cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in the buff
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From buff (“bare skin”, literally “brownish yellow”), an allusion to the color of tanned light skin.
Senses: examples: text: She was in the buff on the beach.
text: The streaker ran across the playing field in the buff.
text: Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.
ref: 2021 October 18, Ian Lecklitzner, “The Inevitable Rise of the Work-From-Home Nudist”, in MEL Magazine:
glosses: Nude.
heave-to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: To stop (a seagoing vessel).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To back-wind the jib and luff the main to hold a position especially in heavy seas.
Togarmah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew תּוֹגַרְמָה (tōḡarmā).
Senses: examples: They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A grandson of Japheth in the Old Testament; traditional ancestor of Armenians, sometimes also of Georgians.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
erastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛˈɹæsteɪs/
Forms: form: erastai
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”).
Senses: examples: text: In regard to the boys (erōmenos) involved in ancient Greek pederasty, Dover (1978:52) asked: “What does the eromenos get out of submission to his erastēs?”
ref: 2002, Stephen O Murray, Pacific Homosexualities, iUniverse, page 80:
coordinate_terms: eromenos
glosses: An adult man in Ancient Greece who courted or was in a pederastic relationship with an adolescent boy.
faster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːstə/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Etymology: From fast (“quick; quickly”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The renewal of track by cranes and special tracklaying machines which lift out entire 60 ft. lengths of old track and lay in pre-assembled 60 ft. lengths of new, allows the process of renewal to proceed at a considerably faster rate than possible by older methods.
ref: 1953 September, “Restoring British Permanent Way to Prewar Standards”, in Railway Magazine, page 587:
text: Other paths can be occupied by oil trains from Grain, timber trains for Chirk, cement trains for Clitheroe, as well as engineering trains running this way to avoid the West Coast Main Line and other 60mph services squeezed off the WCML to make way for faster passenger and freight trains.
ref: 2025 July 9, Philip Haigh, “When the WCML closes, can the S&C take the strain?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 22:
glosses: comparative form of fast: more fast
faster
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːstə/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Etymology: From fast (“quick; quickly”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fast: more fast
faster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːstə/
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fasters
Etymology: From fast (“refrain from eating”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.
autonomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɒnəməs/
ipa: /ɔˈtɑnəməs/
ipa: /ɑˈtɑnəməs/
rhymes: -ɒnəməs
homophone: autonymous
Forms: form: more autonomous
form: most autonomous
Etymology: From autonomy + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: sovereign
self-governing
glosses: Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
examples: text: Though Cade has for years reported on the development of autonomous vehicles, test drives usually have so-called safety drivers who ride along and can take over in case something goes wrong.
ref: 2022 April 10, Soumya Karlamangla, “Behind the Story: Navigating San Francisco in a Driverless Car”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: self-standing
self-directed
glosses: Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
qualifier: Celtic linguistics
glosses: Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
raw_tags: of a verb form
Derived terms: autonomous community
autonomously
autonomousness
autonomous oblast
autonomous okrug
autonomous prefecture
autonomous region
autonomous sensory meridian response
autonomous vehicle
autonowashing
nonautonomous
semiautonomous
superautonomous
Related terms: autonomy
autonomous area
American football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
Synonyms: word: American handegg
word: feetsball
word: handegg
word: NFL
Hypernyms: gridiron football
Related terms: association football
Canadian football
North American football
football
gridiron
rugby
rugby football
soccer
maternal uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal uncles
Senses: examples: text: The social organization of the Trobriand Islanders of Melane-
 sia is characterized by matrilineal descent, free and familiar rela-
 tions between father and son, and a marked antagonism between
 maternal uncle and nephew.³¹ On the other hand, the patrilineal
 Cherkess of the Caucasus place the hostility between father and
 son, while the maternal uncle assists his nephew and gives him a
 horse when he marries.³²
ref: 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 42:
glosses: The brother or brother-in-law of one’s mother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Related terms: maternal aunt
paternal uncle
uterine nephew
skink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: skinks
Etymology: Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”).
