cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
junker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊŋkə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈjʊŋkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: junkers
Etymology: From junk + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: 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
glosses: A beat-up automobile.
examples: text: An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.
ref: 1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing:
glosses: A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
glosses: Synonym of junkie (“drug addict”).
synonyms: word: junkie
extra: drug addict
junta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒʌntə/
ipa: /ˈdʒʊntə/
ipa: /ˈhʊntə/
ipa: /ˈhʌntə/
ipa: /ˈdʒʌntə/
rhymes: -ʌntə
homophone: hunter (non-rhotic, with /h/)
Forms: form: juntas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish junta, feminine form of junto, from Latin iunctus, perfect passive participle of iungō (“join”). Attested from 1623.
Senses: glosses: The ruling council of a military dictatorship.
glosses: A council, convention, tribunal or assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain.
Derived terms: antijunta
juntaism
juntocracy
jute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: jutes
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali ঝুট (jhuṭ).
Senses: glosses: The coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
glosses: The plants from which this fibre is obtained.
Derived terms: Congo jute
jutelike
jute mallow
Juteopolis
nalta jute
tossa jute
kabuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbuːki/
ipa: /kəˈbuːkiː/
rhymes: -uːki
Forms: form: Kabuki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 歌舞伎 (kabuki).
Senses: examples: text: Despite its self-consciously assumed irreverence toward traditional practices, “Hokaibo” incorporates all the essential elements of classic Kabuki: the all-male company of actors, exaggerated makeup, the stomping dances, the arresting, cross-eyed poses at moments of high drama that are recognized and applauded.
ref: 2007 July 19, Charles Isherwood, “Guilty Pleasures of Comic Kabuki”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Ichikawa, whose real name is Takahiko Kinoshi, made his kabuki debut in 1980 and went on to become one of the country’s most renowned performers.
ref: 2023 June 27, AFP, “Japanese kabuki actor arrested for allegedly assisting in his mother’s suicide”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.
examples: text: The whole "weapons of mass destruction" concern was phony from the start, and the drama about inspections was just kabuki: going through the motions.
ref: 2005 June 12, Michael Kinsley, “No Smoking Gun”, in Washington Post:
text: Health care reform recently brought Kabuki to mind for both Rush Limbaugh—“what you have here is ‘Kabuki theater’”—and New York Times columnist Frank Rich: “[I]f I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit.”
ref: 2010 March 14, Jon Lackman, “It’s Time To Retire Kabuki: The word doesn’t mean what pundits think it does”, in Slate:
text: The boy tells her she will find iPhone chargers if she takes five steps back. Here the performance shifts from mere stiltedness to a kind of hateful Kabuki, an affected defiance of how people naturally act: She walks backward, counting her steps, then turns and slaps her forehead.
ref: 2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine:
glosses: A stylized, pretentious, and often hollow performance; (especially) political posturing.
Derived terms: kabuki brush
kabuki dance
kabukiesque
kabuki makeup syndrome
kabuki play
kabuki syndrome
kabuki theater
kabuki theatre
kaolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.ə.lɪn/
Forms: form: kaolins
form: kaoline
Etymology: From French kaolin, François Xavier d'Entrecolles's irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 高嶺土 /高岭土 (gāolǐngtǔ, “Gaoling earth”), from 高嶺 /高岭 (Gāolǐng, “High Ridge”), a village in Fuliang County, Jingdezhen Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, that became Jingdezhen's primary source of this kind of clay during the early to mid-Qing dynasty.
Senses: examples: text: The composition of the Eastern or proper China ware, according to accounts that have great marks of authenticity, is from two earths; one of which is, as was before mentioned, vitrescent, and is called Petunse; the other a refractory or apyrous earth; and called Kaolin.
ref: 1757, The Handmaid to the Arts, volume 2:
text: Grind with strong arm, the circling chertz betwixt, / Your pure Ka-o-lins and Pe-tun-tses mixt […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 86:
glosses: A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
wikipedia: François Xavier d'Entrecolles
Synonyms: china clay
E559
paper clay
lithomarge
lithomarga
kaoline
kaolinite
Derived terms: kaolinate
kaolin-cephalin clotting time
kaolin clotting time
kaolinic
kaolinite
kaolinization
kaolinize
kaolinosis
kaowool
metakaolin
kapok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪpɒk/
ipa: /ˈkeɪˌpɑk/
ipa: /ˈkɑːpəʊk/
ipa: [ˈkɑːpəʊʔ]
rhymes: (General American) -eɪpɑk
Forms: form: kapoks
form: capoc
form: kapoc
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay kapuk (“silky fibre from the silk-cotton tree; Ceiba pentandra”).
