cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Blake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: Blakes
Etymology: A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
An English surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Irish.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name transferred from the surname.
qualifier: rather rare
glosses: An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.
Derived terms: Blakean
Blake Basin
Blake Island
Blake River
Blake Village
Daria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˈdæɹi.ə/
Etymology: Feminine form of Darius, of Old Persian origin. Name of an early Christian saint.
Senses: examples: text: As a junior at Lawndale High School, Daria isn't popular (unlike the shallow Quinn, whom others adore), but she actually prefers not to be popular.
ref: 2011, David Mansour, From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century:
glosses: A female given name from Old Persian.
Nikki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪki/
Forms: form: Nicki
form: Nicky
form: Nickey
form: Nickie
form: Nikkie
form: Nikkey
form: Nikky
Etymology: 20th-century fanciful respelling of Nicky.
Senses: examples: text: Former United Nations ambassador and current GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley slammed fellow Republicans former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday in a campaign letter highlighting Haley’s first quarter accomplishments.
ref: 2023 April 11 [2023 April 10], Sarah Elbeshbishi, “Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley slams Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis in campaign letter”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Nicole, variant of Nicky.
Related terms: Nicola
Nicole
Nicoletta
Nicolette
Nicolletta
Nicollette
Jamie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪmi/
rhymes: -eɪmi
Forms: form: Jamies
form: Jaime
form: Jaymey
Etymology: Clipping of James + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won the “breakthrough actor of the year” prize for “Ray” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored for “Crash” four months before it won best picture.
ref: 2006 October 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
text: "Let's choose something simple. Children with simple names are never embarrassed with them. How about Jamie?"
Matthew looked doubtful. "Jamie's fine," he said. "But if he's called Jamie he's going to end up being a particular sort, if you know what I mean. He'll play rugby, he'll go to New Town bars after the international matches. Being called Jamie signs you up to an awful lot of Scottish upper-middle-class stuff."
ref: 2010, Alexander McCall Smith, The Importance of Being Seven, Polygon, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name James, from English and Scottish, also used as a formal given name.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name from Hebrew derived from James, of modern American usage.
glosses: A unisex given name.
Alternative form of Jaime.
Related terms: Jaime
James
Jas
Jaz
Jazz
Jem
Jemmy
Jim
Jimmi
Jimmie
Jimmy
beeswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːzwɪŋ/
Forms: form: beeswings
Etymology: From bee + -s- + wing.
Senses: examples: text: The three glasses were grouped together, all of them tinged with wine, and one of them containing some dregs of beeswing.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published 2005, page 1170:
glosses: A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time.
glosses: Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid.
Derived terms: beeswinged
humuhumunukunukuapuaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhumuˌhumuˌnukuˌnukuˌaːpuˈaʔa/
Forms: form: humuhumunukunukuapuaas
Etymology: From Hawaiian humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa.
Senses: examples: text: I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii / Where the humuhumunukunukuapua'a goes swimming by
ref: 1933, “My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii”, Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison, Johnny Noble (music):
glosses: Rhinecanthus rectangulus, a species of triggerfish found in the coral reefs of many of the oceans. It is characterized by a noticeably large snout and blue lips that resemble that of a pig’s snout.
Synonyms: reef triggerfish
triggerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triggerfish
form: triggerfishes
Etymology: From trigger + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several brightly coloured fish, of the family Balistidae, that inhabit tropical reefs and have an erectile spine on the dorsal fin.
Derived terms: bigspotted triggerfish
blackbar triggerfish
bluespotted triggerfish
clown triggerfish
flat-tailed triggerfish
gray triggerfish
lagoon triggerfish
reef triggerfish
spotted triggerfish
starry triggerfish
yellowmargin triggerfish
Related terms: humuhumunukunukuapuaa
poleaxe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊlˌæks/
Forms: form: poleaxes
form: poleax
form: pole-axe
form: pollaxe
form: pollax
form: polax
Etymology: From earlier pollax, from poll (“head”) + axe, with the spelling influenced by pole.
Senses: glosses: An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle.
glosses: A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike.
Hypernyms: polearm
Related terms: pole hammer
twibill
poleaxe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊlˌæks/
Forms: form: poleaxes
form: poleaxing
form: poleaxed
form: poleaxed
form: poleax
form: pole-axe
form: pollaxe
form: pollax
form: polax
Etymology: From earlier pollax, from poll (“head”) + axe, with the spelling influenced by pole.
