cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
witty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪti/
ipa: /ˈwɪti/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾi]
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: wittier
form: wittiest
Etymology: From Middle English witty, witti, from Old English wittiġ, witiġ, ġewittiġ (“clever, wise”), from Proto-West Germanic *witīg, *witag, from Proto-Germanic *witagaz, *wītagaz (“knowing, wise, clever”), equivalent to wit + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German wittich, gewittich (“knowing, clever, wise, understanding”), German witzig (“funny, witty”), Norwegian Bokmål vettig, Norwegian Nynorsk vittig (“witty”).
Senses: examples: text: His speech was both witty and informative.
glosses: Clever; amusingly ingenious.
examples: text: His frequent quips mark him as particularly witty.
glosses: Full of wit.
examples: text: She may have grown older, but she has grown no less witty.
glosses: Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.
glosses: Wise, having good judgement.
examples: text: It hath beene a witty invention[…]to establish and ordaine certaine vaine and worthles markes, therewith to honor and recompence vertue[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Possessing a strong intellect or intellectual capacity; intelligent, skilful, ingenious.
Synonyms: word: facetious
word: humorous
word: jocose
word: jocular
word: quick
word: lively
word: witty
word: amusing
word: bright
word: diverting
word: droll
word: entertaining
word: piquant
word: quick on the draw
word: quick-witted
word: sharp
word: tongue-in-cheek
Related terms: word: kitty witty
word: joke
word: funny
word: intelligent
whereabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(h)wɛəɹəˈbaʊts/
ipa: /ˈ(h)wɛəɹəˌbaʊts/
Etymology: From Middle English wheraboutes, equivalent to whereabout + -s (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Whereabouts do you live?
glosses: In, at or near what location.
jocose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkəʊs/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkoʊs/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊˈkoʊs/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊs
rhymes: (US) -oʊs
Forms: form: more jocose
form: most jocose
Etymology: From Latin iocōsus (“humorous”), from iocus (“jest, joke”).
Senses: examples: text: Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?
ref: 1659, John Gauden, chapter XXXI, in Ίερα Δακρυα [Hiera dakrya]. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book II (Searching the Causes and Occasions of the Church of England’s Decayes), page 251:
text: Jocose flesh-eaters take a malicious delight in pointing out and enumerating to Vegetarians the many animal substances now in common use, and in taunting them with inconsistency in using them.
ref: 1886, Henry S. Salt, “VII: On Certain Fallacies”, in A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays, page 80:
text: The American people, / With grins jocose, / Always survive the fatal dose.
ref: 1941, Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”, in The Face Is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 223:
glosses: given to jesting; habitually jolly
glosses: playful; characterized by joking
Derived terms: jocosely
jocoseness
jocoserious
jocosity
unjocose
Related terms: jocular
jocund
dum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
homophone: dumb
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From Hindi दम (dam).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: cooked with steam
Related terms: dumpoke
dum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
homophone: dumb
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: examples: text: I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who. Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.
ref: 2012, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor:
glosses: Syllable used when humming a tune.
dum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
homophone: dumb
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dumb.
dum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌm/
homophone: dumb
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of damn.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: ba-dum ching
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: ba dum tish
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: ba dum tss
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: dum-dum
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: dum dum
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: dum dum bullet
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: dum palm
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: Tweedle-dum
cogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
ipa: /kɔːɡ/
ipa: /koːɡ/
Forms: form: cogues
form: cog
Etymology: Of unknown origin, but probably related to cog (“kind of ship, vessel”).
Senses: glosses: A small round wooden vessel for holding milk.
air bounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bounces
Senses: examples: text: He threw a textbook air bounce, under the marker's arms, over the cup's heads.
qualifier: ultimate frisbee
glosses: A throw at a downward angle with an upward attitude causing the disc to descend during the beginning of the flight and then rise.
backhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækhænd/
Forms: form: backhands
Etymology: From back + hand.
