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perspicuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pər'spĭkyo͞oʹĭti
ipa: /ˌpəːspɪˈkjuːɪti/
enpr: pər'spəkyo͞oʹədi
ipa: /ˌpɚspəˈkjuəti/
Forms: form: perspicuities
form: perspicuite
form: perspicuitie
form: perspicuitye
form: perspicuyte
form: perspycuitie
Etymology: From the Classical Latin perspicuitās (“transparency”, “lucidity”, “self-evidency”, (in post-Classical Latin): “penetration”, “insight”), from perspicuus (“clear”, “evident”); compare perspicacity and the French perspicuité. By surface analysis, perspicuous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: […]whether through the first officer's want of perspicuity or my own stupidity, I was not a bit the wiser for the explanation.
ref: 1880, [George] Bernard Shaw, chapter XVIII, in The Irrational Knot … Being the Second Novel of His Nonage, London: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, page 354:
glosses: Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.
examples: text: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:
text: Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him.
ref: 1965 March 19, “The Stupid Spy”, in Time:
glosses: Perspicacity; insight.
examples: text: It must have been on some such day of harsh sunlight, the incisive February brightness that gives perspicuity without warmth.
ref: 1900, Edith Wharton, chapter 11, in The Touchstone:
glosses: Transparency; translucence.
Synonyms: perspicuousness
Derived terms: imperspicuity
Related terms: perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspective
hydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/
ipa: /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: hydraulick
Etymology: From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).
Senses: examples: text: Tho' there are but seventeen feet water^([sic]) in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most applyed^([sic]) myself.
ref: 1757, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana, page 47:
glosses: Pertaining to water.
examples: text: A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.
glosses: Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.
Derived terms: aeraulic
airdraulic
diesel-hydraulic
electrohydraulic
fueldraulic
glaciohydraulic
handraulic
hydraucone
hydrauger
hydraulically
hydraulic belt
hydraulic cement
hydraulic conductivity
hydraulic engineering
hydraulic fluid
hydraulic fracturing
hydraulic horsepower
hydraulician
hydraulicity
hydraulic Keynesianism
hydraulic lime
hydraulic limestone
hydraulic oil
hydraulic organ
hydraulic press
hydraulic radius
hydraulic ram
hydraulic retention time
hygraulic
mandraulic
microhydraulic
nonhydraulic
pneudraulic
psychohydraulic
sterhydraulic
thermohydraulic
hydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/
ipa: /haɪˈdɹɔːlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: hydraulics
form: hydraulicking
form: hydraulicked
form: hydraulicked
form: hydraulick
Etymology: From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).
Senses: glosses: To mine using the technique of hydraulic mining.
expence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expences
Senses: examples: text: […] neuertheleſſe he was ſo poore and miſerable, that euen when he was in ſtate of a Generall, & gaue vp an accompt of his expences, he would not ſticke to put into his bookes, ſo much, for a gowne, and ſo much for a payer of pantophles.
ref: 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Nicias”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 589:
text: a. 1689, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference between Neighbors
Now, I say, why Time should be so burthensome to such as these, or what should betray them to such infrugal Expences of it, I can give no account without making severe Reflexions on their Discretion.
text: c. 1676, William Petty, Political Arithmetick (1690) Chapter VII
That one tenth part of the whole Expence, of the King of England's Subjects, is sufficient to maintain ten thousand Foot, forty thousand Horse, and forty thousand Men at Sea; and defray all other Charges of the Government both Ordinary and Extraordinary, if the same were regularly Taxed, and Raised. (William Petty 1676 - Political Arithmetick; edition 1899, p. 305)
text: A Frenchman, in his own Country, would dress a fine Dinner of twenty Dishes, and all genteel and pretty, for the Expence he will put an English Lord to for dressing one Dish. But then there is the little petty Profit. [...] So much is the blind Folly of this Age, that they would rather be impos'd on by a French Booby, than give Encouragement to a good English Cook!
ref: 1747, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, page iii:
text: 1763, [unknown translator], Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana, BiblioBazaar LLC, →ISBN (2006), page 88,
I know it is no easy matter so to deepen or hollow the channel of a bar, that it may never after need clearing, and that the expences run high: but my zeal for promoting the advantage of this colony having prompted me to make reflections on those passes, or entrances of the Missisippi, and being perfectly well acquainted both with the country and the nature of the soil, I dare flatter myself, I may be able to accomplish it, to the great benefit of the province, and acquit myself therein with honour, at a small charge, and in a manner not to need repetition.
text: As to an additional servant, the expence would be a trifle; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 134:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of expense.
league
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Forms: form: leagues
Etymology: From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).
