cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ethel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.əl/
Forms: form: œthel
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Middle English ethel, from Old English ǣþel, ēþel.
Senses: glosses: The rune ᛟ.
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Œ/œ..
Synonyms: word: odal
ethel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.əl/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Middle English ethel, from Old English ǣþel, ēþel.
Senses: examples: text: […] that he was of a doughty and ethel stirp. His ayle and eam had both been bellipotent; […]
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 33:
text: The violation of an ethel born or noble woman was paid for by a higher murde than that of an un-ethel or common person. The murder of all persons was in like manner paid for by a were or were-geld, nicely adjusted to their relative rank.
ref: 1861, Henry Brougham, The British Constitution: Its History, Structure, and Working, page 140:
text: "I have come to seek your counsel in your most ethel of ethical capacities. My problem is wholly mechanical."
ref: 1921, The Judge, page 5:
glosses: Noble.
ethel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.əl/
Forms: form: ethels
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ethel.
glosses: Alternative form of athel (“tamarisk”).
schistocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schistocytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “I split”) + κύτος (kútos, “vessel, jar”).
Senses: glosses: A jagged red blood cell fragment without central pallor, consequent to passage through small vessels with microthrombi, leaky prosthetic heart valves etc.
Synonyms: schizocyte
helmet cell
Derived terms: schistocytic
schistocytosis
siderocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderocytes
Etymology: From sidero- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal red blood cell that has iron granules that are not part of the hemoglobin.
etiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹtē-ə-lāt'
ipa: /ˈiːti.əleɪt/
Forms: form: etiolates
form: etiolating
form: etiolated
form: etiolated
Etymology: French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
Senses: glosses: To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
examples: text: She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
text: Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.
ref: 1995, Martin Amis, The information:
glosses: To make pale and sickly-looking.
glosses: To become pale or blanched.
Derived terms: etiolin
Related terms: stubble
etiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹtē-ə-lāt'
ipa: /ˈiːti.əleɪt/
Forms: form: more etiolate
form: most etiolate
Etymology: French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).
Senses: glosses: etiolated
spongiocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongiocytes
Etymology: From spongio- + -cyte
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the cells of the neuroglia that have spongy vacuolated protoplasm
Derived terms: spongiocytic
Related terms: spongocyte
spongioblast
sporocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporocytes
Etymology: From sporo- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: A cell that produces haploid spores during meiosis
Derived terms: macrosporocyte
microsporocyte
thrombocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɒmbə(ʊ)sʌɪt/
Forms: form: thrombocytes
Etymology: From thrombo- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: platelet
Derived terms: megathrombocyte
thrombocytapheresis
thrombocytemia
thrombocythemia
thrombocytic
thrombocytopathy
thrombocytopenia
thrombocytopoiesis
thrombocytosis
thrombocytotropic
eutripsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈtɹɪpsɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐτριψία (eutripsía, “pleasant rubbing”) from εὐ- (eu-) + τρῖψις (trîpsis) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: examples: text: They were erudite and sensual about the orectic, the synchronous, the vellicative, about eutripsia, salacious aromas, amplitudes.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: joyful fondling or caressing
thymocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thymocytes
Etymology: From thymo- + -cyte.
Senses: glosses: a lymphocyte, produced in the thymus, that develops into a T cell
Related terms: thymocytic
eximious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛɡˈzɪmɪəs/
Forms: form: more eximious
form: most eximious
Etymology: From Latin eximius (“set apart, select”), from eximō (“take out or away; deliver, free”), from ex (“out of, from”) + emō (“buy; acquire, take”).
Senses: examples: text: You've read the death of Hercules,
In classic tale related;
But there the facts of his decease
Erroneously are stated:
Each schoolboy will at large recite
Fast as his Alphabeta,
How that eximious man of might
Departed on Mount Eta.
ref: 1850, “The Hercules Cheap Paletot”, in Punch, volume 18, page 38:
text: Eximious is a delicious word, meaning, outstanding.
ref: 2002, A.S. Byatt, A Whistling Woman, Vintage International, published 2004, page 115:
glosses: Pre-eminent, outstanding.