Senses: examples: text: The moon came out of hiding and for a moment Jerry forgot his anxiety as a little grey-clad figure, small and sturdy [...], in a kapok coat and bulging proletarian cap, lowered himself over the side and leapt for the waiting arms of the sampan's crew.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 492:
text: You can stuff them full of kapok to make a decent cushion and there is nothing better to carry frogs in.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 39:
text: A still summer night a world away in a house that smells of cactus and dust and musty kapok.
ref: 2014 [1993], Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, page 15:
synonyms: mumian
glosses: A silky fibre obtained from seed pods of the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) used for insulation and stuffing for mattresses, pillows, etc.
synonyms: kapok tree
mapou
mumian
glosses: A silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra).
synonyms: kapok tree
glosses: A cotton tree, Malabar silk-cotton tree, or red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba).
Derived terms: kapok bush
kapok tree
kay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: kays
Etymology: From Latin ka.
Senses: glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.
glosses: A kilometer.
glosses: A thousand of some unit (from kilo-).
Derived terms: word: kayo
word: okay
word: yookay
kay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: kays
Senses: examples: text: Three small sandy kays on the reef, bearing this name, lie at the distance of about 5½ miles S.S.E. from Boca Chica.
ref: 1839, John Purdy, The Colombian Navigator:
glosses: Dated form of cay.
Related terms: kay-fabe
kay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: 'kay
Senses: glosses: Clipping of okay.
Related terms: m'kay
mkay
mm-kay
mmm-kay
keddah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛdə/
Forms: form: keddahs
form: kheda
form: khedah
form: khedda
form: kheddah
Etymology: From Assamese খেদা (kheda, “to pursue; to chase away”).
Senses: glosses: An elephant trap; an enclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants.
kelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlp/
enpr: kĕlp
rhymes: -ɛlp
Forms: form: kelps
Etymology: From Middle English culp, culpe, of uncertain origin; possibly from Old English *colba, *colfa, from Proto-West Germanic *kolbō (“bulb, cob”), from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object, club”). Compare Middle High German kolbe (“clublike plant”), Old Norse kolfr (“bulb of a plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.
ref: 2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
synonyms: oyster grass
glosses: Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
glosses: The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.
Hyponyms: kombu
Meronyms: stipe
Derived terms: word: bladder kelp
english: etc
translation: etc
taxonomic: Nereocystis luetkeana
word: bull kelp
word: feather boa kelp
word: giant kelp
word: golden kelp
word: kelp bass
word: kelp bed
word: kelp crab
word: kelpfish
word: kelp forest
word: kelp goose
word: kelp greenling
word: kelp gull
word: kelp pigeon
word: kelp salmon
word: kelpwort
word: stalked kelp
word: sugar kelp
kelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlp/
enpr: kĕlp
rhymes: -ɛlp
Forms: form: kelps
form: kelping
form: kelped
form: kelped
Etymology: From Middle English culp, culpe, of uncertain origin; possibly from Old English *colba, *colfa, from Proto-West Germanic *kolbō (“bulb, cob”), from Proto-Germanic *kulbaz (“round object, club”). Compare Middle High German kolbe (“clublike plant”), Old Norse kolfr (“bulb of a plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Just before we reached Seward the pilot got a radio message that a fishing boat in Thumb Cove had some kelp […] Neither of us had ever kelped before but there wasn't much to it, and we started bringing in full boxes back to Eads' barge.
ref: 2018, John Walter Sutherland, Resurrection Road, page 94:
glosses: To gather kelp.
Derived terms: kelper
kelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛlp/
enpr: kĕlp
rhymes: -ɛlp
Forms: form: kelps
Etymology: From Middle English kelpe, kylpe, from Old Norse kilpr (“the handle of a vessel, loop”). Related to Old Norse kelpa (“otter trap”).
