cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sconce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒns/
ipa: /skɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: sconces
form: sconcing
form: sconced
form: sconced
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps a use of sconce (“light fixture”) or sconce (“fortification”), but seemingly older than the latter
Senses: examples: text: The Rector sconced him in the buttery-book, but Webberly “wiped it off, with irreverent and unbeseeming language.” For this, he had to apologise, and go without his commons for three months.
ref: 1898, Rev. A. Clark, University of Oxford, College Histories: Lincoln, page 73:
glosses: To impose a fine, a forfeit, or a mulct.
examples: I sconce anyone who has ever…
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.
sconce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒns/
ipa: /skɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: sconces
form: skonce
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch schans, cognate with German Schanze.
Senses: examples: text: No sconce or fortress of his raising was ever known either to have been forced, or yielded up, or quitted.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
glosses: A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
examples: text: one that […] must raise a sconce by the highway and sell switches
ref: c. 1613–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Scornful Lady, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:
glosses: A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
topics: architecture
glosses: A squinch.
examples: text: Just then, a broad sconce-piece or low water-washed berg came driving up from the southward. The thought flashed upon me of one of our escapes in Melville Bay; and as the sconce moved rapidly close alongside us, McGary managed to plant an anchor on its slope and hold on to it by a whale-line.
ref: 1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations:
glosses: A fragment of a floe of ice.
glosses: A fixed seat or shelf.
Derived terms: ensconce
sconce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒns/
ipa: /skɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: sconces
form: sconcing
form: sconced
form: sconced
form: skonce
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch schans, cognate with German Schanze.
Senses: glosses: to shut within a sconce; to imprison.
consigliere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔn.sɪlˈjɛɹ.eɪ/
ipa: /kɑn.sɪl.iˈɛɹ.i/
ipa: /koʊn-/
ipa: /kɑn.sɪɡ.liˈɛɹ.eɪ/
Forms: form: consiglieri
form: consiglieres
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian consigliere, from Italian consiglio (“advice", counsel”), from Latin cōnsilium (“council”).
Entered the popular English lexicon through Mario Puzo's “Godfather” novels and the subsequent films made from them.
Senses: examples: text: Tom, I advised Michael. I never thought you were a bad consigliere. I thought Santino was a bad Don, rest in peace. Michael has all my confidence as do you. But there are reasons why you must have nothing to do with what's going to happen.
ref: 1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando):
text: He [Bill Clinton] is the master strategist behind the scenes; the consigliere to the head of “the family,” as some Clinton aides refer to her operation; and a fund-raising machine who is steadily pulling in $100,000 or more at receptions.
ref: 2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times:
text: Jared Kushner tried to prevent [Kellyanne] Conway from being invited into the White House at all, because he viewed her “as a possible threat to his role as Trump’s chief consigliere.”
ref: 2017 January 24, Eric Levitz, “Trump Aides Keep Leaking Embarrassing Stories About How He Can’t Handle Embarrassment”, in New York Magazine:
text: What we’re seeing on the climate crisis looks, in other words, wearily familiar: a combination of Boris Johnson’s allergy to taking unpopular decisions, plus a preference for working in what his old consigliere Dominic Cummings calls an atmosphere of chaos, where nobody is entirely sure what their mercurial boss wants or stands for, and thus finds it harder to oppose him.
ref: 2021 August 6, Gaby Hinsliff, “Johnson’s muddle over Covid is a foretaste of his thinking on climate change.”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A counselor or advisor, especially to Mafia bosses.
wikipedia: Mario Puzo
The_Godfather_(novel)
Related terms: éminence grise
svengali
deadrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadrises
Etymology: From dead + rise.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The angle between a horizontal line drawn from the keel and the angle of the garboard and its attachment to the keel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A straight rise of bottom or floor extended out from the side of the keel at whatever angle of rise a particular boat design calls for.
garboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garboards
Etymology: From Dutch gaarboord, equivalent to gather + board.
Senses: examples: text: The garboard strakes are generally of American elm, and it is best that the planking above should be of American elm or oak to within a foot or so of the load water-line, and teak above to the covering board or deck edge.
ref: 1884, Dixon Kemp, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing (Fourth Edition), page 14:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The board on a boat which attaches to the keel running fore and aft along the bottom.
