cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gibber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɡɪbə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gibbers
Etymology: From Dharug giba.
Senses: glosses: A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone.
examples: text: “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
glosses: Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing.
glosses: A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation.
Derived terms: gibberbird
gibber plain
gibber stone
Related terms: reg
desert pavement
gibber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɡɪbə/
Forms: form: gibbers
Etymology: From gib + -er.
Senses: examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
glosses: A balky horse.
ensanguine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɛnˈsæŋ.ɡwən/
/ɪn-/
Forms: form: ensanguines
form: ensanguining
form: ensanguined
form: ensanguined
Etymology: From en- + sanguine.
Senses: glosses: to stain with blood
Related terms: sanguine
sepulchral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈpʌlkɹəl/
/səˈpʊlkɹəl/
Forms: form: more sepulchral
form: most sepulchral
Etymology: From Latin sepulcralis.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
examples: text: He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:
text: Over and over I found myself visiting homes where the predominant feeling was sepulchral, dusty, and deserted […]
ref: 1999, Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.
examples: text: 'The Master of Krikkit,' said Slartibartfast again, and if his breathing had been sepulchral before, this time he sounded like someone in Hades with bronchitis.
ref: 1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 367:
glosses: Having a hollow and deep sound.
Related terms: sepulchre
Heroon
ensconce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈskɒns/
enpr: ĭn-skäns'
ipa: /ɛnˈskɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: ensconces
form: ensconcing
form: ensconced
form: ensconced
Etymology: From en- + sconce, “to place in a sconce (“fortification”)”.
Senses: examples: text: She shall not see me, I will ensconce mee behinde the Arras.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, chapter IX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
text: The film [Pretty Woman] grossed $464 million worldwide, ensconcing her [Julia Roberts] in the Hollywood A-list.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – ‘I might actually go to hell for this…’”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review section), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2024:
glosses: To place in a secure environment.
examples: text: So many invitations had been extended to this premiére that the train was pretty nearly full; [...] the press and other guests distributed themselves over the remaining accommodation, and I ensconced myself in a facing window seat in one of the compartments of the third-class brake next the tender.
ref: 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 261, 263:
text: […] Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: To settle comfortably.
Synonyms: sense: settle comfortably
word: cuddle up
Derived terms: ensconcement
dirge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dûj
ipa: /dɜːdʒ/
enpr: dûrj
ipa: /dɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: dirges
Etymology: From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore our ſometimes Siſter, now our Queen, / Th’ imperiall Ioyntreſſe of this warlike State, / Haue we, as ’twere, with a defeated ioy, / With one Auſpicious, and one Dropping eye, / With mirth in Funerall, and with Dirge in Marriage, / In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole / Taken to Wife […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 153, column 2, lines 8–14:
text: While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!”
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC:
text: Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.
ref: 2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: lament
requiem
coronach
threnody
elegy
trental
glosses: A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
glosses: A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
Derived terms: dirgelike
dirgy
Related terms: dirgeful
dirge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dûj
ipa: /dɜːdʒ/
enpr: dûrj
ipa: /dɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: dirges
form: dirging
form: dirged
form: dirged
Etymology: From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
Senses: glosses: To sing dirges
rancor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋ.kɚ/
ipa: /ˈræŋkər/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
homophone: ranker
Forms: form: rancors
form: rancour
Etymology: First attested in the 13th century as Middle English rancour, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from ranceō (“I am rotten or putrid”), from which also English rancid.
Senses: examples: text: I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.
synonyms: bitterness
resentment
spite
animus
grudge
enmity
glosses: A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.
glosses: Rancidity, rankness.
Derived terms: rancorous
rancorously
rancorousness
Related terms: rancid
malice
rentier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒntɪeɪ/
ipa: /ɹɑ̃ˈtjeɪ/
Forms: form: rentiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French rentier.