Senses: examples: text: the League of Nations
text: And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
ref: 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas:
glosses: A group or association of cooperating members.
examples: text: My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League and the American League in baseball.
text: He loved watching cricket leagues all around the world.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
examples: text: Are you going to watch the league tonight?
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of rugby league.
examples: text: Forget about dating him; he's out of your league.
text: We're not even in the same league.
glosses: A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An alliance or coalition.
Derived terms: A-League
Anti-Defecation League
antileague
Apartheid Defense League
beer league
big league
big-league
Burger League
bush league
bush-league
Cactus League
Camel League
counterleague
enleague
farmers' league
farm league
Grapefruit League
Hanseatic League
hot stove league
in a league of one's own
in league
inleague
interleague
intraleague
League City
league cup
League of Nations
leaguer
league table
League Two
leaguewide
leaguist
major-league
major league
marine league
minor league
minor-league
non-league
nonleague
out of one's league
proleague
rec league
seven-league boot
seven-league boots
superleague
Super League
W-League
Related terms: ally
alliance
league
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Forms: form: leagues
form: leaguing
form: leagued
form: leagued
Etymology: From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).
Senses: examples: text: Out of my sight, thou Serpent, that name best Befits thee with him leagu'd.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
ref: 1845, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 18, page 7:
glosses: To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
league
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Etymology: From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin ligō (“I tie”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Playing in the The Football League or the Premier League, the top four divisions of English football
league
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Forms: form: leagues
Etymology: From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lougā (compare Middle Breton leau, lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)). Doublet of legua.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne kynge Mark and sir Dynadan rode forth a four leges englysshe tyl that they came to a brydge where houed a knyght on horsbak armed and redy to Iuste.
"Then King Mark and Sir Dinadan rode forth a four leagues English, till that they came to a bridge where hoved a knight on horseback, armed and ready to joust."
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter 10:
text: Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
ref: 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
text: To this time the Dutch had kept two garrisons in the North of Formosa, one of which was at Fort Kelang, taken from the Spaniards ; the other was at a place called Tamsui, about ten leagues to the westward of Kelang.
ref: 1813, James Burney, A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, volume 3, London: Luke Hansard and Sons, page 257:
text: Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 151:
qualifier: measurement
glosses: The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
glosses: A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
compass
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭmʹpəs
ipa: /ˈkʌmpəs/
ipa: /ˈkɐmpəs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkəmpəs/
note: spelling pronunciation
enpr: kŏmʹpəs
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔmpəs/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /ˈkɑmpəs/
Forms: form: more compass
form: most compass
Etymology: From Middle English compassen (“to go around, make a circuit, draw a circle, contrive, intend”), from Old French compasser; from the noun; see compass as a noun.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Towne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.
ref: 1632, John Smith, “The Present Estate of New-Plimoth”, in Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, published 1624, →OCLC, book 6; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 247:
text: Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: In a circuit; round about.
tetrahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕtrəhē'drən
ipa: /ˌtɛtɹəˈhiːdɹən/
rhymes: -iːdɹən
Forms: form: tetrahedra
form: tetrahedrons
form: tetraedrum
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετράεδρον (tetráedron, “triangle-based pyramid”), from τετράεδρος (tetráedros), from τετράς (tetrás, “four”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). By surface analysis, tetra- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral triangles, is one of the Platonic solids.
