cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fuck around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fucks around
form: fucking around
form: fucked around
form: fucked around
form: fuck about
Senses: examples: text: Quit fucking around and get back to work!
text: Stop fucking around! Just get a move on!
text: Would you ever not fuck around in the utility van?
text: If you fucked around at the waiting line, you have to remain still.
text: Usually someone fucks around for distractions of a reaction they saw.
glosses: To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time.
examples: text: He was just fucking around.
text: Looks that I fuck around for anything.
text: No one fucks around with the basement.
text: Fucked around at the party? You better leave now or it'll get worse!
text: Also, as far as kicking someone when he's down is concerned, what is the problem here? Again, the object is to win, yes? Well, if he gets up, you might lose; therefore he must not get up. He needs to be kicked. You said you wanted to win. Or are you people just fucking around? I suspect that might be the case. Well, stop fucking around and make up your mind.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 179:
glosses: To fool around.
examples: text: After the breakup, she made the most of being single and fucked around.
text: I sat in a sauna soon after, perusing a sexy fellow athlete who fucks around a lot and who had made it clear she could be seduced.
ref: 1987 August 15, Laurie Sherman, “What's A Dyke To Do? A Lesbian Reluctantly Enters The Age Of Safe Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 8:
glosses: To have sex with many partners.
glosses: To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly
Synonyms: sense: waste time
word: waste time
sense: fool around
word: clown around
sense: fool around
word: fool around
sense: fool around
word: screw around
sense: promiscuous sex
word: screw around
sense: promiscuous sex
word: get around
sense: promiscuous sex
word: fiddle around
sense: promiscuous sex
word: sleep around
sense: horseplay
word: horse around
sense: horseplay
word: joke around
Derived terms: fuck around and find out
fuckarounditis
screwball comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwball comedies
Senses: glosses: A genre of motion picture or play where opposites were juxtaposed; characterized by snappy dialog, and a blend of sophistication and slapstick
glosses: A motion picture or play of this genre.
Bond girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bond girls
Etymology: From James Bond + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Sam scowled. 'I hate villains who call me Miss Jones,' she told him. 'It makes me feel like a Bond girl.'
ref: 1998, Justin Richards, chapter 12, in Option Lock, page 232:
text: When a lunch companion suggested that she might not want to take the Halle Berry route should she be nominated for an Oscar for "Monster," and win — soul-searching performance followed by a turn as a Bond girl — Theron threw her head back and howled.
ref: 2004 February 2, The New Yorker:
glosses: One of the beautiful, seductive young women who appear in James Bond movies.
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: A beautiful, seductive young woman.
key exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key exchanges
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An exchange of peers' keys at the initialization phase of connection.
Synonyms: key agreement
reciprocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/
Etymology: From Latin reciprocus, possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth, to and fro”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”).
Senses: examples: text: reciprocal love
text: reciprocal duties
text: Let our reciprocall vowes be remembred.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2:
synonyms: reciprocating#Adjective
glosses: Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
examples: text: These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
glosses: Mutually interchangeable.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
examples: text: a reciprocal invitation to lunch
glosses: Done, given, felt, or owed in return.
Synonyms: word: mutual
word: two-way
word: contrary
word: opposite
word: converse
word: inverse
word: inverted
word: cross
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: reflexive
word: commutual
word: correlative
word: corresponding
word: interrelated
word: reciprocal
word: reciprocative
Hypernyms: word: connected
Hyponyms: word: alternate
word: interdependent
Derived terms: antireciprocal
irreciprocal
prime reciprocal magic square
reciprocal altruism
reciprocal IVF
reciprocal lattice
reciprocal pronoun
reciprocal proportion
Related terms: reciprocity
reciprocal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/
Forms: form: reciprocals
Etymology: From Latin reciprocus, possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth, to and fro”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”).
