cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
database
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
ipa: [ˈdeɪɾəˌbeɪs]
ipa: /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/
ipa: [ˈdæɾəˌbeɪs]
ipa: /ˈdæːtəˌbeːs/
ipa: /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖeːʈaːˌbeːs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖaː-/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖæ-/
Forms: form: databases
form: databasing
form: databased
form: databased
form: data base
form: data-base
Etymology: From data + base.
Senses: examples: text: The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:
glosses: To enter (data) into a database.
deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛf/
ipa: /diːf/
ipa: /dɛːf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: Deaf
homophone: def
homophone: death (th-fronting)
Forms: form: deafs
Etymology: From Middle English def, deef, from Old English dēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”). See also dumb. Doublet of daff, dof, and dowf.
Senses: examples: text: Among the second group of philanthropic educational institutions the institutes for the deafs and dumbs must be mentioned.
ref: 1897, József Jekelfalussy, The Millennium of Hungary and Its People, page 347:
text: Negotiations for South Vietnam's political future and the enforcement of cease-fire between two sides progressed like a conversation between two deafs.
ref: 1980, Cao Van Vien, Van Khuyen Dong, Reflections on the Vietnam War:
text: "I work with the blind mostly. Some deafs too," I told her.
ref: 2014, Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life, →ISBN:
text: Two deafs did not always make deaf babies.
ref: 2015, Judith Richards, The Sounds of Silence, →ISBN:
glosses: A deaf person.
deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛf/
ipa: /diːf/
ipa: /dɛːf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: Deaf
homophone: def
homophone: death (th-fronting)
Forms: form: deafs
form: deafing
form: deafed
form: deafed
Etymology: From Middle English def, deef, from Old English dēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”). See also dumb. Doublet of daff, dof, and dowf.
Senses: examples: text: It is enough, my hearing shall be punish'd With what shall happen, -- 'gainst the which there is No deafing -- but to hear, not taint mine eye With dread sights that it may shun.
ref: 1634, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen:
text: Svvift as a VVhirl-vvind to the Nurſe he flyes; / And deafs his ſtormy Subjects vvith his cries.
ref: 1680, John Dryden, “Canace to Macareus”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Epistles, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: Shall we, I say, that have been so long civil and wealthy in peace, famous and invincible in war, fortunate in both, we that have been ever able to aid any of our neighbours (but never deafed any of their ears with any of our supplications for assistance) shall we, I say, without blushing, abase ourselves so far, as to imitate these beastly Indians, slaves to the Spaniards, refuse to the world, and as yet aliens from the holy covenant of God?
ref: 1871, Charlse Hindlley, A Kicksey Winsey: Or a Lerry Come-Twang:
glosses: To deafen.
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: dangs
form: danging
form: danged
form: danged
Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.
Senses: glosses: Damn.
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.
Senses: glosses: Damn.
Derived terms: dang it
dang tootin'
dang tooting
gall dang
goshdang
goshdangit
hot dang
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.
Senses: synonyms: darn
durn
glosses: Damn.
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: Draining your pasta water (and reserving a bit for your pasta sauce recipe) is so dang easy with this clip-on strainer. Plus, it wastes waaay less cabinet space than a traditional colander.
ref: 2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: darn
durn
glosses: Damn.
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: dangs
Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn.
Senses: examples: text: I don't give a dang.
glosses: A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration.
examples: text: I don't often yell at my players or officials--I've never once thrown a chair, the best I ever did was a clipboard--and I never curse. People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the Hoover Dang.
ref: 2006 October 3, Lute Olson, David Fisher, Lute!: The Seasons of My Life, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4:
text: “Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'Hoover Dang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good. “No, honey. You don't have to call it that.[…]
ref: 2009, Chuck Holton, Melt Down, Multnomah, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn.
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past of ding
dang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dăng
ipa: /dæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: dangs
form: danging
form: danged
form: danged
Senses: examples: text: Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage,
Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander:
glosses: To dash.
nowt
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊt/
ipa: [naʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɔʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɒʊʔ]
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /nəʊt/
ipa: [nəʊʔ]
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: note
Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).
Senses: examples: text: Today I have achieved absolutely nowt / In just being out of the house, I've lost out
ref: 2004, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), A Grand Don’t Come For Free, performed by The Streets:
glosses: Naught, nothing.
