cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Armenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈmiːni.ən/
ipa: /ɑɹˈmini.ən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: Arm.
Etymology: From Armenia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian.
glosses: A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language.
Synonyms: Ashkharhabar
Derived terms: Graeco-Armenian
Helleno-Armenian
Proto-Armenian
Old Armenian
Classical Armenian
Liturgical Armenian
Middle Armenian
Eastern Armenian
Western Armenian
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Armenian terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/hye
word: hy
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/hye
word: hye
word: hye ⁠
Antillean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntəˈliːən/
ipa: /ænˈtɪli.ən/
Etymology: From Antilles + -ean.
Senses: examples: Holonym: Caribbean
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles, the Antillean people or the Antillean language.
Derived terms: Antillean Creole
Antillean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntəˈliːən/
ipa: /ænˈtɪli.ən/
Forms: form: Antilleans
Etymology: From Antilles + -ean.
Senses: examples: Holonym: Caribbean
glosses: A person from the Antilles or of Antillean descent.
Angolan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡəʊlən/
ipa: /æŋˈɡoʊlən/
Etymology: From Angola + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Angola or the Angolan people.
Derived terms: Angolanness
Angolan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡəʊlən/
ipa: /æŋˈɡoʊlən/
Forms: form: Angolans
Etymology: From Angola + -n.
Senses: hypernyms: sub-Saharan
;
African
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Angola.
antarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɑːktɪk/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: more antarctic
form: most antarctic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Antarctic.
gender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: genders
form: gendering
form: gendered
form: gendered
form: g.
Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
Senses: examples: text: In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
ref: 2011, Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, page 147:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.
examples: text: At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
ref: 1996, Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, page 191:
text: Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.
ref: 1997, Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, page 120:
text: Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.
ref: 2003, “Reading the Anonymous Female Voice”, in The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England, page 244:
text: “Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”
ref: 2019 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
Related terms: misgender
ungender
degender
regender
gender
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more gender
form: most gender
form: g.
Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
Senses: examples: text: This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.
text: miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug
ref: 2021 July 6, @chromaticamber, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
text: Seth Rogan eating the whole chicken drumstick off the bone and then asking how he’s still single is gender af
ref: 2021 July 6, @godrustler, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
text: ombras "whats good?" and "peace 😈" voicelines are so gender and i love her
ref: 2023 March 13, @FTMLUCIO, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
text: you draw her so gender, thank you i'm die forever
ref: 2023 December 31, @pyrotato, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
text: Whenever I work triceps at the gym I feel most Gender (tm).
ref: 2024 May 31, @BurnJonJonBurn, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
text: Is there anything surprising that makes you feel gender/that you are envious of? ¶ oooh. i recently discovered the big gender mood of shirts cropped to precisely the right length, and it is also surprisingly gender when my friends call me “doc” instead of my very binarily gendered name
ref: 2024 August 23, official-linguistics-post, “Archived copy”, in Tumblr (blog), archived from the original on 30 Aug 2024:
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
gender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: genders
form: gendering
form: gendered
form: gendered
form: g.
Etymology: From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
Senses: examples: text: […] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 4:22–24 and 26, signature [S4], verso, column 2:
text: […] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit.
ref: 1854, Robert Gordon (D.D., Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh.), Christ as Made Known to the Ancient Church: an Exposition of the Revelation of Divine Grace, as Unfolded in the Old Testament Scriptures, page 400
text: Our whole life was passed in public, which gendered a sympathy and good fellowship that always distinguishes Wykehamists from the rest of mankind.
ref: 1893, The Academy and Literature, page 71:
glosses: To engender.
examples: text: Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 19:19, signature [L5], recto, column 2:
text: They are nearly round, a little flattish on one side, which lies next the bottom of the sea; and they are from one to eight inches thick. They crawl up into shallow water at particular seasons of the year, probably for the purpose of gendering, as we often find them in pairs.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Fear in the witch's heart was gendering with her hate,
Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed, […]
ref: 1896, John Todhunter, Three Irish Bardic Tales: Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales Known as the Three Sorrows of Story-telling, page 11:
glosses: To breed.
gender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɡənˈdɛː(r)/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: genders
form: gendèr
form: g.
