cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪ̈t͡ʃul̩/
Forms: form: more spiritual
form: most spiritual
form: spirituall
form: spirytual
form: spirytuall
form: spyritual
form: spyrituall
form: spyrytual
form: spyrytuall
Etymology: From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spīritus. By surface analysis, spirit + -ual.
Senses: examples: text: Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
examples: text: Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 6:1:
glosses: Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
examples: text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
glosses: Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
examples: text: a spiritual substance or being
text: It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:44:
glosses: Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
glosses: Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
examples: the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation
glosses: Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
Derived terms: antispiritual
antispiritualism
antispirituality
aspiritual
aspirituality
cyberspiritual
ecospiritual
interspiritual
nonspiritual
panspiritual
pseudospiritual
psychospiritual
religiospiritual
spiritual awakening
spiritual bypass
spiritual bypassing
spiritual desertion
spiritual healing
spiritual incest
spiritualisation
spiritualise
Spiritualism
spiritualism
spiritualist
spiritualistic
spirituality
spiritualization
spiritualize
spiritual leader
spiritually
spiritual midden
spiritual naturalism
spiritual naturalist
spiritualness
spiritual sequel
spiritual violence
spiritual warfare
spiritual wifery
spiritual world
superspiritual
theospiritual
ultraspiritual
unspiritual
spiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪ̈t͡ʃul̩/
Forms: form: spirituals
form: spirituall
form: spirytual
form: spirytuall
form: spyritual
form: spyrituall
form: spyrytual
form: spyrytuall
Etymology: From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spīritus. By surface analysis, spirit + -ual.
Senses: glosses: A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
examples: text: He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
ref: a. 1880, James Russell Lowell, Dante:
glosses: Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
Synonyms: folk song
Derived terms: arranged spiritual
concert spiritual
negro spiritual
Negro spiritual
'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d/
ipa: /d/
ipa: [d]
ipa: [d̚]
Etymology: Contraction of would or had.
Senses: examples: text: He’d done his best, but it hadn't been enough.
text: You’d seen it before anyone else had.
text: I’d better not.
text: They baby’d been crying all night.
text: p’rhaps you didn’t say the cow was a red Durham; and p’rhaps you didn’t say she’d got a star on her brow
ref: 1861, George Eliot, chapter VI, in Silas Marner:
glosses: Contraction of had (as an auxiliary verb).
examples: text: I'd no reason to doubt him.
text: “He’s a dear little man,” said Cynthia. “I’d no idea you knew him.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, chapter II, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles:
text: She'd her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan.
ref: 1963 Peter, Paul and Mary, "Polly Von"
text: She’d two advantages over him: she’d more fire and a complete conviction she was in the right.
ref: 1974, Stanley Middleton, Holiday:
glosses: Contraction of had (as a main verb, but not a phrasal verb).
examples: text: I’d like to help, but I have no time.
text: John’d prefer not to go out tonight.
text: If I knew his name, I'd tell you.
synonyms: 'ld
glosses: Contraction of would or should.
examples: text: Hey, where’d everybody go? Why’d they take off?
text: Why the hell'd you do that?
glosses: Contraction of did.
Related terms: word: ’ll
word: ’m
word: ’re
word: ’s
word: ’ve
what's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒts/
enpr: wŭts
enpr: wäts
enpr: hwŭts
enpr: hwäts
ipa: /wʌts/
ipa: /wɑts/
ipa: /ʍʌts/
ipa: /ʍɑts/
homophone: watts (UK, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɒts
rhymes: -ʌts
rhymes: -ɑts
Senses: examples: text: What’s going on?
glosses: What is.
examples: text: What’s that got to do with it?
glosses: What has.
examples: text: What’s that mean?
glosses: What does.
