cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zems
Senses: examples: text: The name of the hotel will draw a blank with most zems so try asking for 'Les Paillotes'.
ref: 2009, Anthony Ham, West Africa, page 109:
text: The omnipresence of zems (zemijohns; motorbike taxis) has translated into the near disappearance of car taxis […]
ref: 2013, Simon Richmond, Stuart Butler, Lonely Planet Africa:
glosses: A zemidjan.
sweeps stunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweeps stunts
Senses: glosses: A ludicrous act carried out by a television network to improve their ratings during sweeps week.
sweeps stunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweeps stunt
oga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.ɡə/
enpr: ōʹgə
ipa: /ˈoʊ.ɡə/
rhymes: -əʊɡə
homophone: ogre (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: ogas
Etymology: From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).
Senses: examples: text: Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon.
ref: 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 50, in Americanah:
glosses: A chief, employer, or superior.
sega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of popular music mainly associated with Mauritius.
Derived terms: seggae
malu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malus
Etymology: From Samoan malu.
Senses: glosses: A culturally significant tattoo on a Samoan woman's upper leg.
malu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malu
form: most malu
Etymology: From Malay malu.
Senses: glosses: shy; embarrassed
Synonyms: paiseh
manca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancae
Senses: glosses: A mancus (old coin)
manca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancae
Senses: glosses: The post-larval juvenile in some crustacean species.
limba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limbas
Senses: examples: text: This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses.
ref: 1965, Theodore Geiger, editor, Agrifor and U.S. Plywood in the Congo, Issue 12, page 50:
text: Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average.
ref: 1991, Ján Borota, tropical forests: some African and Asian case studies of composition and structure, Elsevier, page 101:
text: Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5].
ref: 1994, Richard C. Schultz, Joe P. Colletti, editors, Opportunities for Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone Worldwide: Proceedings of the Third North American Agroforestry Conference, page 242:
glosses: A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.
Synonyms: sense: Terminalia superba
word: afara
morto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morto
form: most morto
Etymology: Clipping of mortified + -o
Senses: examples: text: I was, to use the vernacular, bleedin' morto. My shame notwithstanding, the whole day was a blast.
ref: 2007 March 21, Kilian Doyle, "An iconic parade" The Irish Times (Dublin) Motoring p.3
text: Robbie’s had some pretty embarrassing moments over the years. What better time than now to take a stroll down memory lane? Here are his most morto moments.
ref: 2013 February 21, Louise McSharry, “Robbie Williams’ most morto moments of all time”, in Daily Edge:
text: Yes, Dan left the game early because he "wanted to miss the traffic and get a kebab on the way home" - after which Coventry scored twice. Morto.
ref: 2013 May 20 "Early trouble" The Irish Times (Dublin) Sport p.2
glosses: Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
muru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: An act of retaliatory theft among the Maori.
Related terms: murumuru
niu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nius
Senses: glosses: A tall pole with yardarms from which hung ropes, circled by worshippers in the Pai Mārire religious movement.
backscratching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backscratch
backscratching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backscratchings
Senses: glosses: The act or habit of engaging in a reciprocal beneficial action.
backscratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backscratches
Etymology: From back + scratch.
Senses: examples: text: Several Colorado papers have reproduced the substance of our articles on silver, and we thank them for their backscratches.
ref: 1931, The Mines Magazine, volume 21, page 9:
text: Backscratches keep improving but the itch increases.
ref: 1989, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives, numbers 29-32, page 20:
text: I had to admit he had nice fingernails and a backscratch would have felt just fine.
ref: 2011, Denise Giardina, The Unquiet Earth: A Novel:
text: Series of clotheslines no-sold, so Haku tries backscratches, and, interestingly, that finally works.
ref: 2013, Ben Undelson, Fiction. A Nostalgic Guide to Growing up with the WWF:
glosses: A scratch on the back.
backscratch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backscratches
form: backscratching
form: backscratched
form: backscratched
Etymology: From back + scratch.
