cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹb/
ipa: /kɑːb/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: carbs
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: I'm cutting down on carbs to try and lose weight.
text: I'm looking into low-carb and no-carb options as part of my healthy eating plan.
text: But others say the new 'squaffles' and 'mushottos' are one step too far, and called for an end to the veggie carb trend.
ref: 2017 January 16, Imogen Blake, “'Stop the world, I want to get off': Shoppers ridicule Waitrose and Sainsbury's for bizarre new health foods like butternut squash waffles and riceless risottos”, in Daily Mail:
text: Supporters also claim that cloud bread is, essentially, a 'bread' without carbs. And it's gluten-free, so no wonder it's a big hit on social media, the birthplace of the paleo diet.
ref: 2017 May 17, Joshua Barrie, “Have you tried 'carb-free' cloud bread? Here's what it is and how to make it”, in Belfast Live, archived from the original on 10 May 2024:
glosses: Clipping of carbohydrate
examples: text: This is what controls the flow of fuel into the carb.
text: This engine came with dual four-barrel carbs straight from the factory. (The 1960s were a different time indeed.)
synonyms: carby
glosses: Clipping of carburetor or carburettor.
examples: text: She lifted her thumb off the carb and breathed in the thick smoke.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.
Derived terms: carbage
carb-face
carb flu
carbivore
carb up
low-carb
neocarb
noncarb
Related terms: carb-
gorge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gôj
ipa: /ɡɔːdʒ/
enpr: gôrj
ipa: /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
homophone: gorg
Forms: form: gorges
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English gorgen (“to eat greedily; to gorge”), a borrowing from Old French gorger, gorgier (modern French gorger (“to eat greedily; to gorge”)), from gorge (“throat”); see further at etymology 1.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: To condition a hawk, feed it once in three days with as much meat as it can possibly stow away—which you will find a vast quantity, and more than necessary for a meal. This feast is known technically as a gorge. […] Between the gorges give only regular meals, and not by any means plentiful ones. Two gorges a week ought to be sufficient, with two meals a day, morning and evening. After a gorge, hood your hawks, to keep them in a torpid state till digestion is accomplished.
ref: 1870 February, “American Falconry. A Royal Sport Proper for a Republican People.”, in [Thomas] Mayne Reid, editor, Onward: A Magazine for the Young Manhood of America, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Onward Publishing Office, →OCLC, 3rd head (Training Falcons), pages 127–128:
text: He would arm his mind with laughter, laughter is not quite the word but it will have to serve, at every point, then he would admit the idea and blow it to pieces. Smears, as after a gorge of blackberries, of hilarity, which is not quite the word either, would be adhering to his lips as he stepped smartly, ohne Hast aber ohne Rast, into the torture-chamber.
ref: 1934, Samuel Beckett, “Yellow”, in More Pricks than Kicks, London: Chatto and Windus, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1972, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: An act of gorging.
gorge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gôj
ipa: /ɡɔːdʒ/
enpr: gôrj
ipa: /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
homophone: gorg
Forms: form: more gorge
form: most gorge
form: gorg
Etymology: Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge?
text: "Um, Hadley? Don't tell me that's another new outfit. It's totally gorge!” Sofia stopped me in the middle of the hallway to admire the clothes I'd meticulously picked out that morning.
ref: 2013, Brittany [Lyn] Geragotelis, chapter 1, in Life’s a Witch, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster BFYR, →ISBN, page 19:
text: While she's [Katy Perry's] been hard at work on her singing and choreography, designers have been hard at work coming up with the most gorge, glam, and fabulous costumes for her to wear on stage.
ref: 2014 May 5, “Katy Perry Reveals Her Prismatic World Tour Costumes Featuring Cavalli, Valentino, & MORE!”, in PerezHilton.com, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019:
text: Now here's a little inside scoop, I happen to adore Michelle [Visage] and she has never looked more gorge than in this episode!
ref: 2017 May 12, Carson Kressley, “RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: ‘RuPaul Roast’”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2019:
glosses: Gorgeous.
disgorge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: disgorges
form: disgorging
form: disgorged
form: disgorged
Etymology: From Middle French desgorger.
Senses: examples: text: 1598-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation
This mountain when it rageth […] casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone.
text: They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: GCN's local reporter needs help keeping up w/ the masses of information disgorged by our busy world.
ref: 1982 December 11, “Help Make News”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 14:
text: The set disgorges most of its passengers at Waverley [Edinburgh], so finding a table seat in the front car isn't a problem.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
glosses: To vomit or spew, to discharge.
topics: law
glosses: To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.