Derived terms: what's your poison
when's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕnz
ipa: /wɛnz/
rhymes: -ɛnz
homophone: wens (wine–whine merger)
Senses: examples: text: When's the next train?
glosses: Contraction of when is.
examples: text: When's he said he's coming?
glosses: Contraction of when has.
examples: text: When's the next train arrive?
glosses: Contraction of when does.
examples: text: When's the last time you went snorkeling?
glosses: Contraction of when was.
iffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪfi/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: iffier
form: iffiest
Etymology: From if + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's selling new CD players for £20 each – that sounds a bit iffy to me.
synonyms: dodgy
dubious
fishy
glosses: Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
examples: text: The weather is still iffy for Saturday's rocket launch.
text: That potato salad smells a bit iffy. Don't chance it — it's not worth salmonellosis.
text: “He’s underground, anyway, so reception would be iffy.”
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 416:
text: "Definitely something iffy, that's for sure.”
ref: 2011, Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday, page 60:
glosses: Uncertain or chancy; risky.
Synonyms: word: dicey
word: dodgy
word: dubious
word: fishy
word: iffy
word: questionable
word: shady
word: shonky
word: sketchy
Hypernyms: word: fraudulent
word: suspicious
word: unreliable
Derived terms: iffily
iffiness
niffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: niffier
form: niffiest
Etymology: From niff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The gym locker room always smells niffy after a workout.
text: There was a niffy smell coming from the old boots in the corner.
text: The kitchen had a niffy odor from the leftover food.
synonyms: fetid
stinking
pongy
stinky
whiffy
glosses: Having a bad smell.
whiffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: whiffier
form: whiffiest
Etymology: From whiff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The whiffy smell of the compost pile made me turn away.
text: She tried to cover the whiffy smell in the bathroom with air freshener.
text: The clothes smelled whiffy after being left in the damp laundry room.
glosses: Having a bad smell.
Synonyms: sense: giving off a bad smell
word: fetid
sense: giving off a bad smell
word: stinking
sense: giving off a bad smell; colloquial/slang
word: niffy
sense: giving off a bad smell; colloquial/slang
word: pongy
sense: giving off a bad smell; colloquial/slang
word: stinky
Derived terms: whiffiness
stiffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĭf'i
ipa: /ˈstɪfi/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: stiffies
Etymology: From stiff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fred's got a bulge in his pants — you can tell that he's got a stiffy.
glosses: An erection of the penis.
examples: text: Never leave home without a spare stiffy disc in your bag.
glosses: A computer floppy disk of the kind supplied in a stiff plastic outer shell.
examples: text: Oh you know I like to mac
When they don’t talk back
I'll be there in a jiffy with a stiffy
ref: 2014 October 7, Electric Six, “Alone With Your Body”, in Human Zoo:
text: Niggas iffy, uh, blicky got the stiffy, uh
ref: 2017 November 4, Lil Glowstick, “Gummo”:
text: You niggas too iffy, my Glock got a stiffy
ref: 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music):
glosses: An extended magazine of a gun.
glosses: A rigidly conformative person; a square or goody-goody.
Synonyms: sense: erection of the penis
word: woody
sense: 3.5 inch floppy disk
word: stiffy disc
Related terms: word: computer
english: disc
translation: disc
word: floppy
english: disc
translation: disc
word: CD
word: flash drive
explanation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: explanations
form: explaination
Etymology: From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain. Morphologically explain + -ation. Displaced native Old English racu.
Senses: examples: text: The explanation was long and drawn-out.
glosses: The act or process of explaining.
examples: text: An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.
text: The socialist will, of course, see in this merely a proof that the more intelligent person is today bound to become a socialist. But this is far from being the necessary or even the most likely explanation.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 427:
glosses: Something that explains or makes understandable.
examples: text: This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable pleasure.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 3:
glosses: A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
Synonyms: sense: act or process of explaining
word: clarification
sense: act or process of explaining
word: elucidation
sense: act or process of explaining
word: elaboration
sense: act or process of explaining
word: explaining
sense: act or process of explaining
word: explication
sense: act or process of explaining
english: particularly by a feminist to a man
translation: particularly by a feminist to a man
word: femsplaining
sense: act or process of explaining
word: mansplaining
sense: act or process of explaining
english: particularly by a man to a woman
translation: particularly by a man to a woman
word: mansplanation
Derived terms: counterexplanation
explainification
explanationism
explanationist
explorable explanation
inference to the best explanation
misexplanation
nonexplanation
reexplanation
subexplanation
Related terms: explain
explanatory
explicative
explicator
explicatory
biggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡi/
rhymes: -ɪɡi
Forms: form: biggies
form: biggie
Etymology: From big + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The wardrobe is the biggy – we'd better move that first.
