cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unscrupulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈskɹuːpjʊləs/
Forms: form: more unscrupulous
form: most unscrupulous
Etymology: From un- + scrupulous.
Senses: examples: text: The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.
ref: 1888, Rutherford B. Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, volume IV, Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, published 1925, page 374:
text: Nazism, they wrote, had turned German youth into godless, shameless, unscrupulous murderers.
ref: 2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Flashover: The Killing Centers, 1942-1944”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 272:
glosses: Without scruples; immoral.
glosses: Contemptuous of what is right or honorable.
unabated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌn.əˈbeɪ.tɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more unabated
form: most unabated
Etymology: From un- + abated.
Senses: examples: text: In this period, road building continued unabated, but change was in the wind as the UK government recognised it had to make more use of the rail network and increase investment on a scale that it could not afford, and which would require private sector participation.
ref: 2023 March 22, 'Industry Insider', “Restoring Your Railway”, in RAIL, number 979, page 68:
text: More than 100 countries already support a phase-out of “unabated” fossil fuels – those where the resultant emissions are not captured – and whether the final Cop28 agreement calls for this or uses weaker language such as “phase-down” is one of the most fiercely fought issues at the summit.
ref: 2023 December 4, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 president forced into defence of fossil fuel phase-out claims”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Continuing at full strength or intensity.
unacceptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌn.əkˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: [ˌɐn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
ipa: [ˌɐn.əkˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌn.əkˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: [ˌɐn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
ipa: [ˌɐn.ɪ̞kˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: more unacceptable
form: most unacceptable
Etymology: From Middle English unacceptabylle, equivalent to un- + acceptable.
Senses: examples: text: "This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
text: The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created to own not just the railways, but also London Underground, docks, inland waterways, and some road haulage activities. Its remit was to operate on a break-even basis, with sustained losses unacceptable.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 38:
glosses: Unsatisfactory; not acceptable.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not conforming to accepted usage.
Synonyms: word: inacceptable
Derived terms: unacceptably
unacceptableness
unacceptable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌn.əkˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: [ˌɐn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
ipa: [ˌɐn.əkˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌn.əkˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/
ipa: [ˌɐn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
ipa: [ˌɐn.ɪ̞kˈsɛp.tə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: unacceptables
Etymology: From Middle English unacceptabylle, equivalent to un- + acceptable.
Senses: examples: text: Second, the data collected using CASEMAP afford us the opportunity to conduct market segmentation analyses based on the similarity in the pattern of unacceptables and/or the benefits that consumers seek in the category.
ref: 1989, Walter A. Henry, Michael Menasco, Hirokazu Takada, New-product Development and Testing, page 106:
glosses: Something that is not acceptable.
unaccompanied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccompanied
form: most unaccompanied
Etymology: From un- + accompanied.
Senses: examples: text: The number of children arriving without a parent at the southern border is expected to surpass the levels during the 2014 unaccompanied minor crisis, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by CNN.
ref: 2019 March 29, Geneva Sands, “CBP projects unaccompanied children will surpass 2014 crisis”, in CNN:
glosses: travelling without companions
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: performed or scored without accompaniment; solo
Related terms: nonaccompanied
stannary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstænəɹi/
Etymology: From Late Latin stannaria, from Latin stannum (“tin”).
Senses: examples: text: The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to tin mining, especially in Cornwall.
Related terms: stannary court
stannary parliament
stannary town
stannator
stannary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstænəɹi/
Forms: form: stannaries
Etymology: From Late Latin stannaria, from Latin stannum (“tin”).
Senses: examples: text: If by publike lavv the mint vvere ordained to be onely ſupplyed by our ſtanneries, hovv currantly vvould they paſs for more precious then ſilver mines?
ref: 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XVII, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 186:
glosses: A tin mine or tinworks.
flitter-mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flitter-mice
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flittermouse.
rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: plural of rat
rats
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: Expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn.
examples: text: "It's damned clever - fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."
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:
glosses: Expression of disbelief.
rats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rat
Related terms: give a rats
subitaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəs
Forms: form: more subitaneous
form: most subitaneous
Etymology: From Latin subitaneus. Doublet of sudden.
