cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paucal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːkəl/
enpr: päʹkəl
ipa: /ˈpɔkəl/
Etymology: From Latin paucālis (“few, little”), from paucus, plural paucī (“few, little, a few, the select few, the oligarchs”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little”), + Latin adjective suffix -ālis.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by having a small number, greater than two, of (usually equivalent) components.
examples: text: first-person paucal
text: paucal number
text: paucal and plural pronouns
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: singular
dual
trial
plural
glosses: Pertaining to a language form referring to a few or a couple of something (typically three to around ten), e.g. a small group of people.
examples: text: But too much can occur in the negative with a paucal meaning when there is no explicit or implicit infinitival complement: I didn't enjoy it too much is simply an informal alterant of I didn't enjoy it very much.
ref: 2002, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: multal
glosses: Expressing a relatively small quantity or degree.
paucal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːkəl/
enpr: päʹkəl
ipa: /ˈpɔkəl/
Etymology: From Latin paucālis (“few, little”), from paucus, plural paucī (“few, little, a few, the select few, the oligarchs”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little”), + Latin adjective suffix -ālis.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular, dual, trial, and plural.
Derived terms: paucality
honcho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑn.t͡ʃoʊ/
enpr: hŏnʹchō
ipa: /ˈhɒn.tʃəʊ/
enpr: hŏnʹchō
rhymes: -ɒntʃəʊ
Forms: form: honchos
form: honchoes
Etymology: From Japanese 班(はん)長(ちょう) (hanchō, “squad leader”), from 19th c. Mandarin 班長 /班长 (bānzhǎng, “team leader”). Probably entered English during World War II: many apocryphal stories describe American soldiers hearing Japanese prisoners-of-war refer to their lieutenants as hanchō.
Senses: examples: text: Says they had no choice. Says the NVA killed the old honcho when he said no. Now he says all the rice is theirs.
ref: 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (motion picture), spoken by Private Gator Lerner (Johnny Depp):
text: For years, snobbery has been a hallmark of this city of wealth and glamour, movie stars and entertainment honchos, where it is possible to spend $20,000 for a watch, $6,000 for a suit with 14-karat gold pinstriping or $15,000 for a handbag of rare leather.
ref: 1992 October 26, Calvin Sims, “Hard Times, Even on Rodeo Drive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mostly he wrote what the higher honchos in the newsroom referred to, often condescendingly, as “offbeat” stories.
ref: 1999, Dave Barry, Big Trouble, Penguin, published 2010, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Gulfstream makes jets for both Hollywood honchos and foreign governments like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
ref: 2001, Michael Moore, Stupid White Men, page 22:
glosses: Boss, leader.
Derived terms: head honcho
honcho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑn.t͡ʃoʊ/
enpr: hŏnʹchō
ipa: /ˈhɒn.tʃəʊ/
enpr: hŏnʹchō
rhymes: -ɒntʃəʊ
Forms: form: honchos
form: honchoing
form: honchoed
form: honchoed
Etymology: From Japanese 班(はん)長(ちょう) (hanchō, “squad leader”), from 19th c. Mandarin 班長 /班长 (bānzhǎng, “team leader”). Probably entered English during World War II: many apocryphal stories describe American soldiers hearing Japanese prisoners-of-war refer to their lieutenants as hanchō.
Senses: examples: text: I had never honchoed that many people so even something as simple as ordering them to knead dough or fondant became an important decision.
ref: 2010, Buddy Valastro, Cake Boss, Simon and Schuster, published 2020, →ISBN, page 142:
text: The task of choosing the clips that comprised the allotted 10 minutes in the bake-off was left to the supervising sound editor, as it was he or she who honchoed the preparation of the soundtrack for the rerecording mixing stage in the first place.
ref: 2012, David Lewis Yewdall, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: To lead or manage.
titrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪtɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈtaɪtɹeɪt/
rhymes: -aɪtɹeɪt
Forms: form: titrates
form: titrating
form: titrated
form: titrated
Etymology: Modelled after French titrer. Equivalent to French titre (“title, quality, chemical proportion”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He was obsessed with making LSD even purer than Sandoz, producing it first in powder form in gelatin capsules as well as light-blue liquid (“Mother's Milk”) that was easily recognizable when titrated onto sugar cubes.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 122:
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: To ascertain the amount of a constituent in a solution (or other mixture) by measuring the volume of a known concentration (the "standard solution") needed to complete a reaction.
examples: A 5mg dose could not ease the pain, so he titrated to 10mg which brought him immediate relief.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To adjust the amount of a drug consumed until the desired effects are achieved.
examples: text: In crisis debriefing, because it is done in group sessions, you can’t titrate the amount of exposure to the individual, so some may get more upset.
ref: 2016 April 3, Luisa Dillner, “Can psychological treatments be harmful?”, in The Guardian:
text: "All mammals engage in dangerous play," Gray told me. "Dangerous play is how kids learn how to titrate fear."
ref: 2016 October 19, Melanie Thernstrom, “The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play!”, in New York Times:
text: The error lies in thinking that one can titrate the application of violence to achieve exquisitely precise results. To the extent that the West continues to attempt to do so, it will merely ensure more mass graves like those of Bucha and Izyum, and more soldiers lying limbless or in the burn wards of Ukrainian military hospitals.
ref: 2022 September 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Putin Is Cornered”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: calibrate
fine-tune
gauge
glosses: To precisely control.
Derived terms: backtitrate
back titrate
downtitrate
titrant
titratable
titrated
titration
titrator
Related terms: titer
titre
titrant
titrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪtɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈtaɪtɹeɪt/
rhymes: -aɪtɹeɪt
Forms: form: titrates
Etymology: Back-formation from titration or from the above verb, either on the basis of -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: A typical titration requires approximately 1.8–2.0 mL of titrate at a concentration of 1–2 µM. The titrant will typically be at a concentration 10–20 times that of the titrate.
ref: 2009, Methods in Enzymology, volumes 468, 412:
glosses: A solution of unknown concentration which is (to be) tested by means of titration.
Coordinate terms: titrant
titrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪtɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈtaɪtɹeɪt/
rhymes: -aɪtɹeɪt
Forms: form: more titrate
form: most titrate
Etymology: From French titré or the above verb, either on the basis of -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Dr. R. Dubois's apparatus for applying anæsthetics composed of titrate mixtures of chloroform and air was described on June 22nd..before the Academy of Sciences.
ref: 1885, Athenæum:
glosses: Precisely measured.
titration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈtɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /tɪˈtɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: titrations
Etymology: From titrate + -ion, see titrate.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator.
Derived terms: back titration
Karl Fischer titration
titrational
Related terms: titre
titrate
titre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪtə/
ipa: /ˈtaɪtɚ/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: titres
form: titer
Etymology: From French titre (“title”). Doublet of tilde, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The strength or concentration of a solution that has been determined by titration.
Synonyms: titer
titre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪtə/
ipa: /ˈtaɪtɚ/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: titres
form: titring
form: titred
form: titred
form: titer
Etymology: From French titre (“title”). Doublet of tilde, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus.
Senses: glosses: To determine a titre, especially by titration
Synonyms: titer
Derived terms: titrate
Related terms: maîtresse en titre
titrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titrants
Etymology: From titre + -ant, see titrate.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The reagent of known concentration and volume used in titrations.
Related terms: titre
titration
tarpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹpən/
ipa: /ˈtɑːpən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pən
Forms: form: tarpans
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian тарпа́н (tarpán), from Turkic (Kazakh тарпаң (tarpañ) or Kyrgyz тарпан (tarpan)).