Senses: examples: text: If today’s capitalists are mere lazy rentiers who contribute nothing to the production process, don’t they deserve to be downgraded to the status of feudal landlords?
ref: 2022 April 13, Evgeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason”, in New Left Review, number 133/134, pages 89–126:
glosses: An individual who receives an income, usually interest, rent, dividends, capital gains, or profits from his or her assets and investments.
Derived terms: rentier state
Related terms: unearned income
capitalist
Belarussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Belarusian.
Belarussian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belarussians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Belarusian.
Belarussian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Belarusian.
Faroese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛəɹəʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˌfɛ(ə)ɹoʊˈiz/
ipa: /fæɹoʊˈiz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Faeroese
form: Færoese
Etymology: From Faroe + -ese, from Faroese Føroyar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Faroe Islands, Faroese people or language.
Synonyms: Faroe
Faroish
Faroese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛəɹəʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˌfɛ(ə)ɹoʊˈiz/
ipa: /fæɹoʊˈiz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Faeroese
form: Færoese
Etymology: From Faroe + -ese, from Faroese Føroyar.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Faroe Islands, closely related to Icelandic, and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Faroese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛəɹəʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˌfɛ(ə)ɹoʊˈiz/
ipa: /fæɹoʊˈiz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Faroese
form: Faeroese
form: Færoese
Etymology: From Faroe + -ese, from Faroese Føroyar.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Faroe Islands; a Faroe Islander.
Synonyms: word: Faroish
word: Faroe Islander
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Faroese terms
philosophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪl.əˈzɒf/
Forms: form: philosophes
Etymology: Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
examples: text: Dynes, good superannuated philosophe that he is, is as anti-clerical as he is "rationalist," but he surely shouldn't be taken seriously here.
ref: 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:
glosses: An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster.
Derived terms: philosophess
epistrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistrophes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin epistrophē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).
Senses: examples: text: Epistrophe many sentences will close
With the same word, in verse as well as prose.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epistrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 75:
synonyms: epiphora
antistrophe
antonyms: anaphora
glosses: The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
examples: text: As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.
ref: 1905 September 8, Harold Wager, “On Some Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology”, in English Mechanics and the World of Science, volume 82, number 2111, page 105:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
acalephe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.əˈlif/
Senses: examples: text: The acalephe passes through both the infusorial stage and the polype stage...
ref: 1853, William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, et al., The Quarterly Review, volume 93:
glosses: Alternative form of acaleph.
Beelzebub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈɛlzɪbʌb/
ipa: /ˈbilzɪbʌb/
Forms: form: Baalzebub
form: Belzebuth
form: Beëlzebub
form: Beelzebul
Etymology: First attested as Old English Belzebub, from Latin Beelzebūb, the Vulgate's form of Ancient Greek Βεελζεβούλ (Beelzeboúl), from Hebrew בעל זבוב (ba‘al-z'vúv, “fly-lord”), mentioned in 2 Kings chapter 1 as “the god of Ekron”.
Senses: examples: text: But when the Phariſees heard it, they ſaid, This fellow doeth not caſt out deuils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the deuils.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 12:24, column 1:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Canaanite deity worshipped at Ekron.
examples: text: Mamma mia, let me go / Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
ref: 1975, Freddie Mercury, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, in A Night at the Opera, performed by Queen:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
glosses: Satan, the Devil.
Derived terms: cast out the Devil with Beelzebub
Related terms: Baal
lord of the flies
Beelzebul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beelzebub.
gate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: gait
Forms: form: gates
form: gating
form: gated
form: gated
form: yate
Etymology: From Middle English gate, gat, ȝate, ȝeat, from Old English ġeat (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
Senses: glosses: To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
examples: text: “I’ve missed two lectures already,” remarked Maurice, who was breakfasting in his pyjamas.
“Cut them all — he’ll only gate you.”
ref: 1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 13, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 72:
text: Dons could ring the front bell and be admitted after that hour. But students who returned after midnight or who stayed out all night were fined heavily or “gated” – that is, forbidden to leave college for several days.
ref: 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: ground
glosses: To punish (especially a child or teenager) by not allowing to go out.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To open (a closed ion channel).
glosses: To furnish with a gate.
glosses: To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
examples: text: Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.
ref: 2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2024:
glosses: To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
Derived terms: gater
gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: gait
Forms: form: gates
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.