text: There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
ref: 2006, Carol Benson, The Old Lonesome, page 84:
text: Let's start with the biggy - the role of Network Rail.
ref: 2025 March 5, Christian Wolmar, “GBR: just how clear are the government's objectives?”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 40:
glosses: Something large in size in comparison to similar things.
examples: text: Here's the biggy: she's only getting divorced!
glosses: Something impressive in comparison to similar things.
examples: text: - Dude, I forgot to return your book!
- No biggie: I don't need it for another week.
glosses: Big deal.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: A person of importance or power, especially in the entertainment industry.
Related terms: no biggie
gobshite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbˌʃaɪt/
Forms: form: gobshites
Etymology: From gob (“mouth”) + shite (“excrement”).
Senses: examples: text: What’s that gobshite talking about now?
text: That whereas for anie time this foure and twentie yeare they haue plaid the fantasticall gub-shites and goose-giblets in Print, […]
ref: 1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, page 14:
glosses: One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
examples: text: LaTisha […] left school a head-banging argumentative gobshite with no qualifications who wouldnʼt take no orders from no one.
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books, published 2020, page 191:
text: “Water Lily of the Nile. That is what they call it. It’s a medicinal flower. It’s a narcotic that the Egyptians used to bury with their dead in order to help ease the sufferings of the afterlife. And according to the Compendium Narcoticum, it is the only drug that helps with the pain of being a wraith. Very hard to come by. And it is said that those little gobshites will do anything for it.”
ref: 2022 July 26, William Meny, Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (23:43 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
text: Well, we have to start with Aleksandr Dugin, ideologue and genocide-inciting gobshite.
ref: 2025 August 15th, Jonathan Fink, “Alaska Summit Dilemma: Z-Patriots, Putin, and Trump’s Tactical Dance”, in Silicon Curtain, Silicon Bites, Edition № 223, via YouTube, 17:09–17:16:
glosses: A person of very poor judgment and unpleasant character.
examples: text: “You do work on the brick when you raise it. The Earth doesn’t do work on the brick as it falls.”
With all due respect, that’s a load of gobshite, John.
ref: 2013 July 12, Wow [username], “How Einstein’s most famous equation affects you”, in Science blogs, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2023, comments:
text: Aw they were always talking gobshite as far as I was concerned, but for most bods, if it was in black and white it was true.
ref: 2015 July 6, Macart [username], “The belated truth”, in Wings over Scotland, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2023, comments:
glosses: Nonsense; speech or writing that is untrue, meaningless, or otherwise unwelcome.
figgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡi/
rhymes: -ɪɡi
Forms: form: figgier
form: figgiest
Etymology: From fig + -y. However, figgy pudding has a different origin; see Figgy pudding#Etymology on Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: This cake has a figgy taste.
glosses: Of or like figs.
glosses: Containing figs.
Derived terms: figginess
figgy-dowdy
figgy duff
ciggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɡi/
Forms: form: ciggies
form: ciggie
Senses: examples: text: “Open early and close up late, get people before work and get people after work, not just the dear bloody housewifes going out for a packet of ciggies and a chit-chat.”
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A cigarette.
Synonyms: sense: cigarette (slang)
word: cancer stick
sense: cigarette (slang)
word: cig
sense: cigarette (slang)
word: coffin nail
sense: cigarette (slang)
word: fag
sense: cigarette (slang)
word: smoke
Derived terms: e-ciggy
get jiggy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets jiggy
form: getting jiggy
form: got jiggy
form: got jiggy
form: gotten jiggy
Etymology: From the up-and-down movement made during sexual intercourse.
Senses: examples: text: The two of them are getting jiggy in the bedroom.
text: He told that girl he wants to get jiggy with her.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse.
examples: text: When da beat drops Jus keep swingin' it Get jiggy, get crunked up
ref: 2003, “Get Busy”, performed by Sean Paul:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, jiggy.