Senses: examples: text: It’s possible that wild horses, known as tarpans, survived in southern Russia until the nineteenth century, but these may have been hybrids, with genes from domestic horses.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 256:
glosses: An extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
nevertheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛvəðəˈlɛs/
ipa: /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/
Forms: form: ne'ertheless
form: nethertheless
Etymology: From Middle English nevertheles, never-þe-les, nevere-þe-lesse. By surface analysis, never (“not at all”) + the + less; compare never the wiser.
Senses: examples: text: Now no chaſtening for the preſent ſeemeth to be ioyous, but grieuous: neuertheleſſe, afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruite of righteouſneſſe, vnto them which are exerciſed thereby.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 12:11, column 2:
text: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
ref: 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
text: Paul did eventually mention potential First Amendment concerns, saying, "We have to be wary of where it leads to, so it doesn't lead to speech problems." He nevertheless could and should have made it clearer that the "crackdown" he has in mind does not entail the sort of government restrictions that Carr and Cruz rightly rejected.
ref: 2025 September 16, Jacob Sullum, “Brendan Carr and Ted Cruz Don't Think Charlie Kirk's Murder Justifies Speech Restrictions”, in Reason:
glosses: In spite of what preceded; yet.
Synonyms: sense: in spite of what preceded
word: even so
word: however
word: nonetheless
word: still
word: though
word: yet
word: notwithstanding
word: all that said
word: anyhow
word: all the same
word: be it as it may
word: be that as it may
word: but
word: having said that
word: howbeit
word: just the same
word: maugre
word: natheless
word: nevertheless
word: still and all
word: that being said
word: that said
word: withal
Related terms: word: regardless
spyware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spy + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: In the end of the 90s we call^([sic]) this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]
ref: 2017 December, 5:24 from the start, in Interview with hacktivist Jaromil, ArtEZ studium generale:
glosses: Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.
Related terms: abandonware
adware
antispyware
baitware
bloatware
crippleware
demoware
donationware
freeware
malware
postcardware
shareware
software
trialware
adware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ad + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.
Derived terms: madware
Related terms: abandonware
baitware
crippleware
demoware
donationware
freeware
malware
postcardware
shareware
spyware
trialware
free software
open-source software
public domain software
zygote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪɡəʊt/
ipa: /ˈzaɪˌɡoʊt/
Forms: form: zygotes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ζῠγωτός (zŭgōtós, “yoked”) + English -ote (suffix meaning ‘having [the thing to which it is attached]’). Ζῠγωτός (Zŭgōtós) is derived from ζῠγόω (zŭgóō, “to join or yoke together”) + -τός (-tós, suffix forming adjectives of possibility); and ζῠγόω (zŭgóō) from ζῠγόν (zŭgón, “yoke for joining animals; anything which joins two things together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming causative or factitive verbs). By surface analysis, zygo- + -ote.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: homozygote
heterozygote
merozygote
monozygote
parthenote
planozygote
glosses: A eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes (“reproductive cells”) during a fertilization process.
Derived terms: hemizygote
hypnozygote
prezygote
zygotal
zygotic
zygotically
zygotoblast
zygotoid
zygotomere
Related terms: dizygotic
monozygotic
zygosity
zygotene
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shags
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.
Senses: examples: text: Nor ſhould it prove thy leſs important Care, / To chuſe a proper Coat for Winter's Wear. / [...] / True Witney Broad-cloath with it's Shag unſhorn, / Unpierc'd is in the laſting Tempeſt worn: [...]
ref: [1716], [John] Gay, “Book I. Of the Implements for Walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
examples: text: He was rather unshaven as well and smelt strongly of shag.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet; 2), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 535:
text: The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
ref: 1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 68:
glosses: Coarse shredded tobacco.
glosses: A type of rough carpet pile.
glosses: Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
examples: text: But it is a braw elemental sphere this o' ours, for here's a good queich o' claret for ye, an' a shag o' butter-an'-bread.