Senses: glosses: A hook or crook by which a pot is hung over a fire.
glosses: A sheath.
kemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: kemps
form: camp
Etymology: From Middle English kempe (“coarse hairs”), from Old English cenep (“moustache; bit (of a bridle, bristling with points)”), from Proto-West Germanic *kanip, from Proto-Germanic *kanipaz (“beard, moustache, whiskers”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“jaw”). Related to chin.
Senses: glosses: A coarse or bristly hair, whisker; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.
glosses: Rough hair, wool, or fur.
kemp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: more kemp
form: most kemp
Etymology: From Middle English kempe, campe (“shaggy, rough”).
Senses: glosses: Shaggy; rough.
kemp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: kemps
form: kemping
form: kemped
form: kemped
Etymology: From Middle English kempen, from Old English *cempan (“to do battle, fight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to campaign, do battle”), ultimately from Latin campus.
Senses: glosses: To strive or contend in any way; strive for victory.
Derived terms: kemper
kemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: kemps
Etymology: From Middle English kempen, from Old English *cempan (“to do battle, fight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to campaign, do battle”), ultimately from Latin campus.
Senses: glosses: A contest in work, etc.
kemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛmp/
rhymes: -ɛmp
Forms: form: kemps
Etymology: From Middle English kempe, from Old English cempa (“warrior, fighter, champion”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“fighter”), ultimately from Latin campus. Doublet of champion. Cognate with literary German Kämpe (“champion, fighter”), German Kempf.
Senses: glosses: A champion; a knight.
Derived terms: kempery-man
Related terms: kemper
keno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
homophone: kino
Forms: form: keeno
form: quino
Etymology: From French quine, with reference to a set of five winning lottery numbers.
Senses: examples: text: Memories of this night are extremely hazy. All I have, for guide-pegs, is a pocketful of keno cards and cocktail napkins, all covered with scribbled notes.
ref: 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 41:
glosses: A gambling game, a variety of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
Derived terms: Keno
Keno City
Keno Hill
racehorse keno
screeno
kern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːn/
ipa: /kɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: kerns
form: kirn
form: curn
Etymology: From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.
Senses: glosses: A corn; grain; kernel.
glosses: The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
glosses: The harvest home.
glosses: A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
Derived terms: kern-baby
kern supper
kern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːn/
ipa: /kɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: kerns
form: kerne
Etymology: From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.
Senses: examples: text: A few types have a portion of the face letter projecting over the body, as in the letter f ; this projection is called the kern, and in combination with other letters the projecting part generally extends over the next letter, as in fe. In those combinations, wherein the kern would come in contact with another letter, compound types are cast, as in the case of ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl.
ref: 1856, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows' Literary Casket, volumes 6-7, page 360:
topics: media
publishing
typography
qualifier: hot metal printing
glosses: Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
kern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːn/
ipa: /kɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: kerns
form: kerning
form: kerned
form: kerned
form: kerne
Etymology: From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.
Senses: examples: text: If you need to kern anything beyond the most commonly used pairs, you can use applications software such as Adobe PageMaker to customize pairs.
ref: 2001, Constance J. Sidles, Graphic Designer's Digital Printing and PrePress Handbook, page 51:
text: Especially consider kerning if you are printing on a relatively high-resolution printer, such as a 600-dpi (dots per inch) laser printer.
ref: 2001, Bill Camarda, Special Edition Using Microsoft Word 2002, page 122:
text: Remember, the goal of kerning is to make letter pairs look natural, not necessarily to minimize letterspaces.
ref: 2006, Tova Rabinowitz, Exploring Typography, page 320:
text: You should kern letter pairs when spacing between characters is too wide or too narrow.
ref: 2008, Terry Rydberg, Exploring Adobe InDesign CS4, page 98:
topics: media
publishing
typography
qualifier: chiefly proportional font printing
glosses: To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
Derived terms: kern pair
kern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːn/
ipa: /kɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: kerns
form: kerne
Etymology: From Middle English kerne, from Middle Irish ceithern. Doublet of quaternion.
Senses: examples: text: O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your strait strossers.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
text: ‘O haste thee, and from Allan learn / If thou mayst trust yon wily kern.’