Derived terms: disgorgeable
disgorgement
disgorger
undisgorged
Related terms: gorge
engorge
regurgitate
engorge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: engorges
form: engorging
form: engorged
form: engorged
Etymology: From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings.
Senses: examples: text: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: To devour something greedily, gorge, glut.
examples: text: Greedily she engorged without restraint
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To feed ravenously.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.
Derived terms: engorgement
Related terms: disgorge
kloof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluf/
Forms: form: kloofs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kloof (“ravine”) (South Africa). Doublet of clove.
Senses: examples: text: Forming the south boundary of the valley is a range of disrupted bushy hills, with intervening deep and rugged kloofs and ravines, which constituted the retreat of Jan Pockbaas and his rebel banditti.
ref: 1901, William Thomas Black, The Fish River bush, South Africa, and its wild animals:
text: The grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. It holds the rain and the mist, and they seep into the ground, feeding the streams in every kloof.
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 1, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987:
text: Occasionally the narrow dirt road rose above the mist on the slopes of the high round hills, from where one looked down on the silver clouds in the valleys and kloofs below, a magical, incredible sight.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 172:
glosses: A deep glen or ravine.
Derived terms: kloofing
gorger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgers
Etymology: From gorge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gorges.
Synonyms: glutton
gorger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgers
Etymology: Compare gadje.
Senses: examples: text: "The majority of these young people were interrelated and a number were of 'mixed' Gypsy/gorger (non-Gypsy) ancestry."
ref: 2010, Margaret Greenfields and David Martin Smith, "Housed Gypsy Travellers, Social Segregation and the Reconstruction of Communities", published in Housing Studies volume 25, issue 3 p. 397, April 27, 2010
glosses: Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller.
gorger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgers
Etymology: Possibly from gorgeous.
Senses: glosses: A well-dressed man; a swell; sometimes an employer, or principal, as the manager of a theatre.
gola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golah.
property rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The exclusive rights pertaining to the ownership and possession of a given piece of property.
Sprachgefühl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprachgefuhl
form: sprachgefühl
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachgefühl.
Senses: examples: text: Not everyone has sprachgefühl, and you don't know if you are possessed of it until you are knee-deep in the English language, trying your best to navigate the murky swamp of it.
ref: 2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, page 15:
glosses: The instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language.
IIRC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of if I recall/remember correctly.
Related terms: AFAIR
YDNRC
pic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: pick
Forms: form: pics
form: pix
Etymology: Clipping of picture
Senses: examples: text: I could give my all out on that stage 'til I'm numb / We could take a serious pic and one that's dumb
ref: 2025, Fraxiom, “everybody's eyes”, performed by Food House:
glosses: A picture, especially a photographic image.
examples: text: Decidedly for adult auds, the pic has definite specialized appeal outside France and should broaden the director's commercial rep and prestige.
ref: 1999, The Variety Insider, page 219:
glosses: A movie.
Derived terms: biopic
dickpic
facepic
kidpic
piccy
picrel
pics or it didn't happen
picspam
pix0r
print pic
pump pic
pic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: pick
Forms: form: pics
Senses: glosses: A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
natlang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natlangs
Etymology: Blend of natural + language, by analogy with conlang. By surface analysis, nat (clipping of natural) + -lang.
Senses: examples: text: Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages.
text: In the case of natlang some redundancy is set to avoid this, namely the "f-" or "few" opposes the "n-" of "none", but also "-ew" of "few" opposes "-one" of "none", so that, if ever one phonem is not well understood, the other ones are there to save the day.
ref: 2012 June 19, Escape Landsome, “Are Natlang the best case for entropy in communication ?”, in lojban@googlegroups.com (Usenet):
text: I don't think so, mainly because, being NATlangs, they weren't designed at all.
ref: 2012 June 19, Jonathan Jones, “Are Natlang the best case for entropy in communication ?”, in lojban@googlegroups.com (Usenet):
text: Don't expect me to waste my time learning a con-auxlang full of irregularities which I can already more or less understand and which won't gain me any access to other areas outside my own Romance area. I'll much rather use that time in learning the irregularities of a real natlang like, say, Arabic or Hindi, which will gain me access to the Arab and Indian areas, something which Interlingua won't do.
