cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
divisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈvɪsɪv/
ipa: /dɪˈvɪzɪv/
rhymes: -aɪsɪv
Forms: form: more divisive
form: most divisive
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dīvīsīvus.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.
text: [W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 66:
synonyms: disunifying#Adjective
polarizing
antonyms: unifying#Adjective
glosses: Having a quality that divides or separates.
Derived terms: divisively
divisiveness
indivisive
subdivisive
undivisive
cacozelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cacozēlia (“a bad, faulty, awkward imitation”), from Ancient Greek κᾰκοζηλία (kăkozēlía, “unhappy imitation, affectation”).
Senses: glosses: A stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned.
glosses: Bad taste in words or selection of metaphor, either to make the facts appear worse or to disgust the auditors.
Hyponyms: sense: affectation of diction
word: soraismus
sense: affectation of diction
word: Graecism
sense: affectation of diction
word: Hebraism
gription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of grip + traction
Senses: examples: text: The pad is covered with the same Gription Mesh as the belt
ref: 1984 Colin Fletcher - The Complete Walker III - Page 138
text: 1996, “Lego Gription?” [message subject] Scott, in rec.toys.lego <4seh6l$i6e@news.interlog.com>
text: 2001, The Straight Dope Staff Report https://web.archive.org/web/20051104023242/http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msurfwax.html
The wax is for gription, which is a word I invented. You rub it on top of the board to keep your feet and hands from slipping off.
text: ...I was up and out in no time, with only a few 'moves' on a steep stretch of slickrock, mostly trusting my shoes for gription.
ref: 2003, Jim Beard, Sandstone Way, Virtualbookworm Publishing, p60
text: 2004, Gription [film title] http://www.griptionmovie.com/
glosses: The property of gripping and providing traction.
kilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪltə/
ipa: /ˈkɪltɚ/
rhymes: -ɪltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kelter
Etymology: A variant of dialectal kelter (“good condition, order”), of unknown origin; possibly related to kilt (“to gather up (skirts) around the body”) (cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”)), or Scots kilt (“proper way of doing something, knack”) (probably from kilt (“a slope; a tilt”), possibly a variant of English tilt). In the 19th century, kelter was the more common form in the United Kingdom, while kilter was more common in the United States. Due to the influence of the latter, kilter is now the more prevalent form in all English varieties.
Senses: examples: text: not in kilter
text: [T]hey are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether.
ref: 1890, Charles Erskine, chapter V, in Twenty Years before the Mast: […], Boston, Mass.: Published by the author, →OCLC, page 72:
text: [H]e lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed and sourdough bread, / On rusty beans and bacon furred with mould; / His stomach’s out of kilter and his system full of lead, / But it's over, and his poke is full of gold.
ref: 1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Man from Eldorado”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, part I, stanza 2, page 71:
glosses: Chiefly in out of kilter: (good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: akilter
off-kilter
out of kilter
kilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪltə/
ipa: /ˈkɪltɚ/
rhymes: -ɪltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kilters
Etymology: Probably a variant of dialectal kelter (“odds and ends; litter, rubbish”); further etymology unknown.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
poker
glosses: A hand of playing cards which is useless.
sony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He often would say, ‘My father will not come from Washington time enough to see his sony.'
ref: 1837, Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey, Samuel Whittelsey, The Mother's Magazine, S. Whittelsey:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sonny.
metis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪˈtiː/
ipa: /meɪˈtiːs/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: metis
form: métis
Etymology: Borrowed from French métis, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Akin to mestizo, which came from Spanish. More at Metis.
Senses: glosses: A person of mixed-race ancestry.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Metis (“a member of one of three Canadian Aboriginal peoples; any person of mixed European and Indigenous descent”).
glosses: A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon.
metis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪˈtiː/
ipa: /meɪˈtiːs/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: métis
Etymology: Borrowed from French métis, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Akin to mestizo, which came from Spanish. More at Metis.
Senses: glosses: Of mixed heritage
glosses: Of Métis heritage.
Related terms: Metis
Mestee
metis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪˈtiː/
ipa: /meɪˈtiːs/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iːs
ipa: /ˈmiːtɪs/
rhymes: -iːtɪs
ipa: /meɪˈtiː/
ipa: /meɪˈtiːs/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iːs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis).