Synonyms: word: noot
nowt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊt/
ipa: [naʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɔʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɒʊʔ]
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /nəʊt/
ipa: [nəʊʔ]
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: note
Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: Naught, nothing.
Derived terms: shy bairns get nowt
there's nowt so queer as folk
you don't get owt for nowt
nowt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊt/
ipa: [naʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɔʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɒʊʔ]
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /nəʊt/
ipa: [nəʊʔ]
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: note
Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”).
Senses: glosses: Naught, nothing.
nowt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊt/
ipa: [naʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɔʊʔ]
note: West Riding of Yorkshire
ipa: [nɒʊʔ]
rhymes: -aʊt
ipa: /nəʊt/
ipa: [nəʊʔ]
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: note
Forms: form: nowts
form: nolt
Etymology: From Middle English nowte, noute, nawte, naute, borrowed from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with Old English nēat, English neat.
Senses: glosses: An ox.
glosses: A herd of cattle.
examples: text: A hunner guineas for the heid o' that nowt Renwick, and him no' sae very far awa' frae your very nose at this meenit.
ref: 1929, James William Marriott, editor, The Best One-act Plays of 1931, G.G. Harrap, published 1932, page 162:
glosses: A dumb, crass, or clumsy person, or a person who is difficult or stubborn.
chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: chases
form: chasing
form: chased
form: chased
form: chace
Etymology: From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”)
, see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”).
Doublet of catch and related to capture. Displaced native Old English ōht, ēhtnes, and wāþ. Broadly overtook Old English huntaþ.
Senses: glosses: To pursue.
To follow at speed.
glosses: To pursue.
To hunt.
examples: text: The team are chasing their first home win this season.
glosses: To pursue.
To seek to attain.
examples: text: He spends all his free time chasing girls.
text: She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy… so to speak.
ref: 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Silent Bob:
text: But here's my number, so call me, maybe / And all the other boys try to chase me
ref: 2011, “Call Me Maybe”, performed by Carly Rae Jepsen:
glosses: To pursue.
To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pursue.
To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
examples: text: I need something to chase this shot with.
text: John ordered quite a few drinks. I think I stopped at four. He kept ordering straight shots of tequila and chasing them with a beer. Then he’d tear off the filter on his cigarette before smoking it.
ref: 2015, John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 401:
glosses: To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
examples: text: Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
examples: text: Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
examples: text: The rally chased the starter.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
Synonyms: pursue
Derived terms: ambulance-chase
chasable
chase after
chase a rainbow
chase rainbows
chase away
chase down
chasee
chase moonbeams
chase off
chase one's tail
chase one's own tail
chase pennies with dollars
chase shadows
chase skirt
chase tail
chase the ace
chase the dragon
chase up
contour chase
go chase yourself
outchase
rechase
Related terms: follow
chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: chases
Etymology: Perhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse.
Senses: examples: text: The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.
ref: 1920, Robert F. Salade, chapter IX, in How Paper Boxes are Made:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: chases
Etymology: Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa (“box”). Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse.
Senses: glosses: A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
topics: architecture
glosses: A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
glosses: The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
glosses: The cavity of a mold.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
Derived terms: pipe chase
chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: chases
form: chasing
form: chased
form: chased
Etymology: Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa (“box”). Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse.
Senses: glosses: To groove; indent.
examples: text: chase the pipe
glosses: To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
glosses: To cut (the thread of a screw).
glosses: To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
whack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæk/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ʍæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: wack (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whacker
form: whackest
Etymology: Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).
Senses: examples: text: That's whack, yo!
text: As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]
ref: 2007, Joyce E. Davis, Can't Stop The Shine, page 51:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).
batty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæti/
ipa: /ˈbæti/
ipa: [ˈbæɾi]
homophone: baddie (t-flapping)
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: battier
form: battiest
Etymology: From bat + -y. In sense “insane”, attested 1903, from expression have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Compare also batshit (“insane”) and squirrelly (“jumpy, eccentric”).
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday’s David Frost Show, Baroness Thatcher looked quite batty to me, eyes rolling.
ref: 1992 July 6, Edwina Currie, Diary:
glosses: Mad, crazy, silly.
examples: text: And from each other look thou lead them thus
Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep
With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
Derived terms: batshit
battily
battiness
Related terms: squirrelly
batty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæti/
ipa: /ˈbæti/
ipa: [ˈbæɾi]
homophone: baddie (t-flapping)
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: batties
form: bati
Etymology: From bottom, possibly influenced by botty or butt.