The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ġesċincio, ġesċinco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)).
Senses: examples: text: lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
glosses: A shin of beef.
examples: text: For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated
ref: 1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis:
glosses: A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
examples: text: Cullen skink
glosses: Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
Derived terms: Cullen skink
skink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: skinks
Etymology: From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).
Senses: glosses: A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dibamus spp.
word: blind skink
word: blue-tailed skink
word: blue-tongued skink
taxonomic: Tiliqua spp.
word: blue-tongue skink
taxonomic: Tiliqua rugosa
word: bobtail skink
taxonomic: Oligosoma zelandicum
word: brown skink
taxonomic: Plestiodon anthracinus
word: coal skink
taxonomic: Egernia spp.
word: crevice skink
taxonomic: Emoia spp.
word: emo skink
taxonomic: Mochlus fernandi
word: fire skink
taxonomic: Cryptoblepharus australis
word: inland snake-eyed skink
taxonomic: Egernia kingii
word: King's skink
taxonomic: Acontias spp.
word: lance skink
word: legless skink
word: mountain skink
taxonomic: Flexiseps decaryi
word: rock skink
taxonomic: Chalcides ocellatus
word: sand skink
taxonomic: Lygosoma spp.
word: supple skink
taxonomic: Eulamprus spp.
word: water skink
taxonomic: Plestiodon skiltonianus
word: western skink
skink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: skinks
form: skinking
form: skinked
form: skinked
Etymology: From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.
Senses: examples: text: Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.
ref: 1640 November 20 (date licensed, Gregorian calendar; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume V, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 246:
text: [W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.
ref: 1900, Theophrastus, “Of Foulness”, in [anonymous], transl., edited by David J[osiah] Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler, The World’s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time […], royal edition, volume X, St. Louis, Mo.: Ferd[inand] P. Kaiser, →OCLC, page 3769:
glosses: To serve (a drink).
glosses: To give (something) as a present.
skink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: skinks
Etymology: From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.
Senses: glosses: A drink.
primate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmeɪt/
Forms: form: primates
Etymology: First attested in 1876. From French primate, from the substantivization of Latin prīmās, prīmātis (“one of the first, chief, excellent, noble”), same as Etymology 2. So named due to the belief that primates are the highest order of mammals or animals.
Senses: examples: text: Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
glosses: A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.
Synonyms: word: primate
Hypernyms: word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: ape
word: aye-aye
word: capuchin
word: douroucouli
taxonomic: Indri indri
word: entrina
word: galago
word: gibbon
word: great ape
word: howler monkey
word: human
word: human being
taxonomic: Indri indri
word: indri
word: lemur
word: loris
word: marmoset
word: monkey
word: night monkey
word: owl monkey
word: potto
word: saki
word: simian
word: spider monkey
word: squirrel monkey
word: tamarin
word: tarsier
word: titi
word: uakari
word: woolly monkey
word: baboon
word: bonobo
word: bushbaby
word: chimpanzee
word: gelada
word: gorilla
word: hominid
word: macaque
word: mandrill
word: orangutan
word: prosimian
word: siamang
Derived terms: super-primate
Related terms: word: :Category:Hominids
word: :Category:Monkeys
word: :Category:Prosimians
primate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmət/
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmeɪt/
Forms: form: primates
Etymology: First attested in c. 1275. From Middle English primat(e), from Old French primat (French primat), from Late Latin prīmās, prīmātis (“chief bishop”), substantivisation of prīmās (same as Etymology 1), from prīmus (“prime, first in rank (also as a substantive)”). Compare English primus, of similar derivation and meaning.
