cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
entreaty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹiːti/
ipa: /ənˈtɹiːti/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹiːti/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹiːti/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹiːti/
ipa: /ənˈtɹiːti/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: entreaties
form: intreaty
Etymology: From entreat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1779, William Ward, An Essay on Grammar as it may be applied to the English Language, New Edition, page 202,
In all commands or entreaties, the ſtate commanded, or entreated, muſt be contingent; i. e. capable of being, or not being, as the command or entreaty expreſſes it.
text: She gathered many of the stones which I built into the walls of the hut; also, she turned a deaf ear to my entreaties when I begged her to desist.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: 1964 October, P. F. Strawson, Intention and Convention in Speech Acts, The Philosophical Review, Volume 73, Number 4, page 444,
We can readily imagine circumstances in which an utterance of the words "Don't go" would be correctly described not as a request or an order, but as an entreaty.
text: The entreaties of a lover and the rejection of the heroine lend charm to the stanza.
ref: 2002, N. P. Unni, Makers of Indian Literature: Amaruka, Sahitya Akademi, page 32:
text: When the tears didn't come, she flicked on the desktop terminal and loaded up the query client. As expected, she had answers to every entreaty. Department of Tactical Theology: "The anomaly you describe has no apparent religious or ritual significance." Antimemetics Department: "This subject falls well outside our purview." (She couldn't remember why she'd bothered emailing them, whoever they were.) Medical Department: "The symptoms you describe suggest no known pathology, anomalous or otherwise." Temporal Anomalies Department: "These factors carry no obvious temporal indices." Every end was dead.
ref: 2022 September 15, HarryBlank, “The Mourning After”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
glosses: The act of entreating or beseeching; a strong petition; pressing solicitation; begging.
glosses: A treatment; reception; entertainment.
Related terms: entreat
inwreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːð
Forms: form: inwreathes
form: inwreathing
form: inwreathed
form: inwreathed
form: enwreathe
Senses: examples: text: Nor less the palm of peace inwreathes thy brow
ref: 1726, James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons:
text: It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
text: Nor diamonds inwreathed with the braids of her hair.
ref: 1883, George Kent, “Love's Wreath”, in The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, volume 6, page 306:
glosses: To surround or encompass as with a wreath.
valor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvælɚ/
rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)
Forms: form: valors
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of valour.
Derived terms: discretion is the better part of valor
pot-valor
amnesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæmˈniʒə/
ipa: /æmˈniːʒə/
ipa: /æmˈniːz.i.ə/
rhymes: -iːʒə
Forms: form: amnesias
form: amnesiæ
Etymology: From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”) prefixed with the alpha privative.
Senses: examples: text: I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.
ref: 2009 October 4, Stacey D’Erasmo, “Glory Days”, in The New York Times:
text: They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him
ref: 2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 0:33 from the start, in dracula flow 3:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
examples: text: a state of cultural amnesia
glosses: Forgetfulness.
examples: text: She's lighting up some sensis, he's lighting up amnesias / I'm 'bout to get it started, I'm 'bout to get amnesia'd
ref: 2015, Jme, “Man Don’t Care” (track 13), in Integrity>, performed by Jme:
synonyms: word: amm
word: ammie
word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.
Derived terms: amnesiac
amnesic
anterograde amnesia
character amnesia
childhood amnesia
digital amnesia
dissociative amnesia
historical amnesia
infantile amnesia
maternal amnesia
milk of amnesia
momnesia
national amnesia
psychogenic amnesia
retrograde amnesia
Romnesia
transient epileptic amnesia
Related terms: amnestic
amnestical
amnestically
amnesty
promnesia
dowse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊs/
Forms: form: dowses
form: dowsing
form: dowsed
form: dowsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of douse (“to plunge into water”).
Derived terms: dowser
dowse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊs/
Forms: form: dowses
form: dowsing
form: dowsed
form: dowsed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of douse (“to strike”).
dowse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊs/
Forms: form: dowses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of douse (“strike”).
dowse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊs/
enpr: daus
enpr: dauz
ipa: /daʊz/
rhymes: -aʊz
ipa: /daʊs/
Forms: form: dowses
form: dowsing
form: dowsed
form: dowsed
Etymology: Unknown; originally a dialectal term from southern England.
