cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tegulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tegulated
form: most tegulated
Etymology: See tegular.
Senses: examples: text: Hefner gives an illustration of tegulated armour (Fig. 90) from a painting on vellum dating from c. 1090, when this system appears to have been introduced.
ref: 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65:
glosses: Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; said of a kind of ancient armor.
chausse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃoʊs/
Forms: form: chausses
Etymology: Borrowed from French or Middle French chausse (“stocking, cloth covering the leg up to the thigh”).
Senses: examples: text: As the period advanced, the legs were covered with mail chaussons above the knee, and below it with chausses, which were made to cover the feet.
ref: 1907, British Museum, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament Room, page 61
text: The hauberk is shown continuous with the coif; the legs are protected by chausses of some pliable material, thickly covered with protective studs.
ref: 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 76:
text: Daniel grins, feeling the shiv skid off his newly bought chausse. No more getting stabbed in the thigh by these too-short monsters. It was a pain trying to block attacks that came so low with his shield - he either had to stay crouched ...
ref: 2021, Tao Wong, Adventures on Brad: Books 1-6, Starlit Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Armor for the legs, usually made of mail, either covering the entire leg from foot to thigh, or variously covering only the thigh or only the calf and foot, with the chausson covering the other half of the leg.
examples: text: He clasped Matthew tightly on the shoulder. “As I began . . . since my loyal squire is dead, and I am somewhat wounded, more than I'd thought. . .” He pointed to his thigh, where his chausse was ripped and blood dripped to the ground.
ref: 2012, Johanna Hill, Song of the Rose, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: A single seam ran under the foot and all the way up the back of the leg; each chausse was cut on the bias of the woollen cloth, so as to retain a degree of elasticity.
ref: 2004, Pierre Bouet, The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History, Presses Universitaires de Caen:
glosses: A stocking, clothing covering the leg.
Related terms: chaussé
nasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'zəl
ipa: /ˈneɪ.zəl/
ipa: [ˈnej.zl̩]
ipa: /ˈnæɪ.zəl/
ipa: [ˈnæɪ.zl̩]
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: more nasal
form: most nasal
Etymology: From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
Senses: examples: text: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
ref: 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
text: Neffy uses the same spray device as Narcan, the naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose, according to a spokesperson for its maker, ARS Pharmaceuticals.
ref: 2024 August 9, Meg Tirrell, “First nasal spray epinephrine drug for emergency allergic reactions gets FDA approval”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: nosely
nosey
glosses: Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
examples: text: nasal vowel
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
hypernyms: sonorant
resonant
glosses: Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
examples: text: nasal utterance
text: "Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.
ref: 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Sharp, penetrating.
Derived terms: alinasal
alveolonasal
antronasal
basinasal
binasal
bucconasal
circumnasal
craniofrontonasal
denasal
dorsal nasal artery
dorsonasal
endonasal
epinasal
ethmonasal
extranasal
frontonasal
hypernasal
hyponasal
hyponasality
inferior nasal concha
inferonasal
infranasal
internasal
intranasal
labionasal
lacrimonasal
laryngonasal
linguo-nasal
linguonasal
maxillonasal
mesonasal
muconasal
nasalance
nasal bone
nasal breathing
nasal cannula
nasal capsule
nasal cavity
nasal concha
nasal congestion
nasal consonant
nasal cycle
nasal demon
nasal discharge
nasal fossa
nasal index
nasal irrigation
nasalism
nasality
nasalize
nasalise
nasallang
nasally
nasal mutation
nasal nerve
nasalness
nasal obstruction
nasal polyp
nasal prongs
nasal septum
nasal spray
nasal tampon
nasal vowel
nasalward
nasalwards
naso-
nonnasal
occipitonasal
oculonasal
orbitonasal
oronasal
oralnasal
orthonasal
palatonasal
palpebronasal
paranasal
perinasal
pharyngonasal
postnasal
post-nasal drip
prenasal
retronasal
rostronasal
salpingonasal
seminasal
septonasal
sinonasal
sinusonasal
subnasal
superior nasal concha
superonasal
supranasal
temporonasal
tracheonasal
transnasal
ventronasal
vomeronasal
nasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'zəl
ipa: /ˈneɪ.zəl/
ipa: [ˈnej.zl̩]
ipa: /ˈnæɪ.zəl/
ipa: [ˈnæɪ.zl̩]
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: nasals
Etymology: From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of nasal consonant.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of nasal vowel.
examples: text: The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
ref: 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78:
text: Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Books, published 2011, page 463:
glosses: The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of nasal bone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
fusil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪl/
Forms: form: fusils
Etymology: From Middle English fusill, from Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
fusil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪl/
Forms: form: fusils
Etymology: From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A light flintlock musket or firelock.
Synonyms: fusee
fusil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪl/
Forms: form: more fusil
form: most fusil
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: examples: text: what might else be wrought / Fusil or grav'n in metal
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: A fusil sea.
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: Part of one of thoſe round Pillars that are commonly ſuppos'd to be fuſil marble: but not truly; this being of the common Suſſex Marble, full of Sea-Shells.
ref: 1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “A Catalogue of the Second Addition of English Native Fossils”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fusile.
lys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ly
CJK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, languages typically grouped because they all use writing systems derived from Chinese characters.
Derived terms: CJK character
CJKV
CJKV character
Related terms: hanja
hanzi
kanji
FIGS
EFIGS
fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.bɚ/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.bə/
rhymes: -aɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fibers
form: fibre
Etymology: From French fibre, from Old French fibre, from Latin fibra.
Senses: examples: text: The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
glosses: A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
examples: text: The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
glosses: A material in the form of fibers.
examples: text: Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
examples: text: Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
glosses: Dietary fiber.
examples: text: The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
glosses: Moral strength and resolve.
examples: text: Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
topics: mathematics
sciences
holonyms: bundle
fiber bundle
meronyms: germ
glosses: The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
examples: text: We've seen how to create a new fiber and convert the current thread into a fiber (which continues to run after the conversion), but we have yet to focus on how to schedule a new fiber onto the current thread.
ref: 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows, Pearson Education, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Derived terms: acrylic fiber
biofiber
carbon fiber
C fiber
cofiber
dark fiber
defiber
dietary fiber
elastic fiber
fiber art
fiberboard
fiber bundle
fiber-clay
fiber clay
fibered
fiberfill
fiberglass
fiber gun
fiberise
fiberize
fiberless
fiberlike
fiber optic
fiber-optic
fiberoptic
fiber-optics
fiber optics
fiber plant
fiberscope
fibershed
fiberwise
fibery
fibrin
fibrinous
fibrinogen
fibrinolysin
fibrous
glass fiber
glass fiber insulation
high-fiber
hollow-fiber
hollowfiber
interfiber
macrofiber
man-made fiber
microfiber
milk fiber
moral fiber
multifiber
muscle fiber
myofiber
nanofiber
natural fiber
nerve fiber
neurofiber
optical fiber
protofiber
Purkinje fiber
Remak fiber
Seifert fiber space
synthetic fiber
Tampico fiber
with every fiber of one's being
Related terms: fibril
fibrilar
fibro-
fibroblast
fibrocyte
fibroid
fibroma
fibrosis
fibrositis
fibrovascular
*
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: ur a *!
translation: You’re a star!
english: You’re a star!
bold_translation_offsets: 9
13
glosses: Star.
examples: text: *t
translation: start
english: start
text: *fish
translation: starfish
english: starfish
text: *g8
translation: stargate
english: stargate
glosses: Used to replace the sounds /stɑː(ɹ)/ (star) in any word that has this pronunciation or similar.
examples: text: f**k
translation: fuck
english: fuck
text: sh*t
translation: shit
english: shit
glosses: Used to replace censor profanities.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: ＊: A star (also ✶ or ⚹).
A-flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-flats
form: A flat
form: a-flat
form: a flat
form: A♭
Senses: examples: The bassoon came in on a low A-flat.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tone one semitone below A, between G and A, denoted A♭.
examples: I had to take it to the shop because the A-flat was stuck.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key or other mechanism for producing an A-flat.
examples: We will now hear the third sonata, in A-flat.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The key of A-flat major.
Derived terms: A-flat major
A-flat minor
A-sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-sharps
form: a-sharp
form: A sharp
form: a sharp
Senses: examples: The counterpoint began on a low A-sharp.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tone one semitone higher than A, denoted A♯.
examples: text: Here the passage modulates into A-sharp and becomes very difficult to read.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The key of A sharp major
gaijin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gīʹjĭnʹ
ipa: /ˈɡaɪˌd͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: gaijin
form: gaijins
Etymology: From Japanese 外人 (gaijin, “foreigner”), from Middle Chinese 外人 (ngwajᴴ nyin). Compare Mandarin 外人 (wàirén), from Old Chinese 外人 (*ŋʷaːds njin, “foreigner, outsider” < “non-relative”), from 外 (wài, “outside, outer”) + 人 (rén, “person”).
Senses: examples: text: For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.
ref: 1976, Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, page 207:
text: The sarariman had been Japanese, but the Ninsei crowd was a gaijin crowd.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 10:
text: And I did not intend to live my life as a gaijin—not merely, like the expatriate, someone by definition permanently out of place but someone unwanted as well.
ref: 1992, David Pollack, Reading Against Culture, Cornell Press, page 230:
text: [...] I was placed in the gaijins' dormitory area up on the third floor.
ref: 2004, Troy Anderson, The Way of Go, Simon and Schuster, page 149:
text: Oh's pitchers later acknowledged that they were instructed—under penalty of a fine—to throw no strikes to the gaijin.
ref: 2006, Alan M. Klein, Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball, page 127:
glosses: A non-Japanese person.
raw_tags: from the perspective of a Japanese person
glosses: A white person.
Derived terms: gaijin card
cycle of fifths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycles of fifths
form: circle of fifths
Senses: examples: text: The composition modulates upwards through the cycle of fifths, eventually returning to the original key.
qualifier: music theory
glosses: A sequence of bass notes at intervals of one perfect fifth lower than the previous note. In twelve-tone equal temperament the sequence repeats every twelve tones, forming a cycle.
A-per-se
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A (the letter A) + the Latin phrase per se (by itself).
Senses: examples: text: O fair Creseide, the flower and A-per-se Of Troy and Greece.
ref: c. 1500, Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid:
glosses: A person or thing that is preeminent, unique, or which has unusual merit.
livescanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of livescan
livescanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subjected to the livescan fingerprinting system
translated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹænzleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈtɹænsleɪtɪd/
ipa: /tɹɑːnzˈleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of translate
ion engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ion engines
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a type of spacecraft propulsion, whereby electric fields accelerate ions out the exhaust to provide motive force
Synonyms: ion rocket
ion thruster
Related terms: nuclear-electric rocket
blagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæɡɚ/
rhymes: -æɡɚ
Forms: form: blaggers
Etymology: From blag + -er.
Senses: glosses: A smooth talker, a persuasive person.
glosses: A thief or robber, one who blags.
Related terms: blackguard
blag
tmesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs/
ipa: /ˈmiːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: tmeses
Etymology: From Late Latin tmēsis, from Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). First attested in 1586.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
synonyms: diacope
hypernyms: infixation
glosses: The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.
Related terms: axonotmesis
neurotmesis
tmema
tmetic
infix
-bloody-
-fucking-
senior moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senior moments
Etymology: An allusion to the memory difficulties sometimes experienced by senior citizens.
Senses: glosses: A brief interval of forgetfulness or inattention.
Related terms: blonde moment
draw a blank
brain fart
automagical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑtoʊˈmæd͡ʒɪkəl/
Forms: form: more automagical
form: most automagical
Etymology: Blend of automatic + magical
Senses: examples: text: Throughout this text we will emphasize the employment of a systems approach to the practice of analysis and design. In it we attempt to present this portion of the software lifecycle as a discipline rather than an "automagical" (automated magic) process.
ref: 1987, Lawrence J. Peters, Advanced Structured Analysis and Design, Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 2:
text: "How're we paying you, actually?" I asked.
 "Certain automagical manipulations."
ref: 1993, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric: A Novel, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 186:
text: It is hoped that, over time, new e-mail list management tools will become available for users which can "automagically" determine who and how to do these…
ref: 1994, Daniel P. Dern, The Internet Guide for New Users, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 490:
text: In the more florid cases, where the diagnosis is unmistakeable, several anatomical studies (especially with automagical computerized devices, such as positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) have shown clear though subtle differences in the brains of schizophrenic patients…
ref: 1995, István Raskó, C. Stephen Downes, Genes in Medicine: Molecular Biology and Human Genetic Disorders, Springer, →ISBN, page 277:
text: These result [sic] indicate that the more complex the system, and the less the human feels aware of how the system is operating (i.e. to what degree it seems ‘automagical’) the less effective the operator becomes in correctly identifying problematic situations and taking the necessary corrective action.
ref: 2006, Stefan Axelsson, David Sands, Understanding Intrusion Detection Through Visualization, Springer, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technology
glosses: Automatic, but with an apparent element of magic. Commonly referring to complex technical processes hidden from the view of users or operators, resulting in technology that "just works".
Derived terms: automagically
Related terms: automagic
technomagic
-ja
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: You, ya.
raw_tags: used only after a /d/ sound
Derived terms: couldja
didja
wouldja
Related terms: -cha
perspicacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜː.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/
enpr: pûrʹspĭ·kăsʹə·tē
ipa: /ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: perspicacities
Etymology: From
From perspicac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French perspicacité, from Latin perspicācitās (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”), from perspicio, from per- + specio, "see through (something)".
Senses: examples: text: "I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 8, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: The citizens chose a university. They reasoned, with considerable perspicacity, that taxes come and go in response to political considerations, but a university, once established, is a permanent benefit to a city and a nation.
ref: 1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, →ISBN, page 52:
text: McEwan certainly has a flair for unusual points of view. Adam, like the baby-in-waiting who narrates Nutshell, is an extraordinarily smart, well-informed, and unorthodox character who catches his supposed caretakers off-guard with his perspicacity.
ref: 2019 April 23, Heller McAlpin, “In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You”, in NPR:
glosses: Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
examples: text: His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.
ref: 1856, “Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 98, page 458:
text: As the former consists in the transmission of psychic states inappreciable to the normal perspicacity or senses, the transfer cannot pass through the medium of intelligence.
ref: 1888, “Review of La suggestion mentale by H. Bourru and P. Burot”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 1, number 3, page 503:
glosses: The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
examples: text: Attentive consideration of the phenomena of vision has led to the invention of artificial aids by which the sight may be wonderfully strengthened and preserved, and man endowed at once with the perspicacity of the eagle or the minute scrutiny of the insect.
ref: 1833, John Harrison Curtis, A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye, London: Longman, page 138:
glosses: Keen eyesight.
Related terms: perspicacious
perspicaciousness
perspicuity
biome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ.oʊm/
Forms: form: biomes
Etymology: From bio- + -ome.
Senses: glosses: Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.
glosses: All the genomes of such a community.
Derived terms: agrobiome
anthropobiome
bathome
enterobiome
glycobiome
holobiome
macrobiome
metabiome
microbiome
mycobiome
nanobiome
necrobiome
pathobiome
pedobiome
phytobiome
psychobiome
rhizobiome
urobiome
zonobiome
oh my God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ohmigod
form: ohmygod
form: omigod
form: oh my god
form: oh, my God
form: O my God
form: migod
form: oh, God
form: oh God
form: god
form: OMG
form: ermahgerd
Senses: glosses: Said in supplication to God.
examples: text: Creep niggas like a seal
Tote the steel
Stick a nigga, make him squeal
"Oh, my God!"
Those can't be the last words of ya man
Damn, ya man was so hard
ref: 2001, “We Right Here”, in Earl Simmons (lyrics), The Great Depression, Ruff Ryders Entertainment:
text: Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
Jen: It means "personal assistant".
Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
glosses: An expression of anger, frustration, excitement, shock, awe, dismay, etc.
Synonyms: my God
oh my Allah
oh my Lord
wow
Related terms: oh my gods
oh my Goddess
Oh-My-God particle
oh em gee
oh my goodness
oh my gosh
omigod
omigosh
stellerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛləɹaɪt/
Forms: form: stellerites
Etymology: From Steller + -ite, named after its discoverer Georg Wilhelm Steller.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hydrated calcium aluminosilicate zeolite, similar to stilbite.
wikipedia: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Whelan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiː.lən/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍiː.lən/
rhymes: -iːlən
Forms: form: Whelans
form: Whalen
form: Wheelan
form: Wheeland
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Faoláin (“descendant of Faolán”), a hypocoristic form of faol (“wolf”). Doublet of Phelan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
letter grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter grades
Senses: examples: text: Do you give letter grades for class participation, or just for homework and exams?
topics: education
glosses: A letter of the alphabet assigned as an evaluation of schoolwork.
Related terms: pass-fail
ebb and flow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebbs and flows
Senses: glosses: The flowing out and in of the tide.
examples: October 29 2001, The New Yorker Online
I want to hear the roaring ebb and flow of Broadway.
glosses: A large flowing out and in, or any waxing and waning of fortunes or activity.
Related terms: at a low ebb
ebb and flow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ebbs and flows
form: ebbing and flowing
form: ebbed and flowed
form: ebbed and flowed
Senses: examples: text: As true we are as flesh and blood can be: / The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To alternately ebb and flow, as:
To recede and advance.
raw_tags: of the tides
examples: text: The quality of his service game varied as the contest ebbed and flowed, but landing 54% of his first serves over the whole match was a telling statistic.
ref: 2025 June 8, Jonathan Jurejko, “Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final”, in BBC:
glosses: To alternately ebb and flow, as:
To wax and wane.
Related terms: come and go
ǃKung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊŋ/
other: /kuŋ/
rhymes: -ʊŋ
rhymes: -uŋ
Etymology: Borrowed from ǃKung.
Senses: examples: text: Given the early sex play, I will hazard a guess that there are few ǃKung virgins, male or female, at puberty.
ref: 1992, Richard B. Lee, Work, Sexuality, and Aging Among ǃKung Women, in In her prime: new views of middle-aged women (Virginia Kerns, Judith K. Brown), page 39
text: […] and that ǃKung women are married so young because ǃKung men try to marry them before the Bantu do!
ref: 1996, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Kristen Hawkes, James F. O'Connell, “The global process and local ecology”, in Susan Kent, editor, Cultural Diversity Among Twentieth-Century Foragers, page 179:
text: From the peaceful and gentle ǃKung San Bushmen to the urbane and civilised Montaigne, from folk legend to Freudian complex, from Medusa to the Blue Angel, men blame women for their discomforts and disappointments.
ref: 2001, Jenny Diski, “Oh, Andrea Dworkin”, in London Review of Books, XXIII.17:
text: The San-speaking ǃKung of southern Africa are nearly always chosen to exemplify the forager strategy.
ref: c. 2001–2007, Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook (Gary M. Feinman, T. Douglas Price), page 155
text: The San-speaking ǃKung of Botswana (the “Bushmen” of old) are presented as a distinct, “other,” and apparently primordial “people.”
ref: 2008, The cultural geography reader (Timothy Oakes, Patricia Lynn Price), page 65
text: (Once known as "Bushmen," the ǃKung, today, are also known as the Nyae Nyae or the Jo-hoansi, pronounced zhu-wahnsi.) The ǃ symbol in the ǃKung language is a click sound made with the tongue.
ref: 2009, Cameron M. Smith, Evan T. Davies, editors, Anthropology For Dummies, →ISBN:
glosses: A group of Bushmen people living in the Kalahari Desert.
examples: text: The ǃ in the word ǃKung is an orthographic symbol denoting a "click" sound. The ǃKung language, aside from sharing many of the same sounds found in all languages, has four distinct clicks […]
ref: 1973, The Second Wave, volume 3, page 17:
text: Harpending spoke ǃKung because of his previous fieldwork in the area, […]
ref: 1994, The Aging Experience: diversity and commonality across cultures (Jennie Keith), page 24
text: None of the ideologues spoke ǃKung, […]
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Old Way: A Story of the First People, page 286:
text: In Epembe, Oonduda and Uusilo very few people could understand and even fewer could speak ǃKung. They expressed their sorrow at this loss.
ref: 2002, New horizons for the San: participatory action research with San communities in Northern Namibia (Dhyani J. Berger, Elke Zimprich), page 22
glosses: A Khoisan language spoken in Namibia, Angola, and South Africa, famous for its click consonants.
Synonyms: sense: people
word: ǃXun
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: ǃXun
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of ǃKung terms
'Akhoe
Vasekela
ǃXóõ
bikini babe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikini babes
Senses: examples: text: workers were busily rehanging the Budweiser bikini-babe posters that they'd taken down the night before
ref: 2001 October 15, The New Yorker:
glosses: An attractive young woman wearing a bikini or swimsuit.
wikipedia: Adele Mara
babe magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babe magnets
Senses: examples: text: Donald Rumsfeld had become a sex symbol. She observed that he was called a “virtual rock star” on CNN, a “babe magnet” on Fox, and “Rumstud” by the president.
ref: 2003 November 13, The New Yorker:
text: Those of you who were in diapers during this time may not understand this, but Drakkar Noir was considered a serious babe magnet back in the day.
ref: 2011 November 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting shamu1 (Il Mondo di Odore), “Marketing to the Maxim Set, Cont.”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Synonym of chick magnet
synonyms: word: chick magnet
Related terms: bitch magnet
chick magnet
fanny magnet
man magnet
pussy magnet
sleaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: sleazes
Etymology: Back-formation from sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.
Senses: examples: text: ministerial sleaze and mendacity
ref: 2004 August 19, London Review of Books:
text: The level of sleaze in this city seems to have been rising rapidly in recent years.
ref: 1988 January 11, The New Yorker:
glosses: Low moral standards.
examples: text: She knew that sleaze Hakido would do something to stick the knife in and twist it to the hilt.
ref: 1999, E. Brewer, Picking Up the Marbles, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: A person of low moral standards.
examples: text: 1989, Weekly World News, "My hubby robbed the cradle and left me with the baby", 7 November, p. 42.
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that sleaze slept with your boss and I wouldn't take it lying down.
text: Mother, he's such a sleaze! The way he looked at you!
ref: 1996, S. Hoskinson Frommer, Buried in Quilts, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A man who is sexually aggressive or forward with women to the point of causing disgust.
examples: text: a tabloid newspaper full of sleaze
glosses: sleazy material
Derived terms: sleazebag
sleazeball
sleazecore
sleaze factor
sleaze-merchant
sleazemonger
sleaze-ridden
sleazy
sleaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: sleazes
form: sleazing
form: sleazed
form: sleazed
Etymology: Back-formation from sleazy, originally used to describe the thinness and low quality of cloth.
Senses: examples: text: He sleazed his way over to the women at the bar.
glosses: To act or progress in a sleazy manner.
glosses: To slander.
inchoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inchoates
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb circa 1631; borrowed from Latin incohātus (“begun, unfinished”), perfect passive participle of incohō (“to begin”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Cognate with Spanish incoar (“to initiate, commence, begin”).
Senses: glosses: A beginning, an immature start.
inchoate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkəʊeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkoʊeɪt/
Forms: form: inchoates
form: inchoating
form: inchoated
form: inchoated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb circa 1631; borrowed from Latin incohātus (“begun, unfinished”), perfect passive participle of incohō (“to begin”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Cognate with Spanish incoar (“to initiate, commence, begin”).
Senses: glosses: To begin or start (something).
glosses: To cause or bring about. In the field of criminology, to encourage, assist, conspire, aid and abet, incite, etc.
glosses: To make a start.
Related terms: inchoation
inchoative
blimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blĭmp
ipa: /ˈblɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: blimps
Etymology: Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A. D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
: “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”
Senses: examples: text: 2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker
roman: The Goodyear blimp over Giants Stadium
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
examples: text: a 6 meter high blimp made by a professional inflatables company, to be flown in the skies
ref: 2018 July 14, “Trump baby balloon: giant blimp takes to the sky above Edinburgh after being transported from London”, in Evening Standard:
glosses: Any large airborne inflatable.
glosses: An obese person.
glosses: A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
examples: text: You can create your own blimp or barney with anything that will deaden the camera noise, such as a changing bag, foam rubber, […]
ref: 2015, Peter W. Rea, David K. Irving, Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, page 209:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: barney
glosses: A soundproof cover for a video camera.
Synonyms: barrage balloon
Gossage
nonrigid
Hypernyms: airship
dirigible
Derived terms: Blimp
blimpish
blimplike
blimpy
sound blimp
blimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blĭmp
ipa: /ˈblɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: blimps
form: blimping
form: blimped
form: blimped
Etymology: Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A. D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
: “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”
Senses: examples: text: After college, she started blimping and could no longer wear her favorite little black dress.
text: Over a few years the software had blimped into typical bloatware.
glosses: To expand like a blimp or balloon; to become fat.
glosses: To fit (a video camera) with a soundproof cover.
Synonyms: blimp out
blimp up
Derived terms: self-blimped
Related terms: airship
balloon
dirigible
zeppelin
Zeppelin
dace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: dace
form: daces
Etymology: Old variant of earlier darse, from Late Middle English darse (also as dace already), from Old French darz, oblique plural form of dart (“spear; javelin”).
For a similar loss of r, compare bass, while for the pronunciation with /eɪ/, see scarce.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 3:
glosses: A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
glosses: Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.
Synonyms: dare
dart
Derived terms: word: dacelike
word: honed dace
alt: Pseudaspius hakonensis
word: Japanese dace
word: sea dace
Burman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Etymology: From Burma + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the principal, Burmese-speaking ethnic group of Myanmar.
glosses: Of or relating to Myanmar; Burmese.
Burman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: Burmans
Etymology: From Burma + -n.
Senses: glosses: A member of the principal, Burmese-speaking ethnic group of Myanmar, especially as distinguished from the Shan, Karen, and other minority peoples.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Myanmar; a Burmese.
Burman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Etymology: From Burma + -n.
Senses: glosses: The Burmese language.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: word: Wikipedia
euphonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈfəʊnɪəm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Forms: form: euphoniums
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὔφωνος (eúphōnos, “sweet-voiced”) + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey could easily have been wearing euphoniums and woad for all the notice their quarry would have taken of them.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 68:
glosses: A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.
Derived terms: euphoniumist
glockenspiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glŏkʹən-shpēl'
ipa: /ˈɡlɒk.ənˌʃpiːl/
other: /-spiːl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑk.ənˌʃpil/
other: /-spil/
ipa: /ˈɡlɔk.n̩ˌʃpiːl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɔk.ŋ̩ˌʃpiːl/
Forms: form: glockenspiels
Etymology: From German Glockenspiel (literally “bells-set”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.
Derived terms: glockenspielist
keyboard glockenspiel
Related terms: chimes
carillon
first violinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first violinists
Senses: glosses: A violinist who is assigned to play melody (usually more technically difficult music).
Synonyms: leader
concertmaster
call collect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls collect
form: calling collect
form: called collect
form: called collect
Senses: examples: text: In the days of payphones, if you had no coins, you could call collect and hope that the callee would accept the charges.
glosses: To make a telephone call in which the cost of the call is paid by the person receiving the call; to place a collect call.
examples: text: Call me what you want — just don’t call me collect.
text: Please call me to let me know you’re safe — you’re welcome to call me collect.
glosses: To call (someone) in this way.
Synonyms: word: reverse the charge
Related terms: word: collect call
english: method for limited but free communication
translation: method for limited but free communication
word: prank
second violinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second violinists
Senses: glosses: A violinist who is assigned to play the second violin part.
Related terms: second violin
violinist
second fiddle
minutia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/
ipa: /məˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/
Forms: form: minutiae
form: minutiæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”).
Senses: examples: text: They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
text: I think I can ſee the preciſe and diſtinguiſhing marks of national characters more in theſe nonſenſical minutiæ, than in the moſt important matters of ſtate ; where great men of all nations talk and ſtalk ſo much alike, that I would not give ninepence to chuſe amongſt them.
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 2nd edition, volume I, London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, published 1768, page 159:
glosses: A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
qualifier: forensics
glosses: Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.
collectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪbəl/
Forms: form: more collectible
form: most collectible
form: collectable
Etymology: From collect + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: collectible stamps, collectible china, collectible Beatles memorabilia
text: With the lifting of his “depression,” he’d developed a new interest, hobbylike in its intensity, in framable and collectible railroad memorabilia, and he could happily have spent the whole day—the whole week!—pursuing it. . .
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Worthy or suitable for collecting on historical/financial grounds, or for meeting a personal aesthetic.
examples: text: a collectible bill
glosses: Rightfully subject to payment.
examples: text: He's owed it to us for six months, but it doesn't look very collectible to me.
glosses: That is likely to be paid.
Derived terms: collectibility
cryptocollectible
noncollectible
uncollectible
collectible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛktɪbəl/
Forms: form: collectibles
form: collectable
Etymology: From collect + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Topps[…] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.
ref: 2009 January 28, Brooks Barnes, “Sweet Deal to Promote Tweeny-Bop Girl Group”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An object which someone might want to collect.
second violin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second violins
Senses: examples: Holonyms: string section < orchestra
hypernyms: violin#Noun
;
violinist
related: word: first violin
coordinate_terms: first violin
glosses: The second violin part in an orchestral score, generally a harmony to the first violin's melody and generally less technically demanding; the violin that supplies this part, or (metonymic) the violinist who plays it.
Related terms: first violin
second violinist
violin
second fiddle
play second fiddle
second fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second fiddles
Senses: examples: text: The second fiddle on that tune is almost as hard as the first fiddle.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fiddle part in harmony to the first fiddle.
examples: text: I've been second fiddle in that orchestra for ten years now.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The person playing second fiddle.
examples: text: I'm tired of being your second fiddle!
text: Listen, buttercup, you're damned good in bed. They don't come any better, but I'm really not interested in playing second fiddle to your camera or your young lovers.
ref: 1987, Joyce Brandon, Lady and the Lawman, page 346:
glosses: A sidekick or subordinate, or the role of such a person.
Related terms: fiddle
first fiddle
lead fiddle
play second fiddle
second banana
second violin
fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪd(ə)l/
enpr: fĭdʹl
ipa: /ˈfɪdl̩/
ipa: [ˈfɪɾl̩]
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Etymology: From Middle English fithele, from Old English *fiþele, from Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā, from Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ (“fiddle”), of uncertain etymology. Some contest that the Germanic terms are borrowed variations of Late Latin vitula (see viola); others contest that the word has a separate origin within Germanic languages, and still others believe that the Late Latin term for the stringed instrument is a borrowing from Germanic as a change of Latin t to Germanic þ is highly improbable, yet Germanic þ to Latin t is well documented (see troop, Teobaldo, etc.). Cognate with Old High German fidula (German Fiedel), Middle Dutch vedele (Dutch vedel, veel), Old Norse fiðla (Icelandic fiðla, Danish fiddel, Norwegian fela, Swedish fela).
The change from /ðl/ to /dl/ in modern English is regular; compare Bedlam, staddle, swaddle (in brothel, it was prevented; see that entry for discussion).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.
glosses: Synonym of fiddlesticks or euphemism for fuck.
synonyms: word: fiddlesticks or euphemism for fuck
first fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first fiddles
Senses: examples: text: O'Neil played a lively first fiddle.
glosses: The fiddle part generally carrying the melody.
examples: text: O'Neil had been first fiddle in the band for years.
glosses: The player of the first fiddle part.
glosses: One who takes a leading part in anything.
Synonyms: lead fiddle
Related terms: fiddle
fiddler
second fiddle
lead fiddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead fiddles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of first fiddle.
synonyms: word: first fiddle