cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: rummer
form: rummest
Etymology: From the earlier form rome (“good”, slang); possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.
Senses: examples: text: having a rum time
glosses: Fine, excellent, valuable.
examples: text: a rum idea; a rum fellow
text: "Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: [H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 27, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The young men had exchanged few observations; but in crossing Union Square, in front of the monument to Washington—in the very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the pater patriae—one of them remarked to the other, “It seems a rum-looking place.”
“Ah, very odd, very odd,” said the other, who was the clever man of the two.
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
text: "Can't you see him?"
"Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light."
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian:
text: "But you think he's right?" "Could be. They're rum birds, all right."
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 35:
text: "She's as 'appy as Larry, but she'll neither move nor eat. It's a rum 'un, isn't it?" It was very rum indeed.
ref: 1976, James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful, page 346:
glosses: Strange, peculiar.
Synonyms: sense: fine, excellent, valuable
word: exceptional
word: pukka
word: top-notch
word: excellent
sense: strange, peculiar
word: bizarre
word: queer
word: rummy
word: strange
Derived terms: rum deal
rum go
rum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: rums
Etymology: From the earlier form rome (“good”, slang); possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.
Senses: glosses: Any odd person or thing.
Derived terms: rum cull
rum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: Shortening of rummy.
Senses: glosses: The card game rummy.
Derived terms: 500 rum
boathouse rum
Related terms: word: rum-tum
english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: rum tum ditty
motor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtə/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmoʊɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈməʉtə/
ipa: [ˈməʉɾə]
ipa: /ˈmɐʉtə/
ipa: [ˈmɐʉɾə]
ipa: /ˈmɐʉtə/
ipa: [ˈmɐʉɾə]
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English motour (“controller, prime mover; God”), from Latin mōtor (“mover; that which moves something”), from mōtō (“to set in motion”).
Senses: examples: text: She has excellent motor skills.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the ability to move.
examples: text: A motor yacht for its size has about 30 per cent more accommodations than a steamer of the same size.
ref: 1915 June, “Many Yachts to Go in Commission”, in The American Marine Engineer:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Propelled by an internal combustion engine (as opposed to a steam engine or turbine).
Derived terms: motor unit
psychomotor
sensorimotor
supramotor
motor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtə/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtəɹ/
ipa: [ˈmoʊɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈməʉtə/
ipa: [ˈməʉɾə]
ipa: /ˈmɐʉtə/
ipa: [ˈmɐʉɾə]
ipa: /ˈmɐʉtə/
ipa: [ˈmɐʉɾə]
rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: motors
form: motoring
form: motored
form: motored
Etymology: From Middle English motour (“controller, prime mover; God”), from Latin mōtor (“mover; that which moves something”), from mōtō (“to set in motion”).
Senses: examples: text: On Saturday we motored down to Plymouth.
text: The practice used to be for such consignments to be loaded as tranships to the large centre, but this involved rather slow transits, and to a considerable extent these consignments are now motored to the large centre, and in the average case the transit is improved by a day.
ref: 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, pages 336–337:
text: Well, if you ever plan to motor west / Jack, take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66
ref: 1946 April 22, Bobby Troup, “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”, in New Juke Box Hits, performed by Chuck Berry, published March 1961, side 2, track 2:
synonyms: moto
glosses: To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
examples: text: During startup, the engine should be motored for 20 to 30 seconds to allow the shafts to straighten out, as they may have become bowed under their own weight while the airplane was sitting on the ground.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To rotate a jet engine or turboprop using the engine's starter, without introducing fuel into the engine.
examples: text: Sales were slow at first, but now things are really motoring.
text: More recently, ORR has been developing its knowledge and skills in cyber and digital security. Prosser says this is really "motoring".
ref: 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 34:
glosses: To progress at a brisk pace.
examples: text: I gotta motor.
glosses: To leave.
fasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑːsn̩/
ipa: /ˈfæsn̩/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːsən
rhymes: (General American) -æsən
Forms: form: fastens
form: fastening
form: fastened
form: fastened
Etymology: From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastinōn (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
text: Fasten your seat belts!
text: Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
text: The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
ref: May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43
glosses: To attach or connect in a secure manner.
examples: text: to fasten a blow
text: if I can fasten but one cup upon him
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
Derived terms: bedfast
breastfast
colorfast
copperfasten
cragfast
fast
fastenable
fasten down
fastener
fastening
fasten up
handfast
headfast
holdfast
makefast
misfasten
refasten
shamefast
sitfast
soothfast
steadfast
unfasten
Related terms: do up
pizza bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza bones
Senses: examples: text: But the crust (or "pizza bone" as we refer to it at my house)IS the best part of a slice of pizza!
ref: 1998 July 29, Laurie , “Re: Raising children who eat everything”, in misc.kids (Usenet):
text: If the dough is elastic, rolling into balls and forming into "crusts" would probably yield better results. Besides, then you can regulate the crust's edge (aka the "pizza bone").
ref: 1999 January 26, Jerry Roush , “Re: Another pizza question”, in rec.food.baking (Usenet):
text: I had a couple of slices of leftover stuffed-crust pizza for lunch. The big dogs were outside, so I gave Scully a whole pizza bone (the outer crust edge) to have all to herself.
ref: 2000 September 14, Kathleen , “Re: RR: Gotham”, in alt.mountain-bike (Usenet):
text: We had pizza earlier nad^([sic]) after I ate a piece I caught myself about to call her name and offer my "pizza bone" to her.
ref: 2000 September 30, felica@my-deja.com, “Re: I miss my friend”, in alt.support.grief.pet-loss (Usenet):
text: I made a lovely arrangement of the empty shells and gave them back to the waiter....
Lol that sounds like me Sandra, we go to a great pizza buffet and I eat the toppings and start building pizza bone castles in the center of the table :)
ref: 2001 April 24, tinakaye@tinakaye.com, “Re: Hallelujah for Tacos....”, in alt.support.diet.low-carb (Usenet):
text: She laughed so hard the chair she was in went flying, she fell on the floor and so did the piece of pizza she was eating. She's laying on the floor laughing and the dog is looking at me, hoping the pizza now belongs to her....
let the dog have the pizza bone ;-)
ref: 2002 April 30, "MrEraser" , “Re: How playing The Sims affects the mind”, in alt.games.the-sims (Usenet):
text: Mostly veggies, cooked and raw, and the occassional^([sic]) small piece of meat, minced and mixed into the commercial feed. And now and then a pizza bone (edge of the crust for those of you who weren't educated by my kid sister).
ref: 2002 June 14, Jo Wolf , “Re: Dog food?”, in rec.pets.dogs.health (Usenet):
text: "Well, I bet our dog would like a pizza bone." With that he grabbed one of the crusts from Scully's plate. "Here Walter," he called to the pup as he held out the crust.
ref: 2002 August 5, nosmeagel@aol.com, “A Normal Life? (Part 6 of ?)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: 2005 April 8, "loosbrew" , "Re: Another pet question", novell.community.chat, Usenet,
...give her a special treat one day, like a pizza crust(or pizza bones as we call em)....
glosses: The thick, generally curved, crust end of a slice of pizza.
podium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˈpəʉ.di.əm/
rhymes: -əʊdiəm
Forms: form: podiums
form: podia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”), a diminutive of πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pew.
Senses: glosses: A platform on which to stand, as when conducting an orchestra or preaching at a pulpit; any low platform or dais.
glosses: A stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly.
qualifier: sports and other competitions
glosses: A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.
examples: text: Red Bull's Thai-British driver Alex Albon took a maiden podium in third.
ref: 2020 September 13, Andrew Benson, “Tuscan Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton claims 90th win after incredible race”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A result amongst the best three at a competition.
glosses: A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheatre, from the top of which the seats began.
glosses: A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.