Senses: examples: text: 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.
topics: arithmetic
synonyms: multiplicative inverse
glosses: The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
examples: text: Depending on where reciprocalization applies (syntax vs. lexicon), the relevant reciprocal verbs are claimed to exhibit specific properties, in particular: (i) syntactic reciprocals are fully productive whereas lexical reciprocals have only limited productivity; […]
ref: 2008, Ekkehard König, Volker Gast, Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction expressing mutual action.
veganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veganisms
Etymology: From vegan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Besides being a dietary choice, veganism is a challenging and powerful lifestyle
ref: 1989 Jan, Victoria Moran, “Veganism: the Ethics, the Philosophy, the Diet”, in Vegetarian Times, number 137, page 50:
text: The purpose of veganism is to create a more just and compassionate society
ref: 2000, Joanne Stepaniak with Virginia Messina, The vegan sourcebook, page 161:
text: A vegan lifestyle seeks to promote awareness, compassion, and peace. Veganism is an ethical system as well as a diet.
ref: 2001, Kristine M. Krapp, The Gale encyclopedia of nursing & allied health, page 2549:
text: The absence of religious ceremonies, teachers or leaders, holidays and other conventions was further evidence that Friedman's veganism is "a moral and secular, rather than religious, philosophy," Turner said.
ref: 2002 September 14, “Judge rules against vegan suit Practitioners may not claim religious ...”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
text: Veganism is a position according to which people ought to be vegans both now and in an ideal state.
ref: 2007, Tzachi Zamir, Ethics and the beast: a speciesist argument for animal liberation, page 106:
text: My additional desire is that ecofeminists will embrace veganism as an important means for reducing that suffering
ref: 2007, Marti Kheel with Rosemary Radford Ruether, Nature ethics: an ecofeminist perspective, page 233:
text: The next step is ethical veganism. This is not veganism because it is good for your health (and it is good for your health) or because it protects the envirinment (and it does protect the environment), but from a state of compassion.
ref: 2008, Gabriel Cousens with John Robbins, Creating Peace by Being Peace: The Essene Sevenfold Path, page 62:
text: Like many vegans, Moore said she chose her diet because she cares deeply about animals and wanted to "live [her] ethics." For her, extending veganism to her cats supports that choice and also helps reduce her environmental footprint.
ref: 2009 April 8, “You're a Vegan but Should Your PET Be Too?”, in ABC News:
text: An angry dispute between an animal welfare charity and its former employee will be the first case in Britain to decide whether ethical veganism is a “philosophical belief” that should be afforded the same protections as religion.
ref: 2018 December 3, Tara John, “Veganism could get the same legal protections as religion”, in CNN:
text: Veganism has gone from fringe to fashionable in a relatively short time. According to the latest count, around 3.5 million people in the UK, 7% of the population, are vegan.
ref: 2018 December 6, Jessica Brown, “Thanks for the vegan idioms, Peta, but there are bigger fish to fry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A way of life which strictly avoids animal products and services involving the use of living animals.
glosses: Strict vegetarianism; the practice of eating neither meat nor other animal products, such as fish, milk and milk products, eggs, and honey.
Related terms: vegetarianism
miniaturization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniaturizations
form: miniaturisation
Etymology: From miniature + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of miniaturizing or making smaller.
glosses: Something that has been miniaturized or made smaller.
Derived terms: microminiaturization
ultraminiaturization
bratwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bratwursts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bratwurst. The word is partly from braten (“to fry”) + Wurst (“sausage”), and partly from an older Middle High German brātwurst, in which brāt is an unrelated word meaning “ground meat” (compare German Brät). In modern German, the term Bratwurst is used almost exclusively for sausages fried or to be fried.
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday we had bratwurst for dinner.
text: 2012, Lindsey Galloway, (bbc.co.uk) A German enclave in central Texas
For just-right spiced bratwurst and sausage, try Opa’s Smoked Meats, a family-owned shop that uses original German recipes passed down the generations and always has samples on hand. Finish off any meal with a stop at Chocolat, one of the few chocolate shops in the US that uses a classic European technique known as “liqueur praliné”, where a delicate sugar casting encases liquor, espresso, wine or other liquid fillings. The casting is then covered in chocolate to make a confection that must be eaten whole, lest the encased liquid come dribbling out.
glosses: A small pork sausage, usually served fried.