Derived terms: eximiously
bedded in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: firmly established in a place where it can grow and develop
raw_tags: of a young plant
glosses: that has been used for some time, and minor bugs have been removed and small improvements added
raw_tags: of a system
bedded in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bed in
eximiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɛɡˈzɪmɪəsli/
Forms: form: more eximiously
form: most eximiously
Etymology: From eximious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Is it so Our Lord conducted Himself – did He not most eximiously hold truth above all else?
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
glosses: In an eximious way; with distinction, outstandingly.
exordium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɔɹdɪəm/
Forms: form: exordiums
form: exordia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“I begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“I begin”).
Senses: glosses: A beginning.
examples: text: Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The depreciation of her produce was next insisted upon; and I found this exordium led to the information that Messrs. Standish and Co. had been enabled, from the depressed state of the market, to lay in a large stock of Irish linen at unheard-of low prices.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 180–181:
text: This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: The introduction to an essay or discourse.
Related terms: exord
primordial
primordium
look up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʊk ʌp/
enpr: lo͝okʹ ŭp
Forms: form: looks up
form: looking up
form: looked up
form: looked up
Senses: examples: text: We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.
examples: text: Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
synonyms: word: get better
word: improve
word: ameliorate
word: aprimorate (non-native speakers’ English (chiefly Portuguese))
word: amend
word: batten
word: better
word: enhance
word: hone
word: improve
word: meliorate
word: refine
word: get better
word: look up
glosses: To have better prospects.
examples: text: "Why do you know about transgender stuff? Did you look it up because of me?" "Oh no. I find wanting to change forms totally normal. It never would've occurred to me."
ref: 2014 July 16, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 16, 2014:
glosses: To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
examples: text: I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.
glosses: To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
To obtain information about something from a reference book.
synonyms: consult
examples: text: If you look up a bunch of random characters, there will probably be no results.
glosses: To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
To enter a query into a database or search engine.
synonyms: search
examples: text: Look me up next time you’re in town—if you can bring me some new ideas.
ref: 1914, Rupert Hughes, Clipped Wings:
synonyms: track down
glosses: To reconnect or meet with someone that one used to know.
Derived terms: lookupable
Related terms: look someone up and down
look up to
lookup
see through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees through
form: seeing through
form: saw through
form: seen through
Senses: examples: text: Their fabric is so thin that I can see through these curtains.
text: We saw through the water with ease; it was as clear as glass.
glosses: To perceive visually through something transparent.
examples: text: I'm surprised she doesn't see through his lies.
text: I can see through his poker face. He isn't fooling anyone.
text: He was a very scared individual and to cover up his fright he would tell outlandish tales to make himself appear "better" and "bigger" in front of the other convicts. I saw through this and convinced him to just be himself with me and I would like him and respect him more.
ref: 1987 February 1, Jeffrey L. Say, “Drop Him A Line”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 4:
text: Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through.
ref: 2010, Michael E. Bernard, Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis:
glosses: To not be deceived by something that is false or misleading; to understand the hidden truth about someone or something.
examples: text: In that moment, I finally saw through her; this petition drive had nothing to do with her love for animals, and everything to do with impressing Michael, the cute intern.
glosses: To recognize someone's true motives or character.
examples: text: And may we all, citizens the world over, see these events through.
text: Forever and ever, yeah / I'll see you through it
ref: 1973, Barry White, “Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up”:
text: The glory of love might see you through
ref: 1976, Lou Reed, “Coney Island Baby”:
glosses: To provide support or cooperation to (a person) throughout a period of time; to support someone through a difficult time.
examples: text: Despite her health problems, Madame Prime Minister saw the project through.
text: But if the Government really wants our railway to reduce the level of its subsidy and improve value for taxpayers' money, then it must provide the political air cover to enable managers to get on and make the hard decisions that are needed... and then see them through.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25:
synonyms: see out
coordinate_terms: carry out
glosses: To do something until it is finished; to continue working on (something) until it is finished.
examples: text: Those chocolates should see us through the holiday season.
glosses: To constitute ample supply for one for.
Derived terms: word: see-through
Related terms: word: follow on
word: follow through
word: follow up
word: look through
word: rumble
word: suss out
poker face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poker faces
Senses: examples: text: Though he thought he had a perfect poker face, he had a number of tells his opponents soon learned.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An impassive facial expression cultivated to prevent other players from determining whether one's actions in the game are the result of a quality hand, or of bluffing.
glosses: Any similar expression used to prevent giving away one's motives, feelings, or situation.