Senses: examples: ref: 1647, A Sudden Essay Or Subitaneous Conceit: […]
glosses: Sudden; suddenly done or made.
examples: text: ... subitaneous (immediately developing) and diapausing (dormant) eggs, brood retention, environmental sex determination and suppression of meiosis in subitaneous eggs. The production of subitaneous and diapausing eggs is[…]
ref: 1989 October 31, Roger Neville Hughes, Functional Biology of Clonal Animals, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 136:
text: ... subitaneous or resting. This is enough to make the Calanoida eggs (about 104–106 m-2 of bottom area) more abundant than those of Rotifera (about 104 m-2) and Cladocera (about 103–105 m-2) in sediment assemblages (Hairston 1996). Among[…]
ref: 2019 August 2, S. J. Hawkins, A. L. Allcock, A. E. Bates, L. B. Firth, I. P. Smith, S. E. Swearer, P. A. Todd, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An annual review. Volume 57, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 17:
text: ... subitaneous offspring (Arbačiauskas 1998). The larger early fecundity at high food concentrations resulted in higher fitness of post-diapause females also in D. magna; however, a trend for a higher fitness in subitaneous offspring was[…]
ref: 2019 September 25, Victor R. Alekseev, Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, Dormancy in Aquatic Organisms. Theory, Human Use and Modeling, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Immediately developing (as contrasted with e.g. diapausing).
raw_tags: of the young of a species
Synonyms: abrupt
precipitous
spontaneous
sudden
Derived terms: subitaneously
subitaneousness
Christadelphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christadelphians
Etymology: Coined by English religious leader and founder of the Christadelphian movement John Thomas, from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”).
Senses: examples: text: When Malone next looked round he was gone. "He is one of these Second-coming fanatics," he whispered to Enid. There are a lot of them—Christadelphians, Russellites, Bible Students and what-not.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A member of a particular nontrinitarian Christian denomination founded in the mid-19th century.
Christadelphian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by English religious leader and founder of the Christadelphian movement John Thomas, from Ancient Greek Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”) + ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Christadelphians.
gamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæmp/
ipa: /ɡamp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: gamps
Etymology: After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.
Senses: examples: text: It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.
ref: 1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers, page 169:
text: And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.
ref: a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:
text: In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1111:
glosses: An umbrella.
gamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæmp/
ipa: /ɡamp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: gamps
Etymology: From GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”).
Senses: qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.
condylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.də.lə/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.də.lɚ/
Forms: form: more condylar
form: most condylar
Etymology: From condyle + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Bolognese's pioneer method of spinal fusion uses condylar screws, which minimize risk to the main vertebral structure.
synonyms: condyloid
condylic
glosses: Relating to or resembling a condyle.
Derived terms: auriculocondylar
bicondylar
ectocondylar
extracondylar
hemicondylar
intercondylar
intracondylar
midcondylar
monocondylar
paracondylar
pericondylar
postcondylar
precondylar
retrocondylar
subcondylar
supracondylar
transcondylar
ulnocondylar
unicondylar
condyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condyloid
form: most condyloid
Etymology: From condyle + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or resembling a condyle.
Synonyms: condylar
Derived terms: supracondyloid
controvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: controverts
form: controverting
form: controverted
form: controverted
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin contrōvertere, from Latin contrō- (“against”) + vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: glosses: To dispute, to argue about (something).
examples: text: [T]hat women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
glosses: To argue against (something or someone); to contradict, to deny.
glosses: To be involved or engaged in controversy; to argue.
Derived terms: controvertist
Related terms: controversial
controversialist
controversy
controverter
controvertible
incontrovertible
unaccountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈkaʊntəbl̩/
Forms: form: more unaccountable
form: most unaccountable
Etymology: From un- + accountable.
Senses: examples: text: And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate!
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: If only Poirot had been accessible, I could have asked his advice. What possessed him to go posting off to London in this unaccountable way?
