cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
all the more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Lytle’s progress as a boxer is all the more remarkable when taking into account his unique circumstances.
text: I had to work all the harder with two people off sick.
text: If your crush likes football, that's all the more reason for coming with us to the game tomorrow night!
text: London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
glosses: Even more; notably, but even more notably in light of additional information, either preceding or following the statement.
Related terms: nonetheless
all the less
all the more so
so much the better
all to the better
condoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condone
Synonyms: forgiven
overlooked
allod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allods
form: alod
Senses: glosses: Allodium.
allodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allodiums
form: allodia
form: allod
form: alod
form: alodium
Etymology: From Medieval Latin allodium, from Frankish *allaaud (“allodium, patrimony”, literally “entire property”), from Frankish *all (“all”) + *aud (“owndom, possessions”). Cognate with Old High German ōt (“property”), Old Saxon ōd (“estate, wealth”), Old English ēad (“possessions”).
Senses: examples: ref: 1908, Mary A. M. Marks, “In Saxon Times”, in Landholding in England, page 15:
glosses: Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land.
Related terms: allodial
allodiary
expositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expositional
form: most expositional
Etymology: From exposition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
glosses: Declared information openly.
Related terms: exposition
dapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dapple
dapples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dapple
chlorinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒ.ɹɪ.neɪt/
Forms: form: chlorinates
form: chlorinating
form: chlorinated
form: chlorinated
Etymology: From chlorine + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it).
Derived terms: chlorinated
chlorination
chlorinator
perchlorinate
chlorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chlorinate
chlorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chlorinated
form: most chlorinated
Senses: examples: text: The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: that has had chlorine added to it to purify it.
raw_tags: of water
Derived terms: chlorinated lime
dichlorinated
heptachlorinated
hyperchlorinated
monochlorinated
nonchlorinated
organochlorinated
overchlorinated
polychlorinated
polychlorinated biphenyl
sulphochlorinated
tetrachlorinated
trichlorinated
unchlorinated
underchlorinated
chlorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɔːˌɹʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈklɔːˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈklɔɹˌaɪt/
Forms: form: chlorites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χλωρῖτις (khlōrîtis).
Senses: examples: text: They have been heated enough to impart a delicate blue-green hue, which is because of the abundance of the ‘low-grade’ metamorphic mineral, chlorite.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 177:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of chlorous acid.
Derived terms: chloritic
chloritization
chloritoid
hydrogen chlorite
hypochlorite
leptochlorite
magnesium chlorite
manganchlorite
sodium chlorite
chloral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːɹæl/
Forms: form: chlorals
Etymology: Blend of chlorine + alcohol.
Senses: examples: text: ‘They say there is a skeleton in every cupboard,’ Rossetti said quietly, ‘and that's mine; it's chloral.’ Caine was shocked but forbore to comment.
ref: 1997, Vivien Allen, Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate.
Derived terms: chloralamide
chloralhydrate
chloral hydrate
chloralism
chloralist
chloralize
metachloral
Related terms: chloralamide
bijou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈʒuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: bijous
form: bijoux
Etymology: Borrowed from French bijou.
Senses: glosses: A jewel.
glosses: A piece of jewelry; a trinket.
examples: text: […]a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 102:
glosses: A small intricate piece of metalwork.
Related terms: bijoutry
bijou
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈʒuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more bijou
form: most bijou
Etymology: Borrowed from Sabir bijou, ultimately from Occitan pichon (“small, little”), influenced by English bijou (“jewel”).
Senses: examples: text: You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.
ref: 1968, Kenneth Horne, Bona Prods (Round the Horne):
text: We, the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and the Gathered Faithful, do hereby invoke the spirit of our beloved Muffin the Mule, to recognize the bona work of Mr. Derek Jarman in promulgating Universal Joy […] in his bijou masterpiecettes[.]
ref: 1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 91:
text: Polari, used for decades by gay men, actors, and theatre performers and which famously appeared on primetime radio show Round The Horne, has been brought up-to-date with a bijou iPhone appette.
ref: 2012 August 5, Paul, “Bijou Polari Appette pre-varda’d”, in Gay History, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012:
glosses: small, little (often implying affection)
examples: text: I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.
