cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flameproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flameproof
form: most flameproof
Etymology: From flame + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: One hundred and fifty miles of flameproof wire have been used in the signalboxes and relay rooms.
ref: 1952 December, “Brighton Line Resignalling, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 830:
glosses: Resistant to catching fire.
Synonyms: fireproof
flameproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flameproofs
form: flameproofing
form: flameproofed
form: flameproofed
Etymology: From flame + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: Structural timber in the roofs throughout the station has been flameproofed.
ref: 1960 September, M. J. Wilson, “Harlow Town station opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 542:
glosses: To make flameproof.
Derived terms: flameproofer
fireproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fireproof
form: most fireproof
form: fire-proof
Etymology: From fire + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: The fireproof safe will protect documents inside for up to four hours in a standard house fire.
synonyms: fire-resistant
flame-retardant
refractory
glosses: Resistant to damage from fire.
Derived terms: fireproofness
nonfireproof
unfireproof
fireproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fireproofs
form: fireproofing
form: fireproofed
form: fireproofed
Etymology: From fire + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: I hastily fireproofed my clothing somewhat by pouring a bucket of water over myself before dashing into the flames.
glosses: To make resistant to damage from fire.
Miskito
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɪ.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɪ.toʊ/
Forms: form: Mosquito
form: Musquito
Etymology: From Spanish Mosquito, and its source, Miskito Miskito, of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Before I embarked, I found with the Doctor four Musquito Indians, who were chiefs in their own country, and were brought here by some English traders for some selfish ends.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 11, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
glosses: Pertaining to a Native American people living in the region of Moskitia in Central America.
Miskito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɪ.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɪ.toʊ/
Forms: form: Miskitos
form: Miskito
form: Mosquito
form: Musquito
Etymology: From Spanish Mosquito, and its source, Miskito Miskito, of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A member of these people; a Miskito Indian.
Miskito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɪ.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɪ.toʊ/
Forms: form: Mosquito
form: Musquito
Etymology: From Spanish Mosquito, and its source, Miskito Miskito, of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: The Miskito language.
inaudible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inaudible
form: most inaudible
Etymology: From in- + audible.
Senses: examples: text: Dogs can hear this whistle, but for people it is inaudible.
text: At first his voice was almost inaudible; but soon the spirit mastered the body, and his hollow but distinct tones gained a supernatural strength.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 267:
synonyms: quiet
silent
soundless
voiceless
antonyms: audible
loud
vocal
glosses: Unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard.
Derived terms: inaudibleness
Related terms: inaudibly
inaudibility
unlistenable
flashcube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashcubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flash cube
fickleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ficklenesses
Etymology: From Middle English fikelnesse, equivalent to fickle + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fickle.
obscurantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obscurantisms
Etymology: From Latin obscūrans, from obscūrō (“to cover, darken, obscure”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
glosses: Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
Related terms: obscurantist
obscuration
obscure
obscurity
agnotology
flamethrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmˌθɹəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈfleɪmˌθɹoʊ.ɚ/
Forms: form: flamethrowers
form: flame thrower
form: flame-thrower
Etymology: From flame + thrower, calque of German Flammenwerfer.
Senses: glosses: A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
examples: text: "We allowed him to kind of orchestrate the whole offense, and he got comfortable early," George said. "He's a flamethrower. Once he gets hot, it's over."
ref: 2017 April 11, “Mike Conley Rewards Grizzlies' Faith With a Career Season”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018:
text: So when we see guys like that open, we gotta give them the ball. Especially Bryn [Forbes], he's a flamethrower. The guy is one of the best shooters I've been around, so to have him going in the game, it's much needed for us. We need him to get going. We need him to hit shots.
ref: 2021 June 15, Eric Nehm, quoting Khris Middleton, “How Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton manipulated the Nets' defense in Game 4”, in The Athletic, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023:
text: Unlike steroids, these supposedly illegal substances were not used in secret. There was an understanding that it was in everyone's best interest — pitchers and hitters alike — for today's flamethrowers to have a good grip on the ball.
ref: 2021 June 15, Jesse Campigotto, “Baseball has a sticky situation on its hands”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2023:
topics: ball-games
baseball
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who is extremely good at throwing or shooting balls.
obsequies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔbsɪ.kwiːz/
Etymology: Plural of obsequy; from Middle English obsequias, obsequies, obsequyes, from Latin obsequiae.
