cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dammit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪt/
ipa: /ˈdæmət/
rhymes: -æmɪt
rhymes: -æmət
Forms: form: dammits
form: damnit
Etymology: Univerbation of damn + it.
Senses: examples: text: ... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit.
ref: 1935, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins:
text: ... and I may say that I was as limpid as dammit.
ref: 1938, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
text: Get us about, quick as dammit! Clew up tops'ls, there!
ref: 2006, Dewey Lambdin, A King's Trade, page 294:
text: I mean I'd banked on getting that permission, I'd as near as dammit been promised I'd get it. Can you wonder I was fed up to my back teeth?
ref: 2007, Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh, page 14:
glosses: The saying of the interjection, used as a general measure of anything.
examples: text: We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on). We were lucky to find our name tags.
ref: 2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A fastener used for military medals, name tags or other things that are pinned to a uniform; a clutch, a clutchback.
damnit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæmɪt/
rhymes: -æmɪt
Etymology: Nonstandard contraction of damn + it
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dammit.
synonyms: word: dammit
absolue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: absolues
form: absoluing
form: absolued
form: absolued
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of absolve.
ambodexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambodexters
Senses: examples: text: men are evil, wicked, malicious, treacherous, and naught, not loving one another, or loving themselves, not hospitable, charitable, nor sociable as they ought to be, but counterfeit, dissemblers, ambodexters, all for their own ends, hard-hearted, merciless, pittiless ; and, to benefit themselves, they car? not what mischiefe they procure to others.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy:
text: He is charged to have bene longe a most gredye & insatiable taker of excessive fees, and (which is moost odious) a notorious & common ambodexter, takinge fee on both sydes, to the great scandals of his place & profession.
ref: 1868, Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, volume 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ambidexter.
anxitie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Care or sorrow.
Related terms: anxiety
askey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Looking aside.
assoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: assoyles
form: assoyling
form: assoyled
form: assoyled
Senses: examples: text: Whom Ceſar doth condemne, god ſumtime doeth aſſoyle: and whom the prince doth aſſoyle, he leaueth in the cumpany of mẽ [men], to make other like himſelf: […]
ref: 1549 February 10 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1548), Erasmus, “The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Gospell of Saincte Matthew. The .xviii. Chapter.”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, →OCLC, folio xciii, recto:
text: I ſaie, aſſoyleth this doubt and queſtion, by the only argument and aſſuraunce of the knovven Catholik church of Chriſt.
ref: 1565, Thomas Stapleton, chapter 14, in A Fortresse of the Faith […], Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], →OCLC, folio 65, verso:
text: And ye poore Pilgrimes, that vvith reſtleſſe toyle / VVearie your ſelues in vvandring deſert vvayes, / Till that you come, vvhere ye your vovves aſſoyle, / VVhen paſsing by ye read theſe vvofull layes / On my graue vvritten, […]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC, signature [C4], recto:
text: His wearie ghoſt aſſoyld from fleſhly band, / Did not as others wont, directly fly / Vnto her reſt in Plutoes grieſly land, / Ne into ayre did vaniſh preſently, / Ne chaunged was into a ſtarre in sky: […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 40:
text: But ſecretly aſſoyling of his ſin, / No other med'cine vvill he to him lay, / Saying that Heauen his ſiluer him ſhould vvin, / And to giue Friers, vvas better then to pray, / So he vvere ſhrieu'd, vvhat need he care a pin?
ref: 1607, Michael Drayton, “The Legend of Great Cromwell”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, published 1630, →OCLC, page 461:
text: [H]is Barons […] flatly oppoſe themſelues both to his commaund and their Countries good, denying him (vntill he vvere aſſoyled of his excommunication,) their attendance in ſo behouefull a ſeruice.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Iohn, Duke of Normandie, Guyen, and Aquitaine, &c. […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 51, page 501, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of assoil.
balase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ballast
barreter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barreters
Etymology: Apparently a variant of barretter (“ballast resistor”), which in turn may be from Old French barateor (“barrator”).
Senses: examples: text: Fessenden determined that a current-operated detector would offer advantages over those operated by voltage and based these deductions on his hot-wire barreter.
ref: 1904, Engineering Magazine, volume 27, page 380:
glosses: A variable resistor made up of a short length of very fine wire (usually platinum) having a positive temperature coefficient.
barreter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barreters
Etymology: Variant of barrator.