The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.
glosses: The lower portion of a high-rise building, typically of several storeys tall and acts as a foundation to the tower(s) above it.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A foot or footstalk.
Synonyms: sense: stand used to hold notes when speaking publicly
word: lectern
Derived terms: acropodium
hypopodium
monopodium
podium position
podium sweep
podium
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˈpoʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˈpəʉ.di.əm/
rhymes: -əʊdiəm
Forms: form: podiums
form: podiuming
form: podiumed
form: podiumed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”), a diminutive of πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of pew.
Senses: examples: text: The swimmer podiumed three times at the Olympics.
text: Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
ref: 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To finish in the top three at an event or competition.
Related terms: final
medal
childbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldˌbɝθ/
Forms: form: childbirths
form: child-birth
Etymology: From Middle English childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).
Senses: examples: text: The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.
ref: 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:
glosses: The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.
Related terms: birth
accoucheur
labour
maternity ward
obstetrician
parturition
puerperal
AOT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ahead of time.
Related terms: JIT
AOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of angle off tail (the angle between the flightpaths of the attacking and defending aircraft in a dogfight).
sideburns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪd.bɜː(ɹ)nz/
ipa: /ˈsaɪd.bɚnz/
Forms: form: sideburn
Etymology: Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.
Senses: synonyms: word: burnside
word: sideboards
word: side whiskers
glosses: Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.
wikipedia: Ambrose Burnside
Hyponyms: muttonchop
mutton-chop whiskers
Related terms: beard
lovelock
moustache
mustache
goatee
killer whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killer whales
Etymology: Calque or mistranslation of Spanish asesina-ballenas (“whale killer”), referring to their tendency to hunt whales.
Senses: examples: text: Of this whale, little is known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed naturalist. From what I have seen of him at a distance, I should say that he was about the bigness of a grampus. He is very savage - a sort of Feegee fish. He sometimes takes the great Folio whales by the lip and hangs there like a leech until the mighty brute is worried to death. The killer is never hunted. I have never heard what sort of oil he has. Exception might be taken to the name of this whale, on the grounds of its indistinctness. For we are all killers on land and on sea; Bonaparts and sharks included.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Once or twice, too, I saw the killer-whale (Orca gladiator), the little species so readily known by its prominent back-fin.
ref: 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, The First Crossing of Greenland, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 89:
text: It is the killer whale, which follows these herds, makes its attack upon them, and doubtless kills a great many.
ref: 1895, Proceedings, Volume 12, page 190:
text: They display two totems, the Bear and the Killer-Whale (Orca ater) belonging to the Haida-Tsimshian group of tribes, whether Haidas of Queen Charlotte Islands or Tsimshians of the Mainland.
ref: 1899, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal - Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 28, page 134:
glosses: A sea mammal related to dolphins and porpoises (Orcinus orca).
wikipedia: orca
Synonyms: sense: sea mammal
word: Orcinus orca
sense: sea mammal
word: orca
Derived terms: false killer whale
pygmy killer whale
podgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈpɑd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒdʒi
Forms: form: podgier
form: podgiest
Etymology: From podge + -y.
Senses: synonyms: chubby
pudgy
rotund
stout
glosses: Slightly fat.
examples: text: When you have got him [the horse] clean from all soft podgy food, you must be particular that none but what is clean and wholesome is served to him.
ref: 1820, Sporting Magazine, page 112:
glosses: Stodgy.
raw_tags: of food
Derived terms: podgily
podginess
Related terms: podge
pudgy
forefather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fôʹfäthə
ipa: /ˈfɔːˌfɑːðə/
enpr: fôrʹfäthər
ipa: /ˈfɔɹˌfɑːðɚ/
Forms: form: forefathers
Etymology: From Middle English forefader, forfader, vorvader, from Old English fōrefæder (“forefather”), but possibly also merged with Old Norse forfaðir. Equivalent to fore- + father. Compare Dutch voorvader (“forefather”), German Vorvater, Vorfahr (“forefather”), Danish forfader (“forefather”), Swedish förfader (“forefather”).
