cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kit and caboodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kit and kaboodle
form: whole kit and caboodle
Etymology: From kit + boodle.
Senses: examples: text: “[…]There′ll be a kit and caboodle of our people waiting to set out."
ref: 1930, Kenneth Roberts, Arundel, published 1995, page 153:
text: Aye, you could sell your kit and caboodle, and really see New Orleans!
ref: 1951, Holling Clancy Holling, Minn of the Mississippi, published 1979, page 65:
text: To have an economy that is sound and that works for all the people, Reagan′s entire “trickle-down” kit and caboodle must be tossed out behind him and replaced with an aggressive program of growth that “percolates up” from the grass roots.
ref: 1988, Susan DeMarco, Jim Hightower, A Populist Prescription for Prosperity: Mother Jones, page 56:
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: Everything entirely, the whole lot.
kit and caboodle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: kit and kaboodle
form: whole kit and caboodle
Etymology: From kit + boodle.
Senses: examples: text: 1954, Gordon Allport, cited in 2005, Steven J. Bartlett, The Pathology Of Man: A Study Of Human Evil, page 243,
If I can put the Catholics into another category and reject them kit and caboodle, my life is further simplified.
text: Lincoln moved its corporate headquarters, kit and caboodle, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Philadelphia in 1998.
ref: 2000 October, Working Mother, page 132:
text: After burying Hiram she packed them up kit and caboodle and moved them to Tuskegee, the nearest big city, so she could find work.
ref: 2009, Scharlie R. Martin, Mayhem and Mischief Most Foul, page 161:
glosses: All together; as one.
orientated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orientate
orientated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orientated
form: most orientated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oriented (adjective) (sometimes proscribed)
Derived terms: goal-orientated
misorientated
tools of ignorance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jones straps on the tools of ignorance.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The equipment of a catcher.
Related terms: catcher's mitt
six of one, half a dozen of the other
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: six to one, half dozen to another
Senses: glosses: The two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it does not matter which one is chosen.
glosses: Of two people, equally involved; equally responsible.
Synonyms: sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: a horse apiece
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: as broad as long
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: potayto, potahto
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: same difference
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: six and two threes
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: sixes
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: tomayto, tomahto
sense: the two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent
word: whatever
Related terms: a bob each way
50-50
half and half
much of a muchness
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
worm burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worm burners
Etymology: From the humorous notion that any worms on the ground might be burned by the rapid passage of the ball.
Senses: examples: text: Jones smashes a worm burner to mid on.
text: Jones smashes a worm burner between third and short.
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: grasscutter
glosses: A hard-hit ground ball.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A low, hard-hit shot.
family of orientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: families of orientation
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The family in which a person grows up.
family of procreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: families of procreation
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A family that is formed when a couple have their first child.
POR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Portugal.
POR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PORs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: price on request.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: power-on reset.
pelvic thrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelvic thrusts
Senses: glosses: A general thrusting motion of the pelvic region, such as in human sexual intercourse.
prospect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒspɛkt/
enpr: präsʹpĕkt
ipa: /ˈpɹɑspɛkt/
enpr: prə-spĕktʹ
ipa: /pɹəˈspɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: prospects
form: prospecting
form: prospected
form: prospected
Etymology: From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus.
Senses: examples: text: Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.
ref: 1904, M. A. Stein, “A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan”, in Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1903, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 762–763:
glosses: To search, as for gold.
topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
prytane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈteɪn/
Forms: form: prytanes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρύτανις (prútanis).
Senses: examples: text: This priest of the public hearth bore the name of king. Sometimes they gave him other titles. As he was especially the priest of the prytaneum, the Greeks preferred to call him the prytane; sometimes they also called him the archon.
ref: 1915, Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore, Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions:
text: The priest of the city hearth was called "king", "prytane", or "archon". The term "prytane" was derived from the fact that he was the priest of the prytaneum, or local hearth.
ref: 1962, William Herbert Desmonde, Magic, Myth, and Money:
glosses: The priest or chief magistrate who presided over a prytaneum.
glosses: A board of magistrates presiding over a prytaneum.
hiero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek prefix ἱερο- (hiero-), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred, holy”).