Senses: glosses: To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe.
examples: text: Lisa Griffin, who runs Brew Rock and an Irish pub in nearby Benidorm, was as poleaxed by the announcement as her customers were.
ref: 2020 July 26, Sam Jones, “'Everyone is panicking': UK quarantine decision shocks Britons in Spain”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly.
examples: text: After a lacklustre campaign that has failed to grapple with Germany’s looming problems, the world should expect post-election coalition talks to last for months, poleaxing European politics while they drag on.
ref: 2021 September 25, Zanny Minton Beddoes, “The Mess Merkel leaves behind”, in The Economist:
glosses: To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze.
poleax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poleaxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of poleaxe.
poleax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poleaxes
form: poleaxing
form: poleaxed
form: poleaxed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of poleaxe.
sere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪə/
ipa: /sɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sear
Forms: form: seres
Etymology: From Latin serere, present active infinitive of serō (“to entwine, interlace, link together; to join in a series, string together”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; to thread”).
Senses: examples: text: We examined one of several seres found in the middle Rocky Mountains that progress from a subalpine or montane forb-dominated meadow to a climax forest dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii).
ref: 1980 August, Douglas C. Andersen, James A. MacMahon, Michael L. Wolfe, “Herbivorous Mammals along a Montane Sere: Community Structure and Energetics”, in Journal of Mammology, volume 61, number 3, Baltimore, Md.: American Society of Mammalogists, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2018, page 501:
text: [C]ommunity types may represent either climax plant associations or successional communities within a sere.
ref: 1988 December, Walter F. Mueggler, “Approach”, in Aspen Community Types of the Intermountain Region (General Technical Report; INT-250), Ogden, Ut.: Intermountain Research Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:
text: [S]ome communities persisted as repeating early successional seres ("disclimaxes"), while climax communities could contain small areas of different sere communities.
ref: 2007, Thomas J. Stohlgren, “History and Background, Baggage and Direction”, in Measuring Plant Diversity: Lessons from the Field, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Past and Present), page 31:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: seral community
glosses: A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved.
Hyponyms: hydrosere
lithosere
psammosere
Derived terms: seral
sere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪə/
ipa: /sɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sear
Forms: form: seres
Etymology: From Old French serre (modern French serre (“talon”)), from serrer (“to grip tightly; to shut”) (modern French serrer (“to squeeze; to tighten”)), from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“to close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre, present active infinitive of serō (“to fasten with a bolt; to bar, bolt”), from sera (“bar for fastening doors”), from serō (“to bind or join together; entwine, interlace, interweave, plait”); see further at etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: Her [Minerva's] seres struck through Achilles' tent, and closely she instill'd / Heaven's most-to-be-desired feast to his great breast, and fill'd / His sinews with that sweet supply, for fear unsavoury fast / Should creep into his knees.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XIX”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 149:
glosses: A claw, a talon.
sere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪə/
ipa: /sɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: seer
homophone: sear
Forms: form: more sere
form: most sere
form: seer
Etymology: From Middle English ser, sere, schere, seer, seere, seir, seyr, seyre (“different; diverse, various; distinct, individual; parted, separated; many, several”), from Old Norse sér (“for oneself; separately”, dative reflexive pronoun, literally “to oneself”), from sik (“oneself, myself, yourself, herself, himself; ourselves, yourselves, themselves”), from Proto-Germanic *sek (“oneself”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”). The English word is cognate with Danish sær (“singular”), især (“especially, particularly”), German sich (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Icelandic sig (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Latin sē (“herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Scots seir, Swedish sär (“particularly”).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore I have ſeene good ſhooters [archers] which would have for everye bowe a ſere caſe, made of wullen clothe, and then you maye putte three or four of them ſo caſed, into a lether caſe if you will.
ref: 1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, →OCLC, book 2, page 137:
glosses: Individual, separate, set apart.
examples: text: Thou wert well-nee moidered [footnote: Distracted.] wi' me, I know, but it thou'd telled me, Mary, I mun do better or else we mun goo our sere-ways [footnote: Different ways.], belike I should a done better. I'm nobbut a mon, Mary, a lundy day-tale mon [footnote: Clumsy day-labourer.].
ref: 1910, James Prior, “Bishoped Porridge”, in Fortuna Chance, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 316:
glosses: Different; diverse.
