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti (“to bear, carry”), from the root *bʰer-. Literally “carry forward”, equivalent to “bear in”, as in concluding from a premise. Doublet of inbear.
Senses: examples: text: It is dangerous to infer too much from martial bluster in British politics: at the first hint of trouble, channelling Churchill is a default tactic for beleaguered leaders of all sorts.
ref: 2010 October 7, “Keep calm, but don't carry on”, in The Economist:
synonyms: conclude
deduce
educe
construe
glosses: To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
examples: text: a. 1535, Thomas More, letter to Fryth
the fyrste parte is not the proofe of the second. but rather contrarywyse the seconde inferreth well yͤ fyrst.
text: This doth infer the zeal I had to see him.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: These and a thousand like propositions, which concurre in this purpose, do evidently inferre [translating sonnent] some thing beyond patient expecting of death it selfe to be suffered in this life[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
synonyms: imply
suggest
entail
glosses: To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.
examples: text: faire Serena[…]fled fast away, afeard / Of villany to be to her inferd[…].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
examples: text: Full well hath Clifford played the orator, / Inferring arguments of mighty force.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in, to adduce.
Derived terms: inferability
inferrable
inferral
inferrer
misinfer
reinfer
subinfer
uninferant
Related terms: alt: -iferous
word: -ferous
word: illation
word: illative
word: inferable
word: inference
inferred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜːd/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more inferred
form: most inferred
Derived terms: uninferred
inferred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɜːd/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infer
twaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒdəl/
ipa: /ˈtwɑdəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: twaddles
form: twoddle
Etymology: An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!
text: "What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter II (The Science of Deduction), page 12:
text: I would rather be rude than to listen to twaddle from a man I’ve known.
ref: 1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part II (Sawston), page 226:
text: It was her other self who had written that letter. It not only bored, it rather disgusted her real self. "Flippant and silly," said her real self. Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym.
ref: 1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, chapter 12, page 66:
text: I improvised for three or four minutes, speaking complete twaddle in character.
ref: 2025 October 28, Arifa Akbar, quoting Meera Syal, “‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: babble
word: bavardage
word: bibble-babble
word: blab
word: blabber
word: blabbing
word: blather
word: blathering
word: chatter
word: chinwag
word: chit-chat
word: claver
word: clepe
word: gabble
word: hot air
word: mardle
word: natter
word: palaver
word: prate
word: prattle
word: scuttlebutt
word: small talk
word: tattle
word: twaddle
word: waffle
word: yackety-yak
word: yap
word: yatter
glosses: Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
glosses: One who twaddles; a twaddler.
twaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒdəl/
ipa: /ˈtwɑdəl/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: twaddles
form: twaddling
form: twaddled
form: twaddled
form: twoddle
Etymology: An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
interbred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈbɹɛd/
Etymology: inter- + bred
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interbreed
interbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnteɹˈbɹid/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: interbreeds
form: interbreeding
form: interbred
form: interbred
Etymology: From inter- + breed.
Senses: glosses: To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.
examples: text: The rypes and our red grouse are identically the same bird, though disease has never been known in the former, and even interbreeding with the red grouse, to the limited extent they are ever likely to do, should do more good than harm.
ref: 1909, Knowledge and Illustrated Scientific News, volume 32, page 426:
text: The city's two-inch Environmental Review Technical Manual instructs regulators to consider adverse environmental impacts on "any subspecies" or "any distinct population segment . . . which interbreeds when mature."
ref: 2001 April 13, John Tierney, “The Big City; Stray Dogs As a Litigant's Best Friend”, in The New York Times:
text: The rock dove has so interbred with the feral pigeons from doocots and racing pigeon lofts that, as a pure species, it may possibly now be extinct in Britain.
ref: 2009 January 29, Ray Collier, “Country diary”, in The Guardian:
text: In the wild, deer mice and oldfield mice never interbreed.
ref: 2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.