Senses: examples: text: A murmur of astonishment ran through the chapel. It was hushed instantly, for, at a sign from Lord Avonleigh, the coffin was carried into the vault; and again the voice of the priest was the only sound, breathing the last and solemn benediction of the mournful obsequies.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: Funeral rites.
obsequies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔbsɪ.kwiːz/
Etymology: Plural of obsequy; from Middle English obsequias, obsequies, obsequyes, from Latin obsequiae.
Senses: glosses: plural of obsequy.
glosses: plural of obsequie.
operculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈpɜː.kjʊ.ləm/
ipa: /oʊˈpɝ.kjə.ləm/
Forms: form: opercula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin operculum.
Senses: examples: text: Hyoliths […] have a small, conical calcium carbonate shell, with a lid called an operculum.
ref: 2017 January 18, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The lidlike portion of a moss sporangium or of a fruit that detaches to allow the dispersal of spores or seeds.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A gum flap covering (part of) a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth.
examples: text: I lifted the circular operculum from its place and laid it carefully on the bale.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter IX, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: A structure which serves as a cover or lid.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of several flaps of cerebral cortex covering the insula.
Derived terms: operculiferous
operculitis
preoperculum
interoperculum
suboperculum
Related terms: opercle
flame-retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flame-retardant
form: most flame-retardant
form: flame retardant
Senses: synonyms: fire-retardant
fire-resistant
antonyms: flammable
coordinate_terms: combustible
;
noncombustible
incombustible
;
nonflammable
noninflammable
uninflammable
glosses: Hard to ignite; not supporting or conveying flame; tending to curtail flames' spread.
Related terms: firefighting
fire safety
flame-retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flame-retardants
form: flame retardant
Senses: examples: text: The flame-retardant used on the child's pajamas would keep them from bursting into flame, but it caused a rash.
glosses: A substance used to make an object flameproof.
fire-retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fire-retardant
form: most fire-retardant
form: fire retardant
Senses: glosses: Hard to ignite; not flammable.
fire-retardant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-retardants
form: fire retardant
Senses: glosses: A substance that makes an object resistant to burning.
Synonyms: flame-retardant
fire-resistant
lasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑːstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈleəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlastɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
rhymes: -æstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of last
lasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑːstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈleəstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlastɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
rhymes: -æstɪŋ
Forms: form: lastings
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: everlasting
glosses: In full lasting cloth: a durable, plain woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes.
qualifier: footwear
glosses: The act or process of shaping footwear on a last.
examples: text: 1598, I. D. (possibly John Dee) (translator), Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Gouernment, London: Adam Islip, Chapter 12, p. 334,
But all things that haue beginning, must come to an end, and whatsoeuer groweth, must likewise deminish, being subiect to corruption and change, according to the time appointed vnto it by the course of Nature, as is seene by experience in plants, and in wights, which haue their ages and lastings certaine and determined.
text: […] it may be some kinde of Prophecy, of the continuance, and lasting of these Letters, that having been scattered, more then Sibyls leaves, I cannot say into parts, but corners of the World, they have recollected and united themselves […]
ref: 1651, John Donne, Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, dedicatory epistle:
text: But concerning the several degrees of lasting, wherewith Ideas are imprinted on the Memory, we may observe […]
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 10, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 4, page 65:
synonyms: continuance
duration
endurance
glosses: The action or state of persisting; the time during which something or someone persists.
pessimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.sɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈpɛ.sə.məl/
Etymology: From Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -al, modeled on optimal.
Senses: examples: text: Calculated in this way, a security value represents a pessimal view of possibilities.
ref: 1989, Peter C. Ordeshook, Gregory F. Rose, Emerson M. Niou, The balance of power: Stability in international systems:
text: "Optimal and Pessimal Orderings of Steiner Triple Systems in Disk Arrays
ref: 1998, Bela Bolloas, “Modern Graph Theory”, in LATIN 2000: Theoretical Informatics:
text: …the limiting solution is a pessimal solution because the value of the objective function associated with it is zero.
ref: 2019, Suresh P. Sethi, Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics:
glosses: Bad to a maximal extent; worst.