Derived terms: word: brat
edaphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔδαφος (édaphos, “ground”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, temporal inactive geophiles, such as the caterpillars of many butterfly species, only bury in the ground for nymphosis; even so they constitute an important food source for other edaphic species.
ref: 2014, John Dighton, Interactions in Soil: Promoting Plant Growth, page 43:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or determined by, conditions of the soil, especially as it relates to biological systems.
Derived terms: edaphically
epedaphic
euedaphic
hemiedaphic
hyperedaphic
topoedaphic
Related terms: edaphoclimatic
edaphology
edaphon
edaphophyte
edaphosaurus
malicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: məlĭsh'əs
ipa: /məˈlɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more malicious
form: most malicious
form: malitious
Etymology: From Middle English malicious, from Old French malicios, from Latin malitiōsus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Middle English ivelwilled and ivelwilly (“malicious”), related to Old English yfelwillende (literally “evil-willing”).
Senses: examples: text: He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
text: They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
synonyms: word: evil
word: maleficent
word: malevolent
word: abandoned
word: arrant
word: bad
word: bad apple
word: bad seed
word: baleful
word: baneful
word: base
word: dark
word: deleterious
word: depraved
word: despicable
word: detrimental
word: devilish
word: diabolical
word: evil
word: flagitious
word: harmful
word: ill-intentioned
word: ill-natured
word: immoral
word: incorrigible
word: iniquitous
word: iniquous
word: injurious
word: knavish
word: malefic
word: maleficent
word: malevolent
word: malicious
word: malign
word: malignant
word: nefarious
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: niding
word: nithing
word: no-good
word: peccaminous
word: pernicious
word: reprehensible
word: reprobate
word: satanic
word: scathful
word: sinful
word: sinister
word: sordid
word: sullen
word: ungodly
word: unholy
word: vicious
word: vile
word: villainous
word: wicked
word: wrong
glosses: Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
Derived terms: malicious compliance
maliciously
malicious mischief
maliciousness
malicious prosecution
malvertisement
malvertising
malware
nonmalicious
unmalicious
lightning rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtnɪŋ ˌɹɒd/
Forms: form: lightning rods
form: lightning-rod
Senses: examples: text: "My special business is to travel the country for orders for lightning-rods. This is my specimen rod;" tapping his staff; "I have the best of references"-fumbling in his pockets. "In Criggan last month, I put up three-and-twenty rods on only five buildings."
ref: 1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:
glosses: A metallic conductor that is attached to a high point of a building and leads to the ground to protect the building from damage by lightning.
examples: text: Another factor was that when the two governments changed Stormont’s rules in 2006 they left the dual premiership as the “lightning rod for other difficulties”, said [Brendan] O’Leary.
ref: 2023 October 13, Rory Carroll, “‘The hope we had is gone’: how 20 months of stasis has paralysed Northern Ireland”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Though hardly a novel claim nowadays[…] it made [Jean] Twenge a lightning rod in the research world, where some academics remain skeptical of the panic over smartphones.
ref: 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.
Synonyms: word: lightning conductor
pedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedons
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + -on.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A three-dimensional body of soil with dimensions large enough to permit the study of individual soil horizons.
Derived terms: epipedon
neopedon
acotyledonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + cotyledonous.
Senses: glosses: Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
physicochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From physico- + chemical.
Senses: synonyms: chemicophysical
glosses: Dependent on the joint action of both physical and chemical processes.
glosses: Of or pertaining to physical chemistry.
