nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: perspectivism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English perspective Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English perspectivism From perspective + -ism. 1. The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: peregrination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English peregrinacioun, peregrinacion (“journey; pilgrimage; (figuratively) human journey through life”), from Anglo-Norman peregrinaciun (“human journey through life”), peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”), and Old French peregrinacion, peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”) (modern French pérégrination), and from their etymon Latin peregrīnātiō (“overseas sojourn or travel; (Late Latin) pilgrimage; sojourn; human journey through life”), from peregrīnātus (“living or travelling overseas”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns). Peregrīnātus is the perfect passive participle of peregrīnor (“to live or travel overseas; to be overseas; to roam, rove; to be a stranger”), from peregrīnus (“alien, foreign; exotic”) (from peregrē̆ (“abroad; from abroad; heading abroad”) + -īnus (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’)) + -or (suffix forming first-person singular present passive indicative verbs). Pronunciation: /ˌpɛɹɪɡɹɪˈneɪʃn̩/, /ˌpɛɹəɡɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈpɛ-/ 1. A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife. Labels: archaic, countable Example: It is true our life in this vvorld is not called a baniſhment any vvhere in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he vvas aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man. 2. A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages. Labels: archaic, broadly, countable Example: According to the mode of that time, he [Cnut the Great] made a pilgrimage to Rome, with a view to expiate the crimes, which paved his way to the throne; but he made a good use of this peregrination, and returned full of the observations he had made in the country, through which he had passed, which he turned to the benefit of his extensive dominions. 3. A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling. Labels: broadly, countable Example: By what I have touch’d in the Chapter of the Elms, concerning the peregrination of that Tree into Spain (where even in Plinie’s time there were none, and where now they are in great abundance) why ſhould we not more generally endeavour to propagate the Ilex amongſt us; […] Example: [O]ur linguist having received such extraordinary rudiments towards a good education, was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a gentleman; wearing off by little and little all the vicious habits and practices that he had been used to in the course of his peregrinations. 4. Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse. Labels: broadly, figuratively, uncountable 5. Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this. Labels: broadly, figuratively, uncountable 6. The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn. Labels: broadly, obsolete, uncountable
Word: wedgie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wedge + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛdʒ.i/ 1. A wedge-heeled shoe. Labels: colloquial Example: Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk. 2. A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks. Labels: slang Example: If the strippers learn that there is a bachelor party, they will often call the groom onstage and publicly embarrass him. They may tie him up, whip him, tease him, give him a wedgie, cover him in whipped cream, beat his ass with a belt, put a dog collar on him, walk him around the stage like a dog, and/or humiliate him with whatever objects are at their disposal. Example: When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie. 3. A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks. Labels: slang Example: I thought, maybe she had an uncomfortable wedgie or something and was trying to work that out. I looked away thinking how embarrassing it must be especially with people staring. 4. A basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt. Labels: slang 5. A wedge-tailed eagle. Labels: Australia Example: The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white. Example: Well over a century later the ‘wedgie’ continues to be persecuted, with some rural Tasmanians taking a gun to it when they can.
Word: wedgie Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wedge + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛdʒ.i/ 1. To play the wedgie prank on. Labels: slang Example: Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.
Word: mai Part of Speech: det Etymology: Orthographic borrowing from the romanized form of Japanese マイ (mai), in turn a borrowing from English my, which it is treated as an alternate form of. Pronunciation: /maɪ/ 1. Alternative form of my. Labels: Internet, alt-of, alternative, slang Example: mai waifu Example: mai husbando
Word: stalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stalling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of a person or thing that stalls. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: repeated stallings of the car engine 2. Stabling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But hire us some fair chamber for the night, / And stalling for the horses, and return / With victual for these men, and let us know.
Word: partay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of party. Pronunciation: /ˌpɑɹˈteɪ/, [ˌpʰɑɹˈtʰeɪ̯] 1. A party (organised gathering of people for dancing and having fun). Labels: slang
Word: partay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of party. Pronunciation: /ˌpɑɹˈteɪ/, [ˌpʰɑɹˈtʰeɪ̯] 1. To party (have a party, enjoy oneself). Labels: slang
Word: ASIC Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sɪk/ 1. Acronym of application-specific integrated circuit. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: ASIC Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.sɪk/ 1. A computer programming language related to BASIC.