ref: 2003 December 11, Javier BF, “Poll on Natlangs”, in alt.lang.artificial (Usenet):
text: is it true or not true that anything that can be said in mathematical notation, however advanced it may be, must at some point or another ALSO be sayable in ordinary natlang words?
ref: 1999 September 16, Alexander Gross, “Limitations of Computers as Translation Tools”, in comp.ai.nat-lang (Usenet):
text: Regionalism is not a characteristic feature of natlangs, at least not in modern societies. People move around so much nowadays, that the effort is to conserve the differences rather than to conserve the similarities between different people's speech.
ref: 1997 March 31, Tiro Typeworks, “Conlang to Natlang”, in sci.lang@googlegroups.com (Usenet):
antonyms: conlang
constructed language
qualifier: natural language processing
glosses: a natural language, one that arose without intentional design.
Related terms: artlang
auxlang
conlang
loglang
comp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Senses: examples: text: It will instead be Liverpool in Madrid on the first day of June for another shot at the ultimate. Presumably, Sergio Ramos, season long since over, will receive a comp ticket. These gestures all count.
ref: 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Clipping of complimentary.
examples: text: comp lit[erature]
glosses: Clipping of comparative.
examples: text: comp time
text: comp pay
glosses: Clipping of compensatory or compensating.
comp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: comps
form: comping
form: comped
form: comped
Senses: examples: text: He comped lightly and then played a short phrase to begin his solo.
ref: 2001, Charles Suhor, Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970, page 9:
glosses: To accompany, in music.
glosses: To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
examples: text: to comp him his meals
text: “(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat Pack.” “Chips ahoy!”
ref: 2021 September 16, Sarah Naftalis, “The Casino” (6:40 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sean Rinaldi (Anthony Atamanuik):
glosses: To provide (someone) with a complimentary item, such as a ticket; to provide (someone) with something for free.
examples: text: The bartender decided to comp their drinks to make up for the earlier incident.
text: There’s a small bar serving the suites, where all the drinks are comped.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 92:
glosses: To provide (a complimentary item, such as a ticket) for free (either up front or sometimes by refunding the cost of it).
glosses: Clipping of compile.
ǃXóõ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: anglicised
ipa: /ˈkoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from ǃXóõ ǃxóõ.
Senses: examples: text: The ǃXóõ language is spoken by widely scattered groups of San living in southwestern Botswana and a small area of eastern Namibia.
ref: 1985, Anthony Traill, Phonetic and Phonological Studies of ǃXÓÕ Bushman, page 1
text: […] which studied category formation of ǃXóõ clicks by speakers of a language that has no clicks (American English) and two other unrelated African languages that have clicks, but fewer of them […]
ref: 2008, Keith Elwin Johnson, Second Language Acquisition of the Spanish Multiple Vibrant Consonant, page 49:
text: However, the phonotactic patterning of 'uvular' clicks in ǃXóõ does not comply with the predicted patterns given in this analysis.
ref: 2010, “Amana L. Miller, Tongue body and tongue root shape differences in Nǀuu clicks correlate with phonotactic patterns”, in Turbulent Sounds: An Interdisciplinary Guide, page 258:
text: Speakers of ǃXóõ (also known as Taa), gathered together for a storytelling competition at Pos 17, Namibia […]
ref: 2011, Nicholas Evans, Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us, page 53:
text: The most phonologically diverse language may be ǃXóõ, spoken by about 4,000 people in Botswana and Namibia, which has somewhere between 84 and 159 consonants.
ref: 2011, Michael C. Corballis, The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization, page 76:
text: […] and the ǃXóõ language spoken in Botswana and Namibia […]
ref: 2011, Intercultural Communication: A New Approach to International Relations and Global Challenges (Houman A. Sadri, Madelyn Flammia), page 129
glosses: A Khoisan language, known for its large phonemic inventory including complex click consonants.
Synonyms: Taa
Related terms: ǃKung
Wiktionary’s coverage of ǃXóõ terms
whirligig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː.lɪ.ɡɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.lɪ.ɡɪɡ/
Forms: form: whirligigs
form: whirlgig
form: whirlygig
Etymology: From Middle English whyrlegygge; equivalent to whirl (noun or verb) + gig (“a top”).
Senses: examples: text: Why ſome are borne great, ſome atchieue greatneſſe, and ſome haue greatneſſe throwne vpon them. I was one ſir, in this Enterlude, one ſir Topas ſir, but that’s all one: By the Lo[r]d Foole, I am not mad: but do you remember, Madam, why laugh you at ſuch a barren raſcall, and you ſmile not he’s gag’d: and thus the whirlegigge of time, brings in his reuenges.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 275, columns 1–2:
glosses: Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round.
glosses: A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch.
glosses: Ellipsis of whirligig beetle.
glosses: A device for punishing prisoners, comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around to induce nausea.
Derived terms: whirligig beetle
Related terms: yo-yo
whirligig beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirligig beetles
form: whirligig
Etymology: So called due to its behavior of spinning rapidly in place when alarmed, in a manner similar to a whirligig or spinning top.
Senses: synonyms: gyrinid
mellow bug
glosses: Any of various water beetles of the family Gyrinidae that swim rapidly in circles when alarmed.
tomahawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/
ipa: /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/
Forms: form: tomahawks
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”).
Senses: examples: text: yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man […] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets.
ref: 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, page 13:
text: At first, her presence was not observed; but, no sooner did the stranger catch a glimpse of her person, than he stopped, raised his hands in surprise, laid his rifle against a tree, and sprang forward; the girl closing her eyes, and sinking on the seat, with bowed head, expecting the blow of the deadly tomahawk.
ref: 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 178:
synonyms: hatchet
glosses: An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe.
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.
Derived terms: blow tomahawks
pipe tomahawk
Tomahawk
tomahawk chop
tomahawked
tomahawker
tomahawk improvement
tomahawk mark
tomahawk settler
tomahawk steak
Uncle Tomahawk
tomahawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/
ipa: /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/
Forms: form: tomahawks
form: tomahawking
form: tomahawked
form: tomahawked
Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“ax”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“ax”).
Senses: examples: text: In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and "tomahawked" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 296:
text: Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance.
ref: 1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906
glosses: To strike or cut up with a tomahawk.
examples: text: He was the owner of 1,300 acres of land bought from the government and located where the city of Lexington, Ky., now stands. After his marriage he tomahawked an area of 600 acres near Carmichaelstown, […]
ref: 1909, Samuel Gordon Smyth, A Genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre Family: From Civil, Military, Church and Family Records and Documents, page 67:
text: Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres.
ref: 1915, Chronicles of the Cochrans: Being a Series of Historical Events and Narratives, in which Members of this Family Have Played a Prominent Part, page 55:
text: The Germans thought that by just tomahawking a claim and living on it, it was an "improvement" and that was sufficient for claim; but not so with the Land Office. The land had to be legally registered and taxes paid on it […]
ref: 1993, H. Austin Cooper, Two Centuries of Brothersvalley Church of the Brethren, 1762-1962: An Account of the Old Colonial Church, the Stony Creek German Baptist Church and the Area of Bruedersthal in which the Brethren Settled in the Summer of 1762, and Organized by Elder George Adam Martin, Presiding Elder:
text: They tomahawked the land they settled on and were joined by other settlers. Each settler picked out the piece of land that he or, in some instances, she desired which resulted in oddly shaped plats when they were later surveyed.
ref: 2011, Don Corbly, Pastor John Corbly and his neighbors in Greene Township, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it.
examples: text: When the league held its first slam-dunk contest in 1984 in Denver, Nance, then a Phoenix Sun, soared into the rafters with a basketball in each hand and tomahawked each one through the net before floating back to earth […]
ref: 2007, Bob Dyer, The Top 20 Moments in Cleveland Sports, page 237:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform a tomahawk dunk.
Derived terms: tomahawker
tomahawking
chu-ko-nu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtʃuːkəʊˈnuː/
Forms: form: chu-ko-nus
Etymology: From Mandarin 諸葛弩 /诸葛弩 (Zhūgě nǔ, literally “Zhuge crossbow”) via Wade–Giles.
Senses: examples: text: The chu-ko-nu, equipped with a magazine to hold bolts or, as in this case, pellets, was used in China well into the twentieth century (Needham et al. 1994: 157-64; Selby 2003: 62-63).
ref: 2007, C. E. Grayson, M. French, M. J. O'Brien, Traditional Archery from Six Continents, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: While traditional bows were all about placing carefully selected shots, the chu-ko-nu could rattle off about one shot every two seconds, raining down a shitstorm of indiscriminate crossbow fire that would scare the Fu Manchu right off the enemy.
ref: 2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
text: Ejecting and replacing the magazine from her chu–ko–nu, she grimly fastened the ribbon holding the gruesome trophy to her belt.
ref: 2016, Felix Long, To Conquer Heaven, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 364:
glosses: An early Chinese repeating crossbow.
wikipedia: Zhuge Liang
Related terms: arbalest
dirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜːk/
ipa: /dɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: dirks
Etymology: Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk.