Senses: examples: text: That thought appeared to discompose her greatly, though Jasper made light of it by rapidly back-scratching with his hind legs and giving a short stern bark, just to assure her that strangers would be rushed off the property on sight.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 127:
text: He enjoyed being hugged, backscratched, and tickled and sat quietly next to the examiner after testing while a parental interview was conducted.
ref: 1984, Michael D. Powers, Behavioral Assessment of Severe Developmental Disabilities:
text: So it is to the mutual advantage of social primates to backscratch for each other.
ref: 1995, Stephen R. Kellert, The Biophilia Hypothesis, page 397:
text: […] primate's inclination to backscratch and delouse rather than venture into the dangerous country beyond familiar tramping grounds.
ref: 2000, David Michael Jacobs, UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge, page 190:
glosses: To scratch one's or another's back.
examples: text: It was backscratched into existence, cost nearly a billion pounds, and now they are wondering why they let it happen.
ref: 2003, Ralph Steadman, Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge, page 105:
text: The fount of social problems, he argues, is that human morality grew out of the natural principles of tit-for-tat and mutual backscratching.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Fearn, The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions:
text: Whether referred to as bargaining, logrolling, or backscratching, the effect is the same: "you support me, I'll support you."
ref: 2007, Jeffrey M. Elliot, The Presidential-Congressional Political Dictionary, page 178:
topics: business
government
politics
glosses: To engage in a reciprocal beneficial action.
Related terms: kickback
logrolling
scratching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scratch
scratching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ
Forms: form: scratchings
Senses: examples: text: We heard further scratchings at the door as the dog whined to be let in.
text: It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 236:
glosses: The act or sound of something being scratched.
examples: text: 'Ugggghhhhh!' she made a face at the packet. 'Oink, oink!' Cosmo laughed, waving a scratching near her face.
ref: 2010, Monique Roffey, Sun Dog:
glosses: A pork scratching.
glosses: Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.
examples: text: We all had a portion of chips and one fish was shared between all of us. Sometimes the lady serving would give us a free bag of scratchings (the bits of batter).
ref: 2002, Kathleen Hann, Tell It As It Was, →ISBN, page 48:
text: The crispy bits of batter and small crispy chips that were left at the end of the night were given away to whoever needed them. If he could, Cesidio would throw in a free 'haddie' or a haggis with the scratchings, offering a helping hand discreetly, with no thanks asked for.
ref: 2006, Mary Contini, Dear Olivia: An Italian Journey of Love and Courage, →ISBN, page 185:
text: The best thing is, you pay for the chips and you get the pea wet and scratchings for free. It's lovely. You should try it.
ref: 2017, David M. Barnett, Calling Major Tom, →ISBN:
synonyms: scrap
gribble
glosses: A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
Derived terms: scratching post
parai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parais
Senses: glosses: A type of percussion instrument used in the parai attam dance associated with Tamil culture.
surfari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜː(ɹ)ˈfɑːɹi/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: surfaris
Etymology: Blend of surf + safari
Senses: examples: text: We'll all be gone for the summer. We're on surfari to stay. Tell the teacher we're surfin', surfin' U.S.A.
ref: 1963, Brian Wilson, “Surfin' U.S.A.”, in Surfin' U.S.A., performed by Beach Boys:
glosses: A hunt for good surfing conditions.
glosses: The surfers on such a hunt.
pilu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peeloo (“kind of tree”).
maternal aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal aunts
Senses: glosses: An aunt on one's mother's side of the family, including both
A sister of one's mother.
glosses: An aunt on one's mother's side of the family, including both
A sister-in-law of one's mother; the wife or ex-wife of a maternal uncle.
qualifier: imprecise
glosses: A similar great aunt, etc.
Coordinate terms: maternal uncle
paternal aunt
paternal uncle
topi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊpi/
rhymes: -əʊpi
Forms: form: topis
form: topi
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili topi. From Mende ndope (“antelope”)
Senses: glosses: An antelope of the species Damaliscus korrigum syn. Damaliscus lunatus.
