nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gruff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 16th century, from Dutch grof and/or Middle Low German grof (both “rough, coarse, rude”), from Old Dutch *grof or Old Saxon *grof, both from Proto-West Germanic *grob, from Proto-Germanic *grubaz (“coarse, rough”), possibly from an earlier *gahrubaz and then related with *hreubaz (“scabby, rough, scrubby”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian groaf (“rough, coarse, crude”), West Frisian grof (“rough, coarse, crude”), Low German groff (“rough, coarse, crude”), German grob (“rough, coarse, crude”), Swedish grov (“rough, coarse, crude”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌf/, /ɡɹɐf/, /ɡɹʊf/ 1. To speak gruffly. Example: “Who gave you that?” replied my father angrily. “Did you bribe someone?” “No,” I told him. “It was a gift, from some people who really want me to be on this trip.” “Fine,” he gruffed.
Word: gruff Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌf/, /ɡɹɐf/, /ɡɹʊf/ 1. Alternative spelling of grough (“gully in a moor”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where [...] the ordinary sportsman has to go "gruffing," as it is called, to game game, i. e., stealing up the "gruffs" or gullies and undulations in the ground, and trying all the clumps of long old twisted heather and broken bogs. […] the open places on the moor, and thus driving the birds forward to deep lying bogs and "gruffs" […] Example: They found Uttley's body on the bottom of the gruff.
Word: gruff Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps related to Dutch grof (“rough, coarse”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹʌf/, /ɡɹɐf/, /ɡɹʊf/ 1. Of goods: bulky. Labels: British, India Example: […] articles that usually compose the gruff cargoes of our outward bound shipping. Example: […] which by causing a great export of rice enhances the price of labour, and consequently of all other gruff, piece-goods and raw silk […]
Word: abask Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From a- + bask. Pronunciation: /əˈbæsk/, /əˈbɑːsk/ 1. In the sunshine; basking. Labels: not-comparable
Word: descend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English descenden (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to go from a better to a worse condition, decline, degenerate; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”), from Anglo-Norman descendere, descendre, and Old French descendere, descendre (“to move downwards, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant, derive from (a source); etc.”) (modern French descendre), and from their etymon Latin dēscendere, the present active infinitive of dēscendō (“to come or go down, fall, descend; to slope downwards; to be a descendant; etc.”), from de- (prefix meaning ‘from; down from’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump”)). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnd/, /dəˈsɛnd/, /diˈsɛnd/ 1. Synonym of descent (“instance of descending; sloping incline or passage; way down; decline, etc.”). Labels: archaic Example: [I]t ſhall be good if in your iourney you come to the deſcend of anye great Hil, to light from your Horſes backe, and to vvalke dovvne the hill a foote, […]
Word: blate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of: * Northern Middle English *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale, pallid”); * Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”). Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach. Pronunciation: /bleɪt/ 1. Bashful, sheepish. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine? 2. Dull, stupid. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland
Word: blate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bleɪt/ 1. Archaic form of bleat. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: Away they fly, like a party of Indians after buffaloes; while along the road, it may be, cattle are bellowing, sheep blating, dogs barking, hens cackling, and crows cawing.
Word: Bronze Star Part of Speech: noun 1. A USAF individual military decoration, the fourth-highest award for bravery, heroism or meritorious service. Example: His war story was at a very exciting point. An officer was congratulating the Three Musketeers, telling them that he was going to put them in for Bronze Stars.
Word: pound the pavement Part of Speech: verb 1. To travel on foot; to walk or run. Labels: idiomatic Example: The joggers pounded the pavement for several miles each day. 2. To campaign diligently; to seek something, such as business, employment, or answers. Labels: idiomatic Example: After a brief and unsuccessful search, he decided it was time to start pounding the pavement.
Word: re-dye Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of redye. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: battering ram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The heads of some battering rams were carved in the shape of a ram, an animal renowned for butting with its head. 1. A heavy object used for battering down walls and gates or a siege engine that includes such an object. Labels: historical 2. A modern device, usually in the form of a metal bar with handles, chiefly used by police and firefighters to force open locked doors. 3. Something which acts as a powerful tool against something. Labels: figuratively Example: And in the edition of their party newspaper released last week, [the Tories] pledged to Manitobans that they would continue their battering ram approach this time around. Example: That was expected, I suppose, because during the Trump era, the GOP was a battering ram against truth and reality.