Derived terms: fire tetrahedron
hexatetrahedron
icositetrahedron
orthotetrahedron
tetrahedral
tetrahedrality
tetrahedralizable
tetrahedrally
tetrahedrane
tetrahedrite
triakis tetrahedron
truncated tetrahedron
eighteen
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ(t).tin/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.tiːn/
ipa: /ˌeɪ(t)ˈtin/
ipa: /ˌeɪˈtiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: 18
form: XVIII
Etymology: From Middle English eightetene, eiȝtene, ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten.
Equivalent to eight + -teen
Senses: examples: text: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
ref: 1971, Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
glosses: The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.
Derived terms: eighteenish
eighteenmo
eighteenpence
eighteenpenny
eighteen-wheeler
Related terms: word: eighteenth
word: Last: seventeen. Next: nineteen
ICQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ī"sē-kyū'
ipa: /ˌaɪsiːˈkjuː/
Forms: form: ICQs
Etymology: Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."
Senses: qualifier: amateur radio
glosses: A call for acknowledgement.
ICQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī"sē-kyū'
ipa: /ˌaɪsiːˈkjuː/
Etymology: Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."
Senses: examples: text: ICQ was unusual among instant-messaging systems because it used what is called peer-to-peer technology—ICQ users essentially communicated with each other directly, without having all their messages pass through a central server.
ref: 2005, Laura Lambert, Chris Woodford, Christos J. P. Moschovitis, The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: A program allowing users to send each other instant messages via the Internet.
ICQ
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ī"sē-kyū'
ipa: /ˌaɪsiːˈkjuː/
Forms: form: ICQs
form: ICQing
form: ICQed
form: ICQed
Etymology: Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."
Senses: examples: text: "My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […]
ref: 2000 January 14, Greg Miller, “Ethernet Is Changing Dorm Life”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
text: I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.
ref: 2002, Mike Savage, Lake Effect, Savage Press, →ISBN, page 94:
text: It shut him up. Never had him ICQ me again.
ref: 2004, Michael C. Westwood, Meeting the President, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ.
deuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /djuːs/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /d͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /dus/
ipa: /ˈdjʉs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: deuces
Etymology: From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.
Senses: examples: text: You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
ref: 1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter:
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: two
glosses: A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
topics: dice
games
glosses: A side of a die with two spots.
topics: dice
games
glosses: A cast of dice totalling two.
glosses: The number two.
A piece of excrement; number two.
examples: text: Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.
ref: 1988 December 25, Eric Peterson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 14:
glosses: The number two.
A two-year prison sentence.
glosses: A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
volleyball
qualifier: table tennis
glosses: A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A curveball.
examples: text: And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.
ref: 1973 January 5, “Blinded by the Light” (track 1), in Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., performed by Bruce Springsteen:
ref: 1978, Joe Mayall, “Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy”, in Rod Action, page 26:
text: It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.
ref: 2012, Pat Ganahl, Lost Hot Rods II: More Remarkable Stories of How They Were Found, page 62:
glosses: A 1932 Ford.
glosses: Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
qualifier: restaurants
glosses: A table seating two diners.
examples: text: It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.
ref: 2010, James Lambie, The Story of Your Life, page 139:
glosses: A twopence coin.
glosses: douche
Synonyms: sense: piece of excrement
word: defecation
sense: restaurant
word: two-top
Coordinate terms: topics: dice
games
word: ace
word: trey
word: cater
word: cinque
word: sice
Derived terms: acey-deucey
big deuce
chuck the deuces
deuce coupe
deuce court
deuce less
deuces wild
deuce-to-seven lowball
drop a deuce
play the deuce with
pop a deuce
deuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /djuːs/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /d͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /dus/
ipa: /ˈdjʉs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
ipa: /djuːs/
ipa: /duːs/
rhymes: -uːs
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /djuːs/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /d͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /dus/
ipa: /ˈdjʉs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: deuces
Etymology: Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).