ref: 1830 January 23, Ettrick Shepherd, “Dr David Dale's Account of a Grand Aerial Voyage”, in The Edinburgh Literary Journal, volume 3, number 63, page 52:
text: romancing Shelley between / sips of thermos tea and / yeasty shags of bread, sour-sweet, / from Lizzie Coutinho’s bakery.
ref: 2001, Ranjani Neriya, “Husk”, in Beloit Poetry Journal, volume 51, number 4, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2016, page 21:
glosses: A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
examples: text: There was that hair salon on Yonge Street called House of Lords. On a Saturday – nowadays you can't even imagine it – but imagine a hair salon having a lineup outside of people wanting to get a shag haircut.
ref: 2011, Liz Worth, Gary Pig Gold, Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond 1977-1981, page 16:
synonyms: shaggy cut
glosses: A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
Derived terms: raise someone's shag
shagger
shagginess
shaggy
shaggy-dog story
shag-rag
silk shag
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shags
form: shagging
form: shagged
form: shagged
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.
Senses: examples: text: He saw the pine its daring mantle rear, / Break the rude blast, and mock the brumal year / Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies, / And bid all southern vegetation rise.
ref: 1809, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad: A Poem, page 34:
glosses: To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
examples: text: And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To hang in shaggy clusters.
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: more shag
form: most shag
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.
Senses: examples: text: Son. Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Hairy; shaggy.
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shags
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a derivative of Etymology 1, above, with reference to the bird's shaggy crest.
Senses: examples: text: He ran back and picked up a dead bird that had fallen. It was not a duck but a shag.
ref: 1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 7:
glosses: Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
Hypernyms: sea bird
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Phalacrocorax colensoi
word: Auckland shag
taxonomic: Leucocarbo atriceps
word: blue-eyed shag
taxonomic: Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi
word: Bounty shag
taxonomic: Phalacrocorax campbelli
word: Campbell shag
taxonomic: Phalacrocorax onslowi
word: Chatham shag
taxonomic: Leucocarbo bougainvillii
word: Guanay shag
word: Heard shag Leucocarbo nivalis
word: syn. Phalacrocorax atriceps nivalis)
taxonomic: Leucocarbo atriceps
alt: syn. Phalacrocorax atriceps
word: imperial shag
taxonomic: Phalacrocorax verrucosus
word: Kerguelen shag
alt: syn. Phalacrocorax carunculatus
word: king shag (Leucocarbo carunculatus
taxonomic: Phalacrocorax purpurascens
word: Macquarie shag
taxonomic: Leucocarbo carunculatus
word: New Zealand king shag
taxonomic: Phalacrocorax chalconotus
word: Stewart Island shag
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shags
Etymology: Blend of shower (“bridal shower”) + stag (“bachelor party”).
Senses: glosses: A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
Synonyms: word: stag and doe
word: stag and doe party
word: social
english: Prairies
translation: Prairies
word: wedding social
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: shags
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: I'm fcuked then mate. Born and bred sarf london and the missarse is a brummie. Oh and her old man is a scouser!!¶ You all still sound like a bunch of inbreds though but it's better than the Hereford accent "alright shag where you be"
ref: 2008 January 9, ex_rubberdagger [username], “The Guzz Accent”, in Navy Net Forums:
text: I was going down the stairs to get my bike when I ran into Jim Mudd coming up. "Alright shag?" he said like we were best mates.
ref: 2010, John Featherstone, Hangman's Got The Blues:
text: Anyways, I'll check in every now and then, cheers shag :-)
ref: 2015 February 18, “Not had a fag for weeks”, in Reddit, r/TheRedLion:
glosses: Friend; mate; buddy.
Synonyms: friend
shag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: more shag
form: most shag
form: shack
Etymology: From shagged or shagged out, originally British colloquialisms.
