cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hilum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ləm/
rhymes: -aɪləm
Forms: form: hila
form: hile
form: hilus
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hīlum (“a trifle; a spot on a seed”).
Senses: examples: text: The hilum is very prominent in some species and nearly flat in others.
ref: 1913, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume III, Washington, D.C.: Washington Academy of Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 141:
text: On the tip of each corn kernel is a hilum, collectively known as the "black layer," where it is attached to the cob. While corn is growing, nutrients are being transferred from the rest of the cob to the kernels through the hilum.
ref: 2005, David Feldman, Do Elephants Jump? (Imponderables Book), New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 24:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.
examples: text: In central hilum starch grains the grain is laid down around the hilum in the form of concentric layers.
ref: 1916, William Mansfield, Histology of Medicinal Plants, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 188:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The nucleus of a starch grain.
examples: text: [The pancreas] is a hook-shaped gland, about 15 cm long, that lies transversely across the upper abdomen, with the head in the C-shaped curve of the duodenum[…], extending to the left as the body behind the stomach and ending as the tail lying against the hilum of the spleen.
ref: 1998, R[obert] M[atthew] H[ay] McMinn, R. T. Hutchings, B. M. Logan, “Abdomen”, in The Concise Handbook of Human Anatomy, London: Manson Publishing, →ISBN, pages 144–145:
text: The shadows of the hila on chest X-ray are mainly formed by the pulmonary arteries (PAs) and some of their main branches and the upper pulmonary veins (PVs).
ref: 2010, Benoît Ghaye, “Imaging of Hila and Pulmonary Vessels”, in Emmanuel E. Coche, Benoît Ghaye, Johan De Mey, Philippe Duyck, editors, Comparative Interpretation of CT and Standard Radiography of the Chest, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 166:
text: In the large majority of normal patients, the hila appear equal in size on frontal radiographs; comparison of the two hila is helpful in patients with a unilateral abnormality.
ref: 2010, W. Richard Webb, Charles B. Higgins, Thoracic Imaging: Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Radiology, 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 161:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: porta
glosses: A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ.
Related terms: hilar
hoagie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: hoagies
form: hoagy
form: hoggie
Etymology: Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch.
glosses: A sandwich made on a (usually soft) long Italian roll; a submarine sandwich.
Synonyms: sense: sandwich
word: sub
hoagie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: hoagies
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey.
ref: 2005 August 20, “Forget turkey twizzlers... the 1200-calorie hoagie has arrived Takeaways used by school pupils to be told how to make their food more healthy”, in The Herald:
text: Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product.
ref: 2018 August 24, Jessica Lindsay, “Central Scotland’s hoagie wrap is a thing to behold”, in Metro:
qualifier: chiefly Central Belt
glosses: A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese.
hoagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoagies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoagie.
hob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏb
ipa: /hɑb/
enpr: hŏb
ipa: /hɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: hobs
Etymology: Related to hub, but the ultimate origin of both words is obscure.
Senses: glosses: A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
examples: text: They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
ref: 1898, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second, Chapter V (The Jackal)
glosses: The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
examples: text: And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob, finally boil.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
glosses: A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
glosses: A male ferret.
examples: August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress
the wheels of the carriages sinking up to the hobs rendered it impossible for our whole force to drag them.
glosses: The hub of a wheel.
Synonyms: sense: cooking surface
word: cooktop
sense: cooking surface
word: stovetop
Derived terms: hobless
hob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏb
ipa: /hɑb/
enpr: hŏb
ipa: /hɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: hobs
form: hobbing
form: hobbed
form: hobbed
Etymology: Related to hub, but the ultimate origin of both words is obscure.
Senses: glosses: To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
glosses: To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
hob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏb
ipa: /hɑb/
enpr: hŏb
ipa: /hɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: hobs
Etymology: From Middle English Hob (a diminutive of Robin, an Old French [Term?] diminutive of Robert), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare hobgoblin; see robin.