Senses: examples: text: His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; an only brother at Montauk Point having sickened in the trenches before Santiago.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An ancestor.
glosses: A cultural ancestor; one who originated an idea or tradition.
Derived terms: forefatherly
Related terms: foresister
sow one's wild oats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sows one's wild oats
form: sowing one's wild oats
form: sowed one's wild oats
form: sown one's wild oats
form: sowed one's wild oats
form: sow wild oats
form: sow one's oats
Etymology: From being a typical useless or counterproductive occupation (wild oats is a weed, and would not be sown).
Senses: glosses: To spread one's genes around by impregnating many females.
raw_tags: of a male
examples: text: Let the boys be boys,—the longer the better,—and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must,—but mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing,—and showing that they believe,—in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes.
ref: 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Learning to Forget”, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 264:
text: The young men go down to the sea and sow their wild oats in the wicked ports, returning periodically, between voyages, to live the old intensive morality, to court till ten o’clock, to sit under the minister each Sunday, and to listen at home to the same stern precepts that the elders preached to them from the time they were laddies.
ref: 1914, Jack London, “Samuel”, in The Strength of the Strong, New York: MacMillan:
text: “A nun advising a young woman to leave the convent and explore the world, the subtext being to sow her wild oats—well, it was more outrageous than any graphic scenes,” he had said.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: To engage in premarital or extramarital flings.
raw_tags: of a male or female
glosses: To have numerous sexual partners.
raw_tags: of a male or female
glosses: To indulge in a period of irresponsible behavior.
raw_tags: of young adults or the recently divorced
Related terms: feel one's oats
get one's oats
flinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: flinches
Etymology: From Middle French flenchir (“to bend”), of Germanic origin. Compare Middle High German lenken (“to bend”). Attested in English since the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes.
glosses: A reflexive jerking away.
qualifier: croquet
glosses: The slipping of the foot from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Related terms: sense: reflexive jerking away
word: cringe
flinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: flinches
form: flinching
form: flinched
form: flinched
Etymology: From Middle French flenchir (“to bend”), of Germanic origin. Compare Middle High German lenken (“to bend”). Attested in English since the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: cower
recoil
glosses: To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.
glosses: To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty
qualifier: croquet
glosses: To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
Derived terms: flincher
flinchless
flinchy
two for flinching
flinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: flinches
form: flinching
form: flinched
form: flinched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flense.
footbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌbɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: footbridges
Etymology: From Middle English fot-brigge, equivalent to foot + bridge.
Senses: examples: text: The girder bridge at the head of the pass is used as a footbridge, and is roughly decked.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
synonyms: pedestrian bridge
glosses: A bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians.
Derived terms: footbridged
hardly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdli/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdli/
Etymology: From Middle English hardely, hardliche, from Old English heardlīċe (“boldly; hardily; without ease; in a way that causes pain; not easily; only by degrees”), equivalent to hard + -ly. Compare Dutch hardelijk, German härtlich.
Senses: examples: text: I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!
glosses: Not really.
blogophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogophiles
Etymology: From blog + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who is fond of blogs or blogging.
Synonyms: blogoholic
weigh down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weighs down
form: weighing down
form: weighed down
form: weighed down
Senses: examples: text: We used some sandbags to weigh down the balloon.
glosses: To act as a ballast for.
examples: text: All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down.
glosses: To be too much for someone to cope with.
skim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: skims
form: skimming
form: skimmed
form: skimmed
Etymology: From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
Senses: examples: text: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
examples: text: Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
ref: 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table:
glosses: To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
examples: text: They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey.