Senses: examples: text: Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why
ref: 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine:
text: To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
text: "Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:
related: word: Deuce
qualifier: epithet
glosses: The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
examples: text: We had a deuce of a time getting here.
glosses: Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).
synonyms: word: devil
extra: something awkward or difficult
Derived terms: deuced
the deuce you say
what the deuce
tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnɪs
homophone: tenness
Forms: form: tennises
Etymology: From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Senses: examples: text: “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
examples: text: We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]
ref: 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch, page 95:
glosses: A match in this sport.
examples: text: tennis-balls
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
Derived terms: anti-tennis
court tennis
deck tennis
football tennis
lawn tennis
paddle tennis
padel tennis
platform tennis
real tennis
ring tennis
royal tennis
soft tennis
squash tennis
table tennis
table tennis table
telly tennis
tennis ball
tennis bracelet
tennis club
tennis court
tennis dress
tennis elbow
tennis player
tennis polo
tennis-racket
tennis racket
tennis racquet
tennis shirt
tennis shoe
tennis wear
text tennis
tonsil tennis
totem tennis
wheelchair tennis
tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnɪs
homophone: tenness
Forms: form: tennises
form: tennising
form: tennised
form: tennised
Etymology: From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Senses: glosses: To play tennis.
examples: text: they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
Related terms: table tennis
ping pong
chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕs
ipa: /t͡ʃɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: chesses
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.
Senses: examples: text: Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 59:
glosses: Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
Synonyms: word: chess
Hypernyms: word: board game
word: game
Hyponyms: word: blitz chess
word: speed chess
Meronyms: word: chess move
word: chess piece
word: chessboard
word: opening
word: development
word: endgame
chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕs
ipa: /t͡ʃɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: chesses
Etymology: Compare French châssis (“a framework of carpentry”).
Senses: examples: text: the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle
ref: 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer:
text: ach chess consists of three planks.
ref: 1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow's Military Encyclopedia; A Dictionary of Military Knowledge:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
Synonyms: word: chess
Hypernyms: word: board game
word: game
Hyponyms: word: blitz chess
word: speed chess
Meronyms: word: chess move
word: chess piece
word: chessboard
word: opening
word: development
word: endgame
knight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nīt
ipa: /naɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: night
homophone: nite
Forms: form: knights
form: knighting
form: knighted
form: knighted
Etymology: From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.
Senses: examples: text: The king knighted the young squire.
text: Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well.
ref: 1971, Clayton C. Barbeau, Future of the family:
synonyms: beknight
glosses: To confer knighthood upon.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Synonyms: dub
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the verb to knight
word: knightable
sense: Terms derived from the verb to knight
word: knighted
sense: Terms derived from the verb to knight
word: knighting
sense: Terms derived from the verb to knight
word: unknighted
Related terms: paladin
baronet
skew
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /skjuː/
ipa: /skju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: SKU
Forms: form: more skew
form: most skew
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijaną (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Catalan esquiu (“evasive, shy”), Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”) (> Norwegian Bokmål skjev), Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”), Norwegian skeiv (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.
The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.
Senses: examples: text: The walls are all united at one end into one head wall; which runs 14′ skew of the Pyramid on the W.; [...]
ref: [1883], W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “The Outside of the Second Pyramid”, in The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, London: Field & Tuer, […]; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […]; Hamilton, Adams & Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 72, page 101:
glosses: Askew, obliquely; awry.
skew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skjuː/
ipa: /skju/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: SKU
Etymology: Perhaps from a Cornish word, though the closest Cornish word is kuas/cwas, which would require much phonological modification; thus, perhaps instead simply from the skewed angle wind may drive such rain to fall in.
Senses: examples: text: I am in a regular Cornish skew as to the future, like that thou and I were favoured with when we astonished the natives at Sidmouth - can't see an inch before me.
ref: 1888, Thomas Wemyss Reid, Life of the Right Honourable William Edward Forster, page 128:
text: ... the only bit of lewth I had When it came to a skew was a high bunch of kekezza, that' pon a gurgey grew.
ref: 1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words, page 27:
text: then we walked on along the edge of the rain forest, through a perpetual Cornish "skew," which wetted every-thing within a quarter of a mile of the falls. We went to the edge of the cliff in two or three places and watched the Devil's cascade rushing head-long over its rocks into the seething caldron[…]
ref: 1911, Blackwood's Magazine, page 184:
glosses: A thick drizzling rain or driving mist.
five hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: 500
form: D
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.