Senses: examples: text: From elves, hobs, and fairies, […] Defend us, good Heaven!
ref: 1610–1616, John Fletcher, “Monsieur Thomas. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene vi:
glosses: A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
examples: text: More fitter for the Country Hobs.
ref: 1682, Langley Curtis, New News from Bedlam:
synonyms: word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A countryman; a rustic or yokel.
Synonyms: sense: supernatural creature
english: hostile
translation: hostile
word: goblin
Derived terms: hobbish
hoblob
hobnail
play hob with
raise hob
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
Etymology: Clipping of hockamore, from German.
Senses: examples: text: That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.
ref: 1891 [1887], Oscar Wilde, “The Model Millionaire”, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories:
text: The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand for it in a beer-drinking community.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 158:
synonyms: Hochheimer
glosses: A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
Related terms: claret
sack
tent
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
Etymology: From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.
See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”).
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, you only have one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks.
ref: 2013, Kazerad, Gaius: Recap goals, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), February 06 2013
glosses: The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
glosses: Meat from that part of a food animal.
glosses: The hollow behind the knee.
Derived terms: forehock
ham hock
heel
hock lock
rattle one's hocks
vulture hock
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
form: hocking
form: hocked
form: hocked
Etymology: From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.
See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”).
Senses: glosses: To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
Synonyms: hamstring
hough
hox
Hypernyms: disable
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
form: hocking
form: hocked
form: hocked
Etymology: From the phrase in hock, circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). Compare also Middle English hukken (“to sell; peddle; sell at auction”), see huck.
Senses: glosses: To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
Derived terms: hockshop
unhock
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: From the phrase in hock, circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). Compare also Middle English hukken (“to sell; peddle; sell at auction”), see huck.
Senses: examples: text: He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
text: But Ford Motor Co. needs another agency, either Standard & Poor's or Moody's, to make the same upgrade before it can get its blue oval logo, factories and other assets out of hock.
ref: 2012 April 25, Patty Murphy, “Business bulletin”, in Associated Press, page 10A:
glosses: Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
examples: text: They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.
glosses: Debt.
examples: text: Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed.
ref: 2007, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself, page 28:
glosses: Installment purchase.
glosses: Prison.
Derived terms: Hock Monday
Hock Tuesday
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
form: hocking
form: hocked
form: hocked
form: hak
Etymology: From Yiddish האַק (hak), imperative singular form of האַקן (hakn, “to knock”), from the idiomatic expression האַק מיר נישט קיין טשײַניק (hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik, “don't knock a teakettle at me”).
Senses: glosses: To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
form: hocking
form: hocked
form: hocked
Etymology: Probably imitative (a variant form of hawk (“cough”)), like hack (“cough”), although see that entry for more.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).
Derived terms: hocker
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
Etymology: Probably imitative (a variant form of hawk (“cough”)), like hack (“cough”), although see that entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: One or two coughs signified 1 or 2. Clearing a throat meant 3. A loud hock was 4 and a loud sneeze or spit indicated 5. The new system gained favor. Jerry figured the guards must have thought the POWs were near death given the volume of bodily noise coming from Alcatraz.
ref: 2019 March 26, Alvin Townley, Captured: An American Prisoner of War in North Vietnam (Scholastic Focus), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
text: […] said with another cough and a loud hock.
ref: 2006 09, Barry Yelton, Scarecrow in Gray, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99:
synonyms: hocking
glosses: Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).
hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒk/
ipa: /hɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: hawk (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hocks
Senses: topics: card-games
games
coordinate_terms: soda
glosses: The last card turned up in the game of faro.
Derived terms: soda to hock
Related terms: soon hock
hogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊ.ɡən/
rhymes: -əʊɡən
Forms: form: hogans
Etymology: Borrowed from Navajo hooghan (“dwelling, house”).
Senses: examples: text: The wives of warriors were under strict instructions not to leave their hogans until the men had returned, hopefully successful, from their martial adventures abroad […].
ref: 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 27:
glosses: A one-room Native American (especially Navajo) dwelling or lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud.