Derived terms: garboard strake
gunwale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnəl/
rhymes: -ʌnəl
Forms: form: gunwales
form: gunnel
Etymology: From Middle English gonnewalle, itself from gonne (“gun”) + wale, as it used to support the ship's guns; equivalent to gun + wale.
Senses: glosses: The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.
Derived terms: gunwaled
to the gunwales
Related terms: bulwark
NADF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Arbor Day Foundation.
grifo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to Spanish grifa.
Senses: examples: text: […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]
ref: 1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484:
text: The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.
ref: 2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657:
glosses: Cannabis.
caucho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish caucho.
Senses: glosses: The latex of Castilla species.
Related terms: cauchillo
cisterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cisternae
Etymology: From Latin cisterna. Doublet of cistern.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the various membranes sections comprising some organelles like the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum.
Derived terms: cisterna chyli
cisterna magna
intercisternal
terminal cisterna
azulejo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azulejos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish azulejo.
Senses: glosses: A painted tin-glazed ceramic tile of a kind found in Spain and Portugal, often arranged to form geometric patterns.
ampule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampules
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ampoule.
ampoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.puːl/
ipa: /ˈæm.pjuːl/
Forms: form: ampoules
form: ampul
form: ampule
Etymology: Borrowed from French ampoule. Etymologically equivalent to amphora + -ule/-le.
Senses: glosses: A small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection.
Related terms: ampulla
US pint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US pints
form: U.S. pint
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume used for liquids, equivalent to 16 fluid ounces. This is in contrast to the imperial pint (UK) which is equivalent to 20 fluid ounces. Thus the US pint is about 20% smaller than the imperial pint.
Synonyms: word: pint
soundtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndˌtɹæk/
Forms: form: soundtracks
Etymology: From sound + track.
Senses: glosses: A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.
glosses: The sound (especially the music) component of a movie, video game, etc.
glosses: A recording of such music for sale.
examples: text: There was a startling lack of creativity and if Van Gaal had listened closely he would have made out the mocking chants from the away end, as the visiting fans embarked on the repertoire of songs that formed the soundtrack to David Moyes’s time in the job.
ref: August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk
glosses: A background sound that is part of a larger event.
soundtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndˌtɹæk/
Forms: form: soundtracks
form: soundtracking
form: soundtracked
form: soundtracked
form: sound-track
Etymology: From sound + track.
Senses: examples: text: The world, in turn, watched, clicked, cried, danced, sang along, swooned, caravanned to stadiums and movie theaters, let her work soundtrack their lives.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:
glosses: To provide, or to act as the sound or music component of a film.
amiantus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of amianthus.
imperial pint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperial pints
Senses: glosses: A unit of liquid volume in the imperial system equal to 0.568 litres and divided into 20 fluid ounces.
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
glosses: A pint of beer.
Related terms: imperial gallon
ambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bəʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: ambos
form: ambones
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin ambō, from Ancient Greek ἄμβων (ámbōn).
Senses: examples: text: ‘It will get better somehow,’ he thought, and went to the ambo. On going up the steps and turning to the right he saw the priest.
ref: 1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 438:
text: the Emperor arrived and instead of moving directly to his seat climbed to the top level of the ambo, the great three-decker pulpit of polychrome marble.
ref: 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 150:
glosses: A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
examples: text: The dignity of the Word of God requires that in the church there be a suitable place from which it may be proclaimed and toward which the attention of the faithful naturally turns during the Liturgy of the Word. It is appropriate that generally this place be a stationary ambo and not simply a movable lectern.
ref: 2010, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, published 2011, section #309:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
Related terms: ambon
lectern
podium
pulpit
ambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bəʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: ambos
Etymology: Clipping of ambulance + -o.
Senses: glosses: An ambulance driver.
examples: text: Rawls: I don't want the fuckin' reporters seeing any ambos. Shit.
ref: 2004 Dec. 19, David Simon & al., "Mission Accomplished", The Wire, Season 3, Episode 12, 00:31:54
glosses: An ambulance.
ambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bəʊ/
rhymes: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: ambos
Etymology: Clipping of ambassador + -o.
