cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
supernova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuː.pə(ɹ)ˈnəʊ.və/
rhymes: -əʊvə
Forms: form: supernovae
form: supernovæ
form: supernovas
Etymology: From super- + nova.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
examples: text: Cornelius was the only one dressed in muscle but collectively they were a bully supernova.
ref: 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 59:
glosses: Something brilliant.
Synonyms: word: SN
Hyponyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: fast-evolving luminous transient
Derived terms: failed supernova
go supernova
stripped-envelope supernova
supernova impostor
supernova remnant
Related terms: dwarf nova
hypernova
micronova
nova
red nova
unnova
larder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑː.də/
ipa: /ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: larders
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169]
glosses: A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored, but larger than a pantry.
examples: text: Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.
ref: 1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals, page 243:
glosses: A food supply.
Derived terms: larder beetle
larderer
larderful
larderhoard
larderlike
estivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛstɪˌveɪt/
Forms: form: estivates
form: estivating
form: estivated
form: estivated
form: aestivate
form: æstivate
Senses: examples: text: Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
coordinate_terms: hibernate
brumate
glosses: To go into stasis or torpor in the summer months.
Derived terms: estival
estivation
thaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɔː/
ipa: /θɔ/
ipa: /θɑ/
ipa: /θoː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: thaws
form: thawing
form: thawed
form: thawed
form: thow
Etymology: From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þawian, *þāwan (“to thaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjaną (“to thaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian daie, dauje (“to thaw”), West Frisian teie (“to thaw”), Dutch dooien (“to thaw”), German Low German deien (“to thaw”), German tauen (“to thaw”), Swedish töa (“to thaw”), Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”).
Senses: examples: text: the ice thaws
glosses: To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
examples: text: It's beginning to thaw.
glosses: To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather.
examples: text: Her anger has thawed.
text: The atmosphere at the meeting never really thawed.
glosses: To grow gentle or genial.
examples: text: Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167:
text: The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
Derived terms: freeze-thaw
thaw out
thaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɔː/
ipa: /θɔ/
ipa: /θɑ/
ipa: /θoː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: thaws
form: thow
Etymology: From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þawian, *þāwan (“to thaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjaną (“to thaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian daie, dauje (“to thaw”), West Frisian teie (“to thaw”), Dutch dooien (“to thaw”), German Low German deien (“to thaw”), German tauen (“to thaw”), Swedish töa (“to thaw”), Icelandic þeyja (“to thaw”).
Senses: glosses: The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
examples: text: raging floods pursue their hasty thaw; / Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away
ref: 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
glosses: a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen
glosses: A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding.
Derived terms: silver thaw
thaw-drop
thaw wind
dethaw
unthaw
Related terms: snowmelt
temps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temp
temps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of temp
collaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: /kəˈlæb.ɹeɪt/
Forms: form: collaborates
form: collaborating
form: collaborated
form: collaborated
Etymology: Back-formation from collaborator, from French collaborateur, or else modeled on French collaborer or directly from Late Latin collabōrātus, past participle of collabōrāre. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Senses: examples: text: Let's collaborate on this project, and get it finished faster.
text: Wikipedia is a website where anyone can collaborate.
glosses: To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
examples: text: If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.
glosses: To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
Synonyms: liaise
Derived terms: collaboratory
Related terms: collaborator
collaboration
collaborative
macabre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməˈkɑː.bɹə/
ipa: /ˌməˈkɑː.bə(ɹ)/
ipa: /məˈkɑb/
ipa: /ˌməˈkɑ.bɹə/
ipa: /ˌməˈkɑ.bɚ/
homophone: McCobb
rhymes: -ɑːbə(ɹ)
rhymes: (US) -ɑb
Forms: form: more macabre
form: most macabre
Etymology: Borrowed from French macabre, whose etymology is uncertain. Possibly from the term danse macabre, most commonly believed to be from corruption of the biblical name Maccabees; compare Latin Chorea Machabaeorum.
Another theory derives the French term (through Spanish macabro) from Arabic مَقَابِر (maqābir, “cemeteries”), plural of مَقْبَرَة (maqbara) or مَقْبُرَة (maqbura).
