cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pomegranate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑməˌɡɹænət/
ipa: /ˈpɑmˌɡɹænət/
Forms: form: more pomegranate
form: most pomegranate
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:
* from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or
* directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns).
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Many people would think Miss Wilcox, standing there in her blue merino dress and pomegranate ribbon, a very agreeable woman.
ref: c. 1855, Charlotte Brontë, “Emma. (A Fragment of a Story by the Late Charlotte Brontë.)”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume I, number 4, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published April 1860, →OCLC, chapter II, pages 494–495:
glosses: Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.
bingo wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Due to fatty arms resembling chicken wings. The name connotes a bingo winner waving her arms in excitement.
Senses: glosses: Fatty, loose flaps of skin hanging from the upper arms.
Synonyms: sense: Note
word: These may be singular forms
word: auntie arm
word: batwing
word: dinner lady arm
word: nan flap
word: nanna wobble
word: sugarglider
word: tuck shop arm
word: tuck shop lady arm
Related terms: cankle
basonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basonyms
Etymology: From baso- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basionym.
Markov chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Markov chains
Senses: examples: text: The probability density of the Bayseian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.
ref: 2004 July 27, F. Keith Barker et al., “Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation”, in PNAS, page 11040, column 2:
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: A discrete-time stochastic process containing a Markov property.
Hypernyms: chain
Hyponyms: discrete-time Markov chain
mild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mīld
ipa: /ˈmaɪld/
rhymes: -aɪld
Forms: form: milder
form: mildest
form: milde
Etymology: From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”).
Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), Saterland Frisian milde (“mild”), West Frisian myld (“mild”), Dutch mild (“mild”), Low German milde (“mild”), German mild (“mild”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål mild (“mild”), Icelandic mildur (“mild”), Latin mollis (“soft, gentle”), Lithuanian malonus (“pleasing, pleasant, kind”), Old Norse mildr.
Senses: examples: text: a mild man
glosses: Gentle and not easily angered.
examples: text: He received a mild sentence.
glosses: Of only moderate severity; not strict.
raw_tags: of a rule or punishment
examples: text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Not overly felt or seriously intended.
examples: text: I learn that mental retardation is classified in four levels: mild, moderate, severe, and profound.
ref: 2002, Rachel Simon, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey:
text: NPDR can be further classified as mild, moderate, severe, or very severe, which can help predict how quickly the patient may progress to proliferative (neovascular) diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
ref: 2003, Janice A. Gault, Ophthalmology Pearls:
glosses: Not serious or dangerous.
raw_tags: of an illness or pain
examples: text: a mild day
text: mild weather
glosses: Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
raw_tags: of weather
examples: text: a mild anaesthetic
glosses: Acting gently and without causing harm.
raw_tags: of a medicine or cosmetic
examples: text: a mild curry
qualifier: drink; or a drug; drink; or a drug
glosses: Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor.
raw_tags: of food
Synonyms: soft
gentle
bland
calm
tranquil
soothing
pleasant
placid
meek
kind
tender
indulgent
clement
mollifying
lenitive
assuasive
Derived terms: amnestic mild cognitive impairment
draw it mild
mild as milk
mildish
mildly
mild-mannered
mildness
mild sauce
mild steel
mild-tempered
overmild
mild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mīld
ipa: /ˈmaɪld/
rhymes: -aɪld
Forms: form: milds
form: milde
Etymology: From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”).
Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), Saterland Frisian milde (“mild”), West Frisian myld (“mild”), Dutch mild (“mild”), Low German milde (“mild”), German mild (“mild”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål mild (“mild”), Icelandic mildur (“mild”), Latin mollis (“soft, gentle”), Lithuanian malonus (“pleasing, pleasant, kind”), Old Norse mildr.
Senses: examples: text: 'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild.
ref: 1998, Robert Rankin, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, page 112:
text: But Stella shouldn't really be drunk in pints the same way our dads used to drink bitter or mild that was effectively half as strong.
ref: 2011, Pete Brown, Three Sheets to the Wind:
glosses: A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
Derived terms: mild and bitter
akee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ackee.
achee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ackee.
car sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carsickness.
bilberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlb(ə)ɹɪ/
Forms: form: bilberries
Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli (Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + ber.