Senses: qualifier: knowledge management
glosses: Practical intelligence; street smarts.
Themis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθiːmɪs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θέμις (Thémis).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Titan, the embodiment of divine order, law and custom. She was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 24 Themis, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 24 Themis
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉔
Derived terms: Themistian
Crius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia.
Iapetus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪˈæpɪtəs/
Forms: form: Japetus
Etymology: From Latin Iapetus, from Ancient Greek Ἰαπετός (Iapetós), possibly from Pre-Greek.
* (moon): Named after the titan.
* (ocean): The Iapetus Ocean was the predecessor to the Atlantic Ocean, so this name was chosen because Iapetus is the father of Atlas (see Atlantic).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
related: word: Japetus
word: Iapetos
glosses: A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
related: word: Japetus
glosses: A moon in Saturnian system, Solar System: The third largest moon of Saturn
examples: text: So, in the early Ordovician, Iapetus was wide enough to have one side in high latitudes and the other in the tropics: a massive ocean, indeed.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 184:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
related: word: Iapetus Ocean
synonyms: Proto-Atlantic
Proto-Atlantic Ocean
glosses: A former ocean between former continent of Laurentia (North America) and former continent of Baltica (Europe): An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of Japheth.
Derived terms: Iapetian
Iapetus Ocean
Iapetus Ridge
Iapetus Suture
Related terms: Iapetic
victoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiə
Forms: form: victorias
Etymology: Named after Queen Victoria.
Senses: examples: text: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
text: The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
ref: 1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42:
glosses: A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
wikipedia: Queen Victoria
ibuprofen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌɪ.bjuːˈpɹəʊ.fən/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.bjuˈpɹoʊ.fən/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.biˈpɹoʊfən/
ipa: /aɪˈbju.pɹəf.ən/
Forms: form: ibuprofens
Etymology: From i(so)bu(tyl) + pro(pionic acid) + phen(yl).
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Advil
Nuprin
glosses: A synthetic compound used widely as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug.
Derived terms: word: cuprofen
word: dexibuprofen
word: fenoprofen
word: ibu
english: used mostly in brand names
translation: used mostly in brand names
word: ibu-
english: anti-inflammatory agent
translation: anti-inflammatory agent
word: -profen
ibuprofen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌɪ.bjuːˈpɹəʊ.fən/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.bjuˈpɹoʊ.fən/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.biˈpɹoʊfən/
ipa: /aɪˈbju.pɹəf.ən/
Forms: form: ibuprofens
form: ibuprofening
form: ibuprofened
form: ibuprofened
Etymology: From i(so)bu(tyl) + pro(pionic acid) + phen(yl).
Senses: examples: text: By this time, Greg says, he was seeing triple and had a bad headache and Nate was seriously exhausted. Everyone was ibuprofened to the max. We reached the summit at 12:45 p.m., with Greg and Nate suffering the most.
ref: 2003 October 16, John Wilson, “Mt. Whitney in a day”, in Daily Pilot:
text: He remains behind in the nurse's office to bring down his blood pressure after you've been ice-packed, ibuprofened, and shuffled along to the assistant principal, where you sit alone for twenty minutes, […]
ref: 2019 [2018], Xhenet Aliu, Brass: A Novel, New York, NY: Random House, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: To treat with ibuprofen; to administer ibuprofen to someone.
predy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from "make the ship ready".
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Ready for action.
daniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdænjəl/
ipa: /ˈdanjəl/
rhymes: -ænjəl
Forms: form: daniels
Senses: examples: text: He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 85:
glosses: The buttocks.
Suzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.
hennery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henneries
Etymology: From hen + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: He was picking eggs and replacing the floor of the main hennery with sawdust.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 84:
glosses: A place where domestic fowl, such as chickens, are reared; a poultry farm.
interlocutory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ləˈkjuːtəɹi/
Senses: examples: text: [A]s he passed through the crowded anterooms . . . never did Leicester return the general greeting with such ready and condescending courtesy. . . . For all the favourite Earl had a bow and smile at least, and often a kind word. . . . A few of Leicester's interlocutory sentences ran as follows:— "Poynings, good morrow; and how does your wife and fair daughter? . . ."