Senses: examples: text: The Archbishop of Quebec is the primate of Canada.
topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
topics: Christianity
glosses: In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
Synonyms: word: primate
Hypernyms: word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: ape
word: baboon
word: bonobo
word: bushbaby
word: chimpanzee
word: galago
word: gelada
word: gibbon
word: gorilla
word: great ape
word: hominid
word: human
word: lemur
word: loris
word: macaque
word: mandrill
word: marmoset
word: monkey
word: orangutan
word: prosimian
word: siamang
word: tamarin
word: tarsier
Derived terms: abbot primate
primate city
Primate of All England
Primate of England
Primate of the Gauls
primateship
primatical
prince-primate
Related terms: word: primatial
word: primus
word: ultimate
word: exarch
word: patriarch
word: :Category:Hominids
word: :Category:Monkeys
word: :Category:Prosimians
protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɑl/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɔl/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkoʊl/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʉtəˌkoːl/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʉtəˌkɔl/
Forms: form: protocols
form: protocoling
form: protocolling
form: protocoled
form: protocoled
form: protocolled
form: protocolled
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French protocolle, protocole (“document, record”), from Late Latin protocollum (“the first sheet of a volume (on which contents and errata were written)”), from Byzantine Greek πρωτόκολλον (prōtókollon, “first sheet glued onto a manuscript”), from πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Doublet of collage, collagen, and colloid.
Senses: glosses: To make a protocol of.
examples: text: Serene Highnesses, who sit there protocolling and manifestoing, and consoling mankind!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VI (The Marseillese), page 279:
glosses: To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
lima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmə/
rhymes: -aɪmə
Forms: form: limas
Etymology: Ellipsis of lima bean.
Senses: examples: text: We had limas with dinner last night.
glosses: Lima bean.
lima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmə/
rhymes: -aɪmə
Forms: form: limas
Senses: qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lima from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
lima bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪmə ˌbiːn/
ipa: /ˈlaɪmə ˌbin/
Forms: form: lima beans
form: Lima bean
Etymology: Named after the city of Lima, from which they were exported.
Senses: synonyms: butter bean
chad bean
double bean
Madagascar bean
sieva bean
wax bean
glosses: A plant of species Phaseolus lunatus or the bean it yields.
sangat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sangats
Senses: glosses: A Sikh community.
Related terms: sangha
section
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕk′shən
ipa: /ˈsɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: sections
form: sectioning
form: sectioned
form: sectioned
Etymology: From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw.
Senses: glosses: To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
glosses: To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
examples: text: Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
ref: 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, →ISBN, page 45:
text: The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
ref: a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second edition, Routledge, published 2000, →ISBN, page xiv:
text: After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]
ref: 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: schedule
glosses: To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
examples: text: "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."
ref: 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:
text: You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."
ref: 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
foreskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːskɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹskɪn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈfo(ː)ɹskɪn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈfoəskɪn/
Forms: form: foreskins
Etymology: From fore- + skin, a loose calque of Latin praepūtium. Compare German Vorhaut, etc. First attested in c. 1535.
Senses: examples: text: In the female genitalia, the clitoral hood is homologous to the foreskin.
text: And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 17:14:
text: In primates, the foreskin is present in the genitalia of both sexes and likely has been present for millions of years of evolution.
ref: 1990, Robert D. Martin, Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
text: the foreskin is a primary sensory part of the penis, containing some of the most sensitive areas of the penis
ref: 2010, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Circumcision of infant males:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: penile foreskin
glosses: The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other mammals.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: clitoral hood
glosses: Ellipsis of clitoral foreskin.
Synonyms: word: prepuce
word: foreskin
word: blinds
word: burrito
word: cap
word: curtains
word: drapes
word: goatskin
word: gobbler
word: gooch
word: hood
word: lace curtains
word: penile sheath
word: penis sheath
word: schmuck
word: sheath
word: snapper
word: toque
Derived terms: foreskin eater
foreskinless
foreskinned
Related terms: word: penis
word: clitoris
foreskin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːskɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹskɪn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈfo(ː)ɹskɪn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈfoəskɪn/
Forms: form: foreskins
form: foreskinning
form: foreskinned
form: foreskinned
Etymology: From fore- + skin, a loose calque of Latin praepūtium. Compare German Vorhaut, etc. First attested in c. 1535.
