cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːp/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: carps
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English carpen, karpe (“to chat, converse, talk; to chatter, gossip; to ask; to cry out, wail; to find fault, carp; to relate, tell; to recite; to sing”), and then partly:
* from Old Norse karpa (“to boast, brag; to dispute, quarrel”), further etymology unknown; and
* from, or influenced by, Latin carpere, the present active infinitive of carpō (“to harvest, pick, pluck; to criticize, revile, slander, carp at”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to harvest, pluck”).
The noun is derived from the verb. (Middle English carp, karp (“conversation, discourse, talking; spoken or written message or statement; meaning; news; poem; song; story”), from Old Norse karp (“bragging”), did not survive into modern English.)
Senses: glosses: An instance of, or speech, complaining or criticizing about a fault, especially for frivolous or petty reasons; a cavil.
curtail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːˈteɪl/
ipa: /kɚˈteɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: curtails
form: curtailing
form: curtailed
form: curtailed
Etymology: Alteration of curtal, from Old French courtault (“which has been shortened”), itself from court (“short”) (from Latin curtus) + -ault
Senses: examples: text: Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
glosses: To cut short the tail of (an animal).
examples: text: When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
text: Although British involvement in the slave trade prior to 1807 cannot be denied, or its effects diminished, it is also a fact that the Royal Navy was pretty much the only force in the world in the 19th century with the numbers, drive, willingness, firepower, and capability to curtail the global slave trade, and that, without these efforts, many more would no doubt have been taken to slave plantations and other such destinations during the 19th, and possibly even into the 20th, centuries, as it must be remembered that a great many European powers would only begrudgingly commit to ending the slave trade when the other option was continuous war with the British Empire.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 11:37 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
examples: text: This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Branch report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:
text: The current Israeli government has been working to curtail and eliminate critical voices within Israeli society in recent years, particularly those fighting to end the occupation and expose human rights violations against Palestinians and marginalized communities.
ref: 2018, “Israeli gov't is trying to defund +972 Magazine, report says”, in +972 Magazine:
glosses: To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
Synonyms: sense: animal's tail
word: crop
sense: animal's tail
word: dock
sense: shorten
word: abbreviate
word: shorten
sense: limit
word: behedge
word: control
word: limit
word: restrain
Derived terms: curtailable
curtail dog
curtailer
curtailment
uncurtailed
Related terms: curt
curtal
curtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːˈteɪl/
ipa: /kɚˈteɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: curtails
Etymology: Alteration of curtal, from Old French courtault (“which has been shortened”), itself from court (“short”) (from Latin curtus) + -ault
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
denigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnɪɡreɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛn.ɪ.ɡɹeɪt/
Forms: form: denigrates
form: denigrating
form: denigrated
form: denigrated
Etymology: From Latin dēnigrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēnigrō (“to blacken”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē + nigrō (“to blacken”) (from niger (“black”)). Cognate with Middle English denigart(e) (“darkened, discolored”).
Senses: examples: text: Although in public Soviet officials tend to denigrate the French electric locomotives imported recently, there is little doubt that lessons learnt from these engines will be incorporated in new Russian designs.
ref: 1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
glosses: To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.
examples: text: You have no right to denigrate people and things that you have no personal experience with.
glosses: To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.
glosses: To blacken.
Derived terms: denigration
denigrator
denigratory
denigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnɪɡreɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɛn.ɪ.ɡɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more denigrate
form: most denigrate
Etymology: From Latin dēnigrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēnigrō (“to blacken”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē + nigrō (“to blacken”) (from niger (“black”)). Cognate with Middle English denigart(e) (“darkened, discolored”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Blackened.
disdain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-dān'
ipa: /dɪsˈdeɪn/
ipa: /dɪˈsteɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology: From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).
Senses: examples: text: The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.
text: He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle,
Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie,
Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie:
What will he doe ſupported by a king?
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
text: Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner.
ref: 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 Jun 2018:
glosses: A feeling of contempt or scorn.
examples: text: Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
examples: text: The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; Exempt from envy , but not from disdain
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 III, scene iii]:
glosses: The state of being despised; shame.
