cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fatiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪˈtɪləkwənt/
Etymology: From Latin fatiloquus, from fatum (“fate”) + ultimately loqui (“speak”) (modeled on eloquent and other such words).
Senses: examples: text: He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this fatiloquent observation, and I was transfixed by the thick, almost Neanderthal ridges of bone that took the place of eyebrows on his mondial head.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun, Grove Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: prophetic; speaking of fate.
Related terms: fatiloquist
favonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈvəʊnɪən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more favonian
form: most favonian
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin favōniānus, from Favōnius (“the West Wind”), which heralded the beginning of spring.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the west wind.
glosses: Mild, gentle.
truncate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/
ipa: /tɹaŋˈkæɪt/
Forms: form: truncates
form: truncating
form: truncated
form: truncated
Etymology: From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.
Senses: examples: text: The script was truncated to leave time for commercials.
text: All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845-46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11½-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.
ref: 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:
glosses: To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: round down
Related terms: word: trunk
word: truncation
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: dual polyhedron
truncate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/
ipa: /tɹaŋˈkæɪt/
Forms: form: more truncate
form: most truncate
Etymology: From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.
Senses: glosses: Truncated.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having an abrupt termination.
felly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛli/
Forms: form: fellies
form: felloe
form: fellick
form: felk
Etymology: From Middle English fely, felow, felowe, felwe, felȝe, from Old English felġe, dative of felg, from Proto-Germanic *felgō (compare Saterland Frisian feelge, Dutch velg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥ǵʰ- (compare Polish płoza (“sliding iron”), Old Church Slavonic пльзати (plĭzati, “to creep, crawl”)).
Senses: synonyms: felloe
glosses: The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
examples: text: all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 426-430:
text: The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: felloe
glosses: Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
felly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛli/
ipa: /ˈfɛl.li/
ipa: /ˈfɛli/
Forms: form: more felly
form: most felly
Etymology: From Middle English felly, felli, fellich, equivalent to fell + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ioues dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
glosses: Fiercely, harshly.
felloe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛloʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʊ/
note: in UK
ipa: /ˈfɛli/
homophone: fellow
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: felloes
Etymology: From Middle English felwe, from Old English felg (“harrow, felloe”). Doublet of felly, which see for more information.
Senses: glosses: The rim of a wooden wheel, supported by the spokes.
examples: text: Then came putting on the felloes and what we called riving [/ˈɹɪvɪŋ/] the wheel: this was hammering on the felloes. This was nothing to do with putting an iron tyre on the wheel: we sent it to the blacksmith for that but only after we'd put on the felloes to our satisfaction.
ref: 1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting wheelwright Percy Wilson (born 1884), Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 32–33:
glosses: Any of the several curved segments that constitute the rim.
Synonyms: felly
Coordinate terms: sense: part of a wheel
english: nave
translation: nave
word: hub
sense: part of a wheel
word: spoke
sense: part of a wheel
word: strake
sense: part of a wheel
word: tyre
ferial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪəl
Etymology: From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
examples: text: [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing their ferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 289:
text: In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 136:
glosses: Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
ferial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪəl
Forms: form: ferials
Etymology: From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A feria.
fewter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːtə/
Forms: form: fewters
form: feuter
Etymology: From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.
Senses: examples: text: From heaven the spear-light vertical in its fewter.
ref: 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies:
glosses: A support or holder for a spear, attached to a saddle or breastplate.
fewter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːtə/
Forms: form: fewters
form: fewtering
form: fewtered
form: fewtered
form: feuter
Etymology: From Middle English feuter, fewtre, from Old French feutre, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin. Doublet of filter.
Senses: examples: text: His speare he feutred, and at him it bore, / But with no better fortune than the rest afore.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To rest (a spear) in its fewter.
fideism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfi.deɪ.ɪz.əm/
/ˈfaɪ.di.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: fideisms
Etymology: From Latin fides + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We were warned at Cambridge, your grace, of the dangers of what is termed fideism.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge.
Derived terms: antifideism
fimble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪmbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: fimbles
form: fimbling
form: fimbled
form: fimbled
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of fumble.