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hasten along with superficial attention.
examples: text: Ceilings are lined with fibrous asbestos, the internal plastering being reduced to skimming alone.
ref: 1924, The Architect, volume 112, page 291:
glosses: To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
examples: text: skimming stones
glosses: To throw an object so it bounces on water.
glosses: To ricochet.
examples: text: (through)
text: I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
synonyms: skip
glosses: To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
glosses: To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
examples: text: to skim milk
text: to skim broth
glosses: To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
examples: text: to skim cream
glosses: To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
examples: text: Obviously, the longer cash sits around before being recorded, the more likely it is that a skimming fraud will occur.
ref: 2006, Herbert Snyder, Small Change, Big Problems, page 48:
text: […] take this money without entering anything into the record-keeping system, thereby accomplishing a theft by skimming.
ref: 2009, Tracy L. Coenen, Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide, page 109:
glosses: To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
glosses: To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
glosses: To become coated over.
Derived terms: cream-skim
semi-skimmed
skimmed milk
skimmer
skim off
skim over
skim-read
skim through
skim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
Senses: glosses: Having lowered fat content.
raw_tags: of milk
Derived terms: skim milk
skim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: skims
Etymology: From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
Senses: examples: text: For a first quick appreciation of the approach, we recommend a fast reading of Chapter 1, then a skim through the figures of the next two chapters — glancing at the definitions of key concepts that appear below the figures in Chapters 2 and 3.
ref: 2012, John Friend, Allen Hickling, Planning Under Pressure, page xxii:
glosses: A cursory reading, skipping the details.
examples: text: Two percent milk has only a fraction less fat than whole milk, so unless you are feeding a child or someone whose diet requires whole milk, skim is best.
ref: 2010, Gary G. Kindley, Growing Older Without Fear: The Nine Qualities of Successful Aging:
glosses: Skim milk.
examples: text: Then you could jump 150 years and enjoy a skim across the Solent in Britain's remarkable Hovercraft.
ref: 1969, Newsweek, volume 74, page 75:
glosses: The act of skimming.
glosses: That which is skimmed off.
examples: text: It's a hustle, but it keeps me busy. I can take in three to three-fifty a week, more with skims.
ref: 1976, Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver, spoken by Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro):
text: This potential is further increased by the ease of passing on the costs of corruption and racketeering to consumers; a skim of only one percent of a construction project can amount to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
ref: 1989, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee, Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at Federally Funded Wastewater Treatment Construction Projects, volume 4:
glosses: Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
Derived terms: skim coat
skim-coat
skim pit
eat pussy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats pussy
form: eating pussy
form: ate pussy
form: eaten pussy
Senses: examples: text: Somethin' I wanted, but I never was pushy
The motherfucker never ate my pussy
ref: 1996, Lil' Kim, “Not Tonight”:
synonyms: eat beaver
eat cunt
eat twat
coordinate_terms: eat ass
;
eat a dick
suck cock
suck dick
glosses: To perform cunnilingus.
Related terms: eat out
pussy eating
pussylicker
go down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down on
form: going down on
form: went down on
form: gone down on
Senses: examples: text: An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater?
ref: 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:
synonyms: word: give brain
word: give dome
word: give hat
word: give head
word: give neck
word: give noddy
word: go down on
glosses: To perform oral sex upon (a person of either sex).
on purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: That wasn't an accident! You did it on purpose!
synonyms: deliberately
intentionally
purposefully
willfully
antonyms: by accident
on accident
glosses: By design, as opposed to by accident; intentionally; deliberately.
examples: text: Blifil bowed and stammered, and looked like a fool; but Western, without giving him time to form a speech for the purpose, answered, “Well, well, I am to blame, if you will, I always am, certainly; but come, let the girl be fetched back again, or let Mr Blifil go to her.——He’s come up on purpose, and there is no time to be lost.”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: I send this to the town, on purpose to have it reach you by the earliest post […].
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 260:
glosses: In order to (do something); with the objective that.