Synonyms: abomination
condescension
contempt
despisal
scorn
Derived terms: disdainable
disdainful
disdain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-dān'
ipa: /dɪsˈdeɪn/
ipa: /dɪˈsteɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: disdains
form: disdaining
form: disdained
form: disdained
Etymology: From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).
Senses: examples: text: When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:42:
text: The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.
ref: 1880, “Women”, in Edward Henry Palmer, transl., The Qur'an, verse 170:
text: The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
glosses: To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
examples: text: When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
glosses: To be indignant or offended.
Synonyms: abominate
contemn
Derived terms: disdainer
disdainingly
undisdained
undisdaining
dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡd/
enpr: dôgd
ipa: /dɔɡd/
ipa: /dɑɡd/
rhymes: -ɒɡd
rhymes: -ɔɡd
rhymes: -ɑɡd
Etymology: From the verb to dog.
Senses: examples: text: At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:
text: They will replace the four five-car Class 180 Adelantes [...] that have been dogged by poor reliability.
ref: 2019 December 4, Richard Clinnick, “New Trains Special”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: simple past and past participle of dog
dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡd/
enpr: dôgd
ipa: /dɔɡd/
ipa: /dɑɡd/
rhymes: -ɒɡd
rhymes: -ɔɡd
rhymes: -ɑɡd
enpr: dŏg'ĭd
ipa: /ˈdɒɡɪd/
enpr: dôg'ĭd
ipa: /ˈdɔɡɪd/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪd
rhymes: -ɔɡɪd
ipa: /dɒɡd/
enpr: dôgd
ipa: /dɔɡd/
ipa: /dɑɡd/
rhymes: -ɒɡd
rhymes: -ɔɡd
rhymes: -ɑɡd
Forms: form: more dogged
form: most dogged
Etymology: From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
ref: 1900 April 7, Jack London, “To the Man on Trail”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 114:
text: Rushing out to the point above the reef, we watched the conflict between canoe and sea. When the man reached the gas boat, the screams of the boy stopped. With great risk they loaded the canoe till she began to take water. The boy bailed furiously. The long dogged pull of the man's oars challenged death inch by inch, wave by wave.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
text: It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
text: Using the latest technology, and with the dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme, we've successfully identified the person in question.
ref: 2021 March 5, Matt Hancock, quotee, “Mystery person with Brazil variant found thanks to dogged determination, says Matt Hancock”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: committed
word: determined
word: persistent
word: steadfast
word: tenacious
word: adamant
word: ardent
word: bent on
word: bloody-minded
word: bullheaded
word: certain
word: chronic
word: confirmed
word: determined
word: diehard
word: dogged
word: hard-hearted
word: hard-nosed
word: hardheaded
word: headstrong
word: immovable
word: incalcitrant
word: inflexible
word: irrefragable
word: insistent
word: intractable
word: intransigent
word: intrepid
word: inveterate
word: mulish
word: obdurate
word: obstinate
word: obstreperous
word: peevish
word: peremptory
word: persistent
word: pertinacious
word: pigheaded
word: recalcitrant
word: refractory
word: resolute
word: resolved
word: rigid
word: self-willed
word: stalwart
word: staunch
word: steadfast
word: steady
word: stubborn
word: stubborn as a mule
word: sullen
word: tenacious
word: terminal
word: thran
word: thwart
word: tough
word: truculent
word: unbending
word: uncompromising
word: unyielding
word: vehement
word: wilful
word: willful
glosses: stubbornly persevering, steadfast
Derived terms: word: doggedly
word: doggedness
dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡd/
enpr: dôgd
ipa: /dɔɡd/
ipa: /dɑɡd/
rhymes: -ɒɡd
rhymes: -ɔɡd
rhymes: -ɑɡd
enpr: dŏg'ĭd
ipa: /ˈdɒɡɪd/
enpr: dôg'ĭd
ipa: /ˈdɔɡɪd/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪd
rhymes: -ɔɡɪd
ipa: /dɒɡd/
enpr: dôgd
ipa: /dɔɡd/
ipa: /dɑɡd/
rhymes: -ɒɡd
rhymes: -ɔɡd
rhymes: -ɑɡd
Etymology: From Middle English dogged, doggid, doggyd (“characteristics similar to that of a dog”), equivalent to dog + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm afraid I've given him a heap of trouble. You see," he explained, looking at Paul critically, "I never thought of eating before I left town, and one gets so dogged hungry, you know walking. I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?"
ref: 1918, Ethel Penman Hope, Dr. Paul, page 127:
glosses: very
dogmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [dɔɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /dɑɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [dɑɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˈdɔɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: more dogmatic
form: most dogmatic
form: dogmatical
Etymology: From Middle French dogmatique and its etymon, Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).
Senses: examples: text: Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
glosses: Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
glosses: Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
Derived terms: adogmatic
antidogmatic
dogmatically
dogmaticism
dogmatic theology
historicodogmatic
monodogmatic
multidogmatic
nondogmatic
overdogmatic
ultradogmatic
undogmatic
Related terms: dogmatize
dogmatism
dogmatist
dogmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [dɔɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /dɑɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [dɑɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˈdɔɡˈmæɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: dogmatics
form: dogmatical
Etymology: From Middle French dogmatique and its etymon, Late Latin dogmaticus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek δογματικός (dogmatikós, “didactic”), from δόγμα (dógma, “dogma”).
Senses: glosses: One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; opposed to the empiric.
unusual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈjuːʒuəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈjuːʒəl/
Forms: form: more unusual
form: most unusual
form: unusuall
Etymology: From un- + usual.
Senses: examples: text: Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.
text: It’s definitely not unusual for a couple to meet through friends or be set up on a date.
text: His behavior was unusual in that it was considered childish for a man of his age.
text: I’ve had no problem with female docs. I’ve had some – how should I say it – unusual experiences with a couple of male ones. And I have heard from girlfriends about their unusual experiences as well.
synonyms: word: uncommon
word: rare
word: extraordinary
word: remarkable
word: aberrant
word: abnormal
word: alien
word: anomalous
word: as queer as Dick's hatband
word: bizarre
word: curious
word: deviant
word: discrepant
word: eerie
word: eldritch
word: errant
word: exceptional
word: extraordinary
word: fey
word: forby
word: freak
word: freakish
word: freaky
word: fremd
word: funny
word: heteroclite
word: hinky
word: incongruous
word: incongruitous
word: irregular
word: kooky
word: monstrous
word: nonstandard
word: odd
word: outlandish
word: out of the ordinary
word: outré
word: peculiar
word: quaint
word: queer
word: queer as a clockwork orange
word: queer as a nine bob note
word: queer as a three dollar bill
word: queer as a coot
word: queer as Dick's hatband
word: rare
word: rum
word: rummy
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: singular
word: strange
word: trippy
word: uncanny
word: uncommon
word: unconventional
word: unearthly
word: unexpected
word: unreasonable
word: unusual
word: unwonted
word: weird
word: weirdsome
word: yampy
antonyms: normal
usual
common
ordinary
glosses: Not usual, out of the ordinary.
Derived terms: unusually
unusualness
unusual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈjuːʒuəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈjuːʒəl/
Forms: form: unusuals
form: unusuall
Etymology: From un- + usual.
Senses: examples: text: I should say that it was very unusual for such men to leave a bottle half empty. How do all these unusuals strike you, Watson?
ref: 1905, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes:
text: Two of these unusuals have been selected for special effort throughout the season. They are kneeling pads and water-proof garden gloves. During the bulb planting season they are displayed with the bulbs […]
ref: 1939, Pauline Redmond, Wilfrid Redmond, Business paper writing, a career, page 154:
glosses: Something that is unusual; an anomaly.
interest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛst/
ipa: /ˈɪnt(ə)ɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈɪnt(ə)ɹəst/
ipa: /ˈɪnt(ə)ɹɛst/
ipa: /ˈɪntəɹst/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳʈ(ɛ)ˈrɛsʈ/
rhymes: -ɪntəɹɪst
rhymes: -ɪntɹɪst
rhymes: -ɪntəɹəst
rhymes: -ɪntɹəst
rhymes: -ɪntəɹɛst
rhymes: -ɪntɹɛst
rhymes: -ɪntəɹst
Forms: form: interests
form: interesting
form: interested
form: interested
form: enterest
form: interess
form: intherest
Etymology: From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
Senses: examples: text: It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
text: Action films don't really interest me.
glosses: To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
examples: text: Oh, rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory; since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel; valued least, / I am his equal.
ref: 1840, Philip Massinger, Ford, John, The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford, Harvard University, published 1840, →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
examples: text: The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To cause or permit to share.