Derived terms: serely
sist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: cist
homophone: cyst
Forms: form: sists
form: sisting
form: sisted
form: sisted
Etymology: From Latin sistō (“I bring to a stand, stop”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To stay (e.g. judicial proceedings); to delay or suspend; to stop
examples: text: Some, however, have preposterously sisted nature as the first or generative principle.
ref: 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
topics: law
glosses: to cause to take a place, as at the bar of a court; hence, to cite; to summon; to bring into court
sist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: cist
homophone: cyst
Forms: form: sists
Etymology: From Latin sistō (“I bring to a stand, stop”).
Senses: examples: text: Fourteen Days are only allowed for Sists of Execution, from the Date the Bill was signed, for the Clerks inquiring in the Condition of the Cautioner […]
ref: 1693, James Dalrymple Stair, The institutions of the law of Scotland, page 755:
topics: law
glosses: a stay or suspension of proceedings
zad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zads
Senses: examples: text: I do not know that we have in any Word changed the old […] into the Letter Zad z.
ref: 1729, James Greenwood, An essay towards a practical English grammar, page 332:
glosses: Obsolete form of zed (“letter Z”).
zad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”).
ankylosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.kɪˈloʊ.sɪs/
Forms: form: ankyloses
form: anchylosis
form: ancylosis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγκύλωσις (ankúlōsis, “a stiffening of the joints”), from ἀγκυλόειν (ankulóein, “to crook, bend”), from ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “bent, crooked”). By surface analysis, ankyl- + -osis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The growing together of bones to form a single unit.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The stiffening of a joint as the result of such abnormal fusion.
examples: text: Yet in using the word democracy, one must plead for a distinction, or, better, a reversion, indicated by the curious anchylosis that, at a certain point in their maturity, usually sets in upon words newly put in use to express some august and large spiritual reality.
ref: 1914, Brand Whitlock, Forty Years of It, introduction:
glosses: An onset of stiffness or inflexibility.
Coordinate terms: word: arthrodesis
english: artificial ankylosis
translation: artificial ankylosis
word: syndesis
Derived terms: ankylotic
Related terms: arthropathy
arthrosis
dysarthrosis
ankylosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋkəloʊˈsɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: ankylosauri
form: ankylosauruses
Etymology: From the genus translingual Ankylosaurus, from Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”); by surface analysis, ankylo- + -saurus. The word was coined in 1908 by Brown, who did not give any explanation. It may have been intended to refer to ankylosis, a medical condition in which bones fuse and can cause a deformity. Ankylosaurs have some rear ribs fused to their vertebrae.
Senses: synonyms: ankylosaur
glosses: A large herbivorous dinosaur, of genus Ankylosaurus, that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail.
ankylosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋkəloʊˌsɔːɹ/
Forms: form: ankylosaurs
Senses: synonyms: ankylosaurian
glosses: Any herbivorous dinosaur in the suborder Ankylosauria, having armor in the form of bony osteoderms.
examples: text: In a study published Wednesday in Nature, Chilean researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ankylosaur, a family of dinosaurs known for their heavy armor, from subantarctic Chile.
ref: 2021 December 1, Asher Elbein, “This Dinosaur Found in Chile Had a Battle Ax for a Tail”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of ankylosaurus.
synonyms: word: ankylosaurus
Derived terms: ankylosaurian
pecten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛktɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɛktən/
rhymes: -ɛktɪn
rhymes: -ɛktən
Forms: form: pectens
form: pectines
Etymology: From Latin pecten (“comb”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pubic bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A comb structure.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Short for pecten oculi
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the genus Pecten of scallops.
hyperglycemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperglycemias
form: hyperglycaemia
form: hyperglycæmia
Etymology: From hyper- + glycemia or hyper- + glyc + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood
Coordinate terms: word: euglycemia
english: polysemic; may be hypernym, synonym, or coordinate term, depending on sense used
translation: polysemic; may be hypernym, synonym, or coordinate term, depending on sense used
word: glycemia
word: normoglycemia
Derived terms: antihyperglycemia
antihyperglycemic
hyperglycemic
barons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baron
thought police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought police
Etymology: Originally used in the first half of the twentieth century as an epithet for the Special Higher Police, although it is arguable that its popularity in modern usage stems primarily from the synonymous organization in George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is responsible for monitoring all citizens and making sure they are not guilty of political dissent or thoughtcrime.