Senses: examples: text: He kick the boy down and beat the boy back and batty and leg.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 35:
qualifier: West Indian slang
glosses: The buttocks or anus.
examples: text: For example, recent Jamaican 'raga' lyrics by Buju Banton and Brand Nubian attach the affirmation of black identity to crude animosity towards homosexuality and contain offensive language against the 'batties' as icons of non-blackness.
ref: 1996, Rudi Bleys, The geography of perversion:
glosses: A homosexual man.
Derived terms: batty boy
batty hole
batty man
batty rider
batty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæti/
ipa: /ˈbæti/
ipa: [ˈbæɾi]
homophone: baddie (t-flapping)
rhymes: -æti
Senses: examples: text: The rice, or batty, is sown in June, at the commencement of the periodical rains; […]
ref: 1834, James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, page 23:
glosses: Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”).
chatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæti/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: chattier
form: chattiest
Etymology: From chat (“informal conversation”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When a typically chatty employee who often participates in meetings and is engaged and enthusiastic suddenly becomes unmotivated and quieter, that person could be at risk for burnout.
ref: 2019 September 9, Kathryn Vasel, “Burnout is a big deal. Here’s how managers can spot it”, in CNN Business:
text: Our ticket is checked after departure by a chatty guard.
ref: 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 43:
glosses: Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.
glosses: Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style.
examples: text: Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.
Derived terms: chattily
chattiness
chit-chatty
unchatty
chatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæti/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: chattier
form: chattiest
Etymology: From chat (“louse”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Now there are plans to put up a cheap and chatty wooden fence which will not provide anything like the security the old wall did and it will not have the same character.
ref: 2014, Ian Robson, “Fenham residents campaign against plans to replace wall with wooden fence”, The Chronicle:
glosses: Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy.
chatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæti/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: chatties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”).
fatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæt.i/
ipa: /ˈfæt.i/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: fattier
form: fattiest
Etymology: From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).
Senses: examples: text: fatty tissues
text: fatty meats
text: Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 14”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:
glosses: Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
examples: text: fatty liver
text: fatty pancreas
text: That means eating fruits and vegetables and cutting back on fatty foods.
ref: 2002, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - June 22:
text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat.
synonyms: steatotic
synonyms: fatlike
glosses: Like fat; greasy.
examples: text: fatty acid
text: fatty alcohol
text: 1849, Hippocrates (Translated by Francis Bacon), Of the Epidemics, Book II, Section 1.
On the sixth, stools black, fatty, viscid, fetid; slept, more collected.
text: […]which had a greasy and fatty surface like cold broth
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, “CHAPTER XXXII”, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or related to fat.
examples: text: Be careful of the taxi drivers out there though, I've heard they sell you drugs, drop you off at your hotel and then dob you in to the Thai Police to get a fatty reward!
ref: 2007, getting rid of weed smell tips:
text: Instead of going my normal route (ordering the book through the store, checking it out in person, and then ordering it online so I could get a fatty discount) I impulsively bought the book.
ref: 2007, A. Bryant, Disappointment to Say the Least:
text: I'm trying to get a fatty project done in a couple of hours right now.
ref: 2007, Rimma http://comments.deviantart.com/4/718221/456809541
glosses: Literally or figuratively large.
Derived terms: fattily
fattiness
fatty acid
fatty alcohol
fatty bom bom
fatty boombalatty
fatty cutty
fatty liver
fatty oil
fibrofatty
nonfatty
partially defatted pork fatty tissue
superfatty
unfatty
Related terms: fattish
fatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæt.i/
ipa: /ˈfæt.i/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: fatties
form: fattie
Etymology: From fat + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty!
glosses: An obese person.
examples: text: We went to Plaster Creek, smoked a fattie, and emerged doing somersaults and cartwheels and laughing.
ref: 2004, Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue:
glosses: A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.
glosses: A type of game played with marbles.
catty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæti/
ipa: [ˈkʰæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
homophone: caddie (Flapping)
homophone: caddy (Flapping)
Forms: form: cattier
form: cattiest
Etymology: From cat + -y. Compare Dutch kattig (“catty”); in sense “hostility”, see catfight.