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 134:
text: However, for some unaccountable reason, these trains used the small terminus which can still be seen at Oxford Road, thus tending to isolate the line from its parent companies' systems.
ref: 1957 October 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 721:
glosses: Inexplicable; unable to be accounted for or explained.
examples: text: Thailand has dropped legislation to criminalise torture and disappearances after years of working on the bill, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, leaving state employees unaccountable for serious crimes.
ref: 2017 March 1, “UN slams Thai 'culture of torture'”, in Bangkok Post:
text: Graeme Bickerdike, a member of campaign organisation The HRE Group, told RAIL: "This infilling and demolition programme - costing much more than repair - has been conceived with no thought for its impact beyond the silos where distant, unaccountable officials manage their spreadsheets.
ref: 2021 May 5, Tony Streeter, “Network News: Disused structures "assets to be preserved", say MPs”, in RAIL, number 930, page 23:
glosses: Not responsible; free from accountability or control.
unadulterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + adulterated.
Senses: examples: text: In the works of nature we find, in many instances, beauty and sublimity involved among circumstances, which are either indifferent, or which obstruct the general effect: and it is only by a train of experiments, that we can separate those circumstances from the rest... Accordingly, the inexperienced artist, when he copies nature, will copy her servilely... and the beauties of his performances will be encumbered with a number of superfluous or disagreeable concomitants. Experience and observation alone can enable him to make this determination: to exhibit the principles of beauty pure and unadulterated, and to form a creation of his own, more faultless, than ever fell under the observation of his senses.
ref: 1808, Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, pages 315–6:
glosses: Pure; not mixed or adulterated with anything.
glosses: Utter or out-and-out, especially in the phrase unadulterated truth.
controvertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑntɹəˈvɝtɪbl̩/
ipa: /ˌkɒntɹəˈvɜːtɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more controvertible
form: most controvertible
Etymology: From controvert + -ible.
Senses: synonyms: disputable
antonyms: incontrovertible
glosses: Open to questioning; that which can be denied, challenged, or disputed.
Derived terms: controvertibly
uncontrovertible
Related terms: controvert
controversy
inadvisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inadvisable
form: most inadvisable
Etymology: From in- + advisable.
Senses: glosses: Unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised.
Derived terms: inadvisableness
inadvisably
Related terms: inadvisability
unadvisable
carb up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbs up
form: carbing up
form: carbed up
form: carbed up
Senses: examples: text: Let's have a spaghetti feed to carb up before the big meet.
glosses: To consume a large amount of carbohydrates, ostensibly for energy; generally a practice of athletes, especially runners and swimmers.
Synonyms: carbo-load
Awen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Heliopolis (“ancient Egyptian city”).
synonyms: word: Heliopolis
extra: ancient Egyptian city
boulangerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /buˈlɑ̃ʒɚˌɹi/
Forms: form: boulangeries
Etymology: Borrowed from French boulangerie.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Crommelyncks followed in 1963 and opened the Atélier Crommelynck in an old boulangerie in the nearby hilltop town of Mougins, […]
ref: 2009 January 31, Michael McNay, “Aldo Crommelynck”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A French or French-style bakery
chalaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈleɪzə/
Forms: form: chalazas
form: chalazae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χάλαζα (khálaza, “hailstone, lump”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The location where the nucellus attaches to the integuments, opposite the micropyle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the two spiral bands which attach the yolk of an egg to the eggshell, suspending it in the white.
Synonyms: word: cicatricula
word: kenning
word: tread
word: treadle
Derived terms: chalazal
chalaziferous
chalazoderma
chalazogamy
Related terms: chalazion
leather working
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherworking
Senses: glosses: The technology of making products from leather.
dragée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæˈʒeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: dragées
Etymology: From French dragée.
Senses: examples: text: I opened the cupboard and found a bag of raisins, two empty sauce bottles, a packet of icing sugar, a tube of dragées and a paper packet of candles.
ref: 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 129:
synonyms: lentil
glosses: A sweet or confection, originally used to administer drugs, medicine, etc.
Related terms: drageoir
eluviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eluviations
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: The sideways or downward movement of dissolved or suspended material within soil caused by rainfall
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Creation of geological deposits (eluvial deposits) by in situ weathering or weathering plus gravitational movement or accumulation.
Derived terms: cheluviation
Related terms: eluviate
mierda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Directly from Spanish mierda, from Latin merda. Doublet of merde.