Senses: examples: text: These journalists are on their way to becoming thought police.
raw_tags: singular usage
text: My mother would make a good thought police.
text: Steve Smith: Why does a free society have a fucking thought police?
ref: 2021, Paradox Interactive, Hearts of Iron IV, The New Order: Last Days of Europe Mod, scene: Entry 10: The "Free" Territory:
glosses: A group that aims to control the thoughts of others.
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Special Higher Police
wellnigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […] Huck’s confidence in the human race was wellnigh obliterated.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:
text: Athens especially never forgave the defection which had wellnigh involved her in hopeless ruin.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, page 161:
text: Five years ago the officers determined to build a new mess. There was only one objection to the fulfilment of this wish: the regimental coffers were wellnigh empty.
ref: 1910, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], “A Hundred Thousand Heroes—A Hundred Thousand Victims”, in In the Foreign Legion, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: Alternative spelling of well-nigh.
wellspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛlsprɪŋ/
Forms: form: wellsprings
Etymology: From Middle English wellespring, from Old English wiellspring, wiellġespring (“spring, fount, fountain”), corresponding to well + spring. More at well, spring.
Senses: glosses: The source of water for a stream, spring or well; a fountainhead; a wellhead.
examples: text: We’re so often taught to simply believe in ourselves—to trust our instincts—that to see a narrative in which second-guessing oneself and refusing one’s deepest impulses is a potential wellspring of charity and good is, in itself, noteworthy.
ref: 2020 September 28, Alex McLevy, “Marilynne Robinson finds transcendence in the stunning, soul-searching Jack”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020:
text: Krapp’s Last Tape has been acted by prisoners in San Quentin and made into a chamber opera. It goes to the wellspring of an actor. Well, most of the time: when Albert Finney played the part, Beckett went to sleep in rehearsals.
ref: 2025 April 27, Susannah Clapp, “Gary Oldman is extraordinary in Krapp’s Last Tape”, in The Observer:
glosses: A perennial source of anything; a fountainhead of supply or emanation; resource.
wrecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkɚ/
rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wreckers
Etymology: From wreck + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: breaker, knacker; salvager, salvor; scrapper, scrap dealer; shipbreaker, car breaker
glosses: A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
examples: text: home wrecker / marriage wrecker / party wrecker
glosses: One who breaks up situations or events.
glosses: A tow truck.
glosses: A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).
qualifier: Soviet Union; crime; Soviet Union; crime
glosses: Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.
Synonyms: sense: one who wrecks
word: breaker
sense: one who wrecks
word: destroyer
sense: one who wrecks
word: ruiner
sense: one who wrecks
word: vandal
Derived terms: home wrecker
nation wrecker
Related terms: wrecking bar
Saanich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ænɪtʃ
Forms: form: Saaniches
form: Saanich
Senses: synonyms: W̱SÁNEĆ
glosses: A member of a Native American people from British Columbia.
Saanich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ænɪtʃ
Senses: glosses: The language of this people.
glosses: A district municipality on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, named for the Saanich people.
fabula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabulae
Etymology: From Latin fabula (“story”). Doublet of fable.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.
fiar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiars
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps from fee + -ar, compare feuar.
Senses: examples: text: I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen) would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller, and to pay the annual-rent half-yearly; and Saunders Wyliecoat to draw the bond, and you to be at nae charge wi' the writings.
ref: 1816, Walter Scott, “The Black Dwarf”, in A Complete Edition of the Waverley Novels, volume 13, published 1831, page 108:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
examples: text: It seems to be a practice as improper as it is unnecessary, to strike the fiars in three different qualities of the same species of grain; and it should, in our humble opinion, be discontinued.
ref: 1817, Committee members, Report respecting the Striking of the Fiars of Grain for the Crop of 1816 for the County of Lanark: The Farmers Magazine, volume 18, page 310:
text: It was answered by the Sheriff. 1st, That the Act of Sederunt did not impose any positive injunction on Sheriffs to strike Fiars; that if the Fiars were substantially just, the Court could have no power to reduce them; and that the Act of Sederunt had never been observed in East Lothian;[…].
ref: 1842, Fife Fiars, from 1619 to 1841 Inclusive, page vi:
text: In further confirmation that this is not the date of the origin, it may be stated, that there is very early mention of Commissaries' Fiars, Sir John Connell tracing the commencement of these so far back as the Reformation, when Commissary or Consistorial Courts were established, in place of those of the bishops or their officials; and notice is taken of the Fiars prices of grain in the records of the Commissary Court so far back as 1564—somewhat earlier than the statute above quoted.
ref: 1852, George Paterson, Historical Account of the Fiars in Scotland, page 7:
glosses: The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis.