Synonyms: sassaby
tsessebe
Derived terms: coastal topi
Related terms: Damaliscus korrigum
topi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊpi/
rhymes: -əʊpi
Forms: form: topis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi टोपी (ṭopī).
Senses: glosses: A taqiyah (skullcap worn by Muslims etc.)
Derived terms: sola topi
ad idem
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: /æd ˈɪdɛm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad idem (“to the same thing”).
Senses: examples: text: The parties were ad idem on this important point.
glosses: in agreement
paternal aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal aunts
Senses: glosses: A sister of someone’s father.
glosses: The wife of a sibling of someone’s father.
Related terms: maternal aunt
maternal uncle
paternal uncle
storm-petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm-petrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of storm petrel.
pyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus
ref: 1533, R. Saltwood
roman: Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.
glosses: Obsolete form of pin (“mood”).
iod-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of iodo-; used mainly before a vowel.
sien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siens
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of scion.
taphophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tæfəˈfəʊbɪə/
Forms: form: taphephobia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”), + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: a fear of being buried alive
mundanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mundanely
form: most mundanely
Etymology: From mundane + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a mundane manner
glosses: in a worldly manner
harpoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpoon
harpoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harpoon
hank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: hanks
Etymology: From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: 1681, E.R., The Experienced Farrier, London, p. 307,
[…] the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose, is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread, and hang it cross a stick, and set one end of it on fire […] and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils […]
text: Cotton twist is spun here of 130 hanks to the pound. Each hank is 840 yards long […]
ref: 1796, Thomas Pennant, “History of Holywell Parish,”, in The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell, London: B. and J. White, page 217:
text: […] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.
ref: 1859, George Eliot, chapter 9, in Adam Bede, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 181:
text: The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.
ref: 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 14, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 131:
text: He found a hank of clothesline on a counter.
ref: 1957, Nevil Shute, chapter 9, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:
coordinate_terms: skein
glosses: A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
glosses: Doubt, difficulty.
glosses: Mess, tangle.
glosses: A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
examples: text: Seldom doth a man fall into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […]
ref: 1636 July (date delivered), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Aulam.] Sermon IV. Beuvoyr, July 1636”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 43, page 59:
glosses: Hold; influence.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
hank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: hanks
form: hanking
form: hanked
form: hanked
Etymology: From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.
Senses: glosses: To form into hanks.
examples: text: where stood a fyne howse newly built and vaulted, over wheron her armes was sett and hanked with tapestrye
ref: 1573, Richard Dering, “Accounts Book”, in The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, John Nichols, published 1823:
glosses: To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
halcyon days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhælsiːən deɪz/
Etymology: From halcyon, from Latin Alcyone, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkuónē), daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. When her husband died in a shipwreck, Alcyone threw herself into the sea whereupon the gods transformed them both into halcyon birds (kingfishers). When Alcyone made her nest on the beach, waves threatened to destroy it. Aeolus restrained his winds and kept them calm during seven days in each year, so she could lay her eggs. These became known as the "halcyon days," when storms do not occur. Today, the term is used to denote a past period that is being remembered for being happy or successful.
Senses: glosses: A period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
examples: text: halcyon days of yore
text: halcyon days of youth
text: Expect Saint Martins summer, Halcyon dayes, / Since I haue entred into theſe Warres.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 98:
text: And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
ref: c. 1880, Ambrose Bierce, On a Mountain:
text: Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! / The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
ref: 1891, Walt Whitman, “Halcyon Days”, in Leaves of Grass:
text: It was a halcyon day, and as they neared the shore and the salt breezes scurried by, he began to picture the ocean and long, level stretches of sand and red roofs over blue sea.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in This Side of Paradise, book 1:
text: And the ragged rock in the restless waters, / Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; / On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, / In navigable weather is always a seamark / to lay a course by: but in the sombre season / Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.
ref: 1941, Thomas S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages”, in Four Quartets:
glosses: A period of calm, usually in the past and often nostalgic.
Related terms: Alcyone
back in the day
days of wine and roses
days of yore
halcyon
heyday
nostalgia
salad days
pub crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pub crawls
Etymology: From the fact that the participants are supposed to be unable to stand up straight by the end of the event.