Senses: examples: text: The Ambo needed a sizable embassy support staff to hold his hand at every step of the way, […]
ref: 2022, Susan Gillerman Boggs, Journey Across Time: A Diplomatic Spouse in South Asia:
glosses: An ambassador.
amblyopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æm.bliː.ɒ.pɪk/
ipa: /æm.bliː.oʊ.pɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
rhymes: -əʊpɪk
Forms: form: more amblyopic
form: most amblyopic
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpicus.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or suffering from amblyopia
Related terms: amblyope
amblyopia
amblyopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmblɪˈəʊpɪə/
Forms: form: amblyopias
form: amblyopy
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin amblyōpia.
Senses: glosses: Dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise healthy eye.
glosses: A disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one or both eyes.
Related terms: amblyope
amblyopic
dory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: dories
Etymology: Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
Senses: examples: text: From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the shining, clear water. The sound of voices and the splashes of oars carried across the sea.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
text: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous […]
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: The dory, and the fisherman who rowed it, are part of the maritime heritage that changed America from a group of shore-bound colonies to a nation with ships that ranged the waters of the world.
ref: 1960 February, John Gardner, “The Remarkable Dory: This Boat has Served Sailormen Well, and Many of Today's Able Pleasurecraft are Direct Descendants of the Line”, in Popular Boating, volume 7, number 2, →OCLC, page 90:
text: It is almost impossible for anyone who loves boats not to rejoice at the sight of a St. Pierre dory. Gaily painted, with lots of sheer and a defiantly jaunty look to them, the dories have been pleasing the eyes of their beholders for nearly a century.
ref: 1978 March, Steven H. Rubin, “The St. Pierre Dory: An Endangered Species”, in Boating, volume 43, number 3, →ISSN, page 72:
text: A dory, by definition, is a flat-bottomed boat with two pointed (or nearly pointed) ends. The traditional dories of the Pacific City fleet were just that. Over the years, however, they have evolved into the square-stern variety seen today.
ref: 2008, Jeanna Rosembalm Bottenberg, The Dory Fleet of Pacific City, Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
text: John Wesley Powell […] the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.
ref: 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, page 36]”, in The New York Times:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
dory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
ipa: /ˈdɔːɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: dories
Etymology: From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.
Senses: examples: text: A DIATREE FOR DINNER. […] The ſeconde Courſe. […] Dorye
ref: 1800, “Copy of an Original Manuscript, Entitled, 'A Breviate Touching the Order and Governmente of a Nobleman's House', &c. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. and F.S.A.”, in Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume XIII, London: Society of Antiquaries of London, →OCLC, page 353:
text: Pan-fried fish. Barramundi, bream, flounder, garfish, John Dory, snapper and Silver Dory are suitable for this recipe.
ref: 2012, Shirley Cameron, Cooking the Australian Way, 8th edition, South Yarra, Vic.: Macmillan Education Australia, →ISBN, page 265:
text: The golden skin of the fish found mostly in the Mediterranean may account for one possible reason why it is called ‘John Dory’, since the French word for yellow is ‘jaune’ and for golden is ‘dorée’.
ref: 2012, Martin Hannan, Harvey Wallbangers and Tam O’Shanters: A Book of Eponyms – The People Who Inspired the Words We Use Every Day, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
Derived terms: bastard dory
dory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
ipa: /ˈdɔːɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: more dory
form: most dory
Etymology: From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.
Senses: glosses: Of a bright yellow or golden color.
dory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: dories
form: dorata
form: doru
Etymology: PIE word
 *dóru
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru).
Senses: examples: text: The basic weapon of the hoplite was the dory, a wooden-shaft spear six to nine feet long with a metal point at each end.
ref: 1990, Richard A. Gabriel, The Culture of War: Invention and Early Development (Contributions in Military Studies; 96), New York, N.Y.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The principal offensive weapon of the hoplite was his spear (dory). Conquered territory was said to be 'spear-won'.
ref: 2000, Nick Sekunda, Greek Hoplite: 480–323 BC (Osprey Military, Warrior Series; 27), Oxford: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:
text: The principal weapon of the hoplite was the dory spear. It was unusually long – it could measure up to 10ft (3m) in length, and weighed about 4.4lb (2kg). At one end was a broad, leaf-pattern spearhead, while at the other end was a metal spike called a sauroter. The purpose of the spike is much debated: it almost certainly acted as a counterbalance, making the spear easier to hold and wield; it could have been used as an improvised spear point, or for making downward attacks on the enemy's exposed feet; or it might even have been embedded in the ground to keep the spear in place.