Senses: examples: text: I suppose they could not really blame us for feeling so shack after doing PT, drill and other boring lessons in the morning.
ref: 1994, C. S. Chong, NS: An Air-Level Story, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Exhausted, worn out, extremely tired.
glosses: Tough and exhausting.
raw_tags: of an activity
Related terms: english: potenitally derived from one of the above terms, but possibly etymologically unrelated
translation: potenitally derived from one of the above terms, but possibly etymologically unrelated
word: shag-boy
wergeld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛə(ɹ)ɡɛld/
/ˈwɜː(ɹ)ɡɛld/
Forms: form: wergelds
form: wehrgeld
form: weregeld
form: weregild
form: were gild
form: wergelt
form: wergild
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English werġeld, wereġeld (“compensation for a man killed”), from Proto-West Germanic *werageld. More at wer, geld.
Senses: examples: text: In its opening article the equality of the wergeld of a Novgorodian Slav with that of a Kievan Russian is proclaimed.
ref: 1973, George Vernadsky, Kievan Russia, →ISBN:
text: In these clauses a lord had the duty of yielding up his esne if he was guilty of homicide and paying the dead man's wergeld. If the esne escaped, his lord had then to pay the value of a further man (that is, one hundred shillings), which was a ceorl's wergeld and may well have been the value of an esne as well.
ref: 1995, David Anthony Edgell Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England: From the Reign of Alfred Until the Twelfth Century, →ISBN:
glosses: Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide, distinct from bloodwite.
raw_tags: in Germanic law
examples: text: Isildur would not surrender [The Ruling Ring] to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. [...] ‘This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?’
ref: 1977, J.R.R. Tolkien, Of the Rings of Power, HarperCollins, pages 353–354:
text: The folklaw set a price on every person's head and this price was easily converted into oath equivalents: if the wergeld to be paid for killing a churl was 200 shillings, for killing a thegn 1200 shillings, and for killing a king 7,200 shillings, then it follows that for a churl to sue a thegn he would need five other 200-shilling men prepared to swear alongside him, and to sue a king, thirty-five others.
ref: 2002, Richard Firth Green, A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England, →ISBN:
glosses: Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.
raw_tags: in Germanic law
Synonyms: wer
Related terms: blood money
Lex Frisionum
loup-garou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlu.ɡəˈɹuː/
Forms: form: loup-garous
form: loups-garous
Etymology: Borrowed from French loup-garou.
Senses: examples: text: In this respect, it is always a full moon for a loup-garou. They are never more than half-sane to begin with, and they tend to become increasingly unstable over time.
ref: 2013, Elliott James, Pushing Luck:
glosses: A werewolf.
Related terms: loogaroo
rougarou
virago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈɹɑːɡəʊ/
Forms: form: viragos
form: viragoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virāgō (“warlike or heroic woman”, literally “manlike”).
Senses: examples: text: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:
text: Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, chapter III, in Nothing Like the Sun:
synonyms: word: shrew
word: termagant
word: battle axe
word: bitch
word: brim
word: brimstone
word: cat
word: crow
word: dragon
word: faggot
word: fishwife
word: harpy
word: harridan
word: hellcat
word: jade
word: nag
word: nudnik
word: scold
word: she-devil
word: shrew
word: termagant
word: virago
word: vixen
word: witch
glosses: A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.
synonyms: word: shrew
word: battle axe
word: bitch
word: brim
word: brimstone
word: cat
word: crow
word: dragon
word: faggot
word: fishwife
word: harpy
word: harridan
word: hellcat
word: jade
word: nag
word: nudnik
word: scold
word: she-devil
word: shrew
word: termagant
word: virago
word: vixen
word: witch
glosses: A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.
glosses: A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.
Derived terms: viraginian
viraginity
viraginous
virago sleeve
Related terms: virtue
virile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪɹ.əl/
ipa: /ˈvɪɹˌaɪl/
rhymes: -ɪɹəl
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: more virile
form: most virile
Etymology: From Middle French viril, from Latin virīlis, from vir (“man”, “male human”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Senses: glosses: Manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
raw_tags: of a male
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
Derived terms: pudendum virile
virile member
virilism
virilist
virility
viropause
Related terms: membrum virile
semen virile
virtue#Related_terms
virtuosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtuosas
form: virtuose
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian virtuosa, feminine of virtuoso.