Synonyms: straight face
Derived terms: poker-faced
double bluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double bluffs
Senses: glosses: An action which is intended to be perceived as a bluff, but which is not.
Related terms: triple bluff
quadruple bluff
suspended animation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
Coordinate terms: cryogenic suspension
coldsleep
hypersleep
Related terms: aestivation
catatonia
comatose
hibernation
torpor
acousticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acoustically.
static equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static equilibriums
form: static equilibria
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any system in which the sum of the forces, and torque, on each particle of the system is zero; mechanical equilibrium.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A market in which demand and supply are the same.
Related terms: dynamic equilibrium
kabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kabobs
Senses: glosses: US spelling of kebab.
kabob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kabobs
form: kabobbing
form: kabobbed
form: kabobbed
Senses: glosses: US spelling of kebab.
sophisticate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sophisticate
form: most sophisticate
Etymology: From Middle English sophisticat, sophisticate (“adulterated; not genuine, counterfeit”), an adjective use of the past participle of sophisticaten (verb) See Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
glosses: Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
examples: text: So truth, while only one ſupply'd the ſtate,
 Grew ſcarce, and dear, and yet ſophiſticate.
ref: c. 1663, John Dryden, “Epistle the Second. To My Honored Friend Dr. [Walter] Charleton, on His Learned and Useful Works; but More Particularly His Treatise of Stone-henge, by Him Restor’d to the True Founder.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
glosses: Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
sophisticate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophisticates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective or back-formation of the verb, either on the basis of -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] the soporific details of Porter's socially correct marriage of convenience to wealthy and somewhat enigmatic Linda, "a professional beauty." They evidently shared a taste for high social status and the elegant luxuries, high life and freedoms afforded by wealth. Linda and Cole are portrayed as the ultimate sophisticates but the viewer is never told the cause for their separation or why they married.
ref: 1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8:
text: Patrick Star: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.
 SpongeBob SquarePants: Yea verily!
ref: 2001 September 21, Walt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, Merriwether Williams, “Sailor Mouth”, in SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 18a:
glosses: A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.
durability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəɹəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ˈdʲʊɹəbɪləti/
Forms: form: durabilities
Etymology: From Middle English durabilite, from Old French durabilité, from Latin dūrābilitās (“durability”). Corresponding to durable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: We broke up our tests into three categories — performance, durability and versatility — so we could compare the different features of each jacket against the others directly.
ref: 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
synonyms: long-lastingness
glosses: The ability to last a long time by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.
Derived terms: biodurability
nondurability
sosatie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sosaties
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans sosatie, from Dutch sesaté or directly from Malay sate (“spiced meat on a skewer”), from Tamil சதை (catai). Doublet of satay.
Senses: glosses: A kebab. Curried meat on a skewer, cooked over an open flame or on the braai. Usually not made of pork.
Saddamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saddamists
Etymology: From the Arabic name Saddam + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Saddam Hussein or an advocate of his policies.
Saddamist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saddamist
form: most Saddamist
Etymology: From the Arabic name Saddam + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to Saddam Hussein, his former government or party.
tsamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmə
Forms: form: tsammas
Etymology: From a Khoe language, cf. Juǀʼhoan tamah.
Senses: glosses: A bitter melon, of the species Citrullus lanatus.
Synonyms: tsamma melon
kaffir melon
makataan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makataans
Etymology: From the Tswana.
Senses: glosses: watermelon
Synonyms: word: tsamma
word: watermelon
tollie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tollies
Etymology: From Afrikaans tollie, from Zulu ithole (“calf”).
Senses: glosses: A bullock.
glosses: Diminutive for a penis.
brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of brain
brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: examples: text: I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: The substance of a brain, as a material or foodstuff.
examples: text: Sadly, I got my brains from my mom and my looks from the mailman.
glosses: The figurative substance of a brain: mental ability, intelligence.
examples: text: Who's the brains behind this operation?
text: Paulvitch smiled. “You are supposed to be the brains of this partnership, my dear Nikolas,” he replied. “Why do you not find the means to search Monsieur Caldwell’s stateroom—eh?”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 103:
text: I mean, it's a bit of a waste of money paying me eighteen grand to run errands, isn't it? Come on. I'm supposed to be the brains of this outfit.
ref: 1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:
glosses: The intelligent person or people in a group: the director, planner, administrator, etc.