Word: brimstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪmstəʊn/, /ˈbɹɪmstoʊn/, /ˈbɹɪmstən/ 1. The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew. Example: And thus I sawe the horses in the vision, and them that sate on them, hauing brest-plates of fire and of Iacinct, and brimstone, & the heades of the horses were as the heads of Lions, and out of their mouthes issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone. 2. Sulfur. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats. Example: Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them. 3. A whore. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: I went to the park, picked up a low Brimstone, called myself a Barber, & agreed with her for Sixpence, went to the bottom of the park, arm in arm, & dipped my machine in the Canal […]. 4. Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine! Example: You're a brimstone idiot. 5. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A brimstone butterfly flirted among the purple shadows under the palms. 6. Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable
Word: claree Part of Speech: noun 1. A drink made of wine, honey, and spices. Labels: archaic Example: I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal. Example: At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree.
Word: paddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”). Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδόν (pēdón, “the blade of an oar; an oar”). Pronunciation: /ˈpædl̩/, [ˈpʰæ.ɾɫ̩] 1. To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc. Labels: transitive Example: as the Men were Paddling for their Lives Example: while paddling ducks the standing lake desire 2. To row a boat with less than one's full capacity. Labels: intransitive 3. To spank with a paddle. Labels: transitive Example: Do you think we'll get paddled? They can't paddle me! I'm a girl!! 4. To pat or stroke amorously or gently. Example: to be paddling palms and pinching fingers. 5. To tread upon; to trample.
Word: paddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln (“to tramp about”), frequentative form of padjen (“to tramp, run in short steps”), from pad (also in Dutch dialects). Compare also Saterland Frisian paddelje (“to paddle”). Pronunciation: /ˈpædl̩/, [ˈpʰæ.ɾɫ̩] 1. To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside. Labels: UK, intransitive 2. To dog paddle in water. Labels: intransitive 3. To toddle. Labels: intransitive Example: […] little feet paddling round and about a man's bed and following wherever he went. 4. To toy or caress using hands or fingers. Labels: archaic, intransitive
Word: Phillips screwdriver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Henry F. Phillips, the name of the inventor of the tool and the screws that it is designed to work with, and screwdriver. 1. A screwdriver having a cross-shaped tip.
Word: Christocentric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Christo- Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der. English -centric English Christocentric From Christo- + -centric. 1. Concentrating on the teaching of Jesus Christ. Example: De Profundis is full of religiosity, whether it be Christocentric aesthetics, moral injunction, or just the usual self-castigation/reformation stuff of the Born Again variety.
Word: glottogony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glotto- + -gony. Pronunciation: /ɡlɒˈtɒɡəni/, /ɡləˈtɒɡəni/ 1. The genesis of language, i. e. the emergence of a system of verbal communication from proto-linguistic or non-linguistic means of communication. Labels: uncountable 2. The study of language origins. Labels: uncountable Example: The origin of words is a question that now falls within the chapter of “glottogony”, resurrected after decades of inactivity. There are now quite a few glottogonic theories, some of which are also concerned with the origin of words as, for example, the one that argues that original words are connected with phonosymbolism, […] Example: The topic of glottogony has long been a taboo in linguistics, for the very good reason that it attracts boundless speculation: when Darwinism was freshly en vogue in the 1860s, linguistic debate was inundated with such proposals to the point where, in 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris banned the entire topic as a hopeless exercise […]
Word: bombshell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bomb + shell. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑmʃɛl/, /ˈbɒmʃɛl/ 1. Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode. Labels: historical 2. Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational. Labels: figuratively Example: "This—this is a bombshell!" exclaimed the Colonel. "What does it mean?" "Politics," replied Carrados tersely. Example: Singer and Jeffreys had focused their attention on cancer risk, but the bombshell of the report was the danger to children. 3. Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol. Labels: broadly Example: Diana Dors, the 1950s blonde bombshell Example: The singer once identified by her shock of green hair has gone blonde and full bombshell, swapping her trademark sweats for a style more domme than deb: pink Gucci corset and skirt over Agent Provocateur skivvies, accessorized with latex gloves and leggings.