Senses: examples: text: There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world[…] In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.
ref: 1941, George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society, page 106:
glosses: Representing or personifying death.
examples: text: Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.
ref: 1993, Theodore Ziolkowski, “Wagner's Parsifal between Mystery and Mummery”, in Werner Sollors, editor, The Return of Thematic Criticism, pages 274–275:
glosses: Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
examples: text: The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, “Introduction”, in Supernatural Horror in Literature, published 1938:
synonyms: ghastly
horrifying
shocking
terrifying
glosses: Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
Derived terms: danse macabre
macabrely
macabreness
neoclassicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌni.oʊˈklæ.sɪˌsɪ.zm̩/
Forms: form: neoclassicisms
Etymology: From neo- + classic + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Any of several movements in the arts, architecture, literature and music that revived forms from earlier centuries.
remis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Borrowed from French remis.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A draw.
seeing-eye dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seeing-eye dogs
Etymology: A genericization of a trademark. From the name of the charity The Seeing Eye, which trains guide dogs.
Senses: glosses: A guide dog for people who suffer from impaired vision.
wikipedia: The Seeing Eye
Hypernyms: guide dog
service dog
service animal
Coordinate terms: hearing dog
hearing-ear dog
scimitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsɪmɪtɑː/
ipa: /ˈsɪmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɪmɪˌtɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ˈɪmɪtɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: scimitars
form: cimeter
form: cimiter
form: cymeter
form: semitar
form: scimiter
form: scimetar
Etymology: First attested in 1548. From Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, possibly from an unknown Ottoman Turkish word, ultimately from Persian شمشیر (šamšir, “sword”). Doublet of shamshir.
Senses: examples: text: The Prince of Morocco:
[…]By this Symitare,
That ſlew the Sophie, and a Perſian Prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
I would ore-ſtare the ſterneſt eies that looke,
Out-braue the heart moſt daring on the earth:
Plucke the yong ſucking Cubs from the ſhe Beare,
Yea, mocke the Lion when he rors for pray
To win the Ladie. […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 167, columns 1–2:
text: Next door is a room devoted to Albanian history (“what a lovely scimitar,” I find myself exclaiming, my reserves of small talk inadequate at the sight of the family’s sword collection),[…]
ref: 2022 April 12, Helen Lewis, “Among Europe’s Ex-Royals”, in The Atlantic:
hyponyms: shamshir
saif
tulwar
kilij
glosses: A sword of Persian origin that features a curved blade.
glosses: A long-handled billhook.
Derived terms: scimitar babbler
scimitar cat
scimitar-horned oryx
scimitar leg
scimitar pod
scimitar shell
scimitar syndrome
scimitar-toothed
scimitar-toothed tiger
scimitar-winged piha
scimmy
Related terms: falchion
scimitar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsɪmɪtɑː/
ipa: /ˈsɪmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɪmɪˌtɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ˈɪmɪtɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: scimitars
form: scimitaring
form: scimitared
form: scimitared
form: cimeter
form: cimiter
form: cymeter
form: semitar
form: scimiter
form: scimetar
Etymology: First attested in 1548. From Middle French cimeterre (15c.) or directly from Italian scimitarra, possibly from an unknown Ottoman Turkish word, ultimately from Persian شمشیر (šamšir, “sword”). Doublet of shamshir.
Senses: glosses: To strike or slice with, or as if with, a scimitar.
temp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: temps
Etymology: Clipping of temperature.
Senses: examples: text: “All brake temps except the one are in the yellow and climbing. You'll get the warning light soon,” was the flight engineer's response. The one brake temp that was okay was the brake on the blown tire.
ref: 2018 February 8, Terry Liittschwager, chapter 30, in Wrongful Act, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2024:
glosses: Clipping of temperature.
Derived terms: overtemp
room temp
spike a temp
temp play
temp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: temps
form: temping
form: temped
form: temped
Etymology: Clipping of temperature.