Senses: examples: text: I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
text: "Stand out o' my gate, wife, for, d'ye see, I am rather in a haste, Jean Linton."
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
glosses: A way, path.
examples: text: […] nought regarding, they kept on their gate, / And all her vaine allurements did forsake […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A journey.
glosses: A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
glosses: Manner; gait.
puka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: pukas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian puka (“hole”).
Senses: glosses: A small, usually perforated, wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.
puka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: pukas
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish púca (“hobgoblin”).
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, the puca (faeries) of Celtic folklore instill a similar psychological fear in those who believe in them just as the devil in Christianity creates fear in Christians
ref: 2012, Nwaocha Ogechukwu, The Devil: What Does He Look Like?, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative form of pooka.
puka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: synonyms: pukanui
glosses: The evergreen tree Meryta sinclairii, endemic to New Zealand.
synonyms: akapuka
glosses: The epiphytic plant Griselinia lucida, native to New Zealand.
breve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːv/
ipa: /bɹɛv/
rhymes: -iːv
rhymes: -ɛv
Forms: form: breves
Etymology: From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
printing
publishing
writing
synonyms: micron
antonyms: macron
glosses: A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
topics: law
glosses: Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.
Derived terms: alla breve
breve rest
espresso breve
i-breve
inverted breve
semibreve
Related terms: brevity
brief
brachy
half note
longa
whole note
breve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːv/
ipa: /bɹɛv/
rhymes: -iːv
rhymes: -ɛv
Forms: form: breves
Etymology: From Italian breve.
Senses: glosses: An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream.
kea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪə/
ipa: /kɪə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: keas
form: kea
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kea.
Senses: synonyms: mountain parrot
glosses: Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
kai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kai. Doublet of makan (via Malay) in Malaysian and Singaporean English varieties.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.
ref: 1995, Graeme Williams, The soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ:
text: Got to go now and get some kai.
ref: 2003, Carmen, “Is there really a censor in NZ?!”, in nz.general (Usenet):
text: When the sausage man handed the kai over, Kerry passed two wieners to a pair of skinny white kids who had been watching the queue the whole time.
ref: 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 118:
glosses: Food.
Related terms: kai kai
kai-kai
kai-lan
koen-kai
pok kai
tom kha kai
z-variant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: z-variants
Etymology: From the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their abstract shape (general form, e.g. uppercase A from lowercase a), and the z-axis by their apparent shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. printed from handwritten a).
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: A shape variant of a Han character, encoded for historical reasons.
wai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪ/
ipa: /weɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: wais
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ไหว้ (wâi, “a gesture of thanks”).
Senses: glosses: A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.
wai
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪ/
ipa: /weɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of why.
Senses: glosses: why (a purposeful misspelling)
position
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/
enpr: pə-zĭshʹ(ə)n
ipa: /pəˈzɪʃ.(ə)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵˈzɪʃɐn/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: positions
form: positioning
form: positioned
form: positioned
Etymology: From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positiō (“a putting, position”), from positus (“placed, situated”), past participle of pōnō (“to place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.
Senses: examples: text: While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.
ref: 2012 June 26, Simon Bowers, “Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands' haven status”, in The Guardian:
troponyms: pre-position#Verb
glosses: To put into place.
Synonyms: word: stell
word: adjust
word: disrupt
word: disturb
word: move
word: place
word: position
word: put
word: relocate
word: reposition
word: set
word: shift
word: station
word: transfer
word: transpose
Hyponyms: word: align
word: carry
word: drag
word: drift
word: nudge
word: order
word: pin
word: pull
word: push
word: slide
word: sort
longa
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Australian Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long.
Senses: examples: text: This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.
ref: 1991, Jimmy Chi, Bran Nue Dae, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 137
text: He wait longa river.
ref: 2000, Queensland Department of Justice, Aboriginal English in the courts: a handbook:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: Belonging to; of, in, at, to.