Derived terms: biophysicochemical
physicochemicalism
physicochemically
kerfuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈfʌfəl/
ipa: /kɚˈfʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: kerfuffles
form: cufuffle
form: cuffuffle
form: curfuffle
form: gefuffle
form: kafuffle
form: kerfluff
form: kerfluffle
form: kurfuffle
form: fuffle
Etymology: Probably from Scots curfuffle, equivalent to ker- + fuffle, or related to Irish cíor thuathail (“confusion, bewilderment”). Similar to modern Welsh cythrwfl (“uproar, trouble, agitation”)
Senses: examples: text: You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act[…]
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: There's been a bit of a kerfuffle the past couple days over something Sarah Palin said about Paul Revere.
ref: 2011 June 6, Mark Memmott, “Sarah Palin's Had Her Say; Now Let's Hear From Paul Revere”, in The Two-Way, National Public Radio:
text: The debate seemed innocuous—a minor kerfuffle, but nothing that couldn’t be resolved and moved on from.
ref: 2023 May 28, Nadia Asparouhova, “Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture”, in Wired, →ISSN:
synonyms: brouhaha
donnybrook
fracas
hubbub
hullabaloo
mess
racket
glosses: A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult.
Derived terms: kerfluff
kerfuffly
kerfuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈfʌfəl/
ipa: /kɚˈfʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: kerfuffles
form: kerfuffling
form: kerfuffled
form: kerfuffled
form: cufuffle
form: cuffuffle
form: curfuffle
form: gefuffle
form: kafuffle
form: kerfluff
form: kerfluffle
form: kurfuffle
form: fuffle
Etymology: Probably from Scots curfuffle, equivalent to ker- + fuffle, or related to Irish cíor thuathail (“confusion, bewilderment”). Similar to modern Welsh cythrwfl (“uproar, trouble, agitation”)
Senses: glosses: To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.
soil classification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The subdiscipline of soil science that deals with the systematic categorization of soils based on distinguishing characteristics developed during soil genesis as well as criteria that dictate choices in land use and soil management.
trip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭp
ipa: /tɹɪp/
ipa: [t͡ʃɹɪp]
ipa: [tʰɹɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology: From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭp
ipa: /tɹɪp/
ipa: [t͡ʃɹɪp]
ipa: [tʰɹɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: trips
Etymology: From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe. Possibly related to troop.
Senses: glosses: A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
glosses: A troop of men; a host.
glosses: A flock of wigeons.
Related terms: tray-trip
Roman mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman miles
Etymology: Roman + mile
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.
schizophonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by R. Murray Schafer. From schizo- + -phonia.
Senses: topics: anthropology
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
sciences
glosses: The condition of sound being separable from its source.
wikipedia: R. Murray Schafer
pointless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pointʹləs
ipa: /ˈpɔɪntləs/
Forms: form: more pointless
form: most pointless
form: pointlesse
Etymology: From Middle English pointles, poynteles, poyntlees; equivalent to point + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a pointless sword
text: a pointless knife
glosses: Having no point or sharp tip; terminating squarely or in a rounded end.
examples: text: a pointless remark
text: The sequel to the film was even more pointless than the original
text: Even the numerous drunkards and beggars seemed to be in a hurry, stumbling from one side of the street to the other with pointless resolution or, with businesslike expeditiousness, soliciting money and food from strangers.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 304:
glosses: Having no prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.
examples: text: Since the decision has already been made, further discussion seems pointless.
glosses: Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
examples: text: After four matches and four defeats, United remain pointless at the foot of the table.
topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having no points
examples: text: a pointless topology
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Without points.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.
Synonyms: sense: having no point or tip
word: blunt
sense: having no point or tip
word: dull
sense: having no point or tip
word: obtuse
sense: having no purpose
word: futile
sense: having no purpose
word: needless
sense: having no purpose
word: purposeless
sense: having no purpose
word: redundant
sense: having no purpose
word: superfluous
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: point-free
Derived terms: pointless topology
pointlessly
pointlessness
impolite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmpəˈlaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: impoliter
form: more impolite
form: impolitest
form: most impolite
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite.
Senses: synonyms: discourteous
uncivil
rude
unpolite
glosses: Not polite; discourteous; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.