Derived terms: bat five hundred
five hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹəd/
ipa: /ˈfaɪv ˈhʌn.dɹɪd/
Forms: form: five hundreds
form: 500
form: D
Senses: synonyms: monkey
glosses: A note worth 500 units of some currency.
examples: text: Gallipoli von Kessler asked him if he had thought of playing five hundred, saying that though some people said that five hundred was perhaps a brainier game than crib, he didn’t necessarily agree, but it might be more Rooster’s fancy. It was really bridge without the bad company.
ref: 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 194:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A trick-taking card game with elements of euchre and bridge.
existence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɪs.təns/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɪs.təns/
Forms: form: existences
Etymology: From Middle English existence, from Old French existence, from Late Latin existentia (“existence”), from existēns, from existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”). Cognate with Spanish existencia, French existence, German Existenz.
Morphologically exist + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
text: Fortunate it is for the tranquillity of the new-born infant, if he have any turn for philosophy, that he understands none of the nonsense consecrated by old usage to the commencement of existence.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 71:
text: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
ref: 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
text: The ancients said, “A ruler should exist for the existence of the people.” The famous thinker, Mencius noted, “The people are the most valuable, then the country, and the ruler comes last.”
ref: 2020 June 29, Wendi, “The Loyal General Yue Fei”, in Minghui:
synonyms: presence
glosses: The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
glosses: Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
Synonyms: word: being
word: beinghood
word: beingness
word: dasein
word: existence
word: hereness
word: subsistence
Hyponyms: word: coexistence
word: concomitance
Derived terms: bane of someone's existence
co-existence
coexistence
existenceless
inexistence
in existence
non-existence
nonexistence
postexistence
preexistence
self-existence
three marks of existence
timeless existence
unexistence
waste of existence
Related terms: word: exist
word: aseity
word: existential
word: entity
polyglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: of the US
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪɡlɒt/
note: of CA
ipa: /ˈpɑlɪˌɡlɑt/
ipa: /ˈpɔlɪɡlɔt/
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪɡlɒt/
Forms: form: polyglott
Etymology: PIE word
 *glōgʰs
Borrowed from Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), alternative form of Ancient Greek πολῠ́γλωσσος (polŭ́glōssos, “speaking many languages, multilingual”), from πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s, “a lot of, many”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + Attic Greek γλῶττα (glôtta), Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue; language”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs (“tip of corn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming o-grade action nouns). The English word is analysable as poly- + -glot.
Noun sense 1 (“publication in several languages”) is probably derived from Late Latin polyglottus, from Attic Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos): see above.
Senses: examples: text: '[T]is thought the two and twenty Languages which Mythrydates the great Polyglot King of Pontus did ſpeak, wer all within the circumference of Anatolia in regard his dominions extended but a little further: […]
ref: 1630 August 4 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “LVIII. To the Right Hon. the E. R.”, in [Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ.] A New Volume of Familiar Letters, […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section, page 77:
text: For this flyaway son of a Phœnician did not seem to wait for the decision of the polyglot Judges of the Emigration Board.
ref: 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “On the Wharf of Enchantment”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the first (In the Exchange), page 38:
synonyms: word: polyglotted
word: polyglottic
word: polylingual
glosses: Of a person: speaking, or versed in, many languages; multilingual.
examples: text: a polyglot bible    a polyglot lexicon
synonyms: word: polyglossic
word: polyglottal
word: polyglottic
word: polyglottish
glosses: Containing, or made up of, several languages; specifically, of a book (especially a bible): having text translated into several languages.
examples: text: A polyglot region without a clearly dominant culture may develop an artificial lingua franca, such as Pidgin English in the South Sea.
glosses: Comprising various (native) linguistic groups; multilingual.