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian gender, from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.
Senses: glosses: An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
adult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ʌlt/
ipa: /ˈæd.əlt/
ipa: /əˈdʌlt/
ipa: /ˈæd.əlt/
ipa: [ˈadʌɫt]
ipa: [əˈdʌɫt]
ipa: [ˈadʊɫt]
ipa: [ˈad(ə)ɫt]
ipa: [aˈdʌɫt]
ipa: [əˈdʊɫt]
rhymes: -ʌlt
Forms: form: adults
Etymology: From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
Senses: examples: text: The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form
ref: 1840, Georges Cuvier, Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, J.O. Westwood, “The fourth order of reptiles—The batrachians”, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, page 286:
glosses: An animal that is full-grown.
glosses: A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
Synonyms: sense: fully grown human or other animal
word: grown up
word: adult
word: grown-up
word: grownup
word: growed-up
word: postpubescent
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: man
word: woman
word: old person
Related terms: word: adultlike
word: mature
adult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.ʌlt/
ipa: /ˈæd.əlt/
ipa: /əˈdʌlt/
ipa: /ˈæd.əlt/
ipa: [ˈadʌɫt]
ipa: [əˈdʌɫt]
ipa: [ˈadʊɫt]
ipa: [ˈad(ə)ɫt]
ipa: [aˈdʌɫt]
ipa: [əˈdʊɫt]
rhymes: -ʌlt
Forms: form: adults
form: adulting
form: adulted
form: adulted
Etymology: From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
Senses: examples: text: Adulting is hard!
glosses: To behave like an adult.
examples: text: Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]
ref: 1974, Occasional Papers, numbers 42-46, Syracuse University, page 5:
text: The process of adulting children[…] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media[…] into children’s imagination.
ref: 2013, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: To (cause to) be or become an adult.
womanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊmənli/
Forms: form: womanlier
form: womanliest
form: womonly
form: womynly
Etymology: From Middle English womanly, wommanlich, wommanly, wommanlych, wummonlich, equivalent to woman + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I know that the sound of it moved me more even than her words, it was so very human - so very womanly.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: "What I mean, a woman who doesn't go in for booze and sport and cigarettes. Man gets sick of these tough flappers. Give me a womanly woman every time. As I said before, I could see at a glance that you were a thoroughly womanly woman."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:
glosses: Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.
glosses: Female.
Coordinate terms: girly
Derived terms: womanliness
womanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊmənli/
Forms: form: womonly
form: womynly
Etymology: From Middle English wommanliche, wommanly, equivalent to woman + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: synonyms: womanlily
coordinate_terms: manly#Adverb
glosses: In the manner of a woman.
dragonfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæɡənˌflaɪ/
Forms: form: dragonflies
form: dragon-fly
Etymology: From dragon + fly.
Senses: examples: text: There were two dragonflies in the garden today.
text: The delicate coloured Dragon Flies may have likewise some Corrosive quality.
ref: 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum:
text: The sapphire needled dragonflies
That flirt with the crested newt!
And now before his newtly nose, […]
ref: 1897, Thomas Wright, The Acid Sisters: And Other Poems, page 93:
text: Stacey Combes, who studies the biomechanics of dragonfly flight at Harvard, once watched a laboratory dragonfly eat 30 flies in a row.
ref: 2013 April 1, Natalie Angier, “Nature’s Drone, Pretty and Deadly”, in The New York Times:
text: As the airboat skimmed across the shallow water, scattering blue dragonflies and launching a heron into the air, Keith Price squinted into the sun and relished the isolation of Florida’s unrivaled river of grass.
ref: 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.
Synonyms: sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: adderbolt
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: battimamselle
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: darner
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: darning needle
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: devil's needle
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: devil's darning needle
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: dining needle
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: ear sewer
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: horse-stinger
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: mosquito fly
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: mosquito hawk
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: needle
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: skeeter hawk
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: snake doctor
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: snake feeder
sense: insect of infraorder Anisoptera
word: spindle
Hypernyms: odonate
sewing needle
Related terms: Anisoptera
damselfly
Odonata
vociferance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vōciferor (“shout”), from vōx (“voice”) + ferō (“carry”).