Synonyms: get freaky
get it on
get one's groove on
copulate
piggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡi/
rhymes: -ɪɡi
Forms: form: piggies
form: piggie
Etymology: From pig + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This little piggy went to market.
text: "Where might you come from?" When she had got a satisfactory answer to this, she continued, while she repeatedly addressed herself to the young pigs: "Ah, so! you are at school at the parson's, eh! - hush, hush! little piggies then!"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:
glosses: A pig (the animal).
examples: text: If you're dead-set on breeding your piggies, here are some things to remember and purchase[…]
ref: 2009, Elvio Romeo, The Ultimate Guinea Pig Handbook, page 56:
glosses: A guinea pig.
examples: text: He has such cute piggies!
glosses: A toe.
examples: text: Can't you finish your dinner? You've been a piggy, haven't you?
glosses: A pig, a greedy person.
glosses: A member of the police.
Derived terms: pay piggy
piggy bank
piggy flu
piggy in the middle
piggy move up
piggy stick
piggy-wig
piggy wiggy
piggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡi/
rhymes: -ɪɡi
Forms: form: piggier
form: piggiest
form: piggie
Etymology: From pig + -y.
Senses: glosses: resembling a pig
greedy
examples: text: He himself, who had always tried to be gentle and good (whatever “good” meant in this crazy world), had married Lina, who had developed into a silent, piggy woman, and had gotten Seth by her.
ref: 1983, Stephen King, Word Processor of the Gods:
glosses: resembling a pig
slovenly, dirty
examples: text: Finding quality flms of a sexual nature is difficult. Many of the films we have investigated for this program are down-right piggy. I wanted films of a sensual interest that also had some political sensibilities, especially in regards to women.
ref: 1977 April 16, Charles Bedard, “Thumpata-Thump Thumpata-Thump”, in Gay Community News, page 9, quoting Larry Silverman
glosses: resembling a pig
lecherous, often in a sexist way.
Derived terms: piggily
pigginess
frenuloplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frenuloplasties
Etymology: From frenulum + -o- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of the frenulum.
brickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: brickies
Etymology: From brick + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A bricklayer.
Dickie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: Dickey
form: Dicky
Etymology: From Dick + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Dick, a short form of the male given name Richard.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
Etymology: From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
Senses: examples: 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,
These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
glosses: A lump of soft or sticky material.
examples: text: He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
synonyms: saliva
spit
sputum
glosses: Saliva or phlegm.
glosses: A whoopie pie.
Derived terms: dough gob
glob
gobble
gobby
gobful
gob iron
gobline
gob off
goboon
gobshite
gobsmacked
gobsmacker
gobsmacking
gobstopper
gob-string
gobstruck
gob up
goo-gob
rent-a-gob
shut one's gob
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
form: gobbing
form: gobbed
form: gobbed
Etymology: From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
Senses: examples: 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,
I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
glosses: To gather into a lump.
glosses: To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
Etymology: Probably from Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
text: Oi, you, shut your gob!
text: She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.
text: Now washing you will be like washing a goth / All that black lipstick around their gobs
ref: 2005, “Tango”, in Public Warning, performed by Lady Sovereign:
synonyms: word: cakehole
word: mush
word: trap
word: bazoo
word: cakehole
word: chops
word: clam
word: clamshell
word: gob
word: hash-trap
word: kisser
word: laughing gear
word: maw
word: mouth
word: mush
word: neb
word: ned
word: north and south
word: oral cavity
word: os
word: piehole
word: potato trap
word: puss
word: sucker
word: trap
word: yap
glosses: The mouth.
Derived terms: gob job
rent-a-gob
Related terms: gobble
gobbler
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
Etymology: Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: This consisted in wheeling gob back to the most distant part of the stope and filling up the sets right up to the roof.
ref: 1930, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 130, page 330:
topics: business
mining
coordinate_terms: gangue
mullock
tailings
glosses: Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
form: gobbing
form: gobbed
form: gobbed
Etymology: Back-formation from gobbing, or a specified use of Etymology 1, above.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
Etymology: Shortened from gobby or gobshite.