Derived terms: interbreeder
polygamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɪɡ.ə.mi/
Forms: form: polygamies
Etymology: Recorded since 1591, from Late Latin polygamia, from Ancient Greek πολυγαμία (polugamía), itself from πολύγαμος (polúgamos, “married to many”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). Relates to modern prefix and suffix poly- + -gamy.
Senses: examples: text: Are there countries where polygamy is legal for both men and women?
text: Miss Griffin was a model of propriety, and I am at a loss to imagine what the feelings of the virtuous woman would have been, if she had known, when she paraded us down the Hampstead Road two and two, that she was walking with a stately step at the head of Polygamy and Mahomedanism.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
antonyms: agamy
;
monogamy
;
serial monogamy
coordinate_terms: serial polygamy
glosses: The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.
examples: text: Though Islam allows polygamy, it is frowned upon in many contemporary Muslim societies.
text: Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America […]
ref: 1991, Kathryn M Daynes, Plural wives and the nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system, page 16:
glosses: Synonym of polygyny (“marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time”).
synonyms: word: polygyny
extra: marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time
raw_tags: in common use
examples: text: An insect queen actually practices polygamy only one day, while for an alpha-male defending his harem is the very essence of both his status and polygamy.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
Derived terms: antipolygamy
polygamic
polygamical
polygamious
polygamist
polygamize
polygamous
serial polygamy
Related terms: concubine
harem
seraglio
interweave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈwiːv/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈwiv/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ-]
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: interweaves
form: interweaving
form: interwove
form: interweaved
form: interwoven
form: interweaved
Etymology: From inter- + weave.
Senses: glosses: To combine (things) through weaving.
glosses: To intermingle.
Synonyms: interlace
interthread
intertwine
Derived terms: interweavement
interweaver
interweavingly
interwove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəɹwoʊv/
Forms: form: interweaved
Senses: glosses: simple past of interweave
interwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəɹwəʊvən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Senses: glosses: past participle of interweave
Derived terms: interwovenly
interwovenness
uninterwoven
keep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kēp
ipa: /kiːp/
ipa: [kiːp]
ipa: [kʰɪjp]
ipa: [kʰɪjp]
ipa: [k̟çi(ː)p]
ipa: [k(ʰ)i(ː)p]
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: keeps
form: keepe
Etymology: From Middle English kepe, kep, from the verb (see above).
Senses: synonyms: donjon
glosses: The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
examples: text: He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.
glosses: The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
examples: text: to be in good keep
glosses: The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
examples: text: So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght[…].
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XXIII”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
english: So Sir Gareth strained him, so that his old wound brast again a-bleeding; but he was hot and courageous and took no keep, but with his great force he struck down the knight […].
translation: So Sir Gareth strained him, so that his old wound brast again a-bleeding; but he was hot and courageous and took no keep, but with his great force he struck down the knight […].
text: Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
examples: text: Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iuly. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is kept in charge; a charge.
examples: text: My Darling Girl, In London the other day I heard a piece of news which may amuse you. The French girl who shot her so-called Egyptian prince and is going to be tried for murder, is the fancy woman who was the Prince's 'keep' in Paris during the war […]
ref: 1923 September 9, Lord Curzon, [Letter to his wife]:
glosses: A mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations).
Derived terms: alekeep
barkeep
earn one's keep
keepless
keeplike
tavernkeep
Related terms: donjon
kept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛpt/
other: [kʰɛpt̚]
rhymes: -ɛpt
Etymology: From Middle English kept, kepte, from Old English cēpte; see -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keep
Derived terms: best-kept secret
kept man
kept woman
unkept
worst-kept secret
kneel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nēl
ipa: /niːl/
ipa: /kniːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: Neal
homophone: Neil
homophone: Niel
Forms: form: kneels
form: kneeling
form: knelt
form: knelt
form: kneeled
form: kneeled
Etymology: From Middle English knelen, from Old English cnēowlian (“to kneel”), equivalent to knee + -le. Cognate with Dutch knielen, Low German knelen, dialectal German knielen, Alemannic German chnüle, Danish knæle, all meaning “to kneel”.