Senses: examples: text: All now is wrangle, abuse, and vociferance— / Now there's a truce, all's subdued, self-restraining— […]
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 15, page 199:
glosses: Vociferation; clamour, noise.
Related terms: vociferousness
vociferant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vociferant
form: most vociferant
Etymology: From Latin vōciferāns (present participle).
Senses: glosses: noisy; clamorous
vociferate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/
ipa: /vəˈsɪfəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: vociferates
form: vociferating
form: vociferated
form: vociferated
Etymology: From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari (“to vociferate”), from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear”). See voice, and bear (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,
ref: 1782, William Cowper, Conversation:
text: He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: exclaim
bawl
clamor
glosses: To cry out with vehemence
examples: text: Though he may vociferate the word liberty.
ref: 1779, Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary:
text: At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
asteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs'tə-roidz"
ipa: /ˈæstəˌɹɔɪdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of asteroid
vociferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊˌsɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /voʊˌsɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: vociferations
Etymology: From Latin vōciferātiō, from vōciferor (“shout”), from vōx (“voice”) + ferō (“carry”); compare French vocifération.
Senses: examples: text: And as she apprehended the boy's life was in danger, she screamed ten times louder than before; and indeed Master Blifil himself now seconded her with all the vociferation in his power.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter III, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
text: Crack go the whips; but twenty Patriot arms have seized each of the eight bridles: there is rearing, rocking, vociferation; not the smallest headway.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
Related terms: vociferate
vociferative
vociferous
vociferously
asteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs'tə-roid"
ipa: /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/
homophone: astroid (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: asteroids
Etymology: From aster + -oid, lit. "star-like". Coined by William Herschel.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
examples: text: The orbital planes of asteroids, minor bodies that circle the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, are often more tilted ...
ref: 2007, Hannu Karttunen et al., editors, Fundamental Astronomy, 5th edition, page 131:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter
Derived terms: Apohele asteroid
asterite
asteroidal
asteroid belt
asteroidlike
Atira asteroid
binary asteroid
disasteroid
iceteroid
interasteroid
kuiperoid
Vatira asteroid
ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim asteroid
Related terms: aster
asterisk
asterism
minor planet
astroid
comet
exoasteroid
meteor
meteorite
planetoid
asteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs'tə-roid"
ipa: /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/
homophone: astroid (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: asteroids
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής (asteroeidḗs), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form”). Analyzable as aster- + -oid. Piecewise doublet of etymology 1. Compare also the botanical taxon Asteroideae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.
Abelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abelites
Etymology: From Abel + -ite.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Abelian.
synonyms: word: Abelian
tuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: tufts
Etymology: From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).
Senses: glosses: A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
glosses: A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
examples: text: “Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].”
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume One, II.4:
glosses: A small clump of trees or bushes.
glosses: A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
examples: text: A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 62, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.
ref: 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:
glosses: A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
Derived terms: ear tuft
golden-tuft alyssum
golden-tuft madwort
London tuft
scalping tuft
shaggy tuft
sulfur tuft
sulphur tuft
tufthunter
tufthunting
tuft-taffeta
tuft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: tufts
form: tufting
form: tufted
form: tufted
Etymology: From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).
Senses: examples: text: His tufted cottage rising through the snow
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
glosses: To form into tufts.
examples: text: They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time!
ref: 2017 December 2, “The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!” (0:13 from the start), in DuckTales, season 1, episode 3:
glosses: To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
glosses: To be formed into tufts.
translations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪʃənz/
ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪʃənz/
ipa: /tɹænsˈleɪʃənz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnzˈleɪʃənz/
ipa: /tɹɑːnsˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of translation
Mediterranean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/
ipa: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/
ipa: [mɛɾɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən]
ipa: [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən]
Forms: form: more Mediterranean
form: most Mediterranean
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, inland, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding region.