Senses: synonyms: blaeberry
fraughan
whort
whortle
whortleberry
whimberry
glosses: Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
glosses: The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
Derived terms: bilberried
bilberrying
bog bilberry
dwarf bilberry
mountain bilberry
northern bilberry
sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪknɪs/
rhymes: -ɪknɪs
Forms: form: sicknesses
Etymology: From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I do lament the sickness of the king.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount
Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
text: Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.
ref: 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:
glosses: The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
glosses: Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
examples: text: We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.
ref: 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
Synonyms: sense: quality or state of being sick
word: disease
sense: quality or state of being sick
word: illness
sense: quality or state of being sick
word: infirmity
sense: quality or state of being sick
word: malady
Derived terms: acute mountain sickness
African horse sickness
African sleeping sickness
altitude sickness
bleeding sickness
bottle-sickness
bush sickness
car sickness
claw sickness
covering sickness
dative sickness
decompression sickness
dope sickness
falling-sickness
falling sickness
ghost sickness
grass sickness
green-sickness
green sickness
green tobacco sickness
home-sickness
homesickness
horse sickness
hurry sickness
in sickness and in health
irradiation sickness
Jamaican vomiting sickness
junk sickness
lame sickness
land sickness
laughing sickness
milk sickness
morning sickness
motion sickness
mountain sickness
nail sickness
needle sickness
Numinbah horse sickness
ozone sickness
Picardy sweating sickness
pregnancy sickness
princess sickness
radiation sickness
railroad sickness
sea-sickness
serum sickness
sickness unto death
simulator sickness
sleeping sickness
sleepy sickness
space sickness
stiff sickness
sugar sickness
summoning sickness
sweating sickness
swing sickness
three day sickness
three-day sickness
train sickness
travel sickness
wasting sickness
water sickness
western duck sickness
blackberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈblækbɹi/
ipa: /ˈblækbɛɹi/
Forms: form: blackberries
Etymology: From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.
Senses: synonyms: bramble
brambleberry
hypernyms: berry#Noun
coordinate_terms: black raspberry#Noun
glosses: A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
examples: text: Here at the creek, a ways off from the trail, we have blackberries for now, not as fat and sweet as they get, but I like them tart, with that little bit of red still at their tops, or if they’re just a little hard and not so soft they come off when you pull at them and leave your fingers stained.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 79:
synonyms: bramble
brambleberry
hypernyms: berry#Noun
<
fruit#Noun
coordinate_terms: black raspberry#Noun
glosses: The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
glosses: Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
glosses: The blackcurrant.
Derived terms: Armenian blackberry
blackberrita
blackberryade
blackberrylike
blackberry lily
blackberrytini
blackberry winter
California blackberry
Chehalem blackberry
Enslen's blackberry
Himalayan blackberry
knee-high blackberry
Pacific blackberry
plenty as blackberries
sand blackberry
blackberry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈblækbɹi/
ipa: /ˈblækbɛɹi/
Forms: form: blackberries
form: blackberrying
form: blackberried
form: blackberried
Etymology: From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.
Senses: examples: text: She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
ref: 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway:
text: My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
ref: 1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly stewed these for us.
ref: 1988, Arthur Bryson Gerrard, Butterflies & coalsmoke, page 62:
text: My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
ref: 2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
ref: 2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image, published 2004, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: To gather or forage for blackberries.
Derived terms: blackberrying
mulberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmʌlbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmʌlbɹi/
Forms: form: mulberries
Etymology: From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulberry”) (q.v.), and probably partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”). Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).