Senses: glosses: To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.
fimble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪmbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: fimbles
form: femble
Etymology: From Middle Dutch femele, fimele (“cannabis brevior”), from fimelen (“to tease: flax, hemp, wool, etc.; to move quickly, fiddle, play, trifle”) (whence Dutch fijmelen, femelen), related to Middle Low German fimmelen, fimmeren (“to grope about”), German fimmeln (“to grope; fumble”), West Frisian fimelje (“to pick; fiddle' trifle”), English fimble (“to fumble”). Alternatively, it is sometimes suggested that Middle Dutch femele is from French chanvre) femelle (“female (hemp)”), which was applied to the male hemp plant as it is smaller and was therefore believed to be female; this would parallel the old designation of the larger, female plant as carl-hemp (“man-hemp”).
Senses: glosses: The male hemp plant.
Related terms: fimble-famble
finical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɪkəl/
Forms: form: more finical
form: most finical
Etymology: University slang, probably from fine.
Senses: examples: text: Charming, he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: Jefferson grew up familiar with the instruments and immense, finical labour of map-making from scratch.
ref: 1996, Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance, Pantheon Books, page 52:
glosses: Finicky, fastidious, overly precise or delicate.
Derived terms: finacility
finicality
finically
finicalness
finick
finicking
superfinical
unfinical
Related terms: finicky
jaunty
flinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɪndəz/
Etymology: Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; see flinder.
Senses: examples: text: The heat brought sweat and the sweat blinded. Black flinders gyrated in the fiery air like bats.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: fragments, splinters
flinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɪndəz/
Etymology: See flinder.
Senses: glosses: plural of flinder
flinders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈflɪndəz/
Etymology: See flinder.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flinder
flinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /flɪndə/
Forms: form: flinders
form: flender
Etymology: From Middle English flendris, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Norwegian flindra, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”).
Senses: examples: text: “It’s to swear to stand by one another, and never tell the gang’s secrets, even if you’re chopped all to flinders, and kill anybody and all his family that hurts one of the gang.”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 273:
glosses: A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter
flinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /flɪndə/
Forms: form: flinders
Etymology: From Middle English flindre. Compare Dutch vlinder.
Senses: glosses: A butterfly or moth.
Derived terms: flindermouse
flinder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /flɪndə/
Forms: form: flinders
form: flindering
form: flindered
form: flindered
Etymology: From Middle English flindre. Compare Dutch vlinder.
Senses: glosses: To flirt; run about in a fluttering manner
fluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfluːmɪnəs/
Etymology: From Latin flumen + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: ‘By God, you speak our British language, as we must now call it since the new naming of our kingdom, with a fine accent and fluminous smoothness,’ Dick Burbage said.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode:
glosses: flowing, fluent (of rivers)
Synonyms: sense: tending to flow
word: onrushing
word: streaming
word: flowing
foin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: foins
Etymology: From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”).
Senses: examples: text: And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere throughoute the body more than a fadom.
"And there King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear, throughout the body, more than a fathom."
ref: 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XXI, Chapter iiij, leaf 424r:
text: They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain, / Nor blow nor foin they struck or thrust in vain.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XII, lv
glosses: A thrust.
Derived terms: foinery
foin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: foins
form: foining
form: foined
form: foined
Etymology: From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”).
Senses: examples: text: And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
ref: 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 140-141:
text: They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore / Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: These Fastulfrs and Falsts could drink as well as they could foin or fight, and this has also been the case with me.
ref: 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
text: He stroke, he soust, he foynd, he hewd, he lasht,
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:
synonyms: word: jab
word: run through
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To thrust with a sword; to stab at.
glosses: To prick; to sting.
foin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: foins
Etymology: From French fouine (“a marten”).
Senses: glosses: The beech marten (Martes foina, syn. Mustela foina).
examples: text: He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
foramen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/
ipa: /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
Forms: form: foramina
form: foramens
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
text: There is — as I have explained — a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.
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:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
Derived terms: foramen magnum
foramen spinosum
foraminal
foraminate
foraminous
infraorbital foramen
jugular foramen
mental foramen
obturator foramen
optic foramen
stylomastoid foramen
zygomaticofacial foramen
zygomaticotemporal foramen
Related terms: meatus
freshet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃɪt/
Forms: form: freshets
Etymology: From Old French freschete, a diminutive of fres (“fresh”) via its feminine form fresche.