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 4.XVIII:
text: There he entertained Shan O'Neil, a famous, turbulent chief from Ireland, who late in this year visited Elizabeth's Court, where his train of kerns and gallowglasses, clothed in linen kilts dyed with saffron, made a great impression.
ref: 1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events: "Lusty" Stucley:
text: In the pay-roll of Sir Ralph D'Ufford's expeditions in 1344, a mounted archer received 4d. a day, a foot archer 2d. and a kern, or simple foot-soldier 1d.13s "
ref: 1975, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 184:
glosses: A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
examples: text: Yet it was held that the testimony of the common beadle of the parish, an officer of police, a vulgar, stupid kern, who stood before your own eyes, a very dolt to look on, in all the stark-staring hebetude of just wit enough to be spiteful—was to be credited as to the sense and meaning of an oration, his understanding was to be respected, and his representation trusted, where the Lord Chief Justice of England was in error.
ref: 1828, R. Carlile, “Judgment of the Court of King's Bench on the Reverend Robert Taylor”, in The Lion, volume 1, number 3, page 170:
text: To think that such a lowly kern Should dare to dream to be allied By wedlock to a royal bairn!
ref: 1903, James Duff Law, Here and There in Two Hemispheres, page 105:
text: The kern was much puzzled, for never before had he known food bought or sold.
ref: 1921, Seumas MacManus, The Story of the Irish Race, page 671:
text: The garrison were certain the Irish had no suitable equipment, that its manufacture was beyond the ignorant kern, and that it could not be bought for lack of funds.
ref: 1971, Denis Main Ross Esson, The Curse of Cromwell, page 56:
text: Watch his impudent boldness with great men – you would not think that Essex was the premier Earl and that McGunn was the lowly kern from the boglands of Ireland.
ref: 2010, Rory Clements, Revenger:
glosses: A boor; a low person.
examples: text: The villain kernes Who keep me fettered here.
ref: 1856, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Bothwell:
glosses: An idler; a vagabond.
Derived terms: kernish
woodkern
kern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːn/
ipa: /kɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: kerns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quern.
kern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːn/
ipa: /kɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: kerns
Senses: glosses: A churn.
kerned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kern (“projection of type”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.
Derived terms: unkerned
kerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See kern (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kern
ketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːtəʊn/
ipa: /ˈkitoʊn/
rhymes: -iːtəʊn
Forms: form: ketones
Etymology: From German Keton, from Aketon (“acetone”), from French acétone (“acetone”). See acetone.
Senses: examples: acetone R₁ = R₂ = CH₃
methyl ethyl ketone R₁ = CH₃, R₂ = C₂H₅
camphor C₁₀H₁₇O
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.
Derived terms: aminoketone
bromoketone
cyanoketone
diketone
dimethyl ketone
diphenylketone
epoxyketone
fluoroketone
glyceroketone
haloketone
heteroketone
iodoketone
ketamine
keto-
ketoacidosis
ketogenesis
ketol
ketonaemia
ketone body
ketonemia
ketonic
ketonimine
ketonization
ketonize
ketonuria
ketosis
macroketone
megaphone
methyl ethyl ketone peroxide
methyl isobutyl ketone
methyl vinyl ketone
Michler's ketone
monoketone
-one
polyetheretherketone
polyether ether ketone
polyetherether ketone
polyetherether-ketone
polyetherketoneetherketoneketone
polyketone
raspberry ketone
selenoketone
tetraketone
thioketone
triketone
Wieland-Miescher ketone
Related terms: aldehyde
tautomerism
khan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːn/
homophone: carn (non-rhotic)
homophone: con (father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: khans
Etymology: Via late Middle English can, chan from Old French chan, from Medieval Latin chanis, from Turkic *qan, contraction of *qaɣan. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan), and Mongolian хаан (xaan), possibly from Rouran. Sense 1 (ruler in the Middle Ages) after Genghis Khan, from Middle Mongol ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (qaɣan). Doublet of khagan.
Senses: glosses: A ruler over various Turkic and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
glosses: An Ottoman sultan.
glosses: A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.