Derived terms: blow someone's brains out
fuck someone's brains out
hump someone's brains out
Related terms: sense: intelligent person, director, planner, administrator
word: mastermind
brains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brain
Andes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ănʹdēz
ipa: /ˈæn.diːz/
Forms: form: the Andes
Etymology: From Spanish Andes, perhaps from Quechua anti (“east”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Andes Mountains.
synonyms: word: Andes Mountains
Derived terms: Andean
andesine
andesite
Andes Mountains
Lake Andes
Los Andes
voiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vwɑˈtjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: voitures
Etymology: Borrowed from French voiture, from Latin vectūra. Doublet of vecture and vettura.
Senses: examples: text: The voiture proceeded ſlowly with my Chevalier; […]
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 414:
text: Having consulted with my friends, about the safest method of travelling through Flanders, I was persuaded to take places in the public Voiture […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: When the voiture stopped in the village, there seemed to be a nonplusation, to coin a word for the nonce, between my friend and his sisters.
ref: 1834, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log, volume 1, page 33:
text: As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101
glosses: A carriage; a vehicle, now chiefly in French contexts.
ganja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
ipa: /ˈɡæn.dʒə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒə/
Forms: form: ganjas
form: ganga
form: gunja
form: gunga
form: gunjah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”). First use appears c. 1800.
Senses: examples: text: Whilst a ganja-eater was catching fish on the bank of a river, a man from another country came and asked which was the road and what was his name; he replied that his name was "eater of six maunds of ganja."
ref: 1873, Indian Antiquary, Volume 2, Popular Prakashan, page 271:
text: There were altogether 2,202 admissions to the five asylums of this province during that time, and of that number it was ascertained that 641 were ganja smokers, 117 were spirit drinkers, and 8 were opium-eaters, the percentages being ganja 291 spririts 5'8, opium 036 per cent.
ref: 1892, The Medical Reporter: A Record of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and of General Medical Intelligence, Volume 1, Medical Publishing Press, page 126:
text: In Bengal the natives talk of the ganja-bearing plant as the male and the weaker pollen-bearing plant as the female.
ref: 1898, American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, Volume 33, American Druggist Publishing Company, page 102:
text: It must be the ganja, it's the marijuana / That's creeping up on me, why I'm so high
ref: 2009, “Must Be the Ganja”, in Relapse, performed by Eminem:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
Derived terms: ganj
ganjaism
ganjapreneur
insangu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zulu insangu.
Senses: glosses: Any particular plant which is smoked as a recreational drug, especially (wild) hemp.
Related terms: word: marijuana
word: cannabis
word: dagga
perishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perishable
form: most perishable
Etymology: From Middle English *persishable, perysabyl, equivalent to perish + -able. Compare Old French perissable (and modern French périssable).
Senses: examples: text: perishable goods
text: perishable foodstuffs
synonyms: ephemeral
shortlived
antonyms: imperishable
unperishable
glosses: Liable to perish, especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay.
Derived terms: nonperishable
perishability
perishableness
perishably
perishable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perishables
Etymology: From Middle English *persishable, perysabyl, equivalent to perish + -able. Compare Old French perissable (and modern French périssable).
Senses: glosses: That which perishes or is short-lived.
glosses: Food that does not keep for long.
Ferris wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪs ʍiːl/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪs wiːl/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪs ʍil/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪs wil/
Forms: form: Ferris wheels
Etymology: Named after designer and constructor George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859–1896) who built the first such wheel.
Senses: synonyms: big wheel
observation wheel
glosses: An amusement ride, consisting of an upright rotating wheel having seats that remain in a horizontal position as the wheel revolves.
enzymology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzymologies
Etymology: From enzyme + -ology.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of science that studies enzymes.