Related terms: sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit, made of snow
translation: used by the Inuit, made of snow
word: igloo
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the Great Plains
translation: used in the Great Plains
word: teepee
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit during the summer
translation: used by the Inuit during the summer
word: tupik
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States
word: wetu
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the southwestern and western United States
translation: used in the southwestern and western United States
word: wickiup
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the northeastern United States
translation: used in the northeastern United States
word: wigwam
word: hogan-mogan
hogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoggers
Etymology: From hog + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Against these heroes are the puritans, the hoggers of profit, the shysters, the obfuscators, the do-nothings.
ref: 1994, James J Wilhelm, Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years, 1925-1972:
glosses: One who, or that which, hogs.
glosses: A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
glosses: A marijuana cigarette.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play.
examples: text: Twenty- five demerit marks would make most hoggers sit up and take notice ; but not Jones.
ref: 1931, Locomotive Engineers Journal - Volume 65, page 177:
text: What had happened was this : A yardgoat crew had gone into this lead and left the gate wide open, and neither the hogger nor the fire boy on the passenger saw this open switch right in broad daylight.
ref: 1949, Railroad Magazine - Volumes 48-49, page 90:
text: "Go ahead and laugh," snapped the conductor. "But I'll bet this kid will be bossin' a Monarch, maybe even No. 23, long before you get to be hogger of a yardgoat!"
ref: 1959, George S. Amsbary, Rolling Wheels:
text: Even though he was a veteran railroader, many white hoggers snubbed him until they saw that he was thoroughly qualified, a response that would not have greeted a new white runner.
ref: 2010, Theodore Kornweibel, Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey:
synonyms: hoghead
qualifier: rail transportation
glosses: The engineer of a locomotive.
Derived terms: hogger pump
left lane hogger
right lane hogger
holm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊm/
ipa: /həʊlm/
ipa: /hoʊm/
ipa: /hoʊlm/
rhymes: -əʊm
homophone: home
Forms: form: holms
form: holme
Etymology: From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”).
Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur.
Senses: glosses: Small island, islet.
glosses: An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
qualifier: chiefly West Yorkshire(?)
glosses: Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names.
synonyms: floodplain
bottomland
bottoms
river-meadow
glosses: Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding.
holm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊm/
ipa: /həʊlm/
ipa: /hoʊm/
ipa: /hoʊlm/
rhymes: -əʊm
homophone: home
Forms: form: holms
Etymology: From Middle English holm, holme, alteration of Middle English holin (“holly”). Doublet of hollin and holly.
Senses: examples: text: The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round, / The caruer Holme, the Maple, ſeeldom inward ſound.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5:
qualifier: obsolete outside UK dialects
glosses: Common holly (Ilex aquifolium).
glosses: A holm oak (Quercus ilex), a common evergreen oak of Europe.
Derived terms: holming
holm oak
sea holm
holt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒlt/
ipa: /həʊlt/
ipa: /hoʊlt/
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -oʊlt
Forms: form: holts
form: hoult
Etymology: From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).
Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol ("stake"), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.
Senses: examples: text: As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174:
text: [the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5
text: Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...
ref: 1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts:
glosses: A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
examples: text: Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
hone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊn/
ipa: /həʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: hones
Etymology: From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).
Senses: glosses: A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
glosses: A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
Derived terms: hone slate
hone stone
honestone
Turkey hone
hone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊn/
ipa: /həʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: hones
form: honing
form: honed
form: honed
Etymology: From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)).
Senses: glosses: To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
glosses: To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
examples: text: He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments.
ref: 2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 56:
text: Huh? Training in your room under the torchlight / Hone that form to get you ready for the big fight
ref: 2011, “Revenge”, CaptainSparklez (lyrics), Doc Exx (music), performed by TryHardNinja, parody of Usher's DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love:
glosses: To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
glosses: To make more acute, intense, or effective.
Derived terms: english: on
translation: on
word: hone in
word: honer
word: rehone
Related terms: grit
sandpaper
steel
strop
swarf
hone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊn/
ipa: /həʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: hones
Etymology: Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot.