Senses: glosses: To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.
Derived terms: dowsing rod
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clams
form: clamming
form: clammed
form: clammed
Etymology: From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clamm (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams.
Senses: glosses: To dig for clams.
Derived terms: clam up
Related terms: clammy
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clams
Senses: examples: text: By the bells standing too long in leading compass, the rest are thrown and jumbled together; whereby claps and clams so unpleasing to the hearers are occasion'd.
ref: 1702, Campanologia Improved:
glosses: A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clams
form: clamming
form: clammed
form: clammed
Senses: examples: text: When they [bells] lie fifths thus 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8, 'tis then most pleasant and excellent music to clam them; that is, the two notes of each concord to strike together, and if they be clam'd true the eight bells will strike like four, but with far greater musick and harmony.
ref: 1702, Campanologia Improved:
glosses: To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clammer
form: clammest
form: clem
Etymology: From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”).
Senses: examples: text: Ice is said to be clam, when beginning to melt with the sun or otherwise, and not easy to be slid upon.
ref: 1808, John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language:
glosses: Clammy.
Derived terms: beclam
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clem
Etymology: From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”).
Senses: examples: text: The clam of death.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: clamminess; moisture
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clams
form: clamming
form: clammed
form: clammed
form: clem
Etymology: From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”).
Senses: examples: text: A chilling sweat , a damp of jealousy,
Hangs on my brows, and clams upon my limbs
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosia’s. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […]; and M. Tonson […], published 1691, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
examples: text: A whole Swarm of Wasps got into a Hony-pot, and there they Cloy'd and Clam'd themselves till there was no getting Out again.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clams
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: Alternative form of CLAM.
clam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæm/
ipa: [kleəm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: clams
form: clamming
form: clammed
form: clammed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clem (“to starve”).
nope
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊp/
ipa: [noʊp̚]
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] in before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.
Senses: examples: text: "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
ref: 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, page 97:
text: "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
ref: 1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, page 319:
text: “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
ref: 1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, page 50:
text: 1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"[…]
ref: c. 1930, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, page 13:
text: Nope. Don't know as I do.
ref: 2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: No.
Derived terms: noop
nope rope
nopers
nopesies
nopesy
nope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊp/
ipa: [noʊp̚]
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: nopes
Etymology: Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] in before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.
Senses: examples: text: I'll take that as a nope, then.
text: By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
ref: 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC (2001), p. 32
glosses: A negative reply, no.
examples: text: This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
ref: 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, https://web.archive.org/web/20160731215210/http://moviepilot.com/posts/4016375
glosses: An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
Derived terms: nope out
Nopeville
nope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊp/
ipa: [noʊp̚]
rhymes: -əʊp
ipa: /nəʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
ipa: /noʊp/
ipa: [noʊp̚]
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: nopes
Etymology: Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp (“bullfinch”).
Senses: examples: text: 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
text: I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.
ref: 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255
text: In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
ref: 1836, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement, page 380:
text: Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).
ref: 1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, page 583:
qualifier: except near Staffordshire
glosses: A bullfinch.
nope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊp/
ipa: [noʊp̚]
rhymes: -əʊp
ipa: /nəʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: nopes
Etymology: Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Senses: examples: text: (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.
ref: 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, page xci:
text: I'll fetch thee a nope.
ref: 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, page 69:
glosses: A blow to the head.
nope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊp/
ipa: [noʊp̚]
rhymes: -əʊp
ipa: /nəʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: nopes
form: noping
form: noped
form: noped
Etymology: Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Senses: examples: text: "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
ref: 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., page 183:
text: The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"
ref: 1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., page 65:
glosses: To hit someone on the head.
daemonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmənaɪz/
Forms: form: daemonizes
form: daemonizing
form: daemonized
form: daemonized
form: demonize
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”).