Coordinate terms: 1
monoglot
2
diglot
3
triglot
4
tetraglot
5
pentaglot
all
omniglot
Derived terms: word: hyperpolyglot
word: polyglotism
word: polyglottism
word: polyglottal
word: polyglotted
word: polyglottery
word: polyglottic
word: polyglottology
word: polyglotwise
Related terms: diglossia
diglossic
diglossically
diglottism
monoglottism
polyglossia
polyglossic
polyglossy
triglossia
triglossic
bilingual
monolingual
multilingual
parallel text
trilingual
realler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of realer.
blowjob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbləʊ.d͡ʒɒb/
ipa: /ˈbloʊ.d͡ʒɑb/
Forms: form: blowjobs
Etymology: First used in the USA. From blow off (“to fellate”, originating among prostitutes from 1933) + job.
Senses: synonyms: word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
glosses: An act of fellatio, or sucking a penis or other phallic object (such as a dildo).
examples: text: You just don't hear much about it because no foreign nation is going to complain when a US president wants to give them a collective blowjob.
glosses: Excessive praise.
Derived terms: blowbang
blow jobber
brojob
fang job
Steak and Blowjob Day
Related terms: hand job
foot job
blow
fellate
go down on
suck off
give head
blumpkin
ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs
ipa: /æs/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -ɑːs
Etymology: Variant of arse; used chiefly in North America. Ultimately from Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Old High German ars (German Arsch), Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (compare Ancient Greek ὄρρος (órrhos)).
Etymological notes
Contrary to the widespread belief of this being a euphemism, it arose as a pronunciation spelling (of the older form arse still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) that shows the assimilation of /ɹ/ before coronal consonants (especially /s/), a phenomenon that has been present in nonstandard speech from the Middle English period onwards; this is distinct from the later phenomenon of non-rhoticity as /ɹ/ was lost before it could modify the preceding vowel. Other instances of this phenomenon (some of which retained both spellings with different meanings) include cuss from curse, gash from garsh, bass (“fish”) from barse, bust from burst, passel from parcel; see :Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/ for a more extensive list.
Senses: examples: text: On a recent episode of "The Justin Dunning Podcast," Starkel shared his thoughts on Martell, a former Ohio State quarterback, saying "he's ass my dude" in reference to Starkel.
ref: 2019 February 5, Alex Miller, “Former Texas A&M QB Nick Starkel breaks down old Twitter beef with Tate Martell”, in Dallas Morning News:
text: For some reason, the teenager thought it’d be a good idea to criticize Newton and say he's "ass" and that he’s "about to be poor" because he's a free agent.
ref: 2021 February 21, Thomas Carannante, “Patriots: Cam Newton getting disrespected by a teenager is everything that’s wrong with society”, in Fansided:
text: "You're so ass," Murray says to another player.
ref: 2021 October 28, Josh Weinfuss, “What we learned about Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray by watching him on Twitch”, in ESPN:
glosses: Of low quality; bad.
ass
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs
ipa: /æs/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -ɑːs
Etymology: Variant of arse; used chiefly in North America. Ultimately from Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Old High German ars (German Arsch), Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁órsos (compare Ancient Greek ὄρρος (órrhos)).
Etymological notes
Contrary to the widespread belief of this being a euphemism, it arose as a pronunciation spelling (of the older form arse still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) that shows the assimilation of /ɹ/ before coronal consonants (especially /s/), a phenomenon that has been present in nonstandard speech from the Middle English period onwards; this is distinct from the later phenomenon of non-rhoticity as /ɹ/ was lost before it could modify the preceding vowel. Other instances of this phenomenon (some of which retained both spellings with different meanings) include cuss from curse, gash from garsh, bass (“fish”) from barse, bust from burst, passel from parcel; see :Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/ for a more extensive list.
Senses: examples: text: That was one big ass fish!
text: That's an expensive ass car!
glosses: Synonym of -ass (used to intensify an adjective).
synonyms: word: -ass
extra: used to intensify an adjective
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: cocks
form: cocking
form: cocked
form: cocked
Etymology: From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
Senses: examples: text: Cocked, fired, and missed his man.