Derived terms: familial Mediterranean fever
medicane
Mediterranean anchovy
Mediterranean anemia
Mediterranean back
Mediterranean basin
Mediterranean blue
Mediterranean climate
Mediterranean coast fever
Mediterranean cypress
Mediterranean Deep Water
Mediterranean diet
Mediterranean disease
Mediterranean dwarf palm
Mediterranean eddy
Mediterranean erythematous fever
Mediterranean exanthematous fever
Mediterranean fan palm
Mediterranean fever
Mediterranean flour moth
Mediterranean forest
Mediterranean front
Mediterranean fruit fly
Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean gecko
Mediterranean gull
Mediterranean hackberry
Mediterranean-hemoglobin E disease
Mediterranean house gecko
Mediterranean Irish
Mediterranean Irishman
Mediterraneanise
Mediterraneanize
Mediterranean lens
Mediterranean lenses
Mediterranean lingua franca
Mediterranean Lingua Franca
Mediterranean lymphoma
Mediterranean monk seal
Mediterraneanness
Mediterranean outflow
Mediterranean pine
Mediterranean race
Mediterranean recluse spider
Mediterranean region
Mediterranean Revival
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean shearwater
Mediterranean snapdragon
Mediterranean spearfish
Mediterranean spotted fever
Mediterranean Squadron
Mediterranean States
Mediterranean Station
Mediterranean stone pine
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Mediterranean theileriosis
Mediterranean triad
Mediterranean tropical cyclone
Mediterranean water
Mediterranean water shrew
Mediterranean wood
Proto-Mediterranean
proto-Mediterranean
submediterranean
sub-Mediterranean
Related terms: medium
middle
Middle-earth
Middle Earth
terra
Terran
terrestrial
Mediterranean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/
ipa: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/
ipa: [mɛɾɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən]
ipa: [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən]
Forms: form: the Mediterranean
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, inland, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of the Mediterranean Sea: a sea between Europe and Africa, an inland branch of the Atlantic.
glosses: A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and Western Asia. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Derived terms: American Mediterranean
American Mediterranean Sea
Battle of the Mediterranean
Blue Mediterranean
Key of the Mediterranean
Red Mediterranean
Mediterranean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/
ipa: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/
ipa: [mɛɾɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən]
ipa: [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən]
Forms: form: Mediterraneans
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mediterrāneus, inland, from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mediterranid.
synonyms: word: Mediterranid
glosses: Ellipsis of Mediterranean food, a style of food originating from the (often European or Near Eastern, as opposed to African) lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
locative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏk′ə-tĭv
ipa: /ˈlɒk.ə.tɪv/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: lä′kə-tĭv
ipa: /ˈlɑk.ə.tɪv/
enpr: lō′kə-tĭv
ipa: /ˈloʊ.kə.tɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɵˈkeʈɪv/
Etymology: From Latin locātīvus, from locus. In Indian English, by surface analysis, locate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: a locative adjective
text: the locative case of a noun
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
Derived terms: locative absolute
locative adverb
locatively
locative-qualitative case
locativize
nonlocative
locative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lŏk′ə-tĭv
ipa: /ˈlɒk.ə.tɪv/
note: father-bother merger
enpr: lä′kə-tĭv
ipa: /ˈlɑk.ə.tɪv/
enpr: lō′kə-tĭv
ipa: /ˈloʊ.kə.tɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɵˈkeʈɪv/
Forms: form: locatives
Etymology: From Latin locātīvus, from locus. In Indian English, by surface analysis, locate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Brian: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the… accusative! Accusative! Ah! Domum, sir! Ad domum! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
Centurion: Except that domus takes the…?
Brian: The locative, sir!
Centurion: Which is…?!
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The locative case.
Derived terms: cislocative
translocative
locator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈkeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈloʊkeɪtɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: locators
Etymology: From Latin locātor. By surface analysis, locate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: I found the opening times for my local branch using the Web site's store locator.
glosses: One who, or that which, locates.
glosses: One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.