Derived terms: pessimally
Related terms: pessimality
pessimism
pessimist
pessimistic
pessimize
pessimum
satin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæt.ɪn/
ipa: [ˈsæt.n̩]
ipa: [ˈsæʔ.n̩]
rhymes: -ætɪn
Forms: form: satins
Etymology: From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.
Senses: examples: text: Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.
ref: 1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673
glosses: A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
examples: text: 'This poor gal was robbed, barely left a stitch, that and the drink... mind, I likes a drop of satin – wot you'd call gin – myself. I'll say nothing against it. She ended thrown out of an upstairs winder.'
ref: 2014, Richard Gordon, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper, page 13:
glosses: Gin (the drink).
Derived terms: antique satin
Denmark satin
farmers' satin
satinash
satin bowerbird
satin carpet
satin damask
satin de chine
satin de laine
satinet
satinette
satinflower
satin flycatcher
satin glass
satin jean
satin paper
satinpod
satin sheeting
satin spar
satin stitch
satin stone
satin weave
satinwood
satiny
slipper satin
surf satin
white satin
yard of satin
Related terms: sateen
satin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæt.ɪn/
ipa: [ˈsæt.n̩]
ipa: [ˈsæʔ.n̩]
rhymes: -ætɪn
Etymology: From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.
Senses: examples: text: satin paint
glosses: Semigloss.
satin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæt.ɪn/
ipa: [ˈsæt.n̩]
ipa: [ˈsæʔ.n̩]
rhymes: -ætɪn
Forms: form: satins
form: satining
form: satined
form: satined
Etymology: From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.
Senses: glosses: To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.
sateen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈtiːn/
Forms: form: sateens
Etymology: A 19th century variant of satin, perhaps influenced by velveteen.
Senses: examples: text: The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
Related terms: satin
quadrangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quadrangular
form: most quadrangular
Etymology: From Middle French quadrangulaire, from Medieval Latin quadrangularis.
Senses: coordinate_terms: triangular
pentangular
hexangular
glosses: Having the shape of a quadrangle; in the shape of a quadrangle.
Related terms: quadrangle
quadrangularity
quadrangularly
tardy slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tardy slips
Senses: examples: text: The teacher accepted her tardy slip and allowed her to come into the classroom after the bell.
glosses: A piece of paper given to a student who is late to school, to authorize the student to proceed to class.
Julian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.li.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒuː.liˈæn/
rhymes: -uːliən
Forms: form: Jolyon
form: Julyan
form: Jullian
form: Julyan
form: Gillian
Senses: glosses: The Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus or Julian the Philosopher or Julian the Apostate.
examples: text: Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University history professor and CNN analyst, agreed.
ref: 2020 May 8, Oliver Darcy, “Meet OAN, the little-watched right-wing news channel that Trump keeps promoting”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Latin Iulianus, from Iulius.
glosses: A female given name from Latin, of medieval English usage, variant of Gillian.
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A French surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Julien.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A village in Nebraska; named for early French settler Julian Bahuaud.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in San Diego County, California; named for early settler Mike Julian.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Kansas.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early landowner Julian Hill.
Derived terms: word: Jools
word: Jules
word: Julian period
Related terms: Julianna
Julianne
San Julian
Julian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.li.ən/
ipa: /d͡ʒuː.liˈæn/
rhymes: -uːliən
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Julius Caesar.
glosses: Of or relating to the Julian calendar.
glosses: Of or relating to the Julia programming language.
Derived terms: Julian Alps
Julian calendar
Julian epoch
Julianist
Julian year
Julio-Claudian
hellhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: hellholes
form: Hellhole
form: hell hole
form: Hell hole
form: hell-hole
Etymology: First recorded in 1866.