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter XVII, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: The 13-week stint Hall did on Fox Broadcasting's "The Late Show" last fall proved the impact of his interlocutory style.
ref: 1988 July 3, Armand White, “Arsenio Hall more relaxed in comedy with friend Eddy Murphy”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 02 Nov 2010, page B8:
glosses: Of or pertaining to dialogue or conversation.
glosses: Interjected into something spoken.
topics: law
glosses: Expressed during a legal action that awaits final decision.
topics: law
glosses: Of or pertaining to legal action that is temporary or provisional.
Derived terms: interlocution
interlocutorily
noninterlocutory
interlocutory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ləˈkjuːtəɹi/
Forms: form: interlocutories
Senses: examples: text: Lady Britomart is . . . well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory.
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, act I:
glosses: A person engaged in a conversation, an interlocutor.
glosses: Interpolated discussion or dialogue.
interlining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlinings
Etymology: From inter- + lining.
Senses: glosses: A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment.
examples: text: And the interlinings seemed to be writ in a hand different from that in which the papers were writ
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.
glosses: The scheduling of vehicles to operate more than one route, or the selling of tickets for a trip across multiple carriers
Synonyms: interfacing
Related terms: interliner
interlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From inter- + lining.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interline
cantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkantəl/
ipa: /ˈkæntəl/
rhymes: (US) -æntəl
Forms: form: cantles
Etymology: From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3).
Senses: examples: text: See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
ref: , Act III, Scene i
text: Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax (tr.), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VI, xlviii
text: In one cantle of his law.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
examples: text: He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 93:
text: Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
text: The traps were packed in the splitwillow basket that his father wore with the shoulderstraps loosed so that the bottom of the basket carried on the cantle of the saddle behind him.
ref: 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
glosses: The raised back of a saddle.
glosses: The top of the head.
glosses: On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
cantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkantəl/
ipa: /ˈkæntəl/
rhymes: (US) -æntəl
Forms: form: cantles
form: cantling
form: cantled
form: cantled
Etymology: From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3).
Senses: glosses: To cut into pieces.
glosses: To cut out from.
poltroon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒlˈtɹuːn/
ipa: /pɑlˈtɹun/
ipa: /pɔlˈtɹun/
ipa: /polˈtɹun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: more poltroon
form: most poltroon
form: poltron
Etymology: From Middle French poltron, from Italian poltrone.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, to excuse our deliberate inactivity in the north, we had to make a show of impotence, which gave them to understand that the Arabs were too poltroon to cut the line near Maan and keep it cut.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, “Chapter 82”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
glosses: Cowardly.
gaud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
ipa: /ɡɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: god (cot–caught merger)
homophone: gored (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: gourd (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: gauds
Etymology: From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: an idle gaud
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
ref: 1912, The World's Wit and Humor, page 176:
text: Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.
ref: 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (published 1926)
text: Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Part I, episode 1:
glosses: A cheap showy trinket
glosses: trick; jest; sport
glosses: deceit; fraud; artifice
Derived terms: begaud
gaudful
gaudish
gaudless
Related terms: gaudy
gaud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
ipa: /ɡɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: god (cot–caught merger)
homophone: gored (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: gourd (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: gauds
form: gauding
form: gauded
form: gauded
Etymology: From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Nicely gauded cheeks.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.
gaud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːd/
ipa: /ɡɔd/
ipa: /ɡɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
homophone: god (cot–caught merger)
homophone: gored (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: gourd (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: gauds
form: gauding
form: gauded
form: gauded
Etymology: Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”).
Senses: examples: text: gauding with his familiars
ref: 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes:
glosses: To sport or keep festival.
ingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: ingles
Etymology: From Middle Scots ingle, ingill, from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”). Cognate with Irish aingeal.
Senses: examples: text: Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely
ref: 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:
glosses: An open fireplace.
Derived terms: inglenook
ingleside
ingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: ingles
form: engle
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
text: Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.
ref: 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
text: My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles!