Senses: glosses: demonize
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: of a computer program or script, to prepare to go in to the background and become a daemon
translators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translator
laundromat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːndɹəʊˌmæt/
ipa: /ˈlɔːndɹəmæt/
ipa: /ˈlɑn.dɹəˌmæt/
ipa: /ˈloːn.dɹə.mæt/
Forms: form: laundromats
Etymology: Blend of laundry + automatic. From Laundromat, (former) trademark (1940s) of Westinghouse Electric Corporation for its washing machines, coined by Westinghouse publicist George Edward Pendray.
Senses: examples: text: In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.
ref: 2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2020:
glosses: A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now may use other per-load payment methods) washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items.
examples: text: The Russian laundromat was soon nicknamed the Moldovan laundromat, as it centred on transactions between Russia and the small, poor country locked between Ukraine and Romania.
ref: 2020, Birgitte Dyrekilde, Lars Abild, Man of Power:
glosses: A money laundering operation.
Synonyms: sense: self-service laundry facility
word: launderette
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: laundrette
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washeteria
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washery
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: washette
sense: self-service laundry facility
word: coin laundry
sense: money-laundering operation
word: launderette
Hypernyms: sense: self-service laundry facility
word: laundry
Derived terms: laundromatting
Related terms: automat
automatic
laundry
feudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːdl̩/
ipa: [ˈfjuː.dɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈfjudəl/
ipa: [ˈfju.ɾɫ̩]
homophone: futile (some US accents)
rhymes: -uːdəl
Etymology: From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (“fief, fee”), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, owndom, property, fee”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) + -al. More at fee.
Senses: examples: text: And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.
ref: 1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:
glosses: Of, or relating to feudalism.
Derived terms: antifeudal
feudalist
feudalistic
feudalization
feudalize
feudal law
feudal lord
feudally
feudal rush
feudal system
neofeudal
nonfeudal
postfeudal
prefeudal
quasifeudal
semifeudal
ultrafeudal
unfeudal
taper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪpə/
ipa: /ˈteɪpɚ/
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
homophone: tapir
Forms: form: tapers
form: tapering
form: tapered
form: tapered
Etymology: From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid.
Senses: examples: text: Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To make thinner or narrower at one end.
examples: text: Like other supertall towers, 432 Park relies on the counterweight system to address the forces of wind and reduce the feeling of swaying for residents. But unlike many other supertall towers that are tiered or taper toward the top, 432 Park is rectangular, making it less aerodynamic.
ref: 2025 October 19, “A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To become thinner or narrower at one end.
examples: text: Current major clinical practice guidelines provide little support for clinicians wishing to help patients discontinue or taper antidepressants in terms of mitigating and managing withdrawal symptoms.
ref: 2022 November 2, Anders Sørensen, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, Klaus Munkholm, “Clinical practice guideline recommendations on tapering and discontinuing antidepressants for depression: a systematic review”, in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, volume 12, →DOI:
glosses: To diminish gradually.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To tighten monetary policy.
raw_tags: of a central bank
Synonyms: narrow
Derived terms: taper off
taper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪpə/
ipa: /ˈteɪpɚ/
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
homophone: tapir
Etymology: From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid.
Senses: glosses: Tapered; narrowing to a point.
taper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪpə/
ipa: /ˈteɪpɚ/
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
homophone: tapir
Forms: form: tapers
Etymology: From tape + -er.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: One who operates a tape machine.
glosses: Someone who works with tape or tapes.
teleological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛliːəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: more teleological
form: most teleological
Etymology: From teleologic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It will be seen that this doctrine is optimistic and teleological: the universe and everything in it is developing towards something continually better than what went before.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19:
glosses: Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose.
Derived terms: teleological argument
teleologically
unteleological
transplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːnt
enpr: tränzpläntʹ or trănzpläntʹ
ipa: /tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/
ipa: /tɹænzˈplɑːnt/
enpr: trănzplăntʹ
ipa: /tɹænzˈplænt/
Forms: form: transplants
form: transplanting
form: transplanted
form: transplanted
Etymology: From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.