Senses: examples: text: Log after log is hauled to the bank of the river, and in a short time their first raft is made on the shore and loaded with cordwood. When the next freshet sets it afloat, it is secured by long grapevines or cables until, the proper time being arrived, the husband and sons embark on it and float down the mighty stream.
ref: 1831, John James Audubon, Early Settlers Along the Mississippi:
text: “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw.
examples: text: “His arrival upon any scene was never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet of tumbling water into a still pool!”
ref: 1915, Arthur Christopher Benson, Hugh, Memoirs of a Brother:
text: Between the curbs and the snow banks a freshet of clear blue water rises. Within me a freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins.
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 178:
text: We may find a dozen big catfish lying in the belly of the net, or a couple of walleyed pike, or some other kind of fresh-water fish. A freshet brought them down, and they were making their way back up the river, and they hit the net.
ref: 1959, Joseph Mitchell, The Rivermen:
glosses: A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.
frith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Etymology: From Middle English frith, from Old English friþ, friþu (“peace, tranquility, security, refuge”), from Proto-West Germanic *friþu, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“beloved, happy”).
Cognate with Dutch vrede (“peace, quiet, tranquility”), German Frieden (“peace, tranquility”), Danish fred (“peace, serenity”), Swedish frid (“peace, serenity”), Icelandic friður (“peace, tranquility”). Related to free.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to frith all that the king wills to be frithed
ref: 1973, University of Western Australia Law Review - Volume 11, page 21:
glosses: Peace; security.
glosses: Sanctuary, asylum.
Derived terms: frithguild
frithstool
frith
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: friths
form: frithing
form: frithed
form: frithed
form: freath
Etymology: From Middle English frithen, from Old English friþian (“to give frith to, make peace with, be at peace with, cherish, protect, guard, defend, keep, observe”), from Proto-Germanic *friþōną (“to make peace, secure, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *prēy-, *prāy- (“to like, love”).
Cognate with Scots frethe, freith (“to set free, liberate”), Danish frede (“to have peace, protect, inclose, fence in”), Swedish freda (“to cover, protect, quiet, inclose, fence in”), Icelandic friða (“to make peace, preserve”).
Senses: examples: text: This monument and the Cairns themselves have been purchast by the State, and are now therefore "frithed", protected and national property.
ref: 1868, George Stephens, The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandanavia and England, page 732:
text: Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to 'frith all that the king wills to be frithed
ref: 1973, University of Western Australia Law Review - Volume 11, page 21:
glosses: To protect; guard.
examples: text: On the other of these improvements, the base of the mound was six feet, its height five feet, and breadth at the top nearly the same; this, with the side-drains or ditches on each side, made the whole scite of the fence about 12 feet; cost of raising the mound and frithing, 4s . per perch.
ref: 1808, Charles Vancouver, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Devon, page 134:
text: In the halfe circle enclosed between the flood-gate and the compasse frith, there is digged a round pit, of three foot diameter, and foure foot depth, frithed on the sides, which is continually fedde with the water soaking from the sayd flood-gate, and serueth to keepe any fish aliue, that you haue before taken, and so to saue ouer often drawing.
ref: 1811, Richard Carew, Thomas Tonkin, Francis Basset Baron Basset of Stratton, Carew's Survey of Cornwall, page 249:
text: During the same period, Mr. Davis has also enclosed open copse-woods of oak, on the south of the Teivy 90 acres, on the north of the teivy, 100 acres: all fenced with a foss and mound, planted on the top with quicks, which are "frithed" or guarded on the outside by a hedge of wattled trouse.
ref: 1815, Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815), page 51:
glosses: To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.
frith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: friths
Etymology: From Middle English frith (“forest, woodland; hedging”), from Old English fyrhþe, fyrhþ (“forest, wooded country; game preserve, hunting ground”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi (“forest, woodland”), Proto-Germanic *furhiþją (“forest, wooded country”), *furhiþǭ, from *furhu (“fir; pine”), from *furahō, *furhō (“fir; pine; (fir or pine) forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”), from *perkʷ- (“oak”). The English word is cognate with Latin quercus (“oak”), Old English fyrh (“fir, pine”), Old High German forst, foreht (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine-wood, coniferous forest”). Latin foresta (whence eventually English forest), may be borrowed from the same West Germanic source.
Senses: examples: text: As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; [...]