Senses: examples: text: Once the Old Nichol had been razed, the search was on for London's new hell hole.
ref: 2015, Ed Glinert, East End Chronicles, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: Despite prolonged exposure to harsh conditions, medics say Nora Tallis returned to the Nexus in stable condition. In a statement to HNS, Tallis did not mince words. "Never send me to that hellhole again."
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: ELAADEN (HNS) - Nora Tallis Found Alive:
text: Indeed, we happily condemn damaged children—at enormous expense—to hellholes like Feltham, where they are more likely to be assaulted or killed than to find an escape from the revolving doors of courts, prisons and addiction.
ref: 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.
diable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diˈɑːbəl/
Forms: form: diables
form: diablo
Etymology: From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.
Senses: glosses: An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.
diable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /diˈɑːbəl/
Forms: form: diablo
Etymology: From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.
Senses: examples: sauce diable
synonyms: diablo
glosses: Flavored with hot spices.
geneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪ.sɪst/
Forms: form: geneticists
Etymology: From genetic (“related to genes”) + -ist (“person following a profession or interest”).
Senses: examples: text: In an ingenious approach, a team of 11 scientists – including biologists, geneticists, glaciologists, computer scientists and ice-sheet modellers – looked at the genetics of Turquet’s octopus – a species that has been living around the Antarctic continent for about 4m years.
ref: 2023 February 24, Graham Readfearn, The Guardian:
glosses: A scientist who studies genes.
examples: text: The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.
ref: 2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN:
glosses: A physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes.
Derived terms: archaeogeneticist
cytogeneticist
immunogeneticist
neurogeneticist
nongeneticist
oncogeneticist
ontogeneticist
palaeogeneticist
paleogeneticist
phylogeneticist
psychogeneticist
fanciable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanciable
form: most fanciable
Etymology: From fancy + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] I wondered where the poor soul had seen a less fanciable maiden than herself in our village, or any other.
ref: 1929, Eden Phillpotts, “Mother’s Misfortune”, in The Torch and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, page 105:
text: she’s only been on one date at uni, which involved sitting at a bar with a male specimen she’d thought was an interesting person, who was obviously swiping his phone to see if someone more fanciable was in the vicinity before making his pathetic excuses about having to do revision
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, “Yazz”, in Girl, Woman, Other, London: Hamish Hamilton:
synonyms: crushworthy
glosses: Worthy or likely to be fancied; sexually attractive.
examples: text: doubt reasonably and fairly entertained as opposed to vague or fanciable doubt
ref: 1936, Code of Georgia Annotated, Harrison Company, page 155:
text: […] the factual basis for such a contention is more fanciable than real.
ref: 1948, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Commerce Clearing House:
synonyms: imaginable
glosses: Able to be fancied (imagined or supposed).
Derived terms: unfanciable
chivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪvi/
Forms: form: chivies
Etymology: A variant of chevy.
Senses: examples: text: The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the swiftest. Howe enjoyed these chivies. He frequently omitted to report us if we gave him a good breathing.
ref: 1846, “Portfire” [pseudonym], “Shots from an Old Six-pounder”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XX, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: Alternative form of chevy.
chivy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪvi/
Forms: form: chivies
form: chivying
form: chivied
form: chivied
Etymology: A variant of chevy.
Senses: examples: text: He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Stop Him!”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 447:
text: Odd's wouns! it was a proper hunt. Away went my gentlemen, whooping like madmen, with their coat skirts flapping in the breeze, chivying on the dogs and having a rare morning's sport.
ref: 1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket”, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC, page 316:
text: St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […]
ref: 1869 August, [Rhoda Broughton], “Red as a Rose is She”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume XXVII, London: Richard Bentley, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC, chapter XVI, page 29:
text: Some customers could now be relied upon to send in their orders regularly and, apart from having to chivy those who had fallen behind with their payments, this allowed travellers to concentrate their energies on securing new customers and on recovering those who had been lost to competitors.
ref: 1973, B. W. E. Alford, “A New Generation and a New Firm”, in W. D. & H. O. Wills and the Development of the UK Tobacco Industry, 1786–1965, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], →ISBN; reprinted as Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2006, →ISBN, page 55:
text: He headed for home, walking a little faster now, as if chivied along by some old cold wind that didn't quite reach the sunlit world.
ref: 1981 November, Gardner Dozois, Jack C[arroll] Haldeman II, “Executive Clemency”, in Omni, New York, N.Y.: Omni Publications International; republished as Gardner Dozois, Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, October 1992, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of chevy.
depredate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛpɹədeɪt/
Forms: form: depredates
form: depredating
form: depredated
form: depredated
Etymology: Late Latin depraedari, depraedat-: Latin de- + praedari (“to plunder”).