Derived terms: cryoenzymology
cytoenzymology
enzymologic
enzymological
enzymologist
histoenzymology
isoenzymology
enzymologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enzymologists
Etymology: From enzymology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a specialist in enzymology
perishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perishably
form: most perishably
Etymology: From perishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perishable manner.
perishableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perishablenesses
Etymology: From perishable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being perishable; perishability.
perishability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perishabilities
Etymology: From perish + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being perishable.
ahimsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈhɪmsɑː/
Forms: form: ahinsa
Etymology: From Sanskrit अहिंसा (ahiṃsā).
Senses: examples: text: Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age.
ref: 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 79:
text: This, in essence, is the Jain doctrine of ahimsa – a direct inversion of Vedic beliefs about the sustaining powers of animal sacrifice.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 9:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
Derived terms: ahimsa silk
goonda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goondas
form: gunda
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गुंडा (guṇḍā).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I cannot imagine the minds of goondas.’
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 31:
glosses: A hired thug.
Derived terms: goondaism
purposefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purposeful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being purposeful.
kampang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kampangs
form: campong
form: kampong
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay kampung. Doublet of kampung, or the same word.
Senses: glosses: An enclosed village.
glosses: An enclosed farm.
Synonyms: word: compound
purposefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.pəs.fə.li/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.pəs.fə.li/
Forms: form: more purposefully
form: most purposefully
Etymology: From purposeful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [C]riminals are purposefully recruiting young, middle-class university students to do their dirty work “because they know they’re honest” and can be trusted to pass on the stolen cash rather than pocketing it all. Plus, students are cash hungry, as lockdown restrictions have squeezed any income from part-time jobs.
ref: 2020 December 8, Claer Barrett, “Could your child be recruited as a money mule?”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2020:
glosses: In a purposeful manner.
examples: text: Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2013:
synonyms: deliberately
intentionally
purposely
wilfully
willfully
glosses: On purpose, purposely, deliberately.
purposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purposers
Etymology: From Middle English purposer; equivalent to purpose + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who purposes something.
purposive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəːpəsɪv/
ipa: /ˈpɚpəsɪv/
Etymology: From purpose + -ive. Compare purpositive.
Senses: examples: text: This purposive was described by speakers as referring to the action which can be observed at the moment of speech; this is why it is termed ‘visual’.
ref: 2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 393:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb.
purposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəːpəst/
Forms: form: more purposed
form: most purposed
Etymology: From purpose + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: to interrupt the course of his continuall happinesse, and to recompence it, [he] cast the richest and most precious jewell he had into the Sea, deeming that by this purposed [translating aposté] mishap he should satisfie the revolution and vicissitude of fortune[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Intentional, deliberate.
examples: text: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come
To this well-nightingaled vicinity?
ref: 1883, A. E. Housman, Fragment of a Greek Tragedy:
glosses: Having a purpose or aim; determined.
purposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəːpəst/
Etymology: From purpose + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of purpose
Congo Peggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congo Peggies
Senses: glosses: A red ant.
purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝpəsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɜːpəsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of purpose
purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝpəsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɜːpəsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of purpose
purposeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purposeless
form: most purposeless
Etymology: From purpose + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Turbulence was everywhere, within every blade of grass, every drop of dew on a leaf, every cloud in the sky, and every star beyond. The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.
ref: 2008, Luo Ji, The Dark Forest, →ISBN:
glosses: Without purpose.
Derived terms: purposelessly
purposelessness
indaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɑːbə/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɑbə/
Forms: form: indabas
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu índaba (“affair, issue, matter; piece of news; story”), from ín- (class 9 noun prefix) + -daɓa (stem meaning ‘affair, matter’).
Senses: glosses: A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders.
glosses: Any conference, discussion, or meeting.
glosses: Chiefly in one's own or someone's indaba: a concern, matter, or problem.
qualifier: scouting
glosses: An international conference of Scout leaders.
tumble-turd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumble-turds
Senses: glosses: A beetle.
purposelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purposelessly
form: most purposelessly
Etymology: From purposeless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The sparse grey locks he combed were fewer and greyer: and though the accustomed mouth circle was as obdurately set as of old, his head waggled purposelessly: and his hands fumbled stiffly as he folded and replaced his pocket comb.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 216:
glosses: In a purposeless manner; to no end; for no reason.
anancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anancies
Etymology: From Anansi, a mythical spider (god) from West African folklore.