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174:
glosses: A forest or wood; woodland generally.
glosses: Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
glosses: Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.
glosses: A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.
glosses: A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.
Derived terms: frithy
frith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: friths
Etymology: A metathetic variant of firth.
Senses: examples: text: He [Agricola] had observed, that the island [Britannia; now Great Britain] is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:
text: / The southern hills / That to the setting Sun, their graceful heads / Rearing, o'erlook the frith, where Vecta breaks / With her white rocks, the strong impetuous tide, / When western winds the vast Atlantic urge / To thunder on the coast
ref: 1807, Charlotte Turner Smith, Beachy Head:
text: A Low-Germanic tongue, usually called by those who spoke it Englisc, or English, but which by us is usually styled Anglo-Saxon, was the speech of all the Teutonic inhabitants of Great Britain from the Channel to the Frith of Forth.
ref: 1879, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, History of the English Language, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of firth (“an arm or inlet of the sea”).
fuliginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈlɪ.d͡ʒɪ.nəs/
Forms: form: more fuliginous
form: most fuliginous
Etymology: From Latin fūlīginōsus, from fūlīgō (“soot”).
Senses: examples: text: 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England
…the fuliginous Matter form'd, by the Drift of the Air, into the Shape of a Species of marine Lichen, in Creeks of Chimneys, Stoves, Forges and Furnaces, where there are Fires kept for a considerable Time, and much Fuel spent.
text: 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England
...the Tali, and Septa, are of a more dusky, or, as Wormius expresses it, of a more fuliginous Colour, than ours in England commonly are...
text: 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England
I took them at first for natural Fruits of that Shrub, till the Coffee-Man assur'd me that, when they were first put up, there were none of them upon it, and that they were all form'd since... It has a fuliginous Taste, with a considerable Pungency. This Coffee-Room is much frequented: and there are generally several Pots and Boylers before the Fire. Out of the Dust that arises, the Steams of the Coffee, and other Liquors, Smoak of Tobacco, and the Halitus from the Breath of the People, those Bodies are form'd. This sets forth something of the Constitution of the Air of a Coffee-House.
text: To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards? That he clean the skin of him.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XV, Morrison again”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
text: On the beach, masts and chimneys interlaced, and like a fuliginous shadow the figure of Albertine gliding through the surf, fusing into the mysterious quick and prism of a protoplasmic realm, uniting her shadow to the dream and harbinger of death.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961:
text: I toy with shouting some tidbit more – some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex – but my heart's not in it.
ref: 1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 10:
text: With its own fuliginous Weather, at once public and private, created of smoke billowing from Pipes, Hearths, and Stoves, the Room would provide an extraordinary sight, were any able to see […]
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky.
Derived terms: fuliginosity
fuliginously
furfur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːfə/
ipa: /ˈfɝfɚ/
Forms: form: furfures
Etymology: From Latin furfur (“bran”), reduplication of *fur, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰur-, metathesis of *gʰrus- (compare Lithuanian grū́sti (“to grind (barley)”), Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “skin, husk”)).
Senses: glosses: a particle of dandruff
examples: text: ‘Aye,’ said WS, still in bed, scratching his baldness, examining the furfur in his fingernails.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
glosses: dandruff
futter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌtə/
Forms: form: futters
form: futtering
form: futtered
form: futtered
Etymology: Coined by Richard Francis Burton from French foutre, from Latin futuo, futuere.
Senses: examples: text: Sir John Fastolf called out cheerfully over Miranda’s shoulder to his departing guests, remarking on the sweetness of the night air now that the storm of yesterday night had cleared it, and the day’s rain momentarily had ceased. And all the while he futtered Miranda’s anal canal from behind, and frigged her clitoris.
ref: 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
text: When Doge is not feeding or futtering, depend on it, he is hunting.
ref: 1969, Avram Davidson, The Phoenix and the Mirror:
text: And they began disputing about futtering her.
ref: 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Arabian Nights:
glosses: (obsolete) To fuck.
wikipedia: Richard Francis Burton
hieroglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hieroglyph
hieroglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hieroglyph
gallous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæləs/
Forms: form: gallus
Etymology: A distortion of gallows, used attributively. See -ous.