Senses: examples: text: It makes the substance of the body […] less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To ransack or plunder; to prey upon.
Derived terms: depredator
Related terms: depredation
predate
predation
predator
prey
tribes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪbz/
rhymes: -aɪbz
Senses: glosses: plural of tribe
loves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvz/
rhymes: -ʌvz
Senses: glosses: plural of love
loves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvz/
rhymes: -ʌvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of love
grievous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiː.vəs/
rhymes: -iːvəs
note: nonstandard outside dialects
ipa: /ɡɹiː.viː.əs/
Forms: form: more grievous
form: most grievous
form: greuous
form: greevous
form: gravious
form: grievious
form: grevious
Etymology: From Middle English grevous, from Anglo-Norman grevous, from Old French grever, from Latin gravō (“I burden”). Developed in the 13th century. Equivalent to grief + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: No wonder that the old man's eye dwelt upon her with mingled pride and tenderness; yet was it a face that might cause affection many an anxious hour, for there was mind in the lofty and clear forehead, heart in the warm and flushed cheek,—and what are mind and heart to woman, but fairy gifts, for whose possession a grievous price will be exacted.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: Heavy rain had so undermined the approach to the bridge at Mountnessing as to make it unsafe, and although Chelmsford and Colchester had decked themselves with flags and bunting, the train returned to London "with grievous disappointment to all."
ref: 1943 May and June, “Notes and News: Centenary of Railway to Colchester”, in Railway Magazine, page 176:
synonyms: word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.
examples: text: As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed, but not dangerous.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “How My Sea Adventure Began”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 176:
synonyms: word: perilous
word: sombre
word: dangerous
word: dangersome
word: hazardous
word: jeopardous
word: wicked
word: parlous
word: periculous
word: perilous
word: precarious
word: risky
word: unsafe
word: austere
word: frightful
word: demure
word: serious
word: grave
word: earnest
word: grievous
word: lack-laughter
word: thoughtful
word: sad
word: sage
word: saturnine
word: sedate
word: solemn
word: solemncholy
word: sober
word: somber
word: sombre
word: staid
word: stern
word: sweer
word: weightsome
word: weighty
glosses: Serious, grave, dire, or dangerous.
Derived terms: grievous bodily harm
grievously
grievousness
overgrievous
nouveau
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːˈvəʊ/
ipa: /nuːˈvoʊ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.
Senses: glosses: New, fashionable.
Related terms: art nouveau
nouveau pauvre
nouveau réalisme
nouveau riche
nouveau roman
nouvelle cuisine
nouvelle vague
nouveau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːˈvəʊ/
ipa: /nuːˈvoʊ/
Forms: form: nouveaus
form: nouveaux
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.
Senses: examples: text: Nouveaus are wines to be drunk, not to be sipped.
ref: 1982 February, Orange Coast Magazine, page 107:
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: A wine released in the same year that the grapes were harvested to make it.
captivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpˈtɪvɪti/
Forms: form: captivities
Etymology: From Middle English captivite, from Latin captīvitās. By surface analysis, captive + -ity. Entered into the English lexicon around the 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: held in captivity
text: escape from captivity
text: The animals lived in captivity at the zoo.
text: He wrote a memoir about his years in captivity.
glosses: The state of being captive.
glosses: A group of people/beings captive.
examples: text: long captivity
glosses: The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
Derived terms: anticaptivity
precaptivity
semicaptivity
Related terms: captive
captor
captor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæptɚ/
rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Forms: form: captors
form: captour
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin captor, from Latin capiō. English usage began around 1688.