Senses: glosses: A contentious person, quarreler, or fighter.
fan base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fan bases
form: fanbase
Senses: examples: text: Building a fan base is crucial to career development of a pop musician.
glosses: The fans of a thing or person taken as a group.
Synonyms: fandom
fanship
garbanzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/
Forms: form: garbanzos
Etymology: From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.
Senses: examples: text: America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free[…]
ref: 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33:
synonyms: garbanzo bean
glosses: An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.
glosses: A seed of this plant; the chickpea.
bah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæ/
ipa: /bɑː/
rhymes: -æ
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: baugh
Etymology: Early 19th century, probably borrowed from French bah.
Senses: examples: text: "To the doctor's? Bah!" said the sorceress, and spat upon the floor.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 301:
text: “Bah!” cried the woman. “My husband will know!”
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Forging Bonds of Hate and ——?”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Templeton looked over the assembled servants speculatively, then shrugged. "Bah!" he said. "They're of no use to me. Come, Andrew, a word with you upstairs."
ref: 1992, April Kihlstrom, Dangerous Masquerade:
glosses: Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
Synonyms: sense: expressing contempt
word: pht
word: feh
word: meh
word: pooh
word: pshaw
word: poh
word: pish
sense: expressing disgust
word: bleh
word: ick
word: ych a fi
word: yuck
word: bah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: faugh
word: faw
word: foh
word: fough
word: gaw
word: harumph
word: pah
word: pfaugh
word: pfui
word: phht
word: pho
word: phoh
word: piff
word: pssh
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: psht
word: pssht
word: pugh
word: puh
word: tush
Derived terms: bah humbug
pooh-bah
poobah
Related terms: word: contempt
word: despise
word: yuck
bah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæ/
ipa: /bɑː/
rhymes: -æ
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /bæ/
ipa: /bɑː/
rhymes: -æ
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: bahs
form: baa
Senses: examples: text: `There, cut his throat quick. Where is the saucer?' `The Goat! the Goat! the Goat! Give me the blood of my black goat! I must have it, don't you see I must have it? Oh! oh! oh! give me the blood of the goat.' At this moment a terrified bah! announced that the poor goat had been sacrificed, and the next minute a woman ran up with a saucer full of blood.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of baa.
bah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæ/
ipa: /bɑː/
rhymes: -æ
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /bæ/
ipa: /bɑː/
rhymes: -æ
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: baa
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baa.
Synonyms: word: bah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: faugh
word: faw
word: feh
word: foh
word: fough
word: gaw
word: harumph
word: pah
word: pfaugh
word: pfui
word: phht
word: pho
word: phoh
word: pht
word: piff
word: pish
word: poh
word: pooh
word: pshaw
word: pssh
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: psht
word: pssht
word: pugh
word: puh
word: tush
Related terms: word: contempt
word: despise
word: yuck
bah
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæ/
ipa: /bɑː/
rhymes: -æ
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: baa
homophone: bar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ba.
Related terms: sis boom bah
brandophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandophiles
Etymology: From brand + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: From glasses gassing with Belgian Grimbergen and French Kronenbourg to bottles brimming with Sagres in Lisbon, Newcastle Brown Ale in New York and Baltika in Belarus, not to mention a warehouse full of Fosters, to which S&N bought full European rights last week, the video party swung on to a final "cheers" from a bar full of youthful brandophiles.
ref: 2006 April 28, Simon Bain, “S&N tells investors about its dream: Some old-timers at odds with trendy new image”, in The Herald, Scotland:
text: I cannot help but feel that these are for brandophiles who know and love Monitor Audio's huge repertoire, especially its top stuff.
ref: 2011 March, Adam Rayner, “Let some feeling in”, in Home Cinema Choice, page 71:
text: Though I appreciate the value of brands, I am not really a brandophile and so, unless I am browsing through an Armani or GAP store somewhere abroad and chance upon something I like from their children’s line, the chances of me picking up something branded for them are really slim.
ref: 2012 April 19, L. Romal M. Singh, “When fashion starts out young”, in Daily News and Analysis:
glosses: A person who is fond of a commercial brand or brands.
cheiloproclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheiloproclitic
form: most cheiloproclitic
Senses: glosses: having an erotic attraction to a person's lips
ambiversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmbɪˈvɜːʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /-ʒ(ə)n/
ipa: /ˌæmbəˈvɚʃən/
ipa: /-ʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
Etymology: From ambi- (prefix meaning ‘both’) + Latin versiōnem (from versiō (“change, turning; version”), from vertō (“to turn; to turn around”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)), modelled after extroversion and introversion.