Senses: glosses: fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous
Derived terms: gallousness
gallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallu
gallus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […] he's unfortinitly ^([sic]) known to be cornected ^([sic]) with a gallus bad lot of cads.
ref: 1872, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, A Noble Lord, page 134:
glosses: Alternative form of gallows.
gallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galluses
Senses: examples: text: […] left gallus of his suspenders […]
ref: 2022, Ronald Kelly, The Saga of Dead-Eye, Book One: Vampires, Zombies, & Mojo Men:
glosses: One strap of a pair of galluses (suspenders).
Derived terms: one-gallus
one-gallused
gamahuche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæməhuːʃ/
Forms: form: gamahuch
form: gamahouche
form: gamahouch
form: gamaruche
form: gamaroosh
form: gammerouss
form: gam
Etymology: From French gamahucher.
Senses: examples: text: “Frank and Louisa are too busy to notice what we do,” I whispered in her ear, as I inclined the willing girl backwards on the soft pillow of sand, and reversing my position, we laid at full length, side by side, both of us as eager as possible for the game; my head was buried between her loving thighs, with which she pressed me most amorously, as my tongue was inserted in her loving slit; this was fine gamahuche.
ref: 1880, anonymous author, The Pearl: A magnum opus of Victorian erotica, published 1996:
text: O Muses, Sacred Nine, and Memory most of all, mother of all of them, and they our mothers – I was Doll Tearsheet’s alchemist that night, and by gamahuche turned her base metal into gold.
ref: 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:
glosses: Oral sex, especially cunnilingus.
gamahuche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæməhuːʃ/
Forms: form: gamahuches
form: gamahuching
form: gamahuched
form: gamahuched
form: gamahuch
form: gamahouche
form: gamahouch
form: gamaruche
form: gamaroosh
form: gammerouss
form: gam
Etymology: From French gamahucher.
Senses: examples: text: [Stephen kneels and begins to undo Eddy’s trousers] EDDY: “J-Jem? Jem, what are you…?” STEPHEN: “Shhh. I want to gamahuche you, Eddy. Do say I might.”
ref: 1994, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, chapter 9, in From Hell:
text: You gamahuche the girl I love,
And give her not the manly shove,
Yet brag about the deed you've done,
As if you were a fucktious one ;
But if I catch you at the trick,
I'll stop your talking with my prick.
ref: 1868, Index Expurgatorius of Martial, section XCVI:
glosses: To perform oral sex, especially cunnilingus, on.
gaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔː/
ipa: /ɡɔ/
ipa: /ɡɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: gaws
form: gawing
form: gawed
form: gawed
Etymology: From Middle English gowen (“to stare”), from Old Norse gá.
Senses: glosses: To gape or stare.
Derived terms: gawk
gaw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔː/
ipa: /ɡɔ/
ipa: /ɡɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: Minced oath for God.
Senses: examples: text: "Gaw!" he whispered, "I don' like dead bodies some'ow! I'd almost rather that chap was alive."
ref: 1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “On Goat Island”, in The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC:
glosses: An expletive expressing disbelief, disdain, or horror
Synonyms: sense: expressing disbelief
word: fiddlesticks
word: get out of town
word: pull the other one
word: bullshit
sense: expressing horror or shock
word: gorblimey
word: Jeebus
word: Jiminy Cricket
word: 'sblood
word: wow
sense: expressing disdain
word: feh
word: pfaugh
word: pshaw
word: pooh
word: bah
gematria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɪˈmeɪ.tɹi.ə/
/ɡɪˈmɑ.tɹi.ə/
Forms: form: gematrias
form: gematriot
form: gematrioth
Etymology: From Aramaic [Term?], from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry”). Doublet of geometry.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose a secret force of Jesuits, receives each Day a summary of Observations made at Greenwich, and transcalculates it according to a system known to the Kabbalists of the Second Century as Gematria, whereby Messages may be extracted from lines of Text sacred and otherwise, a Knowledge preserv’d by various Custodians over the centuries, and since the Last, possess’d by Jesuit and Freemason alike.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
text: each letter in this alphabet also has its own numerical value, what was known among ancient Jewish students of the Torah as ‘gematria’.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 897:
glosses: A cabalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters.