Synonyms: khakan
Derived terms: khanate
khanship
Related terms: khanum
khan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːn/
homophone: carn (non-rhotic)
homophone: con (father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: khans
Etymology: From Arabic خَان (ḵān, “inn, caravanserai, hotel”) and Persian خان (xân, “inn, caravanserai”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Guess the name of that,’ she said, pointing to her delicate parts. The porter tried this name and that and ended by asking her to tell him and cease her slapping. ‘The khān of Abu-Mansur,’ she replied.
ref: 1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
text: At each of these stations there is a hostelry which they call a khan, where travellers alight with their beasts, and outside each khan is a public watering-place and a shop at which the traveller may buy what he requires for himself and his beast.
ref: 1958-1994, Hamilton Gibb & CF Beckingham, in The Travels of Ibn Battutah, Folio Society 2012, page 27
glosses: Synonym of caravanserai (particularly in Middle Eastern contexts)
synonyms: word: caravanserai
extra: particularly in Middle Eastern contexts
glosses: Synonym of fonduk (“inn or hotel in Middle Eastern contexts”).
synonyms: word: fonduk
extra: inn or hotel in Middle Eastern contexts
Derived terms: khanji
kibitz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪbɪts/
Forms: form: kibitzes
form: kibitzing
form: kibitzed
form: kibitzed
form: kibbitz
Etymology: From Yiddish קיבעצן (kibetsn), cognate to German kiebitzen (“to look on”), from German Kiebitz (“lapwing”), from Middle High German gibiz (“plover”), imitative of its cry. Compare peewit.
Senses: examples: text: Louise and I used to head down to the coffee shop and just sit for hours and kibitz.
text: His wife Karen listened as John and I kibitzed about our experiences at the University of Oklahoma some 40 years ago.
ref: 2004, Gerald W. Esch, Parasites, People, and Places: Essays on Field Parasitology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
text: Okay, we kibitzed enough. What brings you?
ref: 2004, David Daniel, Goofy Foot: An Alex Rasmussen Mystery, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
text: Their owners lounge at the outdoor tables, kibitzing about cranksets, aero bars, local races or, when they can help it, anything other than cycling.
ref: 2012 August 9, Liz Robbins, “Where Cyclists Fuel Up on Carbs”, in The New York Times:
text: So how it’s gonna go is we’re gonna talk for about 45 minutes. We’re just gonna kibbitz here; that’s Yiddish for just kinda like […]
ref: 2018 December 10, Eric Johnson, “Full Q&A: Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Recode’s Kara Swisher discuss tech ethics, addiction and Facebook”, in recode:
synonyms: chat
gossip
glosses: To make small talk or idle chatter.
examples: text: Quit kibitzing! You're giving away my hand!
glosses: To give unsolicited or unwanted advice or make unhelpful or idle comments, especially to someone playing a game.
examples: text: […] stayed in the dorm, although she lived in Brooklyn Heights, and I frequently spent long hours with her, either in her room or at the student lounge, where we drank coffee and smoked cigarettes and kibitzed the never-ending bridge game.
ref: 2002, Elisabeth Merrett, Storied Landscapes: A Journey, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 103:
text: When it was my turn to stay in the office until 11 pm. closing, I kibitzed on their poker games and heard some colorful tales.
ref: 2012, Nona Baldwin Brown, Through the Opening Door: My Pioneering Journey in Mainstream Journalism, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To watch a card or board game.
Derived terms: kibitzer
Related terms: armchair general
kirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːk/
ipa: /kɪɾk/
ipa: /kɔʶːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: kirks
form: kyrk
Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English kyrke, from either Old Norse kirkja or Old English ċiriċe. Doublet of church.
Senses: examples: text: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.
ref: 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
glosses: A church.
Derived terms: Free Kirk
Kirby
Kirk Bramwith
kirkbuzzer
Kirkby
Kirk Ella
kirkgarth
kirkgoer
Kirk Hammerton
Kirkinch
Kirkist
Kirkland
kirkland
kirklike
kirkmaister
kirkman
kirkmaster
Kirk Merrington
Kirkmichael
Kirk Michael
Kirk Sandall
kirk-session
Kirk Smeaton
Kirkton
kirk-town
kirktown
kirkyard
Kirk Yetholm
Related terms: kirk out
kiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiː.və/
rhymes: -iːvə
Forms: form: kivas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi kíva.
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial underground chamber in a Pueblo village.
klaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæks(ə)n/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: klaxons
form: claxon
Etymology: From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”) (from Proto-Indo-European *glag- (“to make a noise, clap, twitter”), from *gal- (“to roop, scream, shout”)). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).