Senses: glosses: a female virtuoso
Related terms: virtuoso
cormorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːməɹənt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹməɹənt/
other: /-ˌænt/
other: /ˈkɔɹmɹənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑm(ə)ɹənt/
Forms: form: more cormorant
form: most cormorant
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱorh₂wós
From Middle English cormeraunt (“great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); other types of aquatic bird”) [and other forms], from Old French cormaran, cor-maraunt [and other forms] (modern French cormoran), possibly variants of *corp-marin, from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”), with the ending -morant possibly derived from French moran (“marine, maritime”), from Breton mor (“sea”), with -an corrupted in English to -ant. Latin corvus is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós (“raven”), which is imitative of the harsh cry of the bird; while marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea, marine”) is from Latin mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea; standing water”), possibly from *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Cognates
* Catalan corbmari
* Occitan corpmari
* Portuguese corvomarinho
Senses: examples: text: Anti-masonry is as cormorant as death, and will not be satisfied though one half the human race be immolated to appease its infernal appetite.
ref: 1830, Boston Masonic Mirror, page 398:
text: ... the victims of fanaticism who frequent Exeter Hall, to be plucked by tax gatherers more cormorant than your own excise-men at home?
ref: 1842, Weekly Globe, page 261:
glosses: Voracious; aggressively greedy.
Related terms: phalacrocoracid
shag
virtuoso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɜ.tʃuˈəʊ.səʊ/
ipa: /ˌvɝ.t͡ʃuˈoʊ.soʊ/
Forms: form: virtuosos
form: virtuosi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian virtuoso, from Late Latin virtuōsus (“virtuous”), from Latin virtus (“excellence”). Doublet of virtuous.
Senses: examples: text: For, besides the extraordinary Neatness of the Room, it was adorned with a great Number of Nicknacks, and Curiosities, which might have engaged the Attention of a Virtuoso.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 10, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, page 224:
glosses: An expert in virtù or art objects and antiquities; a connoisseur.
examples: text: Facial surgeons are now virtuosi.
ref: 2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 23:
glosses: Someone with special skill or knowledge; an expert.
glosses: Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
virtuoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɜ.tʃuˈəʊ.səʊ/
ipa: /ˌvɝ.t͡ʃuˈoʊ.soʊ/
Forms: form: more virtuoso
form: most virtuoso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian virtuoso, from Late Latin virtuōsus (“virtuous”), from Latin virtus (“excellence”). Doublet of virtuous.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, he was able to sit alongside De Bruyne on the City bench admiring a virtuoso performance from Foden, pulling every string in the number 10 role and illustrating again why he is so important to Guardiola, and why he simply must start for Gareth Southgate's England at Euro 2024.
ref: 2024 April 3, Phil McNulty, “Man City 4-1 Aston Villa: Phil Foden produces 'masterclass' to show worth again”, in BBC:
glosses: Exhibiting the ability of a virtuoso.
Related terms: virtue
virtuosa
virtuosic
virtuosically
virtuosity
plug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: plŭg
ipa: /plʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: plugs
form: plugging
form: plugged
form: plugged
Etymology: From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
Senses: examples: text: He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
synonyms: stop
glosses: To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
examples: text: The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
text: Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.
text: He [Mike Skinner] treats the gig as an opportunity repeatedly to plug the after-party, where he will be DJing.
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019:
glosses: To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
examples: text: Near-synonym: plug away
text: Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
glosses: To persist or continue with something.
examples: 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head
I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
synonyms: cap#Verb
pop#Verb
glosses: To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: peg, rail
text: I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.
glosses: To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
synonyms: boof
glosses: To ingest a drug rectally.