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 318:
glosses: A catamite; a male lover
ingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: ingles
form: ingling
form: ingled
form: ingled
form: engle
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it, […]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
pore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pô
ipa: /pɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: pôr
ipa: /poɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: pōr
ipa: /po(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /poə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: pour
homophone: poor (pour–poor merger)
homophone: paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: pores
Etymology: From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).
Senses: examples: text: I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
synonyms: sweat hole
glosses: A tiny opening in the skin.
examples: text: the pores of a rock.
text: Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.
ref: 1903, Ray Smith Bassler, The Structural Features of the Bryozoan Genus Homotrypa, with Descriptions of Species from the Cincinnatian Group, page 570:
text: After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”
ref: 1947, Walter Johnson, “The Rebirth of the Progressive Movement”, in William Allen White’s America, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, part IV (Normalcy and Reform), page 436:
glosses: By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
Derived terms: abdominal pore
acidopore
anal pore
apical germ pore
biopore
blastopore
colporate
cryptopore
dactylopore
electropore
gastropore
germ pore
gonopore
haematomyelopore
hemipore
interpore
intrapore
isopore
macropore
mesopore
micropore
millipore
nanopore
nephridiopore
nephropore
neuropore
nuclear pore complex
nucleopore
parapore
polypore
poration
porefield
poreless
porelike
pore space
pore strip
pore water pressure
poriferous
porin
porite porewater
poroid
poroma
pory
prepore
protopore
sweat pore
taste pore
Related terms: porous
pore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pô
ipa: /pɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: pôr
ipa: /poɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: pōr
ipa: /po(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /poə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: pour
homophone: poor (pour–poor merger)
homophone: paw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: pores
form: poring
form: pored
form: pored
Etymology: From Middle English poren, pouren, puren (“to gaze intently, look closely”), from Old English *pūrian, from Proto-West Germanic *pūrōn, suggested by Old English spyrian (“to investigate, examine”). Akin to Saterland Frisian puurje (“to question, investigate; pry, prod”), West Frisian poarje (“to poke, prod”), Middle Dutch poren (“to pore, look”), Dutch porren (“to poke, prod, stir, encourage, endeavour, attempt”), Low German purren (“to poke, stir”), Danish purre (“to poke, stir, rouse”), dialectal Swedish pora, pura, påra (“to work slowly and gradually, work deliberately”), Old English spor (“track, trace, vestige”). Compare also Middle English puren, piren (“to look, peer”). See peer.
Senses: examples: text: Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
glosses: To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
Derived terms: pore over
poringly
excruciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/
ipa: /ɪkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/
Forms: form: excruciates
form: excruciating
form: excruciated
form: excruciated
Etymology: From Latin excruciātus, past participle of excruciō, from ex- + cruciō, from the base of crux (“cross”).
Senses: examples: text: But this it is that doth excruciate
The verie ſubſtance of my vexed ſoule:
To ſee our neighbours that were wont to quake
And tremble at the Perſean Monarkes name,
Now ſits and laughs our regiment to ſcorne, […]
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 I, scene i:
synonyms: word: torment
word: torture
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
Related terms: excruciating
excruciate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/
ipa: /ɪkˈskɹu.ʃi.eɪ̯t/
Forms: form: more excruciate
form: most excruciate
Etymology: From Latin excruciātus, past participle of excruciō, from ex- + cruciō, from the base of crux (“cross”).
Senses: examples: 1616, George Chapman's translation of Homer's Odyssey
And here my heart long time excruciate
Amongst the leaves I rested all that night.
glosses: Excruciated; tortured.
excruciating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskɹuːʃiːeɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪkˈskɹuːʃiːeɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more excruciating
form: most excruciating
Etymology: Present participle of excruciate, from Latin excruciō, from ex- + cruciō (“I torment”).