Senses: examples: text: The definition of ambiversion grows then directly out of the two preceding [extroversion and introversion] and is to be stated as a condition of development in which attention is controlled by either objective or subjective conditions of attention and in which the content of the subjective conditions is so varied as to make possible more or less prolonged periods of either extroversion or introversion.
ref: 1923 January–March, Edmund S. Conklin, “The Definition of Introversion, Extroversion and Allied Concepts”, in Morton Prince, Floyd H[enry] Allport, editors, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology, volume XVII, number 4, Albany, N.Y.: Published by Boyd Printing Company, Inc. […], →OCLC, page 377:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A personality trait having balanced characteristics of both extroversion and introversion.
Derived terms: ambivert
ambiverted
mortal coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortal coils
Etymology: Alluding to Hamlet. The two senses result from two interpretations of the word coil, one taking it to mean “tumult, confusion, fuss”, the other “case, wrapping”. In either case, the phrase “shuffle off this mortal coil” must mean “die”. Since "shuffle off" is generally taken to mean "get rid of" or "evade" it is likely that in the sense that Shakespeare used it, it was specifically referring to the act of suicide.
Senses: glosses: The chaos and confusion of life.
examples: text: […] [A black swallowtail] does not—as a true insect does—change from worm to grub, and from grub to his mature form, but simply “shuffles off his mortal coil,”—skin, hairs, and leggings all complete, now and then, […] . He then leaves his shuffled-off “mortal coil” hanging upon a fragment of dirty cobweb, as before described.
ref: 1871, “T. A.”, “Polyxenes”, in J. E. Taylor et al. (editors), Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip for 1872, Robert Hardwicke (1873), page 32
text: Shakespeare represents the human body under various figures: a coil: a case: a frame: a machine: a vesture: a heft: a motion or puppet: &c. It has been contended that in Hamlet’s speech, the ‘mortal coil’ is the coil, i.e. trouble of turmoil, incident to man’s mortal state: but the analogies are too strong in favor of the ‘mortal coil’ being what Fletcher calls the ‘case of flesh’ (Bonduca, iv. 1).
ref: 1874, C. M. Ingleby, The Still Lion: An Essay Towards the Restoration of Shakespeare’s Text, Trübner & Co., page 87:
text: His soul may have found rest, but “his mortal coil” certainly did not. Unfortunately […] the village “astrologer” informed them that […] they must dig him up, give the customary feast in his honor and have another burial site chosen.
ref: 1918, Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews, Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China, D. Appleton and Company, page 151:
text: She escaped her mortal coil and moved out, looking back at herself as she stood motionless, clutching the stone that had become the link between her body and her spirit.
ref: 2003, R. A. Salvatore, Immortalis, Random House, Inc., published 2004, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: The physical body of a man (containing the spirit inside).
Related terms: shuffle off this mortal coil
-gramme
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -gram.
hierarchical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪəˈɹɑːkɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌhaɪˈɹɑɹkɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌhɑɪˈɹɐːkɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌhɑɪˈɹaːkɪkəl/
Forms: form: hierarchic
form: hierarchial
Etymology: From hierarchy + -ical, compare French hiérarchique.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a hierarchy.
glosses: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.
examples: text: It has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art.
glosses: Classified or arranged according to various criteria into successive ranks or grades.
Derived terms: ahierarchical
antihierarchical
hierarchical database
hierarchicalism
monohierarchical
multihierarchical
nonhierarchical
polyhierarchical
prehierarchical
unhierarchical
Related terms: hierarch
hierarchal
hierarchic
hierarchically
hierarchy
moval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːvəl
Forms: form: movals
Etymology: Back-formation from removal.
Senses: glosses: Removal (the transfer of one's home or business)
arrhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˈɹɪð.mɪ.ə/
/əˈɹɪð.mi.ə/
Forms: form: arrhythmias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin arrhythmia, from Ancient Greek ἀρρυθμία (arrhuthmía).
Senses: glosses: An irregular heartbeat; a lack of a regular pulse
glosses: A disease entity involving such beats, such as atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, AV nodal reentrant tachycardia, or others.