Senses: glosses: A nonpoisonous spider, daddy longlegs.
purposelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purposeless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: he used to be plain Charles, a vessel for moaning and waiting and a certain kind of purposelessness.
ref: 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The state of being purposeless.
hanepoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanepoots
Senses: glosses: The muscat blanc d'Alexandrie.
glosses: Wine made from muscat blanc d'Alexandrie.
bredie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bredies
Etymology: From Afrikaans bredie, possibly from Portuguese bredo. Alternatively, perhaps from Malagasy.
Senses: glosses: A thick stew of meat and vegetables.
gwaai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans.
Senses: examples: text: Husband's under water so she hassles with her laaities, starts lagging with her buddies and lights herself a gwaai.
ref: 1997, Barney Simon, Born in the Rsa: Four Workshopped Plays, page 27:
text: For a start, you will remember it whether you want to or not because I guarantee no other Haven teacher has come through the window and fired up a gwaai to start a lesson. They certainly didn't when I was a pupil here.
ref: 2012, Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows, page 121:
text: He'd say that every time a black guy would come up and ask him for a gwaai in isiXhosa. And it was obvious what the guys were asking for. I mean, I could even understand them. But it seemed important to him to not speak Xhosa […]
ref: 2013, Hagen Engler, Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren't Black, page 168:
glosses: A cigarette.
admittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more admittable
form: most admittable
Etymology: From admit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be admitted.
Synonyms: sense: able to be admitted
word: admissible
admittedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more admittedly
form: most admittedly
Etymology: From admitted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of a problem.
text: She was admittedly the one who killed the baron.
text: Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.
ref: 2024 June 5, Ben Guarino, “Defend Yourself against AI Impostor Scams with a Safe Word”, in Scientific American:
glosses: As is acknowledged to be true; by general admission; confessedly.
examples: text: It's only a theory, admittedly, but it might work.
text: Admittedly he can't swim, but he still loves going to the seaside anyway.
glosses: Signals a concession followed by a counterpoint usually headed by but.
Synonyms: granted
Related terms: admit
admissibly
admitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admitters
Etymology: From admit + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something which admits.
amasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maas
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu amási.
Senses: glosses: sour milk
maas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäs
ipa: /mɑːs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
Forms: form: amasi
Etymology: From Zulu.
Senses: glosses: sour milk
maas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mäs
ipa: /mɑːs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
enpr: mäz
ipa: /mɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑːz
enpr: mäs
ipa: /mɑːs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
Etymology: From the verb to maa.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maa
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: laal maas
sambal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambals
Etymology: Borrowed, either directly or via Afrikaans sambal, from Malay sambal, from Javanese ꦱꦩ꧀ꦧꦼꦭ꧀ (sambel).
Senses: glosses: A hot relish made from chili peppers and other ingredients.
adorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adorant
form: most adorant
Senses: glosses: Adoring.
bottle-arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle-arses
Senses: glosses: A kind of fly.
adorative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to adoration.
adorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adorers
Etymology: From adore + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1582, Gregory Martin (translator), The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Reims: John Fogny, John 4.23, p. 226,
But the houre commeth, and now it is, when the true adorers shal adore the Father in spirit and veritie.
text: […] I in one Night freed / From servitude inglorious welnigh half / Th’ Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng / Of his adorers […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 140-143:
text: All men in the outset of the religion they profess are adorers of a God, and friends of man.
ref: 1798, Thomas Paine, Atheism Refuted, London: J. Johnson, page 17:
glosses: Someone who adores.
Someone who worships.
synonyms: devotee
worshipper
examples: text: […] I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: I vvho profeſs my ſelf an Admirer, an Adorer of Reaſon, am obliged to ovvn, that in ſome Caſes the Sharpneſs of Ridicule can do more than the Strength of Argument.
ref: 1732, George Berkeley, “The Sixth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XXXII, page 122:
text: When rival adorers come courting a maid, / There’s something or other may often be said, / Why he should be pitched upon rather than him. / This wasn’t the case with Old Paul and Old Tim.
ref: 1871, W. S. Gilbert, “Old Paul and Old Tim”, in More “Bab” Ballads, London: Routledge, published 1892, page 164:
text: The funny thing was that all the envelopes were addressed in the same hand, in green or sometimes purple capitals. It was like one crazed adorer laying siege to Leo.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who adores.