Senses: examples: text: Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy.
ref: 1918 October 22, Letter of Adlai Stevenson, quoted in John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), page 53
text: If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.
ref: 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 April
text: Full-cut, dashing "gob" slacks with back pocket.
ref: 1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 94:
text: 1944 November, Fitting the Gob to the Job, Popular Mechanics, page 18,
For the first time in history, new warship crews are virtually “prefabricated” by modern methods of fitting the gob to the job.
text: 1948 June, Fred B. Barton, Mending Broken Gobs, The Rotarian, page 22,
Taking a safe average of 2,000 rehabilitated young gobs a year, that′s a total of 100,000 years of salvaged manhood, a target worth shooting at.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sailor.
gob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɒb/
enpr: gŏb
ipa: /ɡɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: gobs
form: gog
Senses: examples: text: To save having to enter the locks at a crawl — not seamanlike in the strong cross-winds we often experienced ― I rigged a quarter-rope as described for stopping her, in addition to a gob-rope that I could immediately haul on to convert the quarter rope into a conventional stern line to hold her alongside after we had stopped.
ref: 1996, John Mellor, Handling Troubles Afloat:
text: The towing point can be a bullnose up forward, a tow bitt aft, a staple, a towing hook, or a gob line.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey Sleisinger, Shiphandling With Tugs:
topics: nautical
transport
billy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: billies
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Perhaps a variant of bully (“companion, mate, comrade”). Compare Scots billie (“a comrade; companion”). Compare also Middle Low German billig (“equitable, reasonable, lawful, fitting, according to natural law, just”).
Senses: glosses: A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
examples: text: Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
ref: 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: A good friend.
examples: text: 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62,
Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.
text: In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
ref: 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, “Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)”, in Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, page 276:
text: It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.
ref: 2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 159:
glosses: A billy goat.
examples: text: All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]
ref: 1859, Ducange Anglicus, The Vulgar Tongue, page 54:
glosses: A silk handkerchief.
Derived terms: billy boy
billy buttons
billy-cock
billygoat
billy-goat
billyhood
billy-o
billy-oh
hillbilly
silly-billy
Silly Billy
silly billy
swampbilly
billy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: billies
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”), perhaps originally from the name Billy, a diminutive of William.
The condom sense from the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy, referring in turn to Billy Boy, a German brand of condoms.
Senses: glosses: A highwayman's club, billy club.
examples: text: […]at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
ref: 1840, The Citizen, page 347:
text: On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.
ref: 1967, Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology, page 126:
glosses: A slubbing or roving machine.
examples: text: Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
text: We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?
ref: 1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed, published 2004, page 239:
text: Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling,
'Who'll come a'waltzing Matilda, with me.'
ref: 1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):
text: Mother prepared a splendid picnic. […] Rugs, food and the black billy for making tea, were packed into the old baby buggy and we trundled it straight down Simcoe Street.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Loyalty”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.
ref: 2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, unnumbered page:
glosses: A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.
glosses: A bong for smoking marijuana.
glosses: A condom.
Derived terms: billy bread
billycan
billy-can
billy cart
billyful
billy lid
billy tea
billy tin
Christmas billy
willy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willier
form: more willy
form: williest
form: most willy
Etymology: From Middle English willy, willi, equivalent to will + -y. Cognate with Dutch willig (“obedient, hearsome”), German willig (“willing”), Swedish villig (“willing, agreeable”).
Senses: glosses: Willing; favourable; ready; eager.
glosses: Self-willed; willful.
Related terms: ill-willy
evil-willy
willy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willies
Etymology: From Middle English wilȝe, from Old English wiliġ (“willow”). More at willow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of willow.
willy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willies
form: willying
form: willied
form: willied
Etymology: From Middle English wilȝe, from Old English wiliġ (“willow”). More at willow.
Senses: glosses: To cleanse wool or cotton, etc. with a willy, or willow.
willy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willies
Etymology: From Middle English wilie, from Old English wiliġe, wileġe (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *wiligō (“wicker basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *weliko- (“willow-tree”). More at weel, willow.