Synonyms: la
'long
longa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longae
form: longe
form: longas
Etymology: From Latin longa.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: quadruple whole note
word: sextuple whole note
english: US, three breves, rare
translation: US, three breves, rare
glosses: A musical note equal to two (or occasionally three) breves or whole notes.
fajita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈhiːtə/
Forms: form: fajitas
Etymology: From American Spanish fajita, diminutive of faja (“strip, band”).
Senses: glosses: A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.
Derived terms: Fajitagate
falafel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈlɑːfəl/
ipa: /fəˈlæfəl/
ipa: /fəˈlɒfəl/
ipa: /fəˈlɑfəl/
rhymes: -æfəl
rhymes: -ɑːfəl
rhymes: -ɒfəl
Forms: form: falafels
form: falafel
form: felafel
form: falafil
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil). Doublet of peepul and pepper.
Senses: examples: text: There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel.
text: Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.
ref: 2003, Margo Daly, Rough guide to Australia, page 51:
text: I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.
ref: 2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58:
glosses: A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
examples: text: I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.
ref: 2003, Holly M. Moskowitz, Finding Falafel, page 58:
text: Here, close-cropped future soldiers would learn how to introduce themselves to strangers, the proper way to order a falafel and a Coke, how to shout Get out of the car.
ref: 2010, Reza Aslan, How to Win a Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religions, page 161:
text: They decided, sotto voce, to go out for a falafel. […] The falafel itself was incidental: it was the array of salds, pickled and fried vegetables, olives and sauces which one stuffed into the pita that made it such an adventure.
ref: 2012, Giveon Cornfield, Lilian, page 186:
text: A beggar, his head swathed in rags, was eating a falafel, bits of cucumber falling out of the pita's corners. He looked askance as Mustafa lumbered by.
ref: 2013, Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
examples: text: The stallholder puts salad into an open pita bread, followed by the four falafels, and then liberally covers them with hummus.
glosses: A single falafel ball.
Derived terms: fawaffle
gormless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔːmləs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mləs
Forms: form: more gormless
form: most gormless
form: gaumless
form: gawmless
Etymology: From dialectal English gaum (“heed, attention”) + -less (“without”), from Old Norse gaum, from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz, *gaumō (“heed, attention”). The ‘r’ found in this spelling is a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.
Senses: examples: text: Did I ever look so stupid: so gormless as Joseph calls it?
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter.
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda, page 4:
text: There was a sort of gormless unstoppability about him that she found rather fascinating.
ref: 1990, Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures, page 171:
text: Hmm. Made an excuse, did he? Not as gormless as he looks in press photographs, then.
ref: 2007 July 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Wedding, Auntie Muriel”, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter; 7), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:
text: “Don’t just stand there looking gormless. There’s plenty of work to do in the back.”
ref: 2015, Adele Abbott, Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy, page 33:
glosses: Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: lacking intelligence
word: dull
sense: lacking intelligence
word: slow
sense: lacking intelligence
word: stupid
sense: lacking intelligence
word: ignorant
sense: lacking intelligence
word: inexperienced
sense: lacking intelligence
word: naive
Derived terms: gormlessly
gormlessness
Related terms: gorm
gormy
Diaspora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Diaspora
Etymology: See diaspora.
Senses: examples: text: According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists.
ref: 1996, Gal Allon, Allon Gal, Jerold S. Auerbach, Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews, page 151:
glosses: The dispersion of the Jews from the land of Israel.
glosses: The Jews so dispersed.
glosses: A similar dispersion.
cmavo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃmɑːvo/
Forms: form: cmavo
Etymology: From Lojban.
Senses: examples: text: Cmavo are connective, syncategorematic words. They are roughly comparable to English conjunctions, prepositions, articles, numerals, and some adverbs.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Function word(s), i.e., structural words.