Senses: examples: text: They went out for a night on the town, but it turned into a pub crawl.
glosses: The visiting of a number of public houses in a single session.
Synonyms: bar crawl
barhop
plan B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plan Bs
Senses: examples: text: After failing to find a wife by 40, he had to rely on plan B, a mail-order bride.
text: She needed something else...A backup plan, a plan "B".
ref: 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 3:
text: "There was no plan B, other than the Pendolino would have to run in non-tilt mode at 110mph." [...].
ref: 2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 35:
synonyms: contingency plan
coordinate_terms: plan A
plan C
glosses: An alternative approach adopted when one's original plan does not succeed.
Related terms: change one's battery
there is no Planet B
pull a face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a face
form: pulling a face
form: pulled a face
form: pulled a face
Senses: examples: text: At the back of the cafe, McCormack pulled a face. The former leader of the English Defence League was not for her.
ref: 2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To make an abnormal facial expression, either intentionally or because of an emotion.
Synonyms: make a face
Related terms: gurn
pull faces
harang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: harangs
Etymology: See harangue.
Senses: examples: text: He concluded his Harang in a lively and perſwaſive manner, […]
ref: 1679, ?, The Life of the Renowned Peter D’Aubuſſon, Grand Maſter of Rhodes, page 187
text: […], whom he had posed within hearing of his harang.
ref: 1906, William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey, The World’s Famous Orations, volume 2, Funk and Wagnalls Company, page 169:
text: […] he was receyved in the Presence (the ambassador entering fyrst for the conveniencey found by yt at the former audience of the Sweden) [47ᵛ] made his harang in Italian with interpretation of the Queens secretary […]
ref: 1987, Sir John Finet, Albert Joseph Loomie, Ceremonies of Charles I: the note books of John Finet, 1628-1641, Fordham University Press, page 156:
text: … or to furnish petty topics of harang from the windows of that State House?
ref: 1906, Fisher Ames, 1796, quotee, “On the Treaty with Great Britain”, in William Jennings Bryan, editor, The World’s Famous Orations, Vol VIII, HTML edition, Bartleby, published 2003:
glosses: Alternative spelling of harangue.
harang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: harangs
form: haranging
form: haranged
form: haranged
Etymology: See harangue.
Senses: examples: text: "Have you been listening to Reynolds haranging on his soap box?"
ref: 1915, Emily Calvin Blake, Suzanna Stirs the Fire, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
text: Instead of haranging their hosts with evidence of failed promises, …
ref: 1986, Geoff Dench, Minorities in the Open Society: Prisoners of Ambivalence and Containment, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 45:
text: It took a lot of effort and haranging in the ensuing weeks that followed but Juan Ponce had the two men arrested and shipped off to Spain to stand trial.
ref: 2010, John J. Browne Ayes, Juan Ponce de Leon His New and Revised Genealogy, →ISBN, page 513:
text: Any trial might have given the flamboyant, often idiosyncratic Gaddafi a podium from which to harang both Libya's new rulers and Western powers, …
ref: 2011 October 20, Peter Apps, “Death of Libya's Gaddafi Avoids Awkward Trial”, in Reuters, London, retrieved 29 Apr 2013:
glosses: Alternative spelling of harangue To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone
day one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I've been with the project since day one.
glosses: The very beginning.
examples: text: Raise a cup up for all my day ones; two middle fingers for the haters […]
ref: 2017 March 17, G-Eazy and Kehlani, "Good Life", from the soundtrack for The Fate of the Furious
text: RONALD:”I look at you like a day one. Real talk.”
ref: 2018 November 1, Ben Ketai, 23:00 from the start, in Start Up, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):
text: A very special thank-you to my brilliant band—especially my day ones, Jelly Bean Johnson and Monte Moir. We go back like rocking chairs. My main man Ricky Freeze Smith, Tori “Freak Juice” Ruffin, Thomas Austin, and Jeffery McNeely.