Synonyms: dysrhythmia
Derived terms: antiarrhythmia
arrhythmogenic
bradyarrhythmia
hypsarrhythmia
proarrhythmia
tachyarrhythmia
vasoarrhythmia
look-down/shoot-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of look-down, shoot-down.
look-down shoot-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of look-down, shoot-down.
raw material
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raw materials
Senses: examples: text: Petroleum is the raw material refined into various fuels and needed for countless chemicals.
text: The three main firms […] are increasing their output capacity and it is estimated that by 1964-5 railborne traffic will be about a third greater than the 1960 figure, reaching a total of something like 13½ million tons per annum, of which some 70 per cent will be inwards raw materials for these firms.
ref: 1962 October 24, “Talking of Trains: New yard at Scunthorpe”, in Modern Railways, page 221:
glosses: A material in its unprocessed, natural state considered usable for manufacture.
examples: text: The assembly plant's raw materials are finished parts from Asian suppliers.
text: Teams will place all their unassembled raw materials and tools in the competition area along with two provided 5-gallon buckets of contaminated water and two provided stirring sticks.
ref: 2024 October 24, “Water Treatment Competition”, in ASCE, page 11:
glosses: Any physical product serving as input to a factory or other installation which processes it.
phat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæt/
homophone: fat
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: phatter
form: phattest
Etymology: The term derives from African American Vernacular English as a deliberate misspelling of the word fat.
Senses: examples: text: Aiyyo, Nas? Fuck that, man, that shit was phat / But kick that for them gangstas, man, fuck all that!
ref: 1994, “One Time 4 Your Mind”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:
text: We saw the kind of life bailers and hustlers were living. The women, the flamboyant cars, the phat mansions, the mad platinum jewelry.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: word: cool
word: excellent
word: fab
word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
glosses: Excellent; cool; very good.
synonyms: word: foxy
word: thicc
word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
glosses: Voluptuous
examples: text: The song has a phat bass line.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: prominent
word: rocking
word: juicy
glosses: Rich in texture; prominent.
Derived terms: big phat
PAWG
phatness
phat pants
phat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæt/
homophone: fat
rhymes: -æt
Senses: glosses: An English trick-taking partnership card game descended from the game of all fours.
f-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f-words
form: f word
form: F word
form: F-word
Senses: examples: text: Oh, f-word, I've lost the keys.
text: The dialogue was littered with f-words.
synonyms: f-bomb
glosses: The word fuck (or inflected forms like fucking) or fucker.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:f-word.
synonyms: f-bomb
f-slur
glosses: The word fag or faggot.
examples: text: She has no luck with diets. Don't mention the f-word (by which I mean "fat").
text: Zack wouldn't say the F word. Not... forever. It was too soon to say that. He may be open to a serious relationship again, but he still needed to protect his heart in other ways.
ref: 2018, Cynthia Dane, Just Friends: A Summer Fling With A Billionaire Heir:
text: If the incident in question causes you continued distress and negatively impacts your life, that’s where the f-word — forgiveness — may have a role to play, said psychologist Robert Enright, a pioneer in the field of forgiveness science and professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
ref: 2023 December 10, Andrea Kane, “5 tips to help you flex your forgiveness muscle”, in CNN:
text: Throughout the program, the “f-word” is not allowed – as in, calling anyone “fat.”
ref: 2024, Anna Mulrine Grobe and Alfredo Sosa, No pushups? No problem. The Army builds a steppingstone to boot camp., in: The Christian Science Monitor, September 10 2024
glosses: Any word beginning with f that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
f-word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: f-words
form: f-wording
form: f-worded
form: f-worded
form: f word
form: F word
form: F-word
Senses: examples: text: Her plain-Jane appearance lulled the Secret Service representatives for a while but it wasn't long before she out f-worded them and became the assertive one in this space chase, […]
ref: 2010, Alan L. Greenberg, Confessions of a Government Man: How to Succeed in Any Bureaucracy, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: To use vulgarities, especially the word fuck.
Related terms: word: f-bomb
word: eff
word: effing
sense: ‘x’-word euphemisms
word: a-word
word: b-word
word: c-word
word: d-word
word: e-word
word: g-word
word: G-word
word: h-word
word: i-word
word: j-word
word: k-word
word: l-word
word: m-word
word: n-word
word: o-word
word: p-word
word: q-word
word: Q-word
word: r-word
word: s-word
word: t-word
word: u-word
word: v-word
word: w-word
word: x-word
word: y-word
word: z-word
word: related terms C-bomb
word: f-slur
word: L-bomb
word: n-bomb
word: Q-slur
word: r-slur
donut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donuts
Etymology: Alteration of doughnut, from dough + nut. Attested 1900.