Senses: glosses: One who is holding a captive or captives.
glosses: One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
Synonyms: sense: one holding a captive
word: guard
sense: one holding a captive
word: jailer
sense: one holding a captive
word: kidnapper
sense: one who catches someone or something
word: arrester
sense: one who catches someone or something
word: nabber
Derived terms: captress
recaptor
Related terms: captee
captive
captivity
chimerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/
ipa: /kaɪ-/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəl
Forms: form: more chimerical
form: most chimerical
form: chimaerical
form: chimærical
Etymology: From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a chimera.
examples: text: a chimerical goal
text: "Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
ref: 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
text: With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s plan chimerical.
ref: 1869, Leon Tolstoy, War and Peace (Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude):
glosses: Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
examples: text: "You are the most charming person in the world. You are invested with a perfect halo of delight," exclaimed Henrietta. "Miss Churchill has some chimerical notion of honour in her head, but that is over now; your information does not leave a single obstacle in the way of the most perfect happiness that ever wound up a fairy tale...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
qualifier: vision
glosses: Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
raw_tags: of a perceived color
Hyponyms: hyperbolic
self-luminous
stygian
Derived terms: chimerically
nonpareil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnpəˈɹeɪ(l)/
ipa: /nɒm-/
ipa: /ˈnɒnpəɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈnɒnpɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈnɒm-/
ipa: /ˌnɑnpəˈɹɛl/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -eɪl
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: more nonpareil
form: most nonpareil
form: non-pareil
Etymology: From Late Middle English non-parail (“unparalleled, nonpareil”) [and other forms], from Middle French nonpareille, nonpareil (“unparalleled”) (obsolete), from non- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + pareil (“alike, like, same”). Pareil is derived from Old French pareil, from Late Latin pāriculus (“equal; like; of a number: even”), from Latin pār (“equal; like; of a number: even; suitable”) + -culus (a variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutives)). Doublet of umpire.
Noun sense 4 (size of type standardized at 6-point) is usually taken to derive from the attractive type cut by the brothers Giovanni and Gregorio De Gregori (fl. 1482–1503 and 1496–1527 respectively) for their 1498 edition of the divine offices in Venice; it was for a long time the smallest-sized type in use.
Senses: examples: text: He informed the clerk that he would remain three or four days, inquired concerning the sailing of European steamships, and sank into the blissful inanition of the nonpareil hotel with the contented air of a traveller in his favorite inn.
ref: 1919, O. Henry, “Transients in Arcadia”, in The Voice of the City:
text: A veritable artist, possessed of a deftness nonpareil with cotton swab and evacuation-hypo, the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 33:
text: […]the series stars Samantha Morton as Margaret Wells, a London brothel owner; Ms. Brown Findlay as Charlotte, her older daughter and the city’s courtesan nonpareil; […]
ref: 2017 March 22, Kathryn Shattuck, “‘Harlots,’ on Hulu, Has Sex. But Settle Down, Guys.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: alone
word: azygous
word: incomparable
word: matchless
word: nonpareil
word: peerless
word: singular
word: sui generis
word: unequaled
word: unique
word: unparalleled
word: unmatched
word: unrivalled
antonyms: word: abnormal
word: atypical
word: exceptional
word: exotic
word: uncommon
word: endangered
word: extraordinary
word: rare
word: strange
word: unconventional
word: unique
word: unusual
qualifier: frequently postpositive
glosses: Unequalled, unrivalled; unique.
Related terms: umpire
Haruspice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aruuspex
form: Aruspice
Etymology: From Latin haruspex.
Senses: glosses: An Etruscan seer in Ancient Rome.
lacustrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ləˈkʌstɹɪn/
/-aɪn/
Forms: form: more lacustrine
form: most lacustrine
Etymology: From Latin lacustris, from lacus (“lake”).