ref: 2019, Morris Day, On Time: A Princely Life in Funk, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
text: To my day ones: Jude Viaud, Roberto Franco, Antonio Wormley, and Jared Allen. The crazy times and memories that we all share together near and far will never be forgotten.
ref: 2019, Keith Sarasin, Chris Viaud, Farmers Dinner Cookbook: A Story in Every Bite: A Story in Every Bite, Cider Mill Press, →ISBN, page 297:
text: Pistols was my dawg, my day one, my right hand, so I didn't ever want us to be out because of me not being able to keep my dick in my jeans.
ref: 2019, Liv Reshelle, Dymond & Pistols: Forever & Always, Sullivan Group Publishing:
glosses: A close, longtime friend, one who has been around since the beginning.
day one
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: to buy something day one
glosses: At the very beginning; when something is entirely new.
Related terms: day dot
year dot
drink up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks up
form: drinking up
form: drank up
form: drunk up
Senses: examples: text: The bar's closing now, so drink up!
text: A Loafe of bread was brought out, and delivered to the Sinne-eater over the corps, as also a Mazar-bowle of maple (Gossips bowle) full of beer, wᶜʰ he was to drinke up.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 35:
glosses: To finish one's drink.
drink under the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks under the table
form: drinking under the table
form: drank under the table
form: drunk under the table
form: drink under tables
Etymology: Synchronic aspects: parallel in form with talk someone under the table.
Senses: examples: text: She had class, but she could drink most of the guys under the table.
glosses: To drink more alcohol than (someone) while remaining relatively sober.
Related terms: hollow leg
easy as pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Easy as pie," replied he, eagerly. […] What Dick called easy as pie was the hardest work I ever did. I lay flat on my back, bound hand and foot, and it was necessary to jerk my body along the log till my hands should be under the knife.
ref: 1910, Zane Grey, The Young Forester:
text: Come make my dreams, honey hard as it seems, loving me is as easy as pie.
ref: 2004, Girls Aloud, Love Machine:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very easy.
Synonyms: easy
Related terms: piece of cake
fat lip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat lips
Senses: examples: text: He has a very ugly temper, and I have to be careful what I say to him or I'll end up with a fat lip.
ref: 1966 January 31, Abigail Van Buren, “Dear Abby: You Can't Reform Dad”, in Columbia Missourian, page 9:
glosses: A swelling on the lip, especially one resulting from a punch or other blow.
calendar call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calendar calls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A hearing at which a judge will require all attorneys with cases pending before the court to appear so that the court may schedule hearings and trials.
to-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English to-, from Old English tō-, te- (“apart, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *tō-, *tuʀ-, *twiʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“apart, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“two-ways, in twain”).
Senses: examples: text: tocrack
text: togrind
text: torend
glosses: apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.
examples: text: tobeat
text: topinch
text: toquake
text: toruffle
glosses: apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
To do excessively.
examples: text: tobruise
text: toreave
text: torob
text: toshend
glosses: apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
Completely.
examples: text: tolug
text: towind
glosses: apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
Moving.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from parting
word: tobreak
sense: terms derived from parting
word: tocleave
sense: terms derived from parting
word: tocrack
sense: terms derived from parting
word: tocut
sense: terms derived from parting
word: todrive
sense: terms derived from parting
word: tofrush
sense: terms derived from parting
word: togo
sense: terms derived from parting
word: togrind
sense: terms derived from parting
word: toquash
sense: terms derived from parting
word: torace
sense: terms derived from parting
word: torat
sense: terms derived from parting
word: torend
sense: terms derived from parting
word: torit
sense: terms derived from parting
word: torive
sense: terms derived from parting
word: toshear
sense: terms derived from parting
word: toshiver
sense: terms derived from parting
word: toslive
sense: terms derived from parting
word: tosliver
sense: terms derived from parting
word: tosunder
sense: terms derived from parting
word: totear
sense: terms derived from parting
word: totread
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: tobeat
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: tobreak
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: todash
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: todraw
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: tolash
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: topinch
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: toquake
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: toruffle
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: toshake
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: tostart
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: toswap
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: toswink
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: totear
sense: terms derived from excessively
word: towind
sense: terms derived from completely
word: tobruise
sense: terms derived from completely
word: tohew
sense: terms derived from completely
word: toput
sense: terms derived from completely
word: toreave
sense: terms derived from completely
word: torob
sense: terms derived from completely
word: toshend
sense: terms derived from moving
word: tolug
sense: terms derived from moving
word: towind
Related terms: all to
to-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From to.