Senses: examples: text: The produce walk in is temping at between 42-46° and I let management know but nobody seemed too pressed about it. Days later it’s still the same problem
ref: 2023 February 25, Reddit:
text: Our dairy section coolers have been temping at 50 degrees for two hours and the product is temping at 45.
ref: 2025 July 25, Reddit:
glosses: To measure or check the temperature of something, especially food or equipment in a commercial kitchen.
temp
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Etymology: See temp.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temp. (“in the time of”).
temp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Etymology: Clipping of temporary.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.
ref: 2001, John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware:
glosses: Abbreviation of temporary.
temp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: temps
Etymology: Clipping of temporary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of temporary (“short-term employee”).
synonyms: word: temporary
extra: short-term employee
examples: text: That is, r-values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps) […]
ref: 2014, Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers, page 162:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Synonym of temporary (“short-term variable”).
synonyms: word: temporary
extra: short-term variable
Derived terms: temp agency
temp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: temps
form: temping
form: temped
form: temped
Etymology: Clipping of temporary.
Senses: examples: text: --I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.
ref: 2007, The Savages, 01:24:50
glosses: To work as a temporary employee.
watchdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/
Forms: form: watchdogs
Etymology: Compound of watch + dog.
Senses: glosses: A guard dog.
examples: text: Governments must "outline how they will reassure passengers that it will be as safe as possible to travel by public transport", according to industry watchdogs Transport Focus and London TravelWatch.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: Watchdogs say clear guidance needed to reassure passengers”, in Rail, page 9:
text: The UK’s data watchdog is seeking clarification from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta about parental controls on its popular virtual reality headset, as campaigners warned that it could breach an online children’s safety code.
ref: 2022 January 9, Dan Milmo, “UK data watchdog seeks talks with Meta over child protection concerns”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
Derived terms: watchdog timer
Related terms: watcher
watchman
watchdog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑːt͡ʃˌdɑːɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃˌdɒɡ/
Forms: form: watchdogs
form: watchdogging
form: watchdogged
form: watchdogged
Etymology: Compound of watch + dog.
Senses: glosses: To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
bulimia nervosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin bulimia, from Ancient Greek βουλῑμία (boulīmía, “ravenous hunger”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + λῑμός (līmós, “hunger, famine”) and Latin nervosa.
Senses: synonyms: bulimia
glosses: An eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
Related terms: anorexia nervosa
EDNOS
Pro Mia
anorexia nervosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the scientific term anorexia nervosa (1957), from the symptom anorexia (“loss of appetite”), from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite, desire”), and Latin nervōsa (“nervous”).
Senses: glosses: An eating disorder characterized by self-starvation due to an irrational fear of gaining weight.
Related terms: anorexia mirabilis
anorexic
bigorexia
binge eating disorder
body image
bulimia
bulimic
EDNOS
manorexia
muscle dysmorphia
orthorexia
preanorexic
pro-ana
EDNOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, an eating disorder that does not contain all of the characteristics of major classifications of eating disorders (such as anorexia or bulimia).
Related terms: anorexia nervosa
bulimia
pro-ana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊˈæ.nə/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊˈæ.nə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: pro-anas
Etymology: From pro- + ana (“anorexia nervosa”). Compare pro-mia.
Senses: examples: text: Pro-ana is not a disease, Mr. Crane, it's a lifestyle choice.
ref: 2006 December 5, David E. Kelley, Sanford Golden, The Nutcrackers (Boston Legal), season 3, episode 10, spoken by Shelley Ford (Christine Dunford):
text: Alicia: It's a pro-ana website, isn't it?
Diane: Objection. Relevance?
Howard: Yeah, I- I don't get it. What is that?