Word: viral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weys- Proto-Indo-European *wisós Proto-Italic *weizos Latin vīrusbor. Middle English virus English virus English -al English viral From virus + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪɹəl/ 1. Of or relating to a biological virus. Labels: not-comparable Example: viral DNA 2. Caused by a virus. Labels: not-comparable Example: viral infection 3. Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers. Labels: not-comparable 4. Spread by word of mouth with minimal intervention, in order to create buzz and interest. Labels: not-comparable Example: “Efficient way to disseminate information? I don't think.” “But it is,” Cayce insists. “The model's viral. ‘Deep niche.’ The venues would be carefully selected—” Example: Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation. 5. Circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another. Labels: not-comparable Example: With some minutes to kill, he checks the headlines on his phone. Yet again, something dreadful and new which he doesn't understand is going viral. Today's fad is, you paint a black vertical rectangle on the wall, or on a mirror, or over the top of a picture. And then you chant something. Example: The end game of that is the GoFundMe link posted beneath a viral tweet so they can pay for their health care. Being an influencer sounds fun until it’s ‘keep producing viral content to literally stay alive.’
Word: viral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weys- Proto-Indo-European *wisós Proto-Italic *weizos Latin vīrusbor. Middle English virus English virus English -al English viral From virus + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪɹəl/ 1. A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes. Example: 2002, Nik Lever, Flash Mx Games: ActionScript for Artists, Focal Press, page 411, Using the Flash ActiveX control in this way allows you as a developer to create desktop characters, email virals and screensavers. Example: 2003, Dave Chaffey, Total E-Mail Marketing, Elsevier, page 2, [M]ost virals are not seen as profiling and data collection exercises, since that would kill the impulse of forwarding to a friend.
Word: caustic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin causticus (“burning”), from Ancient Greek καυστικός (kaustikós, “burning”), from καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) + -ικός (-ikós). Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːstɪk/, /ˈkɒstɪk/ 1. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue. 2. Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way. Labels: usually Example: "How now!" said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever. Example: The bargain was not concluded as easily as might have been expected though, for Scadder was caustic and ill-humoured, and cast much unnecessary opposition in the way
Word: caustic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin causticus (“burning”), from Ancient Greek καυστικός (kaustikós, “burning”), from καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) + -ικός (-ikós). Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːstɪk/, /ˈkɒstɪk/ 1. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate). 2. The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Caustic soda. Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: crack rock Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of crack cocaine.
Word: crack cocaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So named due to the crackling sound of the pieces when it is smoked. 1. A mixture of baking soda and cocaine in solid form that is smoked in a pipe as a narcotic. Labels: uncountable 2. A mixture of salt substitute, ether, and cocaine in a semi-liquid form, which is far more potent than if made with baking soda alone. Labels: uncountable
Word: caustic curve Part of Speech: noun 1. A curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. Example: Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.
Word: caustic surface Part of Speech: noun 1. A surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Example: Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.
Word: strict-sense stationary Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a random process X(t), having characteristics that do not change as t varies. Labels: not-comparable
Word: glute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of gluteus. Pronunciation: /ɡluːt/ 1. A gluteal muscle. Labels: colloquial Example: The hamstrings also get worked in a number of quad and glute moves.
Word: smoothie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English smōþ Middle English smothe Proto-West Germanic *smanþī Old English smēþe Middle English smethe English smooth English -ie English smoothie From smooth + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈsmuːði/ 1. A smooth-talking person. Example: True to their reputations, Paul was a smoothie who put a public relations gloss on everything he said, and John was abrasive and sarcastic, speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may. 2. A drink made from whole fruit, thus thicker than fruit juice. Example: Sometimes he brings her smoothies from his favourite place on Judd Street. He has a weakness for these glutinous confections that are supposed to extend his life. 3. A blending of different things, a mishmash Labels: figuratively Example: He shook his head and cleared the pentup anger and sadness that mixed his mind into a smoothie of emotions he bottled up inside, then scolded himself for allowing the outburst. 4. A member of the mod subculture who is relatively non-violent and wears expensive clothing. Example: 1987, John Irwin (quoting Piri Thomas), The Felon The decision to cool myself made the next two years the hardest I had done because it meant being a smoothie and staying out of trouble, which in prison is difficult, […] Example: Film Comment's David Chute described him as: "small, stringy and intense, but he's better dressed and groomed (than Ferrara), less of a punk and more of a smoothie." 5. A person with shaven body hair, especially pubic hair. Labels: informal Example: Smoothies seem much more acceptable now. Back in the "good old days" it [pubic hair] was almost essential for pics etc. Example: These new smoothies are everywhere. The "Body for Life" fitness program asks people to spend six weeks getting into shape and then send in before-and-after pictures. The men in the "after" shots invariably have shaved chests.