Senses: examples: text: When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
glosses: To sink down so that the entrance is level with the pavement, making it easier for passengers to enter.
raw_tags: of a bus or other vehicle
examples: text: She knelt the doll to fit it into the box.
text: Raising the girl with unexpected strength, she bore her towards the chapel, the firesparks flickered in her eyes, as she knelt her burden against the altar step.
ref: 1898, K.L. Montgomery, “The Red Rosary”, in The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine, volume 6, page 47:
text: Kneel him down and stick his head in. No, don't let him up, just hold him there.
ref: 2007, Norman Horrod, On a Different Note, page 47:
text: He took the wife in his car to the piney woods outside town, and knelt her down.
ref: 2011, Joseph T. Wells, Fraud Fighter: My Fables and Foibles, page 201:
glosses: To cause to kneel.
examples: text: He knelt him down to pray.
text: Just when the damsel kneeled herself to pray.
ref: 1833, Robert Pollok, “The Course of Time”, in The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber, and Pollok, page 33:
glosses: To rest on (one's) knees.
Hyponyms: kneel down
genuflect
Derived terms: kneel before
kneeler
kneeling bus
kneeling chair
kneelo
knelt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕlt
ipa: /nɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: kneeled
Senses: examples: text: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of kneel.
Synonyms: kneeled
kneeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nēld
ipa: /niːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kneel
Synonyms: knelt
knit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪt/
homophone: nit
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: knits
Etymology: From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic *knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”).
Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.
Senses: examples: text: There are grey Grecian tops and a light, sheer, silver cardigan. Stylish dark grey tailored trousers, silver thongs and shiny jet-black stilettos. Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.
ref: 2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105:
glosses: A knitted garment.
examples: text: It's always time for a bit of a knit.
ref: 2014, Elvira Woodruff, To Knit or Not to Knit:
glosses: A session of knitting.
Derived terms: double knit
warp knit
knitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtɪd/
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: Made by knitting.
Derived terms: nonknitted
knitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtɪd/
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knit
horseshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From horse + shit.
Senses: examples: text: That scumbag dumped a whole carload of horseshit over his associates.
synonyms: horsecrap
horsedung
;
more at bullshit
glosses: Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses).
Serious harassment or abuse.
examples: text: He thinks vinegar is alkaline? Don't you realize that's horseshit?
synonyms: horsecrap
horsedung
;
more at bullshit
glosses: Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses).
Blatant nonsense, more likely stemming from ignorance than any intent to deceive.
examples: text: He claims that he wasn't at that meeting? Don't you realize that's horseshit?
synonyms: horsecrap
horsedung
;
more at bullshit
glosses: Synonym of bullshit (figurative senses).
Deliberate falsehoods (lies); manipulations or cons (fraud).
examples: text: A huge one. It was my job to mix the horseshit in with the soil. Great big wheelbarrows full of horseshit. We used to drive around to farms that had horses and ask them if we could shovel up their horseshit.
ref: 2001, Gil Roscoe, Company of Thieves, page 54:
text: The aroma was a mix of cedar, hay and horseshit but somehow, Betty found it pleasantly intoxicating.
ref: 2012, Laurel Dewey, Betty's (Little Basement) Garden, page 253:
synonyms: horsecrap
horsedung
coordinate_terms: bullshit
cowshit
goatshit
pigshit
sheepshit
chickenshit
glosses: Horse feces / manure.
Related terms: bullshit
chickenshit
you can't put the shit back in the horse
horseshit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: From horse + shit.
Senses: examples: text: He says he'll pay up next week.