Alicia: Pro-ana? It's a site intended to promote anorexia.
ref: 2013 February 17, Robert King, Michelle King, Red Team/Blue Team (The Good Wife), season 4, episode 14, spoken by Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies):
glosses: A movement for the promotion of behaviors related to anorexia nervosa.
examples: text: Beyond celebrating the aesthetic value of thinness, pro-anas claim that thinness is a reflection of excellence in other areas of one's life.
ref: 2004 October 27, Eda R. Uca, Ana's Girls: The Essential Guide to the Underground Eating Disorder Community Online, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:
text: But juxtaposed to a caveat about the life-threatening nature of anorexia is often an avowal of the pro-ana's goal: to help anorexics in their quest for the "ideal" (emaciated) body.
ref: 2009, Avis Rumney, Dying to Please: Anorexia, Treatment and Recovery, 2nd edition, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, →OL, pages 25–26:
glosses: A member of this movement.
Related terms: pro-mia
thinspiration
thinspo
wannarexic
pro-mia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊˈmiː.ə/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊˈmiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: pro-mias
Etymology: From pro- + mia (“bulimia nervosa”). Compare pro-ana.
Senses: glosses: A movement for the promotion of behaviors related to bulimia nervosa.
examples: text: The pro-Mias trading tips on B/Ping.
ref: 2010 April 1, Deanna Fei, A Thread of Sky: A Novel, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A member of this movement.
Related terms: pro-ana
thinspiration
thinspo
wannarexic
Twinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: twinkie
homophone: twinky
Forms: form: Twinkies
Etymology: The brand name is said to be a diminutive, twinkle + -ie (or otherwise modified), based on a billboard for "Twinkle Toe Shoes" in St. Louis, although there are also claims for solely one or the other. The meaning in reference to well-assimilated Asians is derived from the slur that they are "yellow on the outside, white on the inside".
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A yellow cake with a creamy white filling, known for its artificiality and supposedly long shelf life.
glosses: Synonym of banana: A person of East Asian descent considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor.
synonyms: word: banana
extra: A person of East Asian descent considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of twinkie.
Derived terms: twink
twinkie
Twinkie defence
whatever creams your twinkie
Oreo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹioʊ/
Forms: form: Oreos
Etymology: Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".
Senses: examples: text: The Oreo is really an antidepressant drug disguised as a cookie. You lost your job? Eat a bag of Oreos[…] There are two ways to eat Oreos. Kids like to pull the chocolate wafers apart and eat the sweat, creamy middle first. Adults dunk them in milk.
ref: 1984 December, Michael Norman, “The Junk Food Hall of Fame”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 67:
text: While Oreo cream may not appear to possess fluid-like properties, it is considered a "yield stress fluid""—a soft solid when unperturbed that can start to flow under enough stress[…] Curious as to whether other had explored the connection between Oreos and rheology, Owens found mention of a 2016 Princeton University study in which physicists first reported that indeed, when twisting Oreos by hand, the cream almost always came off on one wafer.
ref: 2022 April 19, Jennifer Chu, “MIT Engineers Introduce the Oreometer”, in MIT News:
synonyms: Oreo cookie
qualifier: foods
glosses: A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
examples: text: She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside.
ref: 1971, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House:
text: Growing up in white suburbs and attending elite schools and institutions of higher learning, black American prince and princesses are immersed in Anglo (often WASP) culture and emerge with modes of speech, behavior and grooming that brand them as "Oreos," black on the outside and white in the middle.
ref: [2002 November 26, Adrienne Crew, “BAP like me”, in Salon, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2007:
coordinate_terms: coconut
egg
Twinkie
banana
wigger
glosses: A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor.
Synonyms: sense: black person assimilated into white culture
word: Uncle Tom
Hypernyms: sense: cookie
word: cookie
sense: cookie
word: snack
sense: cookie
word: junk food
hooptie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhupti/
/ˈhʊpti/
Forms: form: hoopties
form: hooptee
form: hoopty
Senses: examples: text: “How many of you guys got a hooptee, raise your hand?”
ref: 2007 October 24, Corey Kilgannon, “A High School Under the Hood”, in New York Times:
text: The ops used to laugh at my truck but they cut when they see that hooptie
ref: 2016, “Let’s Lurk”, Dimzy (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs:
text: Chicago's full of shooters, my garage is full of hoopties
ref: 2017, “Kill Jill”, in Boomiverse, performed by Big Boi ft. Killer Mike and Jeezy:
text: “And Vi, this car has touched your life in ways you don't even know.” “Mother! Do not stop for a Quiznos! this baby is coming!” “You got this cute little divot in your head 'cause you shot out into the parking brake.” “I was born... in a CRX.” “It's settled. Too many memories!” “We're saving this memory hoopty.”
ref: 2021 May 2, Janine Brito & Jeremy Rowley, “The Drincan Temple” (6:53 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 19, spoken by Betty Hart (Maya Rudolph):
synonyms: word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
qualifier: African-American
glosses: An old car that has been remodeled or reformed in some way, shape, or form.; a classic, a banger.
SOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
ipa: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/
Forms: form: SOS's
form: SOSes
Etymology: From the letters represented by the signal, chosen as a sequence that is easy to recall and transmit (· · · — — — · · ·); it is not, as is commonly believed, an abbreviation for "save our souls", "save our ship", or any other phrase.
Senses: examples: text: The crew sent a frantic SOS as they realised the scale of the disaster.
text: "Look at wireless. Look at the S. O. S. call at sea. Is that not a benefit to mankind?"
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: At around 5:30 a.m., crewmembers of a JCG patrol boat received an SOS from the 106,726-ton freighter Anangel Courage. The patrol vessel and a JCG plane found the freighter on the high seas about 67 kilometers away from Uotsuri Island, one of the Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China.
ref: 2016 August 11, “Chinese fishing boat collides with Greek freighter near Senkakus, 6 rescued”, in The Mainichi, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2016:
glosses: The conventional Morse code call made by a ship in distress.
Related terms: mayday
pan-pan
SOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
ipa: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Secretary of State.
glosses: Initialism of special order sale.
SOS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
ipa: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of slip on show: a warning to a woman that the underwear she has on can be seen.
SOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
ipa: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence.
Related terms: tic tac toe
SOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
ipa: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of shit on a shingle.
SOS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əʊˈɛs/
ipa: /ˌɛs.oʊˈɛs/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: TOS
glosses: Initialism of struck off strength or stricken off strength.
ethnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English ethnicalle, from Late Latin ethnicālis.
Senses: glosses: Ethnic.
glosses: Of or relating to ethnology.
ethnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnologies
Etymology: From ethno- + -logy.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: ethnography
glosses: The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.
Derived terms: ethnologer
palaeoethnology
paleoethnology
Related terms: ethnic
ethnography
ethnological
ethnologist
entomology
ethology
etiology
aetiology
etymology
progenitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪ.tə/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.tə/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.tɚ/
Forms: form: progenitors
form: progenitour
Etymology: From Middle English progenitour, from Anglo-Norman progenitour, Middle French progeniteur (Modern French progéniteur), and their etymon Latin prōgenitor, from prōgenitus, perfect participle of prōgignere (“to beget”), itself from prō- (“forth”) + gignere (“to beget”). By surface analysis, pro- (“prior, fore-”) + genitor.
Senses: synonyms: ancestor
forefather
coordinate_terms: progenitrix
foremother
glosses: A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
examples: text: Abraham, alias Ibrahim, is the presumed progenitor of both the Jewish and Arab peoples.
glosses: A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ancestral form of a species.
examples: text: ARPANET was the progenitor of the Internet.
text: Are neural progenitor cells infected by Zika virus?
glosses: A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
glosses: Someone who originates something.
glosses: A founder.
Derived terms: chondroprogenitor
legendary progenitor
myoprogenitor
neuroprogenitor
oligoprogenitor
osteoprogenitor
progenitor cell
progenitorial
progenitorship
progenitress
Related terms: progenitive
progeny
diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɡɹæm/
Forms: form: diagrams
form: diagramming
form: diagraming
form: diagrammed
form: diagrammed
form: diagramed
form: diagramed
form: diagramme
Etymology: From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).
Senses: glosses: To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
examples: text: The timing and diagramming staff, too, were on duty for up to 21 hours devising 80 engine, 60 guards' and 25 carriage working diagrams.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131:
glosses: To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.