Word: BOFH Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of bastard operator from hell. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
Word: incisive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Late Middle English (in the sense “cutting, penetrating”), borrowed from Medieval Latin incīsīvus, from incīdō (“to cut in, cut through”) + -īvus (“-ive”, adjectival suffix). Compare Middle French incisif. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/ 1. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process) 2. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process) 3. Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action) Example: An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence. Example: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive. 4. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant. Example: An incisive, high voice. Example: And her incisive smile accrediting / That treason of false witness in my blush. 5. Of or relating to the incisors. Labels: relational Example: the incisive bones, the premaxillaries
Word: bawling out Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bawl out Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: buckle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English bokel (“spiked metal ring for fastening; ornamental clasp; boss of a shield; a shield, buckler; (figurative) means of defence”) [and other forms], from Old French boucle, bocle (“spiked metal ring for fastening; boss of a shield; a shield”) [and other forms], from Latin buccula (“cheek strap of a helmet; boss of a shield”) (from bucca (“soft part of the cheek”)). Noun etymology 1, noun sense 2 (“great conflict or struggle”) is probably derived from verb etymology 1, verb sense 1.2.1 (“to apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work”). The verb is derived from Middle English bokelen, bukelen (“to fasten (something) with a buckle or clasp; to fasten, make fast; to wrap; to arch the body”) [and other forms], from bokel (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). In verb etymology 1, verb sense 1.2.1, the sense “to apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work” was derived from the now obsolete sense “to equip (oneself) for a battle, etc.”, and originally alluded to armour being buckled on to the body. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkəl/, [ˈbʌkɫ̩] 1. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else. Example: Svveet Hellen I muſt vvoe you, / To helpe vn-arme our Hector: his ſtubborne bucles / VVith this your vvhite enchaunting fingers touch; / Shall more obey then to the edge of ſteele, / Or force of Greekiſh ſinevves: […] Example: Tongue of my shoe-buckle broke. […] Bought a new head to my cane, and a tongue to my buckle. Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite. 2. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else. Labels: broadly Example: He must be forging the buckle-screw, sir, now. […] Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack. 3. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else. Labels: Canada 4. A great conflict or struggle.
Word: buckle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably from Middle English bukklen, bokelen (“to arch the body”), from Middle French boucler (“to bulge”, literally “to take the shape of a shield boss”), perhaps from the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1 above, or perhaps related to Middle Low German bockelen (“to bang out curves in metal”), German buckeln (“to bend over, hunch”). In some senses, possibly from buck (“to bend, yield, buckle”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkəl/, [ˈbʌkɫ̩] 1. To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted. Labels: transitive Example: [R]eaſon doth buckle and bovve the Mind vnto the Nature of things. Example: Throw all their ſcandalous malice upon me? / 'Cauſe I am poor, deform'd and ignorant, / And like a Bow buckl'd and bent together, / By ſome more ſtrong in miſchiefs then my ſelf? 2. To curl (hair). Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure. Labels: intransitive Example: And as the vvretch vvhoſe feuer-vveakned ioynts, / Like ſtrengthleſſe hinges buckle vnder life, / […] euen ſo my limbes, / VVeakened vvith griefe, being novv enragde vvith griefe, / Are thrice themſelues: […] Example: And thus by placing Collers vvhere ever they find the VVork buckle, they (as aforeſaid) vvith Sharp Tools, tender touches, ſomevvhat a looſe and fine String, vveak Bovv, and great care and diligence vvork the vvhole Cilinder dovvn as ſmall as they liſt, either vvith Moldings or other VVork upon it, as beſt likes them. 4. Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work. Example: Mr. Gray did tell me to-night, for certain, that the Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle; and that one man in this Kingdom did tell the King that he is offered £40,000 to make a peace, and others have been offered money also.