Senses: examples: text: She has a mean backhand.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
racquet-sports
sports
antonyms: forehand
qualifier: tennis and other
glosses: A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
examples: text: It was written in a shaky backhand.
glosses: Handwriting that leans to the left.
qualifier: Ultimate Frisbee
glosses: The standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
antonyms: palm
glosses: The back of the hand: the reverse side (dorsal side) of the human hand or other primate hand.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
antonyms: forehand
glosses: The hand towards the back of the board.
backhand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækhænd/
Forms: form: backhands
form: backhanding
form: backhanded
form: backhanded
Etymology: From back + hand.
Senses: glosses: To execute a backhand stroke or throw.
examples: text: While Joe is driving, Bob gets upset and wants to go back to set up. Bob and Joe argue for a few seconds. Then, Bob grabs the wheel and nearly causes us to hit a tree. In response, Joe backhands Bob and tells him to immediately stop or he will get us killed. Bob says that he was just trying to get us back on track and that he was joking.
ref: 2023 May 23, Alison Green, anonymous quotee, “my coworker got drunk and punched another coworker in the parking lot”, in Ask a Manager (blog), archived from the original on 11 Dec 2024:
glosses: To slap with the back of one's hand.
backhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækhænd/
Forms: form: more backhand
form: most backhand
Etymology: From back + hand.
Senses: examples: text: In great confusion, Gordon accepted the letter, broke its small crested seal, and began reading the neat back-hand scrawl.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 135:
glosses: Slanting to the left.
raw_tags: of handwriting
glosses: In the backhand style.
raw_tags: of strokes or throws
examples: text: He scored on a backhand shot.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Using the back side of the hockey stick.
raw_tags: of a play
Related terms: backhanded
bonze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒnz/
Forms: form: bonzes
form: bonzee
form: bonzo
Etymology: From French bonze, from Portuguese bonzo, from Japanese 凡僧 (bonzō), from Middle Chinese 凡 (bjom, “ordinary”) + 僧 (song, “Buddhist monk”).
Senses: glosses: A Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia.
Related terms: bhikku
bhikkhu
bikkhu
bhikshu
bhikkhuni
bhikshuni
grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊndz/
ipa: /ɡɹʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: plural of ground
grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊndz/
ipa: /ɡɹʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ground
grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊndz/
ipa: /ɡɹʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Forms: form: grounds
Etymology: From ground (“basis, surroundings”).
Senses: examples: text: grounds for divorce
topics: law
glosses: Basis or justification for something.
examples: text: the castle grounds
text: House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: The collective land areas that compose a larger area.
Derived terms: Archgrounds
fairgrounds
groundskeeper
groundskeeping
groundsman
grounds officer
groundswoman
stomping grounds
grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊndz/
ipa: /ɡɹʊndz/
rhymes: -aʊndz
Etymology: From ground, past participle of to grind.
Senses: examples: coffee grounds
glosses: The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered.
droll
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɹɒl/
ipa: /dɹoʊl/
ipa: [dɹoːɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: droller
form: drollest
Etymology: From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.
Senses: examples: text: The Theatre of Puppets, or Marionetti—a famous company from Milan—is, without any exception, the drollest exhibition I ever beheld in my life. I never saw anything so exquisitely ridiculous.
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, “Genoa and Its Neighbourhood”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 68:
synonyms: word: witty
word: amusing
word: bright
word: diverting
word: droll
word: entertaining
word: humorous
word: jocose
word: jocular
word: piquant
word: quick
word: quick on the draw
word: quick-witted
word: sharp
word: tongue-in-cheek
glosses: Oddly humorous; whimsical, amusing in a quaint way; waggish.
Derived terms: drollery
drollish
drollist
drollness
drolly
droll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɹɒl/
ipa: /dɹoʊl/
ipa: [dɹoːɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: drolls
Etymology: From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.