ref: 1891, A Scandal in Bohemia:
text: In small towns like Soldau a small area accommodates the town hall, the church, several miniature squares, a monument to somebody or other, perhaps more than one, all sorts of shops, beerhouses, a post office, a bank, and there may be a bijou park behind wrought-iron railings, then the streets and the town end just as abruptly, and you have scarcely passed the last house when you find a highroad lined with trees stretching before you with a neat grid of precisely demarcated fields on either side.
ref: 1989 [1971], Willetts, H. T., transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of Август 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: small and elegant
raw_tags: of a residence
glosses: intricate; finely made
Derived terms: bijou problemette
biffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪfɪn/
Forms: form: biffins
form: beefing
Etymology: Possibly from beef, because of the red colour.
Senses: glosses: A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.
examples: text: […] there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, […]
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk.
prospicience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈspɪʃəns/
ipa: /pɹəˈspɪʃi.əns/
Forms: form: prospiciences
Senses: examples: text: Things had appeared usual for him that morning, as they had been for those twenty-one days, because man is without the powers of prospicience.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 42:
glosses: foresight.
chiaroscurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiˌɑːɹəʊˈskʊəɹɪst/
Forms: form: chiaroscurists
Etymology: From chiaroscuro + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A painter who uses light and shade rather than color to create the illusion of volume.
Related terms: chiaroscuro
nonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɒˈnɛt/
Forms: form: nonets
Etymology: From Italian nonetto, from nono (“ninth”).
Senses: examples: text: The small-group sides are the best, with the nonet in particular coming through as a sparkling unit that deserves an LP to itself.
ref: 1955 January 15, The Saturday Review, Recordings Reports: Jazz On LPs, page 38:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition for nine instruments or nine voices.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: multiplet
glosses: A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles.
examples: text: The 9-bit nonet is a much more sensible representation.
ref: 2005, Mark R. Crispin, RFC 4042: UTF-9 and UTF-18:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A byte of nine bits.
monaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒˈnɔːɹəl/
ipa: /ˌmɑˈnɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From mon- + aural. First use appears c. 1888
Senses: examples: monaural deafness
coordinate_terms: binaural
glosses: Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with one ear.
glosses: Monophonic.
Derived terms: monaurally
nether
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛð.ə/
ipa: /nɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /neð.ə/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nethermore
form: nethermost
Etymology: From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður.
Senses: examples: text: The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered.
text: And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Lower; under.
examples: text: the nether regions
text: When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
ref: 1873, Mark Twain, The Gilded Age, page 187:
glosses: Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
Synonyms: sense: lower
word: bottom
sense: lower
word: lower
sense: beneath the Earth's surface
word: subsurface
sense: beneath the Earth's surface
word: subterranean
Derived terms: hard as the nether millstone
Hartington Nether Quarter
Nether Alderley
Nether Broughton
nether cheek
Nether Denton
netherdom
Nether Exe
Netherexe
nether hair
nether-hair
Nether Heyford
netherhood
Nether Kellet
Netherland
Netherlands
netherlands
nethermore
nethermost
netherness
Nether Padley
Nether Peover
Nether Poppleton
nether region
nether-shirt
Nether Staveley
nether thought
Nethertown
netherverse
Nether Wallop
netherward
netherwards
Nether Whitacre
netherworld
nether world
Nether Wyresdale
nether
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛð.ə/
ipa: /nɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /neð.ə/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more nether
form: most nether
Etymology: From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður.
Senses: glosses: Down; downward.
glosses: Low; low down.
nether
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛð.ə/
ipa: /nɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /neð.ə/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nethers
form: nethering
form: nethered
form: nethered
form: nither
Etymology: Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.
Senses: glosses: To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
glosses: To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
glosses: To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
glosses: To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
glosses: To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Derived terms: nethering
nether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛð.ə/
ipa: /nɛð.ɚ/
ipa: /neð.ə/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nethers
form: nither
Etymology: Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.
Senses: glosses: Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
trichinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹɪkəˈnoʊsɪs/
Forms: form: trichinoses
Etymology: From New Latin trichinōsis. By surface analysis, trichina + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease characterized by headache, chills, fever, and soreness of muscles, caused by the presence of nematodes of genus Trichinella in the intestines and muscular tissues.