Senses: examples: text: Different qualities of the Mulberry. Among the different species of the Mulberry, it is ascertained that the Italian, (Morus italica) is eaten by the silk worm, with eager appetite. It's fruit is very small, and of a pale rose colour.
ref: 1837, Luigi Tinelli, Hints on the Cultivation of the Mulberry, with Some General Observations on the Production of Silk, page 39:
text: Beyond the south end of the lake, the route lies across the plain of Lombardy, where the mulberry trees are evidence of the silk industry.
ref: 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 729:
glosses: Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.
examples: text: You can also make good jam with mulberries, and they taste great cooked or mixed together with other fruits. Mulberries are rich in sugar with moderate amounts of vitamin C. Their rich colours are a sign that they contain high levels of […]
ref: 2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
glosses: A dark purple colour tinted with red.
Derived terms: alt: Afromorus mesozygia
word: African mulberry
taxonomic: Hedycarya angustifolia
word: Australian mulberry
alt: Afromorus mesozygia
word: black mulberry
english: Morus spp. and Maclura tricuspidata
translation: Morus spp. and Maclura tricuspidata
word: Chinese mulberry
taxonomic: Morus alba
word: common mulberry
taxonomic: Ficus sycomorus
word: fig-mulberry
taxonomic: Callicarpa americana
word: French mulberry
taxonomic: Morus serrata
word: Himalayan mulberry
taxonomic: Morinda spp.
word: Indian mulberry
word: mulberry molar
word: mulberry mass
word: mulberrying
word: mulberrylike
taxonomic: Hedycarya angustifolia
word: native mulberry
word: nonmullbery
taxonomic: Broussonetia papyrifera
alt: syn. Morus papyrifera
word: paper mulberry
taxonomic: Morus rubra
word: red mulberry
taxonomic: Morus alba
word: Russian mulberry
taxonomic: Morus alba
word: silkworm mulberry
taxonomic: Morus alba
word: white mulberry
word: Mulberry Harbor
Related terms: morula
murrey
mulberry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmʌlbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmʌlbɹi/
Forms: form: more mulberry
form: most mulberry
Etymology: From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulberry”) (q.v.), and probably partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”). Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).
Senses: glosses: Of a dark purple color tinted with red.
Related terms: word: fig
word: fustic
english: plant
translation: plant
word: hop
word: sycamine
word: sycamore
word: tapa
word: weeping fig
nudity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjudɪˌti/
ipa: /ˈnudɪti/
Forms: form: nudities
Etymology: From nude + -ity. Compare Late Latin nūditās.
Senses: examples: text: In places such as Scandinavia, public nudity is legal.
synonyms: nakedness
bareness
nudeness
glosses: The state or quality of being without clothing on the body; specifically, the quality of being without clothing on the genitals.
examples: text: […]he had divested himself of the incumbrance of dress[…] and although a nudity, he appeared before numbers of people unabashed, and with an unblushing composure of countenance, which envinces that the sense of shame in him is entirely abolished.
ref: 1809, Wm. Weston, “Remarkable Instance of Propensity to the Savage State”, in The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1807, page 906:
text: M. PILS' battle-piece, representing Prince NAPOLEON leading his division at Alma, and some of M. GEROME's startling nudities.
ref: 1865 May 3, “The Prince Napoleon's Ball.”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: nude
glosses: Something or someone without clothes.
Derived terms: antinudity
frontal nudity
full frontal nudity
nuditarian
seminudity
Related terms: nude
nudism
nudist
nakedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nakednesses
Etymology: From Middle English nakednesse, from Old English nacodnes (“nakedness”); equivalent to naked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness.
Synonyms: word: nakedhood
word: nudity
Related terms: full frontal nudity
fabric
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/
Forms: form: fabrics
form: fabricking
form: fabricked
form: fabricked
form: fabrick
Etymology: Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of fabrica, borrowed from Latin, and forge, borrowed from Old French.
Senses: examples: text: Fabricking and Carpeting a Room. If your ballroom's walls are in need of a paint job, or the space feels cavernous, or your tent is just looking too bare, you can have the ceiling and walls draped with fabric to create an intimate enclave.
ref: 2016, Mindy Weiss, Lisbeth Levine, The Wedding Book:
glosses: To cover with fabric.
chestnut tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛsnʌt ˌtɹiː/
Forms: form: chestnut trees
Senses: glosses: A tree that bears chestnuts; a tree of the genus Castanea
Hypernyms: tree
bird song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of birdsong.
birdsong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdsongs
form: bird song
Etymology: From bird + song.