Senses: examples: text: Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242:
text: A book entitled Emerging Indonesia has on its cover photographs of a sunrise over palm trees, bent women in coolie hats transplanting rice, a wooden bull burning at a Balinese cremation, and a liquid nitrogen plant belching black smoke into a clear, undefiled tropical sky.
ref: 1996, Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
examples: text: Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.
ref: 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460:
glosses: To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
transplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑːnt
enpr: tränzʹplänt or trănzʹplänt
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːnzplɑːnt/
ipa: /ˈtɹænzplɑːnt/
enpr: trănzʹplănt
ipa: /ˈtɹænzplænt/
Forms: form: transplants
Etymology: From Middle English transplaunten, from Old French transplanter, from Late Latin transplantare, equivalent to trans- + plant.
Senses: glosses: An act of uprooting and moving (something), especially and archetypically a plant.
glosses: Anything that is transplanted, especially and archetypically a plant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An operation (procedure) in which tissue or an organ is transplanted: an instance of transplantation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A transplanted organ or tissue: a graft.
examples: text: The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.
ref: 2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:
glosses: Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
Derived terms: beating-heart transplant
faecal transplant
fecal microbiota transplant
fecal transplant
genome transplant
organ transplant
tranniversary
Related terms: sense: non-native person
word: immigrant
sense: non-native person
word: migrant
sense: non-native person
word: emigrant
vouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃ
Forms: form: vouches
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen (“to call, summon; to provide; to make available, proffer; to affirm, declare formally”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier (“to call, summon; to claim; to call upon, invoke; to denounce”) [and other forms], from Vulgar Latin *vocicāre, derived from Latin vocāre (“to call, summon; to call upon, invoke; to designate, name; to bring or put (into a condition or state”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to sound out; to speak”).
Verb sense 8.1 (“to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land”) in the form vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty is a calque from Anglo-Norman and Old French voucher a garant.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: VVho will beleeue thee Iſabell?
My vnſoild name, th' auſteereneſſe of my life,
My vouch againſt you, and my place i'th State,
VVill ſo your accuſation ouer-vveigh,
That you ſhall ſtifle in your ovvne report,
And ſmell of calumnie.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 70, column 1:
glosses: An assertion, a declaration; also, a formal attestation or warrant of the correctness or truth of something.
weed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːd/
homophone: we'd
homophone: ouid
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: weeds
form: weeding
form: weeded
form: weeded
Etymology: From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English wēodian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weudōną (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),
Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).
Senses: examples: text: I weeded my flower bed.
text: If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial, such as the wild Fitch, the wild Oat, Darnel, Fennel-flower, Knot-grass, Restharrow, Fox-tail, the several sorts of Bindweed, (Convolvulus) and all the small Poppies, remain in the field.
ref: 1764, Duhamel du Monceau, translated by Philip Miller, The Elements of Agriculture, volume 1, page 265:
text: One cool morning last April in Pyongyang, North Korea, I watched a woman squat over a patch of grass along the Daedong River. A large handkerchief covering her head was knotted below her chin, encircling her sunburned and wrinkled face. As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank. In North Korea, keeping the neighborhood clean is a civic duty. But she was far from any neighborhood. She was gathering the weeds for food.
ref: 2017 December 17, Kee B. Park, “Amid Talk of Nuclear Weapons, North Koreans Go Hungry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2017, Opinion:
glosses: To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
examples: text: She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 183:
glosses: To pilfer the best items from a collection.
examples: text: We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
text: Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.
ref: 2003, Juris Dilevko, Lisa Gottlieb, “Weed to achieve: a fundamental part of the public library mission?”, in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, volume 27, number 1, →DOI, page 73:
qualifier: library science
glosses: To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
Related terms: weed out
weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːd/
homophone: we'd
homophone: ouid
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: weeds
Etymology: From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English wēdan (“to be mad or delirious”), from wōd (“mad, enraged”).