Senses: glosses: A willow basket.
glosses: A fish basket.
willy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willies
form: willie
Etymology: Originally northern British usage, from the 1960s. Probably the simple use of a proper name as a pet name; compare dick, fanny and peter. Unlikely to be a contraction of Latin membrum virile, male member (that is, the penis), a Latin term used in English in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Little Johnny got his willy stuck in his zipper.
text: Everybody knows your mum is a whore / Getting 'round Piccadilly looking for willy / Punters pull up and say "don't be silly"
ref: 2016 March 7, “Road Rage (Freestyle)”, performed by Little T (Josh Tate):
glosses: the penis.
glosses: Term of abuse.
Synonyms: sense: penis
word: peter
word: johnson
word: wee-wee
word: penis
Derived terms: pilly willy
willy warmer
willy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: willies
form: willie
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it.
Related terms: sticky willy
wet willy
the willies
willy willy
willy-nilly
Frodo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Latin form of Fróði, the name of a number of Danish kings.
Gollum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˈɡɒl.əm/
rhymes: -ɒləm
enpr: gäl'əm
ipa: /ˈɡɑləm/
Forms: form: Gollums
Etymology: A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".
The name, Sméagol, comes from Old English smeagan (“to burrow”).
Senses: glosses: A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Gollum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: other: /ˈɡɒl.əm/
rhymes: -ɒləm
enpr: gäl'əm
ipa: /ˈɡɑləm/
Forms: form: Gollums
form: Golluming
form: Gollumed
form: Gollumed
Etymology: A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".
The name, Sméagol, comes from Old English smeagan (“to burrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Mike Biggins Gollumed...
"After a few years it still amazes me that there are so many egocentric 'facilitators' trying to pass 'enlightenment' to the uneducated via Apz... but... APZ is MINE, it's MY PRECIOUS!"
And it came to pass that he spent his life festering in the cayons and caves of his own poisoned min(es)d!
ref: 2005 April 28, Julian Love God, “X-Roasting”, in alt.zen (Usenet), message-ID <1114704034.462969.53660@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: To act like Gollum, the fictional character.
slinky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: Slinky
Forms: form: slinkier
form: slinkiest
Etymology: From slink + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “But of all the awful, second-rate girls I ever met, she’s the worst! […] She’s a sly, creepy, slinky, made-up, insincere vampire! She’s common! She’s awful! She’s a cat!”
ref: 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 19, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC:
text: The concert touched on all this. You could sense history in the various dances of the pianists’ left hands: the slinky syncopations of habanera; the manic but metronomic bounce, in swing, as if between two trampolines.
ref: 2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Furtive, stealthy or catlike.
examples: text: Do you see that are tall, limber-timbered, slinky-lookin' man with the blue cloak and two long black cords a-hangin' from it with almighty big tassels a-danglin' to the eend^([sic]) of it like the lamp-rope there, a-carryin' part of the cloak folded on one arm like a Roman senator, and t'other arm kimber, with his hat cockaded military like?--well, that is General Conrad Corncob.
ref: 1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, volume 3, London: Richard Bentley, published 1843, page 163:
text: "Oh--that," said Mrs. Savaker, jerking her head in the direction of the defunct exciseman; "that war my husband, and war thow't a gude likeness. But it's not. It's not half red enough, an a deal too slinky in the should for him."
ref: 1871, Henry Holl, The Golden Bait, volume 3, page 9:
glosses: Thin; lank; lean.
examples: text: The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Of a garment: close-fitting; clingy.
Synonyms: sense: furtive
word: sneaky
word: surreptitious
word: covert
sense: thin
word: lithe
word: willowy
word: slender
sense: of a garment
word: figure-hugging
word: snug
word: close-fitting
Middle-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Middle Earth
form: Middle-Earth
Etymology: From Middle Earth, q.v.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The main setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other works.
glosses: Alternative form of Middle Earth: the Earth.