Senses: glosses: Vocalisations made by birds, considered collectively.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A vocalisation made by a bird, more complex than a call, for purposes associated with courtship and territory.
black currant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black currants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blackcurrant.
through
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: thro͞o
ipa: /θɹuː/
ipa: /θɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: threw
homophone: thru
Forms: form: thoo
form: thorough
form: thorow
form: thorugh
form: thro'
form: throughe
form: thru
form: thrue
Etymology: From Middle English thrugh, thruch, thruh, metathetic variants of thurgh, thurh, from Old English þurh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw (“through”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷe, suffixed zero-grade from *terh₂- (“to pass through”) + *-kʷe (“and”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian döör (“through”), Saterland Frisian truch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Luxembourgish duerch (“through”), West Flemish deur (“through”), Yiddish דורך (durkh, “through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Latin trans (“across, over, through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough.
Senses: examples: text: The arrow went straight through.
text: I didn't like the look of the place, so I drove through without stopping.
glosses: From one side of something to the other.
By way of the interior.
examples: text: I opened the window and climbed through.
glosses: From one side of something to the other.
By way of an opening.
examples: text: The road is blocked by an overturned truck, and cars can't get through.
text: The American army broke through at Saint-Lô.
glosses: From one side of something to the other.
So as to overcome an obstacle and pass beyond it; past.
examples: text: The bill will be tabled tomorrow, but I doubt that it will be voted through.
text: She progressed through to the final round of the competition.
glosses: So as to pass a stage in a process and proceed to the next stage or level.
examples: text: Others went to bed for the night; he worked straight through.
text: She read the letter through.
text: The baby cried the whole night through.
text: He said he would see it through.
glosses: From beginning to end, or from the present position to the end.
examples: text: Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.
glosses: Throughout something; all the way across or into.
examples: text: I've been ringing my bank all day, and finally I've got through.
text: Can you put me through to the manager?
glosses: So as to connect or reach.
raw_tags: in the phrase 'get through'
through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thro͞o
ipa: /θɹuː/
ipa: /θɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: threw
homophone: thru
ipa: /θɹʌf/
ipa: /θɹuː/
rhymes: -ʌf
rhymes: -uː
enpr: thro͞o
ipa: /θɹuː/
ipa: /θɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: threw
homophone: thru
Forms: form: throughs
form: thoo
form: thorough
form: thorow
form: thorugh
form: thro'
form: throughe
form: thru
form: thrue
Etymology: From Middle English thrugh, þrouȝ, throgh, from Old English þrūh (“trough, conduit, pipe; box, chest; coffin, tomb”), from Proto-Germanic *þrūhs (“excavated trunk, trough”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₃u- (“to rub, turn, drill, bore”).
Senses: glosses: A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb, or in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
thus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thŭs
ipa: /ˈðʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thuris.
fig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: figs
form: figging
form: figged
form: figged
Etymology: From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico.
Senses: examples: text: When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.
glosses: To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
examples: text: For filling figged soaps silicate of potash is best adapted, as soda prevents in a measure the proper crystallization. [...] Artificially figged soap [...makes] a very close imitation of the naturally figged soap.
ref: 1893, Henry Gathmann, American Soaps, page 204:
text: Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.
ref: 1897, The National Provisioner, page 27:
text: In the cold soaps, the water soluble color is added in liquid form after saponification has started. In figged soaps, the color is crutched in after saponification is completed.
ref: 1938, Harry Bennett, The Standard Book of Formulas:
qualifier: soap-making
glosses: To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
fig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: figs
form: figging
form: figged
form: figged
Etymology: Variation of fike.
Senses: glosses: To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
Derived terms: figgle
fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: figs
form: fig.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).
glosses: A person's figure; dress or appearance.
fig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: figs
form: figging
form: figged
form: figged
Senses: glosses: To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
Related terms: figgery
go fig
in full fig
fig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: figs
form: figging
form: figged
form: figged
Etymology: See figging.