Synonyms: word: aweless
word: bad-mannered
word: barbaric
word: bold
word: bumptious
word: crude
word: churlish
word: discourteous
word: gauche
word: ill-bred
word: ill-mannered
word: impolite
word: incivil
word: insolent
word: lack-grace
word: mismannered
word: rantipole
word: rough
word: rude
word: uncivil
word: uncourteous
word: uncouth
word: uncultured
word: underbred
word: unmannerly
word: unpolished
word: unpolite
word: unrefined
Hyponyms: word: arrogant
word: cheeky
word: disrespectful
word: ignorant
Derived terms: impolitely
impoliteness
bluntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌntli/
Forms: form: more bluntly
form: most bluntly
Etymology: From blunt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:
I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe
Haue to their names tytles of dignitie,
And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: To put it bluntly, they are going to have to start defending a heck of a lot better than they have been, otherwise their season - and top-flight status - could well be over before they know it.
ref: 2021 November 29, Alan Shearer, “Why Newcastle have to win their next two games to give them hope of staying in the Premier League - Alan Shearer analysis”, in BBC Sport:
text: Drivers' union ASLEF bluntly rebuffed the claim of unofficial action, calling it a lie. And Avanti West Coast was unable to provide any proof for its assertion, when questioned by RAIL.
ref: 2022 August 24, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Union slams Avanti West Coast: 'lie' as services slashed”, in RAIL, number 964, page 6:
glosses: In a blunt manner; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Synonyms: coarsely
plainly
abruptly
frankly
corrosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊsɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊsɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹəʉsɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹɐʉsəv/
Forms: form: more corrosive
form: most corrosive
Etymology: From Old French corrosif.
Senses: glosses: Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
examples: text: Care is no cure, but corrosive.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
glosses: destroying or undermining something gradually.
Derived terms: biocorrosive
corrosive sublimate
noncorrosive
photocorrosive
uncorrosive
Related terms: corrode
corrosively
corrosiveness
corrosivity
corrosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊsɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊsɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹəʉsɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹɐʉsəv/
Forms: form: corrosives
Etymology: From Old French corrosif.
Senses: glosses: That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
glosses: Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.
epenthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈpɛn.θə.sɪs/
Forms: form: epentheses
Etymology: Middle of 16th century: via Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ἐπένθεσις (epénthesis), from ἐπεντίθημι (epentíthēmi, “I insert”), from ἐπί (epí) + ἐντίθημι (entíthēmi, “I put in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.
Hypernyms: metaplasm
Hyponyms: anaptyxis
excrescence
svarabhakti
vyanjanabhakti
Coordinate terms: paragoge
prothesis
Derived terms: epenthesize
Related terms: epenthetic
epenthetical
epenthetically
origin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈɒɹ.ə.d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.d͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔrɪdʒɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵrɪˈdʒɪn/
Forms: form: origins
Etymology: From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.
Senses: examples: text: place of origin
text: trace the origin of something
text: unknown origin
text: The custom has its origin in ancient Greece.
text: Scientists are studying the origin of the universe.
glosses: The beginning of something.
examples: text: It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
synonyms: source
glosses: The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: zero vector
glosses: The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
glosses: Ancestry.
Synonyms: sense: beginning
word: beginning
Derived terms: cross-origin
interorigin
language analysis for the determination of origin
originable
original
originate
origination
originator
originless
origin myth
origin of coordinates
origin story
preorigin
same-origin policy
time of origin
Related terms: orient
provenance
wormfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worm food.
white marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white marriages
Etymology: Calque of French mariage blanc. “White” is the traditional symbol of purity and therefore of virginity. It may also refer to the absence of hymenal blood on the couple’s sheets.
Senses: glosses: An unconsummated marriage.
Hyponyms: Josephite marriage
Related terms: marriage of convenience
white wedding
uberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uberous
form: most uberous
Etymology: Formed from Latin uber (“full, fruitful, fertile, abundant, plentiful, copious, productive”) and the suffix -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Each feminine delight of florid lip, / Eyes brimming o'er and brow bowed down with love, / Marmoreal neck and bosom uberous,— […]
ref: 1869, Robert Browning, “IX. Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, pages 177–178, lines 51–53:
synonyms: abundant
copious
plentiful
glosses: Fruitful.