ref: 2011 (republished 2014 as an e-book), Chris McNab, A History of the World in 100 Weapons, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, page 37
text: Sadly, the Greeks' weapons have succumbed to erosion; yet all are single-handed and one figure is striking overhead with left leg forward consistent with the use of a dory.
ref: 2012, Fred Eugene Ray, Jr., Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the 4th Century B.C.: A History and Analysis of 187 Engagements, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: hunky dory
molé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mole (“sauce”).
loopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.pi/
rhymes: -uːpi
Forms: form: loopier
form: loopiest
Etymology: From loop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a loopy rollercoaster
glosses: Having loops.
glosses: Idiotic; crazy.
glosses: Under the influence of alcohol or a narcotic; drunk.
Synonyms: sense: having loops
word: looped
sense: idiotic
word: stupid
sense: crazy
word: insane
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: loopily
loopiness
tefillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈfɪlɪn/
Senses: glosses: plural of tefilla
Anselmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anselm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Anselmian.
Ali Baba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian علی بابا. The use of Ali Baba to designate a type of container originates from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (see the use as proper noun below), suggesting the appearance of the oil jars in which the thieves hide in the story.
Senses: glosses: The fictional protagonist of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, famous for his encounter with forty thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command "open sesame".
Derived terms: Ali Baba bag
Ali Baba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ali Babas
Etymology: From Persian علی بابا. The use of Ali Baba to designate a type of container originates from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (see the use as proper noun below), suggesting the appearance of the oil jars in which the thieves hide in the story.
Senses: glosses: An extremely lucky person, especially one who acquires a large fortune by luck or by chance.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An Iraqi.
examples: text: Towering over all these are the huge Ali Baba baskets, square at the bottom, round at the top, and fitted with square covers that pull down like a Dutch smoker's cap.
ref: 2009, Martha Reinhard Smallwood Field [Catherine Cole, pseud.], The Story of the Old French Market, ca. 1916, no pagination, quoted in Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 101:
text: We found little piles in the oddest places - the oddest being within an Ali Baba jar some six feet high.
ref: 2004 May 11, Sgt Len Scott RAPC, “My Billets in Algiers: A Pub, a Casino and a Bank”, in BBC, retrieved 16 Apr 2023:
text: Behind what looked like—but surely couldn't be—an oversized Ali Baba laundry basket dribbling earth and pebbles over the floor, peeped a save.
ref: 2020, Marchell Abrahams, chapter 7, in Angels at Twenty Past, Troubador Publishing, →ISBN:
text: And don’t forget to put your dirty clothes in the Ali Baba.
ref: 2003, Nigel Slater, “Duckling à l’orange”, in Toast, Fourth Estate, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: A large container, such as a jar or a basket, with a flat base and usually a rounded body that tapers to a narrower neck.
jet setting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jet-setting.
jet setting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jet set
antimissile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + missile.
Senses: examples: text: antimissile defense
text: antimissile missile
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight.
antimissile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimissiles
Etymology: From anti- + missile.
Senses: examples: text: In 1946, it pursued the first antimissiles in Projects Thumper and Wizard. These antimissiles could destroy incoming projectiles traveling at 4000 mph and at altitudes reaching 500000 feet.
ref: 2003, Edward R. Drachman, Alan Shank, You decide!: controversial global issues, page 89:
glosses: A missile or system designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight.
artless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹt.lɪs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tlɪs
Forms: form: more artless
form: most artless
Etymology: From art + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And why should I here suppress the delight I received from this amiable creature, in remarking each artless look, each motion of pure undissembled nature, betrayed by his wanton eyes
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: I am convinced of her being an artless, amiable girl, with very good notions, very seriously good principles, and placing her happiness in the affections and utility of domestic life.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 18:
text: What passions our friendships were in those old days, how artless and void of doubt!
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: artless
word: callow
word: childlike
word: clueless
word: credulous
word: dewy-eyed
word: cute
raw_tags: used ironically
word: fleeceable
word: green
word: guileless
word: ingenuous
word: innocent
word: jejune
word: Panglossian
word: Panglossic
word: quaint
raw_tags: used ironically
word: simple
word: simple-hearted
word: simple-minded
word: starry-eyed
word: unaffected
word: undesigning
word: unpretentious
word: unsophisticated
word: untested
word: unworldly
word: wide-eyed
word: immature
word: born yesterday
word: wet behind the ears
word: virgin
antonyms: word: affected
word: mature
word: nuanced
word: pretentious
word: sophisticated
word: wily
word: worldly
glosses: Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
examples: text: This pendant has artless charm.
glosses: Free of artificiality; natural.
glosses: Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
glosses: Poorly made or done; crude.