Coordinate terms: english: content words
translation: content words
word: brivla
word: cmene
nonillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪljən
Forms: form: nonillions
Etymology: From non- (“nine”) + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: Who are a million, a trillion, a nonillion young men? All are standing. I am standing. We are wedged in and on and over and under each other. Sardines.
ref: 1922, E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room:
text: How about a year, or a lifetime, or a really long time, like umpteen-jillion-quadtrillion-nonillion-decillion-billion years? Now that would be a long time in the fire
ref: 1995, Jay Carty, Playing The Odds: Eternity's Your Bet, page 90:
text: Without any further information it would be easy to conclude that the National Park Service could raise as much as $500 nonillion in entrance fee revenues by charging entrance fees to those other 90% of the visitors who do not now pay
ref: 1999, Dennis L. Soden, Brent Steel, Handbook of global environmental policy and administration, page 112:
text: ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.
ref: 2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)
text: But we have nonillion dollars invested in them at NSA. When I was active in the organization I objected strenuously but the boys then wouldn't listen to this 'old fogey'.
ref: 2011, Ronald Clark, The Man Who Broke Purple:
glosses: An unspecified very large number.
Related terms: sense: short and long scale
word: Previous: octillion. Next: decillion.
vocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /voʊˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /vəʊˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: vocations
Etymology: From Middle English vocacioun, from Old French vocation, from Latin vocātiō.
Senses: examples: text: The Catholic Church supports and teaches us that there are three vocations: the single life, married life, and the religious life or priesthood.
glosses: A divine calling to establish one's lifestyle.
examples: text: Nursing is a vocation that many people find horrendous.
glosses: An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
Hypernyms: job
labour
occupation
work
Derived terms: vocational
Related terms: vocative
avocation
niente
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɛn.teɪ/
Etymology: From Italian niente.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: al niente
glosses: totally silent, as a musical direction (abbreviated to n. or ∅ in sheet music)
cable length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable lengths
Senses: glosses: One tenth of a nautical mile.
tabnab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabnabs
Etymology: Nautical slang of obscure origin. Attested from the 20th century. Compare nab and possibly table.
Senses: examples: text: He comes outside when weather's fine / To hang his singlets on the line, / And then returns - he needs no bell - / The scouse, or Sunday's duff to share; / The stokers tabnabs need his care; / The sea sounds far away in there, / Ssssssssh, like the hush in a conch-shell.
ref: 1928, Malcolm Lowry, “The Cook In The Gallery”, in The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, UBC Press, published 1992, page 39:
glosses: A small item of food offered at break times, normally the morning break.
scion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪən/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ɑn/
rhymes: -aɪən
Forms: form: scions
Etymology: From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ċīþ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon kīth (“sprout; germ”), Old High German kīdi (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.
Senses: examples: text: No senate seats in council for the dead; no scion of a time honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 9, in Crime out of Mind:
text: It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
ref: 1966, Sholem Aleichem, An Early Passover, paperback edition, Clifton Pub. Co., page 24:
text: He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 72:
glosses: A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
glosses: The heir to a throne.
glosses: A guardian.
examples: text: [If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]
ref: 1613, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Setting or Planting of the Cyons or Branches of Most Sorts of Fruit-trees”, in The English Husbandman. The First Part: […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Art of Planting, Grafting and Gardening, […], page 132:
text: He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, grafting scion to rootstock.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 681:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
smoko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: smōkʹō
ipa: /ˈsməʊkəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
Forms: form: smokos
form: smoke-o
form: smoke-oh
form: smokeho
Etymology: From smoke + -o.