Word: booger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of the English dialectal words buggard (bug + -ard), boggart or boggard. Compare bogey. Compare also Alemannic German Naaseböög (“booger”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʊɡɚ/, /ˈbʊɡə/ 1. A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril. Labels: Canada, Philippines, US, slang Example: Mama says you mustn't pick boogers out of your nose with your fingers; you must use your handkerchief. Example: Now in the halls of the necro lord / Flash of fear when he sees my sword / Raped his woman, smoked his bone / Leave a booger underneath his throne! 2. Something suggestive of this material. Labels: US, slang Example: The latter is discovered by Caesar, Maurice, and their compadres living in a crumbling, snow-packed ski lodge, its antler chandeliers hung with boogers of ice in a mockery of humanity’s pretensions of alpha-predator-hood. 3. A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing. Labels: US, slang 4. A monster, a bogey. Labels: US
Word: booger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boogie board + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊɡɚ/, /ˈbʊɡə/ 1. A bodyboarder. Labels: derogatory, mildly, slang Example: Watch the local boogers charge it!
Word: booger Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbʊɡɚ/, /ˈbʊɡə/ 1. A performer of the booger dance.
Word: beautify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”). Pronunciation: /ˈbjuː.tɪ.faɪ/ 1. To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of. Labels: transitive Example: 1592, Robert Greene, Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, London: William Wright, “Robertoes Tale” […] there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: Example: And now, / This ornament [i.e. beard] / Makes me look dismal will I clip to form; / And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d, / To grace thy marriage-day, I’ll beautify. 2. To become beautiful. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: […] it must be a Prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his Creation for ever beautifying in his Eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater Degrees of Resemblance. 3. To make oneself beautiful. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: She’d felt silly when she first put cucumbers on her eyes (to diminish puffiness), or oatmeal on her face (to cleanse the pores and absorb excess oils), or egg yolks in her hair (to make it shine). Her use of groceries had even made my mother laugh, then wonder if she should start to beautify. 4. Synonym of pretty-print.
Word: argent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːdʒənt/, /ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/ 1. The metal silver. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent". 3. Whiteness; anything that is white. Labels: archaic, countable, poetic, uncountable Example: The polish'd argent of her breast. 4. A moth of the genus Argyresthia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: argent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑːdʒənt/, /ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/ 1. Of silver or silver-coloured. Labels: not-comparable Example: Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove? 2. Of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms. Labels: not-comparable Example: ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain. Example: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
Word: retracement Part of Speech: noun 1. A reversal in the trend of the price of a stock or commodity. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: offside Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From off- + side. Compare German Abseite (“remote area, backside”), German abseits (“out of the way, apart, aside”, adverb), Dutch afzijdig (“neutral, impartial”). Pronunciation: /ɒfˈsaɪd/ 1. In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc. 2. Out of bounds. Labels: broadly, slang Example: [Verse 2:Kano]:On-sight, thought he was onside, innit. Saw them guys, no shots fired innit. If you ain't real then don't ride, innit. That postcode, that's offside, innit. 3. To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk. Labels: US Example: an offside diner 4. Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse. 5. To the side of a boat, opposite the primary side on which one paddles.
Word: offside Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From off- + side. Compare German Abseite (“remote area, backside”), German abseits (“out of the way, apart, aside”, adverb), Dutch afzijdig (“neutral, impartial”). Pronunciation: /ɒfˈsaɪd/ 1. An offside play. 2. The side of a road vehicle furthest from the kerb: the right side if one drives on the left of the road. Labels: Australia, UK Example: My offside wing mirror got snapped off. Example: They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour. 3. The right-hand side of a working animal such as a horse or bullock, especially when in harness. 4. The side of a canal opposite the towpath. Labels: UK
Word: corrode Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English corrōden, that borrowed from Old French corroder or directly from Latin corrōdere (“to gnaw”), from con- (“completely”) + rōdere (“to gnaw”). Pronunciation: /kəˈɹəʊd/, /kəˈɹoʊd/, [kəˈɹoʊ̯d], [kɚˈ(ɹ)oʊ̯d] 1. To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Labels: transitive 2. To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair. Labels: transitive Example: My morale is being corroded day by day. 3. To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion. Labels: intransitive
Word: Brum Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Brummagem. Pronunciation: /bɹʌm/ 1. Nickname for Birmingham: a major city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Labels: UK, informal
Word: chills Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlz/ 1. plural of chill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chills Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlz/ 1. A biological response to being tickled; being cold; or experiencing fear, euphoria or sexual arousal in which the person forms goose bumps. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: I get chills every time I hear that song. Example: That feathery touch on my neck gave me the chills. 2. A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: chills Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chill Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gluteus maximus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gluteus maximus. 1. The largest of the muscles of each buttock. Example: To power our forward motion, we have a distinctly gigantic muscle in our buttocks, the gluteus maximus. 2. The buttocks. Labels: colloquial, humorous Example: Look at the gluteus maximus on that woman!