Senses: examples: text: What she meant, of course, was young initiated men, and any such would be in short supply until after the foreskinning ceremonies at Christmas.
ref: 1976, Max Brown, The black Eureka, page 52:
text: I always liked an open fire," an open wound, suppuration of silent words from somewhere, a long line of fathers foreskinning for all they were worth, unknown, unsaid, alone in ice-cold space as we're all alone in the absence of God with only His mother, the mother of God, out there in black face, alone herself, the queen of the world...
ref: 1981, Exile - Volume 8, page 17:
text: An article in Instauration entitled “Foreskinning” exclaims that “slicing off babies' foreskins cannot be described as anything but forms of mutilation” performed by “savages.”
ref: 2000, Peter Kivisto, Georganne Rundblad, Multiculturalism in the United States, →ISBN:
glosses: To remove the foreskin.
examples: text: According to Scotty, who should have played the accordion, and did he, Dr. Bowles now wonders, grow up to be Scotty Boy Potty and was all this merely a terribly tropish bit of biz foreskinning the man he would becum, nuntheless, according to Scott, if one waved bye-bye up and down, i.e. flapping, versus side to side, i.e. wiping, one was a fag.
ref: 2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, →ISBN, page 356:
text: S'ter Penny started to go but stopped when she noticed Ivy was still standing with us. "Heh! Ivy Abankwah, jai foreskinning!" She told her to stop doing something -- I wasn't sure what "foreskinning" meant.
ref: 2010, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, Powder Necklace: A Novel, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Sucking whiskey from a sagging breast/ Sipping the bitter cigar/ foreskinning up and down...
ref: 2016, Marc Asanov Archibald, OF DOGS AND MEN - A myth therapy, →ISBN:
glosses: To sexually stimulate by manipulating the foreskin.
Related terms: circumcise
circumcision
prepuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːpjuːs/
Forms: form: prepuces
form: præpuce
Etymology: From Middle English prepuce, prepuse, from Old French prepuce (“foreskin”), from Latin praepūtium (“prepuce, foreskin”), a combination of prae- (“fore-”) + Old Latin pūtos (“penis”).
Senses: examples: text: Jehovah, collector of prepuces, is no more.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: But there are a fair number of halfway Jews – you know, those who want God without having to have their prepuces torn off to get him.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: penile foreskin
glosses: The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: clitoral hood
clitoral foreskin
glosses: The clitoral hood.
Synonyms: foreskin
preputium
Derived terms: clitoral prepuce
Holy Prepuce
prepuceless
preputial
preputioplasty
preputiotomy
Related terms: akroposthion
circumcision
every dog has its day
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: every dog has his day
form: every dog must have his day
form: every dog must have its day
Senses: examples: text: cæsar [...] Yes, Rufio: I am an old man—worn out now—true, quite true. [...] Well, every dog has his day; and I have had mine: I cannot complain.
ref: 1898, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Cæsar and Cleopatra”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], published 1901, →OCLC, Act III, page 153:
text: "[T]o lose, it hurt. But I learned from that. I learned that every dog has its day. I learned patience."
ref: 1987 November 5, Thomas George, “Football: First Down, Many Goals to Go”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Jul 2015:
text: The Hearts manager John McGlynn was thrilled to be drawn against Liverpool in the Europa League play-offs. McGlynn said: ". . . . I would imagine the bookmakers would favour Liverpool but every dog has its day."
ref: 2012 August 11, “Europa League: Hearts delight at Liverpool tie”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 13 Jul 2015:
glosses: Everyone, at some point, experiences some degree of success, impact, or influence in life.
Related terms: even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
opium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′pēəm
ipa: /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/
ipa: /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/
rhymes: -əʊpiəm
enpr: ōp′yəm
ipa: /ˈoʊp.jəm/
Forms: form: opiums
form: opia
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós
Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós)
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
Latin opiumbor.
Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
English opium
Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós (“juice, resin”).
Senses: examples: text: From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]
ref: 1777, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 7th edition, London: […] S. Crowder, […]; J. Sewell, […]; W. Johnston, […]; and B. Law, […], →OCLC, page 277:
text: Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 169:
glosses: A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
examples: text: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.
ref: 1843, Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie [A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right]:
english: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
translation: A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
glosses: Anything that numbs or stupefies.
Synonyms: word: aunti/aunti Emma
word: big O
word: chandu
word: Chinese tobacco
word: dopium
word: dream gun
word: dream stick
word: fi-do-nie
word: gee
word: God's medicine
word: gondola
word: goric
word: guma
word: hop/hops
word: meconium
word: midnight oil
word: mud
word: ope
word: pen yan
word: pin gon
word: pox
word: skee
word: toxy
word: when-shee
word: yen
word: ze
word: zero
Hypernyms: word: drug
word: opiate
word: opioid
word: recreational drug
Hyponyms: word: Dover's powder
word: high-hat
word: laudanum
word: yen pok
Derived terms: antiopium
antiopiumist
copium
hopium
lanthopine
lettuce opium
opianine
opiomania
opium alkaloid
opium den
opium-eater
opium-eating
opiumism
opiumist
opium lamp
opiumlike
opium pillow
opium pipe
opium poppy
Opium War
wine of opium
yoink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɔɪŋk
Forms: form: yoinks
form: yoinking
form: yoinked
form: yoinked
Etymology: 1954. Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Outside in the fog and the damp and cool air, common to County Cavan, he strode briskly along the road and when he arrived Cummings was already out and busy and the pigs—a big drove of them—were yoinking for their feed.
ref: 1956, H. Minar Shoebotham, Anaconda: Life of Marcus Daly, the Copper King, Mechanicsburg PA: Stackpole, p 2
glosses: To make an oinking sound.
examples: text: Carl Solomon yoinking around so frenziedly on a pogo stick that one night he put the end of it right through the floor into the restaurant below -- and all their girls, and their friends' girls, and their friends' friends, and even nameless others who may have just heard the hubbub and walkin in the door.
ref: 2013, Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: To hop or bounce.
examples: text: ...you're yoinked right back to the last spawn point.
ref: 2009, PC Gamer - Volume 16, Issues 1-3:
text: All of the clout is upstairs, yoinking around with meetings and that.
ref: 2012, Chris Bunch, Star Risk, LTD., →ISBN:
text: Por supuesto, Ethan Suva yoinked the silence.
ref: 2017, JoAnna Novak, I Must Have You: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: nonce word for an action that impacts on something, especially if it is sudden.
examples: text: I'll be going along, doing my starving-writer thing, free from the shackles of 'The Tube'; and, suddenly, my inspiration will die. Just gone, yoinked like a plug.
ref: 2013, Aaron Garrison, Synchronicity: One Man's Experience, →ISBN, page 123:
text: "By all indications, the closet was just where the killah left her." He flipped through his notebook and then back, verifying his info. Good cop, Bubo thought. Thorough. "Yup," he said, tapping the page. “By all indications, it looks like she got herself yoinked someplace else.”
ref: 2016, Thom Carnell, Moonlight Serenades:
text: “DanU? You shittin me?” His eyes got big. He yoinked My Pal Roofie.
ref: 2017, Jason Christian, Aaron Gabel, Rohg to the System, →ISBN:
glosses: To kill.
yoink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɔɪŋk
Forms: form: yoinks
Etymology: 1954. Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Yessir, we need you Yoinks. You're all we have, you are.
ref: 1969, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Saturday Review - Volume 52, page 49:
text: You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!
ref: 1999 March 28, Robert Mulroy, “You are all a bunch of yoinks who insult Budda!”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):
text: The fact that these mentating yoinks don't know what it it, or worse, refuse to even acknowledge its existence pegs their state of awareness.