Senses: examples: text: And she went so swiftly that he could only follow her to the door. The large shape of the car swallowed her up; and the car twisted softly around the little drive and away to the London road. Minutes later he heard its Klaxon, just one sharp keen, like the harsh cry of a sea-bird. …
ref: 1922 October, Michael Arlen, “Book the Third: The Antagonists. Chapter V.”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London; Glasgow: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., […], published August 1924, →OCLC, section 1, page 188:
text: There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning.
ref: 1940 October 21, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 42, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC; republished London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, 1949 (13th printing), →OCLC, page 386:
text: They could hear a lot more than they could see. But what they heard told them exactly nothing. There were the klaxons, which kept up their long, monotonous, insane growling protest all through the raid.
ref: 1962 September, James Jones, chapter 2, in The Thin Red Line, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 73:
text: When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.
ref: 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, chapter 11, in The Shield and the Shark, Cambridge: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Irenka was up front using the lavatory when the lights in the cabin went red and the klaxon sounded over the speakers.
ref: 2010 November, Brad R. Torgersen, “Outbound”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume CXXX, number 11, Norwalk, Conn.: Dell Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84; reprinted as “Outbound”, in Stanley Schmidt, editor, Into the New Millennium: Trailblazing Tales from Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000–2010, Norwalk, Conn.: Penny Publications, 2011, →ISBN, column 1:
glosses: A loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th century.
klaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæks(ə)n/
rhymes: -æksən
Forms: form: klaxons
form: klaxoning
form: klaxoned
form: klaxoned
Etymology: From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”) (from Proto-Indo-European *glag- (“to make a noise, clap, twitter”), from *gal- (“to roop, scream, shout”)). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).
Senses: examples: text: He headed down the Embankment. It was noon precisely. Big Ben klaxoned the hour with blasts of servo whistle.
ref: 1980, John Domatilla [pseudonym; Ian Kennedy Martin], The Last Crime, London: Heinemann, →ISBN; republished [Morrisville, N.C.?]: Lulu Press, 2012, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Suffering. It was like a great discordant symphony ringing out from the world; like a klaxoning of a million million cracked bells.
ref: 2005 January, John Shirley, chapter 16, in Constantine: A Novelization [...] Based on Characters from the DC Comics/Vertigo Hellblazer Graphic Novels, Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Star Books, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 252:
text: Century stops before an eel-ship, coiled in jewel-skinned splendor. Its great eye-ports are open, and Century signals with a hand; the eel extends a proboscis lined with diamond mesh and graphene plates like a ramp. Century leads Mere into the eel's body. Alarms klaxon in Mere's head—its escape is known.
ref: 2015 December, A. Merc Rustad, “Tomorrow When We See the Sun”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, Lightspeed, number 67, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2017, section II; reprinted in John Joseph Adams, editor, Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-away Galaxies, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, Simon & Schuster, 2017, →ISBN, pages 187–188:
glosses: To produce a loud, siren-like wail.
Derived terms: word: klaxoning
knurl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜːl/
ipa: /nɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: knurls
Etymology: From knur + -le (“diminutive”), from Middle English knarre (“knot in wood”), earlier sense “a stone”, likely influenced by Old Norse knǫrr.
gnarl is a later variant, from gnarled, via knurled.
Senses: glosses: A contorted knot in wood.
glosses: A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
glosses: A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.
Derived terms: knurler
knurly
knurl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜːl/
ipa: /nɝl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: knurls
form: knurling
form: knurled
form: knurled
Etymology: From knur + -le (“diminutive”), from Middle English knarre (“knot in wood”), earlier sense “a stone”, likely influenced by Old Norse knǫrr.
gnarl is a later variant, from gnarled, via knurled.
Senses: glosses: To roll or press a pattern of ridges or indentations into a part for grip.
kola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: kolas
form: cola
Etymology: Presumably from a West African language. Compare Hausa gōr̃ò, Bambara goro, Temne kola, Mandinka kolo (“kola nut”).
Senses: glosses: A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
glosses: A nut of this tree.
glosses: Alternative form of cola (“drink made with kola nut flavoring”).
Derived terms: kola nut
Related terms: Cola
kudo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuː.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkjuː.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkuː.doʊ/
ipa: /ˈkjuː.doʊ/
rhymes: -uːdəʊ
Forms: form: kudos
Etymology: Back-formation from kudos, as if it were a plural with -s.