Word: khakis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of khaki 2. plural of khaki
Word: celerity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kel-der. Latin celer Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin celeritāsder. Old French celeriteeder. English celerity From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”). Pronunciation: /sɪˈlɛɹɪti/, /səˈlɛr.ɪ.ti/ 1. Speed, swiftness. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose. Example: ...when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and night"—so ran the document—for three weeks,... 2. The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate. Labels: dated, uncountable, usually Example: Celerity of dispatching the Chappe telegraph [section title] Example: ...and many endeavours have been made, not only to transmit signals with celerity, but also to transmit more than one communication at the same time along the same wire.
Word: community development Part of Speech: noun 1. The practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities. Labels: uncountable
Word: auricular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin auriculāris, from auricula (“the external ear; the ear”) + -āris (“-ar”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to auricle + -ar. Doublet of auricularis. Pronunciation: /ɔːˈɹɪk.jʊl.ə/, /ɔˈɹɪk.jə.lɚ/ 1. Of or pertaining to the ear. Labels: not-comparable, relational Example: […] our performances are pastimes jocular, To please the auricular organ and the ocular. 2. Of or pertaining to the ear. Labels: not-comparable, relational Example: The auricular nerves were damaged. 3. Of or pertaining to the ear. Labels: not-comparable, relational Example: auricular confession to the priest 4. Of or pertaining to the ear. Labels: not-comparable, relational Example: auricular evidence Example: […] I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction, […] 5. Pertaining to the auricles of the heart. Labels: not-comparable, relational 6. Pertaining to a style of ornamental decoration, originating in Northern Europe in the first half of the 17th century, that uses softly flowing abstract shapes in relief some of which bear a resemblance to the human ear; commonly used in silverware, picture frames, and architecture. Labels: not-comparable, relational
Word: auricular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin auriculāris, from auricula (“the external ear; the ear”) + -āris (“-ar”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to auricle + -ar. Doublet of auricularis. Pronunciation: /ɔːˈɹɪk.jʊl.ə/, /ɔˈɹɪk.jə.lɚ/ 1. The little finger, the outermost and smallest finger of the hand. Example: Yet see! my glad Auricular Redeems thee (though dissolv’d) a Star,[…] 2. The ear. Labels: humorous Example: A pound of dynamite Explodes in his auriculars It’s not a pleasant sight— We’ll spare you the particulars.
Word: arrow-finger Part of Speech: noun 1. The forefinger.
Word: demonstrator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *men- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti Proto-Italic *man-eje- Proto-Italic *moneō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Italic *-trom Proto-Italic *monestrom Latin mōnstrum 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 Latin mōnstrō Latin dēmōnstrō Latin dēmōnstrātusbor. English demonstrate English -or English demonstrator From demonstrate + -or. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛmənstɹeɪtə(ɹ)/ 1. One who demonstrates anything, or proves beyond doubt. 2. The forefinger. 3. One who takes part in a demonstration; a protester. 4. One who demonstrates products in a retail environment; a merchandiser. 5. An item, particularly a vehicle, used in demonstrations to a customer or user. Example: Young people have been involved in choosing which resources and educational toys are used to deliver sex and relationship education – including leaflets, videos and condom demonstrators. 6. An assistant to a lecturer. 7. One who teaches anatomy from the dissected parts.
Word: gold-finger Part of Speech: noun 1. The ring finger.