Senses: examples: text: […]Pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.
ref: 1900, George Wilbur Peck, Peck's bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, page 107:
text: The Long Lances, however, were thick in the water, and soon Portland was hit in the stern, sending her turning donuts across the ocean trying to work out which way to point her guns, popping off occasional shots at Hiei, which, by now, was heavily ablaze and a very obvious target in the night.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 20:44 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
text: The court heard that at the junction of the Ballyveely Road, Leslie - who was driving a BMW - performed the 'donuts' as others looked on.
ref: 2016 December 1, “'Boy racer' fined over donut tribute to pal”, in Belfast Telegraph:
glosses: Alternative spelling of doughnut.
wikipedia: George Wilbur Peck
Derived terms: API donut
bet a dollar to a donut
Boston cream donut
cronut
donut bumper
donut bumping
donut cake
donut city
Donutgate
donut hole
donutlike
donut patrol
donut peach
donut spare
donutty
Dutch donut
French donut
Hertz donut
hyperdonut
jelly donut
snow donut
spudnut
take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
time to make the donuts
wager a dollar to a donut
wonut
Völkerwanderung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Völkerwanderungen
Etymology: From German Völkerwanderung.
Senses: examples: text: Viewed from the cliff top of ‘today’, the cliff foot becomes ‘yesterday’, the advancing lines of sea horses the centuries of history, and the far shore, barely visible, the Age of the Völkerwanderung.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 89:
synonyms: Barbarian Invasions
glosses: Migration Period
Bajan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Forms: form: Bajans
Etymology: A shortened form of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian.
Senses: glosses: A Barbadian.
Bajan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Etymology: A shortened form of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian.
Senses: glosses: A Creole language spoken on the island of Barbados.
glosses: A surname.
Bajan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Forms: form: more Bajan
form: most Bajan
Etymology: A shortened form of Bar-Bajan, a phonetically spelled form of Barbadian.
Senses: examples: text: A faction recalled Duke mentioning Bajan ancestry at some point, which lent credence to the tale.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, pages 241–242:
glosses: Barbadian.
Derived terms: Bajan English
palaeo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleo-.
in Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in dutch
Senses: examples: text: Thirteen youthful nurses at the Worcester City Hospital enriched a local barber to the extent of $13 a few days ago when they had their hair bobbed and now the entire 13 are very much in dutch with the authorities at the hospital.
ref: 1923 July 27, “Hospital Puts Ban upon Bobbed Hair”, in The Day, USA, retrieved 29 Aug 2011, page 9:
text: “And for that amount of money you're willing to get yourself in Dutch with half the law enforcement of this county?”
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 18, in The Big Sleep:
text: He got in dutch with City Manager George Schrader when he made some ill-chosen remarks.
ref: 1988 April 14, Rena Pederson, “Police Turmoil Isn't News”, in Dallas Morning News, retrieved 29 Aug 2011:
text: Don Juan: Well, think how you would feel if you were made to take off this mask that you are wearing.
Jack Mickler: Oh, well, our masks really get us in dutch, don't they? How long you been wearing yours?
ref: 1994, Don Juan DeMarco, 19:30:
glosses: In trouble or in disfavor.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, Dutch.
Related terms: Dutch uncle
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
form: tipping
form: tipped
form: tipped
Etymology: From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa (“tap, spigot”), Albanian thep (“tip, point”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”).
Senses: examples: text: I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: truncheon tipped with iron head
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
text: The furry nations harbour-tipt with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
text: It was on the break - the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
Derived terms: retip
tip one's hand
tip one's hat
tip over
tip the balance
tip the scales
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
form: tipping
form: tipped
form: tipped
Etymology: From Late Middle English tippen, possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)), or a special use of Etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
examples: text: the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: There is little chance that the EU’s watchdogs have, until now, simply missed the evidence of a deeper malaise. The red flags signalling a democratic deficit have always been prominent: from the long-standing harassment, detention, and assassination of peaceful human rights defenders like Chea Vichea, Chut Wutty, and Tep Vanny, to ratcheting up efforts to deter civil society organisation through dubious, hostile legislation. More likely, the trade-offs between popular power and stability have been weighed by the EU and accepted, where these have tipped in its favour—in this case, shoring up a regional ally and trading partner, as well as delivering rapid rates of economic growth that have won Cambodia middle-income status, thus serving up a ready exemplar of neoliberal development logic.