Synonyms: topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: trichinellosis
topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: trichiniasis
allogeneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæləd͡ʒəˈniɪk/
Forms: form: allogenic
Etymology: From allo- + -gene- + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Genetically different because of being derived from separate individuals of the same species.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a reaction that occurs when cells are transplanted into a genetically different recipient.
Synonyms: allogeneous
allogenic
allologous
Derived terms: allogeneically
hemiallogeneic
semiallogeneic
Related terms: allograft
syngeneic
heterologous
xenogeneic
xenograft
myrmecophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrmecophiles
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.
ref: 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:
glosses: An organism, especially an insect, that lives in close association with or shares a nest with a species of ant.
Related terms: myrmecophyte
Dunedin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dŭnēʹdĭn
ipa: /dʌˈniːdɪn/
ipa: /-ən/
enpr: dŭnēʹdĭn
ipa: /dʌˈnidɪn/
ipa: /-ən/
enpr: dŭnēʹdən
ipa: /dɐˈniːdɘn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Dùn Èideann (“Edinburgh”), from Old Welsh Din Eidyn.
Senses: glosses: An anglicisation of the Gaelic name for Edinburgh.
glosses: A city in Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
Synonyms: english: nickname
translation: nickname
word: Dunners
zaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɑː.zɑː/
ipa: /ˈzɑ.zɑ/
ipa: /ˈzɐː.zɐː/
Etymology: Reduplication of za, from an apheretic pronunciation of exotic. Compare za (“exotic marijuana”).
Senses: examples: text: Having grabbed the torch from the first wave of Brooklyn drill's innovators, Fivio Foreign is all about the genre's future. The gravelly-voiced rapper took over the second half of 2020 with his viral hit "Big Drip," whose video has a whole Hennessy-brandishing squad smoking zaza in front of a Shake Shack, of all places — bringing big roll-up-a-Backwoods-on-the-last-car-of-the-subway energy to a part of Brooklyn where the average overpaying tenant probably rides a unicycle to work.
ref: 2022 May 20, “Brooklyn Drill Has Never Been Hotter. Can It Rise Above the Violence?”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2023:
text: Top shelf zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm. I have seen the Magna Carta, I've seen the Eye of Horus. I was flippin' bricks for Mansa Musa before y'all even became a type-1 civilization.
ref: 2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 03:42 from the start, in dracula flow 3:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Exotic marijuana.
zaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɑː.zɑː/
ipa: /ˈzɑ.zɑ/
ipa: /ˈzɐː.zɐː/
Forms: form: zazas
Etymology: By analogy with mama and papa.
Senses: examples: text: You are your zaza's daughter.
text: A common gender-neutral pronoun that some folks use is Ze, and my parent name, Zaza, is based on that: Ze+Mama=Zaza. I don't go by mom or mommy, and my wife, who is also genderqueer, uses the parent name "Mo." It's pretty cute; "Mo and Zaza love you!"
ref: [2019 June 26, Jacks McNamara, “Unicorn Parenting”, in Santa Fe Reporter:
synonyms: za
mo
zori
coordinate_terms: mama
papa
;
mom
dad
glosses: A parent; a gender-neutral alternative to mama or papa.
aerogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹ.oʊ.d͡ʒɛl/
Forms: form: aerogels
Etymology: From aero- + gel. First attested in the early 1920s as a coinage credited to British-Irish chemist Frederick G. Donnan, originally in reference to coagulated aerosols.
Senses: glosses: A porous, ultralight solid-state substance, similar to gel, in which the liquid component is replaced with gas.
wikipedia: Frederick G. Donnan
Proceedings of the Royal Society
Derived terms: X-aerogel
mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mârʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
homophone: marry
homophone: merry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: marys
Etymology: From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”).
Synonyms: male homosexual
mary
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: mârʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
homophone: marry
homophone: merry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy.