Word: buckle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably from Middle English bukklen, bokelen (“to arch the body”), from Middle French boucler (“to bulge”, literally “to take the shape of a shield boss”), perhaps from the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1 above, or perhaps related to Middle Low German bockelen (“to bang out curves in metal”), German buckeln (“to bend over, hunch”). In some senses, possibly from buck (“to bend, yield, buckle”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkəl/, [ˈbʌkɫ̩] 1. A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink. Labels: countable Example: We can’t use that saw any more. It’s got a buckle in its blade. 2. A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping. Labels: Canada, US, countable 4. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also (countable, uncountable), the state of hair being curled in this manner. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: The greatest beau at our next county sessions was dressed in a most monstrous flaxen periwig, that was made in king William's reign. The wearer of it goes, it seems, in his own hair when he is at home, and lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year, that he may put it on upon occasion to meet the judges in it. Example: For vvhat's a VVoman, vvhen her Virtue's gone? / A Coat vvithout its Lace; VVig out of Buckle; / A Stocking vvith a Hole in't.
Word: buckle up Part of Speech: verb 1. To fasten with a buckle. Labels: transitive Example: It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers. 2. To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too. 3. To get ready, to prepare oneself. Labels: broadly, idiomatic, imperative, intransitive, usually Example: So buckle up for what's coming, readers!
Word: weltschmerz Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Weltschmerz. Labels: alt-of, uncountable Example: [Henry] Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Example: The country was fat with peacetime prosperity, but lots of people were afflicted with a postwar funk called weltschmerz. They were depressed by what they'd seen of the "civilized" world. Soon whole bunches of people in their 20s and 30s moved to ski towns, checking out of the mainstream altogether. Their goal was no more lofty than having the freedom to spend day after endless day in a peaceful bubble, close to nature and on snow-covered slopes. Here was the weltschmerz antidote—and the birth of the parallel universe.
Word: muckle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌkəl/ 1. A great amount. Labels: Scotland
Word: muckle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌkəl/ 1. Large, massive. Labels: Scotland, archaic, outside-Northumbria Example: She clorts a muckle piece [sandwich] tae me, wi' different kinds o' jam, 2. Much. Labels: Scotland, archaic, outside-Northumbria Example: But long they waited, and longer still, / With doubt and muckle pain, / But woe were the hearts of his brethren, / For he came not back again.
Word: muckle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mukel, muchel, from the same source as (perhaps a variant of) mickle. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌkəl/ 1. To latch onto something with the mouth. Labels: Maine Example: And how'd she get such a holt on you, Terence Campion, let alone the way she's muckled onto those Bennetts? Example: Another technique for the baby who is having trouble muckling on involves a breast or nipple shield. 2. To talk big; to exaggerate. Labels: rare Example: I told him all, / Both bad and good; / I bade him call — / He said he would: / I added much — the more I muckled, / The more that chuckling chummy chuckled!
Word: muckle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmʌkəl/ 1. A maul or hammer. Example: Then the caplin moved off, and five minutes later there was no sound except the splash of the sinkers overside, the flapping of the cod, and the whack of the muckles as the men stunned them.
Word: carry off Part of Speech: verb 1. To transport away. Labels: transitive Example: I need a truck to carry off all this furniture. 2. To steal or kidnap Labels: transitive Example: Bandits carried off most of the money. Example: In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude. 3. To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: The actress carried off a difficult performance with dash. Example: He is carrying off his act, convincing them he was a nuclear scientist. 4. To achieve (something); to succeed at (something). Labels: transitive Example: Despite a slow start in the race, he carried it off in the end. Example: We didn't think they'd finish by the deadline, but they carried it off. 5. To cause the death of. Labels: transitive Example: Malaria carried off many people. Example: I was now entering on my fifteenth year, when the worſt of ills befell me in the loſs of my tender fond parents, who were both carried off by the smallpox, within a few days of each other; […]. 6. To win (a prize, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: After a closely-fought match, Oxford carried off the trophy.
Word: cheatsheet Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of cheat sheet. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: java Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.və/ 1. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Coffee in general. Labels: US, colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: 45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.
Word: java Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French java. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.və/ 1. A dance popular in France in the early 20th century. Example: The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.
Word: cut-and-dried Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cut and dried. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: maler Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of male: more male Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: uncinate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin uncīnātus, from uncīnus (“hook, barb”). 1. Hooked at the end. Labels: not-comparable 2. Hooked in form; possessing a hook. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Crystal Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from English. Example: "Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean." Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […] Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was. Example: "No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?" "Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said. "Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?" 2. A surname. Example: In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them. 3. A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado. 4. A town in Maine. 5. A city in Minnesota. 6. A census-designated place in New Mexico. 7. A city and town in North Dakota. 8. A town in Wisconsin.