Derived terms: artlessly
artlessness
unreasonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more unreasonable
form: most unreasonable
Etymology: From Middle English unresonable; equivalent to un- + reason + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Hold thy desperate hand:
Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.
examples: text: For it seemeth to me vnreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 25:27:
text: The will of those who never allow their will to be disputed, unless they happen to be in a good humour, when they relax proportionally, is almost always unreasonable.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Duty to Parents”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 358:
text: The groups claimed the administration’s planned operations targeted the city for its sanctuary status and amount to a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, according to the court filing .
ref: 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN:
antonyms: reasonable
glosses: Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.
Derived terms: Wednesbury unreasonable
unreasonableness
unreasonably
gog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Likely from agog; it appeared first as on gog. Attested from the 16th to 18th centuries. Compare French gogue (“sprightliness”), and Welsh gogi (“to agitate, shake”).
Senses: examples: text: Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going,
I would not stay for all the world.
ref: 1812 [1639], John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money”, in The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, page 65:
glosses: Haste; ardent desire to go.
scullion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌl.i.ən/
Forms: form: scullions
Etymology: Either from Middle French escouillon (“a swab, cloth”), diminutive of escouve (“broom, twig”) from Latin scopa, or an alteration of Old French souillon (“scullion”) by influence of scullery.
Senses: examples: text: They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.
ref: 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: "How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44:
glosses: A servant from the lower classes.
examples: text: Away, you scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A low, base person.
scullion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌl.i.ən/
Forms: form: scullions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of macaroni.
sodomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodomites
Etymology: From Middle English sodomyte, sodomite, from Old French Sodomite and Latin sodomīta, from Ancient Greek σοδομίτης (sodomítēs). Equivalent to Sodom + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: There ſhalbe no whoꝛe of the daughters of Iſrael, noꝛ a Sodomite of the ſonnes of Iſrael.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:17:
text: The Avestan texts denounce the sodomite as a demon[…]
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 113:
text: For example, when one of his programmers and her husband engaged in oral sex in their own bedroom one night, the next morning she was called into Rife's office, where he called her a slut and a sodomite and told her to clean out the desk.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 107:
glosses: One who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Sodom.
Derived terms: sodomitry
Related terms: sodomitess
sodomitic
sodomitical
sodomy
Sodomite
slangrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slangrills
Senses: glosses: An oaf: a person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton.
Brock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɒk/
ipa: /bɹɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname from Middle English, a variant of Brook, or originally a nickname for someone thought to resemble a badger (Middle English broc(k)).
examples: text: "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock." "General Brock?" she asked, mystified. "General Isaac Brock, you know. The Battle of Queenston Heights, where we defeated the Americans." Her puzzled expression showed that she had not heard of the occasion. Young Busby was shocked.
ref: 1949, Mazo de la Roche, Mary Wakefield, Dundurn Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A small village in Myerscough and Bilsborrow parish, Wyre borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5140).
glosses: A river in Lancashire which flows through the village to the River Wyre.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Scotland County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A village in Nemaha County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A town in Parker County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Kindersley No. 290, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality (Rural Municipality of Brock No. 64) in Saskatchewan.
glosses: A river in Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Chibougamau River.
Derived terms: Brockville
criminy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪ.mɪ.ni/
/ˈkɹɪ.mɪ.ni/
Forms: form: crimine
form: crimini
form: crimony
form: by criminy
form: crimany
form: crimeny
form: crimmini
form: criminny
Etymology: Either from Italian crimine (“crime”), or a minced oath from "Christ's money" (in reference to the silver that Judas was paid for betraying Jesus), or a deformation of Gemini (which was recorded as an oath from the 1660s). First attested in the 1680s.
Senses: glosses: Expressing surprise or impatience.
Synonyms: wow
'sfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ʊt
Forms: form: fut
Etymology: A style of oath appearing in Jacobean drama in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: ’Sfoot, I’ll learn to conjure and raise devils
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida:
text: Again, again, as God judge me: ’sfoot, cuz, they stand thrumming here with me all day, and yet I get nothing.