Related terms: diagrammatic
diagrammatically
twink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: twinks
form: twinking
form: twinked
form: twinked
Etymology: From Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian (“to wink; twinkle”), from Proto-West Germanic *twinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *twinkōną, an augmented form (with formative *-kōną; see English -k) of Proto-Germanic *twint- (“to twinkle”). Cognate with Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, modern German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”), Middle Dutch twinc (“a blink”), Middle High German zwinzen, zwinzern (“to blink, blink hard”).
Senses: glosses: To twinkle; to sparkle.
glosses: To wink.
Derived terms: twinkle
twink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: twinks
Etymology: From Middle English twinken, twynken, from Old English *twincian (“to wink; twinkle”), from Proto-West Germanic *twinkōn, from Proto-Germanic *twinkōną, an augmented form (with formative *-kōną; see English -k) of Proto-Germanic *twint- (“to twinkle”). Cognate with Middle High German zwinken, zwingen, modern German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”), Middle Dutch twinc (“a blink”), Middle High German zwinzen, zwinzern (“to blink, blink hard”).
Senses: examples: text: 1921, Almira Bailey, “The Bay on Sunday Morning” in Vignettes of San Francisco, San Francisco: The San Francisco Journal, p. 18,
[…] chug of the fishermen’s boats, twink of lights in the harbor at night […]
text: But even as he went, the smile began to come on his face, caught by the tail of the sturdy sister’s black eye, with its everlasting twink.
ref: 1934, D. H. Lawrence, “Smile”, in The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories, Hamburg: Albatross, page 101:
synonyms: twinkle
glint
glosses: One or more very small, short bursts of light.
examples: text: […] in a twink she won me to her love.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: I’d have known all about it in half a twink.
ref: 1893, Emily Sarah Holt, chapter 15, in All’s Well, London: J.F. Shaw, page 118:
text: […] and once again, in the twink of nothing, I was in another big high cab, all set to go hundreds of miles across the night, and was I happy!
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
synonyms: word: instant
word: twinkling
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A very short moment of time.
twink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: twinks
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Senses: glosses: The chaffinch.
twink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: twinks
form: twinking
form: twinked
form: twinked
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Senses: glosses: To chirp or twitter.
twink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: twinks
form: twinking
form: twinked
form: twinked
Etymology: From twinkie. More at Twink § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.
ref: 2004, Richard A. Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds, page 429:
text: However, the taboo surrounding twinking had all but disappeared by the time I started playing again in 2004.
ref: 2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest:
text: He used real money to buy large amounts of in-game gold then 'twinked' his new character with the best gear, upgrading as his level rapidly increased.
ref: 2018, Adam Drake, Shadow For Hire Books 1-4:
text: That the twinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.
ref: 2020, Alex Maven, ForeverQuest: Online Battle Arena:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player.
twink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Twink, a brand of correction fluid in New Zealand.
Senses: glosses: Correction fluid or correction tape.
representation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹiː.pɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: representations
form: re-presentation
Etymology: From re- + presentation.
Senses: examples: text: rates of representation to the emergency department
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
theatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːˈætɹɪkəl/
ipa: /θiˈætɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: more theatrical
form: most theatrical
Etymology: From Latin theātricus + -al. By surface analysis, theatre + -ical.
Senses: examples: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
synonyms: dramatic
histrionic
scenic
stagy
theatric
thespian
glosses: Of or relating to the theatre.
examples: text: The ceremony and its scene were characterised by that high sense of the theatrical which has marked the activities of the Third Reich.
ref: 1941 July, “The Armistice Coach”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:
synonyms: word: affected
word: stagy
word: affected
word: effete
word: fey
word: recherché
word: hoity-toity
word: overrefined
word: pansified
word: precious
word: pretentious
word: smug
word: stagy
word: stilted
word: theatrical
word: Woosterian
glosses: Fake and exaggerated.
Derived terms: antitheatrical
hypertheatrical
metatheatrical
nontheatrical
overtheatrical
paratheatrical
semitheatrical
theatrical film
theatricalise
theatricalism
theatricality
theatricalization
theatricalize
theatrically
theatricalness
theatrical prop
untheatrical
theatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːˈætɹɪkəl/
ipa: /θiˈætɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: theatricals
Etymology: From Latin theātricus + -al. By surface analysis, theatre + -ical.