First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755.
Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word.
A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).
Senses: examples: text: The Claymore is worn on the left side, the dirk on the right, and the Skean Dhu in the stocking […]
ref: 1898, W.D.F Vincent, The Cutters' Practical Guide:
glosses: A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.
examples: text: In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: In this kit was the ‘Officer of the Watch’ telescope from Dolland and Sons, presented to me by my godmother, Inman's Nautical Tables, a parallel ruler, and, of course, a dirk.
ref: 1996, Frank Twiss, Social Change in the Royal Navy, 1924–1970:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ceremonial dagger worn by naval or air force officers in some nations' militaries; formerly, a fighting dagger used by sailors as a boarding weapon.
Derived terms: dirk knife
dirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜːk/
ipa: /dɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: dirks
form: dirking
form: dirked
form: dirked
Etymology: Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk.
First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755.
Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word.
A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”).
Senses: examples: text: Roland Graeme has dirked Adam Woodstock — that is all.” ¶ “Good Heaven!” said the Lady, turning pale as ashes, “is the man slain?”
ref: 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2014, Chapter the Fourth:
text: For these offenses, I was informed privately, by a worthy English settler, who had been like me seduced by Mr. Birkbeck, they had hired a man to dirk me for ten dollars, the usual price of blood in this country, as Mr. Chichester says.
ref: 1825, James Kirke Paulding, John Bull in America; or, the New Munchausen, page 127:
glosses: To stab with a dirk.
dirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɜːk/
ipa: /dɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: dirks
form: dirking
form: dirked
form: dirked
Senses: examples: text: Thy wast bignes but combers the grownd, / And dirks the beauty of my blossomes rownd.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, page 34:
glosses: To darken.
kris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krises
form: krisses
form: crease
form: creese
form: creeze
form: crese
form: cress
form: cris
form: crise
form: criss
form: crys
form: cryse
form: keris
form: kreese
form: kriss
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Senses: examples: text: Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
glosses: A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade.
kris
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kriss
form: krisses
form: krising
form: krissing
form: krised
form: krised
form: krissed
form: krissed
form: crease
form: creese
form: creeze
form: crese
form: cress
form: cris
form: crise
form: criss
form: crys
form: cryse
form: keris
form: kreese
form: kriss
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580.
Senses: examples: text: [...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.
ref: 1901, George Manville Fenn, Running Amok: A Story of Adventure, page 100:
text: One Malay seaman had resisted the rattan halter––he had been krissed to death on the spot and thrown overboard.
ref: 2017, John D. Greenwood, Forbidden Hill, Monsoon Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To stab with a kris.
Related terms: kalis
mustachioed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From mustachio + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mustachio
mustachioed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mustachio + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The Greek stocks and fever were at their highest, when a cargo from Missolonghi of turbaned and mustachioed gentry arrived, and cast anchor in the river.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 137:
text: One of the intruders, a mustachioed bug-eyed man with unkempt long hair, looked over the woman and asked for money and jewelry.
ref: 1988, Jay Robert Nash, Murder among the rich and famous, →ISBN:
text: I noticed a short, well built man with cropped dark hair who wore a mustachioed goatee; I watched him as he stepped off the elevator.
ref: 2012, Thaddeus Deluca, At Bully Hills: Confessions of an American Oxycontin Addict, →ISBN, page 219:
text: With a trembling hand, the mustachioed man opens the breast pocket of his uniform, takes out his I.D., and hands it over.
ref: 2012, Fr. Henryk Maria Malak, Shavelings in Death Camps, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of moustachioed.
parentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parental
javelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jăv'lǐn
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæv.(ə.)lɪn/
rhymes: -ævlɪn
Forms: form: javelins
Etymology: From Middle English chafeveleyn, gavelong, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle.
Senses: examples: text: And when Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest saw it, hee rose vp from amongst the Congregation, and tooke a iauelin in his hand. And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them thorow, the man of Israel, and the woman, thorow her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 25:7–8:
text: Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm?