Derived terms: fiars prices
piss-take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭsʹtāk
ipa: /ˈpɪsteɪk/
Forms: form: piss-takes
form: piss take
form: pisstake
Senses: examples: text: You don't mind me saying this, but this is not a piss-take, is it? Because I know a few impressionists and you could be one of them.
ref: 2012, Roy Chubby Brown, Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown, →ISBN:
glosses: An instance of taking the piss.
examples: text: The slogan reminds me of Team America, the puppet piss-take of Bush era military interventionism brought to you by the creators of Whale Whores ('America: fuck, yeah!'). But this is no piss-take.
ref: 2014, Sam Vincent, Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars, →ISBN:
text: What's so funny about Maggie Smith's dowager of Downton is that it's basically a piss-take; but so good a piss-take that everyone takes it for real, because that's how we'd like to view our decaying aristocracy.
ref: 2015, Michael Coveney, Maggie Smith: A Biography, →ISBN:
text: “Within minutes, Damon had penned this superb Western theme tune, and I made up some words, a complete piss-take which went, 'I wanna sing in a Western, walk like big John Wayne, I wanna kill a hudred injuns, then shoot myself in the brain.' The rest of the class were gobsmacked because it sounded amazing, but they just didn't get it, it was a total piss-take.
ref: 2015, Martin Roach, David Nolan, Damon Albarn - Blur, Gorillaz and Other Fables, →ISBN:
glosses: A parody.
examples: text: this job is a piss take.
glosses: An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
Derived terms: piss-takery
piss-take
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭsʹtāk
ipa: /ˈpɪsteɪk/
Forms: form: piss-takes
form: piss-taking
form: piss-took
form: piss-taken
form: piss take
form: pisstake
Senses: examples: text: When someone tells a joke, the object or butt may not be present, or even a real person. Piss-taking is like the stand-up comic joke, in that both have a butt and an audience, in some cases these being one and the same.
ref: 2013, David Bennett, Firefighters of Cambridge, →ISBN:
text: Some of the piss-taking was more serious and bordered on bullying.
ref: 2015, Stan Osborne, Making The Grade, →ISBN:
text: The fact that I'm Jewish was used as an excuse to piss-take, but I am pretty certain that this was not in any way conscious anti-Semitism.
ref: 2015, Sam A Saxon, Flying Bras and…, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of take the piss.
Synonyms: sense: instance of taking the piss
word: mickey-take
sense: parody
word: mickey-take
sense: parody
word: parody
sense: parody
word: send-up
taking the piss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the piss
wood sorrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdˌsɒɹəl/
Forms: form: wood sorrels
form: woodsorrel
form: wood-sorrel
Senses: examples: text: James learned to chew the wood sorrel for its acid flavour, to watch for its flowers closing on approach of rain, and found where the rare bird's-nest orchid grew.
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13:
glosses: A white-flowered, edible woodland plant, Oxalis acetosella.
glosses: Any of several other species of the genus Oxalis.
Synonyms: cuckoo bread
Hyponyms: common wood sorrel
hoisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɪstɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoist
fire and brimstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ (gofrit va’esh) and Ancient Greek πυρὸς καὶ θείου (puròs kaì theíou), appearing in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. "brimstone" is an old word for sulfur.
Senses: examples: text: And the third Angel followed them, ſaying with a lowd voice, If any man worship the beaſt and his image, and receiue his marke in his forehead, or in his hand, / The ſame ſhall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God, which is powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and hee ſhall be tormented with fire and brimſtone, in the preſence of the holy Angels, and in the preſence of the Lambe:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:9–10:
glosses: The traditional punishments of Hell.
Related terms: rain fire and brimstone
hellfire
fire and brimstone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fire-and-brimstone
Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ (gofrit va’esh) and Ancient Greek πυρὸς καὶ θείου (puròs kaì theíou), appearing in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. "brimstone" is an old word for sulfur.
Senses: examples: text: That preacher gave a real fire and brimstone sermon!
text: The fire-and-brimstone preacher gave the city council a severe tongue-lashing after they voted on a zoning ordinance allowing a new strip club to open.
glosses: Referencing or emphasizing the power and wrath of God.
hellfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪə/
ipa: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪəɹ/
Forms: form: hellfires
form: Hellfire
form: hell-fire
form: Hell-fire
form: fires
form: hell
form: hell-fire
Etymology: From Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).
Senses: glosses: The fire of Hell.
glosses: Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell.
glosses: A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Ellipsis of AGM-114 Hellfire.
Derived terms: heckfire
hellfire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪə/
ipa: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪəɹ/
Forms: form: more hellfire
form: most hellfire
form: hell-fire
Etymology: From Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).
Senses: examples: text: The advance of liberalism, so-called, in Christianity, during the past fifty years, may fairly be called a victory of healthy-mindedness within the church over the morbidness with which the old hell-fire theology was more harmoniously related.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures 4 & 5”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Sermons such as The Eternity of Hell Torments and The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable, as well as several manuscript examples, serve to mark the distinction between a true hellfire sermon and the proto-eschatological concerns of Sinners [in the Hands of an Angry God], consumed as it is with the here and now.
ref: 2005, Sang Hyun Lee, The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards, University of Princeton Press, page 253:
glosses: Of or relating to a violent, apocalyptic and ultimate day of reckoning and judgment; usually characterizing a form of Christian preaching.
Related terms: fire and brimstone
inferno
purgatory
hellfire
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪə/
ipa: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪəɹ/
Forms: form: hell-fire
Etymology: From Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).
Senses: glosses: hell; damn; blast
ketosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kiːˈtəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: ketoses
Etymology: From keto- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A metabolic state in which the body produces ketones to be used as fuel by some organs so that glycogen can be reserved for organs that depend on it. This condition occurs during times of fasting, starvation, or while on a ketogenic diet.
Derived terms: hyperketosis
Related terms: ketoacidosis
ketoacidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoacidoses
Etymology: From keto- + acidosis.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
Hypernyms: ketosis
hyperketosis
Coordinate terms: hyperketoacidemia
ketoacidemia
Derived terms: diabetic ketoacidosis
edit conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edit conflicts
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instance of two people trying to edit the same file or document simultaneously.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: ASCII
glosses: A 7-bit character set and character encoding. Based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English, the code is employed almost universally on computing machinery, and has been integrated into the newer Unicode standard.
Related terms: ASCIIbetical
extended ASCII
buckyball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌkiˌbɔːl/
Forms: form: buckyballs
form: bucky-ball
Etymology: Blend of buckminsterfullerene + ball, used as an abbreviation for buckminsterfullerene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A buckminsterfullerene molecule (C₆₀).
glosses: The most common types of spheroidal fullerenes, C₆₀ and C₇₀ usually; with C₇₂ and C₇₆ sometimes also included.
glosses: Any spheroidal fullerene, from C₂₀ on upwards.
Coordinate terms: graphene
graphite
diamond
carbon nanotube
buckytube
fullerene
carbyne
atomic carbon
amorphous carbon
Derived terms: buckypaper
Related terms: word: bunnyball
word: buckyonion
sense: buckminsterfullerene on Wikipedia.
word: C60
sense: fullerene on Wikipedia.
word: spheroidal fullerene
southward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊθwəd/
ipa: /ˈsʌðəd/
Forms: form: south'ard
Etymology: From south + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: 100 leagues to the southward
ref: 1596, Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana:
glosses: The direction or area lying to the south of a place.
southward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊθwəd/
ipa: /ˈsʌðəd/
Forms: form: more southward
form: most southward
form: south'ard
Etymology: From south + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Situated or directed towards the south; moving or facing towards the south.
Derived terms: southward equinox
southward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊθwəd/
ipa: /ˈsʌðəd/
Forms: form: more southward
form: most southward
form: south'ard
Etymology: From south + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: As the remnants retreated northward to Pengyang (平壤 Pʻing-jang), war was declared and a Chinese contingent from Manchuria went southward to that place.
ref: 1943, Fang Chao-ying, “SUNG Chʻing [宋慶]”, in Arthur W. Hummel, editor, Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644–1912), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1970, →OCLC, page 687, column 2:
english: 宋慶
translation: 宋慶
glosses: Towards the south; in a southerly direction.