Derived terms: echolocator
emergency locator transmitter
emergency locator transponder
geolocator
locator map
locator outer marker
personal locator beacon
personal locator radio-beacon
record locator
Uniform Resource Locator
vendor locator
Related terms: locant
location
locus
locellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin locellus (“compartment”), diminutive of locus (“place”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones
Derived terms: multilocellate
hem
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
Senses: glosses: Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.
hem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: hems
Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
Senses: examples: text: his morning hems
ref: January 8, 1712', John Dryden, The Spectator No. 269
glosses: An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
hem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: hems
form: hemming
form: hemmed
form: hemmed
Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
Senses: examples: text: Hem, and stroke thy beard.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: “Sit down,” said the young man, gruffly. “He’ll be in soon.”
I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
Derived terms: hem and haw
hem and hah
hem up
Related terms: ahem
haw
hem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: hems
Etymology: From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hem, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”).
The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
examples: text: Entombed upon the very hem o' th' sea
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
glosses: A rim or margin of something.
glosses: In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
Derived terms: hemless
hemline
hem-line
hemstitch
kiss someone's hem
kiss the hem of someone's garment
rehem
touch someone's hem
touch the hem of someone's garment
touch the hem of someone's robe
unhem
hem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: hems
form: hemming
form: hemmed
form: hemmed
Etymology: From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hem, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”).
The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To make a hem.
glosses: To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
examples: text: A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.
text: He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
glosses: To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
Derived terms: hem in
hemmer
hem
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm
ipa: /hɛm/
ipa: /hɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛm
homophone: him (pin–pen merger)
Etymology: From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.
Senses: examples: text: And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.
ref: 1481, William Caxton, The Historie of Reynart the Foxe:
text: For eyther of hem mayntened.
ref: 1485, William Caxton, Paris and Vienne:
text: ‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.
ref: 1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English:
text: Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
text: Except we make hem such.
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: They go forth on Holydays and gather hem by the seashore.
ref: 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Obsolete form of 'em.
loch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔx/
ipa: /lɒk/
ipa: /lɒx/
ipa: /lɑk/
note: in some rare cases realized as [lɑç]
ipa: /lɑx/
rhymes: -ɒk
rhymes: -ɒx
homophone: lock
homophone: lough
Forms: form: lochs
Etymology: See lohoch.
Senses: examples: text: We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch, is an Arabian name for a medicine of a consistence between an electuary and a sirup, and usually taken by licking.[…]]
ref: 1859, Al[fred François] Donné, “Of Professional Nurses”, in Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing. […], Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, →OCLC, page 67:
text: Uncle James had caught a cold too, so I went with Grissel; and found a chemist who'd been in France, and knew what a loch was and made one for me; […]
ref: 1897, George du Maurier, “Part Seventh”, in The Martian: […] (Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library), London; Bombay: George Bell and Sons, →OCLC, page 324:
text: [Rembert] Dodoens specifically recommends the preparation of a lohoch or loch – a 'licking medicine', of middle consistency, between a soft electuary and a syrup – for relief of obstruction, shortness of breath and an old, hard cough.
ref: 2011, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegge, “Hyssopus officinalis, Hyssop”, in The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge, Edinburgh; London: Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 195, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”).
Lochaber ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lochaber axes
form: Lochaber axe
Etymology: So called from Lochaber, in Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scottish Highlanders.
Lochaber axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lochaber axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lochaber ax.
peach
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pēch
ipa: /piːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: more peach
form: most peach
Etymology: From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogʒe, from Old English persoc, from the same Latin root above.
Senses: examples: text: Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.
ref: 2006, Anne Bold-Pryor, The Naked Wall:
text: The dining compartment was very peach.
ref: 2012, Mac Barnett, It Happened on a Train:
text: Perhaps this is best illustrated in the particularly bizarre Kinkade painting entitled The Good Shepherd's Cottage, where an openarmed (and very peach) Jesus welcomes a herd of sheep—literal sheep—to the threshold of a glowing cottage.
ref: 2014, Kristin G. Congdon, Happy Clouds, Happy Trees: The Bob Ross Phenomenon:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the color peach.
examples: text: 'That'll be just peach with me.'
ref: 2000, Marc Behm, Afraid to Death, →ISBN, page 174:
text: If I explain that I won't help them maintain systems running proprietary software (I'll make an exception for firmware, sometimes.) they usually shrug their shoulders and ask someone else -- which is just peach with me.