ref: 1999 November 11, Don James, “WHITE LIGHT”, in alt.zen (Usenet):
text: “What a bunch of yoinks we are, indeed,” Garvin said.
ref: 2012, Chris Bunch, Storm Force: Book Three of the Last Legion Series, →ISBN:
glosses: An ordinary person with nothing to recommend them.
yoink
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɔɪŋk
Etymology: 1954. Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Back in a pool game, Lindsey comes by between shots and leans over my shoulder and whispers, "Don't look now, but that blonde girl is checking you out." YOINK!
ref: 2005, Adam Harris, A Single Southerner Across America, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
text: yoink! The US will never close the border to Mexico. Politicians here don't have the political will to do such thing.
ref: 2009 May 5, Dias Leonardo, “yoink!”, in politics.r.us (Usenet):
text: “What do you mean, don't kill me?” Major Healy said, sneering. “In case you didn't notice, I'm the one with the weapon.” “Oh, yeah,” Remo said. “Yoink.”
ref: 2016, Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy, The Wrong Stuff, →ISBN:
glosses: Used for emphasis or to express that one is impressed.
yoink
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɔɪŋk
Etymology: Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies.
Senses: examples: text: Marge: But you look better, you don't sweat when you eat any more, and look – [holds up a wad of cash] You've saved more than a hundred dollars. I found it in your pants.
Homer: [snatches money] Yoink!
ref: 1993, “Duffless”, episode of the Simpsons [television]
text: Yoink! He snatched Granny Glee's frilly pink hat with his little feet.
ref: 2012, John Sazaklis, Candy Store Caper, →ISBN, page 24:
text: The way I've always done this stunt is to grab my partner and jump us over together. It's absolute hell on my knees. I lean toward Brando and raise my eyebrows. “Yoink.” “Definite yoink,” he replies, equally inspired.
ref: 2014, G. T. Almasi, Hammer of Angels: A Novel of Shadowstorm, →ISBN:
text: YOINK! Coach Pittman snatched the puck out of midair.
ref: 2015, Marty McKnight, Jim Nasium Is a Hockey Hazard, →ISBN, page 42:
text: 2021 (November 13) "Olivia & Yunan" (Amphibia s3e7b) Yunan grabbing a crossbow
Ooh, ominous. After you, milady. Yoink!
glosses: Onomatopoeic, accompanying or describing a yank, swipe, or snatch.
yoink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɔɪŋk
Forms: form: yoinks
form: yoinking
form: yoinked
form: yoinked
Etymology: Coined by writer George Meyer for the TV show The Simpsons; perhaps from yank, or imitative of the sound effect (a quick upward slide on a violin) that accompanies something being snatched in classic comedies.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sure that there is pinching, punching, eye gouging, yoinking, hair pulling and who knows what else underneath where eyes can't follow, but he comes out and hands the referee the ball and hits the line again.
ref: 2010, Sandy Burgess Livermore, Stealing Home, →ISBN:
text: The first time he yoinked at my arm all three of us–me, doctor and bed –flew across the room.
ref: 2012, Geordan Murphy, The Outsider, →ISBN:
text: That was the stress that yoinked the whole support gantry down— like trying to stop a medium-sized car with one pull.”
ref: 2013, Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor, Portal, →ISBN:
text: "Hey!" some AV kid said when I snuck up behind him and yoinked a microphone from his cart.
ref: 2017, Teddy Steinkellner, Two Roads from Here, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: To yank or snatch.
examples: text: At the far end of the Shrine stands the Coronation Chair, built for Edward I; the shelf below the seat was made to house the Scottish Stone of Scone, which the sticky-fingered Edward yoinked in 1296 ...
ref: 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, page 111:
text: I broke-and-entered the clinic last night and yoinked em.'
ref: 2008, Paul McDonald, Do I Love You?, page 155:
text: He had yoinked dozens off Gav over the years.
ref: 2016, Ben Davies, The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Welcome to Cringefest, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Waiters were in on the ruse, and would frequently distract customers in order to facilitate the yoinking of oysters and caviar.