Senses: examples: text: You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?
ref: 1549 April 29 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Seuenth Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI], the .19. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 93, recto:
text: And I pray thee (ſayde Pas,) gentle Nico, tell mee what miſchaunce yt was that broughte thee to taſte ſo fyne a Meate? Mary goodman Blockhead (ſayde Nico) bycauſe hee ſpeakes ageanſt Jeloſy, the filthy Treytor to true affection, and yet diſguyſing yt ſelf in the rayment of Love.
ref: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The Third Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 232
english: The Old Arcadia
translation: The Old Arcadia
text: Falst[aff] Fie, this is hot weather (gentlemen) haue you prouided me heere halfe a dozen ſufficient men? / Shal[low] Mary haue we ſir, will you ſit? / Falst. Let me ſee them I beſeech you. / Shall. Wheres the rowle? wheres the rowle? wheres the rowle? let me ſee, let me ſee, ſo, ſo, ſo, ſo, ſo (ſo, ſo) yea mary ſir, Rafe Mouldy, let them appeere as I call, let them do ſo, let thẽ do ſo, let me ſee, where is Mouldy?
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature [E6], verso:
glosses: Alternative form of marry (“indeed, in truth”).
stardust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑːdʌst/
ipa: /ˈstɑɹˌdʌst/
Forms: form: stardusts
Etymology: From star + dust.
Senses: examples: text: We are all made of stardust.
text: Presolar grains were isolated in primitive meteorites only 15 years ago. These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta.
ref: 2004 March 5, Ann N. Nguyen, Ernst Zinner, “Discovery of Ancient Silicate Stardust in a Meteorite”, in Science, volume 303, number 5663, Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 1496:
synonyms: extraterrestrial dust
space dust
glosses: Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
glosses: A distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust, especially if the individual stars of which cannot be resolved with a telescope.
glosses: Small fragments in the Earth's atmosphere or on its surface originating from meteorites; meteor dust.
examples: text: His [Sickert's] paint has a tangible quality; it is made not of air and star-dust but of oil and earth.
ref: 1934, Virginia Woolf, Walter Sickert: A Conversation, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Something imaginary or lacking substance.
examples: text: My sister’s eyes were full of stardust – she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.
glosses: An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
examples: text: Why would experienced deal makers want rock stars and actors to advise them? Why would entrepreneurs seek their money? There is a certain cachet with all that stardust, of course, and perhaps some free publicity.
ref: 2015 May 5, Steven Davidoff Solomon, “Sprinkling a Little Celebrity Stardust on Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
cometary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.ɪ.t(ə).ri/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.məˌtɛ.ri/
Etymology: From comet + -ary.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: relating to comets
Derived terms: exocometary
uncometary
scoot over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scoots over
form: scooting over
form: scooted over
form: scooted over
Senses: examples: text: Please scoot over a little so I can sit down.
text: You look like who you say you are / So scoot over, let me drive your car.
ref: 1983, ZZ Top (band), "Thug" (song)
synonyms: scooch
budge up
scoot up
move over
shove over
glosses: To move one's sitting self or seat aside, so the other person has more space.
examples: text: Scoot that ottoman over for me, would you?
glosses: To slide (something) across or aside.
budge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: budges
form: budging
form: budged
form: budged
form: bouge
form: budg
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.
text: Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 208, column 1:
text: […]although his ſouldiers were much moved and offended to ſee their fellowes put to the worſt, he could not be induced to bouge from his place[…]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the batell of Dreux”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 148:
text: Yet goals in either half from Jordi Gómez and James Perch inspired them and then, in the face of a relentless City onslaught, they simply would not budge, throwing heart, body and soul in the way of a ball which seemed destined for their net on several occasions.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
text: The gender equality picture stateside can also seem bleak, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court gutting reproductive rights last summer. Women still make only 83 percent of what men do in the U.S.—a stat that has barely budged in the past 20 years.
ref: 2023 March 13, Naureen Khan, “Doug Emhoff Wants Men to Clear the Path for More Kamalas”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
examples: text: I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.
glosses: To move; to shift from a fixed position.
examples: text: The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.
text: If only I could get Ambrose to take me away somewhere! But he won't budge.
ref: 1933, Richard Curle, Corruption, page 75:
glosses: To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
examples: text: Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US; Indiana; Upper Midwestern US; Indiana
glosses: To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
glosses: To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
Synonyms: shift
Derived terms: budgeable
budge an inch
budger
budge the needle
budge up
unbudged
unbudging
budge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Etymology: From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.