Synonyms: sense: persist
word: keep up
word: soldier on
word: persevere
sense: shoot a bullet
word: bust a cap
sense: shoot a bullet
word: pop
sense: shoot a bullet
word: ventilate
sense: have sex with
word: drill
word: pound
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
word: 🔌
Derived terms: misplug
plug and chug
plug and play
plug and pray
plug away
pluggability
pluggable
plugger
plug in
plug into
plug out
plug the runner
plug up
replug
unplug
elec.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Elec..
elec.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Elec..
névé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪˈveɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: névés
Etymology: Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nivatus "snow-cooled" (< Latin nix, nivis (“snow”)).
Senses: examples: text: Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.
ref: 1913, R. F. Scott, chapter XVIII, in Leonard Huxley, editor, Scott's Last Expedition, volume I, Monday, December 25:
glosses: The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
examples: text: Haast's 1864 paper does not explain exactly why the glaciers should have come and gone as they did, but it appears that he believed that the onset of glaciation was due to the formation of his "high, plateau-like" range of mountains, acting as a moisture trap, with consequent névé accumulation on a grand scale.
ref: 1972 April 27, D. R. Oldroyd, “Haast's glacial theories and the opinions of his European contemporaries”, in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 3, number 1, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, archived from the original on 27 May 2024, page 9:
text: The rate of snow-névé accumulation may change many times during the glacier lifetime due to changes in climatic conditions or other factors. Calculations show that the glacier responds fairly quickly to such changes.
ref: 1989 January, A. N. Salamatin, A. B. Mazo, “Dynamics of a nonstationary dome glacier in the two-dimensional approximation”, in Journal of Soviet Mathematics, volume 44, Springer, →DOI, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2018, page 38:
topics: geography
glaciology
natural-sciences
glosses: Young, granular snow on a glacier, which has been partially melted and refrozen since deposition, but has not yet turned into firn by surviving a full season of ablation.
Related terms: nivation
firn
pottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɑtəɹi/
Forms: form: potteries
Etymology: From Old French poterie, from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot, equivalent to pot + -ery. First attested in the 13th century.
Senses: examples: text: The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
examples: text: I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
glosses: A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
examples: text: Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.
glosses: The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
Synonyms: ceramic
ceramics
earthenware
Hyponyms: porcelain
china
Derived terms: nonpottery
potteryware
Related terms: potter
potter's clay
potter's field
potter's wheel
Torquay pottery
stoneware
terracotta
genre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
ipa: /ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑnɚ/
Forms: form: genres
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
Senses: examples: text: The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
text: This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
text: The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
text: One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
ref: 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
glosses: A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
Synonyms: kind
type
class
Derived terms: cybergenre
genre-bending
genre-busting
genrefication
genre fiction
genre film
genrefy
genreless
genrelisation
genrelization
genre-savvy
genre studies
genric
hallucinogenre
macrogenre
metagenre
microgenre
minigenre
multigenre
nongenre
pre-genre
pregenre
sub-genre
subgenre
supergenre
Related terms: gender
general
generate
genus
genre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
ipa: /ˈ(d)ʒɒnɹə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑnɚ/
Forms: form: genres
form: genring
form: genreing
form: genred
form: genred
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
glosses: To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
classy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑːsi/
ipa: /ˈklæsi/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: classier
form: classiest
Etymology: From class + -y. Piecewise doublet of classic.
Senses: examples: text: That's a very classy outfit you're wearing.
synonyms: à la mode
chic
cool
dapper
trendy
glosses: Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
examples: text: Ignoring his coarse insults was a classy response.
text: Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.
ref: 2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.
Derived terms: classily
classiness
stay classy
unclassy
Related terms: class
classy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑːsi/
ipa: /ˈklæsi/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: classies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of khalasi.
elegant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.ɡənt/
Forms: form: more elegant
form: most elegant
Etymology: From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns.
Senses: examples: text: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref: 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
examples: text: an elegant solution
text: "For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
glosses: Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
examples: text: 'An' how are ye, Jemmie—how's every inch iv you?' enquired Moggy of the boy, when his agitation was a little blown over.