 Horseshit!
glosses: Synonym of bullshit.
synonyms: word: bullshit
knew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nyo͞o
ipa: /ˈnjuː/
enpr: n(y)o͞o
ipa: /ˈn(j)u/
ipa: /nɪu̯/
homophone: new
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: simple past of know
examples: text: I'll say I've knew this some time and tried to stop it—it was my business to stop it.
ref: 1916, Emerson Hough, The Man Next Door, chapter XXIV:
text: […]I've knew people that if they got a rag rug on the floor and a kewpie doll lamp on the phonograph they think they're runnin' a parlor house.'
ref: 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Covici Friede:
text: Oh, I figured you would've knew. That's where I met Ham and he got me in the DA's office. That was years ago."
ref: 1999, Steve Lopez, The Sunday Macaroni Club, Plume, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: past participle of know
known
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊn/
ipa: /nɑːn/
enpr: nōn
ipa: /noʊn/
ipa: /ˈnɐʉn/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈnɐʉ.wən/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: none
Forms: form: better known
form: best known
form: knowne
Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
Senses: examples: text: He was a known pickpocket.
text: Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in.
ref: 1664 April 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “March 25th, 1664 (Lady day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC, page 85:
antonyms: unknown
glosses: Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
examples: text: At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists.
text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
antonyms: unknown
glosses: Accepted, familiar, researched.
Hyponyms: best-known
better-known
lesser-known
little-known
well-known
Derived terms: aforeknown
beknown
better known as
knownless
knownness
last known good
officially known as
preknown
underknown
known
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊn/
ipa: /nɑːn/
enpr: nōn
ipa: /noʊn/
ipa: /ˈnɐʉn/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈnɐʉ.wən/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: none
Forms: form: knowns
Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
Senses: examples: text: You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.
text: The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.
ref: 2012, Thomas Dougherty, Antibiotic Discovery and Development, volume 1, page 39:
glosses: Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.
known
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊn/
ipa: /nɑːn/
enpr: nōn
ipa: /noʊn/
ipa: /ˈnɐʉn/
note: some speakers
ipa: /ˈnɐʉ.wən/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: none
Etymology: From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwen (past participle).
Morphologically know + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of know
continent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɪnənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɪnənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/
Forms: form: continents
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin continens, noun use of present participle of continēre (“to contain”).
Senses: examples: text: But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow
⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: One of the main continuous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them.
glosses: Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
examples: text: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:
glosses: A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent.
glosses: A large connected expanse of something in general.
glosses: Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
examples: text: The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th’head fell backeward on the continent.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
glosses: The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
glosses: Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
glosses: Space, capacity.
examples: text: […] Here's the scroll,
The continent and summary of my fortune.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
Hyponyms: Africa
America
Antarctica
Asia
Australia
Eurasia
Europe
Gondwana
Gondwanaland
Laurasia
Laurentia
North America
Oceania
Pangaea
Pannotia
Rodinia
South America
Zealandia
Derived terms: archicontinent
continental
continentlike
continent of stability
continentwide
coontinent
cuntinent
microcontinent
midcontinent
palaeocontinent
paleocontinent
protocontinent
pseudocontinent
subcontinent
supercontinent
the Continent
ur-continent
lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈlʌɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈlɐɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ]
rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Etymology: From light(e)n + -ing. Doublet of lightening.
Senses: examples: text: The insurgents then began their lightning advance along the Euphrates in the Sunni heartland toward Baghdad.
ref: 2018, Nader Uskowi, Temperature Rising, page 69:
glosses: Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈlʌɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈlɐɪ̯ʔ.nɪŋ]
rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Forms: form: lightnings
form: lightninging
form: lightninged
form: lightninged
Etymology: From light(e)n + -ing. Doublet of lightening.
Senses: examples: text: Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.
ref: 1916, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy:
text: The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.
ref: 1968, Dan Greenburg, Chewsday: a sex novel:
text: "Hey!" yelled Reggie, pulling her back. "Get in here! It's lightninging. I don't want a charcoal-broiled friend!"
ref: 1987, Tricia Springstubb, Eunice Gottlieb and the unwhitewashed truth about life:
text: I don't know, Father, but believe me, it has been a horrible night — one that I'll never forget. It thundered and lightninged, and I was very hungry.
ref: 1988, Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti, The adventures of Pinocchio:
glosses: To produce lightning.
north pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɔːθ ˈpəʊl/
ipa: /ˌnɔɹθ ˈpoʊl/
Forms: form: north poles
Senses: glosses: The northernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth.
topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The positive pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic north.