Derived terms: Middle-earther
Middle-earthian
Morpheus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.fɪ.əs/
ipa: /ˈmɔː.fjuːs/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.fɪ.əs/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹˌfjus/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: Phobetor
english: nightmares
translation: nightmares
word: Phantasos
english: inanimate objects in prophetic dreams
translation: inanimate objects in prophetic dreams
word: Ikelos
english: people in prophetic dreams
translation: people in prophetic dreams
glosses: The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.
wikipedia: Metamorphoses
Ovid
Derived terms: in the arms of Morpheus
Mediterranean Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛ.dɪ.təˈɹeɪ.nɪ.ən ˈsiː/
ipa: /ˌmɛ.də.təˈɹeɪ.ni.ən ˈsi/
ipa: /ˌmɛ.də.təˈɹeɪ.njən ˈsi/
Forms: form: the Mediterranean Sea
Etymology: Calque of Late Latin Mare Mediterraneum.
Senses: synonyms: word: Middle Ocean
word: Terrene Sea
word: Great Sea
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: Hinder Sea
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: Sea of the Philistines
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: The Sea
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: Wendel Sea
word: Western Sea
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
glosses: The sea between Europe and Africa.
Tolkien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒlkiːn/
Forms: form: Tolkiens
Etymology: Likely from Middle Low German Tolkin (literally “son of Tolk”), which is probably also related to Polish Tołkiny and German Tolksdorf, names for a Prussian town; the nickname Tolk is connected to Middle Low German tolk (“interpreter”), from Proto-Slavic *tъlkъ. J. R. R. Tolkien subscribed to a folk etymology that connected the name with German tollkühn (“foolhardy”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
British author J. R. R. Tolkien
synonyms: JRRT
Derived terms: Tolkiendil
Tolkienesque
Tolkienian
Tolkienish
Tolkienism
Tolkienist
Tolkienite
Tolkienologist
Tolkienology
Tolkieny
Indy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭndʹē
ipa: /ˈɪndi/
rhymes: -ɪndi
homophone: indie
homophone: indy
Etymology: Clipping of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Independent + -y.
Senses: glosses: Indianapolis.
examples: text: But while Dial may have all the right pieces on the board to make for another classic entry in the saga, Indy’s latest adventure is a lackluster attempt at reconciling the old with the new.
ref: 2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:
glosses: The fictional archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones.
related: word: Indie
glosses: The Independent, a British newspaper.
Derived terms: Indy car
Related terms: Sindy
East Indy
clippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪpi
Forms: form: clippies
form: clippy
Etymology: From clip + -ie, in reference to clipping tickets of passengers.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, in the last decade, women in trousers have ceased to be […] functionally invisible. (I can’t remember if clippies wear trousers or skirts, these days; that’s what I mean by invisible.)
ref: 1975, Angela Carter, “Trouser Protest”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 144:
glosses: A bus conductor.
nippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪpi/
rhymes: -ɪpi
Forms: form: nippier
form: nippiest
Etymology: From nip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A Rolls Royce will not do if you need an economical, nippy car that is easy to park.
ref: c. 2000, Melanie Allen, Customer Relations Management, page 6:
glosses: Fast; speedy.
examples: text: Gosh, it's a bit nippy today: I'd better wear my gloves.
text: Raj took a deep breath, and reached out to give Armitage the gentlest little stroke. “It’s nippy out. Let’s take him inside.”
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Of the weather, rather cold.
examples: text: Spoiling may create a pushy, nippy dog that lacks confidence.
ref: 1995, Nancy Baer, Choosing a Dog: A Guide to Picking the Perfect Breed, page 161:
glosses: Inclined to nip; bitey.
glosses: Annoying; irritating.
glosses: Sharp in taste.
glosses: Curt.
glosses: Parsimonious.
Derived terms: nippily
nippiness
logomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈɡɒ.mə.kɪ/
ipa: /loʊˈɡɑ.mə.ki/
Forms: form: logomachies
Etymology: From Latin logomachia, from Ancient Greek λογομαχία (logomakhía).
Senses: glosses: Dispute over the meaning of words
examples: text: He was left over the coffee with Brayne, the hoary Yankee who believed in all religions, and Valentin, the grizzled Frenchman who believed in none. They could argue with each other, but neither could appeal to him. After a time this “progressive” logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord Galloway got up also and sought the drawing-room.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Secret Garden”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: A conflict waged only as a battle of words
Synonyms: sense: conflict using only words
word: war of words
Derived terms: logomacher
logomachic
logomachical
logomachist
logomachize
Aphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æfɹəˈdaɪti/
ipa: /æfɹoʊˈdaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: Aphrodité
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) (see it for more).
Senses: examples: text: In the "Iliad", Aphrodite is represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the goddess of moisture, who, as the wife of the god of heaven, was held in high esteem among the old Pelasgians.
ref: 1877, Otto Seemann, The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art, page 65:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: Venus
english: Roman counterpart
translation: Roman counterpart
glosses: The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea.
examples: Aphrodite Jones is an American author and TV producer.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: aphro-
aphrodisia
aphrodisiac
aphrodisiacal
Aphrodisian
Aphrodite Giant
Aphrodite Terra
aphroditic
aphrodito-
Related terms: Acidalia
Anadyomene
Cytherea
Despina
Kypris
Pandemos
Urania
Ourania
Venus
Aphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æfɹəˈdaɪti/
ipa: /æfɹoʊˈdaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: Aphrodites
form: Aphrodité
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) (see it for more).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Aphrodite Giant (“breed of cat”).
synonyms: word: Aphrodite Giant
extra: breed of cat
adumbrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædʌmˌbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: adumbrates
form: adumbrating
form: adumbrated
form: adumbrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adumbrātus (“represented in outline”), from adumbrāre (“cast a shadow on”), from umbra (“shadow”).
Senses: examples: text: From track level, its operating floor looks particularly capacious, but there is a vacant space at one end which was designed to accommodate the control panel for the Perth-Inverness C.T.C. scheme; this was adumbrated as long ago as the 1955 Modernisation Plan, but now seems to be regarded as an unjustifiable luxury.
ref: 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 270:
text: This piece will perform a micro-excavation of these toplayers of the literary soil to suggest anxiogenic literature has the potential not only to adumbrate the post-apocalypse, a common theme in contemporary literature, but also to anticipate the post-Anthropocene.
ref: 2020, Kristen Figgins, “The Integrity of Nature”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
glosses: To foreshadow vaguely.
examples: text: Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.
ref: 1996, John M. Cooper, “Introduction”, in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, page xxii:
glosses: To give a vague outline.
glosses: To obscure or overshadow.
Derived terms: adumbrant
adumbration
adumbrative
Related terms: umbra#Derived_terms
GUUAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, a US-backed regional agreement having those five member nations.
Alex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɪks/
rhymes: -ælɪks
Forms: form: Alexes
Etymology: Clipping of Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros) 'he who wards off men', i.e. protector, possibly of Hittite origin. Also from Alexius, from the same Ancient Greek first element, "helping, defending". These two origins of Alex are indistinguishable in most languages. The female name has the same root, a clipping of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, in some cases also a spelling variant of Alix.
Senses: examples: text: Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say.
ref: 2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page 81:
text: 'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.'
'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'
ref: 2008, Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 588:
text: CEO and cofounder Alex Karp distanced Palantir from other Silicon Valley technology companies in a letter included in the filing, writing that “we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.”
ref: 2020 August 25, Sara Ashley O'Brien and Rachel Metz, “Palantir files paperwork to go public and reveals it has never turned a profit”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A unisex given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Alexa
Alex Hamilton
alexkhomyakovite
Alex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.lɪks/
rhymes: -ælɪks
Etymology: Clipping of Alexandria.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Alexandria: a major city in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.
fumarole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumaroles
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fumarola. Likely a doublet of femerell.
Senses: examples: text: Masaya did not offer an opportunity to sample high-temperature fumaroles, but its neighbors, Momotombo and Cerro Negro volcanoes, are noted for their fumarolic activity
ref: 2003, L.J. Wardell, P. Delmelle, T. Fischer, J.L. Lewicki, E. Malavassi, J. Stix, W. Strauch, Volcanic gas workshop features state-of-the-art measurement techniques:
related: word: fumerole
synonyms: word: stufa
glosses: An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity.
Related terms: fumarolic