Senses: glosses: A stage performance, especially one by amateurs.
examples: text: Release schedules were stepped up so that virtually all of the summer theatricals are coming to video before year's end.
ref: 2005, The Hollywood Reporter, page 61:
glosses: A commercially produced film to be shown in movie theaters.
examples: text: Both of her parents were theatricals — that is, the father played the violin and the mother attempted to dance but later she dropped the pretence.
ref: 1945, George Tabori, Beneath the Stone, page 177:
glosses: A person who works in theatre.
exaggerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæ.d͡ʒəˌɹeɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ɛɡ-/
Forms: form: more exaggerated
form: most exaggerated
Senses: examples: text: The Wycombe slowing begins at West Wycombe; to the High Wycombe curve itself most exaggerated respect was shown, with a minimum of 30 m.p.h.
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 87:
glosses: That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.
Derived terms: exaggeratedly
exaggeratedness
nonexaggerated
unexaggerated
exaggerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæ.d͡ʒəˌɹeɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ɛɡ-/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exaggerate
matriarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹɪˌɑːk/
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹiɑɹk/
Forms: form: matriarchs
Etymology: Of Latin origin, via or reinforced by Old French matriarche, from Latin māter (“mother”) + -archa, -arches, from Ancient Greek -άρχης (-árkhēs), from ἀρχός (arkhós, “chief”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”). By surface analysis, matri- + -arch.
Senses: glosses: A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
The dominant female in a family group of elephants
examples: text: A typical Lancashire matriarch ushers the reassured townsfolk off the premises, confident that her money is safe: 'You don't deserve any business doubting t' Co-op. It's sound enough, and them that doubt it ought to be ashamed of themselves.'
ref: 2005 September 3, Alan Burton, The British Consumer Co-operative Movement and Film, 1890s-1960s, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 174:
text: Although the drummer has no musical segments in the film, he remains a central visual presence, inevitably accompanied—and visually framed—by his aunt, the stereotypically loud, forceful, and domineering northern matriarch.
ref: 2016 May 23, Barry J. Faulk, British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977: The Story of Music Hall in Rock, Routledge, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Cornelius Hazelwood – naturally I gave him a name – saw to it that Felix could tell his prime numbers from his square roots. Then Beryl Swinehodge, an imperious Yorkshire matriarch, rolled up to test him on food pyramids.
ref: 2022 February 3, Matthew Hammett Knott, A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A female leader of a family, a tribe or an ethnic or religious group.
A strong and domineering older woman; a battle axe.
glosses: A female founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
Synonyms: materfamilias
Derived terms: matriarchate
matriarchism
Related terms: maternal
matriarchal
matriarchy
matrimony
matrimonial
matron
basionym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basionyms
form: basonym
Etymology: From basi- (“base”) + -onym (“name”).
Senses: examples: Arundinaria distans is the basionym of Colanthelia distans.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: An earlier valid scientific name of a species that has since been renamed and from which the new name is partially derived.
Derived terms: heterobasionym
Related terms: synonym
imaginary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnɹi/
ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/
Forms: form: more imaginary
form: most imaginary
Etymology: From Middle English ymaginarie, ymagynary, from Latin imāginārius (“relating to images, fancied”), from imāgō, equivalent to imagine + -ary.
The mathematical sense derives from René Descartes's use (of the French imaginaire) in 1637, La Geometrie, to ridicule the notion of regarding non-real roots of polynomials as numbers. Although Descartes' usage was derogatory, the designation stuck even after the concept gained acceptance in the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: imaginary friend
text: Unicorns are imaginary.
text: Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 1:
glosses: Existing only in the imagination.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
raw_tags: of a number
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of √ (called imaginary unit).
raw_tags: of a number
Synonyms: sense: existing only in the imagination
word: all in one's head
Derived terms: word: imaginarily
word: imaginariness
word: imaginarity
word: nonimaginary
word: unimaginary
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary axis
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary friend
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary geometry
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary lat syndrome
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary museum
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary number
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary part
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary time
sense: Expressions
word: imaginary unit
sense: Expressions
word: purely imaginary → purely imaginary number
sense: Expressions
word: quater-imaginary
imaginary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnɹi/
ipa: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/
Forms: form: imaginaries
Etymology: From Middle English ymaginarie, ymagynary, from Latin imāginārius (“relating to images, fancied”), from imāgō, equivalent to imagine + -ary.