’Sfoot, my wit bleeds for’t, methinks.
ref: 1604-1616. Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore
text: ’Sfoot, what a bevy of beaten slaves are here!
ref: 1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, King and No King:
text: “’Sfoot,” Mr. Editor, — what exquisite nonsense hast thou here suffered to pass wholly unnoticed?
ref: 1814, . Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, page 234:
glosses: A contraction of "God's foot"; an oath.
drat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: drats
form: dratting
form: dratted
form: dratted
Etymology: An aphetism of od-rat (“God rot”) as a minced oath.
Senses: examples: text: Drat you and your evil schemes!
text: Whereat Mr. Fussy Fumer, gravely displeased, hastens home and writes an anonymous letter to Mrs. Gamp, who joins him in dratting the 'imperent upstart,' and denouncing the incompetence of the police.
ref: 1882, The Japan Daily Mail, page 1129:
text: "Drat that saw-dust, although I shouldn't forget it is the mill that feeds me and mine, but I get so wild when I think of the big fellows I have landed here in days gone by."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 155:
text: And should you be one of those conventional persons who thinks of parasites as abnormal or perhaps goes so far as to drat the varmints, you may be surprised to discover, as I did, that parasites live both inside and outside most organisms in all the kingdoms, which makes parasitism thoroughly normal[…]
ref: 1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy, page 14:
glosses: To damn or curse.
drat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: drat!
Etymology: An aphetism of od-rat (“God rot”) as a minced oath.
Senses: examples: text: Drat! I forgot to post these letters.
glosses: Expressing anger, annoyance or frustration.
Synonyms: crap!
damn!
fuck!
goddammit!
shit!
zerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɝk/
ipa: /zɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: zerks
Etymology: After Austrian-born American inventor Oscar U. Zerk.
Senses: examples: text: The moral is, if you don't keep grease in those zerks, you're going to be replacing some expensive parts. To grease through a zerk, you simply push the business end of a grease gun onto the zerk—it will pop right on with a little pressure—and work the handle until a bit of grease can be seen oozing out of the joint you are lubricating.
ref: 2005, Roger Welsch, From Tinkering to Torquing, page 99:
text: A lot depends on which type of greaseable U-joint we are talking about. There are two basic types, those that have a zerk fitting at the center of the cross and those that are drilled but have the zerk in the cap. A tiny hole drilled down the center of a U-joint has no effect on strength but a zerk at the cross does.
ref: 2007, Jim Allen, Jeep 4X4 Performance Handbook, page 97:
text: Figure 14.12 Wipe off the end of a zerk fitting before attaching the grease gun.
ref: 2014, Tim Gilles, Automotive Service: Inspection, Maintenance, Repair, 5th edition, page 206:
glosses: Any of a class of types of grease nipples, or an instance thereof; (usually, in current usage) any grease nipple.
stem siren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stem sirens
Senses: examples: text: Trust me, that stem siren had it coming.
qualifier: early 1900s
glosses: A prostitute.
Topeka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈpikə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Kansa tó ppí kʼé ([dopĩkʼʔə], literally “good place to dig potatoes”).
Senses: examples: text: Well Kansas is for the farmer
We stand behind the little man
And we need a firehouse in Topeka
So help us if you can
ref: 1968, Randy Newman, “The Beehive State”, in Randy Newman:
glosses: The capital city of Kansas, United States and the county seat of Shawnee County.
glosses: A village in Quiver Township, Mason County, Illinois.
glosses: A town in Clearspring Township and Eden Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Mississippi, named after Topeka, Kansas.
Derived terms: Topekan
riser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: risers
Etymology: From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something which rises.
examples: text: The choir stood on risers for the performance.
glosses: A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The main body of a bow.
glosses: A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
glosses: A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
glosses: A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
glosses: A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
qualifier: Casting (metalworking)
glosses: a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
glosses: A male's erection.
Coordinate terms: word: longy
word: rumpy
sense: vertical part of a step
word: run
sense: vertical part of a step
word: tread
Derived terms: dry riser
early riser
high-riser
late riser
Pfizer riser
wet riser
sanderling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanderlings
Etymology: First recorded 1600s. Possibly a descendant from Old English *sandyrðling, from sand (“sand”) + yrðling (“plowman”), though not attested in Old or Middle English.