Senses: examples: text: They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs.
ref: 1649, John Milton, Observations:
text: One hundred pieces of green silk for the Knights; fourteen budge furs for surcoats; thirteen hoods of budge for clerks, and seventy furs of lamb for liveries in summer.
ref: 1787, An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, page 282:
glosses: A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
budge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Etymology: From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.
Senses: examples: text: Those budge doctors of the stoic fur.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge, He says but little and that little said, 'Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.
ref: 1784, John Wesley, The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church - Volume 7, page 393:
text: "My boy looked at me very budge," i.e., solemn.
ref: 1931, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 684:
glosses: austere or stiff, like scholastics
Derived terms: budge bachelor
budge barrel
budge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Etymology: Perhaps related to booze.
Senses: glosses: Alcoholic drink.
Derived terms: budgy
finif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finifs
form: finiff
form: finnif
form: finniff
Etymology: From Yiddish פֿינף (finf, “five”). Doublet of five.
Senses: examples: text: “Kid, I got a finif [a five-dollar bill],” Orlando said. “I'll split it with you.”
ref: 2004, Leigh Montville, Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero, →ISBN:
glosses: A five-dollar bill (note).
Shelta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain. Some theories include words derived from the Irish word Irish siúl (walk), or a corruption of the word Celt.
Senses: synonyms: cant
Sheldru
Shelru
glosses: A language spoken by some Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland, but also in Britain, which has been heavily influenced by English and Irish and is now effectively a cant or creole, though some scholars think it may have originated as and may retain elements of a non-Irish, non-English language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Shelta terms
carte blanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)kɑɹt ˈblɑnʃ/
enpr: kärt-blänsh
Forms: form: cartes blanches
Etymology: Borrowed from French carte blanche, referring to a blank or white card.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]Does your carte blanche run so far as that also ?”
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: We have given technology carte blanche, much in the way Congress has always, in the past, given automatic approval to defense budgets, resulting in the most gigantic graft in history.
ref: 1970, Philip Slater, The Pursuit Of Loneliness, Boston: Beacon Press, page 128:
text: Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles have indeed retreated with The Dictator, but they’ve gone back 80 years, when the Marx Brothers were given carte blanche at Paramount Pictures with a five-movie run that ended with their best movie, 1933’s Duck Soup.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012:
text: Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
text: That’s especially the case since the Supreme Court issued a ruling last year that provides a former president with immunity from criminal prosecution for all “official acts” taken while in office. Trump and MAGA world interpret this, and not without cause, as giving them carte blanche.
ref: 2025 March 20, Peter Wehner, “Trump’s Appetite for Revenge Is Insatiable”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025:
synonyms: free hand
free rein
proxy in blank
blank check
glosses: Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority.
examples: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,
Indeed, I later learned that when they had bought the place, in 1930, they had given my father's older sister Lina their checkbook, carte blanche, saying, "Do what you want, get what you want."
glosses: A blank paper that is signed by some authority and given to a person to fill as they please.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A hand with no court cards.
topics: banking
business
glosses: A chargecard issued by Diners Club International.
carte blanche
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)kɑɹt ˈblɑnʃ/
enpr: kärt-blänsh
Etymology: Borrowed from French carte blanche, referring to a blank or white card.
Senses: examples: text: Can gay and lesbian people in justice be excluded carte blanche from the sacrament of sexual love sharing, let alone from church membership or leadership?
ref: 2007, Gordon J. Hilsman, Intimate Spirituality: The Catholic Way of Love and Sex, →ISBN, page 114:
text: The mass production of tennis equipment made it more affordable, such that blue-collar workers were no longer excluded carte blanche as before the war (Birley 1995b).
ref: 2014, Robert J. Lake, A Social History of Tennis in Britain, →ISBN:
glosses: As an undifferentiated mass, without regard to distinctions; willy-nilly. (Possibly from confusion with another French phrase, en masse.)
baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪtɪŋ/
homophone: bating
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bait
baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪtɪŋ/
homophone: bating
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: baitings
Senses: glosses: A bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it.
glosses: The act of luring, as into a trap.