Derived terms: southwardly
southwards
lemman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemmans
Etymology: From Middle English lemman, lefmon, leofmon, from Old English lēof + mann, equivalent to lief + man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leman (“lover”).
sulfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sulfur.
lazybones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪziˌboʊnz/
Forms: form: lazybones
Etymology: From lazy + bones.
Senses: examples: text: The foremost traveller stopped and called impatiently to his companion. "Come on, can't yer? What a lazybones yer are, Charlotte."
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 42, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: His father thought that there was no doubt some more suitable work to be found for him, for he who should watch hares ought to be light and smart, and no lazybones, and when the hares began to run and fly about, there would be quite another dance than hanging about the house all day doing nothing.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 168:
text: How long will you lie there, O lazybones? When will you rise from your sleep?
ref: 1989, The Bible (NRSV), Proverbs 6:9:
text: Isn't it time you got up, you lazybones?
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 145:
glosses: A person who is lazy.
legalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more legalistic
form: most legalistic
Etymology: From legal + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: He's very legalistic, so let's hope the law is just and merciful as well as strict.
glosses: Of a person, following the letter of the law.
examples: text: His legalistic tendencies irritated his neighbors, especially since they had to defend themselves against his frivolous suits.
glosses: Of a person, tending to resort to the law, as one who sues frequently.
examples: text: She was legalistic in her observation of religious rules and traditions.
text: the European Union is legalistic, bureaucratic and runs by precedent.
glosses: Practicing or characterized by legalism.
Derived terms: legalistically
nonlegalistic
unlegalistic
Related terms: legalism
legalist
literalist
lengthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lengthinesses
Etymology: From lengthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The lengthiness of his talk bored most of his audience nearly to sleep.
glosses: The property of being lengthy, longness.
Synonyms: durativeness
protractedness
lastingness
lost-and-found
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lost-and-founds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lost and found
lost and found
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lost and founds
form: lost-and-found
Senses: examples: text: Well, if you can't find your glasses, then go to lost and found and ask if anyone turned them in.
glosses: A department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners.
Synonyms: word: lost property
word: lost articles
lookalike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʊkəlaɪk/
Forms: form: lookalikes
form: look-alike
form: look-a-like
Etymology: From look + alike. See also look alike.
Senses: examples: text: The cousins were such close lookalikes they could impersonate each other, and sometimes did.
text: A Queen Lookalike Fled Thailand of Lese-Majeste […] Mum Dew has been accused of trying to dress like the Queen Mother, Sirikit, wife of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
ref: 2023 July 17, “A Queen Lookalike Fled Thailand of Lese-Majeste”, in 112 Watch:
coordinate_terms: soundalike
glosses: Someone who, or something which, physically resembles (looks like) another.
A doppelganger, impersonator, imposter, or body double.
examples: text: Among competing products, a generic substitute is one thing, whereas a deceptive lookalike is another.
text: Only a lookalike, not a real hearse, it had just enough room in the trunk for one coffin. The other one would have to sit on the back seat. Pierre got a green canvas tarp and laid it out on the seat. Rico stood by, watching anxiously.
ref: 2007 08, Alan Rolnick, Landmark Status, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 116:
text: [The car] used by Ferris and his friends in the 1986 movie was not a real Ferrari. The Italian automaker made fewer than 100 250GTs, which cost $350,000 each. The studio saved money by putting a lookalike fiberglass shell on an MG.
ref: 2019 May 7, Editors of Portable Press, Strange Hollywood: Amazing and Intriguing Stories From Tinseltown and Beyond, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: soundalike
glosses: Someone who, or something which, physically resembles (looks like) another.