Someone who has a deep admiration, fondness or love (of someone or something).
synonyms: admirer
adoringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adoringly
form: most adoringly
Etymology: From adoring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adoring manner.
Related terms: adorably
adore
adoredly
Maas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Maas or German Maas.
Senses: glosses: A major river in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, known as the Meuse in France and Belgium and the Maas in the Netherlands.
adorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔːɹəbəl/
ipa: /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/
Forms: form: more adorable
form: most adorable
Etymology: Borrowed from French adorable, from adorer + -able, with adorer from Old French aorer, from Latin adōrāre, which is from ad + ōrō + ōrāre. By surface analysis, adore + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a romantic love song with adorable-sounding drum beats
text: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.
Derived terms: adorability
adorableness
adorables
adorably
adorasexy
adorbs
Adoribull
adorkable
unadorable
dalgite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dalgites
form: dalgyte
Etymology: Borrowed from Nyunga dalgayt.
Senses: glosses: A rabbit-eared bandicoot; a bilby.
Synonyms: word: bilby
word: pinkie
ganna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhænə/
ipa: /ˈkænə/
Forms: form: gannas
form: canna
form: kanna
Etymology: From Khwe kanna.
Senses: glosses: A plant formerly used to provide alkaline ashes for soap-making, Salsola aphylla.
Related terms: gannabos
gannabush
gogga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒɡə/
ipa: /ˈxɒxə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɡə/
ipa: /ˈxɑxə/
ipa: /ˈxoxa/
Forms: form: goggas
Etymology: From Afrikaans gogga, from a Khoe language. Compare Khoekhoe xoxo-i.
Senses: glosses: Insect.
attacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attachers
Etymology: From attach + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who attaches.
glosses: A means of attaching.
assuror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assurors
Etymology: From assure + -or.
Senses: glosses: An assurer; an underwriter; an insurer.
attachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attachable
form: most attachable
Etymology: From attach + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be attached.
Derived terms: attachableness
attachably
nonattachable
reattachable
unattachable
assurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assurers
Etymology: From assure + -er.
Senses: glosses: An insurer; an underwriter.
glosses: One who takes out insurance.
glosses: A person who or thing which assures.
latex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪtɛks/
ipa: /ˈleɪˌtɛks/
Forms: form: latices
form: latexes
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin latex (“clear fluid which is part of a humour or bodily fluid”), a later use of Latin latex (“water; liquid, fluid”). Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (lắtăx, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *latis (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō- (Old High German letto (“clay, loam”), Old Norse leðja (“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph).
glosses: The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
glosses: An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
glosses: Natural latex rubber, especially nonvulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.
Derived terms: latexosis
latex paint
latexwear
nanolatex
nonlatex
texanol
karree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Khoe karib.
Senses: glosses: A plant root that is powdered and fermented to produce honey beer.
kukumakranka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kukumakrankas
Etymology: From Khoekhoe [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An odorous fruit (genus Gethyllis), often used in brandy and for scenting rooms.
boegoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Khoe buku.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buchu.
buchu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buchus
form: boegoe
form: bucku
Etymology: Borrowed from Khoekhoe buku.
Senses: examples: text: Inside us, like chromosomes, lay the memories of […] guinea-fowl clicking in the early morning grass or the delicate tracks of the sandpiper, the smell of buchu and veld fires […]
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 41:
glosses: A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
examples: text: Like Lucy, they have potatoes and onions to sell, but also bottled jams, preserves, dried fruit, packets of buchu tea, honeybush tea, herbs.
ref: 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 71:
glosses: Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
Derived terms: bitter buchu
guarriboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Khwe gwarri (whence also Zulu umgwali) + Afrikaans boom, from Dutch boom (“tree”).
Senses: glosses: A shrub, Euclea divinorum; its fruit can be fermented to produce vinegar.
Related terms: Euclea
oribi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oribis
form: oribi
form: ourebi
Etymology: From Khoekhoe orab.
Senses: synonyms: bleekbok
glosses: Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope.