cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subsidiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/
ipa: /sʌbˈsɪ.dəɹ.i/
ipa: /sʌbˈsɪ.d͡ʒəɹ.i/
Forms: form: more subsidiary
form: most subsidiary
Etymology: From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).
Senses: examples: text: chief ruler and principal head everywhere, not suffragant and subsidiary
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays:
text: They constituted a useful subsidiary testimony of another state of existence.
ref: May 1, 1823, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Difference between stories of dreams and ghosts […]
glosses: Auxiliary or supplemental.
examples: text: a subsidiary stream
text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: Secondary or subordinate.
examples: text: subsidiary payments to an ally
text: George the Second relied on his subsidiary treaties.
ref: 1836-1853, Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783
glosses: Of or relating to a subsidy.
Derived terms: subsidiary legislation
Related terms: subsidiarity
subsidiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/
ipa: /sʌbˈsɪ.dəɹ.i/
ipa: /sʌbˈsɪ.d͡ʒəɹ.i/
Forms: form: subsidiaries
Etymology: From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).
Senses: glosses: A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subordinate theme.
glosses: One who aids or supplies; an assistant.
hegemony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈd͡ʒɛm.ə.ni/
ipa: /hɪˈɡɛm.ə.ni/
ipa: /hɪˈd͡ʒɛm.ə.ni/
ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒ.ə.moʊ.ni/
Forms: form: hegemonies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡγεμονία (hēgemonía, “supremacy or leadership, chief command”), from ἡγεμών (hēgemṓn, “a leader, guide, commander, chief”), from ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “to lead”). Early 19th-century usage influenced by German Hegemonie.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a German republic and confederacy like the American, is surely less fantastical than a hegemony to which nobody is willing to submit.
ref: 1820 [1819], “Germany and the Revolution”, in anonymous translator, The Pamphleteer, volume xxv, number 30, London, translation of Teutschland und die Revolution by J[oseph] Görres, page 572:
glosses: Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.
examples: text: The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony.
glosses: Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force.
Derived terms: antihegemony
counterhegemony
hegemonical
hegemonism
hegemonist
hegemonistic
hegemonize
posthegemony
Related terms: hegemon
hegemonic
Daffy Duck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first appearance of the character was in the short Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937; from daffy + duck.
Senses: glosses: A fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros.
Daffy Duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Daffy Ducks
Etymology: The first appearance of the character was in the short Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937; from daffy + duck.
Senses: examples: text: At Utah, the Utes are sporting a Daffy Duck offense. The linemen come out of the huddle and go to one side of the field. A wide receiver snaps to the quarterback...
ref: 1987 October 7, “HERE'S FRESH NEWS: EVERTHING IS JUST DUCKY AT OREGON”, in Dallas Morning News:
text: A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention.
ref: 1989 February 12, “Coots-Feathered Variety-Draw Curses, Gunfire in Orange County”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: This closing section sports a number of inversions (e.g., "bivouac we") reminiscent of the verbal habits of the Daffy Duck voice, yet this ending seems very different in tone from the broadly ironic opening.
ref: 1993, Vernon Lionel Shetley, “John Ashbery's Difficulty”, in After the Death of Poetry, page 127:
text: Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.
ref: 1996 February 8, Dallas Morning News:
text: His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war[…]
ref: 1996, Joseph R. Garber, Vertical Run, page 30:
text: "Instead of a lame-duck Congress," Wilson lamented, "it's a Daffy Duck election." Edward Bodge said it is time to do away with the Electoral College.
ref: 2000 November 10, “Recount is the talk of the town”, in San Diego Union-Tribune:
text: "Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long
ref: 2000, Gene Brewer, K-PAX, page 243:
glosses: A duck, comical especially for lisping voice or zany behavior.
Donald Duck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Donald + duck
Senses: examples: text: Single-handed [sic] he swung the staid Western Union from its ordinary singing-telegram policy to the point where local patrons can request that their greeting be sung in Donald Duck voice.
ref: 1941 March 6, “Screwy Hall Of Fame Presents A Quack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
text: And then the most Donald Duck-like screaming and jabbering you ever heard.
ref: 1945, Ernie Pyle, edited by David Nichols, Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches, Touchstone Books, published 1987, page 399:
text: DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.
ref: 1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77:
text: Perched securely in the rafters and using a walkie-talkie to communicate with colleagues on the airdock's floor, Lachenmeier was amused to find his voice had risen into the Donald Duck register due to the bubble of escaping helium spreading along the ceiling.
ref: 1992 May, Sturat F. Brown, “Earthwinds Waits on the Weather”, in Popular Science, volume 240, number 5, page 80:
glosses: One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.
glosses: The asteroid 12410.
Derived terms: Donald Ducking it
Related terms: Duckburg
Donald Duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Donald Ducks
Etymology: Donald + duck
Senses: examples: text: Look, I don't give a Donald Duck how you do it. Do it.
ref: 2010, Eric Morecambe, Mr Lonely, page 16:
glosses: A fuck.
Derived terms: Donald Ducked
Related terms: Uncle Scrooge
Elmer Fudd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first animated appearance of the figure was as a character named "Egghead" in the short Egghead Rides Again in 1937. The figure's first animated appearance as "Elmer Fudd" was in the short Elmer's Candid Camera in 1940.
Senses: glosses: A fictional hunter, a member of the Looney Tunes, who has a distinctive squeaky and babyish voice.
goofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːfi/
rhymes: -uːfi
Forms: form: goofier
form: goofiest
Etymology: From goof + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Glorious attacking and goofy defending: here was a match that encapsulated the madcap appeal of this season's Premier League.
ref: 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian:
glosses: silly, quirky
Derived terms: goofily
goofiness
goofy ahh
goofy goober
goofy juice
ungoofy
goofy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːfi/
rhymes: -uːfi
Forms: form: goofies
Etymology: From goof + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Why didn’t you tell me, you goofies?
ref: 1949, Joseph R. Ellis, “Act Three”, in Call me Dearie: A Comedy in Three Acts, Boston, Mass.: The Christopher Publishing House, page 128:
text: She showed other kids you could have fun by being a goofy who liked sports.
ref: 1994, Carolyn Thompson, “THOMPSON, DAWN MARIE”, in The National Library of Poetry, edited by Cynthia A. Stevens, The Space Between, Owings Mill, Md.: Jeffrey Franz, →ISBN, page 815, column 3:
text: You two goofies shut up, would cha?
ref: 2010, Brock Clarke, “Brookside Cemetery”, in Exley, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, part 6, page 289:
glosses: Synonym of goof.
synonyms: word: goof
goofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːfi/
rhymes: -uːfi
Etymology: From the way the Disney character Goofy was first depicted surfing, with right foot forward.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: Riding with the right foot forward.
Coordinate terms: topics: snowboarding
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: switch
Related terms: topics: snowboarding
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: goofy-foot
goofy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːfi/
rhymes: -uːfi
Forms: form: goofies
Etymology: From the way the Disney character Goofy was first depicted surfing, with right foot forward.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: One who rides with the right foot forward.
strewth
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹuːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: ’strewth
form: streuth
form: strooth
form: struth
form: ’struth
Etymology: Minced form of God's truth. Compare zounds, blimey.
Senses: examples: text: “Strewth! Here she is,” said the salesman.
ref: 1957, Greta X (Angela Pearson), The Whipping-Post, page 109:
text: “Strewth,” he whistled. “I reckon that’s a complicated fracture of the right tibia.”
ref: 1971 July 1, Michael O’Donnell, “Take to the hills”, in New Scientist, page 41:
text: He smiles and is going to say something encouraging. Strewth! Why doesn’t he duck? His head’s above the parapet. He’s in the line of fire. Silly BUGGER! “CRACK!”
ref: 2007, Marilys Edwards, Keep The Home Fires Burning, AuthorHouse, page 187:
text: Nicky: 'Helloooooo?' / Sam: 'Strewth. You gotta be kidding me.'
ref: 2020, "Moments of Silence", in Taskmaster, series 10, episode 8, Channel 4, character scripts in The Smart Steak
glosses: A mild oath expressing surprise or generally adding emphasis.
Related terms: bleeding
bloody
cripes
damn
euphemism
geez
gosh
ruddy
zounds
disabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈbjuːz/
Forms: form: disabuses
form: disabusing
form: disabused
form: disabused
Etymology: From dis- + abuse. Compare French désabuser.
Senses: examples: text: I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 201:
text: If we had any hopes or illusions about the National Party before they came into office, we were disabused of them quickly.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 140:
text: Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To free (someone) of a misconception or misapprehension; to unveil a falsehood held by (someone).
Synonyms: undeceive
Derived terms: disabusal
disabuser
undisabused
jos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jo
speed of light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speeds of light
form: c
Senses: examples: text: As the subjective speed of light is raised within the field, objects outside will appear to red-shift, eventually becoming visible only to radio telescope antennae.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: FTL Drive: Appearance Codex entry:
text: The science world was left in shock when workers at the world's largest physics lab announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light – a feat that Einstein said was impossible.
ref: 2011 September 22, Nick Collins, “Speed of light 'broken' by scientists”, in Daily Telegraph:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The speed of electromagnetic radiation, which in a perfect vacuum is equivalent to 299,792,458 metres per second.
glosses: A very rapid speed.
examples: text: The translated distance divided by the period is the speed of the spaceship. Since the maximum speed of propagation of a signal in Life is one cell per generation, this speed is known as c (the speed of light). This speed is also the fastest possible growth of any finite object for a finite number of generations (think of a long line of ON cells). However, growth (or even just movement) of a finite object for an infinite time cannot occur at this speed.
ref: 1992 August 14, David I. Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A rate of travel of a signal equal to one cell per generation, the fastest possible speed in the Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods.
Synonyms: Einstein barrier
Einstein's constant
lightspeed
light speed
c
Related terms: word: subluminal
word: tardyon
word: luxon
word: tachyon
word: faster-than-c
alt: FTL
word: faster-than-light
word: superluminal
expat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksˌpæt/
Forms: form: expats
form: ex-pat
Etymology: Apocope of expatriate.
Senses: glosses: An expatriate; a person temporarily residing in a foreign nation, usually a poorer one, often for an occupation, training, or education.
Hyponyms: Beijinger
Eurotrash
Mexpat
rex-pat
sexpat
Shanghailander
Texpat
Derived terms: lovepat
Mexpat
rex-pat
sexpat
Texpat
inauspicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more inauspicious
form: most inauspicious
Etymology: From in- + auspicious.
Senses: examples: text: And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Inauspicious love.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:
text: 1788, John Jay, as Publius, The Federalist, II
It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.
text: Class 745/1s suffered an inauspicious entry into traffic on the Stansted Express route on July 28, when the two units supplied (745103/106) both failed, as did a train sent to cover them (745108).
ref: 2020 August 12, “Network News: Triple failure of Class 745s on first day of Stansted services”, in Rail, page 17:
synonyms: word: foreboding
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
antonyms: word: auspicial
word: auspicious
word: auspicious
word: omenless
word: unomened
glosses: Not auspicious; ill-omened
Derived terms: inauspiciously
inauspiciousness
cent-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centi-.
around the Horn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Via shipboard communications, formerly metal tubes with earhorn-like ends.
glosses: Following the extremely hazardous naval route around Cape Horn, the southernmost point in South America.
Synonyms: round the Horn
Hornburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hornburg.
Senses: glosses: A town in Wolfenbüttel district, Lower Saxony, Germany.
speedball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedballs
form: speed ball
form: speed-ball
Etymology: From speed + ball.
Senses: examples: text: This being Camden, every passing pisshead and stoner had a theory: bad E, dehydration, alcohol poisoning, probably done a speedball.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 233:
synonyms: powerball
over and under
glosses: A mixture of heroin and cocaine or sometimes other drugs.
glosses: Coffee with espresso.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An Egyptian racquet sport.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
synonyms: speed bag
glosses: An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Synonym of speed bag (“type of punching bag”).
synonyms: word: speed bag
extra: type of punching bag
speedball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speedballs
form: speedballing
form: speedballed
form: speedballed
form: speed ball
form: speed-ball
Etymology: From speed + ball.
Senses: examples: text: His words start to speedball. “Youneedtobestillwhenyou're inthere.”
ref: 2009, Alex Lemon, Happy: A Memoir:
glosses: To occur fast, as if trying to finish as soon as possible.
glosses: To take heroin and cocaine at the same time.
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The sound of a bong echoed across the courtyard, signaling the hour.
text: An argument began as to whether the trap door would open on the first bong of eight or the eighth bong of eight. A man said he'd been told on the wireless that it was the first bong of Big Ben in London which told the time, […]
ref: 1989, Malcolm Lynch, The kid from Angel Meadow, page 152:
glosses: The clang of a large bell.
glosses: Doorbell chimes.
glosses: Clipping of Britbong
Derived terms: Britbong
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
form: bonging
form: bonged
form: bonged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To pull a bell.
glosses: To ring a doorbell.
examples: text: The church bell began to bong at noon, marking the start of the ceremony.
text: He accidentally hit the old pot, making it bong loudly against the table.
glosses: Make a bell-like sound
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
Etymology: From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). Ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.
Senses: glosses: A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
examples: text: Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.
ref: 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115:
glosses: An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
glosses: A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
Synonyms: sense: vessel for smoking
word: bucket bong
sense: vessel for smoking
word: moof
sense: vessel for smoking
word: water pipe
sense: device for consuming beer
word: beer bong
Derived terms: beer bong
bongcloud
bongful
bong hit
bongwater
bucket bong
gravity bong
water bong
waterfall bong
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
form: bonging
form: bonged
form: bonged
Etymology: From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). Ultimately from Sanskrit भङ्ग (bhaṅga). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.
Senses: glosses: To smoke a bong.
Related terms: hookah
hubbly bubbly
narghile
pipe
shisha
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
Senses: glosses: A very wide piton.
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒŋ/
ipa: /bɔŋ/
ipa: /bɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: bongs
form: boong
form: bung
Senses: glosses: An Australian Aboriginal person.
adagissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian adagissimo, superlative of adagio.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Very slowly.
lacrimoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Sadly, unhappily, grievingly.
affrettando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian affrettando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a rushing or hurrying manner; as if pressing onwards.
lamentoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lamentoso
form: most lamentoso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lamentoso.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a mournful, grieving manner.
leggiero
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leggero.
phunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phunky
form: most phunky
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of funky.
Related terms: phat
Jimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: Jimmys
form: Jimmies
Etymology: From Jim + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.
ref: 1979 Charles Kuralt, Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, page 184
text: The other living ex-presidents are Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for over a year, and George W. Bush, who is very friendly with both Obama and Clinton, but as a Republican is unlikely to campaign for Biden even given his disdain for Trump’s contempt for democracy.
ref: 2024 March 27, Stephen Collinson, “Three presidents and one mission: Beat Trump”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names James or Jim, also used as a formal given name.
glosses: A colloquial (potentially unfriendly or disparaging) way of addressing any male whose name is unknown to the speaker.
Derived terms: Jimmy Britts
Jimmy Christmas
Jimmy O'Goblin
Jimmy Riddle
Jimmy Woodser
Related terms: Jaime
James
Jamie
Jim
Jimmi
Jimmie
Jimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: Jimmys
form: Jimmies
Etymology: From Jim + -y.
Senses: synonyms: piddle
piddle
pee
wee
glosses: Shortened form of Jimmy Riddle, a piddle, a piss.
glosses: Alternative form of jimmy (“a mature male crab”).
Jimmy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: Jimmys
form: Jimmies
Etymology: From the initialism GM (/ˌd͡ʒiˈɛm/), by jocular alteration of sound playing on the diminutive given name.
Senses: examples: text: a Jimmy diesel
glosses: A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV.
examples: text: Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs.
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A General Motors diesel truck or diesel locomotive, or the diesel engine thereof; (by extension) any GMC truck, even a gasoline-powered pickup or SUV.
A prime mover powered by a two-stroke Detroit Diesel engine.
giusto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːstəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.stoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian giusto (“right, just”). Doublet of just.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: strict, exact.
raw_tags: said of a tempo
giusto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːstəʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒu.stoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian giusto (“right, just”). Doublet of just.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Following a tempo marking strictly or exactly.
possum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏs'əm
ipa: /ˈpɒsəm/
rhymes: -ɒsəm
Forms: form: possums
Etymology: Derived from opossum by apheresis.
Senses: glosses: An opossum, a marsupial of the family Didelphidae of the Americas.
glosses: Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.
Derived terms: act possum
brush-tailed possum
brushtail possum
common possum
common ringtail possum
fairy possum
feather-tailed possum
Fergusson Island striped possum
happy as a possum up a gum tree
honey possum
Leadbeater's possum
northern brushtail possum
play possum
possum belly
possumhaw
possumlike
possum pie
possumwood
pygmy possum
ringtailed possum
ringtail possum
shrew possum
Virginia possum
Related terms: opossum
possum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏs'əm
ipa: /ˈpɒsəm/
rhymes: -ɒsəm
Forms: form: possums
form: possuming
form: possumed
form: possumed
Etymology: Derived from opossum by apheresis.
Senses: glosses: To play possum; to feign sleep, illness, or death.
firehose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.ərˌhoʊz/
Forms: form: firehoses
Etymology: From fire + hose.
Senses: examples: 2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.
glosses: Alternative form of fire hose (in all senses)
Derived terms: drink from a firehose
firehose cursor
firehose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.ərˌhoʊz/
Forms: form: firehoses
form: firehosing
form: firehosed
form: firehosed
Etymology: From fire + hose.
Senses: glosses: To wash something down with a firehose; to douse with a large amount of water (or chemical agent) sprayed from a hose, to extinguish a fire.
blab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: blabs
form: blabbing
form: blabbed
form: blabbed
Etymology: From Middle English blabben (“to talk foolishly”), perhaps from Middle English blabbe (“idle talk; talebearer”). Compare Middle English blaberen (“to blabber, babble”), Middle High German blabezen (“to stammer, babble”).
Senses: examples: text: And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: 1998, "Helga Blabs It All", TV episode in season 3 of Hey Arnold!, animated television series created by Craig Bartlett
Helga Blabs It All.
glosses: To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
glosses: to speak carelessly or excessively
Derived terms: blabmouth
blab out
blabtale
blabtongue
blab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: blabs
Etymology: From Middle English blabben (“to talk foolishly”), perhaps from Middle English blabbe (“idle talk; talebearer”). Compare Middle English blaberen (“to blabber, babble”), Middle High German blabezen (“to stammer, babble”).
Senses: examples: text: "You'd better have shoved your grey snout in a hornets' nest, Badger, than suggest that I am the blab," said Nikabrik.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
examples: text: Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.
ref: 1976, David Toulmin, Blown Seed, page 148:
glosses: Gossip; prattle.
Synonyms: gossiper
gossip
Derived terms: blab-off switch
blab school
Related terms: blabber
blabbermouth
blabby
blubber
blabber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæb.ɚ/
rhymes: -æbɚ
Forms: form: blabbers
form: blabbering
form: blabbered
form: blabbered
Etymology: From Middle English blaberen.
Senses: examples: text: He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life.
ref: 2014, Richard Szweda, Silenius' Gift:
glosses: To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
glosses: To blab; to reveal a secret.
glosses: To stick out one's tongue.
Derived terms: blabberer
blabbermouthed
blabbery
blabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæb.ɚ/
rhymes: -æbɚ
Forms: form: blabbers
Etymology: From Middle English blaberen.
Senses: glosses: A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.
Related terms: blab
blabbermouth
blabbermouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæb.ə(ɹ)ˌmaʊθ/
Forms: form: blabbermouths
Etymology: From blabber + mouth.
Senses: examples: text: If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it.
synonyms: word: carrytale
word: blab
word: blabbermouth
word: blabtale
word: blabtongue
word: busybody
word: buzzer
word: gossip
word: gossiper
word: gossipmonger
word: meddler
word: mouth
word: mumblenews
word: newsmonger
word: rumormonger
word: rumourmonger
word: scandalmonger
word: sleazemonger
word: tabby
word: talebearer
word: talecarrier
word: tattletale
word: telltale
word: telltale tit
word: titivil
word: tittle-tattle
word: town crier
word: whisperer
glosses: A gossip.
synonyms: word: airbag
word: babblemouth
word: babbler
word: bag of wind
word: blab
word: blabberer
word: blatherer
word: blabbermouth
word: blatherskite
word: bloviator
word: chatterbag
word: chatter-basket
word: chatterbox
word: chatterer
word: chewet
word: gabbler
word: gasbag
word: jabberer
word: jangler
word: motormouth
word: patterer
word: prater
word: prattler
word: rattle
word: tongue-pad
word: twaddler
word: windbag
word: yapper
word: yakker
glosses: A person who talks excessively.
examples: text: Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm.
ref: 1964, Civic Administration, volume 16, page 9:
text: The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.
ref: 1972, ICAO Bulletin, volume 27, page x:
text: A manually operated monitor is provided complete with blabbermouth to deliver foam solution at a rate of 2(KX) lures a minute at 10-5 bar, to a maximum jet range of 46 metres […]
ref: 1983, David F. Rider, Jane's Airport Equipment, page 210:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.
Related terms: babblemouth
wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕk
ipa: /ˈɹɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
enpr: răk
ipa: /ˈɹæk/
Forms: form: wrecks
Etymology: From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan).
Senses: examples: text: He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
synonyms: basket case, mess
glosses: Something or someone that has been ruined.
examples: text: To the fair haven of my native home, / The vvreck of vvhat I was, fatigued I come, […]
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 277:
glosses: The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
examples: text: Hard and obſtinate, / As is a rocke amidſt the raging floods: / gaynſt vvhich a ſhip of ſuccour deſolate, / doth ſuffer vvreck both of her ſelfe and goods.
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature [D5], verso:
text: the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 1:
text: Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
ref: 1883, John Richard Green, The Conquest of England:
glosses: An event in which something is damaged through collision.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An event in which something is damaged through collision.
A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
examples: text: 2. ... Wreck includes the cargo, stores and tackle of a vessel and all parts of a vessel separated from the vessel, and the property of persons who belong to, are on board or have quitted a vessel that is wrecked, stranded or in distress at any place in Canada.
ref: 1985, “Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)”, in Justice Canada, retrieved 09 Sep 2021:
topics: law
glosses: Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
examples: text: [I]n 1952 more than 7,000 were involved in such a "wreck" in Britain and Ireland.
ref: 1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 89:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
Synonyms: crash
ruins
Derived terms: car wreck
catch wreck
nerve-wreck
nervous wreck
shipwreck
train wreck
wreck car
wreck grab
wreck havoc
wreck of the Hesperus
wreck shop
wreck yard
wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕk
ipa: /ˈɹɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
enpr: răk
ipa: /ˈɹæk/
Forms: form: wrecks
form: wrecking
form: wrecked
form: wrecked
Etymology: From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan).
Senses: examples: text: He wrecked the car in a collision.
text: That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
text: Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
glosses: To ruin or dilapidate.
glosses: To plunder goods from wrecked ships.
glosses: To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
examples: text: Weak and envy'd, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves, and he hath his Desire.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
examples: text: […] Mrs. Marleen Ketchum was not quite certain if the train wrecked or if the volcano blew its top. It took a moment before she was certain it had to be the passenger train.
ref: 2020, Marti Talbott, McShane's Bride, page 112:
glosses: To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
Derived terms: bewreck
check yourself before you wreck yourself
wreckage
wrecker
wreck the hoose juice
havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævɪk/
ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævɪk/
Forms: form: havocs
form: havok
form: havock
form: hauocke
Etymology: From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”), of obscure origin. Probably from a derivative of Old French *haf, hef (“hook”), from Frankish *haf, *habbjā, *happjā (“pruning-hook, scythe”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), related to Old French havee (“handful”), Old French havet (“pruning-hook”), Old High German habba, heppa (“pruning-hook, scythe”), modern German Hippe (“billhook”). If so, then also related to English heave and doublet of hatchet.
Senses: examples: text: I [Paul the Apostle] vvas going to Damaſcus vvith Letters from the High Prieſt to make Havock of God's People there, as I had made Havock of them in other places. Theſe bloody Letters vvas not impoſed upon me. I vvent to the High Prieſt and deſired them of him, Acts 9. 1, 2. And yet he [God] ſaved me!
ref: 1688, John Bunyan, Good News for the Vilest of Men, or, A Help for Despairing Souls. […], London: […] George Larkin, […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: Ye Gods, what Havock does Ambition make / Among your Works!
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: But when I had come to that part of the city which I judged to have contained the relics I sought I found havoc that had been wrought there even greater than elsewhere.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The People that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
glosses: Widespread devastation and destruction.
glosses: Mayhem.
Derived terms: havocker
play havoc
play merry havoc with
raise havoc
wreak havoc
cry havoc
break havoc
havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævɪk/
ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævɪk/
Forms: form: havocs
form: havocking
form: havocked
form: havocked
form: havok
form: havock
form: hauocke
Etymology: From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”), of obscure origin. Probably from a derivative of Old French *haf, hef (“hook”), from Frankish *haf, *habbjā, *happjā (“pruning-hook, scythe”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), related to Old French havee (“handful”), Old French havet (“pruning-hook”), Old High German habba, heppa (“pruning-hook, scythe”), modern German Hippe (“billhook”). If so, then also related to English heave and doublet of hatchet.
Senses: examples: text: To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
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 I, scene ii]:
glosses: To pillage.
glosses: To cause havoc.
havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævɪk/
ipa: /ˈhævək/
ipa: /ˈhævɪk/
Forms: form: havok
form: havock
form: hauocke
Etymology: From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”), of obscure origin. Probably from a derivative of Old French *haf, hef (“hook”), from Frankish *haf, *habbjā, *happjā (“pruning-hook, scythe”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), related to Old French havee (“handful”), Old French havet (“pruning-hook”), Old High German habba, heppa (“pruning-hook, scythe”), modern German Hippe (“billhook”). If so, then also related to English heave and doublet of hatchet.
Senses: examples: text: Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt / With modest warrant.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Cry "havoc", and let slip the dogs of war!
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
firebolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebolts
Etymology: From fire + bolt.
Senses: glosses: A missile of fire.
firebolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: firebolts
form: firebolting
form: firebolted
form: firebolted
Etymology: From fire + bolt.
Senses: glosses: To strike with a firebolt.
Related terms: fireblast
fireblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireblasts
form: fire blast
Etymology: From fire + blast.
Senses: glosses: A fiery explosion.
examples: text: Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.
ref: 1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary, Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:
glosses: A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).
Related terms: firebolt
fireburst
fiery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹi/
ipa: /ˈfaɪɹi/
homophone: firey
rhymes: -aɪəɹi
Forms: form: more fiery
form: fierier
form: most fiery
form: fieriest
Etymology: From Middle English fyry, from fyr (“fire”), equivalent to fire + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fire.
examples: text: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Burning or glowing.
glosses: Inflammable or easily ignited.
glosses: Having the colour of fire.
examples: text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels.
ref: 2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN:
glosses: Hot or inflamed.
examples: text: a fiery temper
glosses: Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
examples: text: A fiery streak penetrates your skull, trying to force your eyes open. It's a sound. A clarion call from hell.
ref: 2019 October 15, ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, quoting Limbic System, Disco Elysium, →OCLC:
glosses: Spirited or filled with emotion.
qualifier: butchery
glosses: Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
Derived terms: fierily
fieriness
fiery cross
fiery minivet
fiery searcher
fiery serpent
fiery skimmer
fiery skipper
fiery-tailed awlbill
fiery-tongued
unfiery
cry havoc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries havoc
form: crying havoc
form: cried havoc
form: cried havoc
Etymology: From Middle English, from the Anglo-Norman phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) (a signal to soldiers to seize plunder), from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”).
Senses: examples: text: Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: War and mortality cry havoc, yet the center holds. That center is the affirmation that actions of body and heroic spirit are in themselves a thing of beauty, that renown shall outweigh the passing terrors of death, and that no catastrophe, not even the fall of Troy, is final.
ref: 1961 Aug, George Steiner, “Homer and the Scholars”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 77:
glosses: To shout out 'Havoc!'; that is, to give an army the order to plunder.
stemming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stem
stemming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪŋ
Forms: form: stemmings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Movement against a current, especially a tidal current.
glosses: A process for removing the inflexional, and sometimes derivational, affixes from words.
glosses: To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The technique of bridging between two holds with hands and/or feet, applying forces to each in opposing directions in order to brace oneself in position.
Ogham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊ.əm/
note: see the usage notes
ipa: /ˈɒɡəm/
rhymes: -oʊəm
Forms: form: ogham
form: ogam
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish ogham, from Middle Irish ogam, from Proto-Celtic *ogmos (“furrow, path”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óǵmos.
The Irish word is frequently folk-etymologized as og-úaim, referring to ogham being supposedly made by the point of a sharp weapon, but this approach faces serious phonological and morphological problems in that:
* The name of ogham and the supposed second element (úaimm (“seam”)?) inflected very differently in Early Irish, "ogham" being an o-stem and the second element being a neuter n-stem.
* Middle Irish ogmóir (“skilled in ogham”) should have a vowel in between the g and m because vowels lengthened by compensatory lengthening after consonant loss are usually not syncopated in Early Irish.
Senses: examples: text: The rectangular sandstone rock that Graham Senior had discovered was inscribed in ogham, an alphabet used in the early medieval period primarily for writing in the Irish language.
ref: 2024 May 8, Dalya Alberge, “Teacher finds stone with ancient ogham writing from Ireland in Coventry garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An ancient Celtic alphabet historically used to write Primitive Irish.
Derived terms: oghamic
Oghamist