Word: meister Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Meister (“master, highly skilled tradesman; champion”), from Old High German meistar, from Latin magister, whence also English master, mister, magister, and maestro, making all these words doublets of each other. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪ̯stə(r)/ 1. A person of great skill or authority in a particular field. Example: The designated leaders so far include superstars like Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, and Eric Lander, genome meister.
Word: menschen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mensch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mensches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mensch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sneck-bend Part of Speech: noun 1. A hook-shaped bend in a river, road etc.
Word: sneck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snek, sneke, snekke, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots sneck. Possibly from Old English *snecce, from Proto-West Germanic *snakikā, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snak- (“to blow; sniff; nibble”) and thus related to English snatch. Pronunciation: /snɛk/ 1. A latch or catch. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: Lydia jerked about with the blind, fixing it first in one little sneck and then another, finally pulling it right to the bottom and pressing the button into the little brass hole. Example: The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine. 2. The nose. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 3. A cut.
Word: sneck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snek, sneke, snekke, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots sneck. Possibly from Old English *snecce, from Proto-West Germanic *snakikā, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snak- (“to blow; sniff; nibble”) and thus related to English snatch. Pronunciation: /snɛk/ 1. To latch, to lock. Labels: transitive 2. To cut. Labels: transitive
Word: nase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Nase. 1. Any of the genus Chondrostoma of freshwater potamodromous fishes. Example: […] “With respect to fishes,” says Professor Rütimeyer, “many species were found which are now the most abundant in our lakes and rivers.” The following are mentioned:— The salmon (Salmo salar, Lin.), the pike (Esox lucius. Lin.), the perch (Perca fluviatilis, Lin.), the carp (Cyprinus carpio, Lin.), the dace (Cyprinus leuciscus, Lin.), the chub (Cyprinus dobula, Nilss.), the nase (Chondrostoma nasus, [Lin.] Agass.), the burbot (Lita vulgaris, Jen.), and the rud (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, [Lin.] Bon.).
Word: nase Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare form of naze. Labels: form-of, rare Example: Alton Park, near the sea, was the Park made by Richard de Belmeis, Bishop of London, and he enclosed with it the wood then belonging to the Canons of St. Paul, and called [it] "Edulvesnase""—so that there was evidently a "nase" or promontory on this spot. Example: The upper and Lower Nases, two promontories nearly dividing the lake, beyond which […]
Word: sneck lifter Part of Speech: noun 1. One who goes from door to door, first footing, on New Year's Eve. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A burglar. Labels: UK, dialectal 3. A ghost. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: whisht Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English qwyst, whisht, whist, imitative, though perhaps influenced by other verbs in wh- used in the imperative or by hust (adjective). 1. Shush, silence, be quiet! Labels: Ireland, Northumbria, Scotland, UK, especially Example: “You must have loved him very much,” she said. “Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […]” 2. A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.
Word: rinde Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of rind. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: showbusiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of show + business. Pronunciation: /ˈʃoʊˌbɪznɪs/ 1. The entertainment industry. Labels: uncountable
Word: squits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squits Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely a portmanteau of squirt and shit. 1. diarrhoea. Labels: UK, colloquial, plural, plural-only Example: ‘Caroline Graham said you couldn’t make it back upstairs. She laid it on as thick as anything for Gibson―said you’d been taken by surprise by something. Now word’s gone round you’ve got the squits.’
Word: tamper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tamp + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/ 1. A person or thing that tamps. 2. A person or thing that tamps. 3. A person or thing that tamps.
Word: tamper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French temprer (“to temper, mix, meddle”). Doublet of temper. Pronunciation: /ˈtæm.pə(ɹ)/ 1. To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something). Labels: intransitive Example: tamper detection Example: The alarm had been tampered with and didn’t go off when it should have. 2. To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone). Labels: intransitive Example: Prosecutors argued that he would tamper with witnesses if bail was granted. Example: […] no man knowes whether a Wife and a Mother, which had such a latitude of power over the Father and the Sonne, would not be tampering with a Prince (even in the point of Religion) of so tender years as rendred him fit for any impression, and to be indoctrinated with such principles as well concerning Religion, as others best suitable to her own designes. 3. To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it. Labels: dated Example: […] No Art used to inflame him, no Coquetry practised to tempt or intice him, and no Prudery or Affectation to tamper with his Passions; but, on the contrary, artless and unpractised in the Wiles of the World, all her Endeavours, and even all her Wishes, tended only to render herself as un-amiable as she could in his Eyes: Example: She therefore dissuaded Julia from attempting to tamper with the honesty of a servant who had the keys of the vaults […] 4. To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.). Labels: obsolete Example: 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-holder, No. 31, 6 April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, p. 180, […] he was beheaded upon the Defeat of the Conspiracy for having but thus far tampered in it. 5. To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications. Labels: obsolete Example: Certainly it is a scurvy strong troublesom purge, therefore ill to be tamperd with by the unskilful […] Example: […] Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting People to come to them for Remedies; 6. To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules. Labels: Canada, US
Word: capsule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæps(ə)l/, /ˈkæpsjuːl/, /ˈkæpʃuːl/ 1. A membranous envelope. 2. A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton. 3. A sporangium, especially in bryophytes. Example: The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp. 4. A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver 5. A membrane that surrounds the eyeball 6. A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space. 7. A small container containing a dose of medicine. 8. in a brief, condensed or compact form Labels: attributive, figuratively Example: If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. 9. The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle. 10. A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier. Labels: dated 11. A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain. 12. A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc. 13. One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
Word: capsule Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæps(ə)l/, /ˈkæpsjuːl/, /ˈkæpʃuːl/ 1. To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules. Labels: transitive 2. To encapsulate or summarize. Labels: transitive
Word: membranous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French membraneux; equivalent to membrane + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛm.bɹən.əs/ 1. Having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a membrane. 2. Accompanying the formation of a usually abnormal membrane or membranous layer. 3. Thin, pliable, and often transparent. Example: The microcannon starts with a membranous polymer film.
Word: brigade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-der. Proto-Germanic *brekanąder.? Italian briga Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Italian -are Italian brigare ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -āta Italian -ata Italian brigatabor. Middle French brigade French brigadebor. English brigade Borrowed from French brigade. Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/ 1. A group of people organized for a common purpose. Example: a work brigade; a fire brigade 2. A military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service. 3. A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic. Labels: derogatory Example: More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade! Example: I wouldn't even want to be seen dead with those nerds of the bowl-cut brigade. 4. Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community. Labels: Internet Example: We've definitely seen an increase in abusive content since certain areas began COVID lockdowns and stay home orders, we suspect because of the growth of people having time to waste doing these sorts of brigades.
Word: brigade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-der. Proto-Germanic *brekanąder.? Italian briga Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Italian -are Italian brigare ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -āta Italian -ata Italian brigatabor. Middle French brigade French brigadebor. English brigade Borrowed from French brigade. Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/ 1. To form or unite into a brigade; to group together. Example: This is, however, a classic case where speech is brigaded with action. 2. To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner. Labels: Internet
Word: supervolcano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- Cretan Ancient Greek Ϝέλχανος (Wélkhanos)der.? Latin Vulcānusbor. Italian Vulcano Italian vulcanobor. English volcano English supervolcano From super- + volcano. 1. A powerful volcano, often having an explosive or cataclysmic eruption. Example: Mosaic of Olympus Mons on Mars. The supervolcano is nearly 600 kilometers wide at the base and 25 kilometers high and is capped by a crater 65 kilometers in diameter. It is about five times larger than the most massive volcanic cone on earth, Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Example: The stone went dark, and instantly the supervolcano burst with an unthinkable blast. A miles-deep plug of dark and hot earth flew upward, followed by a tremendous expanding cloud. Swirling, dense substance spread and thickened [...]
Word: shell out Part of Speech: verb 1. To pay money, to disburse; especially, to pay a great deal of money. Labels: ambitransitive, informal Example: Do you think we should shell out for the extra options package? Example: TAXPAYERS are shelling out more than €2m annually to pay for the salaries of 10 high-profile CEOs employed in commercial semi-state bodies. 2. To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell. Labels: Unix, especially
Word: shell out Part of Speech: noun 1. A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: I have more than once had to lend a commercial money to pay his fare home; as he had played shell-out and lost the lot.