Senses: examples: text: These deposits of sand have always been formed by the disintegration of a siliceous rock, and the fragments so formed have been sifted and transported by the agency of water, being finally deposited by a river either in the sea (marine deposits) or in lakes (lacustrine deposits), while the action of water, either during transport or after deposition, has frequently worn the individual particles into the shape of rounded grains.
ref: 1919, Walter Rosenhain, Glass Manufacture, page 34:
text: […]has some of these features, such as brooding one brood a year (which suggests that this species may have evolved under more lacustrine conditions).
ref: 1982, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, “Tilapias in Fish Communities”, in Roger S. V. Pullin, R. H. Lowe-McConnell, editors, The Biology and Culture of Tilapias: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Biology and Culture of Tilapias, 2-5 September 1980, page 112:
text: 1986, M. O. Woodburne, C. R. Campbell, T. H. V. Rich, N. S. Pledge, 5: Geology, Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, Michael O. Woodburne, W. A Clemens (Editors), Revision of the Ektopodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Phalangeroidea) of the Australian Neogene, University of California Geological Publications, Volume 131, page 75,
This apparently reflects a general change from a more lacustrine environment in the lower member to a more fluviatile setting in the upper.
text: It covers all of the DVGD^([Dixie Valley Geothermal District]) and is more lacustrine in nature than the other valley-fill layers.
ref: 2014, David Blackwell, Richard Smith, Maria Richards, Dixie Valley Synthesis, page 21:
text: Goose Lake is one of the many wide lakes of the Great Basin where water that has no outlet to a major river, much less to the ocean, pools in shallow wetlands that are major homes for migrating waterfowl and all sorts of lacustrine life, from tiny shrimp to redband trout.
ref: 2020, James Pogue, “Redbands”, in California Fly Fisher:
glosses: Of or relating to lakes.
Hypernyms: aquatic
lentic
Hyponyms: littoral
limnetic
profundal
benthic
epilimnetic
metalimnetic
hypolimnetic
photic
aphotic
Derived terms: fluviolacustrine
glaciolacustrine
interlacustrine
intralacustrine
palaeolacustrine
paleolacustrine
perilacustrine
sublacustrine
Related terms: fluvial
marine
palustrine
Ghurkha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ghurkhas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gurkha.
Ghurkha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gurkha.
Gorkha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gorkhas
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Gurkha.
Gorkha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Gurkha.
survival of the fittest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by philosopher Herbert Spencer in 1864 after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and used by Darwin himself in subsequent editions of that work.
Senses: examples: text: Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may have been effected in the long course of time through nature's power of selection, that is by the survival of the fittest.
ref: 1872, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest”, in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 6th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 85:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Natural selection.
wikipedia: Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
Related terms: Darwinianism
Darwinian
breathless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛθləs/
Forms: form: more breathless
form: most breathless
Etymology: From breath + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In thoughtless and breathless fear I rushed forward to avoid this host of demons, but while flying thus still more frightful and distorted shapes appeared, and I fancied I felt their hands clutching me.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:
glosses: Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
examples: text: By that stage Sevilla were down to 10 men and Jorge Sampaoli, their manager, had been sent to the stands as a breathless encounter started to spiral out of control.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
text: The plane buzzed on at a breathless speed. Bob had been in a plane before, and he had no fear. Indeed, but for the strange circumstances, he would have enjoyed that breathless rush through space.
ref: 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Mystery of the Vaults:
glosses: That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
glosses: Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
glosses: Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
examples: text: In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists,
ref: 2010 January 30, Robert Mendick, Amrit Dhillon, “Revealed: the racy novel written by the worlds most powerful climate scientist”, in Daily Telegraph:
text: The more some of us learn, the harder it gets to take each breathless headline seriously.
ref: 2018 May 21, T.A. Frank, “Has The Don Jr. bombshell blown up the Trump-Russia case?”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.
Derived terms: breathlessly
breathlessness
cry like a baby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries like a baby
form: crying like a baby
form: cried like a baby
form: cried like a baby
Senses: synonyms: cry like a little girl
qualifier: simile
glosses: To bawl unabashedly and pitifully.
raw_tags: of an adult or older child
Related terms: crybaby
goose egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goose eggs
Etymology: From the oval shape of both a goose's egg and the Arabic numeral zero (0).