ref: 2019, Sabrina Lawreniuk, “‘Hun Sen Won’t Die, Workers Will Die’: The Geopolitics of Labour in the Cambodian Crackdown”, in Dog Days: Made in China Yearbook 2018, ANU Press, page 217b:
glosses: (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
examples: text: The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.
ref: 1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 278:
glosses: To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
glosses: To drink.
glosses: To dump (refuse).
examples: text: I tip my 40 to your memory.
ref: 1993, DRS, Gangsta Lean (This Is For My Homies):
glosses: To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
examples: text: Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.
ref: 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
Derived terms: fly-tip
tip back
tip down
tip it down
tip off
tip one's hand
tip one's hat
tip out
tippable
tipper
tip someone's velvet
tip the can
tip the daddle
tip the double
tip the gaff
tip the wink
tip up
tip-up
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
Etymology: From Late Middle English tippen, possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)), or a special use of Etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: The knocking over of a skittle.
glosses: An act of tipping up or tilting.
examples: text: There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
text: 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389,
As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
text: 2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip.
text: There are two rubbish tips in Rother.
ref: 2009, Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website:
text: 2009, Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
Computer collectibles saved from the tip
glosses: An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
glosses: Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
glosses: A recycling centre.
glosses: A very untidy place.
examples: text: As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
glosses: A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
Derived terms: tip credit
tip shop
tip wage credit
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
form: tipping
form: tipped
form: tipped
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 1 and cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.
Senses: examples: text: A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
ref: 1708, Squire Bickerstaff Detected, John Partridge:
glosses: To hit quickly and lightly; to tap.
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 1 and cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.
Senses: glosses: A light blow or tap.
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
form: tipping
form: tipped
form: tipped
Etymology: Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin; according to the OED, probably related to sense 1.
Senses: examples: text: You should always tip your waiter in the United States and most third world countries.
text: Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
text: “Did you tip him enough to do any good? They only work for tips.”
“I didn’t know that,” I said. “I thought the hotel paid them something on the side.”
“I mean they will only do something for you for a substantial tip. Most of them are rotten clean through.”
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
examples: text: "Done say I to that, Reuben, tip me your fin, my spark, and it shall be a bet."
ref: 1839, Dearden's Miscellany, volumes 1-2, page 661:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To give, pass.
Derived terms: tipper
tipping
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
Etymology: Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin; according to the OED, probably related to sense 1.
Senses: examples: text: Workers in the American service industry usually depend on tips to even make minimum wage.
text: A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: “Did you tip him enough to do any good? They only work for tips.”
“I didn’t know that,” I said. “I thought the hotel paid them something on the side.”
“I mean they will only do something for you for a substantial tip. Most of them are rotten clean through.”
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, page 156:
text: Tips were an important part of porters' income, and at Christmas passengers felt there was extra pressure to give them - despite some perceiving the level of service to be poor.
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
glosses: A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
Synonyms: gratuity
Derived terms: tip cup
tip jar
tipworthy
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
Etymology: Probably from tip (“to give, pass”) or tip (“to tap”), or a combination of the two.
Senses: examples: text: hot stock tips
glosses: A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
examples: text: tips and tricks
glosses: A piece of advice.
examples: text: Thus, this is a tricky tip; Port’s inconsistency combined with the higher ladder placing of Adelaide have me leaning the latter’s way.
ref: 2019 July 4, Stirling Coates, “The Roar's AFL expert tips and predictions: Round 16”, in The Roar:
text: Another bye round, another dose of Thursday night footy and that means you have to get your tips in early.
ref: 2016 June 29, “AFL tipping 2016: round 15 Expert tips from Herald Sun”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
examples: text: My guess, Senator Bernardi, is that Mr Rudd will take over. He will immediately say: 'I made a mistake on the carbon tax. We're not going to introduce it and we will go to an election.' There is my tip.
ref: 2012 June 27, Ian Macdonald, “Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012, Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012”, in parliamentary debates (Australian House of Representatives):
text: My tip is he can be top 50 after the Australian summer of tennis.
ref: 2022 July 18, Jedd Zetzer, “Jason Kubler reaches new heights in Newport”, in SEN:
glosses: A prediction about the outcome of something.