Word: ear finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ere fynger, from Old English ēarefinger (“little finger”), equivalent to ear + finger, from its use in removing wax. 1. The little finger. Labels: obsolete
Word: index finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From index (“pointing, of the same origin as indicate”) + finger. 1. The forefinger.
Word: leech-finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English leche fingir, læchefinger, from Old English lǣċefinger (“fourth finger, leech-finger”), equivalent to leech (“physician”) + finger. Compare Old Norse lǽknisfingr (“leech-finger”), Icelandic læknisfingur. According to medieval belief, a nerve or artery ran from this digit to the heart. It gave the finger a prominent role in medical lore and practice. Doctors would use it when applying treatments, for example. 1. The finger next to the little finger; ring-finger. Labels: obsolete Example: Sing three Our Fathers on your leechfinger, and write around the sore. Example: The Leech finger has Coll on it, the sage Hazel, who is the master physician, and is surmounted by Saille, the Willow of enchantment.
Word: lickpot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English likpot; equivalent to lick + pot, presumably from the act of using a finger to clean a pot after eating. 1. The forefinger. Labels: archaic, childish Example: Coordinate term: thumbkin Example: Fife-men and pipers braw, Merry deils, tak them a', Gown, lace, and livery — lickpot and ladle ; Jockey shall wear the hood, Jenny the sark of God — For codpiece and petticoat, dishclout and daidle. 2. An untrustworthy sycophant. Example: . And the message that came was by the mouth of a kind of jackal or lickpot of John Dick's — who, for reasons of his own, hated me, chiefly because I took no share in the foulness of him and his subservient crew. Example: Maybe ye'll not have another chance before the gallows gets ye ! Off with ye now, for a dirty fingered, lickpot sneak, or I'll break the fiddle over the shoulders of ye!"
Word: long finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English long fynger, longe fyngyr; by surface analysis, long + finger. 1. The middle finger. 2. A state of postponement or procrastination. Labels: Ireland, idiomatic 3. Hire purchase or credit. Labels: Ireland, idiomatic Example: Jim tries to look flash, but he buys everything on the long finger.
Word: marriage finger Part of Speech: noun 1. The finger on which a wedding ring is placed; the ring finger.
Word: medical finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In ancient times, it was associated with healing and used for mixing potions. 1. The ring finger. Labels: obsolete
Word: mid-finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- English finger English mid-finger From mid- + finger. 1. Alternative form of middle finger. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: mid-finger Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- English finger English mid-finger From mid- + finger. 1. Pertaining to the middle of a finger, such as the intermediate phalange or proximal interphalangeal joint regions Labels: not-comparable
Word: mercurial finger Part of Speech: noun 1. The little finger.
Word: medicinal finger Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of medical finger. Labels: obsolete
Word: pinkie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch pinkje (literally “little finger”), which in the Holland dialects takes the form pinkie. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋki/ 1. A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb. Labels: informal 2. A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe. Labels: informal, uncommon
Word: pinkie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋki/ 1. Alternative form of pinky (“baby mouse”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pinkie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Kaurna bingu. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪŋki/ 1. A bilby. Labels: Australia, South
Word: physic finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of the Latin digitus medicus. 1. The ring finger. Example: […] Iasius ('healer') is the physic finger; Idas ('he of Mount Ida' — Rhea's seat) is the oracular little finger. Example: Alder, physic finger, By power of divination, Diagnose all maladies of a doubtful mind.
Word: nameless finger Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of ring finger. Labels: rare Example: Otherwise Put thy namelesse finger in the wound, and make therewith three crosses upon the wound, and say five Pater nosters, five Aves, and one Credo, in the honour of the five wounds.
Word: physician finger Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of medical finger.
Word: physical finger Part of Speech: noun 1. The ring finger.
Word: ring-man Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ringman. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ring-finger Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of ring finger. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thumby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thumb + -y/-ie (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmi/ 1. A little thumb; diminutive term for thumb. Labels: slang
Word: thumby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thumb + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmi/ 1. Clumsy, awkward, maladroit, not dextrous, all thumbs. Example: "Well, I don't tease anybody but the men. I don't tease father or mother or you,—but men are fair game; they are such thumby, blundering creatures, and we can confuse them so." Example: […] he was propounding an improvement of Professor Armstrong's Heuristic method, whereby at the cost of three or four hundred pounds' worth of apparatus, a total neglect of all other studies and the undivided attention of a teacher of exceptional gifts, an average child might with a peculiar sort of thumby thoroughness learn in the course of ten or twelve years almost as much chemistry as one could get in one of those objectionable shilling text-books that were then so common…. 2. Dirtied by thumb marks. Example: He would distinguish, too, between a library and a news-room, and would find no great attraction in the prospect of supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines.