'I'm elegant, thank ye,' he answered; 'an' what's the matther wid ye all? I cum through the kitchen, and seen no one.'
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Fine; doing well.
Synonyms: sense: exhibiting elegance
word: classy
sense: exhibiting elegance
word: graceful
sense: exhibiting elegance
word: dressy
Derived terms: elegance
elegancy
elegant crested tinamou
elegantness
elegant parrot
elegant quail
elegant tit
elegant variation
hyperelegant
overelegant
piss-elegant
superelegant
swellegant
ultraelegant
unelegant
Related terms: elect
eligible
elite
elegant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.ɡənt/
Forms: form: elegants
Etymology: From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns.
Senses: examples: text: But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.
ref: 1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:
glosses: An elegant parrot.
elegance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns/
Forms: form: elegances
Etymology: From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).
Senses: examples: text: The bride was elegance personified.
glosses: Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
examples: text: The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
glosses: Restraint and grace of style.
examples: text: The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
glosses: The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
examples: text: As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
ref: 1852, Various, Young Americans Abroad:
text: At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
ref: 1881, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1:
text: Phineas Duge[…] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.
ref: 1909, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 10, in The Governors:
glosses: A refinement or luxury.
Derived terms: creeping elegance
elegancy
overelegance
piss-elegance
superelegance
Related terms: elegant
spiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪfɪŋ
Forms: form: more spiffing
form: most spiffing
Senses: examples: text: We're having a picnic at the races — how spiffing!
glosses: Very good, excellent.
examples: text: I say, that outfit is simply spiffing.
text: I have a lovely pair with a hair strip, grey. You'll look spiffing in them.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: 2007, "Spiffing new image", Times Online, London, 18 May (retrieved 14 June 2007),
Spiffing new image: ITV is developing an updated version of Spitting Image, with CGI graphics.
glosses: Smart or appealing in dress or appearance.
Synonyms: spiffy
spliffy
Derived terms: spiffingly
spiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spiff
earmuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earmuff
Senses: glosses: A headphone-like device designed to cover a person's ears for protection against cold or noise. They consist of a thermoplastic or metal head-band, that fits over the top of the head, and a pad at each end, to cover the external ears.
Related terms: earplug
myopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɒpɪk/
ipa: /maɪˈoʊpɪk/
ipa: /maɪˈɑpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more myopic
form: most myopic
Etymology: From myopia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Corrective lenses compensate for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye.
text: A stronger prescription for myopic night drivers is often needed.
text: She yanked the paper from her motherʼs hands, bringing it very close to her myopic eyes.
ref: 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 13:
antonyms: hyperopic
glosses: Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
examples: text: The real problem, he insists, is the myopic mentality that has failed to address climate change to date. The rich world’s indifference to the despoliation of the environment in pursuit of short-term economic gain is rooted in a wider problem.
ref: 2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: His postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: Shortsighted; improvident.
examples: text: Scientific advances can draw us outside of our myopic comfort zone.
text: Will you come testify in the court of myopic opinion / Or will you settle for oblivion?
ref: 2014, “Sacrastrophe”, performed by Slipknot:
glosses: Narrow-minded.
Synonyms: short-sighted
near-sighted
Derived terms: anisomyopic
isomyopic
myopically
nonmyopic
unmyopic
Related terms: myopia
myopic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɒpɪk/
ipa: /maɪˈoʊpɪk/
ipa: /maɪˈɑpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: myopics
Etymology: From myopia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The offbeat little girls of “Playdate,” whose mothers stumble through parenthood, are not the first characters to feel like cultural descendants of Salinger’s children, those savants, myopics, guileless nose pickers and practicing belchers who seem to glow on the page, highlighting the shallowness of the adults.
ref: 2008 March 23, Polly Morrice, “Descended From Salinger”, in New York Times:
glosses: A short-sighted individual.
Related terms: presbyopic