Something that looks very similar to or the same as the genuine article.
moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mole
Nicola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪ.kə.lə/
ipa: /nɪˈkoʊlə/
Forms: form: Nichola
Etymology: A feminine version of Nicholas, first used in the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Nicola Sturgeon
translation: (name of a Scottish politician)
english: (name of a Scottish politician)
text: "Come in with me, if you like. You can help me to find the child." She fumbled in her bag and found a slip of paper. "Her name is Nicola Anna Magdalene Elisabeth Stephanie Lenke." Peter laughed. "She ought to be easy to find with that lot. What do they call her for short?"
ref: 1936, Jerrard Tickell, See How They Run, W. Heinemann, page 10:
text: He had never called her by her full name so many times in a row. Usually it was Nicky, or sometimes Nick. But never Nicola. Her full name sounded very ominous coming now from Nathaniel Sheridan's lips.
ref: 2002, Meg Cabot, Nicola and the Viscount, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Nicki
sense: pet forms
word: Nicky
sense: pet forms
word: Nikki
word: Thompson-Nicola
tocino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tocino (literally “bacon”).
Senses: glosses: sweetened and cured pork belly
self-indulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-indulgences
form: self indulgence
form: selfindulgence
Etymology: From self- + indulgence.
Senses: examples: text: You might think it sounds like self-indulgence or an excuse to buy the doll you wanted when you were younger, but reparenting is a therapeutic technique that might help you save yourself and future generations from a lot of pain.
ref: 2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN:
glosses: Excessive or immoderate indulgence of one's own personal desires and needs above all others.
Related terms: self-indulgent
thresholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threshold
for real
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more for real
form: most for real
form: fr
form: for-real
raw_tags: used only in the comparative or superlative
Senses: examples: text: Are you seriously like actually for real?
text: […] demonstration sponsored by the library may make the library more' "for real" to the inner-city person
ref: 1968 September 6, “Outreach in the inner city makes library 'for real'”, in Christian Science Monitor:
text: Some people / Are up to no good, ah / But baby, I'm for real / I'm as real as real can get
ref: 1971, “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get”, performed by The Dramatics:
text: Oh, what do you think about that / Now you know how I feel / Say you could handle my love, are you for real?
ref: 1996, “Wannabe”, in Spice, performed by Spice Girls:
glosses: Genuine, true; serious, earnest.
for real
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: fr
form: for-real
raw_tags: used only in the comparative or superlative
Senses: examples: text: This recipe takes two hours to cook, for real!
glosses: Genuinely, truly.
Synonyms: earnestly
honestly
Derived terms: word: fetchy
word: for real and for true
word: for real life
word: for realsies
word: for reals
drunk driving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunken driving
Senses: topics: automotive
law
transport
vehicles
glosses: The act of driving under the influence of alcohol.
topics: automotive
law
transport
vehicles
glosses: The act of driving under the influence of alcohol.
Specifically, the criminal offence of driving with a blood alcohol content (BAC) level higher than the local legal limit.
Synonyms: word: booze cruising
word: drink driving
word: drink-driving
word: drinking and driving
word: driving under the influence
word: impaired driving
word: driving drunk
word: driving impaired
Related terms: drink-driver
drunk driver
DUI
DWI
drink and drive
drunk driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunk drivers
Senses: examples: If you're on the road on Saturday night, look out for drunk drivers.
glosses: Someone who drives under the influence of alcohol.
Synonyms: word: booze cruiser
word: drink-driver
Related terms: drink and drive
drink-driving
drunk driving
DUI
DWI
self-indulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-indulgent
form: most self-indulgent
Etymology: From self- + indulgent.
Senses: synonyms: word: decadent
word: egocentric
word: self-centered
word: sybaritic
word: Babylonian
word: decadent
word: epicureal
word: epicurean
word: epicureous
word: epicurish
word: hedonic
word: hedonistic
word: intemperate
word: lotus-eating
word: luxurious
word: self-indulgent
word: sensualistic
word: sinful
word: sybarite
word: sybaritic
word: sybaritical
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: Exhibiting tendencies of self-indulgence.
Derived terms: self-indulgently
herbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)bz
Senses: glosses: plural of herb
twenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntiz
Forms: form: 'twenties
Senses: glosses: plural of twenty
twenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntiz
Forms: form: 'twenties
Senses: examples: text: My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by the twenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120s BCE.
glosses: The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.
examples: text: The waiter was in his twenties.
text: 1954 "The Fellowship of the Ring", J.R.R. Tolkien
At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
glosses: The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.
examples: text: She shivered; twenties by the water felt different than twenties in the mountains.
topics: temperature
qualifier: rates
glosses: The range between 20 and 29.
Synonyms: 1920s
2020s
'20s
20s
Related terms: tween
twentysomething
vicenarian
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