Senses: examples: text: “So leave your umbrellas at home 'cause we're gonna be drier than my favorite varietal of white wine, pinot gris.” “Hmm. Interesting. According to my research, precipitation is a-coming.” “So Harry's wrong?” “I don't want to be a catty bitch, but kind of, yeah.” “Meow, Ham.”
ref: 2025 August 14, Asha Michelle Wilson, “Anchor Ham Adventure” (7:51 from the start), in The Great North, season 5, episode 19, spoken by Ham Tobin (Paul Rust):
glosses: With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset, particularly among women.
raw_tags: of a person or remark
examples: text: a catty smell
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cat.
Synonyms: sense: spiteful
word: bitchy
sense: spiteful
word: cattish
sense: spiteful
word: malicious
sense: spiteful
word: nasty
sense: spiteful
word: snide
sense: spiteful
word: spiteful
Derived terms: cattily
cattiness
uncatty
Related terms: word: catfight
sense: hostility, especially between women
word: handbags
sense: hostility, especially between women
word: handbags at dawn
sense: hostility, especially between women
word: the handbags come out
sense: hostility, especially between women
word: meow
catty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæti/
ipa: [ˈkʰæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
homophone: caddie (Flapping)
homophone: caddy (Flapping)
Forms: form: catties
form: cattys
form: cattee
form: kati
form: katti
form: katty
Etymology: From Malay kati, from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi).
Senses: examples: text: 16 Mess, make a Tale, which here is 20 s. English, 5 Tale make a Bancal, a weight so called, and 20 Bancal make a Catty, another weight.
ref: 1699, Captain William Dampier, A new voyage round the world, Volume 1:
text: Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty, according to size and quality.
ref: 1847, Robert Montgomery Martin, China; Political, Commercial, and Social, volume 2, James Madden, page 124:
text: The 130,000 mou of cotton fields in (Pailichou) district of Chihchiang County have produced 17 million catties of cotton seed, and 2.5 million catties of ginned cotton have been sold to the state.
ref: 1971 October 21 [1971 October 11], “Hupeh Cotton Production”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 204, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 3:
text: To limit team members' consumption, it issued food stamps to the villagers and allowed everyone to eat one catty of rice a day.
ref: 2009, Huaiyin Li, Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A (unit of) weight used in China which is metricated in Mainland China as exactly 0.5 kg, and approximately 0.6 kg for other places.
catty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæti/
ipa: [ˈkʰæɾi]
rhymes: -æti
homophone: caddie (Flapping)
homophone: caddy (Flapping)
Forms: form: catties
Senses: examples: text: “Give me your slingshot, and I'll let you have it back after school this afternoon,” she said firmly. […] I stuck the 'catty' into my back pocket and ran outside to meet the others.
ref: 2009, Sheldon Arensen, The Carjackers, page 43:
text: You could also keep a tennis ball and a frog, or a catapult and a frog, but not all three together. I know because I tried it. The frog got a bit squashed between the ball and the handle of the catty.
ref: 2017, David Cooper, Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared:
glosses: A catapult.
Related terms: catty-corner
catty-cornered
catty-mount
clone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klōn
ipa: /kloʊn/
ipa: /kləʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: clones
Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant.
glosses: A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
examples: text: The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.
glosses: A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
examples: text: Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.”
ref: 2017, Allyson Kennedy, Can't Beat the Heart of a Carolina Girl:
glosses: A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
examples: text: Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.
ref: 1984 August 11, Martin, “Untitled cartoon (caption)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 7:
text: By mid-1983, I had grown weary of reading literature by white gay men who fell, quite easily, into three camps: the incestuous literati of Manhattan and Fire Island, the San Francisco cropped-mustache-clones, and the Boston-to-Cambridge politically correct radical faggots.
ref: 1986, Joseph Beam, “Introduction”, in In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 13:
text: these are cultural categories. they change over time. new ones appear (the Leatherman is recent, the Bear very recent), old ones vanish (though individual aunties and clones are still to be found - arch-clone jimmy pike is still making videos and keeping his stomach muscles in great shape - the Auntie and the Clone as generally recognized categories are no longer with us).
ref: 1991 August 31, Arnold M. Zwicky, “What the hell is a TWINKIE?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: Since the Second World War and the rise of the middle-class “clone gay” in the US and a similar move away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.
ref: 2022, Richard Vytniorgu, “Effeminate Gay Bottoms in the West”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 70, number 10, page 2113:
glosses: A Castro clone.