Senses: examples: text: Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph.D.
ref: 1929 February 18, Harkness Lampooned, Time, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2007:
text: At this point we need to give this pilot a kudo.
ref: 2001, Terry T. Lankford et al., Controlling Pilot Error: Controlled Flight Into Terrain, →ISBN, page 49:
text: We still feel a kudo for one of us is a kudo for the group, as we have nurtured, edited, and prodded each other for much of our writing careers.
ref: 2004, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: A compliment or praise.
kudo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuː.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkjuː.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkuː.doʊ/
ipa: /ˈkjuː.doʊ/
rhymes: -uːdəʊ
Forms: form: kudos
form: kudoing
form: kudoed
form: kudoed
Etymology: Back-formation from kudos, as if it were a plural with -s.
Senses: examples: text: The magazines kudoed the spectacular African wild animal adventure film as being "an outstanding motion picture as voted by the editors."
ref: 1962, Box Office, volume 80, page 6:
text: This is more or less a stock service picture entry, kudoing the Coast Guard and the role it played in World War II beach operations.
ref: 2001, Richard L. Hemenez, The United States Marine Corps in Books and the Performing Arts, page 450:
glosses: To give a compliment or praise to.
kudzu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊd.zuː/
Forms: form: kudzus
form: kuzu
Etymology: From Japanese 葛(くず) (kuzu). The spelling kudzu (instead of kuzu) is due to historical transliteration methods of Japanese into English (compare adzuki).
Senses: examples: text: By 2020, droughts and other extreme weather will be commonplace. By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe, and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle.
ref: 2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Walled off communities, private jets, private security details are spreading like kudzu around the world.
ref: 2011 August 31, Ashley Dawson, “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor: An Interview with Rob Nixon”, in Social Text:
text: All the author’s familiar trademarks are here: […] shaggy-dog plotlines sprouting everywhere, like kudzu; […]
ref: 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times:
synonyms: Japanese arrowroot
mile-a-minute
glosses: An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montana var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States.
examples: text: Kudzu is available in natural food stores and Oriental markets; it is often sold in lumps that must be crushed in a mortar before measuring.
ref: 1989 November, Drew DeSilver, Jan Gahala, “What is that stuff?”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 43:
text: Kudzu, a starch extracted from the root of the kudzu plant, acts similarly to cornstarch or arrowroot but is preferable for bone health because it contains some calcium.
ref: 2009, Annemarie Colbin, Whole-food Guide to Strong Bones, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN, page 233:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
synonyms: kudzu powder
glosses: A starch extracted from the root that is used in traditional East Asian medicine and cuisine.
Derived terms: kudzu bug
kudzued
kudzu powder
kudzu tea
kulak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːlak/
ipa: /ˈkulæk/
Forms: form: kulaks
form: kulaki
form: koulak
form: kulack
form: Kulak
Etymology: 1877. From Russian кула́к (kulák, “wealthy peasant; fist; tight-fisted person”), plural кулаки́ (kulakí). Compare also Russian раскула́чивание (raskuláčivanije, “dekulakization”), подкула́чник (podkuláčnik, “subkulak”).
Senses: examples: text: The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.
ref: 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:
text: We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished.
ref: 2015 February 6, Nick Gillespie, “To the Barricades, Brooklyn Yuppies!”, in The Dailey Beast, retrieved 20150206:
glosses: A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
Synonyms: kurkul
Hypernyms: employer [⇒ thesaurus]
landlord
petit bourgeois
Derived terms: anarcho-kulak
dekulakisation
de-kulakisation
dekulakization
de-kulakization
dekulakise
de-kulakise
dekulakize
de-kulakize
kulakisation
kulakization
kulakism
kulakize
kulakise
self-dekulakisation
self-dekulakization
subkulak
labial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bi.əl/
ipa: /ˈleɪb.jəl/
rhymes: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The wound that does not kill Christ is the magical labial wound; it is the seal of the resurrection and an expression of the myth of eternal recurrence.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
synonyms: cheilo-#Prefix
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: coronal
dorsal
radical
laryngeal
glosses: Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
raw_tags: of an incisor or canine
examples: text: a labial organ pipe
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Furnished with lips.