Senses: examples: text: The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.
ref: 1822, William Campbell, “Observations on the Disease usually termed Puerperal Fever, with Cases”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 18:
glosses: A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
glosses: Lymphangitis in a horse.
weed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːd/
homophone: we'd
homophone: ouid
rhymes: -iːd
Etymology: From the verb wee.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wee
valour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvælə/
ipa: /ˈvælɚ/
rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)
Forms: form: valours
form: valor
Etymology: From Middle English valour, from Anglo-Norman valour, from Latin valor. Doublet of valure.
Senses: examples: text: Valor wins the battle, not death!
glosses: Individually sustained verve or passion.
glosses: Value; worth.
synonyms: bravery
courage
prowess
intrepidity
glosses: Strength of mind in regard to danger; the quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness
glosses: A brave man; a man of valour.
Derived terms: discretion is the better part of valour
feud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞od
ipa: /fjuːd/
ipa: /fɪu̯d/
ipa: /fɛʊ̯d/
ipa: /fɪʊ̯d/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: feuds
form: fead
form: feaud
form: fede
form: feood
form: fewd
form: fewde
form: fuide
form: fude
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”).
Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).
Senses: examples: text: You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
text: Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.
ref: 2008 June 29, Celia Mcgee, “The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland”, in The New York Times:
text: The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.
ref: 2015, “Arunachal Pradesh”, in H. M. Bareh, editor, Encyclopaedia Of North-East India, 1st edition, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2022, page 72:
glosses: A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
glosses: A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Derived terms: cyberfeud
feudist
feudlike
Related terms: blood feud
feud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞od
ipa: /fjuːd/
ipa: /fɪu̯d/
ipa: /fɛʊ̯d/
ipa: /fɪʊ̯d/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: feuds
form: feuding
form: feuded
form: feuded
form: fead
form: feaud
form: fede
form: feood
form: fewd
form: fewde
form: fuide
form: fude
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”).
Cognate to Old English fǣhþ, fǣhþu, fǣhþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”), German Fehde, and Dutch vete (“feud”) (directly inherited from Proto-West Germanic) alongside Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”) and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”) (borrowed from Middle Low German).
Senses: examples: text: The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
text: As a result of the heel turn, [Riki] Choshu was instantly elevated as a headliner and feuded with [Tatsumi] Fujinami in main events for two years over the WWF [World Wrestling Federation] International Heavyweight strap.
ref: 2002, John F. Molinaro, edited by Jeff Marek and Dave Meltzer, Top 100 Pro Wrestlers of All Time, Toronto, Ont.: Winding Stair Press, →ISBN, page 78, column 1:
text: Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website.
ref: 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue:
glosses: To carry on a feud.
Derived terms: feuder
feud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞od
ipa: /fjuːd/
ipa: /fɪu̯d/
ipa: /fɛʊ̯d/
ipa: /fɪʊ̯d/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: feuds
form: feod
Etymology: From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee, fief, and feoff.
Senses: glosses: An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
Synonyms: fee
fief
Related terms: feudal
feudalism
hostility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒˈstɪlɪti/
ipa: /hɑˈstɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: hostilities
Etymology: From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
text: There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
text: The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: The state of being hostile.
examples: text: As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
ref: 2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin:
glosses: A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Synonyms: sense: state of being hostile
word: antagonism
sense: state of being hostile
word: opposition
sense: state of being hostile
word: enmity
sense: state of being hostile
word: animosity
sense: state of being hostile
word: antipathy
sense: state of being hostile
word: hatred
sense: state of being hostile
word: unfriendliness
sense: military action
word: war
sense: military action
word: fighting
sense: military action
word: combat
Derived terms: horizontal hostility
nonhostility
prehostility
Related terms: hostile
hostilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/
ipa: /hɒˈstɪlɪtiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hostility
hostilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑˈstɪlɪtiz/
ipa: /hɒˈstɪlɪtiz/
Senses: examples: text: The GFAP also called for the deployment of an international armed force, under NATO leadership, of sixty thousand troops to supervise the cessation of hostilities and to provide framework security to enable civilian peace implementation.