Senses: glosses: Shit.
raw_tags: in Spanish contexts
Baltimore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔl.tɪˌmoɹ/
ipa: /ˈbɔːltɪmɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈbɔːltɪmo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈbɔːltɪmoə/
Etymology: Named after Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the first Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. "Baltimore" itself is an anglicization of Irish baile an tí mhóir, "settlement of the big house."
Senses: examples: text: Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.
ref: 2006, Mark Chalkley, Hampden-Woodberry:
text: Earlier this week, amid freezing temperatures, students across Baltimore City returned from winter break to face unheated classrooms.
ref: 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
glosses: An independent city in central Maryland, United States.
glosses: A coastal village in western County Cork, Ireland.
Derived terms: Baltimorean
Baltimore bird
Baltimore breaks
Baltimore chop
Baltimore clipper
Baltimore club
Baltimore County
Baltimore finch
Baltimore flyer
Baltimore house
Baltimore oriole
Baltimorgue
Baltimoron
Bodymore
Bulletmore
Lord Baltimore cake
Baltimore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔl.tɪˌmoɹ/
ipa: /ˈbɔːltɪmɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈbɔːltɪmo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈbɔːltɪmoə/
Forms: form: Baltimores
Etymology: Named after Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the first Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland. "Baltimore" itself is an anglicization of Irish baile an tí mhóir, "settlement of the big house."
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Baltimore oriole.
repatriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/
Forms: form: repatriates
Etymology: Latin repatriare, from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repair (“to return”).
Senses: glosses: A person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.
repatriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈpeɪ.tɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈpæ.tɹi.eɪt/
Forms: form: repatriates
form: repatriating
form: repatriated
form: repatriated
Etymology: Latin repatriare, from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repair (“to return”).
Senses: examples: text: Early in 1948, a rumor spread through camp that the Japanese prisoners of war were finally going to be allowed to go home, that a ship would be sent to repatriate us in the spring.
ref: 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 561:
text: A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.
ref: 2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity] (Biography & Memoir), Berkeley, Cali.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
english: Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity
translation: Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity
glosses: To restore (a person) to their own country.
examples: text: Greece repatriated an Athenian frieze from France, arranging for it to be sent back to Athens.
text: France repatriated an Athenian frieze back to Greece.
glosses: To return or restore (artworks, museum exhibits, etc.) to their country of origin.
glosses: To convert a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
Derived terms: repatriation
patriate
patriation
Related terms: expatriate
commerce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.əs/
ipa: /kəˈmɜːs/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.mɚs/
ipa: /kəˈmɝs/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒməs
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, dated) -ɜːs
Forms: form: commerces
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
examples: text: [A]ll libertine diſcourſe, and familiarities vvith vvomen, […] nay even friendſhip it ſelfe […] muſt be vvatched vvith great prudence to be kept ſafe: for vvhich cauſe in ſtead of all theſe perillous commerces of our love, I vvill preferre ſo ſecure an object to it, […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Thirteenth Treatise. Handling whether to be in Love, and to be Devout, are Inconsistent. §. VIII. The Conclusion Framed upon All the Premised Discourse, and Our Love Safely Addressed.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 179:
text: Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
ref: 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
text: Suppose we held our converse not in words, but in music; those who have a bad ear would find themselves cut off from all near commerce, and no better than foreigners in this big world.
ref: 1874–1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC:
glosses: Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
examples: text: carnal commerce
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
Synonyms: trade
traffic
dealings
intercourse
interchange
communion
communication
Hyponyms: E-commerce
e-commerce
electronic commerce
m-commerce
silent commerce
social commerce
Derived terms: anticommerce
biocommerce
chamber of commerce
Commerce City
commerce destroyer
commerceless
commerce raider
commerce raiding
commerciable
commercial
conversational commerce
cybercommerce
ecommerce
Incoterm
s-commerce
s-Commerce
telecommerce
commerce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.əs/
ipa: /kəˈmɜːs/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.mɚs/
ipa: /kəˈmɝs/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒməs
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation, dated) -ɜːs
Forms: form: commerces
form: commercing
form: commerced
form: commerced
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French commerce, from Latin commercium. Doublet of comess.