Derived terms: accidentally on purpose
Related terms: malice aforethought
purposefully
poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpi/
ipa: /ˈpɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Etymology: PIE word
 *péh₂wr̥
The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie (“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”) [and other forms], from Old English popiġ (“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, popei [and other forms], perhaps from Late Latin *papavum, popauer, from Latin papāver (“poppy”), which may be from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“bonfire”). Doublet of papaver.
Sense 3 (“artificial poppy flower to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts”) reflects the efforts of American professor and humanitarian Moina Michael (1869–1944) to popularize the wearing of artificial poppies in remembrance of those who fought and died in World War I; she was inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915) by the Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872–1918): see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).
poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpi/
ipa: /ˈpɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: poppier
form: more poppy
form: poppiest
form: most poppy
Etymology: From pop (“loud, sharp sound; fizzy drink; to make or burst with a loud, sharp sound; to stand out”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).
Senses: glosses: Having a popping or bursting sound.
glosses: Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
synonyms: bulging
glosses: Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.
poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpi/
ipa: /ˈpɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: poppier
form: more poppy
form: poppiest
form: most poppy
Etymology: From pop(ular) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).
Senses: glosses: Popular.
examples: text: I thought Sparks were great; they were very poppy for Island Records. They were considered an oddity but you have to remember that at the time Roxy Music, now everyone's seminal band, were seen as very poppy.
ref: 2010, Daryl Easlea, “Island Life”, in Talent is an Asset: The Story of Sparks, London; New York, N.Y.: Omnibus Press, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Typical of, or in the style of, pop music.
Derived terms: poppiness
poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒpi/
ipa: /ˈpɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: poppies
Etymology: From pop (“affectionate form of father”) + -y (suffix forming terms of endearment).
Senses: synonyms: word: pappy
word: pop
word: poppa
word: pops
english: potentially derogatory
translation: potentially derogatory
word: pappy
word: pop-pop
glosses: One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.
rudder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹʌdɚ/
rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rudders
Etymology: From Middle English rodder, rother, ruder, from Old English rōþor (“oar, rudder”), from Proto-West Germanic *rōþr, from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“oar, rudder”) (compare Dutch and West Frisian roer, German Ruder), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”) + Proto-Germanic *-þrą, *-þraz, instrumental suffix. Akin to Old English rōwan (“to row”). More at rōwan, -þor.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An underwater vane used to steer a vessel. The rudder is controlled by means of a wheel, tiller or other apparatus (modern vessels can be controlled even with a joystick or an autopilot).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A control surface on the vertical stabilizer of a fixed-wing aircraft or an autogyro. On some craft, the entire vertical stabilizer comprises the rudder. The rudder is controlled by foot-operated control pedals.
glosses: A riddle or sieve.
examples: For rhyme the rudder is of verses.
glosses: That which resembles a rudder as a guide or governor; that which guides or governs the course.
examples: text: He sniffed Tarka’s hair from rudder to neck, and his nose remained at the neck. It was a strange smell, and he sniffed carefully, not wanting to touch the fur with his nostrils.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: The tail of an otter.
Derived terms: balance rudder
bow rudder
drop rudder
Dutch rudder
rudder authority
rudder blade
rudder chain
rudder coat
ruddered
rudderfish
rudderhead
rudderhole
rudderless
rudderlike
rudderon
rudder pendants
rudderpost
rudder roll
rudderstock
rudder stock
ruddervator
Related terms: tiller
chicanery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈkeɪn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ʃɪˈkæɪn(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: chicaneries
Etymology: From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skikkijaną (“to order, arrange”).
Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
Senses: examples: text: They do not always find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, as the poets will have it; or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief’s hand that grasps it.
ref: 1823, Charles Lamb, “Popular Fallacies”, in Elia, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, published 1835, →ISBN, page 241:
text: He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
ref: 2017, Gordon Smith, “Chicanery”, in Better Call Saul, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Chuck McGill (Michael McKean):
text: Having survived “The Long Night,” Daenerys will now be turning her attention back to the problem that originally vexed her: Cersei Lannister. It will be interesting to see how the show tries to raise the stakes of an internecine squabble between competing monarchs when compared to an existential threat to humanity’s very existence, but this series has always excelled when it goes deep on the machinations of political chicanery.
ref: 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
synonyms: dishonesty
fakery
fraud
trickery
subterfuge
glosses: Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
examples: text: Stanford University's honor code dates to 1921, written by students to help guide them through the minefield of plagiarism, forbidden collaboration, copying and other chicaneries that have tempted undergraduates since they first arrived on college campuses.
ref: 2015 April 16, Carla Rivera, “Colleges grapple with cheating in the digital age”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2023:
glosses: An individual act of trickery or deception.
examples: text: He carried home with him all the knaviſh chicanery of the loweſt pettifogger, together with a wife whom he had purchſed of a drayman for twenty pounds; and he ſoon found means to obtain a Dedimus as an acting juſtice of peace.
ref: 1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, pages 118–119:
glosses: The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.
Derived terms: chicanerous
Related terms: word: chicane
sense: performance by a lawyer
word: Philadelphia lawyer
idiothetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idio- + -thetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the use of internal cues when navigating a maze etc.
Related terms: allothetic
counterfactual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈfæktʃuəl/
ipa: /ˌkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
Etymology: From counter- + factual.
Senses: examples: text: a leaderless disinformation campaign, with claims leaping from conspiracy theorists to state propagandists to alternative-media outlets and back—an ecosystem I call the Counterfactual Community.
ref: 2021, Eliot Higgins, We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News, page 115:
synonyms: contrafactual
glosses: Contrary to known or agreed facts; untrue.
examples: text: What would have happened if those great Chinese voyages [by Zheng He] had continued? It's one of those questions in counter-factual history about which it is impossible to be sure.
ref: 2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), archived from the original on 15 Nov 2014:
text: The counterfactual 1982 of the novel plays variations on our historical record and contains clear allusions to the present.
ref: 2019 April 11, Marcel Theroux, “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2019:
glosses: Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world.
Derived terms: counterfactualism
counterfactualist
counterfactuality
counterfactualize
counterfactually
counterfactualness
counterfactual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈfæktʃuəl/
ipa: /ˌkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
Forms: form: counterfactuals
Etymology: From counter- + factual.
Senses: synonyms: counterfact
;
misapprehension
;
misconception
;
misunderstanding
;
falsehood
;
misinformation
glosses: A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
examples: text: Just as counterfactuals employ too much imagination to qualify as historical works, alternate history often labors under too great a load of artificial "facts" to take flight as fiction.
ref: 2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2021:
text: We can spin out complicated counterfactuals that justify the Iraq invasion, and complicated counterfactuals that make it look even worse.
ref: 2010 September 1, Ross Douthat, “Iraq in the Long Run”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022, retrieved 15 Jul 2021:
text: The implicit counterfactual — that these members would support gun control if not for the $1,000 they received from the NRA — seems unlikely to me.
ref: 2015 December 3, Lee Drutman, “Here's the real reason we don't have gun reform”, in Vox, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2016:
text: Roese also says counterfactuals can serve emotional purposes. You can think about how things could have been worse, and so feel better about yourself, and grateful for where you are.
ref: 2016 February 11, Noah Berlatsky, quoting Neal Roese, “'What if?': Why we can't get enough of counterfactual shows”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2016:
text: Imagine a counterfactual in which we started relaxing restrictions at an even earlier time, just as the cases began to trend downward.
ref: 2021 May 14, Dashiell Young-Saver, “The Math of Ending the Pandemic: Exponential Growth and Decay”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 May 2021:
coordinate_terms: model#Noun
;
retrofuture
glosses: A hypothetical state of the world, used to assess the impact of an action.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false.