Derived terms: agroclone
binary clone
clonability
clonable
clonal
cloneable
cloneless
clonelike
clonemate
clone town
clonewheel organ
clonish
clonism
clonology
clonotype
Doom clone
epiclone
Euroclone
Famiclone
hemiclone
holoclone
interclone
meroclone
microclone
monoclone
nonclone
oligoclone
paraclone
Pikaclone
polyclone
protoclone
re-clone
snowclone
subclone
superclone
teleclone
clone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klōn
ipa: /kloʊn/
ipa: /kləʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: clones
form: cloning
form: cloned
form: cloned
Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: The scientists were able to clone a sheep.
text: We cloned the database to perform some testing.
glosses: To create a clone of.
Derived terms: reclone
Arab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ârʹəb
ipa: /ˈæɹ.əb/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.əb/
enpr: āʹrăb
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɹæb/
rhymes: -æɹəb
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
Senses: examples: text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
synonyms: Arabic
glosses: Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.
Arab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ârʹəb
ipa: /ˈæɹ.əb/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.əb/
enpr: āʹrăb
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɹæb/
rhymes: -æɹəb
Forms: form: Arabs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
Senses: glosses: A Semitic person, whose forebears were from the Arabian Peninsula.
examples: text: This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.
ref: 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023:
glosses: An inhabitant of Arabia or the Arab world.
glosses: A member of an Arabic-speaking community.
examples: text: Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […]
ref: 1887, Edward B. Baker, Sport in Bengal: and How, When, and where to Seek it, page 61:
glosses: An Arabian horse.
examples: text: a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
You Christian people often see the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel much pity for them, as well you may.
text: The other day I heard you complaining of the nuisance that small ragged street-boys are to you whenever you go out. […] You wished that some one would do something to clear away these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call them, so that a fine old English gentleman—as you are pleased to think yourself—might take his exercise in peace.
ref: 1866, Punch, page 225:
glosses: A street Arab.
Synonyms: word: Ayrab
word: woolly-head
english: highly offensive
translation: highly offensive
word: sand nigger
Arab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ârʹəb
ipa: /ˈæɹ.əb/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.əb/
enpr: āʹrăb
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɹæb/
rhymes: -æɹəb
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
Senses: glosses: A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
examples: text: Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 120:
glosses: The Arabic language.
Derived terms: 48 Arab
arabesque
Arab fever
Arabia
Arabian
Arabic
Arabist
Arabize
non-Arab
street Arab
scuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌt.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌtəl
Forms: form: scuttles
form: skuttle
Etymology: From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel.
Senses: examples: text: All through dinner—which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin—Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: On the way, with superior precaution, we got out our saucepan. The kitchen fire was red, but low; the coal-cellar was locked, and there was nothing in the scuttle but a little coal-dust and the piece of brown paper that is put in to keep the coals from tumbling out through the bottom where the hole is.
ref: 1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 2:
glosses: A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
glosses: A broad, shallow basket.
glosses: A dish, platter or a trencher.
Derived terms: coal scuttle
coal-scuttle bonnet
coal scuttle helmet
scuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌt.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌtəl
Forms: form: scuttles
form: skuttle
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English sċēat. More at sheet.
Senses: examples: text: My knife was at my hip. I returned to my hut for the shotgun, made sure it was loaded, and went down to the Ghost. With some difficulty, and at the expense of a wetting to the waist, I climbed aboard. The forecastle scuttle was open. I paused to listen for the breathing of the men, but there was no breathing.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
Synonyms: sense: car air-conditioning intake
word: cowl
sense: hatch that provides access to the roof
word: roof hatch
scuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌt.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌtəl
Forms: form: scuttles
form: scuttling
form: scuttled
form: scuttled
form: skuttle
Etymology: See scuddle.
Senses: examples: text: With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Frank was crouched in the hallway, but scuttled back to his bedroom just in time. With her bloomers still round her ankles Auntie Flip scampered sideways like a crab back to the living room.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To move hastily, to scurry.
scuttle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌt.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌtəl
Forms: form: scuttles
form: skuttle
Etymology: See scuddle.
Senses: examples: text: She scarce gave me time to return her salute, before she quitted the shop with an easy scuttle, and stepped again into her coach
ref: 1712 November 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, November 14, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 536; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A quick pace; a short run.
Derived terms: scuttle fly
sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sac
homophone: SAC
Forms: form: sacks
Etymology: From earlier (wyne) seck from Middle French (vin (“wine”)) sec (“dry”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).