Derived terms: uberousness
Related terms: uberty
ubiquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.bɪˈkwɛə.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌju.bɪˈkwɛɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: more ubiquarian
form: most ubiquarian
Senses: examples: 1785, William Cowper, The Task, a Poem
Have ye, ye sage intendants of the whole,
An ubiquarian presence and controul,
Elisha's eye, that when Gehazi stray'd
Went with him, and saw all the game he play'd?
glosses: Ubiquitous.
glosses: Alternative form of ubiquitarian.
ubiquarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.bɪˈkwɛə.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌju.bɪˈkwɛɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: ubiquarians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ubiquitarian.
udal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjudəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Etymology: From Icelandic óðal. More at odal.
Senses: glosses: Allodial, inalienable.
udal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjudəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: udals
Etymology: From Icelandic óðal. More at odal.
Senses: glosses: A freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.
Derived terms: udalborn
udaler
udalman
ugsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌɡsəm/
Forms: form: more ugsome
form: most ugsome
Etymology: From Middle English ugsom, equivalent to ug + -some.
Senses: examples: text: This is hell, this is the image of death, this is hell, ſuch an euil fauored face, ſuch an ugſom countenance, ſuche an horrible viſage our ſauiour Chriſt ſaw of death and hell in the gardein.
ref: 1553, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[Certayn Other Sermons Preached … in Lincolneshyre …] Edward VI 7”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 81, recto:
text: Still, it's a cosy country, / unracked by riots or strikes / and backward at drug-taking: / I've heard of a dozen lands / where life sounds far more ugsome, / fitter goals for your disgust.
ref: 1972, W. H. Auden, Epistle to a Godson: and Other Poems, page 28:
text: We have italicised the more ugsome parts of the S.S.C. paper so that those of our readers who are too busy mountaineering to read the whole thing may grasp the fundamental psychopathology of the unattractive predators that have battened onto us.
ref: 1975, Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, volume 30, numbers 163-166, page 397:
glosses: Ugly; horrible; disgusting; offensive, loathsome, repellent.
Derived terms: ugsomeness
uberty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːbəti/
ipa: /ˈjubɚti/
Etymology: From Middle French uberté, from Latin ūbertās, from ūber.
Senses: examples: text: 'And yiff a tre with frut be ovirlade'/In his epistles he seith, as ye may see,/'Both braunche and bough wol enclyne and fade,/And greyne oppressith to moche vberte:/Right so it farith of fals felicite,/That of his weighte mesure doth exceede/Than of a fal gretly is to dreede'.
ref: c. 1412, John Lydgate, A Tale of Two Merchants/Fabula duorum mercatorum, l. 613
text: to this day they yet enjoy that naturall ubertie and fruitfulnesse, which without labouring toyle, doth in such plenteous abundance furnish them with all necessary things […].
ref: , Folio Society 2006, vol.1, p.209
text: But it does not contribute to the uberty of reasoning, which far more calls for solicitous care.
ref: 1913/1998, Charles Sanders Peirce, "An Essay toward Improving Our Reasoning in Security and in Uberty" (1913), first published in The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings Volume 2 (Indiana University Press, 1998) p. 465
glosses: Fertile growth, abundance, fruitfulness; copiousness, plenty.
ulnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ulna + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow
Derived terms: ulnar artery
ulnar loop
ulnar nerve
ulna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌlnə/
Forms: form: ulnae
form: ulnas
Etymology: From Latin ulna (“elbow”). Doublet of ell.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: elbow bone
glosses: The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.
Derived terms: femur fibula ulna syndrome
ulnar
Related terms: radius
ulodendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulodendrons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of various trees known only as fossils from the Pennsylvanian period, and belonging to the genus Ulodendron.
ulotrichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ulotrichous
form: most ulotrichous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὖλος (oûlos, “crisp, curly”) + -τριχος (-trikhos, “haired”).