Synonyms: hint
Hyponyms: english: pro-tip, protip; e.g., life pro tip
translation: pro-tip, protip; e.g., life pro tip
word: pro tip
Coordinate terms: alt: e.g., lifehack
word: hack
word: trick
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)
word: hot tip
sense: Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)
word: stock tip
sense: Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)
word: tip-off
sense: Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)
word: tip sheet
sense: Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)
word: tipster
sense: Terms derived from tip (noun, etym. 5)
word: tooltip
tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: tips
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
ironmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪə(ɹ)nˌmʌŋɡə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ironmongers
Etymology: From Middle English iremonger; equivalent to iron + monger.
Senses: glosses: A retailer in iron goods and hardware.
Derived terms: ironmongeress
ironmongering
ironmongery
battleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætəlˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: battleships
Etymology: From battle + ship; shortened from line-of-battle ship, attested 1794.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
topics: government
literature
media
military
nautical
politics
publishing
science-fiction
transport
war
glosses: A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
A starship of comparable role
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A ship of the line.
glosses: A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
glosses: A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).
Hyponyms: dreadnought
pre-dreadnought
semi-dreadnought
super-dreadnought
treaty battleship
Derived terms: battleship curve
battleship gray
battleship-gray
battleship-grey
battleship grey
battleshippy
battleship-shaped curve
fast battleship
heavy battleship
land battleship
light battleship
pocket battleship
super battleship
Related terms: battlecruiser
dreadnought
cruiser
destroyer
frigate
sloop
corvette
monitor
gunboat
torpedo boat
aircraft carrier
booze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞oz
ipa: /buːz/
homophone: boos
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: boozes
form: boose
Etymology: Alteration of bowse.
Senses: examples: text: The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars
She got caught between the shadows and the booze
And she surely did know how to have the blues
text: In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.
ref: 2025 February 2, Nadine Yousif, “Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur 'buy local' pledge”, in BBC News:
glosses: Any alcoholic beverage (especially beer or hard liquor).
glosses: A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
Synonyms: grog
alcoholic beverage
Derived terms: booze artist
booze baron
booze bus
booze can
booze cruise
booze cruising
boozefest
booze fighter
boozehead
boozehound
booze jockey
boozeless
boozer
booze up
booze-up
boozy
Related terms: piss
plonk
booze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞oz
ipa: /buːz/
homophone: boos
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: boozes
form: boozing
form: boozed
form: boozed
form: boose
Etymology: Alteration of bowse.
Senses: examples: text: We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
text: This is better than boozing in public houses.
ref: 1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life:
glosses: To drink alcohol.
examples: text: It's worse than kerosene to boose.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62:
glosses: To drink (an alcoholic beverage).
Derived terms: outbooze
nova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.və/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.və/
rhymes: -əʊvə
Forms: form: novae
form: novas
Etymology: Feminine nominative singular of Latin novus (“new”). The feminine is used since stella (“star”) is feminine; thus nova is a shortening of nova stella (“new star”), first used in this sense in 1573 by Tycho Brahe.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of classical nova
Coordinate terms: cataclysmic variable
Derived terms: classical nova
dwarf nova
failed supernova
hypernova
kilonova
macronova
micronova
novalike
nova-like
nova remnant
recurrent nova
red nova
stellar nova
supernova
supernova imposter
supernova remnant
unnova
Related terms: novel
novum
planetary nebula
plerion
preplanetary nebula
protoplanetary nebula
nova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊ.və/
ipa: /ˈnoʊ.və/
rhymes: -əʊvə
Forms: form: novums
Etymology: Blend of novum + Latin -a. From the Latin -a suffix used as the plural suffix form for singular words ending with -um (an inflection of -us).
Senses: glosses: plural of novum
Related terms: word: novel
sense: etymologically unrelated
word: ars nova
sense: etymologically unrelated
word: bossa nova
freestanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: free-standing
Etymology: From free + standing.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: isolated, insulated, detached, individuated, separated
text: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a freestanding bell tower.
synonyms: self-standing#Adjective
stand-alone#Adjective
glosses: Standing or set apart.
glosses: Not attached to anything.
glosses: Not supported by or on anything.
examples: text: Freestanding C programs do not need to have a main function.
ref: 1989, Rex Jaeschke, Mastering Standard C: A Self-Paced Training Workbook for Modern C Language, Horsham, P.A.: Professional Press, →ISBN, page 349:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: stand-alone#Adjective
glosses: Of a computer program: that runs directly on a computer's hardware, without being managed by an operating system.
Derived terms: nonfreestanding