Senses: examples: text: [A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature [C iiij], verso:
glosses: To carry on trade; to traffic.
examples: text: No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48:
text: Musicians […] taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.
ref: 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
glosses: To hold conversation; to communicate.
attribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.tɹɪˈbju.ʃən/
Forms: form: attributions
Etymology: From Middle French attribution, from Latin attributio.
Senses: glosses: The act of attributing something.
examples: text: The attribution of the quote is widely regarded as dubious.
glosses: An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the tortious or criminal act.
Derived terms: attributional
attributionist
attribution theory
deattribution
microattribution
misattribution
nonattribution
not for attribution
overattribution
Related terms: reattribution
mugwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɡwɜːt/
ipa: /ˈmʌɡwɝt/
Forms: form: mugworts
Etymology: From Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, mucgwurt, from Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge + wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz.
Senses: glosses: Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
examples: text: Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 197:
text: Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
glosses: Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
Derived terms: english: Chinese mugwort
translation: Chinese mugwort
word: Artemisia argyi
word: used in traditional Chinese medicine
english: Douglas mugwort
translation: Douglas mugwort
word: Artemisia douglasiana
word: native to western North America
english: alpine mugwort
translation: alpine mugwort
word: Artemisia glacialis
english: Japanese mugwort
translation: Japanese mugwort
word: Artemisia indica
english: Oriental mugwort
translation: Oriental mugwort
word: Artemisia japonica
english: Norwegian mugwort
translation: Norwegian mugwort
word: Artemisia norvegica
english: yomogi
translation: yomogi
word: Artemisia princeps - Japanese mugwort ()
english: ssuk
translation: ssuk
word: Korean mugwort ()
word: used as a culinary herb and in traditional Chinese medicine
english: hoary mugwort
translation: hoary mugwort
word: Artemisia stelleriana
english: Chinese mugwort
translation: Chinese mugwort
word: Artemisia verlotiorum
word: California mugwort
Related terms: absinthe
artemisia
sagebrush
tarragon
vermouth
wormwood
LGBT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl d͡ʒiː biː tiː/
Forms: form: GLBT
form: lgbt
Etymology: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or transsexual, derived from earlier LGB. Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990.
Senses: examples: text: This differential treatment in both the community of culture and mainstream white LGBT community may lead some LGBT people of colour to experience varying degrees of visibility and invisibility within these communities, and their identity as a^([sic]) LGBT person may change depending on the cultural context.
ref: 2005, Gary W. Harper, “Heterosexism and Oppression”, in Geoffrey Nelson, Isaac Prilleltensky, editors, Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part V (Putting It All Together: Addressing the Issues), chapter 19 (A Journey Towards Liberation: Confronting Heterosexism and the Oppression of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People), page 392:
text: In a restaurant in Changsha, the capital of central China's Hunan province, Hu Mingliang and Sun Wenlin exchanged their wedding rings, and received blessings from over 200 friends, relatives, as well as LGBT rights activists from around the country.
ref: 2016 May 17, Cherie Chan, “Chinese gay couple marry despite court ruling”, in DW News, archived from the original on 18 May 2016, LGBT rights:
synonyms: GBT
GLBT
glosses: Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.