ref: 2011 May 19, Gilbert Sullivan, “SWF (Adobe Flash) support”, in linux.debian.user (Usenet):
text: Her words were peach with sincerity, and I could tell she really believed it was a good idea.
ref: 2011, R. J. Anderson, Ultraviolet, →ISBN, page 9:
text: I am sure I was just peach to deal with.
ref: 2015 November 2, “Resetting, goalsetting, and dreamsetting”, in From Athlete to triathlete:
synonyms: agreeable
fair
orange
paragon
peachy
rosy
antonyms: disagreeable
foul
ugly
unpleasant
glosses: Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
Related terms: 🍑
laetrile
nectarine
peach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pēch
ipa: /piːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: peaches
form: peaching
form: peached
form: peached
Etymology: From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
Senses: examples: text: If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
ref: 1623, Shakespeare, Henry IV:
text: "But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection.
"He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverel will?"
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 9, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, paperback edition, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 21:
text: "Do you think we want to peach? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is.[…]"
ref: 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 123:
synonyms: word: sing
word: squeal
word: tattle
word: bewray
word: blow the whistle
word: clepe
word: denounce
word: dime
word: dob
word: drop a dime
word: drop a dime on someone
word: finger
word: fink
word: fizgig
word: inform
word: inform on
word: grass on
word: grass up
word: lolly up
word: name names
word: nark
word: peach
word: rat on
word: rat out
word: roll on
word: sing
word: snitch
word: snitch up
word: squeak
word: squeal
word: tattle
word: tell
word: tell all
word: tell on
word: tell tales
word: tip off
word: turn in
glosses: To inform on someone; turn informer.
examples: text: Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days.
ref: 1535, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of the Reign of Henry VIII, volume 9, published 1886, page 387:
text: […] and finding out the residence of his brother Charles, desires him not to peach him, but to lend him a suit of his fine cloaths, that he might see what it was to be a fine gentleman […]
ref: 1774, “The British Theatre”, in London Magazine, volume 43, page 639:
text: Ay, says Will, I am undone for all that; for the officers are after me; and I am a dead dog if I am taken, for George is in custody, and he has peached me and all the others, to save his life.
ref: 1840, Daniel Defoe, Life of Colonel Jack: And, a True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal:
glosses: To inform against.
Derived terms: peacher
peach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēch
ipa: /piːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Senses: examples: text: Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach.
ref: 1858, Robert Philips Greg, Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain & Ireland:
text: Peach, which is a word used by the Cornish miners, in a generic sense, to denote all minerals of the chloritic family—and is consequently a very convenient word—seems to be essentially the "mother" of tin; but the experience of Cornwall goes to show that peach alone does not produce a permanent tin mine: an intermixture of quartz is necessary to give what miners call "strength" to the lode.
ref: 1862, “Illustrated Notes on Prominent Mines”, in The Mining and Smelting Magazine, volume 2, page 17:
text: A quartz (sparry) vein, unless accompanied by other minerals such as peach, chlorite, &c., is considered valueless as an indication of the presence of ore.
ref: 1908, James Bastian Hill, The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
Derived terms: blue peach
green peach
peach tourmaline
evil
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ē-vəl
enpr: ē-vĭl
ipa: /ˈiːvɪl/
ipa: /ˈiːvl̩/
ipa: /ˈivəl/
ipa: [ˈivəɫ]
ipa: [ˈivɫ̩]
rhymes: -iːvəl
Forms: form: more evil
form: most evil
Etymology: From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfele (“badly, evilly”), a derivative of the adjective yfel (“bad, evil”). Often reinterpreted as the noun in the later language (as in "to speak evil").
Senses: examples: text: O what of Gods then boots it to be borne, / If old Aveugles ſonnes ſo euill heare?
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part I (books I–III), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza ii, page 66:
glosses: wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
examples: text: And many ſhall follow their pernicious wayes, by reaſon of whom the way of trueth ſhall be euill ſpoken of:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Peter 2:2:
glosses: injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
examples: text: It went evil with him.
text: But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe:
ref: 1570, William Lambard, quoting Horace, A Perambulation of Kent, published 1596, page 341:
glosses: badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.