The mathematical sense derives from René Descartes's use (of the French imaginaire) in 1637, La Geometrie, to ridicule the notion of regarding non-real roots of polynomials as numbers. Although Descartes' usage was derogatory, the designation stuck even after the concept gained acceptance in the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 324:
glosses: Imagination; fancy.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An imaginary number.
examples: text: The sensory media are sensuous materials which prolong our bodily life into the surrounding world, and hence the media are imaginaries. These perceptually penetrated materials are " imaginaries " because they operate here in our living body […].
ref: 1978, John Derrickson McCurdy, Visionary Appropriation, page 145:
text: For example, colonial motifs of many kinds became increasingly central to the British national imaginary from the mid-nineteenth century, while the imaginative significance of 'the soldier' has long been derived from, and helped to sustain, the linkage between national and military imaginaries.
ref: 1994, Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining ..., page 51:
text: While Oil, its extraction, and the global petroculture and its role in transforming the planet's climate undoubtedly play a crucial role in the Antropocene imaginary — to the extent that petrofiction has been construed not just as a genre but as a periodizing gesture of "petromodernity" — it would hamper both the imagination and the root of petrofiction to restrict the range of this term to the encounter with fossil fuels within a carbon imaginary.
ref: 2015, Adrian Daub, Elisabeth Krimmer, Goethe Yearbook 22, page 96:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
supercilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uː.pəˈsɪl.i.əm/
ipa: /ˌsu.pɚˈsɪl.i.əm/
rhymes: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: supercilia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin supercilium (“eyebrow; brow, ridge; pride, arrogance”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The eyebrow (arch of hair above each eye).
The region of the eyebrows.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The eyebrow (arch of hair above each eye).
The overhanging margin of a bony cavity (as of the acetabulum).
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The eyebrow (arch of hair above each eye).
A superciliary marking or structure, especially in a bird.
topics: architecture
qualifier: classical
glosses: The narrow fillet above the cymatium of a cornice.
A fillet above and below the scotia of an Attic base.
topics: architecture
qualifier: classical
glosses: The narrow fillet above the cymatium of a cornice.
The lintel or transverse part of a door frame.
glosses: Superciliousness, haughtiness; an instance of this, a supercilious demeanor.
Blackadder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæ.kə.də/
ipa: /ˈblæ.kə.dəɹ/
Etymology: PIE word
 *wasdʰos
From black + a second element, possibly derived from one of the following:
* From Irish fad (“length”), fada (“long”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wasdʰos (“long; wide”)) + dobhar (“moisture; sea; water”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”)), referring to a long river.
* From Old English ǣdre (“channel for liquids; river; (anatomy) artery or vein; sinew”), from Proto-Germanic *ēþrǭ (“rivulet; (anatomy) vein”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éh₁t-r̥ ~ *h₁h₁t-éns (“lung; internal organ”), from *h₁eh₁t- (“breath; to breathe”) + *-r̥ (suffix forming nouns). However, this etymology has been doubted as it has been suggested that the long initial vowel in Old English would have been preserved in English and Scots.
* From Proto-Brythonic *ador or *edir (“(possibly) name of a river”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *hₐet- (“to go”) + *-r̥.
The surname is from the river and the adjacent Blackadder House.
Senses: glosses: Preceded by the: A river in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, a tributary of Whiteadder Water; in full, Blackadder Water.
glosses: A rural locality in the Scottish Borders council area, south of the river (OS grid reference NT8452).
glosses: A surname transferred from the place name.
Derived terms: Blackadder chord