Word: affirm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”). By surface analysis, af- + firm. Pronunciation: /əˈfɝm/, /əˈfɜːm/ 1. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively. Example: She affirmed that she would go when I asked her. 2. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true. Example: Jesus, […] whom Paul affirmed to be alive Example: However, as anyone who knew Adrian Shooter would affirm, he very rarely took no for an answer. 3. To support or encourage. Example: gender-affirming; trans-affirming Example: They did everything they could to affirm the children's self-confidence. 4. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review. 5. To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
Word: affirm Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”). By surface analysis, af- + firm. Pronunciation: /əˈfɝm/, /əˈfɜːm/ 1. Yes; true; correct.
Word: affirmative action Part of Speech: noun 1. A set of policies or programs providing advantages for people of a group who are seen to have traditionally been the target of discrimination. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Several proponents of affirmative action who were interviewed cited the scandal to dismiss the notion, advanced by some opponents of the policy, that America has moved beyond racial discrimination. Example: California's decision in 1996 to outlaw the use of race in public college admissions was widely viewed as the beginning of the end for affirmative action at public universities all over the United States. But in the four years since Californians passed Proposition 209, most states have agreed that killing affirmative action outright would deepen social inequality by denying minority citizens access to higher education. 2. A specific policy with such a goal. Labels: countable, usually Example: The debate on specific affirmative actions has similarly been reduced to mean quotas and preferential treatment of minorities and white women at the expense of white males.
Word: Cambyses Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καμβῡ́σης (Kambū́sēs). 1. An Old Persian male given name, particularly borne by Achaemenid kings of Persia.
Word: in the works Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Being planned or worked upon. Labels: idiomatic Example: They always have some wonderful new project in the works. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: In a mechanism or machine. Example: Be careful not to get any debris in the works.
Word: jiggle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jig + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/ 1. A relatively weak shaking movement. Example: Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens. 2. Titillating depictions of scantily-clad female bodies in motion, especially in action media genres. Example: […]Rollergirls, a situation comedy about an all-female roller derby team with a lecher- ous male manager. As the women, dressed in sports hot-pants, crashed into each other in the playing arena, the opportunities for jiggle were endless. Example: For all the talk that the show's success was based on "jiggle,” [Charlie's] Angels had a huge female viewership.
Word: jiggle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jig + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/ 1. To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle. Labels: transitive Example: Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops. Example: A hooker named Suzibelle Hickins // Found London and Cambridge fine pickin’s // She would jiggle her titties // As the tail of two cities, // That dirty and hot little Dickens! 2. To shake, rattle, or wiggle. Labels: intransitive Example: The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.
Word: cambio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese cambio. 1. bureau de change; currency exchange Labels: Guyana
Word: cold case Part of Speech: noun 1. A criminal investigation that has not been solved after a considerable time but remains on the books and may be reopened when new evidence appears. Example: ‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’ 2. A refrigerated display case used for selling items that are kept cold. Labels: literally Example: We'd each grab a twenty-ounce Coke from the cold case, and at the end of the movie, Kate would still have a nearly full bottle.
Word: refresher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From refresh + -er. Pronunciation: /ɹiˈfɹɛʃə/, /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃɚ/ 1. Something that refreshes. Example: The nap was a welcome refresher. Example: It said the refreshers, targeting Gen Z and Millennials, are punched up by adding Starbucks’ spicy chili powder blend to the concoctions. 2. A review to refresh or renew knowledge. Example: They recommend a refresher class every few years. Example: Zoë [Kravitz] posts a rare pic of the couple on Instagram alongside the caption, “#BLINKTWICE in theaters august 23rd 🌴.” A lil refresher that Blink Twice is the actor’s highly anticipated upcoming directorial debut, which was renamed after initially being called Pussy Island. The more you know! 3. A fee paid to counsel to continue with a case, especially one that was adjourned. 4. An equity grant given by a company to an existing employee, as opposed to an initial grant given to new employees.
Word: hand-waving Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hand waving. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: So when we're discussing thought and conscious processes, talking about minds is precise, and even measurable (what else do public opinion pollsters do?) while talking about brains is just hand-waving.
Word: hand-waving Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of handwaving. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: For years much of this has been explained with hand-waving references to body types and metabolism—broadly accurate, but cold comfort to the estimated 61% of Americans who are overweight or obese and want to have their weight controlled, not merely explained. Example: You, me and everything in the universe are holograms. This may seem very vague and hand-waving. However, in 1998, the Argentinean-American physicist Juan Maldacena published a paper that shored up the idea that we live in a ‘holographic universe’ and set the world of physics alight.
Word: hand-waving Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hand-wave Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: collegiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”). Pronunciation: /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/ 1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students. Example: In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football. 2. Collegial. 3. Of or relating to a collegium. Labels: historical Example: To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.
Word: collegiate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”). Pronunciation: /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/, /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/ 1. A high school. Labels: Canada 2. A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education. Labels: obsolete 3. A fellow-collegian; a colleague. Labels: obsolete Example: those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […]. 4. An inmate of a prison. Labels: slang 5. Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: heels Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hiːlz/ 1. plural of heel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heels Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hiːlz/ 1. High-heeled shoes. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: She wore a short skirt and heels. Example: I'm taller than you when I don't wear heels.
Word: Head Start Part of Speech: name 1. In the United States, a government-funded preschool program for impoverished children. Labels: US Example: And what do you do about homelessness in Los Angeles? These are hard questions. We can’t even make Head Start work, despite many billions and a lot of well-meaning people spending their lives on it.
Word: heads-up Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌhɛdzˈʌp/ 1. A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler. Labels: US, idiomatic Example: Send everyone a heads-up about the inspection tomorrow. 2. Involving two players. (usually said when there are only two players in the table; or, when all players except two folded) Example: There were only two of us, so we started playing heads-up. Example: There are seven players on the table. Five folded, the remaining two played heads-up until the showdown.
Word: heads-up Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌhɛdzˈʌp/ 1. With head directly above the neck, eyes front. Example: A heads-up posture meant the pilot couldn't pay attention to his instruments. 2. Alert; vigilant Example: Getting those marbles off the red carpet was a real heads-up move.
Word: insolvable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in- + solvable. Piecewise doublet of insoluble and unsolvable. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɒlvəbəl/ 1. Impossible to solve; insoluble. Example: insolvable difficulties 2. Incapable of being paid or discharged. Example: an insolvable debt 3. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. Example: Bands insolvable.
Word: lacrimal bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The smallest and most fragile bone of the face, situated near the eye.
Word: lachrymal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lachrymālis, from lachryma (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lacrimal. Pronunciation: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/, /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/, /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/ 1. Connected with weeping or tears. Labels: formal, literary, not-comparable 2. Alternative spelling of lacrimal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: lachrymal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lachrymālis, from lachryma (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lacrimal. Pronunciation: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/, /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/, /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/ 1. A lachrymatory (vase intended for collecting tears). 2. Lachrymal feelings or organs. Labels: humorous, in-plural Example: It is truly melancholy to see so many minds employed in catering for the risibles and lachrymals of weak men and silly women 3. Alternative spelling of lacrimal. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: palatine bone Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.
Word: lacrimal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacrimālis, from lacrima (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lachrymal. Pronunciation: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/, /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/, /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/ 1. Of or relating to tears or the tear-secreting organs. Labels: not-comparable 2. Alternative spelling of lachrymal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: lacrimal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacrimālis, from lacrima (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lachrymal. Pronunciation: /ˈlak.ɹɪm.əl/, /ˈlak.ɹɪm.l̩/, /ˈlæk.ɹəm.əl/ 1. Ellipsis of lacrimal bone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. Ellipsis of lacrimal vase. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: snow angel Part of Speech: noun 1. A design made in fresh snow by lying on one's back and moving the arms up and down and the legs from side to side.
Word: palatine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin. Pronunciation: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/, /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/, /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/, /ˈpæl.əˌtin/ 1. (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. Labels: historical, not-comparable, postpositional, usually 2. (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. Labels: historical, not-comparable, postpositional, usually 3. Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional, usually 4. Synonym of palatial. Labels: not-comparable, postpositional, usually
Word: palatine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin. Pronunciation: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/, /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/, /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/, /ˈpæl.əˌtin/ 1. Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, postpositional, usually 2. A palace official, especially in an imperial palace. Labels: postpositional, usually 3. Ellipsis of county palatine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, historical, postpositional, usually 4. The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace. Labels: historical, in-plural, postpositional, usually
Word: palatine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French palatine, named after German Princess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652–1722). Pronunciation: /ˈpæl.ə.taɪn/, /ˈpæl.ə.tɪn/, /ˈpæl.əˌtaɪn/, /ˈpæl.əˌtin/ 1. A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders. Labels: historical, postpositional, usually