Senses: examples: text: Sagan faced an excruciating dilemma: Should he remain true to his naturalistic philosophy and reject the marrow graft as something acquired by immoral means? Or should he agree to undergo the medical treatment in hope of saving his life
ref: 2011, Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live?:
synonyms: lacerating
poignant
glosses: Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
examples: text: When he at last opened his eyes, he was conscious of nothing but an excruciating pain through his temples. He was vaguely aware of unfamiliar surroundings.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:
glosses: Exceedingly intense; extreme
Derived terms: excruciatingly
superexcruciating
unexcruciating
Related terms: cruciate
excruciate
Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑʃɪŋtən ˈdiː ˌsiː/
Forms: form: Washington
form: Washington DC
form: Washington D.C.
form: Washington D. C.
form: Washington, DC
form: Washington, D. C.
Etymology: Named for George Washington. The name "Washington, D.C." (analogous in form to "Richmond, VA") reflects the fact that at the time of its founding, it was only one of three cities in D.C., alongside Georgetown and Alexandria. (In 1871, Congress repealed the charters of Georgetown and Washington and created a unitary territorial government for the whole District of Columbia.)
Senses: examples: text: Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms).
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 4:
glosses: The capital city of the United States, formally known as the District of Columbia. Abbreviated as D.C. or DC.
wikipedia: George Washington
Adele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: Adeles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Adèle, equivalent of Adela, from a Germanic root meaning “noble”. Compare athel, German edel, Old English æþele.
Senses: examples: text: The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such “fanciful and romantic” names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.
ref: 1833, E. Littell, “On Grand Christian Names”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 211:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Adele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: glosses: A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Adele terms
ade ⁠
Adrianna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Adriana.
0th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of zeroth.
Related terms: number
◌̈
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that two identical vowels occur in separate morphemes and are pronounced separately: coöperate, reënter, reëstablish, noöne, reöpen.
glosses: Used to indicate that the marked vowel is the nucleus of its own syllable: Boötes, Brontë, Chloë, Zoë, (dated) aëroplane, aërial.
glosses: Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately: naïve (or naive), Noël (or Noel), but also for umlaut in German Götterdämmerung, Führer, and terms derived from given names, such as Möbius strip
punk rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See punk + rock. First attested in 1970 in reference to rockabilly; possibly coined in its current sense by American music critic Dave Marsh in the May 1971 issue of Creem, from earlier punk music.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of rock music associated with short, loud, energetic songs played on electric guitars and drums and employing angry, offensive, and/or political lyrics.
wikipedia: Creem
Dave Marsh
Synonyms: punk
Hypernyms: rock
Derived terms: punker
punk rocker
periculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more periculous
form: most periculous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin periculosus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”). Doublet of perilous.
Senses: glosses: dangerous, hazardous, perilous
greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: greeks
Etymology: Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“nonsense writing or talk; gibberish”).
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Greek (“anal sex”).
greek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: greeks
form: greeking
form: greeked
form: greeked
Etymology: Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).
Senses: examples: text: You can specify the type size below which text will be greeked in the Preferences dialog box. Designers often prefer to use greeked text in rough layouts because it helps the client focus on the design rather than on the words.
ref: 1991, Ronnie Shushan, Don Wright, Desktop Publishing by Design, 2nd edition, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →OCLC:
text: If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.
ref: 2002, Deke McClelland, “The Interface”, in Real World Adobe Illustrator 10, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.
glosses: To obscure a corporate logo that has not been permitted for use in a production.
Derived terms: word: greeking
Related terms: it's all Greek to me
syntactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈtæktɪk/
rhymes: -æktɪk
Forms: form: more syntactic
form: most syntactic
Etymology: From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).
Senses: examples: text: The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
text: the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.
ref: 2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674:
glosses: Of, related to or connected with syntax.
glosses: Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
Synonyms: sense: of, related to or connected with syntax
word: syntactical
Derived terms: antisyntactic
asyntactic
grammaticosyntactic
lexicosyntactic
macrosyntactic
metasyntactic
microsyntactic
morphosyntactic
nanosyntactic
nonsyntactic
postsyntactic
protosyntactic
syntactically
syntactic expletive
syntactician
syntacticise
syntacticism
syntacticist
syntacticize
syntactic middle voice
syntactic salt
syntactic sugar
unsyntactic
Related terms: syntax
electromechanical computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromechanical computers
form: electro-mechanical computer
Senses: examples: In 1937, Howard Aiken, a mathematician at Harvard University, developed the idea for a general-purpose electromechanical computer, the Harvard Mark I.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early type of computer that used electromagnetic relays.
excrutiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of excruciate.
therapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
Forms: form: therapists
Etymology: From therapy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Get the whole in-network provider list and then ask friends and family if they know any of the names, or check online ratings to see which therapists get high rankings. One note of warning: Friends may have their favorites, but experts say don’t assume their therapist is going to be a good fit for you as each person’s needs are different.
ref: 2021 August 13, Sandee LaMotte, “How to choose a therapist who will be the best fit for you”, in CNN:
glosses: Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
examples: text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
text: We're Midwesterners. Our therapists are bartenders.
ref: 2024 January 27, Charlie Berens and Myles Montplaisir, We're Midwesterners:
glosses: A psychotherapist specifically.
Derived terms: algotherapist
aromatherapist
auriculotherapist
balneotherapist
bibliotherapist
biotherapist
brachytherapist
chemotherapist
chromotherapist
climatotherapist
cognitive behavioral therapist
cognitive behavioural therapist
cryotherapist
cybertherapist
ecotherapist
electrotherapist
e-therapist
gerontotherapist
heliotherapist
hydrotherapist
hypnotherapist
immunotherapist
logotherapist
magnetotherapist
massage therapist
massotherapist
mechanotherapist
mesotherapist
multitherapist
myotherapist
neurotherapist
occupational therapist
paratherapist
pedotherapist
pharmacotherapist
physical therapist
physiotherapist
phytotherapist
pranotherapist
primal therapist
prolotherapist
psychotherapist
radiotherapist
respiratory therapist
roentgenotherapist
sandplay therapist
sclerotherapist
sex therapist
sociotherapist
somatotherapist
speech therapist
teletherapist
thalassotherapist
the-rapist
urotherapist
vegetotherapist
zootherapist
Related terms: therapeutic
therapy
Reaganomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rā'gə-nŏmʹĭks
ipa: /ˌreɪɡəˈnɑmɪks/
ipa: /ˌreɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/
rhymes: -ɒmɪks
Etymology: Blend of Reagan + economics, equivalent to Reagan + -nomics.
Senses: examples: text: Many opponents of Reaganomics, in fact, don't contend that the program can't work over the long run. But they argue that the program can not work the way the President promised and that the resulting social cost isn't worth it.
ref: 1982 January 3, Jonathan Fuerbringer, “Reaganomics: The Report Card for 1981, and the Prospects”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: However, until the wheels came off the wagon in 2008, no doubt existed as to the efficacy of Bush's Reaganomics redux in feathering the nests of his wealthy “base.”
ref: 2012, David L. Smith, The Predicament:
glosses: The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989), with a focus on reduced government spending, taxation, and regulations (supply-side economics) and granting potential benefits and encouragement to wealthy people and businesses in particular to drive the rest of the economy (trickle-down hypothesis).
Related terms: Reaganesque
Reaganism
Rogernomics
Thatchernomics
photocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/
Forms: form: photocopies
Etymology: From photo- + copy.
Senses: glosses: A copy made using a photocopier.
Synonyms: word: copy
word: photostat
word: xerox
word: xerox copy
Derived terms: photocopy art
photocopylore
photocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊtəˌkɒpi/
Forms: form: photocopies
form: photocopying
form: photocopied
form: photocopied
Etymology: From photo- + copy.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I don’t need to read it. The relevant passages have been photocopied for me.’
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: To make a copy using a photocopier.
Derived terms: photocopiable
photocopier
photocopylore
inspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈspɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: inspections
form: inspexion
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French inspeccion, from Latin īnspectiō (“examination, inspection”), from the verb īnspiciō (“I inspect”), from speciō (“I look at”). By surface analysis, inspect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
text: Trap doors are provided at various places in the floor to facilitate inspection and maintenance of the diesel equipment.
ref: 1960 September 24, “Inter-city diesel units for the Hull-Liverpool service of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 559–560:
text: The NHRC conducted onsite inspections of Chienchen and Suao Fishing Harbors and held numerous seminars with industry, government, and academia representatives.
ref: 2022 May 24, “2021 Annual Report of the Control Yuan”, in Control Yuan, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022, page 41:
glosses: The act of examining something, often closely.
examples: text: The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.
glosses: An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
Synonyms: examination
scrutiny
Derived terms: adspection
Fagan inspection
fire inspection
home inspection
inspectional
inspectioneer
inspectionism
inspectionist
inspection pit
obvious by inspection
postinspection
preinspection
reinspection
superinspection
ticket inspection
vehicle inspection
Related terms: inspect
inspector
risky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪski/
rhymes: -ɪski
Forms: form: riskier
form: riskiest
Etymology: From risk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Investing in this start-up company could be risky.
text: Jumping on the train from the bridge to catch the terrorist was a highly risky operation.
glosses: Dangerous, involving risks.
examples: text: Have you no risky songs, no indecent ballads?
ref: 1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157:
text: That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message.
ref: 2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: Ronald Frankau (pronounced Franco) wrote a few risky songs, such as FANNY'S BEEN EVACUATED NOW with the line “and for half a pound of butter, well a lady's got to eat” ~ he got banned for it.
ref: 2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of risqué.
Synonyms: hazardous
dangerous
perilous
Related terms: risk
riskily
riskiness
risqué
embassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmbəsi/
Forms: form: embassies
form: ambassy
Etymology: Modern variant of obsolete ambassy, from Middle French ambassee (“mission, embassy”), from Old French ambascee (also enbassee (“message for a high official, official mission”)) from Old Italian ambasciata, from Old Occitan ambaissada (“embassy”), derived from ambaissa (“message”), from Late Latin ambactia (“service rendered”) (attested also as ambascia, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtiją (“service”), *ambahtaz (“follower, servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos (“dependant, vassal”, literally “one who is sent around”), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”); compare Latin ambactus, Old Irish amus, amsach (“mercenary, servant”), Welsh amaeth (“tenant farm”)). Doublet of ambassade.
Senses: examples: text: The King told me, […] That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in Spain: Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in May 1674.
ref: 1683, William Temple, “Memoirs of what Pass’d in Christendom, from the War Begun 1672, to the Peace Concluded 1679. Chapter I.”, in The Works of Sir William Temple, […], volume I, London: […] J. Round, J[acob] Tonson, J. Clarke, B[enjamin] Motte, T. Wotton, S[amuel] Birt, and T[homas] Osborne, published 1731, →OCLC, page 379:
glosses: The function or duty of an ambassador.
examples: text: The American embassy to France is located in Paris.
glosses: An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.
examples: text: The Japanese embassy to the United States traveled to Washington, D.C., where it was received by James Buchanan, before continuing on to New York and then returning to Japan, making several stops on the way.
text: Then go we in to know his embassy;
Which I could with a ready guess declare
Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
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, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A temporary mission representing a sovereign state.
glosses: The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
examples: text: By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]
ref: 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1:
glosses: A written account as to an embassy.
Derived terms: emb.
tent embassy
Related terms: ambassador
consulate
High Commission
sensu lato
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lato sensu.
tanya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”).
wally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: wallies
Senses: examples: text: 'Don't be such a wally,' Ruby said. 'Felicity is way smarter than you could ever hope to be.'
ref: 2014, Richard Newsome, The House of Puzzles, page 111:
glosses: A fool.
examples: text: Mushy peas (£1.40) are ... mushy, and wallies (45p) – pickled gherkins to you – come sliced and prettily served in the shape of a flower.
ref: 2003, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, page 215:
glosses: A large pickled gherkin or cucumber.
wally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Senses: examples: text: […] one of his eyes was wally, a condition common among the natives of the land. (Here the meaning 'pale' is intended, as indicated later in the text:) […] turned his one black eye on the kindly man […] (p. 183)
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:
glosses: Alternative form of whally
raw_tags: of eyes
Related terms: peely-wally
walleye
wally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Senses: examples: text: Let them that wallys the sheep watch 'em.
ref: 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes:
glosses: Alternative pronunciation (and hence spelling) of value
protege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protégé.
Mc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of megacycle, an obsolete unit equivalent to a megahertz.
Related terms: Mc-
mc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mc
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of madarchod.
glosses: Abbreviation of millicurie.
glosses: Abbreviation of Minecraft.