Synonyms: word: alphabet mafia
word: 2SLGBTQ+
word: 2SLGBTQQIA+
word: GBT
word: GBTQ
word: GBTQ+
word: GLB
word: GLBT
word: GLBTI
word: GLBTQ
word: GSM
word: GSRM
word: LBT
word: LGB
word: LGBO
word: LGBQ
word: LGBT
word: LGBT+
word: LGBTA
word: LGBTA+
word: LGBTI
word: LGBTI+
word: LGBTIQ
word: LGBTIQ+
word: LGBTIQA
word: LGBTIQA+
word: LGBTO
word: LGBTQ
word: LGBTQ+
word: LGBTQ2
word: LGBTQ2+
word: LGBTQ2-S
word: LGBTQ2A
word: LGBTQ2A+
word: LGBTQ2S
word: LGBTQ2S+
word: LGBTQA
word: LGBTQA+
word: LGBTQI
word: LGBTQI+
word: LGBTQI2
word: LGBTQI2+
word: LGBTQIA
word: LGBTQIA+
word: LGBTQIA2
word: LGBTQIA2+
word: LGBTQQ
word: LGBTQQIA
word: LGBTQQIAAPP
word: LGBTTQQIAAP
word: LGTV
word: LGBTQWERTY
word: LGBTQXYZ
word: MOGAI
word: queer
word: QUILTBAG
word: SGM
Hyponyms: word: asexual
word: bisexual
word: demisexual
word: homosexual
word: intersex
word: gay
word: lesbian
word: transgender
word: pansexual
Derived terms: word: anti-LGBT
word: LGBTeen
word: LGBTer
word: LGBTism
word: LGBTphobia
word: pro-LGBT
LGBT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl d͡ʒiː biː tiː/
Forms: form: LGBTs
form: LGBT
form: GLBT
form: lgbt
Etymology: Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or transsexual, derived from earlier LGB. Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990.
Senses: examples: text: An applicant may exceptionally be able to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution even if a law criminalizing LGBT is no longer enforced, […]
ref: 1999, Global Human Rights Law Collection: Historical texts and materials on human rights:
text: Further evidence of the political weakness of LGBT is that they are not concentrated enough to be a majority of voters, or even a minority of influence in any state or city.
ref: 2016 January 29, Rebekah Herrick, Minorities and Representation in American Politics, CQ Press, →ISBN:
text: In many cities you will find a neighborhood where the population density of LGBT is higher than it is in other parts of the city.
ref: 2013, Michael Shankle, The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health:
text: Allies can point this out when they discern that a^([sic]) LGBT is being asked to serve in an expert capacity and ask questions like, "How comfortable do you feel being asked to assume the role of representative for all LGBTs?"
ref: 1999, Democracy & Education, volume 13:
ref: 2018, Nick Duffy, “Disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly claims ‘the LGBTs’ are trying to rid America of white men”, in Pink News:
glosses: A member of the LGBT community.
examples: text: Whether it’s LGBT sandwiches in an era where schools in Birmingham are facing protests for teaching LGBTQ rights, or Nike promoting the fight against police brutality in the age of Trump, brands are tapping into this sense of millennial grievance.
ref: 2019 May 23, Owen Jones, “Woke-washing: how brands are cashing in on the culture wars”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sandwich named after the sexuality-gender term, composed of lettuce, guacamole or avocado, bacon, tomato. A variant of the BLT.
presidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of president
designs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of design
designs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of design
passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpæsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpasɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɐːsəz/
ipa: /ˈpaːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpeə̯sɪz/
rhymes: -æsɪz
rhymes: -ɑːsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of pass
passes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpæsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpasɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɐːsəz/
ipa: /ˈpaːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpeə̯sɪz/
rhymes: -æsɪz
rhymes: -ɑːsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass
chavette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: chavettes
Etymology: From chav + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: So, whenever a big game is being shown on telly the streets and shopping centres will become chav-free zones. (You might spot a few straggling chavettes around who haven't quite realized that the way to attract a chav bloke is to feign an interest in the beautiful game.)
ref: 2004, Mia Wallace, Clint Spanner, Chav!: A User's Guide to Britain's New Ruling Class:
glosses: A female chav.
Related terms: word: charva
word: charvette
word: charver
word: chav
english: Northern Irish equivalent
translation: Northern Irish equivalent
word: millie
age group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: age groups
Senses: examples: text: It’s one of Foden’s curiosities that, 74 games into his City career, we still don’t really know what his best position will be. He is played as a wing-back and a deep-lying playmaker for England age-group sides.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A demographic grouping based on age.
Synonyms: age bracket
cohort
air force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: air forces
form: airforce
Senses: examples: text: When you're in the air force you have to be prepared to launch missiles at people from the air.
glosses: A branch of the military mainly devoted to air warfare, as opposed to (land) army and (sea) navy.
glosses: A unit in the U.S. Air Force larger than a division but smaller than a command.