Senses: examples: text: Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.
ref: 1874, The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal, page 176:
text: He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.
ref: 1901, Natal Agriculture Journal, page 744:
text: “Is something amiss with the horse, Parr?” His gaze left the horse for a second as he glanced at Grace. “Yes, the horse has been figged. Now I just need to figure out who the culprit is.”
ref: 2015, Becky Lower, The Cotillion Ball Saga, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
synonyms: ginger
glosses: To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: figs
Etymology: See figging.
Senses: glosses: The piece of ginger root used in figging.
fig leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fig leaves
form: fig-leaf
form: figleaf
Etymology: From Middle English *figge leef (attested in the plural figge leves), a partial calque of Old English fīclēaf (“fig leaf”). By surface analysis, fig + leaf.
Senses: glosses: A leaf of the fig plant.
glosses: A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness).
examples: text: True, David Brog, one of the organizers of last week’s conference, insisted that national conservatives are not anti-immigrant. But this is a fig leaf. [University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy] Wax explicitly made an argument for limiting the number of nonwhites entering the US.
ref: 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
text: In fact, speaking of paedos, the prime minister chose to use one as a figleaf.
ref: 2022 February 1, Marina Hyde, “Never mind wine fridges, the Tory party is drunk on Kool-Aid”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered.
Derived terms: word: figleaf
word: fig-leafed
word: fig-leaf gourd
taxonomic: Cucurbita ficifolia
word: fig-leaf squash
word: fig-leaved
watermelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːtəˌmɛlən/
ipa: /ˈwɔtɚˌmɛlən/
ipa: /ˈwɑtɚˌmɛlən/
ipa: /ˈwɒːt̞ɚˌmɛlən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈwaːhɐˌmɛlən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈwaːʔɐˌmɛlən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈwaːʔɚˌmɛlən/
ipa: /ˈwɔːɾɚˌmɛlən/
Forms: form: watermelons
form: 🍉
Etymology: From the 1610s, a compound of water + melon.
The meanings referring to environmentalists and behind-schedule projects derive from the idea of having a green (eco-friendly, on-schedule) outward appearance while being red (socialist, behind schedule) in a hidden way comparable to that of the fruit.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit.
glosses: The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black seeds.
examples: text: According to this distorted view of life, environmentalists are watermelons – green on the outside, red on the inside – who want to impose regulation, “the slippery slope to socialism”, on the use of tobacco, ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases.
ref: 2010 August 7, Robin McKie, “Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: An environmentalist with socialist leanings, an ecosocialist.
glosses: A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh (also called watermelon pink).
examples: text: The nuts and bolts of any project are transparency. If the project status is transparent, the watermelons can’t arise. If anybody is able to get the information, it will be difficult to hide something.
ref: 2011 August 8, Marc Löffler, “Watermelon Reporting”, in DZone, AnswerHub:
text: As a PMO [project management officer], wherever I see watermelon reporting, I encourage the PM [project manager] to be brave and honest enough to ask for help.
ref: 2015 September 17, Ken Burrell, “Watch out for watermelons in project reports”, in LinkedIn:
text: [see title]
ref: 2021 April 24, Sumir Karayi, “Combatting the Watermelon Effect to Improve Digital Experience”, in CIO, IDG Communications, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2021:
glosses: A project that is presented as on schedule when it actually has parts that are falling behind.
glosses: A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
Synonyms: breasts
Derived terms: watermelonade
watermelon beetle
watermelon radish
watermelonrita
watermelontini
watermelon tourmaline
jar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jär
ipa: /dʒɑː/
ipa: [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)]
ipa: /d͡ʒɑɹ/
ipa: [d͡ʒɑɹ]
ipa: /dʒɐː/
ipa: [d͡ʒɐː(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: jars
form: jarring
form: jarred
form: jarred
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).
The word is cognate with Italian giara (“jar; crock”), Occitan jarro, Portuguese jarra, jarro (“jug; ewer, pitcher”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: It's important to consider the safety of jarring food. Eating food that has been spoiled because it wasn't jarred properly correctly can result in the disease botulism.
ref: 2014, Bridget Heos, “Getting Started”, in Jarring and Canning: Make Your Own Jams, Jellies, Pickles, and More (Urban Gardening and Farming for Teens), New York, N.Y.: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
synonyms: bottle
glosses: To preserve (food) in a jar.