Senses: glosses: A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Derived terms: honewort
hone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊn/
ipa: /həʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: hones
form: honing
form: honed
form: honed
Etymology: French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”).
Senses: examples: text: Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
glosses: To grumble.
examples: text: He lies pitying himself, honing and moaning to himself
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pine, lament, or long.
hone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊn/
ipa: /həʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Senses: examples: text: Oh, hone! oh, hone! miserable wretch that I am! Do ye mak confession for me, Sir, and I'll say 't after you, as weel as I dow. Oh, hone! oh, hone!
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141
glosses: Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief
synonyms: word: alas Used to express sorrow
word: or grief
hooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːpəɹ/
ipa: /huːpɚ/
ipa: /hʊpɚ/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hoopers
Etymology: From hoop (“to whoop, cry out”) + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The European whistling, or wild, swan (Cygnus cygnus).
Synonyms: sense: swan
word: elke
sense: swan
word: hooper swan
sense: swan
word: whooper swan
sense: swan
word: whooping swan
hooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːpəɹ/
ipa: /huːpɚ/
ipa: /hʊpɚ/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hoopers
Etymology: From Middle English hoper, hoopere, hopere, perhaps from Old English *hōpere (“hooper”), equivalent to hoop + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who applies hoops to casks or tubs.
glosses: One who hula hoops.
glosses: A basketball player.
Related terms: hula hooper
hopple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒpəl/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: hopples
Etymology: From hop; compare hobble.
Senses: glosses: A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.
Derived terms: unhopple
hopple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒpəl/
rhymes: -ɒpəl
Forms: form: hopples
form: hoppling
form: hoppled
form: hoppled
Etymology: From hop; compare hobble.
Senses: glosses: To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
examples: text: consider how we have such Faculties in us, as the Soul finds hoppled and fettered, clouded and obscured by her fatal residence in this prison of the Body
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: To entangle; to hamper.
hosier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhəʊ.ʒɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhəʊ.zə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhəʊ.zɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.ʒi.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.zɚ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.zi.ɚ/
Forms: form: hosiers
Etymology: From Middle English hosyer; equivalent to hose + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: William Blake's father was a hosier.
text: Haberdasher and hosier. Each of those trades merge in the other, occasionally;..our Hosiers seldom confine their dealings to the wares which clothe our legs.
ref: 1837, Nathaniel Whittock, edited by J. Bennett, The complete book of trades, 1st edition, volume 1, page 289:
glosses: One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
Related terms: hosiery
hove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊv/
ipa: /hoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Forms: form: hoves
form: hoving
form: hoved
form: hoved
form: huve
form: huff
form: houf
Etymology: From Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from Proto-Germanic *hufōną (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”).
Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel.
Senses: examples: text: As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
examples: text: Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
glosses: To wait, linger.
glosses: To move on or by.
glosses: To remain; delay.
glosses: To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
hove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊv/
ipa: /hoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Forms: form: hoves
form: hoving
form: hoved
form: hoved
Etymology: From Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven (“to heave”)). More at heave.
Senses: glosses: To raise; lift; hold up.
examples: text: Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: This will become increasingly urgent as next year's General Election hoves into view.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: To rise.
hove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊv/
ipa: /hoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: simple past and past participle of heave
examples: text: Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of heave
Synonyms: heaved
hoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: hoys
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi.
Senses: examples: text: He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare,
 From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes
 Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Per packet per Hoy.
ref: 1590 May 31, George Carew, letter to William Cecil
text: The hoy went to London every week.
ref: 1779 July, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. William Unwin
text: The out-fit is not a trifle: no lady can be landed there, under respectable circumstances throughout, for less than five hundred pounds... [Visiting India] is not like a trip, per hoy, to Margate, where nothing but a well-lined purse is requisite...
ref: 1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, pages 453-454:
text: Oh, sea-sickness! thou cream of miseries—thou ocean-purgatory!... how presumptuous would it be in me to essay a description of thee, when so many better qualified have failed in the attempt, from the early voyager per hoy to Margate and Ramsgate, to the bolder spirits of more recent times, who, leaving the pleasant sounds of Bow bells, recklessly brave the dangers of a transit to Calais and Boulogne!
ref: 1840 November, Francis John Bellew, The Asiatic Journal..., New Series, Vol. XXXIII, No. 131, p. 198
text: Alderman Johnson condemns the Reform Act, and is for going backward, in all things, to the good times. Punch humbly suggests that every man who votes for the Crab Alderman should be punished as follows:— The said voter never to be permitted to travel by rail, but to journey to York or elsewhere by the very slowest coach. Never to go to Margate by steamboat, but to take three days to the voyage, per hoy. Never to send a letter by penny-post, but to pay 10d. or 13d., as the case may be—the good old price of the good old times.
ref: 1847, “Vote for Alderman Johnson”, in Punch, volume XIII, page 40:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Derived terms: anchor-hoy
hoyman
powder hoy
hoy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: hoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.
Senses: glosses: Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!
Derived terms: ahoy-hoy
hoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: hoys
form: hoying
form: hoyed
form: hoyed
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy.
Senses: glosses: To incite; to drive onward.
hoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: hoys
form: hoying
form: hoyin
form: hoyed
form: hoyed
Etymology: Perhaps related to hoick and hoist.
Senses: examples: text: They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.
ref: 1970 June 24, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span:
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw.
hub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌb/
ipa: /hʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: hubs
Etymology: From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop.
Senses: examples: text: If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
ref: 2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice:
glosses: The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
examples: text: Hong Kong International Airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia.
text: From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka's capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India's southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
text: Doncaster is a rail hub in every sense. Passenger lines radiate in six directions, there are freight lines that bypass the station, extensive freight yards, a major works, and a rolling stock depot.
ref: 2021 May 19, Philip Haigh, “Doncaster enhancements relying on DfT approval”, in RAIL, number 931, page 30:
glosses: A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
glosses: A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
glosses: A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
examples: text: a hub in the road
glosses: A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
examples: text: In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.
ref: 2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:
topics: video-games
glosses: An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
glosses: A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
glosses: A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
glosses: A screw hob.
glosses: A block for scotching a wheel.
Synonyms: topics: video-games
word: hub world
Derived terms: datahub
dehub
e-hub
freehub
hub-and-spoke
hubbed
hubbing
hub-bub
hubby
hubcap
hubless
hubness
hubometer
hub plank
hubward
hub world
POGO hub
pornhub
superhub
the Hub
up to the hub
warm hub
hub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌb/
ipa: /hʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: the hub
Etymology: From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hub.
hubris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhjuːbɹɪs/
Forms: form: hubrises
form: hybris
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).
Senses: examples: text: Antitrust prosecutors target big companies that exude hubris.
ref: 1997, John M. Connor, “The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-1995”, in Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 19, number 2, page 426:
text: One would have thought that even Trump, despite all his hubris and egotism, would know better than to jump feet first into America’s most sensitive issue: racial division.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer:
glosses: Excessive pride, presumption, or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
Derived terms: hubristic
Related terms: sophrosyne
hamartia
pride comes before a fall
huck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌk/
ipa: /hʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: hucks
form: hucking
form: hucked
form: hucked
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.
Senses: examples: text: He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.
text: So I came up with this plan for Blooey to hit that weak spot! All you, man,!" I said. I waited for a pause in the statue's movements and hucked Blooey up there! And bull's-eye!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
text: Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.
ref: 2008, Stephen King, A Very Tight Place:
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw or chuck.
glosses: To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
glosses: To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
qualifier: Ultimate Frisbee
glosses: To throw a frisbee a long distance.
qualifier: Ultimate Frisbee
glosses: To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
examples: text: A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.
text: If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.
qualifier: mountain biking
glosses: To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
qualifier: mountain biking
glosses: To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
examples: text: I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.
qualifier: whitewater kayaking
glosses: To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
Derived terms: hucker
huck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌk/
ipa: /hʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: hucks
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.