Senses: examples: text: The lieutenant was a droll in his way, Peregrine possessed a great fund of sprightliness and good humour, and Godfrey, among his other qualifications already recited, sung a most excellent song […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 294:
glosses: A funny person; a buffoon, a wag.
droll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɹɒl/
ipa: /dɹoʊl/
ipa: [dɹoːɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: drolls
form: drolling
form: drolled
form: drolled
Etymology: From French drôle (“comical, odd, funny”), from drôle (“buffoon”) from Middle French drolle (“a merry fellow, pleasant rascal”) from Old French drolle (“one who lives luxuriously”), from Middle Dutch drol (“fat little man, goblin”), itself from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą. Doublet of drôle and troll.
Senses: examples: text: "Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious! But would it not be simpler for you to write him a few words in black and white?" / "And that is an excellent observe, Mr. Balfour of Shaws," says Alan, drolling with me; [...]
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakeigh”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 205:
glosses: To jest, to joke.
Derived terms: drollingly
droll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɹɒl/
ipa: /dɹoʊl/
ipa: [dɹoːɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: drolls
Senses: examples: text: HAMILTON’S HILL, 0.4 m., a little elevation, was the starting point for the races, and is known for a wide variety of ghosts including such fearsome creatures as a 10-foot cat that explodes before the beholder’s eyes, plat-eyes in the guise of three-legged hogs and two-headed cows, boo-daddies, boo-hags, and drolls. The drolls are supposed to be the spirits of infants who died painful deaths.
ref: 1938, The Ocean Highway: New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida, page 204:
text: Drolls are spirits of young children who died a painful death. They can be heard, the Negroes say, crying piteously at night in deep swamps and deserted marshland.
ref: 1941, South Carolina Folk Tales: Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings, page 48:
text: To the typical Negro of the Carolina coast, the night was made fearsome by hordes of spirit beings—the plat-eye, the boo-daddy and boo-hag, the drolls. […] Boo-daddies and boo-hags, were disembodied spirits, released for dread purposes, while drolls were the ghosts of children who had died under mysterious circumstances.
ref: 1949, Chalmers S. Murray, This Our Land: The Story of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, page 233:
text: I have heard them sing the songs of their forefathers and tell of Drolls, Boo Daddies, Plat Eyes, and other terrible spirits who came back on this earth at certain times to plague the lives of men.
ref: 1955, Nell S. Graydon, Tales of Edisto:
text: And whenever we heard the droll shrieking from down toward Drunken Jack Island they told us the story of Crab Boy.
ref: 2013, Lynn Michelsohn, Crab Boy’s Ghost: Gullah Folktales from Murrells Inlet’s Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry, →ISBN:
qualifier: Gullah folklore
glosses: The ghost of a child, especially one who died a painful death.
piquant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːkənt/
ipa: /ˈpiːˌkɑːnt/
ipa: /piːˈkɑːnt/
ipa: /ˈpiːkwənt/
rhymes: -iːkənt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: more piquant
form: most piquant
form: piquante
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.
Senses: glosses: Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.
examples: text: Their husbands […] leave home to seek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a significant French word, piquant society […]
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: He looked after her as she retreated, with a fondness which was rendered more piquant, as it were, by the mixture of a certain scorn which accompanied it.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 55, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming.
examples: text: Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
ref: 2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, 2nd edition, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then […]
ref: 2005, Clifford A. Wright, Some Like it Hot: Spicy Favorites from the World's Hot Zones, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 170:
text: French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.
ref: 2009, Sara Engram with Katie Luber and Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.
glosses: Producing a burning sensation due to the presence of chilies or similar spices; spicy, hot.