ref: 2005, Ian Oliver, “The Road to Dayton Ohio”, in War & Peace in the Balkans: The Diplomacy of Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Acts of war.
demonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmənaɪz/
Forms: form: demonizes
form: demonizing
form: demonized
form: demonized
form: daemonise
form: daemonize
form: dæmonize
form: demonise
Etymology: From Medieval Latin daemonizō, from daemon + -izō. Compare Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”). By surface analysis, demon + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To turn into a demon.
examples: text: President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.
ref: 2020 January 9, Peter Baker, “Trump has a long history of language that incites and demonizes.”, in The New York Times:
text: He calls for a “massive, urgent recruitment effort,” which is a fine idea, but one that’s likely to be futile unless we stop demonizing teachers and start paying them fairly.
ref: 2022 March 10, Michelle Goldberg, “Boys and Men Are in Crisis Because Society Is”, in The New York Times:
text: Many people disagree with several things society has normalized, some of which are even demonized. Frustratingly, attaching a stigma to perfectly reasonable things makes people feel attacked when they publicly do them.
ref: 2024 May 11, Isabella Sylvester, “18 Things Society Has Demonized That Should Be Considered Normal”, in MSN:
glosses: To describe or represent as evil or diabolic, usually falsely.
Synonyms: sense: represent as evil or diabolic
word: vilify
Derived terms: dedemonize
demonizable
demonization
demonizer
redemonize
undemonized
cobalt blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobalt blues
Senses: glosses: A deep blue pigment derived from cobalt; zaffre.
cobalt blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the color of the pigment zaffre.
deep blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English depe blew, equivalent to deep + blue.
Senses: glosses: An intense, relatively dark blue.
deep blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep blues
Etymology: From Middle English depe blew, equivalent to deep + blue.
Senses: glosses: An intense, relative dark blue.
bootless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English bootles, botelees; equivalent to boot + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without boots.
bootless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bootless
form: most bootless
form: boteless
Etymology: From Middle English boteles, botles, from Old English bōtlēas; equivalent to boot (“profit; use; behoof”) + -less. Doublet of botleas.
Senses: examples: text: I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state / And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 29”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: APRIL FOOL, Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand on the first of April, on which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April-fool.
ref: 1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,, page 4:
text: The lieutenant tried the handle again, but still his efforts were quite bootless. He pushed and kicked, but the door was a strong one.
ref: 1844, Sir John William Kaye, Peregrine Pultuney: or, Life in India, page 251:
glosses: Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
Synonyms: fruitless
Derived terms: bootlessly
bootlessness
profitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more profitless
form: most profitless
Etymology: From profit + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve...
ref: 1600, Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing:
glosses: not yielding profit
Derived terms: profitlessness
boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: plural of boot
Derived terms: bossyboots
slyboots
boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: examples: text: I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth
ref: 1980, Black Uhuru, "Abortion", Black Uhuru (re-released as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1983)
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Forms: form: bootses
Senses: examples: text: If you can get the Boots at the Crown to talk, he will tell you a story which he thinks is amusing, about how he was knocked up at two in the morning by a gentleman who arrived in a car which he had driven in his underclothes.
ref: c. 1920s-1940s, A. M. Burrage, “Druid's Croft”, in Druid's Croft & Other Stories, published 2013:
text: The old beggar ran up and down in his tattered toga, acting as both boots [translating Hausknecht] and waiter.
ref: 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 260:
text: The young man with Doyler, who indeed no longer worked at Lee's of Kingstown, but had advanced to a position of boots and bottle-washer at the Russell Hotel adjacent the Green, was looking uneasy. […] The boots was sure.
ref: 2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 411:
glosses: A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
examples: text: […] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […]
ref: 1705, The Life of William III, Late King of England, and Prince of Orange, page 334:
text: The captain of Hotspur was Lieutenant T. Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet! Being the junior ship, she was given jobs no-one wanted.
ref: 2005, Frank Wade, A Midshipman's War, page 115:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.