Senses: qualifier: Ultimate Frisbee
glosses: A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
huck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌk/
ipa: /hʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: hucks
Etymology: Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).
Senses: glosses: A person's hip.
Related terms: huckle
huck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌk/
ipa: /hʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: hucks
form: hucking
form: hucked
form: hucked
Etymology: From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).
Senses: glosses: To haggle in trading.
hue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuː/
ipa: [ç(j)u̟ː]
ipa: /hju/
ipa: [ç(j)u]
ipa: /ju/
ipa: /hjʉː/
ipa: [ç(j)ʉː]
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /hɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: hew
homophone: Hugh
homophone: Hiw
Forms: form: hues
form: hew
Etymology: From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).
Senses: examples: text: A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
examples: text: In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
glosses: The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
glosses: A character; aspect.
glosses: Form; appearance; guise.
Derived terms: behue
hued
hueful
hueing
hueless
huesome
underhue
hue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuː/
ipa: [ç(j)u̟ː]
ipa: /hju/
ipa: [ç(j)u]
ipa: /ju/
ipa: /hjʉː/
ipa: [ç(j)ʉː]
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /hɪu̯/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: hew
homophone: Hugh
homophone: Hiw
Forms: form: hues
Etymology: From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.
Senses: glosses: A shout or cry.
Derived terms: hue and cry
hulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: Deprived of the hulls.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having a hull.
examples: text: I recall in particular the amazing speed of the siderods of our elegant little Caledonian 4-6-0 and the vivid contrast between its polished blue livery and the red-funnelled mail steamers and white-hulled yachts crowding Oban Bay; […].
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:
glosses: Having a particular type or colour of hull.
Derived terms: double-hulled
hulled barley
hulled wheat
monohulled
multihulled
twinhulled
unhulled
hulled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hull
huller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hullers
Etymology: From hull + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
Derived terms: rice huller
humus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞o'məs
ipa: /ˈhjuːməs/
rhymes: -uːməs
Forms: form: humuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin humus.
Senses: glosses: A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms.
Hypernyms: organic matter
Meronyms: humic acid
Derived terms: humic
humify
humuslike
nonhumus
Related terms: compost
mulch
humus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞o'məs
ipa: /ˈhjuːməs/
rhymes: -uːməs
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic حُمُّص (ḥummuṣ).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hummus (“chickpea dip”).
hunker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋkə/
ipa: /ˈhʌŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hunkers
form: hunkering
form: hunkered
form: hunkered
Etymology: Originally Scottish. Origin uncertain, but probably of Germanic origin, perhaps *hunk- a nasalised variant of *huk- (compare Scots hoonk, hounk, variants of huk, hok (“to squat, crouch”); Scots hocker (“to crouch down, hunker”)), all of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse huka (“to crouch”), from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of high).
Probable cognates include Old Norse húka, Dutch huiken, and German hocken.
Senses: glosses: To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
glosses: To apply oneself to a task
Synonyms: sense: crouch, squat or lie
word: crouch
sense: crouch, squat or lie
word: squat
sense: crouch, squat or lie
word: lie
Derived terms: hunker down
hunkerer
hunkers
hunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋkə/
ipa: /ˈhʌŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hunkers
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: A political conservative.
Derived terms: hunkerer
hunkerism
hunkerous
Related terms: hunkers
hurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɝst/
ipa: /hɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: hursts
Etymology: From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”).
Senses: examples: text: Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d
So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst,
Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 27:
text: ‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’
ref: 1963, P[hilip] M[aitland] Hubbard, Flush as May, New York, N.Y.: London House & Maxwell, →LCCN, page 158:
text: A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]
ref: 2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History, →ISBN, page 150:
text: A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood.
ref: 2010, Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History, page 124:
qualifier: rare outside place names
glosses: A wood or grove.
Derived terms: Bredhurst
Elmhurst
Goudhurst
Hawkhurst
Higher Hurst
Hurst Green
Lyndhurst
Sandhurst
Sissinghurst
Staplehurst