Derived terms: alveololabial
anterolabial
apicolabial
axiolabial
basiolabial
basolabial
bilabial
buccolabial
cervicolabial
dentolabial
distolabial
endolabial
exolabial
gingivolabial
illabial
infralabial
inguinolabial
interlabial
labial-alveolar consonant
labial artery
labial consonant
labial geyser
labialisation
labialism
labiality
labialization
labialize
labialise
labially
labial-palatal approximant
labial-palatal consonant
labial pipe
linguolabial
lorilabial
maxillolabial
mentolabial
mesiolabial
mesolabial
nasolabial
nonlabial
orolabial
posterolabial
postlabial
prelabial
quadrilabial
sublabial
superlabial
supralabial
translabial
vaginolabial
ventrolabial
labial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bi.əl/
ipa: /ˈleɪb.jəl/
rhymes: -eɪbiəl
Forms: form: labials
Etymology: Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, Palate, & c. which go to the making of the ſeveral Alphabetical Letters are worthy inquiry, and pertinent to the preſent Inquiſition of Sounds: But becauſe they are ſubtil and long to deſcribe, we will refer them over, and place them amongſt the Experiments of Speech. The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have aſſigned which Letters are Labial, which Dental, which Guttural, & c
ref: 1670, Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries, Natural History, Century II, pp 197-98
text: You have but the same four letters to describe the salute which you perform on your grandmother’s forehead, and that which you bestow on the sacred cheek of your mistress; but the same four letters, and not one of them a labial.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Those were his first words of the voyage, and they were spoken with unstuttered labials.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 578:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A consonant articulated by the lips.
examples: text: All organ pipes are divided into two general classes, labial and lingual pipes. The main difference between the two classes is the manner by which the vibrations producing the sound are caused. In labial pipes the column of air entering the pipe under pressure is set in vibration by a fixed obstruction at the mount of the pipe. […] [T]he obstruction at the mouth […] causes the column of air to vibrate. In the lingual or reed pipe, the vibrations are caused by the air passing through a metal reed, which causes the tongue of the reed to vibrate, thereby setting up sympathetic vibrations in the column of air in the pipe.
ref: 1923, Estey Organ Company, The Philosophy of an Organ Builder, Brattleboro, VT, pages 34–35:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
labile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪbaɪl/
rhymes: -eɪbaɪl
Forms: form: more labile
form: most labile
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”).
Senses: glosses: Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
examples: text: Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
synonyms: unstable
glosses: Apt or likely to change.
examples: text: Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
text: Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
raw_tags: of a compound or bond
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
raw_tags: of a verb
Derived terms: frigolabile
heat labile
hemilabile
labile affect
labile verb
labilization
labilize
nonlabile
photolabile
stereolabile
thermolabile
Related terms: lability
lapse
lac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: lacs
Etymology: From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.
Senses: examples: text: At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.
ref: 2019 November 5, Alice Bell, “Can science break its plastic addiction?”, in CNN:
glosses: A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
Derived terms: Ceylon lac
gum lac
laccol
lac dye
laciferous
lac insect
lac lake
lac scale
lac tree
lacwork
Mexican lac
seedlac
shellac
sticklac
lac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: lacs
Senses: examples: text: […] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea.
ref: 1804, R[obert] Montgomery Martin, quoting Yashwantrao Holkar, “Section II. European Intercourse—Rise and Growth of British Power.”, in The Indian Empire: […], volume I (History, Topography, Population, Government, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products), London; New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, published [1858], →OCLC, page 399, column 2:
text: The Laccadives and Maldives, for instance, meaning literally the "lac of islands" and the "thousand islands," are a series of such atolls; […]
ref: 1878 August, “Contemporary Portraits. New Series.—No. 8. Charles Darwin, F.R.S.”, in The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, volume II, London: Hurst & Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: Dated spelling of lakh.
lac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: lacs
Etymology: From Cadillac.
Senses: examples: text: Last night I was driving around in my lac.
text: 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
Macs drive lacs.
text: The candy gloss is immaculate, it's simply amazing / Them elbows poking wide on that candy ’Lac
ref: 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:
synonyms: caddie
caddy
glosses: Clipping of Cadillac
lac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læk/
rhymes: -æk
ipa: /læs/
rhymes: -æs
ipa: /læk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: lacs
Etymology: From laceration.
Senses: examples: text: hand lac
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Laceration.