Senses: examples: text: today
text: tonight
text: tosol
glosses: Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
Current, the current form of the suffixed time. Forming nouns.
examples: text: today
text: tomorrow
text: tomorn
glosses: Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
On (this) time, which is a fixed point in time. Forming adverbs.
examples: text: today
text: tonight
text: toyear
glosses: Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
During the suffixed time. Forming adverbs.
examples: text: today
text: together
glosses: Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
Of, as characteristic of the suffixed time period. Forming adverbs and adjectives.
examples: text: tomorrow
text: tofall
text: together
glosses: Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
At, at the suffixed time. Forming an unfixed point in time, rather than a duration.
examples: text: to-bread
text: to-name
glosses: Adding, additional in quantity.
examples: text: to-draw
text: tofall
text: together
glosses: Toward in direction or location.
Derived terms: word: to-be
word: to-bread
word: to-come
word: to-do
word: tofore
word: toyear
sense: terms derived from current
word: today
sense: terms derived from current
word: together
sense: terms derived from current
word: tomorrow
sense: terms derived from current
word: tonight
sense: terms derived from current
word: tosol
sense: terms derived from then
word: today
sense: terms derived from then
word: tofore
sense: terms derived from then
word: tomorn
sense: terms derived from then
word: tomorrow
sense: terms derived from then
word: tonight
sense: terms derived from then
word: to-whiles
sense: terms derived from during
word: today
sense: terms derived from during
word: tofore
sense: terms derived from during
word: tomorn
sense: terms derived from during
word: tomorning
sense: terms derived from during
word: tonight
sense: terms derived from during
word: toyear
sense: terms derived from adding
word: to-bread
sense: terms derived from adding
word: to-heap
sense: terms derived from adding
word: to-name
sense: terms derived from of
word: today
sense: terms derived from of
word: tofore
sense: terms derived from of
word: together
sense: terms derived from toward
word: to-draw
sense: terms derived from toward
word: tofall
sense: terms derived from toward
word: together
sense: terms derived from at
word: tofall
sense: terms derived from at
word: together
sense: terms derived from at
word: tomorrow
blind date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: blind dates
Senses: examples: text: A blind date is a blinkered meeting / A rendez-vous with some person unknown / A secret tryst, a shady dealing / A gambler's chance when love's dice are thrown
ref: 1978, “Blind Date”, in A Tonic for the Troops, performed by The Boomtown Rats:
text: Blind date—When parties do not Know each other.
ref: 1922, The Tiller and Toiler, The Vocabulary of Jazzdom:
glosses: A date (romantic meeting) between two people who have never met before.
Related terms: miai
omiai
tide over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tides over
form: tiding over
form: tided over
form: tided over
Senses: examples: text: Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?
text: Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?
text: Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.
ref: 1901, Henry James, The Papers:
glosses: To support or sustain (someone), especially financially, for a limited period.
examples: text: I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide over present difficulties.’
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 75:
text: In responding, J. P. Knight, the Traffic Manager, emphasised the company's desire to meet the wants of Brighton in every way and to develop traffic, while the question of a reduction in fares would be considered as soon as they had tided over their most pressing difficulties.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 832:
text: I will therefore suggest a way to tide over this difficulty.
ref: 2001, Swami Parmeshwaranand, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas:
qualifier: obsolete outside India
glosses: To endure; weather.
Synonyms: hold over
tide through
carry through
Derived terms: word: tideover
slite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: slites
form: sliting
form: slit
form: slited
form: slit
form: slited
form: slitten
form: sleight
form: slight
form: slyte
Etymology: From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”).
Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”). Doublet of slit. More at slice.