ref: 2017, Nate Crowley, 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: To steal.
examples: text: Jonas thinks he's such a free fucking spirit for sporting that Revolutionary War–esque overcoat he yoinked from that thrift shop in Philly.
ref: 2010, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrea Bartz, Stuff Hipsters Hate:
text: On my first four turns, I yoinked Australia. Playing Risk with these girls was so fun because in my whole life I've never seen two people happier.
ref: 2012, Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, →ISBN:
glosses: To take or win (something that others want).
melodious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈləʊdi.əs/
ipa: /məˈloʊdi.əs/
rhymes: -əʊdiəs
Forms: form: more melodious
form: most melodious
Etymology: From Old French melodios. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Tremulous on the bladed graſs ſhone bright the pearly drops, like an aſſembly of ſparkling ſtars dancing on the plains of the zodiac; vocal was every bending ſpray, every reed was inſpired, each warbling throat ſeemed to emulate the melodious voice of the bird of a thouſand ſongs.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
text: A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:
text: Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.
ref: 2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.
Derived terms: immelodious
melodiously
melodiousness
melodious warbler
nonmelodious
unmelodious
dagesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dageshes
Etymology: From Hebrew דָּגֵשׁ (dagésh, dɔḡeš).
Senses: glosses: A symbol used in Hebrew script to denote a geminated consonant, or a consonant pronounced as a plosive as opposed to as a fricative.
Derived terms: dagesh forte
dagesh lene
Related terms: mapiq
shureq
twister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtwɪstɚ/
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: twisters
Etymology: From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who twists.
glosses: One who twists.
One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
examples: text: He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
ref: 1653, John Wallis, Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ:
glosses: An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
glosses: A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
glosses: A tornado.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A girder.
glosses: The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
examples: text: “I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:
glosses: A crook, a villain.
glosses: Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
glosses: The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
Derived terms: arm-twister
arm twister
fossil twister
jaw-twister
knife twister
knife-twister
Labrador twister
Mersenne twister
titty twister
tongue-twister
Related terms: dust devil
water spout
willy-willy
Scots
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒts/
ipa: /ˈskɔts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late variant of earlier Scyttisċ (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scottish.
Senses: synonyms: Scottish
Lowland Scots
glosses: A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.
Meronyms: word: Middle Scots
word: Synthetic Scots
word: Doric
word: Shetlandic
english: Shetland Scots
translation: Shetland Scots
word: Shetlandish
word: Ulster Scots
word: Ullans
Derived terms: Scots acre
Scots-Irish
Ulster Scots
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Scots terms
Ullans
Scots
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒts/
ipa: /ˈskɔts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late variant of earlier Scyttisċ (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scottish.
Senses: synonyms: Scotch
Scottish
glosses: Scottish.
Derived terms: pound Scots
Scots broom
Scots English
Scots Gaelic
Scots law
Scotsman
Scotsperson
Scots pint
Scots plough
Scots whist
Scotswoman
Scots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒts/
ipa: /ˈskɔts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: glosses: plural of Scot
shatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæt.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃæt.ɚ/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shatters
Etymology: From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
Senses: examples: text: to break a glass into shatters
text: it will fall upon the glass of the sconce, and break it into shatters
ref: 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A fragment of anything shattered.
examples: text: My usual habit is, as soon as I get my wheat trodden out, and my corn secured in the fall, to litter my farm yard (and if my cultivation is far off, I select some warm spot near the field) with leaves and pine shatters, (preferring the former) ...
ref: 1834, The Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs: Adapted to the Southern Section of the United States, page 421:
text: They are preserved in cellars, or out of doors in kilns. The method of fixing them is to raise the ground a few inches, where they are to be placed, and cover with pine shatters to the depth of six inches or more.
ref: 1859, Samuel W. Cole, The New England Farmer, page 277:
text: Grandpa snapped his fingers. "Consarn it all!" he sputtered. "I plumb forgot the pine shatters. Paul and Maureen, you gather some nice smelly pine shatters from off 'n the floor of the woods. Nothin' makes a better cushion for pony feet as pine shatters ..."