Senses: glosses: Holy, sacred.
qualifier: chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: Denoting a man of a title such as a monk who is also a clergyman (e.g. hieromonk, hierodeacon, hieromartyr).
Derived terms: hierocracy
hierodeacon
hierogamy
hieroglyph
hierogram
hierograph
hierolatry
hierolisthesis
hierology
hieromancy
hieromartyr
hieromonk
hierophany
hierophilia
hierophobia
hieroscopy
hierotherapy
hierourgy
Related terms: hieromnemon
hieromonach
hierarchy
gerunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gerund
whitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪtɪʃ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
enpr: ˈhwītĭsh
ipa: /ˈʍaɪtɪʃ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
Forms: form: more whitish
form: most whitish
form: whiteish
Etymology: From Middle English whitisch, whytyssh, equivalent to white + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The skin was somewhat pigmented, especially in certain regions, while over the whole there appeared whitish, rounded or oval mottlings or dapplings, most obvious where the surrounding cuticle was most deeply colored.
ref: 1910, The Year Book of Dermatology, page 124:
glosses: Somewhat white, pale or almost white.
Synonyms: word: albescent
word: whitish
word: whity
Hypernyms: word: tinted
Hyponyms: word: milky
word: argentine
word: silvery
hemispherectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: hemispherectomies
Etymology: From hemisphere + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: So Lacy's parents had brought her to Johns Hopkins for a hemispherectomy, which is probably the most radical procedure in neurosurgery.
ref: 2005 July 3, Christine Kennelly, The New Yorker, page 36:
glosses: Surgical removal of a hemisphere of the brain, usually performed to control otherwise uncontrollable epilepsy.
thatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθæt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈθæt͡ʃ.ɚ/
rhymes: -ætʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: thatchers
Etymology: From thatch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who installs thatch as a roofing material.
glosses: A device which removes dead grass clippings from a lawn. (Technically a dethatcher, often a lawnmower attachment.)
Derived terms: de-thatcher
knob-thatcher
skull-thatcher
spells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spell
spells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spell
rental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: rentals
Etymology: From rent + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It's just a rental, so I don't need to take very good care of it.
text: Furthermore, whilst we would have been pleased to have been able to give you some quoteworthy examples of men cruelly dominating the choice of video movie rentals, these simply did not appear in the diaries either.
ref: 1999, David Gauntlett, Annette Hill, TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life, page 158:
glosses: Something that is rented.
examples: text: On a grass roots level we are making the film available at a nominal rental to gay organizations, student groups, and religious affiliates so that gay people and their straight friends can see GAY USA now.
ref: 1977 December 17, Michael Bronski, Arthur Bressan, “Bressan's "Politics Of Celebration"”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 9:
glosses: The payment made to rent something.
glosses: A business that rents out something to its customers.
glosses: An act of renting.
examples: text: [When the trade deadline approaches], Everyone wants to talk about which preening millionaire is going to be shipped out of town because he can't get along with his GM, or what veteran is going to finally get a shot at a Cup, or which guy is going to a contender as a "rental." Sure, it's gossip. Is that so wrong?
ref: 2012, Sean Pronger, Journeyman: The Many Triumphs (and Even More Defeats) Of A Guy Who's Seen Just About Everything in the Game of Hockey:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player traded to a team with a year or less on his contract
Derived terms: car rental
radio rental
rental agent
rental car
rental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From rent + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to rent.
examples: text: Deep welfare cuts and rising rents have resulted in a growing gap in many areas of the country between what help people on low incomes receive to cover their housing and what that housing actually costs in the private rental sector.
ref: 2018, The Observer, The Observer view on the budget and the decade of austerity, 28 October
glosses: Relating to renting.
shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shirt
Related terms: shirts and skins
solids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solid
wolverines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolverine
piperonyl butoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pesticide synergist which increases the potency of other ingredients; a semisynthetic derivative of safrole that is used to enhance the potency of certain pesticides.
Synonyms: PBO
area code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: area codes
Senses: glosses: A prefix appended to a telephone number indicating the geographical area.
Synonyms: word: dialling code
replenish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛn.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: replenishes
form: replenishing
form: replenished
form: replenished
Etymology: From Middle English replenisshen, borrowed from Old French repleniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of replenir, from re- + plenir, from plein, from Latin plenus.