Derived terms: piquancy
piquantly
piquantness
unpiquant
broil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
ipa: /bɹaɪl/
Forms: form: broils
form: broiling
form: broiled
form: broiled
Etymology: From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
* bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
* usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)
Senses: examples: text: To broil a pigeon. When you broil them, do them in the same manner, and take care your fire is very clear, and set your gridiron high, that they may not burn, and have a little parsley and butter in a cup. You may split them, and broil them with a little pepper and salt, and you may roast them only with a little parsley and butter in a dish.
ref: 1788, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy: Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Yet Published, page 6:
text: To broil Red Mullet. Neither seale nor gut your mullet, wipe them very clean in a cloth, butter half a sheet of writing paper for each fish, put them in, and fasten it all round; have a very clear fire, broil them very gently for twenty minutes, hen put them in a dish, with anchovy sauce and plain butter in boats.
ref: 1798, Richard Briggs, The English Art of Cookery…With Bills of Fare for Every Month in the Year…A New Edition, page 70:
text: To broil fish. To broil trout in a third way. When they are cleaned and washed, dry them well in a napkin. Then bind them about with packthread, sprinkle them with melted butter and salt, and broil them over a gentle fire, turning them from time to time.
ref: 1813, Bell Plumptre, Domestic Management; Or, the Healthful Cookery-Book, page 247:
synonyms: grill
glosses: To cook by direct, radiant heat.
raw_tags: in the UK
glosses: To expose to great heat.
glosses: To be exposed to great heat.
Derived terms: broast
broilable
broiler
broilsome
broil up
charbroil
overbroil
pan-broil
panbroil
unbroiled
broil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
ipa: /bɹaɪl/
Forms: form: broils
Etymology: From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
* bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
* usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)
Senses: examples: text: Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe’s Lodging, and a Certain Confidence between Dr. Sturk and Mr. Dangerfield”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Food prepared by broiling.
Derived terms: London broil
broil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
ipa: /bɹaɪl/
Forms: form: broils
form: broiling
form: broiled
form: broiled
form: broyl
Etymology: From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”).
Senses: glosses: To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
glosses: To brawl.
broil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
ipa: /bɹaɪl/
Forms: form: broils
form: broyl
Etymology: From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”).
Senses: examples: text: come to broils
text: But to give the faireſt Play to every ſide of the Queſtion, I vvill own that there is a Haughtineſs, and Fierceneſs in human Nature, vvhich vvill cauſe innumerable Broils, place Men in vvhat State you pleaſe; but ovvning this, I ſtill inſiſt in charging to Political Regulations, that theſe Broils are ſo frequent, ſo cruel, and attended vvith ſo deplorable Conſequences.
ref: 1756, [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society: Or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. […], London: […] M. Cooper […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: "Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XXVII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole […]
ref: a. 1822 (date written), John Keats, “[Tragedies.] Otho the Great: A Tragedy in Five Acts.”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1899, →OCLC, Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals), page 159, column 1, lines 1-2:
text: Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
ref: 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, volume 8, page 382:
text: “I have never sought an unrighteous broil. I have never broken my word.”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47:
glosses: A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
Synonyms: skirmish
Japon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iapon
Etymology: Possibly from New Latin Iapō̆nia or French Japon or Cantonese 日本 (jat⁶ bun²).
Senses: examples: text: Thus he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], which in his youth had vſed to cut wood and carry it into the Market to ſell for his daily ſuſtenance, for his valure promoted in militarie honours, at laſt became the greateſt Monarch that Iapon had ſeene in eight hundred yeares, […]
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Islands of Iapon, and Their Religions.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies: And of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 442:
glosses: Obsolete form of Japan.
shuteye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shut-eye.
turn into a pumpkin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns into a pumpkin
form: turning into a pumpkin
form: turned into a pumpkin
form: turned into a pumpkin
Etymology: From the story of Cinderella, in which a pumpkin magically transformed into a coach reverts to its original form at midnight.