Derived terms: interestable
interested
interesting
reinterest
threat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thrĕt
ipa: /θɹɛt/
ipa: /ˈθɹet/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: threats
form: threating
form: threated
form: threated
Etymology: From Middle English threten, from Old English þrēatian (“to press, oppress, repress, correct, threaten”). Akin to Middle Dutch drōten (“to threaten”).
Senses: glosses: To press; urge; compel.
examples: text: An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 37:
glosses: To threaten.
glosses: To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
shat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shăt
ipa: /ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: Shat
homophone: sceat
Etymology: A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century. Compare Old English sċāt.
Senses: examples: text: Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.
ref: 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7)
text: We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods.
ref: 2009, Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing:
glosses: simple past and past participle of shit
shat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shăt
ipa: /ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: Shat
homophone: sceat
ipa: /ʃʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
enpr: shăt
ipa: /ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: Shat
homophone: sceat
Forms: form: shats
Etymology: From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
Senses: examples: text: All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation.
ref: 1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […] , page 482:
glosses: Alternative form of chott.
shat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shăt
ipa: /ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: Shat
homophone: sceat
ipa: /ʃʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
rhymes: -æt
homophone: sceat
homophone: shat
enpr: shăt
ipa: /ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: Shat
homophone: sceat
ipa: /ʃʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: shats
Etymology: Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.
Senses: examples: text: Dryden used the car that afternoon to get shats for the hog pen of Ollie Hitchens, who … gave Dryden a dollar for his services in getting the shats … some pine shats for his father.
ref: 1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559
text: A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.
ref: 2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 225:
qualifier: chiefly Maryland; Delaware; chiefly Maryland; Delaware
glosses: Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
synonyms: word: shatter
extra: a pine needle
shoot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͞ot
ipa: /ʃuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: chute
Etymology: Minced oath for shit.
Senses: examples: text: Didn't you have a concert tonight? —Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready…
text: She practically stopped dancing, and started looking over everybody’s heads to see if she could see him. “Oh, shoot!” she said. I'd just about broken her heart—I really had.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
Synonyms: sense: mild expletive
word: darn
sense: mild expletive
word: dash
sense: mild expletive
word: fiddlesticks
sense: mild expletive
word: shucks
sense: mild expletive
word: sugar
shot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shŏt
ipa: /ʃɒt/
ipa: /ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: shott
homophone: chott
Forms: form: more shot
form: most shot
Etymology: The past participle of shoot.
Senses: examples: text: I have to go to bed now; I’m shot.
synonyms: word: exhausted
word: fried
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Tired, weary.
examples: text: Tell me true, are you not glad to be fairly shot of him?
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 62:
synonyms: free
glosses: Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
examples: text: The rear axle will have to be replaced. It’s shot.
text: ... but he finds it hard to resist helping the boss's sister, who also works there and whose body "is more shot than mine."
ref: 2004, Garret Keizer, Help: The Original Human Dilemma, page 50:
text: Thompson girl, I'm stranded at the Unique Motel / Thompson girl, winterfighter's shot on the car as well
ref: 1998, The Tragically Hip, “Thompson Girl”, in Phantom Power:
synonyms: word: dilapidated
word: wrecked
word: clapped out
word: damaged
word: defective
word: deteriorated
word: dilapidated
word: effete
word: faulty
word: munted
word: outworn
word: passé
word: raddled
word: ragged
word: ravaged
word: rinky-dink
word: shabby
word: unimproved
word: wasted
word: weakened
word: wrecked
word: wrecksome
word: worn
word: worn-out
word: worsened
glosses: Worn out or broken.
examples: text: The cloak was shot through with silver threads.
qualifier: especially silk
glosses: Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
raw_tags: of material
Related terms: cup-shot
shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shŏt
ipa: /ʃɒt/
ipa: /ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: shott
homophone: chott
Etymology: The past participle of shoot.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot
shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shŏt
ipa: /ʃɒt/
ipa: /ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: shott
homophone: chott
Forms: form: shots
form: shotting
form: shotted
form: shotted
Etymology: From Old English sceot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą; compare the doublet scot.