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: With what apprehensions we proceeded, ignorant at what moment we might be greeted by the javelin of some ambushed savage!
ref: 1846 February 26, Herman Melville, chapter X, in Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life [Typee], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part I, page 73:
english: Typee
translation: Typee
text: As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form a solid wall and shower their javelins as they face him—his courage is all undaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him;[…]
ref: 1898, Homer, “Book XII”, in Samuel Butler, transl., The Iliad of Homer: Rendered into English Prose for the use of those who cannot read the original, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 189:
text: Searching through snow / For the javelin I had not / Meant to throw right at you / For if it had hit its mark / There’d be blood in the place / Where you stood
ref: 2023, Sufjan Stevens, “Javelin (To Have and To Hold)”, in Javelin:
glosses: A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
glosses: A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.
glosses: A javelinfish (Coelorinchus australis).
Derived terms: javazon
javelin dart
javelineer
javelinier
javelinist
javelin throw
javelin thrower
pilum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪləm/
rhymes: -aɪləm
Forms: form: pila
form: pilums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pilum. Doublet of pile.
Senses: examples: text: Besides a lighter spear, the Roman legionary grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin whose utmost length was about six feet and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of about eighteen inches.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2000, page 21:
text: Verica plucked a pilum from the hands of the nearest legionary – the soldier didn't react – and handed it to me.
ref: 2011, Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London, Gollancz 2011, page 371:
glosses: A Roman military javelin.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The columella on the surface of a pollen grain.
operose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpəɹəʊs/
Forms: form: more operose
form: most operose
Etymology: From Latin operōsus.
Senses: examples: text: When this operose and hard-working student descended from his closet, and gained a sort of tacit leave from his tutor to join in the circle of us gay and high-spirited fellows, the part he played was no more advantageous to him, than his former exhibition had been among the learned.
ref: 1805, William Godwin, chapter V, in Fleetwood, London: Richard Bentley, published 1853, page 42:
glosses: Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking.
examples: text: Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operoſe machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body […]
ref: 1761, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 2nd edition, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and J. Bell, →OCLC, part IV, page 270:
glosses: Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.
examples: text: when there was so great reason to make it common, since the square letters are less operose, more expedite and facile, then the Samaritan, which is, when time serves, used as a plea for their great Antiquity.
ref: 1662, Edward Stillingfleet, “The Truth of Scripture-History Asserted”, in Origines Sacrae, Or, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Christian Faith, as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures, and Matters Therein Contained, 3rd edition, London: R. W. for Henry Mortlock, published 1666, page 103:
glosses: Tedious, wearisome.
Derived terms: operosely
operoseness
operosity
opertaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑ.pɚˈteɪ.ni.əs/
rhymes: -eɪniəs
Forms: form: more opertaneous
form: most opertaneous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin opertāneus, from operiō (“cover, envelop”).
Senses: glosses: Concealed; private.
gullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡʌl.ət/
rhymes: -ʌlɪt
rhymes: -ʌlət
Forms: form: gullets
Etymology: From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).
Senses: examples: text: Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.
ref: 2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The throat or esophagus.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.
glosses: The space between the teeth of a saw blade.
glosses: A channel for water.
glosses: A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons.
glosses: The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
Synonyms: sense: throat or esophagus
word: gorge
sense: cytopharynx
word: cytopharynx
Derived terms: gulleting
gullet sweetbread
stick in someone's gullet
Related terms: gully
craw
crop
esophagus
throat
trachea
windpipe
gullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡʌl.ət/
rhymes: -ʌlɪt
rhymes: -ʌlət
Forms: form: gullets
form: gulleting
form: gulleted
form: gulleted
Etymology: From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).
windpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndpaɪp/
Forms: form: windpipes
Etymology: From wind + pipe.
Senses: glosses: The trachea.
glosses: Any duct for air or other gas.
glosses: A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls.
glosses: The anus.
Related terms: esophagus
gullet
weasand
throat
ophelimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒf.əˈlɪm.ə.tiː/
Etymology: From Italian ofelimità, from Ancient Greek ὠφέλιμος (ōphélimos, “helpful”).
Senses: qualifier: economic
glosses: Economic satisfaction.
glosses: The ability to please another.
trachea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈkiː.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
rhymes: -eɪkiə
Forms: form: tracheae
form: tracheæ
form: tracheas
Etymology: From late Middle English, from Medieval Latin trāchēa (“the windpipe”) (also borrowed as Late Latin trāchīa), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîă ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe, trachea”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: windpipe
glosses: A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: vessel
glosses: The xylem vessel.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body.