ref: 2012, Marguerite Henry, Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:
synonyms: shat
glosses: A (pine) needle.
examples: text: There's a tidy shatter of sin already in the Fee, says Parson. Ah, says I, but us can't all be saints like yourself, Parson.
ref: 1931, Gerald Bullett, Marden Fee, page 99:
text: [He] steps out into the rain. It takes his eyes a moment to adjust, to get used to the misty glow of the moon above them, to take in the wild look of their yard, and the shatter of rain. The insects have escaped it at least, hidden beneath the cover of grass and foliage, beneath the low-hanging branches of the jacarandas and poincianas. Birds huddle there as well,[…]
ref: 2025 January 7, Sophie Overett, The Rabbits, Pushkin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A scattering, a smattering; a quantity of something scattered, like a sprinkling of seeds or a shower of rain.
glosses: A form of concentrated cannabis.
Derived terms: shatter attack
shattercane
shatter cone
holism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holisms
form: wholism
Etymology: From hol- (“whole, entire, total”) + -ism. Coined in 1926 by Jan Smuts.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A theory or belief that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A practice based on such a theory or belief.
Derived terms: antiholism
holist
holistic
Related terms: reductionism
gibbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪbən/
ipa: /ɡɪˈbɑn/
rhymes: -ɪbən
Forms: form: gibbons
form: guibon
Etymology: Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).
Senses: examples: text: '[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.
ref: 1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena:
glosses: A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
Synonyms: hylobatid
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hylobates agilis
word: agile gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates agilis
word: black-handed gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates albibarbis
word: Bornean white-bearded gibbon
alt: Hylobatis pileatus
word: capped gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates lar
word: common gibbon
taxonomic: Nomascus concolor
word: crested gibbon
taxonomic: Nomascus hainanus
word: Hainan gibbon
taxonomic: Hoolock spp.
word: hoolock gibbon
taxonomic: Hoolock spp.
word: hulock gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates moloch
word: Javan gibbon
word: Kloss's gibbon
word: kloss's gibbon
word: kloss gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates lar
word: lar gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates klossii
word: Mentawai gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates pileatus
word: pileated gibbon
taxonomic: Perodicticus spp.
word: potto gibbon
word: shitgibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates lar
word: silvery gibbon
english: Nomascus
translation: Nomascus
word: white-cheeked gibbon
taxonomic: Hylobates lar
word: white-handed gibbon
taxonomic: Nomascus gabriellae
word: yellow-cheeked gibbon
murre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜː/
ipa: /mɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: murr
homophone: myrrh
Forms: form: murres
Etymology: Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s
ref: 1990, David G. Ainley, Seabirds of the Farallon Islands: Ecology, Dynamics, and Structure of an Upwelling-System Community, page 252:
text: 1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,
About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.
text: 2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,
Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.
glosses: Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
Synonyms: sense: any bird of genus Uria
word: guillemot
Derived terms: taxonomic: Uria aalge
word: common murre
word: murrelet
taxonomic: Uria lomvia
word: thick-billed murre
Related terms: word: merganser
word: razorbill
tarsier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑ(ɹ)si.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtaɹʃi.əɹ/
Forms: form: tarsiers
Etymology: From French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”).
Senses: glosses: An insectivorous primate of the family Tarsiidae, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: tarsiid
Derived terms: Horsfield's tarsier
Related terms: Tarsiidae
toy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: toi
ipa: /tɔɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /taɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /tɑɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: toys
form: toying
form: toyed
form: toyed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“play-thing, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.
Senses: examples: text: to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate
text: Figo is toying with the English defence.
text: His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 24, page 246:
glosses: To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
examples: text: I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
glosses: To ponder or consider.
examples: text: He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Everest, Lady Loverly's Chattel:
glosses: To stimulate with a sex toy.