Related terms: alternate history
alternate universe
alternative fact
what if
what-if
heroine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕrōĭn
homophone: heroin
ipa: /ˈhɛɹəʊɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹoʊɪn/
enpr: hîrōĭn
ipa: /ˈhɪɹoʊɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /hi.ɾo.ɪn/
Forms: form: heroines
form: heroin
Etymology: From Latin hērōīna, from late Ancient Greek ἡρωΐνη (hērōḯnē) (2nd century), a feminine equivalent of ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero, demigod”), equivalent to hero + -ine (suffix forming feminine nouns).
* English from 1587. The sense of "female lead character" is from 1715.
Senses: glosses: A female hero.
examples: text: Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: A female lead character.
Synonyms: word: shero
word: hera
Derived terms: anti-heroine
antiheroine
heroinely
heroineship
heroinic
heroinism
heroinize
mother heroine
superheroine
tragic heroine
heroin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹoʊ.ɪn/
ipa: /hɛəɹoʊ.ɪn/
homophone: heroine (some pronunciations)
rhymes: -ɛɹəʊɪn
Forms: form: heroins
Senses: examples: text: Strictly Orthodox, Porcia has bent her Fortune and Applications to the Advantage of the true Religion. In a word, no Perfection is feeble, or ſhines dim in Porcia; all is ſtrenuous, bright, confirm’d, and unexceptionable. She only is worthy to ſupply the Loſs of Ximena, in ſo great a Breaſt as Horatio’s, were Fortune to do what Merit has done, wou’d ſhe not make the Union? Where more juſtly cou’d we beſtow the Charms of a Heroin, who has done all things for Vertue and Honour, than in the Arms of a Hero, who has left nothing undone for Fame and Glory?
ref: 1710, Eginardus [pseudonym; Delarivier Manley], Memoirs of Europe, Towards the Close of the Eighth Century. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], pages 276–277:
glosses: Obsolete form of heroine.
Synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
Hypernyms: word: opiate
word: opioid
word: narcotic
word: recreational drug
word: street drug
Related terms: word: China White
word: shit
reiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪki/
rhymes: -eɪki
homophone: raky
Forms: form: reikis
Etymology: 1970s, from Japanese 霊気 (reiki, literally “spiritual chi/ki”).
Senses: examples: text: Demonstrated by experienced professionals, the fair will provide the opportunity to learn about unique healing methods such as Chakra Healing, Sound Therapy, Reiki, Kinesiology and Crystal Healing.
ref: 2023 December 21, The Central Coast Community News, NSW, page 16, column 2:
glosses: A Japanese form of pseudomedicine that involves transferring chi through one's palms.
Related terms: reiki usui
UDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UDPs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of uridine diphosphate.
UDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Ulster Democratic Party.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Unit Deployment Program.
examples: text: Such an interface would also allow the UDP to pass a full internet datagram complete with header to the IP to send.
ref: 1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of User Datagram Protocol.
examples: text: According to the most recent available disclosures, UDP has spent more than $910,000 backing Stevens. AIPAC, a hawkish pro-Israel group that supports both Democrats and Republicans, endorsed Stevens and has attacked Levin, who is Jewish and comes from one of Michigan’s most prominent Jewish political families, over his willingness to criticize some Israeli policy.
ref: 2022 July 12, Gregory Krieg, “Progressive pro-Israel group takes on AIPAC in Michigan Democratic primary fight”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of United Democracy Project: a surrogate of AIPAC.
glosses: Initialism of Usenet Death Penalty.
bashment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bashments
Etymology: From bash + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A party or rave.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Dancehall music.
thankful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθæŋkfl̩/
other: /ðæŋkfl̩/
Forms: form: more thankful
form: most thankful
form: thankefull
Etymology: From Middle English thankful, from Old English þancful, þancfull (“thoughtful, pleasing, agreeable, pleasant, thankful, grateful”), equivalent to thank + -ful. Compare Old High German undankfol (“unthankful, ungrateful”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm thankful that you helped me out today. How can I ever repay you?
glosses: Showing appreciation or gratitude.
glosses: Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.
Synonyms: grateful
appreciative
Derived terms: be thankful for small mercies
thankfully
thankfulness