Senses: examples: text: We saw the innards of a submarine, and afterwards, at smoke-oh, I entertained the men with my story of the bagman's battle with John Oliver O'Dowd.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 516:
text: 2005, Lexie Simmons, Darrell Lewis, Kajirri, the Bush Missus, Central Queensland University Press, page 16,
This area was the general meeting place for all the Aboriginal workers who had some time to spare. The house girls took their smoko or lunch there and were soon joined by everyone else who′d stopped work after the smoko or lunchtime bell.
text: 2007, Lewis Yerloburka O′Brien, Mary-Ann Gale (transcriber), And the Clock Struck Thirteen: The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O′Brien as told to Mary-Ann Gale, page 163,
One day Ox-head came up to us during smoko to have a yarn and to help himself to some lollies another bloke, Seth, had bought.
text: 2008, Ann Jones, Put the Billy On, Glass House Books, Australia, page 85,
‘You chaps should have a camp this afternoon,’ Dad suggested as they finished their meal. ‘You must be tired out. There′s a couple of stretchers upstairs along the verandah. Have a camp on those and we′ll wake you for smoko,’ and the party dispersed until the bell was rung.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc.
incursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
Forms: form: incursions
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from Latin incursiō, incursiōnem.
Senses: glosses: A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
examples: text: Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.
ref: 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
glosses: An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
glosses: A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.
Synonyms: attack
movement
Derived terms: incursionary
reincursion
Related terms: incur
incursive
predatory incursion
transmogrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈmɒɡɹɪfaɪ/
ipa: /tɹænzˈmɑɡɹɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: transmogrifies
form: transmogrifying
form: transmogrified
form: transmogrified
Etymology: 17th century; origin uncertain, but possibly from transmigure, transmigrate. It is also possible that this word is a formation derived from maugre, hence it originally signified the "evil eye", but under the influence of the former etymologies shifted its meaning to its sense of "transformation". Another possibility is a humorous blending of transfigure and modify.
Senses: examples: text: Our present Governors (who have transmografide Monarchy into a Free State) ...
ref: 1652, n.a. [Isabel Yeamans], The Year of Wonders, London: George Horton, page 10:
text: Separateness in selfist thought is transmogrified into a perverted freedom (or set of freedoms), themselves devoid of attendant responsibilities.
ref: 2018, Michael J. DeValve, Tammy S. Garland, Elizabeth Q. Wright, A Unified Theory of Justice and Crime, page 7:
text: For the better, if you ask the seven unlucky sods who originally died, and are now explosively alive. For the worse, if you ask the billions of ordinary people now in daily danger of being atomized, brainwashed, or transmogrified into gooey flesh-sculptures.
ref: 2023 September 14, HarryBlank, “The Breach Goes On: Wrong Tomorrow Hub”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2024:
synonyms: transform
transmute
hypernyms: alter
change
glosses: To substantially or completely alter the form of.
examples: text: "Just set the dial to "Calvin", and I'll transmogrify back to a boy."
ref: 1987 April 2, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (comic):
text: But 'Hamilton,' directed by Thomas Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just be about worth it—at least to anyone who wants proof that the American musical is not only surviving but also evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive and transmogrify in years to come.
ref: 2015 August 5, “Review: `Hamilton,' Young Rebels Changing History and Theater”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: transform
transmute
hypernyms: alter
change
glosses: To completely alter one's form.
Derived terms: transmogrification
schesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχέσις (skhésis, “state, condition, attitude”), from ἔχω (ékhō). See scheme.
Senses: examples: text: For if that Mind which has Existing in it self from all Eternity, all the Simple Essences of Things , and conſequently , all their poſſible Scheſes or Habitudes, should ever change, there would arise a new Schesis in this Mind that was not before
ref: 1687, John Norris, Miscellanies:
text: Each of you have been inducted into that subtle Psycho-cosmic schesis which we term, En; a state of profound zootic subjection, which renders somatic organisms susceptible to the potent empire of what is called, in the terrestro-astral plane, substantial imitation;
ref: 1894, Steele MacKaye ·, Father Ambrose, the Revelations of May 3d '68, page 148:
text: The task of the artist was to remake the theatre into a combination of the ancient Greek orchestra and gnostic rites that would reintegrate the alienated audience into the ecstatic schesis.
ref: 1982, Laurence Senelick, Gordon Craig's Moscow Hamlet: A Reconstruction, page 29:
glosses: General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude.
Related terms: schesis onomaton
sciomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciomachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sciamachy.
seeksorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seeksorrows
form: seek-sorrow
Etymology: From seek + sorrow.