Synonyms: sense: positive magnetic pole
word: positive pole
sense: positive magnetic pole
word: north-seeking pole
sense: positive magnetic pole
word: N-pole
south pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south poles
Senses: glosses: The southernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth.
topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The negative pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic south.
glosses: Alternative form of South Pole.
Synonyms: sense: negative magnetic pole
word: negative pole
sense: negative magnetic pole
word: south-seeking pole
sense: negative magnetic pole
word: S-pole
Derived terms: South Pole
twaddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒdələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtwɒdlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒdələ(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒdlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twaddlers
Etymology: From twaddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who twaddles.
euphemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yoo͞ʹfə-mĭz'əm
ipa: /ˈjuː.fəˌmɪz.əm/
Forms: form: euphemisms
Etymology: Recorded since 1656; from Ancient Greek εὐφημισμός (euphēmismós), from εὐφημίζω (euphēmízō), from εὔφημος (eúphēmos, “uttering sound of good omen, abstaining from inauspicious words”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “a voice, a prophetic voice, rumor, talk”), from φημί (phēmí, “to speak, say”).
Senses: examples: text: Akin to it [litotes] is euphemism, which may be applied to the same purpose.
ref: a. 1803, James Beattie, “Of Rhetorick”, in Elements of Moral Science, volume III, Philadelphia: Hopkins and Earle, published 1809, section I, page 118:
text: In 1946, George Orwell addressed the relationship of language to reality and suggested that euphemism, not imperfect analogy, was the real danger. If we don’t use shocking language to describe a shocking circumstance, can we truly recognize what is happening?
ref: 2019 July 26, David J. Ulin, “Op-Ed: I’m Jewish and I don’t say this lightly: ‘Never again’ is right now in America”, in LA Times:
glosses: The use of a word or phrase to replace another one that is more offensive, blunt or vulgar.
examples: text: When it is said of the martyr St. Stephen, that “he fell asleep,” instead of—he died, the euphemism partakes of the nature of metaphor, intimating a resemblance between sleep and the death of such a person.
ref: a. 1803, James Beattie, “Of Rhetorick”, in Elements of Moral Science, volume III, Philadelphia: Hopkins and Earle, published 1809, section I, page 118:
text: Euphemistic language turns up in many areas of American life in a variety of situations. Not all euphemisms are alike, but they have one thing in common: They obscure meaning rather than enhance it; they shade the truth.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “EUPHEMISMS: It's a Whole New Language”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 6:
synonyms: codeword
genteelism
glosses: A word or phrase that replaces another in this way.
Synonyms: word: perfumed terms of the time
Hyponyms: minced oath
Derived terms: euphemism treadmill
malphemism
youthemism
Related terms: euphemistic
pseudonym
horse hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Horse excrement.
synonyms: horse puckey
glosses: False or deceitful statements; lies; exaggerations; nonsense; horse pucky. (a euphemism for horseshit).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Polo.
horse hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of disbelief or disgust.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
horsefeathers
pull the other one
bullshit
lay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lā
ipa: /leɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: lei
homophone: ley
homophone: le
Forms: form: lays
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lay, laye, laie, ley, leye, which may have multiple origins:
* Potentially from *læġ-, an unattested variant stem of Old English lagu m (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), if transferred to a-stem inflection (compare Old English dæġ-, dag- (“day”) > Middle English day, daw-); compare plural Middle English lawes and lauen. If so, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“water, body of water, lake”).
* Alternatively, borrowed from Old French lai, from Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”), also from Proto-Indo-European *lókus.
* Alternatively, borrowed from leg-, a stem of Old Norse lǫgr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz. Compare Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”).
All of these theories make it a doublet of loch, Looe, and lough.
Senses: glosses: A lake.