Senses: glosses: To slit; tear or rip up.
glosses: To wear away (clothes).
slite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: sleight
form: slight
form: slyte
Etymology: From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”).
Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”). Doublet of slit. More at slice.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.
double jeopardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the intervening years, the Costa Rican justice system (which has no double jeopardy law) has tried Ann Bender for murder on three separate occasions; of these, she was convicted once and acquitted twice.
ref: 2025 October 8, Stuart Heritage, “‘Their chemistry made one of their deaths inevitable’: how a billionaire couple’s life in paradise turned deadly”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: The act of trying someone twice for the same offense, especially after an acquittal in the first trial.
Related terms: ne bis in idem
colour retention agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour retention agents
Senses: glosses: Any compound added to a food product in order to retain or enhance its colour during storage or cooking.
siens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of scion.
nicotinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicotinamides
Etymology: Blend of nicotine + amide, equivalent to nicotine + -amide.
Senses: examples: text: Sinclair also takes 1 gram of NMN, or nicotinamide mononucleotide, which in the body turns into NAD+, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of nicotinic acid (or niacin).
Synonyms: sense: amide of nictinic acid
word: E375
sense: amide of nictinic acid
word: niacinamide
sense: amide of nictinic acid
word: nicotinic acid amide
Derived terms: aminonicotinamide
isonicotinamide
nicotinamidase
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
Related terms: niacin
vitamin B
vitamin B complex
vitamin B3
haughtiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haughtinesses
Etymology: From Middle English hauteynesse, hautenesse, from Middle English hautein (“proud, haughty”), from Old French hautain + Middle English -nesse. Reanalysed in Modern English as haughty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
Synonyms: hauteur
Tobias night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təʊˈbaɪəs naɪt/
Forms: form: Tobias nights
Etymology: With reference to Tobit 8:1-3, in which Tobias banishes a demon on his wedding-night.
Senses: examples: 1922, In various parts of Germany and Switzerland continence is observed for three nights after marriage, which are frequently known as the “Tobias nights”; it is believed that otherwise the wedded life of the couple would be unlucky, whereas if they abstain from intercourse the devil will not be able to do any harm. — Edward Westermarck, History of Human Marriage (Kessinger 2003, p.558)
glosses: A wedding night on which consummation of the marriage is postponed.
frighteningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frighteningly
form: most frighteningly
Etymology: From frightening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frightening or terrifying manner.
examples: text: The pitcher that was set before me was frighteningly large.
text: Risk is everywhere.[…]For each [kind] there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
glosses: Very; beyond usual expectation so as to cause surprise or concern.
Synonyms: sense: in a frightening manner
word: terrifyingly
sense: beyond usual expectation
word: surprisingly
lowlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowlanders
Etymology: From lowland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who inhabits the Scottish Lowlands.
coordinate_terms: highlander
glosses: Anyone who lives in a lowland region.
qualifier: chiefly Cordillera
glosses: anyone who is not living on the Cordillera Mountain Range.
low-fat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-fat
form: lowest-fat
Senses: examples: text: a low-fat diet
synonyms: skinny
coordinate_terms: high-fat
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Not having a high number of calories from fat or great amount of fats, especially an alternate variety of food designed to have lower calories, dietetic.
lowbrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊbɹaʊ/
ipa: /ˈləʊbɹaʊ/
Forms: form: more lowbrow
form: most lowbrow
form: low-brow
Etymology: A bahuvrihi compound of low + brow. An Americanism whose first use appears c. 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.
Senses: examples: text: The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.
glosses: Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
Derived terms: lowbrowism
lowbrowness
lowbrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊbɹaʊ/
ipa: /ˈləʊbɹaʊ/
Forms: form: lowbrows
form: low-brow
Etymology: A bahuvrihi compound of low + brow. An Americanism whose first use appears c. 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something of low education or culture.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.
Synonyms: idiot
Related terms: highbrow
middlebrow
no-brow
alcoholysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: alcoholyses
Etymology: From alcohol + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Solvolysis using an alcohol.