Senses: examples: text: It's a popular product, and they have to replenish their stock of it frequently.
text: This [tank wagon] has been equipped by the Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer's staff with a motor-driven pump and arrangements both for delivering fuel to the trains and for replenishing its own supply from tank wagons which are brought to the depot every three days.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
synonyms: refresh
glosses: To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity to.
examples: text: […] and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:28:
glosses: To fill up; to complete; to supply fully.
examples: text: We smothered the most replenished sweet work of nature.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To finish; to complete; to perfect.
Synonyms: plenish
Graben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Bern canton, Switzerland.
Related terms: Graben-Neudorf
tautologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tautologous
form: most tautologous
Etymology: From tautology + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a tautology; tautological.
Derived terms: tautologousness
Muk-thang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Muk Thang
Etymology: Literally “good mouth”. From Kurnai mŭk-dhang.
Senses: glosses: The now-extinct dialect of the Kurnai tribe of south-east Victoria, Australia.
glosses: The now-extinct language encompassing the dialect of the Kurnai, as well as nearby dialects with which it was mutually intelligible.
Synonyms: Kurnai
mutually intelligible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area
ref: 1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30
text: Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible.
ref: 1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: interintelligible
intercomprehensible
antonyms: mutually unintelligible
glosses: Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers.
Related terms: mutual intelligibility
gruffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gruffly
form: most gruffly
Etymology: From gruff + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was bearded, blunt, thickset, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. In his bourrue-bienfaisance, in his honesty, and in his brusque insuavity towards such as would compel his sympathy without justification, he was the very type of the dogmatic family doctor—of the gruffly practical allopathist of the old school.
ref: 1898, Bernard Capes, A True Princess:
text: Bradly squatted on the flat rock to wash his legs, saying gruffly to Podson, "Better wash that dam' mud off; it sticks like hell when it's dry."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 66:
text: 'Hey, what's that?' he exclaimed gruffly, staring searchingly at her as he took her hand.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 48:
glosses: In a gruff manner.
wild card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild cards
form: wildcard
form: wild-card
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
examples: text: Kye Sun-Hui won an Olympic gold medal in Judo, despite being a wild card.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of wildcard (“symbol for a generic sound”).
Related terms: one-eyed jack
suicide king
Thatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθat͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈθæt͡ʃɚ/
homophone: thatcher
rhymes: -æt͡ʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: From thatcher.
Senses: glosses: An occupational surname originating as an occupation for someone who covered roofs in straw.
glosses: An occupational surname originating as an occupation for someone who covered roofs in straw.
Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Graham County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska.
Derived terms: Thatcher effect
Thatcheresque
Thatcherian
Thatcher illusion
Thatcherism
Thatcherist
Thatcherite
Thatcherization
Thatcherize
Thatchernomics
Thatcher's children
Related terms: Thatch
thatch
thatcher
Thacker
railroad tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad ties
Senses: examples: Holonyms: railroad track, rail track, railway track, train track, permanent way
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
glosses: A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc.
Synonyms: word: railway tie
word: sleeper
word: railway sleeper
Wiradhuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɪˈraːd͡ʒuriː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wiradjuri.
flying meet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying meets
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The carefully-timed situation in which two opposing trains on a nominally single-track line meet at a siding and are able to pass each other without stopping, because they have reached the siding simultaneously.
cellulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellulites
Etymology: From French cellulite.
Senses: glosses: The dimpled appearance of skin caused by the protrusion of subcutaneous adipose tissue, especially on a woman's hips and thighs.
Derived terms: anticellulite
cellulitic
Related terms: cellulitis
sparing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more sparing
form: most sparing
Senses: synonyms: word: abstemious
word: canny
word: chary
word: cheap
word: close with a buck
word: economical
word: frugal
word: husbandly
word: huswifely
word: parsimonious
word: penny-pinching
word: prudent
word: spareful
word: sparing
word: spary
word: thrifty
word: tight
word: tightwad
glosses: Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal.