Senses: examples: text: In a bicentennial comment for Newsweek, he took issue with those who played the role of Seeksorrow. The Yale literary magazine had written him asking if he thought things were going to get worse […]
ref: 2002, Scott Donaldson, 9781463430856, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 301:
text: When my parents drove us up to Stratford, Ontario, to see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the word seeksorrow leapt out at me from the stage, and I've loved it ever since.
ref: 2010, Phil Cousineau, Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, Cleis Press, →ISBN, page xvii:
text: I do not think you are a seeksorrow, giving yourself comfort in vexation.
ref: 2011, Jeanne McElvaney, Old Maggie's Spirit Whispers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor.
Related terms: masochist
sitzkrieg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭt'skrēg
ipa: /ˈsɪtskɹiːɡ/
enpr: zĭt'skrēg
ipa: /ˈzɪtskɹiːɡ/
rhymes: -ɪtskɹiːɡ
Forms: form: sitzkriegs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sitzkrieg (“sitting war”), a pun on Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”).
Senses: glosses: Warfare without any military operations or campaigns; a stalemate.
Related terms: blitzkrieg
sockdolager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌsɑkˈdɑːɫ.ə.d͡ʒɚ]
Forms: form: sockdolagers
form: socdolager
form: sockdologer
form: sogdolloger
Etymology: Unknown, 1827 US, presumably fanciful variant of sock (“to hit”); compare contemporary fanciful American coinages.
Various speculative etymologies have been suggested, such as corruption of doxology, due to this occurring at the end of church worship, hence “finality”.
Senses: examples: text: He’ll come off as badly as a feller I once hit a sledge hammer lick over the head—a real sogdolloger.
ref: 1831, James Kirke Paulding, Lion of the West:
text: There is but one ‘sogdollager’ in the universe, and that is in Lake Oswego.
ref: 1838, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found:
text: "I gave the fellow a socdolager over his head with the barrel of my gun,"
ref: 1859, Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms:
text: The thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit—and then rip comes another flash and another sockdologer.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 20, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: “If punching parrots on the beak wasn't too painful for pleasure, I'd land you a sockdolager on the muzzle that ud lay you out till Christmas.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 68:
glosses: A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.
examples: text: Hey, Al, thought I'd call you from the locker room out here at Green Hills. Just made a sockdolager hole in one! A hole in one, Al! (etc.)
ref: 1953, Ray Bradbury, The Murderer::
glosses: Something large or otherwise exceptional; a whopper.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites.
Derived terms: sockdologizing
somniloquous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined based on Latin somnus (“sleep”) + loquor (“to talk”).
Senses: glosses: Talking while asleep.
sophomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sopho- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A delusion of having superior intelligence.
Related terms: sophomaniac
sophomaniacal
indubitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdjuː.bɪ.tə.bli/
ipa: /ɪnˈdu.bɪ.tə.bli/
Forms: form: more indubitably
form: most indubitably
Etymology: From indubitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: verifiably, provably
text: Now his first suspicion was indubitably confirmed.
ref: 1871, Thomas Hardy, chapter 18, in Desperate Remedies:
text: The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at it in another. It is both one and many—let us adopt a sort of pluralistic monism.
ref: 1907, William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking:
text: They were all indubitably, aggressively alive! Everybody was alive once more!
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
synonyms: undoubtably#Adverb
undoubtedly#Adverb
doubtlessly#Adverb
without doubt#Prepositional phrase
without a doubt#Prepositional phrase
unquestionably#Adverb
indisputably#Adverb
inarguably#Adverb
unarguably#Adverb
undeniably#Adverb
assuredly#Adverb
certainly#Adverb
definitely#Adverb
glosses: In a manner that leaves no possibility of doubt.
wikipedia: Goofy Gophers
Related terms: word: dubious
word: dubiously
word: indubitable
word: sure thing
spadassin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spadassins
Etymology: From French spadassin, itself from Italian spadaccino (“swordsman”).
Senses: glosses: a fighter, duelist.
Derived terms: spadassinicide