cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wheezy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːzi/
ipa: /ˈʍiːzi/
Forms: form: wheezier
form: wheeziest
Etymology: From wheeze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A couple of somewhat wheezy Highland "River" class 4-6-0s have succeeded in hauling 450-ton stock trains between Stranraer and Ayr.
ref: 1942 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, pages 61–62:
glosses: That wheezes.
whiffletree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiffletrees
Etymology: From whiffle + tree.
Senses: glosses: a whippletree
whippletree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whippletrees
form: whipple-tree
form: whipple tree
Senses: examples: text: The single whippletree should have a chain attached to bring it out even with the other two.
ref: 1889, George E. Blakelee, Blakelee's Industrial Cyclopedia, page 364:
text: Like the whippletree, the wheelbarrow only became known in the Middle Ages.
ref: 1964, Albert C. Leighton, Early Medieval Transport, page 128:
text: Note the two-horse whippletree on the beam at the lower left. (A whippletree, of which this is the simplest possible, balances the load on the animals.)
ref: 2016, Steven Vogel, Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move, →ISBN:
glosses: A wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal.
Synonyms: word: splinter bar
word: swinglebar
word: swingletree
word: whiffletree
swingletree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingletrees
Etymology: From swingle + tree.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of singletree.
lugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Etymology: From lug + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lug
lugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Forms: form: luggings
Etymology: From Middle English lugging, equivalent to lug + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is lugged from one place to another; a laborious carrying or dragging.
whilom
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪləm/
ipa: /ˈwaɪləm/
ipa: /ˈʍaɪ-/
rhymes: -aɪləm
Forms: form: whilome
Etymology: From Middle English whilom (“(adverb) at one time, formerly, once; once upon a time; at times, sometimes; at a future time; (conjunction) while”) [and other forms], from Old English hwīlum, hwīlan, hwīlon (“at one time, once; sometimes”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīlum, the dative plural of *hwīlu (“period of time, time, while; period of rest, pause”), from Proto-Germanic *hwīlō (“period of time, time, while; period of rest, pause”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest; peace, rest”).
The Oxford English Dictionary regards adverb sense 2.2 (“for some time that has passed”) as “aberrant”.
Cognates
* Old High German hwīlōn (Middle High German wīlen, wīlent, German weiland (“at one time, formerly”))
* Old Saxon hwīlon (“sometimes”) (Middle Dutch wilen, Middle Low German wilen (“at one time, formerly”), Dutch wijlen (“deceased, late”))
Senses: examples: text: Subjects their King, the King his Subjects greets, / VVhilome the Scepter and the Plough-ſtaffe meets.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 77:
synonyms: word: as
word: when
word: while
word: whilom
word: whilst
glosses: During the same time that; while.
synonyms: word: 'til
word: till
word: until
word: unto
word: while
word: whilom
glosses: Up to the time that; till, until.
lugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lug
lugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a bicycle with a lugged steel frame
antonyms: unlugged
glosses: Constructed with lugs.
glosses: Having ears.
whimsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimseys
form: whimsies
Senses: examples: text: mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelations of truth
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of whimsy.
Related terms: whimsey man
whimsicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimsicalities
Etymology: From whimsical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being whimsical.
examples: text: We ask: Has this same ‘perhaps not ill-written Program,’ or any other authentic Transaction of that Property-conserving Society, fallen under the eye of the British Reader, in any Journal foreign or domestic? If so, what are those Prize-Questions; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where? No printed Newspaper-leaf, no farther light of any sort, to be met with in these Paper-bags! Or is the whole business one other of those whimsicalities and perverse inexplicabilities, whereby Herr Teufelsdröckh, meaning much or nothing, is pleased so often to play fast-and-loose with us?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Pause”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 139:
glosses: Something whimsical; a caprice.
whimsically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whimsically
form: most whimsically
Etymology: From whimsical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Now don't say that this is what you get for bringing a woman along," she said. She smiled at me whimsically, gloriously, and I knew there was no need for forgiveness.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: in a whimsical manner
whipcord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipcords
Etymology: From whip + cord.
Senses: glosses: A hard, twisted cord used for making whiplashes.
glosses: A type of catgut.
glosses: A strong worsted fabric, with a diagonal rib.
Derived terms: sea-whipcord
whipcordy
white-bread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white-bread
form: most white-bread
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white bread.
Lashkar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Urdu لشکرِ (“army”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Madhya Pradesh, India.
glosses: The Islamic militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (Urdu: لشکرِ طیبه (“Army of the Pure”)), based in Pakistan. Also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, or Lashkar-i-Toiba.
clamjamfry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamjamfries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clamjamfrey.
cods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cod
deems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːmz/
rhymes: -iːmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deem
deems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːmz/
rhymes: -iːmz
Senses: glosses: plural of deem
deeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English demynge, deminde, demand, from Old English dēmende (“judging”), equivalent to deem + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deem
Derived terms: deemingly
deeming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːmɪŋ
Forms: form: deemings
Etymology: From Middle English deming, demyng, from Old English *dēming (attested in Old English fordēming (“confiscation”)), equivalent to deem + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of judging or of forming an opinion; judgment, estimation.
pardon me
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Pardon me for stepping on your foot.
glosses: Sorry; said as an apology.
examples: text: Pardon me, but that is not true.
glosses: Polite expression used to soften a contradiction.
examples: text: Pardon me, I didn't hear you.
glosses: Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance.
Synonyms: sense: polite expression to get someone to repeat
word: come again
word: pardon
word: what
word: say again
Related terms: excuse me
pardon
whitecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitecaps
Etymology: From white + cap.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds having a white patch on the head
glosses: A wave having a white crest; a breaker
synonyms: whitecapper
glosses: A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.
Derived terms: whitecapping
whitefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitefishes
form: whitefish
form: white-fish
Etymology: From white + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
glosses: Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
topics: cooking
fishing
food
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
glosses: The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale)
Synonyms: kilch
Derived terms: taxonomic: Coregonus nelsonii
word: Alaska whitefish
taxonomic: Coregonus huntsmani
word: Atlantic whitefish
word: Bear Lake whitefish Prosopium abyssicola
taxonomic: Coregonus nasus
word: broad whitefish
taxonomic: Pseudobarbus capensis
word: Cape whitefish
taxonomic: Coregonus lavaretus
word: common whitefish
word: Coney Island whitefish
taxonomic: Coregonus spp.
word: European whitefish
english: subfamily Coregoninae spp.
translation: subfamily Coregoninae spp.
word: freshwater whitefish
taxonomic: Coregonus nelsoni
word: humpbacked whitefish
taxonomic: Coregonus clupeaformis
word: lake whitefish
taxonomic: Prosopium cylindraceum
word: Menominee whitefish
taxonomic: Coregonus tullibee
word: mongrel whitefish
taxonomic: Prosopium williamsoni
word: mountain whitefish
taxonomic: Caulolatilus princeps
word: ocean whitefish
taxonomic: Prosopium coulterii
word: pygmy whitefish
taxonomic: Prosopium williamsonii
word: Rocky Mountain whitefish
taxonomic: Prosopium cylindraceum
word: round whitefish
whitefish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whitefishes
form: whitefishing
form: whitefished
form: whitefished
form: white-fish
Etymology: From white + fish.
Senses: examples: text: “Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”
ref: 1894, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The Windigo”, in The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page 169:
text: “Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.
ref: 1932 March 6, “Fishing Through Ice Is Thrill”, in The Spokesman-Review, 49th year, number 297, Spokane, Wash., part four, page 1:
text: Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.
ref: 1986, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Baton Rouge, La.; London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: To fish for whitefish.
white-knuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: white knuckle
Etymology: Evoking the imagery of tightly clenched hands with reduced bloodflow to the knuckles.
Senses: examples: text: BP said its capped-off well appeared to be holding steady Friday morning, almost midway into a white-knuckle waiting period in which engineers watched the pressure gauges for signs of a leak.
ref: 2010 July 16, Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber, "BP capped well holding nearly a day into new fix", Associated Press wire
text: "No surprise given both Bellamy and White share - or have inherited - Hendrix's unique blend of experimental instincts and white-knuckle showmanship," said Mr Goldsmith.
ref: 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC:
glosses: Causing fear, excitement, apprehension, suspense, or nervousness.
Derived terms: white-knuckle ride
white-knuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: white-knuckles
form: white-knuckling
form: white-knuckled
form: white-knuckled
form: white knuckle
Etymology: Evoking the imagery of tightly clenched hands with reduced bloodflow to the knuckles.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the drive home I white knuckled it.
ref: 2010, Tanya Ebert, Mystical Puzzle, page 24:
text: “I white-knuckled it down there. Went as fast as I could. I didn't tell anyone I was going. When I got there, they wouldn't let me in. Because I wasn't family.”
ref: 2017, Susan Mallery, Maisey Yates, Baby, It's Christmas & Hold Me, Cowboy:
text: There’s an industry term for white-knuckling it through crypto’s wild volatility without selling: “hodl.”
ref: 2021 April 25, Erin Griffith, “We’re All Crypto People Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Some J-CATs didn't even take medication, meaning they white-knuckle this lifestyle, possibly unaware of their deviation from reality and normality.
ref: 2023, Justin Cook, Infectious Injustice:
glosses: To endure despite feeling terror, fear, apprehension, anxiety, discomfort, or torment.
examples: text: That lifting sensation is so strong, I inadvertently feel myself white-knuckling the hand grips.
ref: 2020 November 2, a425couple, “Honda Pulls Mario Andretti From Driving the Two-Seater IndyCar”, in rec.autos.sport.nascar (Usenet):
glosses: To grip tightly in fear, apprehension, suspense, or nervousness.
whitener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiteners
Etymology: From whiten + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any substance used to whiten something; a bleach.
glosses: A person employed to whiten or bleach.
glosses: A powder added to tea or coffee in place of milk. A "non-dairy creamer".
whiteout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwaɪtˈaʊt/
Forms: form: whiteouts
form: white-out
Etymology: Deverbal from white out.
Senses: glosses: A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
examples: text: A whiteout can best be described as a paradoxical combination of being partially blind, but also being able to see illusions of things. It is like floundering in a sea of cotton; everything looks blurred and white.
ref: 1979, Finn Ronne, Antarctica, My Destiny, Hastings House, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
glosses: Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
examples: text: Despite the media whiteout, we believe our weapon flashing had communicated the important political message that the nuclear mentality and the masculine mentality are intimately connected.
ref: 1986, Atlantis - Volume 12, page 174:
text: The slightest reference to national security is accepted as excuse enough for a news whiteout.
ref: 1992, Mid-American Review - Volume 13, page 97:
text: What, for example, have the protagonists of the First Amendment to say about the media whiteout in the United States on the work of such a distinguished radical as Noam Chomsky?
ref: 1998, Ian Loveland, Importing the First Amendment:
text: "Who Put the Black Face on Poverty," the show asked. Well, the mainstream media "whiteout" of the story provides a clue.
ref: 1998, Extra!: The Newsletter of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)., page 8:
glosses: The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
examples: text: While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.
ref: 2012, H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S., →ISBN:
text: Closer to home, I thought about how that same “whiteout” existed in U.S. scholarship on television production and viewership and their cultural flows.
ref: 2013, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences, →ISBN:
text: We must return to a time where whiteout will no longer exist in our thinking process, and remember, black is not just a color but a totally different way of being.
ref: 2015, Niinana Kweku, Whiteout, →ISBN:
glosses: The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white people.
Related terms: blackout
brownout
grayout
greyout
whitewall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From white + wall.
Senses: examples: text: Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires.
ref: 1987, “The Case of the Wool's Worth”, in The Jewish Law Review: The Mishnah on damages:
text: The UniRoyal Tiger Pay Touring whitewall tire is not a performance tire, but it is totally acceptable for street use.
ref: 2007, George McNicholl, How to Rebuild Corvette Rolling Chassis 1963-1982:
text: I was shocked the other day when I Walmart that I could not find a whitewall tire for sale.
ref: 2015, Neal Murphy, East Texas Serendipity: Discovering Stories, History, and Tales from an East Texan’s Perspective:
glosses: Having white sidewalls (of a tyre/tire)
examples: text: A weird elongated creature with a whitewall haircut who had the big head as well as hands and fat thighs of the acromegalic, he was an uninhibited cross-dresser suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who constantly appeared in frocks.
ref: 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual:
text: A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do.
ref: 2011, Mike Stewart, A Clean Kill:
text: With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight.
ref: 2016, Lee Child, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
whitewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitewalls
Etymology: From white + wall.
Senses: examples: text: She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls...
ref: 1967, Portnoy's complaint:
text: Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […]
ref: 1947 June 20, Tide, page 25:
text: Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls
ref: 1974, “Be Thankful for What You Got”, in Be Thankful for What You Got, performed by William DeVaughn:
text: To clean whitewalls on tires, spray Easy-Off Oven Clearn on the whitewalls, wait two minutes, and then rince off with a high pressure hose.
ref: 2008, Joey Green, Joey Green's Fix-It Magic: More Than 1,971 Quick-and-Easy Household Solutions Using Brand-Name Products:
text: They owned two of the largest houses in town; and they drove the latest Chevrolets available, 1941 models, both cars still sporting whitewall tires, which meant that the man who said he hadn't seen a whitewall since Hector was a pup was perhaps stretching the truth.
ref: 2009, William Kloefkorn, Breathing in the Fullness of Time:
glosses: A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
whitewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitewalls
Etymology: See witwall.
Senses: examples: text: White wall (Northants).
ref: 1885, Charles Swainson, Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds, volume 32, Spotted flycatcher:
text: The beam-bird, Muscicapa grisola; the spotted flycatcher. Also whitewall, white-bird.
ref: 1903, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
text: Wall bird, wall-plat, white base, whitewall.
ref: 1905, Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc:
glosses: The spotted flycatcher.
whodunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhuːˈdʌn.ɪt/
Forms: form: whodunits
form: whodunnit
Etymology: Coined by critic Donald Gordon in 1930. Alteration and univerbation of who done it? with ellipsis of has.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, an whodunit is a mystery story. The hero is generally a detective, although sometimes he is a gentleman (apparently a mild mannered worm) who sallies forth at night to become Public Enemy No. One of Crime. Otherwise, the formula is exactly the same as that of the Cliff-hanger and follows the same rules.
ref: 1946, Josephina Niggli, Pointers on radio writing, Boston: The Writer, Inc., page 25:
glosses: A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator.
Related terms: howdunit
wheredunit
whydunit
police procedural
wholeheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wholehearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the condition of being wholehearted
whole-wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: wholemeal
glosses: Of flour, prepared from all the constituents of the wheat grain.
glosses: Of bread, etc., made from whole-wheat flour.
scared to death
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Could be a reformation of Old English oþ dēaþ ondrǣdan (literally “to be scared to death”).
Senses: glosses: Extremely frightened.
whooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whoopers
Etymology: From whoop + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or animal that whoops.
examples: text: Adult whoopers are white and easy to distinguish from sandhills.
ref: 2008, Thomas Arnhold, Web Parton, Wingshooter's Guide to Kansas Upland Birds and Waterfowl, page 88:
glosses: The whooping crane, Grus americana.
glosses: The whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus.
whoreish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whorish.
wonderfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English wonderfulnesse, equivalent to wonderful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [H]ow could Pierre […] fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The state of being wonderful.
wonderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wonderingly
form: most wonderingly
Etymology: From wondering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The flowers that Florence held to her breast began to fall when she heard those words, so wonderingly spoken.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “chapter 23”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 245:
text: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaie & Co., Volume I, Phase the First, Chapter 4, p. 50,
The poor creature looked wonderingly round at the night, at the lantern, at their two figures, as if he could not believe that at that hour, when every living thing was intended to be in shelter and at rest, he was called upon to go out and labour.
text: “That will be sat-is-fac-tor-y,” said Tik-Tok, picking up the gun and examining it wonderingly, for he had never before seen such a weapon.
ref: 1914, L. Frank Baum, chapter 8, in Tik-Tok of Oz, Chicago: Reilly & Britton, page 89:
text: She listened to him wonderingly as he told her of the real miner’s cottage of his birth in Carmarthenshire where his father still lived […]
ref: 1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in The Bachelors, London: Macmillan:
glosses: In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
Potemkin village
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Potemkin villages
Etymology: Calque of Russian потёмкинская деревня (potjómkinskaja derévnja), named for purported fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.
Senses: examples: text: Such concentration not only simplifies the task of keeping tabs on foreigners' movements, but it also enables the Government to influence the outside world's picture of Russia by arranging matters in Moscow to make it a sort of huge, latter-day Potemkin Village.
ref: 1949 April 3, Harry Schwartz, “Soviet Capital Likened to a Potemkin Village”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page E4:
text: When a government substitutes propaganda for governing, the Potemkin village is all. Since we don't get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets once did, decode our rulers' fictions to discern what's really happening.
ref: 2005 December 11, Frank Rich, “It Takes a Potemkin Village”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: When Soviet bureaucrats wanted to impress foreign visitors with the success of the grand experiment, they would visit Potemkin villages—fake towns where actors pretended to be living a life of luxury amid bulging granaries and well-paved streets bustling with happy babushkas pushing prams.
ref: 2007 August 14, Cory Doctorow, “Don't fall for the Potemkin scam”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any false construct devised to disguise a shortcoming or improve appearances.
wikipedia: Catherine the Great
Grigory Potemkin
wonderment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderments
Etymology: From wonder + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A state, arousal, or thing describable by wonder, strange, awe, surprise, marvel, or astonishment.
glosses: A puzzle or curiosity.
penetralium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɛnɪˈtɹeɪliəm/
Forms: form: penetralia
Senses: glosses: the innermost (or most secret) part of a building; an inner sanctum; a sanctum sanctorum.
wil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of will.
wondrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wondrously
form: most wondrously
Etymology: From wondrous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But had thoſe vvits the vvonders of their dayes, / Or that ſvveete Teian Poet [Anacreon] vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her [Venus's] prayſe, / Seene but a glims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, […]
ref: 1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 43:
text: Renamed in honor of the tube tearjerker, the work wondrously went on to become the most recognized theme in all of soapdom.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 338:
glosses: In a wondrous manner.
Mandarin Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
glosses: Standard Mandarin.
Synonyms: Mandarin
haring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hare
mossel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mossels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mossle.
kers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ker
Citroën
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹəʊn/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹən/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹoʊn/
homophone: citrine (General American)
homophone: citron
Forms: form: Citroëns
form: Citroen
Etymology: Borrowed from French Citroën.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Citroën
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹəʊn/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹən/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹoʊn/
homophone: citrine (General American)
homophone: citron
Forms: form: Citroëns
form: Citroen
Etymology: Borrowed from French Citroën.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Peugeot
PSA
glosses: A car of the Citroën brand.
optically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From optical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: regarding or using optics
Derived terms: monoptically
optically active
panoptically
optimally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more optimally
form: most optimally
Etymology: From optimal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an optimal manner.
Derived terms: supraoptimally
optimistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more optimistically
form: most optimistically
Etymology: From optimistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Less optimistically observed, she was a short, broad-shouldered girl, built like a sturdy pony[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: In an optimistic manner.
opulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more opulently
form: most opulently
Etymology: From opulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an opulent manner.
oratorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From oratorical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an oratorical manner.
ornately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ornately
form: most ornately
Etymology: From Middle English ornatly; equivalent to ornate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ornate manner.
organizationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: organisationally
Etymology: From organizational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an organizational manner.
examples: text: Organizationally, the campaign will have its home office in Durham, which will provide support for grassroots efforts in each of the state's 100 counties.
ref: 1990 April 7, Jennie McKnight, “N.C. Activists Mobilize To Oust Helms”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: With regard to organization or an organization.
organically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹˈɡænɪkli/
Forms: form: more organically
form: most organically
Etymology: From organic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an organic manner.
glosses: In the manner of a living organism.
glosses: As part of an organized whole.
examples: text: “But after meeting Jaleel serendipitously on an airplane and becoming friends, the idea grew organically, and we knew we had the right partner.”
ref: 2021 August 5, Pierre-Antoine Louis, “Jaleel White Wants to Sell You ‘Purple Urkle’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Inherently, naturally or constitutionally.
glosses: From, or using organic matter.
glosses: With regard to organic husbandry.
Derived terms: nonorganically
minar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minars
Senses: examples: text: The barah-dari has six window places and two doorways, and is surmounted by four small minars.
ref: 1885, James Burgess, Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Bombay Presidency, page 230:
glosses: A minaret.
ordainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordainments
Etymology: From ordain + -ment.
Senses: glosses: ordination
ornateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornatenesses
Etymology: From ornate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:
glosses: The state of being ornate.
orneriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornerinesses
Etymology: From ornery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ornery.
ornithological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːnɪθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌɔɹnɪθəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Etymology: From ornithology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ornithology.
Derived terms: ethnoornithological
ornithologically
palaeornithological
paleornithological
unornithological
orris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪs/
Forms: form: orrises
Etymology: Probably from iris, although the alteration of the vowel is unexplained.
Senses: glosses: Any of several irises that have a fragrant root, especially Iris × germanica.
examples: text: Drop twelve drops of genuine oil of rhodium on a lump of loaf-sugar ; grind this wel in a glass mortar, and mix it thoroughly with three pounds of orris powder.
ref: 1826, Samuel Adams, Sarah Adams, The Complete Servant, page 169:
text: 1998, Claire Kowalchik, William H. Hylton, Orris, entry in Rodale′s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs, page 406,
Orris is the part of the florentine iris you don′t see — the rhizome. […] The ancient Egyptians and Greeks learned that the bland-smelling orris root would take on a remarkable fragrance if dried for at least two years.
text: Next place your hair, the rose quartz, some of the orris root powder, and the candle drippings into the box.
ref: 2000, Lady Sabrina, The Witch′s Master Grimoire, page 122:
glosses: The fragrant root of such an iris.
Derived terms: orris pea
orrisroot
orris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒɹɪs/
Forms: form: orrises
Etymology: Contracted from orfrays, or from arras.
Senses: glosses: A type of gold or silver lace.
glosses: A pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked, especially one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
vallar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin vallaris.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a rampart.
Derived terms: vallar crown
leef
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lief.
cadential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cadential
form: most cadential
Senses: examples: text: The song was cadential.
glosses: Of or pertaining to cadence or a cadenza.
GDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Gamma Delta Iota (ΓΔΙ) or God Damn Independent; a fictitious fraternity used by fraternity and sorority members to refer to people not affiliated with such organizations.
GDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GDIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: Initialism of Graphics Device Interface.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of gasoline direct injection (“fuel injection”).
Synonyms: sense: fuel injection
word: PDI
sense: fuel injection
word: TSI
sense: fuel injection
word: TFSI
sense: fuel injection
word: TCe
Hypernyms: sense: fuel injection
word: DI
sense: fuel injection
word: DFI
sense: fuel injection
word: FI
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: GDI+
GDI
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: gdi
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of goddamn it.
podar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podars
form: poddar
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A cash-keeper, especially an officer attached to a treasury, responsible for weighing money and bullion and appraising the value of coins.
gaffer tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaffer tapes
form: gaffer's tape
form: gaffers tape
Etymology: From gaffer (“lighting electrician”) + tape.
Senses: glosses: A sturdy adhesive tape, made of plastic reinforced with cross-linked fibre, often used by stage lighting electricians.
Coordinate terms: duct tape
duck tape
gaff tape
gray tape
strategem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of stratagem.
evades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evade
evite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evites
form: eviting
form: evited
form: evited
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).
Senses: examples: text: The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […]
ref: 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:
text: ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:
text: She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
text: "Ah, but there is a way to evite that arrestment," said he.
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona:
text: Goodey has criticised these experiments of Rostrup and is of the opinion that she did not quite evite experimental errors.
ref: 1941, Ivan Nikolaevich Filipjev, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A manual of agricultural helminthology:
glosses: To avoid.
Derived terms: evitable
evites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evite
absists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absist
decrypts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decrypt
decrypts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decrypt
conceals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conceal
excave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskeɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: excaves
form: excaving
form: excaved
form: excaved
Etymology: From Latin excavare.
Senses: examples: text: the last 100 to 150 feet in depth of those valleys have, however, been excaved by the rivers
ref: 1868, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Some account of the Blackmore museum:
glosses: To excavate.
exceded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excede
Synonyms: exceeded
excedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excede
excede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excedes
form: exceding
form: exceded
form: exceded
Etymology: From Latin excedere (“to exceed”).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of exceed.
excites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excite
slows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slow
slows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: milk sickness
thous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thou
thous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thou
thous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And don't talk like some ancient prophet around me, with "thees" and "thous" and "most powerful ones."
ref: 1991, Philip LaZebnik, “Devil's Due”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 13, spoken by Ardra (Marta Dubois):
glosses: plural of thou; the use of the second-person pronoun "thou," especially as a marker of archaism, formality, or reverence; also thou's.
exclame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exclames
form: exclaming
form: exclamed
form: exclamed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exclaim.
exclame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclames
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of exclaim.
exclames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exclame
exclames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exclame
invests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invest
invests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invest
warms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of warm
warms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warm
cools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cool
buffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌfs/
rhymes: -ʌfs
Senses: glosses: plural of buff
buffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌfs/
rhymes: -ʌfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buff
beplasters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beplaster
snowplows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snowplow
gnaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gnaw
handfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handfast
handfasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handfast
soils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soil
soils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soil
listens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of listen
listens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of listen
upbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upbreak
excreta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈskɹiːtə/
Forms: form: excretum
Etymology: From Latin excrēta, neuter plural of excrētus, past participle of excernere.
Senses: examples: text: Human excreta are made up mostly of urine and excrement that include diverse complex molecules derived from foods and bodily processes – carbohydrates, sugars, fats, etc.
ref: 2009, Ronald J. LeBlanc, Peter Matthews, Roland P. Richard, Global Atlas of Excreta, Wastewater Sludge, and Biosolids Management, page 24:
synonyms: excrements
excretions
glosses: Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
grafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of graft
grafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graft
excretes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excrete
excretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: excreta; matters discharged from the animal body
foots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foot
foots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
Senses: glosses: The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
glosses: plural of foot
perfects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perfect
weathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather
weathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weather
disgusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disgust
copyrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copyright
copyrights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copyright
thunders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunder
thunders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thunder
distends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distend
chalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalk
chalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chalk
carps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carp
carps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carp
disdains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disdain
threatens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of threaten
larks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lakhs (Received Pronunciation)
locks (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of lark
larks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: lakhs (Received Pronunciation)
locks (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lark
rumors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumor
rumors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rumor
rumours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumour
rumours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rumour
melts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melt
melts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of melt
dulls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌlz/
rhymes: -ʌlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dull
floats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of float
floats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of float
fulls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of full
vacuums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacuum
vacuums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum
snows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊz/
ipa: [snəʊ̯z]
ipa: /snoʊz/
ipa: [snoʊ̯z]
rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology: From snow + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns; and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: To men legislating for the vast area betwixt the two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the gravity and grandeur of nature will infuse itself into the code.
ref: 1844 February 7 (date delivered), Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Young American: A Lecture Read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, at the Odeon, Wednesday, February 7, 1844, London: John Chapman, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.
examples: text: You’d better be wearing your snows next week.
text: 74 VW dyke mobile, 75K miles. Immac in/out & great to drive. No rust! Includes roofrack, snows, manual.
ref: 1984 April 7, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: Clipping of snow tires.
glosses: A woman's pale-coloured breasts.
snows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊz/
ipa: [snəʊ̯z]
ipa: /snoʊz/
ipa: [snoʊ̯z]
rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology: From snow + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns; and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: The snows in Alaska are quite different from the snows here.
glosses: plural of snow
snows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊz/
ipa: [snəʊ̯z]
ipa: /snoʊz/
ipa: [snoʊ̯z]
rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology: From snow + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns; and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snow
augments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of augment
augments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augment
upcoils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upcoil