Derived terms: sparingly
sparingness
sparing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spare
sparing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: sparings
Senses: examples: text: The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]
ref: 1830, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), The Manners of the Day, volume 2, page 322:
glosses: The act by which something or someone is spared.
lamented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lament
lamented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lamented
form: most lamented
Senses: examples: text: Opened in June of that year [1880], the station was the southern terminus of the much-lamented Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (the S&D or 'Slow and Dirty'), which snaked its way down from Bath.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, pages 59–60:
glosses: mourned for, or grieved for
Derived terms: lamentedly
late lamented
unlamented
Elsie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Scottish diminutive of Alison/Alice and Elspeth/Elizabeth.
Senses: examples: text: Elsie Marley is so neat, / 'Tis hard for one to walk the street / But every lad a lass they meet, / Cries do you ken Elsie Marley, honey?
ref: 1784, R. Christopher, The Bishopric Garland, or, Durham Minstrel, Stockton, page 22:
text: "And did he not speak of me, Heyward?" demanded Alice, with jealous affection; "surely, he forgot not altogether his little Elsie?"
ref: 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 6:
text: "Obviously I wasn't going to go through life saddled with a name like Elsie. When I got up to London at the age of eighteen everybody laughed at me, so a boyfriend suggested a tiny amendment, two letters swopped, and I've been Elise for thirty years."
ref: 2001, Susan Kelly, Killing the Fatted Calf, Allison & Busby, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Elsie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Scottish diminutive of Alexander.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.
Cromwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒmwəl/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒmwɛl/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑmwəl/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑmwɛl/
ipa: /ˈkɹʌmwəl/
ipa: /ˈkɹʌmwɛl/
Etymology: From Old English crump (“crooked, bent”) + wella (“spring”), equivalent to crump + well.
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English from any of several placenames.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English from any of several placenames.
Oliver Cromwell, English military leader, politician, and dictator, or his son Richard Cromwell.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7961).
glosses: A town in Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A former settlement in Lassen County, California, United States.
glosses: A town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
glosses: A town in Noble County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A small city in Union County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A small city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A town in Seminole County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pierce County, Washington, United States.
Derived terms: Cromwellian
Cromwell's rule
eigengrau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪɡənɡɹaʊ/
Etymology: From German Eigengrau (“intrinsic grey”).
Senses: glosses: The dark grey colour seen by the eyes in perfect darkness as a result of signals from the optic nerves.
Synonyms: Eigenlicht
brain gray
brain grey
dark light
atter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætə/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: atters
form: attir
form: etter
Etymology: From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”).
Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).
Senses: glosses: Poisonous bodily fluid, especially venom of a venomous animal, such as a snake, dragon or other reptile; corrupt or morbid matter from the body, such as pus from a sore or wound; bitter substance, such as bile.
glosses: Moral corruption or corruptness; noxious or corrupt influence, poison to the soul, evil, anger, envy, hatred; destruction, death.
glosses: Epithelium produced on the tongue.
glosses: A scab; a dry sore.
Derived terms: attercop
atteril
attering
atterly
attermite
attern
atter-pile
atterscar
attery
atter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætə/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: atters
form: attering
form: attered
form: attered
form: attir
form: etter
Etymology: From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”).
Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).
Senses: glosses: to venom; sting
glosses: to discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake
dehiscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈhɪsənt/
Forms: form: more dehiscent
form: most dehiscent
Etymology: From Latin dehiscentem, present participle of dehiscō (“I divide, split open, gape”), from hiscō (“I yawn, gape”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to dehiscence, i.e., a rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Which dehisces or presents dehiscence
Derived terms: indehiscent
nondehiscent
undehiscent
log jam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: log jams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logjam.
ideologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ideologically
form: most ideologically
Etymology: From ideological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress.
ref: 2002, Yanis Varoufakis, Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, page 25:
text: His warning was chillingly resonant of late 20th century clashes between two ideologically opposed superpowers.
ref: 2022 January 10, Stephen Collinson, “Biden confronts challenges to democracy at home and abroad this week”, in CNN:
text: The Tories are ideologically opposed to large state-run industries, and the Lib Dems can sniff an opportunity to score points in their freshly won commuting constituencies outside London.
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 40:
glosses: In an ideological manner; with respect to ideology.