Derived terms: tracheal
trachean
tracheary
tracheo-
trache-
Related terms: tracheally
tracheid
tracheole
esophagus
gullet
throat
lysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪsɪs/
rhymes: -aɪsɪs
Etymology: From Latin lysis, from Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”). Compare -lysis.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The disintegration or destruction of cells.
examples: text: The older medicine used to speak of two ways, lysis and crisis, one gradual, the other abrupt, in which one might recover from a bodily disease.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture VIII: The Divided Self, and the Process of Its Unification”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 183:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A gradual recovery from disease.
Derived terms: antilysis
carcinolysis
dermatolysis
euglobulin clot lysis time
euglobulin lysis time
immunolysis
isolysis
lysine
Lysol
lyterian
nitrolysis
phosphorolysis
xylanolysis
Related terms: lyse
-lysis
facinorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsɪnəɹəs/
Forms: form: more facinorous
form: most facinorous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin facinorōsus, from facinus (“deed, bad deed”), from faciō (“to make, to do”).
Senses: examples: text: Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had.
 Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
glosses: Extremely wicked.
Derived terms: facinorousness
cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒk.teɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɑk.teɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɔk.tæɪl/
Forms: form: more cocktail
form: most cocktail
Etymology: Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a stimulant (gingering), hence a stimulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit.
Senses: examples: text: It looks very cocktail to be seen riding through the streets of London in a scarlet coat ;
ref: 1830, Sporting Magazine:
text: The Prince had nothing particular about him but a monstrous smart whip with a gold stag for a handle, which was pronounced a very cocktail looking instrument by the Leicestershire farmers, with whom His Serene Highness is no favorite
ref: 1840, The Sporting magazine:
text: She always goes about with a brace of loaded revolvers in her belt!! Very cocktail and no occasion for it
ref: 2008, Christine Kelly, Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, →ISBN:
text: Nothing looks so cocktail and muffish on a coach as to see a man learning to catch his whip, and after many futile efforts taking it upside down for this purpose, and twisting the thong round and round with the point downwards, as if he was stirring porridge for a pack of hounds.
ref: 1875, Charles Thomas Samuel Birch Reynardson, 'Down the Road': Or, Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman:
glosses: Ostentatiously lacking in manners.
cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒk.teɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɑk.teɪl/
ipa: /ˈkɔk.tæɪl/
Forms: form: cocktails
form: cocktailing
form: cocktailed
form: cocktailed
Etymology: Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a stimulant (gingering), hence a stimulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit.
Senses: glosses: To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
examples: text: He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.
glosses: To treat (a person) to cocktails.
Related terms: swizzle
cacuminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈkjuːmənəl/
Forms: form: more cacuminal
form: most cacuminal
Etymology: From cacūmin- (the stem of the Latin cacūmen (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
examples: text: 1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52,
/L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.
text: The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;
ref: 1951, William James Entwistle, The Spanish Language: Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, page 218:
text: 1992, Anatoly Liberman, Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes (editors), On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 68, page 190,
It is a trill, because the choice can be only between a cacuminal trill or a cacuminal lateral, but cacuminal l already exists in the system […] .
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue.
Derived terms: cacuminalization
cacuminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈkjuːmənəl/
Forms: form: cacuminals
Etymology: From cacūmin- (the stem of the Latin cacūmen (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.
demersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. Botanical sense coined by botanist Thomas Martyn in the 1790s.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demerse.
demersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. Botanical sense coined by botanist Thomas Martyn in the 1790s.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated or growing or constantly under water, as leaves; submersed.
fute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːt/
Forms: form: futes
form: futing
form: futed
form: futed
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: To whistle.
cervine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəːvʌɪn/
Etymology: From Latin cervīnus, from cervus (“deer”).
Senses: examples: text: To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 495:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of deer; deer-like.
cervine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəːvʌɪn/
Forms: form: cervines
Etymology: From Latin cervīnus, from cervus (“deer”).
Senses: examples: text: The cervines are arguably Europe's greatest mammalian success story: the earliest type, Cervavitus, first appeared about 10 million years ago—in Europe.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 106:
glosses: A deer of the subfamily Cervinae; an Old World deer.