Hypernyms: numerology
Derived terms: gematric
chronic fatigue syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronic fatigue syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition characterized by immune, endocrine and neurologic pathology whose main symptoms are extreme fatigue, extremely low stamina, muscle pain, lymph node swelling, postexertional malaise, and cognitive difficulties.
Synonyms: word: CFS
english: ME
translation: ME
word: myalgic encephalomyelitis
word: neuromyasthenia
word: post-viral fatigue syndrome
alt: SEID
word: systemic exertion intolerance disease
word: yuppie flu
Derived terms: word: CFS
word: ME/CFS
word: myalgic encephalomyelitis
word: chronic fatigue syndrome
cores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːz/
ipa: /kɔɹz/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹz]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of core
cores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːz/
ipa: /kɔɹz/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹz]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of core
psittacosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsitəˈkoʊsɪs/
ipa: [ˌsiɾəˈkoʊsɪs]
Forms: form: psittacoses
Etymology: Latin psittacus (“parrot”) + -osis
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection by Chlamydia bacteria, caught from infected birds, and characterised by fever, pneumonia and headaches.
Synonyms: ornithosis
parrot disease
parrot fever
Derived terms: psittacotic
witter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: witters
form: wittering
form: wittered
form: wittered
Senses: examples: text: She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.
text: When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 55:
glosses: To speak at length on a trivial subject.
witter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more witter
form: most witter
Etymology: From Middle English witter, witer, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitr (“wise, knowing”), from Proto-Germanic *witraz (“knowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis.
Senses: glosses: knowing, certain, sure, wis.
witter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: witters
form: wittering
form: wittered
form: wittered
Etymology: From Middle English witteren, witeren, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitra (“to make wise, make sure”), from Proto-Germanic *witrōną (“to make wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitra (“to make wise, make certain”), Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis.
Senses: glosses: to make sure, inform, or declare.
atwitter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtwɪtɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtɚ
Etymology: From a- + twitter.
Senses: glosses: twittering
examples: text: I had lumbered into the kitchen, taste buds a-twitter with expectation
ref: 1979 February 3, Nancy Walker, “Going Bananas”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 11:
glosses: nervously excited
Related terms: twitter
Ephraim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈifɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˈifɹəm/
ipa: /ˈɛf.ɹəm/
Etymology: From Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם (Efráyim, “Ephraim”, literally “fruitful”), via Latin.
Senses: examples: text: And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 41:52:
glosses: The younger son of Joseph in the Bible, eponymous ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.
Related terms: Ephraimite
Ephrem
Yefrem
Jing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: Jings
form: Gin
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 京 (jīng), as in 京族 (Jīngzú).
Senses: synonyms: word: Gin
english: in China
translation: in China
word: Kinh
glosses: An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
Jing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 涇 /泾 (Jīng), as in 涇河／泾河 (Jīnghé) or 涇水／泾水.
Senses: glosses: A river in China, a tributary of the Wei.
Jing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 井 (jǐng)
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 景
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 京 (jīng)
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 荊 /荆 (jīng)
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 經 /经 or 经
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 更
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 敬 (jìng)
glosses: A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 靖 (jìng)
Gemütlichkeit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemuetlichkeit
form: gemutlichkeit
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gemütlichkeit.
Senses: examples: text: John never got over contrasting her taste in clothes coupled with her experiments in domestic interiors and gemutlichkeit.
ref: 1933, Paul Horgan, Fault of Angels:
text: […] and Vincent Sheean "the king of gemutlichkeit".
ref: 1967, George Thayer, The Farther Shore of Politics, Simon and Schuster:
text: […] where’d they all come from, these gray hustlers, what shadows in the Gemütlichkeit of the day were harboring them?
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
text: Mr. Corde believes in gemutlichkeit more than in public welfare.
ref: 1982, Saul Bellow, Dean's December:
text: Once the nation's largest producer of beer, it still is known as a brewing capital, and is famous for its gemutlichkeit (friendly hospitality).
ref: 1995 November 12, Brenda Warner Rotzoll, “Milwaukee: A Metropolitan Playground Within Reach”, in Chicago Tribune, TRAVEL, page 1:
text: Once upon a time, intellectuals knew they could do their best thinking at home, not in a public venue, and that debate would be helped along by food and drink. But is such gemütlichkeit possible in this country in 2012, when our young century has already been strafed by culture wars and juvenile attack ads?
ref: 2012 August 22, Mark Oppenheimer, “After Dinner, the Fireworks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state or fact of being gemütlich; middle-class niceness or cosiness, hospitality.
Gesellschaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈzɛlʃaft/
Forms: form: Gesellschaften
form: Gesellschafts
form: gesellschaft
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle + -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft.
Senses: examples: text: Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft.
ghazal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæzæl/
Forms: form: ghazals
form: ghasal
form: ghasel
form: ghazel
form: gazel
Etymology: From Persian غزل (ġazal), from Arabic غَزَلَ (ḡazala, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”).
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears.
ref: 2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red:
text: A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.
ref: 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 100:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry.
Aiea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /aɪˈeɪ.ə/
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻAiea.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.
milkweed bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkweed bugs
Senses: glosses: an insect, of the family Lygaeidae, that mostly feeds on the seeds and tissue of the milkweed plant (Asclepias).
ghazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːzi/
Forms: form: ghazis
form: ghazies
Etymology: From Arabic غَازٍ (ḡāzī, “raider, holy warrior”), from the active participle of غَزَا (ḡazā, “to raid”).
Senses: examples: text: I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 1:
text: Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 351:
text: On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan’s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.
ref: 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M Göknar
text: The 14th century also witnessed Ottoman campaigns against fellow Turks and Muslims[…]In accordance with their portrayal of the early Ottomans as ghazi-warriors, 15th-century Ottoman chroniclers often ignored these conflicts (along with the Ottomans' alliances with Christians), claiming that the Ottomans acquired the territories of the neighboring Turkic principalities through peaceful means (purchase and/or marriage).
ref: 2010, Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title.
Derived terms: ghazism
Related terms: Benghazi
alfalfa weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alfalfa weevils
Senses: glosses: A European weevil (Hypera postica) that infests alfalfa crops.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hypera brunneipennis
word: Egyptian alfalfa weevil
giaour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaʊə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaʊəɹ/
Forms: form: giaours
Etymology: Borrowed from French giaour, from Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur), from Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), a variant of گَبْر (gabr, “infidel”); see there for more. Doublet of Gheber and Gueber.
Senses: examples: text: And far beyond the Moslem's power / Had wrong'd him with the faithless Giaour.
ref: 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: John Murray, page 10:
text: We men are not a race of freebooters or giaours; not when our argosies are prey and food to the evil fish-of-metal whose lair is a German U-boat.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
text: I shudder in delight when I think of two-hundred-year-old books, dating back to the time of Tamerlane, volumes for which acquisitive giaours gleefully relinquish gold pieces and which they carry all the way back to their own countries[…].
ref: 2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red:
text: Byron’s tale called The Giaour is supposed to be told by a Turkish fisherman who had been employed all the day in the gulf of Ægi’na, and landed his boat at night-fall on the Piræus, now called the harbor of Port Leonê.[…]The tale is this: Leilah, the beautiful concubine of the Caliph Hasson^([sic]), falls in love with a giaour, flees from the seraglio, is overtaken by an emir, put to death, and cast into the sea. The giaour cleaves Hassan’s skull, flees for his life, and becomes a monk.
ref: 2004, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, “The Giaour”, in Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama, volume 2, page 85:
synonyms: kafir
glosses: A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians.
gladial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡleɪdɪəl/
Etymology: From Latin gladius.
Senses: examples: text: Enderby thrust towards his backside and then felt pity. Enough was enough. He lunged half-heartedly instead at the one who had not yet received gladial attention.
ref: 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:
glosses: Pertaining to swords.
glair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: glare
Forms: form: glairs
form: glaire
Etymology: From Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”).
Senses: examples: text: If you beat an egg white until a froth forms on the surface, the clear liquid below the froth is glair.
ref: 2021, Hana Videen, The Wordhord, Profile Books, published 2022, page 65:
glosses: Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
examples: text: Some rain fell during the past few days but had little effect on the river which remains very low and full of glair.
ref: 1962, The Fishing Gazette, page 276:
text: She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Any viscous, slimy substance.
glosses: A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.
Derived terms: glaireous
glairigenous
glairin
glairy
glair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: glare
Forms: form: glairs
form: glairing
form: glaired
form: glaired
form: glaire
Etymology: From Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”).
Senses: glosses: To smear with egg-white.