Derived terms: anti-ideologically
politico-ideologically
socio-ideologically
ideologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideologists
Etymology: From ideology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: ideologue
glosses: One who theorizes or idealizes; one who advocates the doctrines of ideology.
idiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more idiotically
form: most idiotically
Etymology: From idiotic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The agents, particularly a woman named Betty (Lynne Cormack), gush idiotically about what great potential Robin has, and dream of revamping his act so antiseptically that they can bill him as "Canada's Comic Illusionist," instead of the specialty performer that he clearly is.
ref: 1987 October 16, Janet Maslin, “Film: 'Too Outrageous,' a Sequel”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an idiotic manner.
Habe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Habes
form: Habe
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain tribe of Nigeria.
retardation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹitɑɹˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌriːtɑːˈdeɪʃn/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: retardations
Etymology: From retard + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
The distance by which one wave is behind another.
qualifier: acoustics
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
glosses: The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
glosses: The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
examples: text: Me and my friends used to feed LSD to this little retarded girl in our neighborhood and we'd lock arms around her and go "nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare! Nightmare!" It actually cured her retardation.
ref: 2014, The Eric Andre Show, season 3, episode 6, Eric Andre (actor):
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of mental retardation.
glosses: Extreme stupidity.
glosses: That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
examples: text: [...] the effect is automatically to select a braking force which is higher at above 40 m.p.h., in the initial stages of retardation, but is reduced as the speed falls below 40 m.p.h.
ref: 1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A suspension which resolves upwards.
Derived terms: alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome
growth retardation
mental retardation
Related terms: retard
retardance
retardant
retardate
retardative
retarded
retarder
retardive
senselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senselessnesses
Etymology: From senseless + -ness.
Senses: examples: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
They had contributed heavily to their own downfall, most glaringly with the senselessness of Chris Smalling’s red card, and they should know by now that Manuel Pellegrini’s team are not the kind of opponents to pass up these kind of handouts.
glosses: The state of being senseless; unsense.
Synonyms: unsense
senselessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more senselessly
form: most senselessly
Etymology: From senseless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a senseless manner.
senseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnsfʊl/
Forms: form: more senseful
form: most senseful
Etymology: From sense + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The Ladie, hearkening to his sensefull speach, / Found nothing that he said unmeet nor geason […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of sense; meaningful; significant.
glosses: Full of (common) sense; sensible; intelligent.
black abalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black abalones
Senses: glosses: A black-shelled edible mollusc (Haliotis crachedorii), found off the North American Pacific coast.
standardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæn.də.daɪz/
ipa: /ˈstæn.dɚˌdaɪz/
note: /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈstɛən.dɚˌdaɪz]
ipa: /ˈstæn.də.dɑez/
ipa: /ˈstɛn.də.daɪz/
ipa: [ˈstɛn.də.dɑe̯z]
Forms: form: standardizes
form: standardizing
form: standardized
form: standardized
Etymology: From standard + -ize.
Senses: glosses: US and Oxford British English standard spelling of standardise.
Derived terms: destandardize
standardization
prevents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prevent
Noah's Ark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Kemsing parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5557).
breeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of breed
breeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breed
tinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tinted
form: most tinted
Senses: examples: text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The Citadel is surrounded by a blue-tinted reflection nebula. The light of the nebula is actually light from the Citadel, scattered and reflected back at the station.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Serpent Nebula Codex entry:
glosses: Slightly colored, having tint.
Synonyms: word: tinct
word: tinged
word: tinted
Hypernyms: word: colored
Hyponyms: word: blackish
word: bluish
word: brownish
word: grayish
word: greenish
word: orangish
word: purplish
word: reddish
word: whitish
word: yellowish
Derived terms: rose-tinted
Related terms: sense: of glasses
word: colored
sense: of glasses
word: polarized
sense: of glasses
word: darkened
tinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tint
idiosyncratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more idiosyncratically
form: most idiosyncratically
Etymology: From idiosyncratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an idiosyncratic manner.
blowsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaʊzi/
rhymes: -aʊzi
Forms: form: blowsier
form: blowsiest
form: blousy
form: blouzy
form: blowsey
form: blowzy
Etymology: From blowse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They put me in mind of a poor Girl, a Miss Peachy (a real, & in the end, a melancholy Story)—she was a fine young Woman; but thinking herself too ruddy & blowsy, it was her Custom to bleed herself (an Art she had learn’d on purpose) 3 or 4 times against the Rugby Races in order to appear more dainty & Lady-like at the balls, &c
ref: 1778, Samuel Crisp, The early journals and letters of Fanny Burney, volume III, published 1994, page 188:
text: […] with a face made blowsy by the cold and damp.
ref: 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 186:
text: […] a man of, say, well-preserved sixty, with a blowsy plump face and fat white side-whiskers.
ref: 1913, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 13, in The Day of Days:
glosses: Having a reddish, coarse complexion, especially with a pudgy face.
examples: text: Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Slovenly or unkempt, in the manner of a beggar or slattern.
raw_tags: of a woman's hair or dress
examples: text: He longed for the warmth and the smells of his favourite haunts—Gilpin's with oysters frizzling in a dozen pans, and noble odours stealing from the tap-room, the Green Man with its tripe-suppers, Wanless's Coffee House, noted for its cuts of beef and its white puddings. He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.
ref: 1921, John Buchan, chapter 11, in The Path of the King, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The hot, blowsy country, remote from danger, had a lonely, forgotten feeling.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Unrefined, countrified.
Derived terms: blowsily
blowsiness
stubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stub
stubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stub
spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider
spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spider
idiomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more idiomatically
form: most idiomatically
Etymology: From idiomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an idiomatic manner.
glosses: With regard to idiomaticness; as analyzed with idiomatic meaning taken into account.
Coordinate terms: etymonically
Related terms: figuratively
literally
riders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rider
idiomatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiomatical
form: most idiomatical
Etymology: From idiomatic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Idiomatic.
Derived terms: anidiomatical
molluscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollusc
piddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪdək/
Forms: form: piddocks
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: Any of the bivalve molluscs of the genus Pholas or family Pholadidae, which burrow into soft rocks.
Synonyms: angelwing
angel's wing
Derived terms: common piddock
paper piddock
rationality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationalities
Etymology: From rational + -ity, from French rationalité, from Late Latin rationalitas (“rationality, reasonableness”), from Latin rationalis (“reasonable”).
Senses: examples: text: His sudden loss of rationality was brought on by excess drink.
glosses: The quality or state of being rational; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
examples: text: Such a discussion deserves rationality, not emotional gut reactions.
glosses: Objective consideration.
Synonyms: rationalness
Derived terms: bounded rationality
epistemic rationality
instrumental rationality
idler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idlers
Etymology: From idle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who idles; one who spends their time in inaction.
glosses: One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch.
examples: text: FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. […] Four run stones, Munson underrunners, 3 ft diameter. […] All with idlers and in the best condition.
ref: 1890, The Northwestern Miller, volume 29, page 563:
glosses: A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power through its own axle, but forms part of a gear train, supports a moving belt, etc.
Synonyms: word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
Hypernyms: word: employee
word: person
word: worker
Hyponyms: word: goldbrick
word: malingerer
Related terms: word: bumpkin
word: troublemaker
word: vagabond
word: lazy
word: shirk
word: scrounger
word: videophilia
idler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idle + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of idle: more idle
spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of spike
spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: A pair of athletic shoes equipped with spikes on the sole and heel for better traction.
glosses: Synonym of spike strip.
synonyms: word: spike strip
Synonyms: sense: Shoes equipped with spikes on the sole
word: cleats
sense: Shoes equipped with spikes on the sole
word: studs
spikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spike
rhinocerotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊts/
ipa: /ɹaɪˈnɑː.sə.ɹoʊts/
Etymology: From Latin rhīnocerōtēs.