Senses: glosses: Having woolly hair.
ultimately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪ.mɪt.lɪ/
ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪ.mət.li/
ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪ.mɪt.li/
ipa: [ˈʌl.tɪ.mɪɾ.li]
ipa: /ˈʌl.tə.mət.li/
ipa: /ˈɐl.tɪ.mɪt.li/
ipa: [ˈɐl.tɪ.mɪɾ.li]
Etymology: From ultimate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly,… Secondly,… Ultimately,…
synonyms: word: at last
word: finally
word: in the end
word: at last
word: at length
word: endly
word: finally
word: last
word: lastly
word: ultimately
glosses: Indicating the last item.
examples: text: Ultimately, he will have to make a decision before the end of the week.
synonyms: word: at the end of the day
word: when all is said and done
word: at bottom
word: at heart
word: au fond
word: basically
word: by definition
word: deep down
word: essentially
word: fundamentally
word: in effect
word: in essence
word: in the end
word: in the final analysis
word: substantially
word: ultimately
glosses: Indicating the most important action.
examples: text: That Wolves reached half-time on level terms had much to do with the ultimately luckless Hennessey, who was in action in the opening minute to tip away Samir Nasri's shot following a City corner.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In the end; finally.
examples: text: Cognate to Gottscheerish boßər, bàsser. Ultimately cognate to standard High German Wasser.
text: Shortened from maxiature, ultimately from Latin maximus ("large").
text: Ultimately from Latin equus ("horse").
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to indicate the etymon at which a given etymological derivation terminates.
ultion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thus to Return upon our Adversaries is a healing way of Revenge, and to do good for evil a soft and melting ultion, a method Taught from Heaven to keep all smooth on Earth.
ref: 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
glosses: revenge
ultraist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraists
Etymology: From ultra + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: extremist
radical
ultra
glosses: One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes
ultroneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultroneous
form: most ultroneous
Etymology: From Latin ultroneus, from ultro (“to the further side, on his part, of one's own accord”). See ultra-.
Senses: glosses: spontaneous; voluntary
Derived terms: ultroneity
ultroneously
ultroneousness
umbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: umbels
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin umbella (“umbrella”). Compare umbrella, composed of the same etymological elements but formed independently.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.
glosses: The pileus of certain fungi.
Related terms: umbellaster
umbellet
umbellule
Umbelliferae
umbelliferous
umbellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From umbel + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, bearing or having the form of an umbel.
umbellic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin umbella (“a sunshade, parasol, umbrella”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: umbellar
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants, such as umbellic acid
conjunctivitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌd͡ʒʌŋktɪˈvaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: conjunctivitides
form: conjunctivitises
form: conjunctivites
Etymology: From conjunctiva + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: pinkeye
sore eyes
Madras eye
glosses: An inflammation of the conjunctiva, often due to infection.