Derived terms: bear-baiting
bearbaiting
bear baiting
bullbaiting
bull-baiting
Eve baiting
gender baiting
gender-baiting
goon baiting
Jew-baiting
linkbaiting
pedobaiting
prebaiting
queerbaiting
queer-baiting
queer baiting
race baiting
rat-baiting
red-baiting
scambaiting
suicide baiting
tip baiting
Related terms: bait
blood sport
fare thee well
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛː(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/
ipa: /ˌfɛə(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˌfɛɚ ðiˑ ˈwɛl]
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˌfɛɹ ðiˑ ˈwɛl]
Forms: form: fare-thee-well
Senses: examples: text: I muſt not heare thee, fare thee wel kind maide,[…].
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 236, column 1:
glosses: Goodbye, farewell.
fare thee well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛː(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/
ipa: /ˌfɛə(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˌfɛɚ ðiˑ ˈwɛl]
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: [ˌfɛɹ ðiˑ ˈwɛl]
Forms: form: fare thee wells
form: fare-thee-well
Senses: qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: The greatest extent; completion; a state of refinement or perfection.
Related terms: to a fare-thee-well
see ya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.jə/
Forms: form: cya
form: see you
form: seeya
Etymology: From see + you.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see you, see you soon, see you later or see you again soon.
galumphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; perhaps a blend of galloping + triumph.
Senses: glosses: Galloping in a heavy and inelegant manner.
glosses: present participle and gerund of galumph
phossy jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “We thought she would escape phossy jaw. But it got her, yes, it got her, and she died a terrible death.”
ref: 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 143:
glosses: A disease resulting from exposure to white phosphorus causing degeneration of the teeth and jaw.
Synonyms: phosphorus necrosis of the jaw
Hypernyms: word: osteonecrosis of the jaw
english: when dealing with just the mouth
translation: when dealing with just the mouth
word: ONJ
word: osteochemonecrosis
word: osteonecrosis
word: necrosis
Derived terms: bisphossy jaw
Related terms: radium jaw
icy noctiluca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Buy I having returned to the Author both his own Papers, and my Version of them, in one Roll, it unfortunately hapned, that before the Icy Noctiluca was printed off, there broke out in the Night a great Fire […]
ref: 1680, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca:
glosses: white phosphorus.
rip-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rip-offs
form: ripoff
Etymology: Deverbal from rip off.
Senses: examples: text: In those days, a hamburger was fifteen cents, and if someone was charging a quarter for a bowl of soup, it was regarded as a rip-off.
text: Eighty-seven bucks for a three-ounce piece of fish? What a rip-off! Haute cuisine or not!
antonyms: bargain
good value
value for money
;
steal
glosses: A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
examples: text: He noticed that the window was ajar, and right away he knew in his gut that a rip-off had probably occurred.
glosses: A theft or robbery.
examples: text: He promised to mail me a refund, but it was just a rip-off.
glosses: A scam.
examples: text: Are you sure that's a real Rolex and not just a cheap rip-off?
synonyms: knockoff
glosses: A copy, especially one that is illegal or inferior.
Paget's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paget disease
Etymology: Both diseases named after British pathologist James Paget (1814–1899).
Senses: glosses: Paget's disease of bone.
glosses: Mammary Paget's disease.
-sol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin solum (“floor, ground”).
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: Forming the names of different kinds of soil.
Derived terms: fibrisol
geosol
latosol
planosol
solacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solacements
Etymology: From solace + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n such way [the formation of political clubs], most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhibit itself; find solacement, and also nutriment.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 30:
glosses: solace; consolation.
solaceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solaceful
form: most solaceful
Etymology: From solace + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Offering solace.
asswage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asswages
form: asswaging
form: asswaged
form: asswaged
Senses: examples: text: And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
ref: , Genesis 8:1
text: 5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
ref: , Job 16:5-6
text: Now although it concerns mee to propagate such a belief, as a fit Anodyne to asswage the many Spleens swelling against mee; yet I being ashamed to be wholly without some excuse for so conspicuous an Error, (as my diversion upon the Survey, and my other consequent undertakings was) I must let the world think otherwise, as part of that excuse which I must yet make more compleat, by acquainting you with some other reasons of that Action,.....
ref: 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon Ireland, p. 11/12:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of assuage.
assuager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assuagers
Etymology: From assuage + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something which assuages.
sarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈsɑːɹən/
Etymology: Named after the initials of its creators, Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde.