Senses: examples: text: Wandering about among the trees or crouching in the long and feathered grass were all varieties of game, from rhinocerotes down.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Speculations”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 114:
text: A vast number of lions were poisoned by contaminating the carcasses of their prey with toxic cattle dip; a population of at least a hundred rhinocerotes was attacked with spears, leaving a single one alive; hundreds of wildebeest and zebras have been found rotting.
ref: 1992, Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, Academy Editions, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Another seal from Mohenjodaro shows us the male God horned and three faced sitting in yogic posture and still another seal gives his representations as surrounded by beasts, the elephant, the tiger, the rhinocerotes and the buffalo with a couple of deer at his feet.
ref: 1993, Social Scientist, page 35:
text: The rhinoceros’ horn stands upright. Through a belief in sympathetic magic, it is thought to make men’s parts stand upright, and male anxiety about their erection has come close to wiping out the population of rhinocerotes.
ref: 2008, Yvan Nadeau, Erotica for Caesar Augustus: A Study of the Love-Poetry of Horace, Carmina, Books I to III (Collection Latomus; 310), Latomus, →ISBN, page 404:
text: In any case, your five rhinocerotes won’t be appearing, nor will we stalely fellow them, we will be busy accrediting my hordes.
ref: 2016, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman, volume 2, Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications, →ISBN, page 743:
synonyms: rhinoceri
rhinoceroi
rhinoceros
rhinoceroses
rhinocerosses
glosses: plural of rhinoceros
examples: text: Beyond that Country of Birds, is another wilde and mountainous, where abide many creatures much worse than those Birds, Elephants, Rhinocerotes, Lions, Wild-swine, Buffals, and Wild-kine.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, J. MacLehose, page 63; republished Glasgow, 1905:
synonyms: rhinocerots
glosses: plural of rhinocerot (“(now rare) a rhinoceros”)
glosses: plural of rhinocerote (“a rhinoceros”)
hardships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardship
surpassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surpass
ice-cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-creams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice cream.
Derived terms: ice-creamy
sparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ks
Senses: glosses: plural of spark
sparks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ks
Forms: form: sparks
Senses: glosses: An electrician, specifically, the radio operator on a ship of the merchant marine.
sparks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spark
refuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refuse
residents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛzədɪnts/
Senses: glosses: plural of resident
menta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.tə/
rhymes: -ɛntə
Senses: glosses: plural of mentum
peperoncino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peperoncini
form: pepperoncino
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian peperoncino.
Senses: synonyms: friggitello
glosses: A variety of the pepper Capsicum annuum.
polenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɛntə/
rhymes: -ɛntə
Forms: form: polentas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian polenta.
Senses: glosses: Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.
Derived terms: polentalike
pomodori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomodoro
radicchio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈdi.kjoʊ/
Forms: form: radicchios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian radicchio.
Senses: examples: text: In memory, all the food they brought us first was red: the bresaola, the fat tongues of roasted peppers laid on goat's cheese, the radicchio, the white china bowl of radish coronets.
ref: 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage, published 1998, page 163:
text: Radicchio is a savory green that adds sharpness and substance to salads and side dishes.
ref: 2012, Marie Iannotti, The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables, Timber Press, →ISBN, page 190:
synonyms: Italian chicory
glosses: A cultivar of chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum) with red leaves and a slightly bitter taste, eaten as a salad vegetable or grilled.
ædile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ædiles
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aedile.
ædileship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ædileships
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aedileship.
scorzonera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorzoneras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scorzonera.
Senses: synonyms: black salsify
glosses: A herb from southern Europe (Pseudopodospermum hispanicum, syn. Scorzonera hispanica), having yellow flowers and edible carrot-shaped roots.
thatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thatcher
black salsify
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black salsifies
Senses: examples: text: Black salsify is lumped in as a member of the salsify-type vegetable family even though it is a different genus and species due to similarities in its flavor and textural profile.
ref: 2008, Dolf De Rovira, Dictionary of Flavors, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 150:
synonyms: scorzonera
glosses: A perennial member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae), cultivated as a root vegetable (Pseudopodospermum hispanicum, syn. Scorzonera hispanica).
Synonyms: sense: Scorzonera hispanica
word: black oyster plant
sense: Scorzonera hispanica
word: serpent root
sense: Scorzonera hispanica
word: Spanish salsify
sense: Scorzonera hispanica
word: viper's grass
sense: Scorzonera hispanica
word: viper's herb
sense: Scorzonera hispanica
word: Spanish oyster plant