Senses: examples: text: His order to me was, to see the top Chains put upon the Cables, and the Guns shotted.
ref: 1681, Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon:
glosses: To load (a gun) with shot.
examples: text: The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.
ref: 2011, “Chyna”, in How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang:
text: [Verse 2:Kano]:If you've been shotting in the manor from way back when and you ain't on a kilo ting, I don't wanna hear about cunch and food and tings, man don't do those tings.
ref: 2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician):
glosses: To sell illegal drugs; to deal.
glosses: To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.
shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shŏt
ipa: /ʃɒt/
ipa: /ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: shott
homophone: chott
Forms: form: shots
Etymology: See scot (“a share”).
Senses: examples: text: Drink up. It's his shot.
text: Here no shots are where all sharers be.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
text: A man is never […] welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome".
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
Hyponyms: light-shot
Derived terms: shot-free
shot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: shŏt
ipa: /ʃɒt/
ipa: /ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: shott
homophone: chott
Senses: glosses: An expression of gratitude, similar to thank you.
show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊ/
enpr: shō
ipa: /ʃoʊ/
ipa: [ʃoː]
ipa: [ʃow]
note: Indic
ipa: /ʃo(w)/
note: without the toe–tow merger
ipa: /ʃɔw/
ipa: /ʃəʊ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ʃʌo̞/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: shows
form: shew
form: shewe
form: showe
Etymology: Variant of shove, itself a variant of shive.
Senses: examples: text: When the flax is ſufficiently watered, it feels ſoft to the grip, and the harle parts eaſily with the boon or ſhow, which laſt is then become brittle, and looks whitiſh.
ref: 1765, “Directions for raising Flax”, in Museum Rusticum et Commerciale: or, Select Papers on Agriculture, Commerce, Arts, and Manufactures. […], volume IV, London: […] R[obert] Davis, […] J[ohn] Newbery, […] and L[ockyer] Davis and C[harles] Reymers, […], page 459:
text: Laſt year (1793) I tranſplanted, from ſeed-beds, into the nurſery, ſeveral fruit-trees; the ground around ſome of which I covered, as above, with flax-ſhows. Notwithſtanding the great heat of the ſummer, none of thoſe trees where the earth was covered with ſhows, died or decayed; becauſe the ſhows prevented the earth under them from being dried by the ſun.
ref: 1798, [Christian Friedrich] Germershausen, anonymous translator, “On the Means of promoting the Growth of young Fruit-Trees, particularly in Grass-Land. […] From the Transactions of the Œconomical Society of Leipsic.”, in The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures: […], volume VIII, London: […] [F]or the proprietors; and sold by H[enry] Lowndes, […], page 63:
text: Old houses in the north-east sometimes have a thick layer of flax waste or “shows” under the thatch.
ref: 1942 March, E[myr] Estyn Evans, Irish Heritage: The Landscape, the People and Their Work, Dundalk, County Louth: W[illiam] Tempest, Dundalgan Press, page 64:
glosses: Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
synonyms: word: shive
extra: wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp
showed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃəʊd/
ipa: /ˈʃoʊd/
Senses: examples: text: I showed him the report.
glosses: simple past of show
examples: text: Recent polling has showed that 40% are in favour of the candidate.
text: The report had already been showed to him.
glosses: past participle of show (alternative to shown)
shown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shōn
ipa: /ʃəʊn/
ipa: /ʃoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: shone (US)
Etymology: From Middle English schauen, schewen (past participle), alternative form of schawid, schewed, past participle of Middle English schewen (“to show”). Morphologically equivalent to show + -n.
Senses: examples: text: I had shown him the report already.
text: The report had already been shown to him.
glosses: past participle of show
shrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shrŭngk
ipa: /ʃɹʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Senses: examples: text: Fanny shrunk back to her seat, with feelings sadly pained by his language and his smell of spirits; […]
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: simple past and past participle of shrink
shrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shrŭngk
ipa: /ʃɹʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: more shrunk
form: most shrunk
Senses: examples: text: […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne / Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 198, column 2:
glosses: shrunken
shut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shŭt
ipa: /ʃʌt/
ipa: /ʃʊt/
ipa: /ʃɛt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology: From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”).
Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
Senses: examples: text: A shut door barred our way into the house.
text: The door banged shut with a breeze.
text: Pleas keep your mouth shut while you are eating.
text: A book lay shut on the table.
text: I had to shut my eyes against the light.
glosses: Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
examples: text: Phone lines are now shut.
glosses: Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
Not available for use or operation.
examples: text: Banks are shut on bank holidays.
text: The museum is shut for the Christmas holidays.
glosses: Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
raw_tags: of a business or venue
examples: text: He mind is shut to new ideas.
glosses: Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
Not receptive.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Closed, not open, in any of various senses.
Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of close.
synonyms: word: close
examples: text: Whenever a syllable is formed with a long, that is an open vowel, they account the syllable long; and whenever formed with a short, that is a shut vowel, they reckon it short.
ref: 1810, Benjamin Humphrey Smart, A practical grammar of English pronunciation, page 344:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of close.
synonyms: word: close
examples: text: When he asked her, she said, she thanked God he was dead, (the woman was glad to get shut of him) and said he died of an ague and fever.
ref: 1813, Thomas Bayly Howell, Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors, page 507:
glosses: Archaic form of shot (“discharged, cleared, rid of something”).
Derived terms: buss-up-shut
every shut eye isn't asleep
keep one's mouth shut
open and shut
open and shut case
wide shut
with one's eyes shut
shut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shŭt
ipa: /ʃʌt/
ipa: /ʃʊt/
ipa: /ʃɛt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: shuts
Etymology: From Middle English shutten, shetten, from Old English scyttan (“to cause rapid movement, shoot a bolt, shut, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skutjaną, *skuttijaną (“to bar, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *skuttą, *skuttjō (“bar, bolt, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to drive, fall upon, rush”).
Cognate with Dutch schutten (“to shut in, lock up”), Low German schütten (“to shut, lock in”), German schützen (“to shut out, dam, protect, guard”).
Senses: examples: text: the shut of a door
text: Just then returnd at ſhut of Evening Flours.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, 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:
glosses: The act or time of shutting; close.
glosses: A door or cover; a shutter.
glosses: The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
Derived terms: cold shut
shut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shŭt
ipa: /ʃʌt/
ipa: /ʃʊt/
ipa: /ʃɛt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: shuts
Etymology: Variation of chute or shute (archaic, related to shoot) from Old English scēotan.
Senses: glosses: A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
Synonyms: sense: alleyway
word: alley
sang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: săng
ipa: /sæŋ/
ipa: [saŋ]
ipa: [sæŋ]
ipa: [sæŋ]
ipa: [seɪŋ]
ipa: [sæŋ]
ipa: [sɛːŋ]
ipa: [sɛŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past of sing
sang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: săng
ipa: /sæŋ/
ipa: [saŋ]
ipa: [sæŋ]
ipa: [sæŋ]
ipa: [seɪŋ]
ipa: [sæŋ]
ipa: [sɛːŋ]
ipa: [sɛŋ]
rhymes: -æŋ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheng (“Chinese wind instrument”).
Related terms: pur sang
sang-froid
sang wenhua
sung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: past participle of sing
examples: text: Lulled by the Syren-song that my own heart sung to me, with eyes shut to all sight, and ears closed to all sound of danger, I drifted nearer and nearer to the fatal rocks.
ref: 1859, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White:
text: The August Prince's First Officer […] sung a song; although it was unaccompanied by dancing it was very delightful.
ref: 1920, Annie Shepley Omori & Kochi Doi, "The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu" (translated), Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan, page 105
glosses: simple past of sing
sit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭt
ipa: /sɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: sits
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sed-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sédyeti
Proto-Germanic *sitjaną
Proto-West Germanic *sittjan
Old English sittan
Middle English sitten
English sit
From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).
Senses: glosses: An act of sitting.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
sit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭt
ipa: /sɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: sits
Senses: examples: text: The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.”
ref: 2012, Gail Shisler, For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith:
glosses: Clipping of situation.