Derived terms: rejar
purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːs/
ipa: /pɜɹs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
homophone: perse
Forms: form: purses
Etymology: From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”).
Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”), Dutch beurs (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”).
Senses: examples: text: And then muſt many a man occupie as farre as his purſe would reache, and ſtretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
ref: 1550, Steuen Mierdman, The market or fayre of usurers:
glosses: A small bag for carrying money.
examples: text: Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
ref: 1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:
glosses: A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
examples: text: It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
glosses: A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
Synonyms: sense: small bag for carrying money
word: pocketbook
sense: small bag for carrying money
word: coin purse
sense: small bag for carrying money
word: change purse
sense: small bag used by women
word: handbag
sense: quantity of money
word: bursary
sense: quantity of money
word: grant
Derived terms: beggar's purse
belt purse
change purse
coin purse
common purse
cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
cutpurse
cut-purse
devil's purse
empty as a pauper's purse
finger purse
gaming purse
hold the purse strings
jail purse
king's purse
lighten someone's purse
long purse
loosen the purse strings
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
manpurse
mermaid's purse
murse
pickpurse
pick-purse
power of the purse
prison purse
Privy Purse
public purse
purse-bearer
purse crab
purseful
purseless
purselike
purse net
purse-pride
purse-proud
purse puppy
purser
purse seine
purse snatcher
purse snatching
pursestring
purse string
purseweb spider
sea-purse
sea purse
shepherd's purse
Sutton Hoo purse-lid
tighten the purse strings
Related terms: bursa
bursar
bursary
reimburse
wallet
Jones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊnz/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊnz/
homophone: jones
rhymes: -əʊnz
Forms: form: Joneses
form: Jonesses
Etymology: Genitive of John.
Senses: examples: text: It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally.
ref: 1886, Miss M. A. R. Tucker, “St. David's”, in Walford's Antiquarian: A Magazine & Bibliographical Review:
text: The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
glosses: An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John.
glosses: A placename
A locality in Kenora District, north-west Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Coles County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cass County, Michigan.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
Two townships, in Elk County, Pennsylvania and Beltrami County, Minnesota, listed under Jones Township.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Jones County.
Derived terms: Davy Jones
Davy Jones's locker
Jones County
Jones diagram
Jones plug
keep up with the Joneses
Mrs. Jones
Related terms: Johan
Johns
Jones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊnz/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊnz/
homophone: jones
rhymes: -əʊnz
Etymology: From Jone + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Jone
Related terms: jones
Mrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪz/
ipa: /-səz/
ipa: /ˈmɪsɪz/
ipa: /-sɪs/
note: US dialects, especially Southern US, Michigan
enpr: mĭs
ipa: /ˈmɪs/
note: US dialects, especially Southern US, Michigan
ipa: /ˈmɪz/
note: US dialects, especially Southern US, Michigan
homophone: Misses
homophone: misses
homophone: Ms
homophone: miss stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
Forms: form: Mmes
form: Mesdames
form: Mrses
form: Mris.
form: Mrs.
Etymology: From mistress.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Mal[aprop]. O, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! ſhe's as headſtrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 52:
text: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […] and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames.
Derived terms: missus
misses
Mrs. degree
Mrs. Grundy
Mrs Miggins
Related terms: english: title for an adult female
translation: title for an adult female
word: Ms
english: title for an adult female
translation: title for an adult female
word: Ms.
word: Miss
soft
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏft
ipa: /sɒft/
ipa: /sɔːft/
enpr: sôft
ipa: /sɔft/
ipa: /sɑft/
enpr: sŏft
enpr: săft
ipa: /sæft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Etymology: From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.
Senses: examples: text: Soft, you; a word or two before you go.
But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
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 V, scene ii]:
glosses: Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
soft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏft
ipa: /sɒft/
ipa: /sɔːft/
enpr: sôft
ipa: /sɔft/
ipa: /sɑft/
enpr: sŏft
enpr: săft
ipa: /sæft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Forms: form: softs
Etymology: From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.