Senses: examples: text: I'm about ready to turn into a pumpkin. You can stay up later if you want.
text: Tell her I'm turning into a pumpkin if she stays out too late. She won't be getting a lift from me.
glosses: To go to bed; to go to sleep (especially at, or around midnight).
examples: text: My daughter turns into a pumpkin at 10:00, so you need to have her home before then.
text: I'm turning into a pumpkin at 4:00, so we need to finish this.
text: "I need to get back now!" "Why? Are you going to turn into a pumpkin?"
glosses: Used to indicate a curfew, or the time by which one must depart.
glosses: To cease to be special or extraordinary.
forty winks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As you're so tired, why not try to catch forty winks before you leave?
text: […] who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Powell: I... sometimes I need a nap to get through my shift. I sneak off behind the crates to grab forty winks where the supervisor can't find me.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
synonyms: word: nap
word: shut-eye
word: twenty winks
word: cark
word: doss
word: rest
word: sleep
word: shut-eye
glosses: A short sleep, an extra sleep, a nap.
hit the nail on the head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the nail on the head
form: hitting the nail on the head
form: hit the nail on the head
form: hit the nail on the head
Senses: examples: text: He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat.
text: "Scotte's discovery of Witchcraft dismasketh sundry egregious impostures, and in certaine principall chapters, and speciall passages, hitteth the nayle on the head with a witnesse."
ref: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation, or A New Praise Of The Old Ass, page 291:
glosses: To identify something exactly; to arrive at exactly the right answer.
Synonyms: word: nail the hammer on the head
word: nail it
Related terms: on the dot
on the nose
hit the spot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the spot
form: hitting the spot
form: hit the spot
form: hit the spot
Etymology: Likely originally reflecting either the same metaphor as scratch the itch or a shooting-at-a-target metaphor, although not always perceived through those lenses anymore.
Senses: examples: text: Some ice cold lemonade would hit the spot on a warm afternoon.
text: Even in the Midwestern summer heat, Al’s dogs hit the spot. Chicago is indisputably a hot-dog town, and there may be no better time than summer to feel that sunshine in your hands.
ref: 2022 July 21, Eric Kim, “Welcome to Chicago, Hot Dog Town, U.S.A.”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: scratch the itch
scratch an itch
hit the button
glosses: To be particularly pleasing or appropriate; to be just right.
doodad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈduːdæd/
Forms: form: doodads
form: doo-dad
form: dodad
form: do-dad
form: dodab
Etymology: Unknown; attested since the 1880s. Compare earlier daud (“a piece of something”), later doohickey (“a thing (whose name one cannot recall)”), dialectal dad, dadge (“a large piece, chunk”).
Senses: examples: text: My mom has a clever doodad for peeling oranges.
text: Of course I eat an apple every evening—an apple a day keeps the doctor away—but still, you ought to have more prunes, and not all these fancy doodads.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter I, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section IV, page 11:
text: The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead. There were full-length mirrors and crystal doodads all over the place.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
text: The reason is that not all bomblets explode as they’re meant to, and thousands of small, unexploded grenades can lie around for years, even decades, before somebody — often, a child spotting a brightly colored, battery-size doodad on the ground — accidentally sets it off.
ref: 2023 July 10, The Editorial Board, “The Flawed Moral Logic of Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: doodah
word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: Used to refer to something whose name one cannot recall: an unspecified device, gadget, part, or thing.
thunderboomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderboomers
Etymology: From thunder + boomer.
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday's thunderboomer gave the kids a good scare.
glosses: A large or dramatic thunderstorm.
whereof
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛəɹˈɒv/
ipa: /(h)wɛɹˈʌv/
rhymes: -ɒv
rhymes: -ʌv
Etymology: From Middle English wherof; equivalent to where + of. Compare the parallel formations of Swedish varav and Dutch waaraf.
Senses: glosses: Of what.
examples: text: SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [176]:
text: Then they set somewhat of food before me, whereof I ate my fill, and gave me somewhat of clothes wherewith I clad myself anew and covered my nakedness; after which they took me up into the ship, […]
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “[Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman] The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman. [Night 558.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume VI, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Of which.
examples: text: Now one day of the days, […] the Sultan cast his eyes upon her as she stood before him, and said to his Grand Wazir, “This be the very woman whereof I spake to thee yesterday, so do thou straightway bring her before me, that I may see what be her suit and fulfil her need.”
ref: 1887, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Alaeddin; or, The Wonderful Lamp. [Night 547.]”, in Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume III, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: Of whom.
glosses: With or by which.