Derived terms: army air force
marshal of the air force
naval air force
airforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə(ɹ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: airforces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air force.
maudlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɑːd.lɪn/
Forms: form: maudlins
Etymology: From Middle English Maudelen, a dialectal form of Mary Magdalene (typically depicted weeping), from Old French Madelaine (whence Madeleine), from Late Latin Magdalena (see Magdalena, Magdalene, and Maudlin).
Senses: examples: text: for alle they worſchipden hir ſouereynly / as worthy was / but ſpecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.
ref: c. 1400, Nicholas Love, transl., The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.
examples: text: Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 186:
glosses: Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow.
glosses: A Magdalene house; a brothel.
Akkadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪ.di.ən/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.di.ən/
homophone: Acadian
rhymes: -eɪdiən
rhymes: -ɑːdiən
Forms: form: Accadian
Etymology: From Akkad + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Akkadian language of ancient Mesopotamia.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Akkadian Empire.
Akkadian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪ.di.ən/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.di.ən/
homophone: Acadian
rhymes: -eɪdiən
rhymes: -ɑːdiən
Forms: form: Accadian
Etymology: From Akkad + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Assyro-Babylonian
glosses: The now extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, formerly used as an international language of diplomacy.
Akkadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪ.di.ən/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.di.ən/
homophone: Acadian
rhymes: -eɪdiən
rhymes: -ɑːdiən
Forms: form: Akkadians
form: Accadian
Etymology: From Akkad + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Semitic inhabitant of the region of Mesopotamia near the city of Akkad.
Related terms: word: Akkad
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Akkadian terms
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/akk
word: akk
aloofness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aloofnesses
Etymology: From aloof + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She wouldn't lose him without a struggle: his aloofness and indifference set a challenge which she could not resist.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 49:
text: Where was he now? Nick was still in the alien high reach of the road, with the canal and the council estates, and longing for the other end, his own end, the safety and aloofness of white stucco and private gardens.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being aloof.
altiplano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altiplanos
Etymology: From American Spanish altiplano.
Senses: glosses: a high plateau
Derived terms: Nevadaplano
paragoge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈɡəʊd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈɡoʊd͡ʒi/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈɡoʊd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: paragoges
Etymology: From Late Latin paragoge, from Ancient Greek παραγωγή (paragōgḗ, “derivation, addition”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, either through natural development or as a grammatical function.
Synonyms: ecstasis
epithesis
Coordinate terms: epenthesis
prothesis
Derived terms: paragogic
antisocial behaviour order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisocial behaviour orders
Etymology: antisocial + behaviour + order
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A civil order made against a person, as a result of persistent antisocial behaviour.
apocope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒ.kə.pi/
ipa: /əˈpɑ.kə.pi/
Forms: form: apocopes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
antonyms: paragoge
hypernyms: clipping#English:_process of word formation
coordinate_terms: apheresis
syncope
qualifier: strictly
glosses: The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
antonyms: procope
glosses: The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
Related terms: apocopate
apocopation
apocopic
apodosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpɒdəsɪs/
Forms: form: apodoses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin apodosis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδοσις (apódosis).
Senses: examples: In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "I will be coming" is the apodosis and "this weather holds up" is the protasis.
1943 Dornford Yates An Eye for a Tooth
"If, after that, there is anything more to be done. . ."
"Yes?"
"You’d ----well better do it," said Forecast.
The meaning with which he invested this blunt apodosis was unmistakable. Even I, an eavesdropper, found it most sinister: and I was not surprised when, after a little silence, the other turned on his heel and led the way to the road.
1997 Angeliki Athanasiadou, René Dirven (eds) On Conditionals Again p. 309 by Hansjakob Seiler
There is furthermore the claim that conditionals necessarily involve a causal relation from protasis to apodosis. This may hold for the "conjunctive" types signalling a natural consequence from protasis to apodosis, but becomes increasingly unlikely as we approach disjunctive structures of the type. "May I perish most miserably, if I do not love Xanthia." does not mean "May I perish most miserably, because I do not love Xanthia."
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: protasis
glosses: The consequential clause in a conditional sentence.
wikipedia: apodosis
Related terms: apodotic
applicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈplɪkəbəl/
ipa: /ˈæplɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: more applicable
form: most applicable
Etymology: From Old French applicable, from Medieval Latin applicabilis.