Related terms: alcoholytic
hydrolysis
solvolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solvolyses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction, between a solute and its solvent, in which one or more bonds of the solute are broken; specifically a substitution, elimination or fragmentation reaction in which the solvent is the nucleophile.
Derived terms: solvolytic
Related terms: alcoholysis
hydrolysis
aldazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldazines
Etymology: Blend of aldehyde + azine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An azine derived from an aldehyde; general formula RCH=NN=CHR
Related terms: ketazine
great northern diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great northern divers
Etymology: From the fact that the species is a diver, the largest or greatest of those regularly found off the British Isles, which has a very northerly range (no further south than the British Isles).
Senses: glosses: A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.
Synonyms: common loon
great northern loon
common loon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common loons
Senses: glosses: The great northern diver (Gavia immer)
ketazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketazines
Etymology: From keto- + azine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An azine derived from a ketone; general formula R₂C=NN=CR₂
Related terms: aldazine
aldimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldimines
Etymology: Blend of aldehyde + imine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An imine derived from an aldehyde; general formula RCH=NR
Related terms: ketimine
ketimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketimines
Etymology: From keto- + imine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An imine derived from a ketone, of general formula R₂C=NR.
Related terms: aldimine
lime-green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lime-green
form: most lime-green
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lime green.
alditol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alditols
Etymology: ald(ose) + -itol
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of acyclic polyols formally derived from an aldose by reduction of the carbonyl functional group.
Hypernyms: sugar alcohol
Related terms: aldehyde
aldol
aldose
polyol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlɪɒl/
Forms: form: polyols
Etymology: From poly- + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 258:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.
Hyponyms: english: and its derivatives: polyhydric alcohols
translation: and its derivatives: polyhydric alcohols
word: -itol
Derived terms: bacteriohopanepolyol
Schiff base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schiff bases
Etymology: Named after Hugo Schiff, German chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An imine.
wikipedia: Hugo Schiff
white-billed diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-billed divers
Senses: synonyms: yellow-billed loon
glosses: Gavia adamsii, the largest member of the loon or diver family, having a black head, white underparts and checkered black-and-white mantle.
yellow-billed loon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-billed loons
Senses: synonyms: white-billed diver
glosses: A duck, Gavia adamsii, found in the arctic and subarctic.
Related terms: Gavia adamsii
aldoketose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldoketoses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of ketoaldose.
synonyms: word: ketoaldose
ketoaldose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoaldoses
Etymology: From keto- + aldose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any monosaccharide which contains both an aldehyde and a ketone functional group in equilibrium with one or more hemiacetal forms.
Synonyms: aldoketose
hemiacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiacetals
Etymology: From hemi- + acetal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds of general formula R₁R₂C(OH)OR' (where R' is not H and R₁ or R₂ is often hydrogen).
Derived terms: dithiohemiacetal
hemiacetalic
monothiohemiacetal
thiohemiacetal
Related terms: hemiketal
lactol
Pacific loon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific loons
Senses: glosses: The Pacific diver.
boof
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːf/
ipa: [bʉːf]
Etymology: Imitative. Kayaking sense from the onomatopoeic sound a kayak makes when it lands on the water after “ski jumping” the waterfall forming the backwash; generally attributed to whitewater kayaking aficionados in the eastern United States in the mid- to late 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: The barman vaulted over the bar and hauled him off and went boof! – right in the Boer's chest, and down he went. As he settled on the floor we ran upstairs.
ref: 2011, Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town:
glosses: The sound of a blow or collision; wham.
glosses: A low, deep (dog) bark.
boof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːf/
ipa: [bʉːf]
Forms: form: boofs
Etymology: Imitative. Kayaking sense from the onomatopoeic sound a kayak makes when it lands on the water after “ski jumping” the waterfall forming the backwash; generally attributed to whitewater kayaking aficionados in the eastern United States in the mid- to late 1970s.
Senses: qualifier: kayaking; rafting; kayaking; rafting
glosses: A “jump” over hydraulic backwash in a high-gradient mountain river, an action analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.