Senses: examples: text: The health minister in Turkey, which treated many of the attack's victims and conducted autopsies on others, said test results conducted on victims confirmed sarin gas was used.
ref: 2017 April 12, Samuel Osborne, “Vladimir Putin says US-Russia relations are worse since Donald Trump took office”, in The Independent:
text: Because Syria was not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention, there was no international mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the attack, although UN inspectors did conclude that sarin had been deployed.
ref: 2022 April 17, Scott Lucas, “When Will There Be Justice Over Assad’s Sarin Attacks?”, in EA WorldView:
text: Trostianets mayor Yuriy Bova said officials had discovered traces of the deadly substance sarin and other chemical substances. Sarin is a clear and odourless substance that is classed as a potentially lethal nerve agent.
ref: 2022 April 18, Paul Withers, “Putin chemical weapon horror: Ukrainian mayor says 'remains' of sarin found after retreat”, in Daily Express:
topics: government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
toxicology
war
synonyms: GB
glosses: The nerve gas O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon.
gahnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gahnites
Etymology: Named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) in 1807.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare mineral ZnAl₂O₄ in the spinel group.
wikipedia: Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Eddie would go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Named after Hawaiian waterman Eddie Aikau (1946–1978).
Senses: examples: text: Just imagine what it must feel like to make it out of one of those Teahupoo tubes? ¶ *THAT'S* why we continue our quest and challenge. ¶ Eddie would go. ¶ (and we're right behind you Eddie)
ref: 2000 April 27, m@rk, “Re: Whats it worth?”, in alt.surfing (Usenet):
text: We'd bodysurf Pounders, north shore areas, Pupukea... I remember dolphins ( or would that be porpoises?) alongside us in most every wave, which would many times drop us onto the sand with a thud, knocking the wind outa us! Then, like the hardy keiki o ka aina buggahs we were, go right back in for more punishment! Eddie would go, and so, to an extent would us keiki!
ref: 2000 August 16, Alkahuna Kekaula Kamauoha, “Re: Screened Lanais/Porches?”, in soc.culture.hawaii (Usenet):
text: While they debated over the safety of the surfers, big-wave maverick Mark Foo looked out into the maelstrom of waves and whitewater and nonchalantly told one cameraman, “Eddie would go.” The saying stuck, and it eventually became popular in the Islands and in the international board-riding community.
ref: [2002, Stuart Holmes Coleman, Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 255:
text: I guess we could've easily called it a day and left, but when you drive an hour to surf, you gotta go. Eddie would go, right? OK, maybe not in waist-high slop with fifty-degree air and water temps, but, I mean, like, if he were a NH surfer, he would go, wouldn't he?
ref: 2002 June 16, Atticus Fisher, “Surf Report: Finding Gems In Shit”, in alt.surfing (Usenet):
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: Said of challenging surfing conditions, often as an encouragement.
waterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermen
Etymology: From Middle English waterman, equivalent to water + -man.
Senses: glosses: A seaman, a sailor.
glosses: A man who lives or works on the water; a boatman.
examples: text: An elderly sheik shared this little ceremony with us, and afterwards benignly gave the waterman a coin and made him spurt scented water on his face and beard.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 105:
glosses: Someone who distributes or supplies water for a living; a water-carrier.
examples: text: ‘Here you are, sir,’ shouted a strange specimen of the human race, in a sackcloth coat, and apron of the same, who, with a brass label and number round his neck, looked as if he were catalogued in some collection of rarities. This was the waterman.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 2
glosses: Specifically, an attendant on cab stands who supplies water to the horses.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A man skilled in multiple aquatic sports disciplines, such as surfing, bodysurfing, undersea diving, canoe paddling, fishing, etc.
Derived terms: Waterman
Related terms: waterwoman
phosphorus sesquisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorus sesquisulfide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tetraphosphorus trisulphide
cowboy caviar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Baked beans (of various different recipes).
glosses: Bean salad (of various different recipes).
fark
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɐːk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Etymology: From fuck.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fuck, used to express surprise, etc..