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, The Waltz:
glosses: To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
examples: text: In the darkness, the gun cocked loudly.
glosses: To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
examples: text: Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears.
ref: 1720, John Gay, Thursday: Or, The Spell:
text: Dick would cock his nose in scorn.
ref: 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue Between Mad Mullinix and Timothy:
glosses: To erect; to turn up.
examples: Foster's Lager TV commercial, 1980s
"Please tell me the way to Cockfosters." ... "Drink it warm, mate."
glosses: To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
examples: text: He cocked his hat jauntily.
glosses: To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
examples: text: The Sentry, to this question, said nothing in reply; / But first he cocked his rifle, and then he cocked his eye.
ref: 1873, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volumes 64-65, page 36:
glosses: To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
glosses: To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
glosses: To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (a child).
Derived terms: cock a deaf 'un
cock a snook
cock it over
cock off
cock one's ear
decock
recock
uncock
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology: From Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Cognate with Middle Dutch cocke (“cock, male bird”) and Old Norse kokkr ("cock"; whence Danish kok (“cock”), dialectal Swedish kokk (“cock”)). Reinforced by Old French coc, from the same origin. The sense "penis" is attested since at least the 1610s, with the compound pillicock (“penis”) attested since 1325.
Senses: examples: ref: 2006, Vamp, “oh cock i should have kept with a toyota!”, in uk.rec.cars.modifications (Usenet):
glosses: Expression of annoyance.
Related terms: cock and bull story
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: cocks
Etymology: From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”, attested in place names), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”).
Cognate with dialectal German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), Norman coque (“small haystack”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: rick, stook, shock
text: The farmhands stack the hay into cocks.
glosses: A small conical pile of hay or grass.
Derived terms: coggle
grass-cock
hay-cock
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: cocks
form: cocking
form: cocked
form: cocked
Etymology: From Middle English cokke, cock, cok, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”, attested in place names), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”).
Cognate with dialectal German Kocke (“heap of hay, dunghill”), Norwegian kok (“heap, lump”), Swedish koka (“a lump of earth”), Norman coque (“small haystack”), Middle Low German kogge (“wide, rounded ship”), Dutch kogel (“ball”), German Kugel (“ball, globe”).
Senses: examples: text: Under the cocked hay.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
glosses: To form into piles.
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: cocks
Etymology: Uncertain. Some authors speculate it derives from cockle, a yonic fertility symbol, others suggested it entered Southern US vernacular during the period of French rule (of Louisiana) from Cajun French coquille (“shell”) (itself the source of cockle), which in 18th and 19th century slang meant the vulva.
Senses: examples: text: Born in the canebrake and you were suckled by a bear,
Jumped right through your mammy's cock and never touched a hair.
ref: c. 1920-1960, Rufus George Perryman (Speckled Red), quoted by Elijah Wald, The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
text: My back is made of whalebone
And my cock is made of brass
ref: 1935 March 5, “Shave 'Em Dry, No. 2”, in Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops, performed by Lucille Bogan, published 1991, track 6:
text: The dog come a-trottin' and the dog come a-lopin'
A purty little gal with her cock wide open.
ref: 1992, Vance Randolph, edited by Gershon Legman, Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms, volume 1, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, page 411:
text: I stuck my fist up in her cock, she didn't budge or move it.
ref: 1998 February 17, Scarface, Too Short, Tela, Devin the Dude, “Fuck Faces”, in My Homies, track 8:
text: She smelled like she was on her period and hadn't changed pads. On ah many occasions I heard men say her cock smelled through her clothing.
ref: 2010, Vildred C. Tucker-Dawson, A Journey Back in Time: My Story Book, →ISBN, page 42:
qualifier: where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular; where it is still sometimes used; where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular; where it is still sometimes used
glosses: Vulva, vagina.
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: cocks
Etymology: from Middle English cok, from Old French coque (“a type of small boat”), from child-talk coco ('egg').
Senses: examples: text: Yond tall anchoring bark [appears] / Diminished to her cock; her cock, a buoy / Almost too small for sight.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
glosses: Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
cock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: caulk (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒk
Senses: examples: text: By cock and pie.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.