Senses: examples: text: Wilt pleaſe your Lord drink a cup of ſacke? […] I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: I ne're drank ſacke in my life: […]
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 209, column 1:
text: Giue me a Cup of Sacke, Rogue. Is there no Vertue extant?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 56, column 2:
text: How cam'ſt thou hither? / Sweare by this Bottle how thou cam'ſt hither: I eſcap'd / vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued o'reboord, by this Bottle which I made of the barke of a Tree, with mine owne hands, since I was caſt a'ſhore.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 10, column 1:
text: The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
ref: 1848 January, Charles M. Westmacott, “The Stage of Life”, in The Sporting Review, volume 15, page 23:
text: "He's got a venison pastry and a flagon of sack in that cupboard behind him."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35:
glosses: A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
Derived terms: sack-whey
Related terms: claret
hock
tent
sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sac
homophone: SAC
Forms: form: sacks
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes fishes are born that have rudimentary yolk sacks. Such young are born prematurely.
ref: 1938, The Microscope, volumes 1-2, page 56:
glosses: Dated form of sac (“pouch in a plant or animal”).
sack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sac
homophone: SAC
Forms: form: sacks
form: sacking
form: sacked
form: sacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sac
homophone: SAC
Forms: form: sacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
Related terms: Sack in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
infamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfəmi/
Forms: form: infamies
Etymology: From late Middle English infamie, from Old French infamie, from Latin īnfāmia (“infamy”), from īnfāmis (“infamous”), from in- (“not”) + fāma (“fame, renown”). Displaced native Old English unhlīsa (literally “bad fame”).
Senses: examples: text: ... but the cars of chaste women have either coverings thrown over them, or white sheets hung over; for instance, on the cars of the female part of the family of the deceased Nawabs Khanduran and Muzaffar Khan, there used generally to be fastened thick dirty white cloths, and in like manner also on their palanquins—although one brother was the chief treasurer, and the other a commander of seven thousand men. And most assuredly this is a requirement of modesty; for one whose palanquin or cart is turned out with much splendour, verily the idea comes to the minds of the sight-seers and common people, that in it there must be some lovely one, bright as the morning, the envy of the fairies. Hence, for the cars or palanquins for women to ride in to be greatly embroidered is, in the opinion of certain men of standing, who are worthy to be trusted, of great infamy.
ref: 1871, Sher Ali Afsos, translated by Henry Court, The Araish-i-Mahfil, or, The Ornament of the Assembly, page 31:
text: Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
ref: 1941 December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 0:00 from the start, in Day of Infamy Speech, Washington, D.C., page 1:
glosses: The state of being infamous.
examples: text: All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair. It is an infamy that he did not.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 251:
glosses: A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
topics: law
glosses: A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.
Synonyms: disgrace
dishonor
ignominy
notoriety
Derived terms: infamize
Related terms: fame
infamous
in perpetuity
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: bequeathed to the nation in perpetuity
text: The interest payments on consols were in perpetuity.
text: Queen Victoria travelled to Chingford on May 6, 1882, to dedicate Epping Forest to the public in perpetuity.
ref: 1952 December, 'Icarus', “The Chingford Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 793:
glosses: For an indefinitely long time.
examples: text: desire happiness in perpetuity
text: the annuity was in perpetuity
glosses: For life.
banns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bænz/
rhymes: -ænz
homophone: bans
Etymology: An alteration of bans.
Senses: examples: text: VVhy the banns have been publiſhed, and nobody has forbidden them, 'tis true—but you know either of the parties may change their minds even after they enter the church.
ref: 1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 32:
synonyms: banns of marriage
glosses: The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
examples: The Banes which are reade beefore the beginninge of the playes of Chester, 4 June, 1600.
glosses: Any public announcement of an upcoming event.
wallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒl.əp/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.ləp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: wallops
Etymology: From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop.
Senses: examples: text: he gave him a mighty wallop
glosses: A heavy blow, punch.
examples: text: this guy's got some wallop
glosses: A person's ability to throw such punches.
examples: text: that film has some serious wallop
glosses: An emotional impact, psychological force.
glosses: A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
examples: text: "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop."
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:
glosses: Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
glosses: A thick piece of fat.
glosses: A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
Derived terms: topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
word: codswallop
word: pack a wallop