Senses: glosses: A small wading bird, of species Calidris alba, that breeds in the Arctic and winters on sandy shores and estuaries around the world.
puckish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more puckish
form: most puckish
Etymology: From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Senses: examples: text: He has a puckish sense of humor.
text: She has a puckish attitude.
text: He has a puckish grin.
text: They are so puckish for their love of practical jokes.
text: Wolfowitz spoke softly to Yasa, who evidently had no idea who he was but responded with a puckish smile.
ref: 2007 April 2, John Cassidy, “The Next Crusade”, in The New Yorker:
text: “Chandler Bing,” wrote Matthew Perry in his puckish, self-mocking memoir, “changed the way that America spoke”.
ref: 2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: impish
mischievous
glosses: Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
wikipedia: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Derived terms: puckishly
puckishness
Related terms: puck
spoonbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspunˌbɪl/
Forms: form: spoonbills
Etymology: From spoon + bill, owing to the shape of the animal's beak.
Senses: glosses: Any of various large, long-legged wading birds of the genus Platalea, in the ibis family Threskiornithidae, that have a large, flat, spatulate bill.
synonyms: paddlefish
glosses: A species of fish, Polyodon spathula, native to the river basins of Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, or its extinct close relatives.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Platalea alba
word: African spoonbill
taxonomic: Platalea minor
word: black-faced spoonbill
taxonomic: Platalea leucorodia
word: Eurasian spoonbill
taxonomic: Platalea ajaja
word: roseate spoonbill
taxonomic: Platalea regia
word: royal spoonbill
taxonomic: Platalea flavipes
word: yellow-billed spoonbill
moorhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuɹ.hɛn/
Forms: form: moorhens
Etymology: From Middle English morhen, perhaps from Old English *mōrhenn, an alteration of Old English worhenn (compare coordinate masculine term mōrhana, a possible corruption of worhana (“pheasant”)), equivalent to moor + hen.
Senses: examples: text: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
synonyms: marsh hen
gallinule
stank hen
stankie
glosses: Any of various medium-sized water birds of the genus Gallinula, of the rail family, that feed in open water margins.
glosses: A female red grouse, Lagopus lagopus scotica.
Synonyms: word: moggy
Derived terms: taxonomic: Gallinula chloropus
word: common moorhen
taxonomic: Gallinula tenebrosa
word: dusky moorhen
taxonomic: Gallinula chloropus
word: European moorhen
taxonomic: Gallinula angulata
word: lesser moorhen
Related terms: moorbird
moorcock
moorfowl
kobold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kobolds
form: kobolde
form: cobold
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kobold. Doublet of cobalt.
Senses: examples: text: 1904, Andrew Lang (collector), author and translator not identified, The Mermaid and the Boy, The Brown Fairy Book, page 176,
At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'
text: Movers, in the first chapter of his Phönizier, says that that group of deities called Dactyls, Cabiri, Corybantes, and Cyclopes, were similar to those old Germanic divinities now known as Kobolds.
ref: 2009, Robert Grant Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton, page 75:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.
examples: text: a. 1867, George MacDonald, The Shadows, 2000 [1980], The Golden Key and Other Stories, page 96,
The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .
text: On the other hand, the kobolds, brownies, and other household sprites who are not merely benign, but helpful, if well treated; the elf-maids who marry mortals, the swan-maidens, and the like, bear the stamp of Teutonic fancy.
ref: 1883 June 16, The Academy, London, page 416, column 1:
text: Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.
ref: 1977, James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England, published 2007, page 138:
text: In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.
ref: 2011, William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves, unnumbered page:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.
examples: text: There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds, green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.
ref: 2005, Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars, page 62:
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
glosses: One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings, often with a reptilian or dog-like appearance.
Synonyms: sense: hostile supernatural creature
word: goblin
limited liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limited liabilities
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The liability of an owner or a partner of a company for no more capital than they have invested.
Derived terms: limited liability company
Related terms: no liability
gravitational interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fundamental interaction responsible for the gravitational force.
electromagnetic interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fundamental interaction responsible for the electromagnetic force.
weak nuclear interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weak nuclear interactions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fundamental interaction responsible for the weak nuclear force.
strong nuclear interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong nuclear interactions
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: the fundamental interaction responsible for the strong nuclear force
Synonyms: strong interaction
color interaction
colour interaction