Senses: examples: text: This rule is not applicable to the longer-standing members of the club.
glosses: Suitable for application, relevant.
Synonyms: appropriate
pertinent
Derived terms: applicability
applicableness
applicably
inapplicable
Related terms: appliance
application
apply
Arabization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arabizations
form: Arabisation
Etymology: From Arab + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of Arabizing.
glosses: That which has been Arabized.
arbitration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.bɪˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌɑː.bəˈt̠͡ɹ̠eɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.bɪˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌɑɹ.bəˈt̠͡ɹ̠eɪ.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: arbitrations
Etymology: From Middle English arbitracion, borrowed from Old French arbitration, from Latin arbitratio, from arbitrari (“to arbitrate, judge”); see arbitrate.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of arbitrating.
glosses: A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute.
glosses: In general, a form of justice where both parties designate a person whose ruling they will accept formally. More specifically in Market Anarchist (market anarchy) theory, arbitration designates the process by which two agencies pre-negotiate a set of common rules in anticipation of cases where a customer from each agency is involved in a dispute.
Derived terms: antiarbitration
arbitrational
arbitrationism
arbitrationist
arbitration of exchange
pendulum arbitration
rearbitration
Related terms: arbiter
arbitrable
arbitrage
arbitrary
arbitrate
arbitrator
archæology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archæologies
Etymology: From archæo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of archaeology.
Derived terms: archæological
archæologist
Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: most commonly
ipa: /eɪʒiˈætɪk/
note: more rarely
ipa: /eɪʃiˈætɪk/
ipa: /eɪsiˈætɪk/
ipa: /eɪziˈætɪk/
Forms: form: more Asiatic
form: most Asiatic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin āsiāticus; equivalent to Asia + -atic.
Senses: glosses: Asian, specifically, relating to the parts of Asia east of Egypt, i.e the Middle East or West Asia.
examples: text: A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.
ref: 1951, James Albert Michener, The Voice of Asia, page 6:
text: “[…] This ship has been in the forward area since March ’42. It’s been through a lot of action. The men are all Asiatic. They probably think a fantail watch in Pearl Harbor is foolishness. […]”
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 82:
text: The note was good-humored and Willie swiftly decided not to take offense. “No thanks. I don’t want any medals for extraordinary heroism.” [¶] “Old man is really Asiatic, sir, ain’t he?” said Meatball, stepping into his trousers.
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 305:
text: Now how the hell, we asked ourselves, does a guy this old get from a navy ammo dump to command of a battleship? Not just any battleship but the flagship of the Battle Force! Had the brass hats at the Bureau of Navigation gone Asiatic?
ref: 1982, Theodore C. Mason, Battleship Sailor, page 129:
text: This was a place that if you stayed there for any length of time, you went “Asiatic”. That was the expression for someone who went cuckoo. We had a long brutally boring patrol duty there, until we left for the island of Tarawa […]
ref: 2004, Sol Weisbrot, Looking Back On My Life, page 50:
text: Enlisted men sometimes went Asiatic, or “rock happy,” after long service in the islands. This was common knowledge on the scuttlebutt network.
ref: 2006, Robert Hood, Mama's Boy, page 155:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Eccentric or crazy as a result of spending a long time in the Far East.
Derived terms: Afroasiatic
Asiatically
Asiatic beetle
Asiatic elephant
Asiatic golden cat
Asiaticism
Asiatic linsang
Asiaticness
Asiatic peafowl
Asiatic pennywort
Asiatic Sarmatia
Asiatic Vespers
Asiatic wildcat
Central Asiatic
pro-Asiatic
Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: most commonly
ipa: /eɪʒiˈætɪk/
note: more rarely
ipa: /eɪʃiˈætɪk/
ipa: /eɪsiˈætɪk/
ipa: /eɪziˈætɪk/
Forms: form: Asiatics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin āsiāticus; equivalent to Asia + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics […] the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be.
ref: 1885, Sir John A. Macdonald, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: An Asian.
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of the people of ancient Canaan, Syria, or Mesopotamia; a Semite.
Synonyms: Asian