Derived terms: acute catarrhal conjunctivitis
acute contagious conjunctivitis
acute epidemic conjunctivitis
acute follicular conjunctivitis
acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis
acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis
acute viral conjunctivitis
allergic conjunctivitis
angular conjunctivitis
arc-flash conjunctivitis
atopic conjunctivitis
atropine conjunctivitis
Axenfeld's conjunctivitis
bacterial conjunctivitis
blennorrhoeal conjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharokeratoconjunctivitis
calcareous conjunctivitis
chemical conjunctivitis
chronic catarrhal conjunctivitis
chronic conjunctivitis
chronic follicular conjunctivitis
cicatricial conjunctivitis
conjunctivital
conjunctivitis arida
conjunctivitis medicamentosa
conjunctivitis nodosa
conjunctivitis petrificans
conjunctivitis tularensis
contagious granular conjunctivitis
croupous conjunctivitis
dermatoconjunctivitis
diphtheritic conjunctivitis
diplobacillary conjunctivitis
eczematous conjunctivitis
Egyptian conjunctivitis
Elschnig's conjunctivitis
epidemic conjunctivitis
follicular conjunctivitis
giant papillary conjunctivitis
gonococcal conjunctivitis
gonorrheal conjunctivitis
gonorrhoeal conjunctivitis
granular conjunctivitis
hyperacute purulent conjunctivitis
inclusion conjunctivitis
infantile purulent conjunctivitis
infectious conjunctivitis
irritant conjunctivitis
keratoconjunctivitis
Koch-Weeks conjunctivitis
lacrimal conjunctivitis
larval conjunctivitis
ligneous conjunctivitis
lithiasis conjunctivitis
Meibomian conjunctivitis
membranous conjunctivitis
meningococcus conjunctivitis
molluscum conjunctivitis
Morax-Axenfeld conjunctivitis
Moraxella conjunctivitis
mucopurulent conjunctivitis
necrotic infectious conjunctivitis
neonatal conjunctivitis
newborn conjunctivitis
Parinaud's conjunctivitis
Pascheff's conjunctivitis
pharyngoconjunctivitis
phlyctenular conjunctivitis
photoconjunctivitis
prairie conjunctivitis
pseudomembranous conjunctivitis
purulent conjunctivitis
reflux conjunctivitis
rhinoconjunctivitis
scleroconjunctivitis
scrofular conjunctivitis
seborrheic blepharoconjunctivitis
shipyard conjunctivitis
simple acute conjunctivitis
simple conjunctivitis
snow conjunctivitis
spring conjunctivitis
squirrel plague conjunctivitis
subconjunctivitis
swimming pool conjunctivitis
toxic conjunctivitis
toxicogenic conjunctivitis
trachomatous conjunctivitis
tularemic conjunctivitis
uratic conjunctivitis
vaccinial conjunctivitis
vernal conjunctivitis
viral conjunctivitis
welder's conjunctivitis
Widmark's conjunctivitis
phoney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: phonier
form: phoniest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phony.
Derived terms: phoneyness
phoney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: phoneys
form: phonies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phony.
Derived terms: Phoney War
phoney
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: phoneys
form: phoneying
form: phoneyed
form: phoneyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phony.
phony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: phonier
form: phoniest
form: phoney
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of fawny (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).
Senses: examples: text: A good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
glosses: Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
Synonyms: sense: fraudulent
word: bogus
sense: fraudulent
word: counterfeit
sense: fraudulent
word: fake
Derived terms: peach phony disease
phonily
phoniness
phony as a three-dollar bill
phony-baloney
phony disease
phonyness
phony peach disease
Phony Stark
phonytail
Phony War
phony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: phonies
form: phoney
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of fawny (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).
Senses: examples: text: He claims to be a doctor, but he's nothing but a fast-talking phony.
text: What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
examples: text: He's such a phony, he doesn't believe half of what he says.
synonyms: word: faker
word: dissembler
word: pretender
word: fake
word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
glosses: A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
examples: text: One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.
ref: 2013, John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual, page 131:
glosses: Anything fraudulent or fake.
Derived terms: phony up
phoney up
Phony War
Phoney War
phony
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: phonies
form: phonying
form: phonied
form: phonied
form: phoney
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of fawny (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).
Senses: glosses: To fake.
dissembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissemblers
Etymology: A modification of earlier dissimuler (from Middle English dissimulour) after resemble and semblance; equivalent to dissemble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Earl vvas the vvorſe Philoſopher, being a great Reſenter and a vveak Diſſembler of the leaſt diſgrace: […]
ref: c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 23:
text: [Winston] Churchill, in this telling, was not just a racist but a hypocrite, a dissembler, a narcissist, an opportunist, an imperialist, a drunk, a strategic bungler, a tax dodger, a neglectful father, a credit-hogging author, a terrible judge of character and, most of all, a masterful mythmaker.
ref: 2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: hypocrite
word: phony
word: pretender
word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
glosses: Someone who dissembles.