Related terms: sitrep
sat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: săt
ipa: /sæt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: See sit.
Senses: examples: text: Hold on, I’m sat on my arse while I’m writing this.
ref: 2007, Tony Bell, “eighteen”, in Life in the Bus Lane, Cambridge: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Seated; sitting (down).
sat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: săt
ipa: /sæt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: See sit.
Senses: examples: text: I sat in the middle of the park.
glosses: simple past and past participle of sit
sat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: săt
ipa: /sæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: more sat
form: most sat
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of satisfactory.
glosses: Abbreviation of satisfied.
glosses: Abbreviation of saturated.
Derived terms: sat fat
sat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: săt
ipa: /sæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: sats
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of satellite (“artificial orbital body”).
glosses: Abbreviation of satori (“a mutant gene of Drosophila, a genus of fruit flies, that causes homosexual behaviour in males (specifically, courtship directed to other males)”).
glosses: Abbreviation of satoshi (“a hundred-millionth of a bitcoin”).
examples: text: Also, your blood pressure and oxygen sats – that's the amount of oxygen in your blood.
ref: 2010, Virginia Allum, Patricia McGarr, Cambridge English for Nursing Pre-intermediate Student's Book with Audio CD, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: [T]his is her third admission for breathing difficulties. The first two admissions we managed to control her and discharge her home with her mum. This time we can't get her oxygen sats up—they're actually falling.
ref: 2012, Emily Forbes, Georgie's Big Greek Wedding?, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Intubation is not necessary unless his oxygen sat reading is low.
ref: 2015, Christopher J Gallagher, MD, Pure and Simple: Anesthesia Writtens Review IV Questions, Answers, Explanations 501-1000, →ISBN:
glosses: Level of saturation (especially of oxygen in the blood).
Derived terms: sense: artificial orbital body
word: comsat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: commsat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: cubesat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: femtosat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: killsat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: microsat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: minisat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: nanosat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: picosat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: satcom
sense: artificial orbital body
word: satcomm
sense: artificial orbital body
word: satnav
sense: artificial orbital body
word: satphone
sense: artificial orbital body
word: spysat
sense: artificial orbital body
word: subsat
word: sat diver
Related terms: desat
verbum sat
slay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slā
ipa: /sleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: sleigh
homophone: sley
Forms: form: slays
Etymology: From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).
Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.
Senses: examples: text: Equally effervescent was EmRata [Emily Ratajkowski] in 2001 Versace; meanwhile Zendaya, clothed in a 1996 John Galliano for Givenchy gown that could rival Queen Victoria’s regal mourning robes, was a slay for the ages.
ref: 2024 May 12, Tish Weinstock, “This Vintage Lover Is Calling Time On The ’90s Fashion Obsession”, in British Vogue:
text: “Let’s work it out on a remix” can be applied to many situations. It’s a public truce under the guise of a joint slay. A bride is making unreasonable demands of her wedding party and the maid of honor might quit? They should work it out on a remix (establish a budget).
ref: 2024 June 21, Jason P. Frank, “Who Else Needs to Work It Out on a Remix?”, in Vulture:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang
glosses: Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.
slay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: slā
ipa: /sleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: sleigh
homophone: sley
Etymology: From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).
Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.
Senses: examples: text: Despite its dismal performance at the box office, Jennifer’s Body has become a cult favourite – particularly amongst queer women. The horror-comedy stars Megan Fox as a cheerleader who becomes possessed by a succubus – a demon who seduces men, kills them and devours their flesh etc. Slay!
ref: 2024 October 9, Sam Damshenas, “21 LGBTQ+ horror films to watch this Halloween”, in Gay Times:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang
glosses: Used to express approval or amazement.
slay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slā
ipa: /sleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: sleigh
homophone: sley
Forms: form: slays
Etymology: See sley
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sley
slew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slo͞o
ipa: /sl(j)uː/
note: Wales, Northern England, some New England, Southern American, and Canadian
ipa: /slɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: sleugh
homophone: slough
homophone: slue
Forms: form: slews
Etymology: In all senses, a mostly British spelling of slue.
Senses: glosses: The act, or process of slewing.
glosses: A device used for slewing.
glosses: A change of position.
Derived terms: slew rate