Senses: examples: text: I missed every question on the quiz and got a goose egg.
text: Grandmaster and grand duffer alike prefer the all-important point to the ignominious goose egg.
ref: 1949 March, I. A. Horowitz, “Readers' Games”, in Chess Review:
synonyms: duck egg
glosses: Zero; nothing.
glosses: A swelling caused by a bump on the head.
fuck over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks over
form: fucking over
form: fucked over
form: fucked over
Senses: examples: text: He really fucked me over when he sold me that car for $3,000.
text: But not Huma. She quickly returned to Hillary’s side. Daniel Halper, online editor at the conservative Weekly Standard and the author of Clinton, Inc., an unflattering portrait of the Clintons, theorizes Huma had little choice after the second sexting fiasco but to stick with Hillary. “She started sort of easing her way out,” he says. “It would have helped if she was the First Lady of New York and would’ve had her own gig going, but, of course, her husband completely fucked her over. But, at that point, there was no way for her to exit gracefully.”
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
text: “So,” he [Jaron Lanier] said, sighing. “My project is in a way more modest than you're making it out to be. It's more…it's more to not fuck the future over, you know?”
ref: 2020 August 24, Zach Baron, quoting Jaron Lanier, “The Conscience of Silicon Valley”, in GQ:
glosses: to cheat or treat unfairly (to exploit somebody in a way which results in an advantage to oneself, at the cost of the other party gaining a considerable disadvantage)
Synonyms: screw over
screw over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screws over
form: screwing over
form: screwed over
form: screwed over
Senses: examples: text: I would have won the game but you screwed me over when I landed on Mayfair.
text: If you didn't betray your most reliable ally just so you could win in a game of soccer, you wouldn't have screwed yourself over by getting reprimanded and disqualified in front of everyone.
synonyms: dick around
fuck over
glosses: To cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
Related terms: screw around
screwed
screw up
pass over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes over
form: passing over
form: passed over
form: passed over
Senses: examples: raw_tags: transitive with over as adverbial particle
text: Could you pass the condiments over, please?
raw_tags: intransitive with over as preposition
text: We are now passing over the Gulf of Bothnia.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, over.
examples: text: I can't believe they passed you over for promotion.
text: Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over
When I look right through
To see you naked but oblivious
And you don't see me
ref: 2000, “3 Libras”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: To bypass or disregard in favour of someone or something else.
raw_tags: with over as adverbial particle
examples: text: Let's pass over that topic for now.
glosses: To bypass (something); to skip (something).
raw_tags: with over as preposition
examples: text: Before the train passed over any of the level crossings on the branch, it came to a stand, and the guard went forward and hand-signalled it over.
ref: 1953 November, John Bourne, “The Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744:
text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).
raw_tags: with over as preposition
examples: to pass over an affront
glosses: To overlook; not to note or resent.
raw_tags: with over as preposition
examples: text: "But why should I be in another room?" "You passed over in the night." "Passed over? Do you mean I died?" "Yes, lady, you died." There was a long silence.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Death does not change him, and when such a one passes over, he lingers to impress his vileness still further upon weak humanity.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 276:
glosses: To die and thus progress to the afterlife.
raw_tags: with over as adverbial particle
Synonyms: sense: bypass
word: bypass
sense: bypass
word: ignore
sense: bypass
word: jump
sense: bypass
word: omit
sense: bypass
word: skip
sense: make a transit of
word: cover
sense: make a transit of
word: cross
sense: make a transit of
word: traverse
sense: fly over
word: fly over
sense: fly over
word: overfly
sense: die
word: cross over
sense: die
word: die
sense: die
word: fall asleep
sense: die
word: pass
sense: die
word: pass away
sense: die
word: pass on
Derived terms: Passover
Phoenicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɪʃɪə/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃɪə/
ipa: /fəˈnɪʃə/
Forms: form: Phenicia
form: Phœnicia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Phoenicia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē).
The word is already found in the Mycenaean Greek ethnonym 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). Ultimately from Egyptian fnḫw, f:n:x-w-V12:Z2 ‘Canaanites, Syrians’.
Senses: glosses: The land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
glosses: The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
Derived terms: Heliopolis in Phoenicia
Phoenician
kick arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks arse
form: kicking arse
form: kicked arse
form: kicked arse
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kick ass.