Senses: examples: text: It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 9, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first:
glosses: A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot.
examples: text: Artois' story with water and softs was embodied in the difficult relationship between Raymond Boon and Spa's main owner and CEO, Guy du Bois.
ref: 2019, Kenneth Bertrams, Julien Del Marmol, Sander Geerts, Becoming the World's Biggest Brewer:
glosses: A soft drink.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.
examples: text: The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
ref: 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro, page 103:
glosses: A soft sound or part of a sound.
examples: text: Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers.
ref: December 1989, Electronic Gaming Monthly
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of software.
examples: text: At the end of the two years and a half I got into the way of forged Bank-of-England notes. A man I knew in the course of business, said, ‘I would cut that game of ‘smatter-hauling,’ (stealing handkerchiefs), and do a little soft,’ (pass bad notes).
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
text: Putting his mouth to my ear, he whispered hoarsely. "Do you want to buy any queer soft?"
[…] In my dream I had been haunted by a counterfeiter, vulgarly called "a smasher."
ref: 1876, The Guernsey Magazine, volume 4:
glosses: Banknotes.
soft
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏft
ipa: /sɒft/
ipa: /sɔːft/
enpr: sôft
ipa: /sɔft/
ipa: /sɑft/
enpr: sŏft
enpr: săft
ipa: /sæft/
rhymes: -ɒft
Forms: form: more soft
form: most soft
Etymology: From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte (“softly”), from Proto-West Germanic *samftō (“softly”).
Senses: examples: text: A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9:
text: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
glosses: Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
absolut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So, remetting all to your consideration, I rest ever hym quhome you haue most absolut pouer to command, BUKCLEUGHE
ref: 1615 Decemver 9, letter from Lord Scott of Buccleuch, quoted in 1838, James Maidment, Letters and State Papers During the Reign of King James the Sixth: Chiefly from the Manuscript Collections of Sir James Balfour of Denmyln, page 272
text: […] even the most absolut politick Empire that can be lawfully set up by men is Iyable to these implyed yea indispensable conditions and exceptions, […]
ref: 1671, An Answer to the Letter Directed to the Author of Jus Populi,, page 18:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of absolute.
acar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acars
Senses: glosses: A vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, a local version of the Indian achar.
malediction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən/
ipa: /-.ɪˈ-/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: maledictions
Etymology: From late Middle English malediccion, from Middle French malédiction, from Latin maledictiō (“curse”) from malus (“evil”) + dictiō (“speech”) noun of action from perfect passive participle dictus (“spoken”), from verb dīcō (“speak”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire.
ref: 1771, [Henry Mackenzie], “His Skill in Physiognomy”, in The Man of Feeling, 2nd edition, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 94:
text: In view of all that we have said in the foregoing sections, the many obstacles we appear to have surmounted, what casts the pall over our victory celebration? It is the curse of dimensionality, a malediction that has plagued the scientist from earliest days.
ref: 1961, Richard Bellman, Adaptive Control Processes: A Guided Tour, Princeton University Press, page 94:
antonyms: benediction
glosses: A curse.
glosses: Evil speech.
Derived terms: maledictology
Related terms: maledictive
maledictory
pettyfogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pettyfoggers
form: petty-fogger
Senses: examples: text: [page 200] This Fellow, I ſay, ſtiled himſelf a Lawyer, but was indeed a moſt vile Petty-fogger, without Senſe or Knowledge of any Kind; one of thoſe who may be termed Train-bearers to the Law; [...] [page 206] The Pettyfogger now likewiſe departed, and then Jones deſired the favour of Mrs Whitefield’s Company to drink Tea with him; but ſhe refuſed, and with a Manner ſo different from that with which ſhe had received him at Dinner, that it a little ſurprized him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Jones Arrives at Gloucester, and Goes to the Bell; the Character of that House, and of a Petty-fogger, which He there Meets with”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, pages 200 and 206:
glosses: Someone who quibbles over trifles.