Derived terms: in witness whereof
Related terms: whence
put two and two together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts two and two together
form: putting two and two together
form: put two and two together
form: put two and two together
Senses: examples: text: We didn't tell our friends that we were dating, but I think they put two and two together.
glosses: To figure something out; to deduce or discern something.
Derived terms: put two and two together and make five
Related terms: connect the dots
wherewithal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛə.wɪ.ðɔːl/
ipa: /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɔl/
ipa: /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.θɔl/
ipa: /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.ðɑl/
ipa: /ˈwɛɚ.wɪ.θɑl/
Forms: form: wherewithals
Etymology: From where + withal.
Senses: examples: text: I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal.
text: Justice was sold at the tribunals, and the most enormous crimes escaped from punishment, when the criminals had wherewithal to corrupt their judges.
ref: 1688, John Dryden, The Life of St Francis Xavier, book II, translation of original by Dominique Bouhours:
text: Big Council meeting! At the bookshop in twenty minutes. Carfare will be refunded. Can we scrape together the wherewithal?
ref: 1954, Edward Eager, Half Magic:
text: "I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[…]"
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 67:
text: […] A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.
ref: 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
text: Although Emma comes to realise she's trapped in a kind of hell, married to a dullard she despises, she lacks the intellectual wherewithal to plot a breakout more sophisticated than consorting with idiots such as Leon and Rodolphe.
ref: 2019, John O’Connell, Bowie's Bookshelf, →ISBN:
text: In political economic terms, the pandemic worked to intensify a development that the decline in the neoliberal order had already set in motion: namely, a conviction that government was the only institution with the wherewithal to address severe economic and social hardship.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 8, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
glosses: The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
make someone's teeth itch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's teeth itch
form: making someone's teeth itch
form: made someone's teeth itch
form: made someone's teeth itch
Senses: examples: text: The squeaking won’t do any harm, but if it makes your teeth itch, oil the hinge.
glosses: To bother or unsettle a person; to put someone on edge.
whetstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɛtˌstoʊn/
ipa: [ˈʍɛʔˌstoʊn]
ipa: /ˈwɛtˌstoʊn/
ipa: [ˈwɛʔˌstoʊn]
ipa: /wɛtstəʊn/
Forms: form: whetstones
Etymology: From Middle English whestone, whetston, whetesston, from Old English hwetstān, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain (“whetstone”). Equivalent to whet (“to sharpen”) + stone.
Senses: examples: text: […]for alwaies the dulneſſe of the foole, is the whetstone of the wits.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 186, column 2, line 192:
text: It was as if a stone were ground to dust; as if white sparks flew from a livid whetstone, which was his spine; as if the switchback railway, having swooped to the depths, fell, fell, fell.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
synonyms: honestone#Noun
hypernyms: stone#Noun
coordinate_terms: holystone#Noun
;
grindstone
;
grinding wheel
glosses: A sharpening stone; a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool.
glosses: A stimulant.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”).
whetstone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɛtˌstoʊn/
ipa: [ˈʍɛʔˌstoʊn]
ipa: /ˈwɛtˌstoʊn/
ipa: [ˈwɛʔˌstoʊn]
ipa: /wɛtstəʊn/
Forms: form: whetstones
form: whetstoning
form: whetstoned
form: whetstoned
Etymology: From Middle English whestone, whetston, whetesston, from Old English hwetstān, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain (“whetstone”). Equivalent to whet (“to sharpen”) + stone.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: hone (verb)
synonyms: stone#Verb
coordinate_terms: holystone#Verb
;
grind#Verb
glosses: To sharpen with a whetstone.
whiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(h)wɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: more whiff
form: most whiff
Etymology: The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom under a pile of stones [they] drew forth the new-slain corpse of a cat. […] 'Well-nourished old lady, ain't she?' said Stalky. 'How long d'you suppose it'll take her to get a bit whiff in a confined space?' / 'Bit whiff! What a coarse brute you are!' said M'Turk. 'Can't a poor pussy-cat get under King's dormitory floor to die without your pursuin' her with your foul innuendoes?'
ref: 1899 January, Rudyard Kipling, “An Unsavoury Interlude”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, pages 77–78:
text: Whoo boy that gear oil is pretty whiff. If you actually do this, spend the extra money for the synthetic gear oil as it will not have as bad a sulfur stink as the regular stuff.
ref: 2002 November 5, Jim Rozen, “Way oil”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet):
synonyms: word: stinking
word: whiffy
word: bad
word: buckish
word: cacodorous
word: fetid
word: foul-smelling
word: funky
word: graveolent
word: malodorous
word: niffy
word: noisome
word: nonaromatic
word: nonfragrant
word: olid
word: on the nose
word: pongy
word: putredinous
word: reeking
word: reeky
word: ripe
word: smelly
word: stank
word: stenchy
word: stinking
word: stinksome
word: stinky
word: unaromatic
word: unfragrant
word: whiff
word: whiffy
glosses: Having a strong or unpleasant odour.
whiff
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(h)wɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
Etymology: The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).
Senses: examples: text: Sir Willoughby, […] made to this extraordinary remonstrance no other reply than a long whiff, and a "Well, Russelton, dash my wig (a favourite oath of Sir W.'s) but you're a queer fellow."
ref: 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXXII, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 293:
text: But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, / The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, […]
ref: 1850, Alfred Tennyson, “Conclusion”, in The Princess: A Medley, 3rd edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 174:
glosses: Used to indicate a sound like that of air passing through a small opening, that is, a short or soft whistle.
Related terms: skew-whiff
whiff-whaff
off the bat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From cricket, baseball, and other sports where a bat is used to strike a ball and the players have to make an immediate decision where to run and what plays to make after a successful strike.
Senses: examples: text: hot off the bat; straight off the bat
text: I didn't see anything wrong, off the bat.
text: "We're not going to uplift the frequency until we've got the new trains. But what we've seen straight off the bat has been a big winner for our customers."
ref: 2023 November 29, Richard Foster, “Tyne & Wear Metro goes with the flow”, in RAIL, number 997, page 35:
synonyms: from the get-go
out of the gate
right off the bat
straight out of the chute
glosses: From the start; immediately; right away.
reckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkn̩ɪŋ/
Etymology: Gerund of the verb reckon, from reckon + -ing. Compare Dutch rekening, German Rechnung.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reckon
reckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkənɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkn̩ɪŋ/
Forms: form: reckonings
Etymology: Gerund of the verb reckon, from reckon + -ing. Compare Dutch rekening, German Rechnung.
Senses: examples: text: By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.
text: So saying, he called for a reckoning for the wine, and throwing down the price of the additional bottle which he had himself introduced, rose as if to take leave of us.
ref: 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
text: When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The action of calculating or estimating something.
examples: text: day of reckoning
glosses: An opinion or judgement.
examples: text: My mother's father was a small-town school teacher, an occupation with somewhat more status (teachers are petit bourgeois by the standard reckoning) which nevertheless provided little more income than on my father's side.
ref: 1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 15:
text: The research presented in this paper is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reckoning of an expanding set of portmanteau terms based on the word English.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 18:
glosses: A summing up or appraisal.
glosses: The settlement of accounts, as between parties.
glosses: The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.
glosses: The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.
glosses: Rank or status.
Synonyms: sense: action of calculating or estimating something
word: calculation
word: computation
word: calculation
Derived terms: day of reckoning
dead reckoning
Dutch reckoning
final reckoning
off-reckoning