Word: pointling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From point + -ling. 1. A little index finger. Labels: archaic, rare
Word: showing finger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schewyng fyngyre. 1. The forefinger.
Word: message Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English message, from Old French message, from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially displaced Old English ærende (whence errand). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.ɪdʒ/, /ˈmɛs.ədʒ/, /ˈmes.ədʒ/, /mɛː.seːdʒ/, /me.seːdʒ/ 1. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed. Example: We've just received an urgent message from the President. Example: He received a message telling him to update his laptop. 2. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something. Example: The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds. Example: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee. 3. An errand. Labels: Ireland, UK, in-plural Example: I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road. 4. See messages (“groceries, shopping”). Labels: Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland
Word: message Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English message, from Old French message, from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially displaced Old English ærende (whence errand). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.ɪdʒ/, /ˈmɛs.ədʒ/, /ˈmes.ədʒ/, /mɛː.seːdʒ/, /me.seːdʒ/ 1. To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone. Example: Just message me for directions. Example: I messaged her about the concert. 2. To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging. Example: She messaged me the information yesterday. Example: Please message the final report by fax. 3. To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages. Labels: intransitive Example: We've implemented a new messaging service. Example: The runaway computer program was messaging non-stop. 4. To bear as a message. Labels: obsolete
Word: compunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English compunccion, borrowed from Old French compunction, from Late Latin compunctionem (“a pricking”), from Latin compunctus, the past participle of compungere (“to severely prick”), from com- + pungere (“to prick”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈpʌŋk.ʃən/ 1. A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Besides, to do De Joinville justice, he felt, too, a degree of kindly compunction for the former harsh judgment entertained of one who so little deserved it; and—for there is no such thing in the human mind as an unmixed sensation—he was struck both with the spirit with which she resented, and the proud humility with which she forgave the affront. Example: His age—his kindness, disarmed Pen’s anger somewhat, and made Arthur feel no little compunction for the deed which he was about to do.
Word: assrun Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s. 1. To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind. Labels: US, slang Example: One of your players assran me at every opportunity. Example: You were assrunning for the whole game.
Word: lakh Part of Speech: num Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani लाख or لاکھ (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa), from लक्ष् (lakṣ, “to mark; to sign; to observe, perceive”), possibly from रक्ष् (rakṣ, “to observe (a duty, law, etc.); to guard, protect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to protect”). Pronunciation: /lɑkʰ/, /lɑk/, /læk/ 1. One hundred thousand (10⁵): 100,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,000. Labels: Myanmar, South-Asia Example: Holonym: crore Example: They ſay the VVorld ſhall laſt foure Ages; or VVorlds, vvhereof three are paſt. The firſt laſted ſeuenteene Laches (euery Laches containeth a hundred thouſand yeares) and 28000 yeares. Men in that VVorld liued tenne thouſand yeares, vvere of great ſtature of bodie, and great ſinceritie of minde.
Word: lakh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani लाख or لاکھ (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa), from लक्ष् (lakṣ, “to mark; to sign; to observe, perceive”), possibly from रक्ष् (rakṣ, “to observe (a duty, law, etc.); to guard, protect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to protect”). Pronunciation: /lɑkʰ/, /lɑk/, /læk/ 1. One hundred thousand rupees. Labels: Myanmar, South-Asia Example: Since my arriual heere, there vvas ſent vnto this King one of the richeſt preſents that I haue heard to be ſent to any Prince in all my life time: […] the vvhole Preſent vvas vvorth ten of their Leakes, as they call them; a Leak being ten thouſand pound ſterling: the vvhole, a hundred thouſand pounds ſterling. Example: INprimis, of Rupias Ecbery, thirteene Crou (euery Crou is an hundred Leckes, and euery Leck an hundred thouſand Rupias) or one thouſand three hundred Leckes. 2. Often in the plural: an indefinitely large number; a zillion. Labels: Myanmar, South-Asia, figuratively Example: […] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea. Example: The Laccadives and Maldives, for instance, meaning literally the "lac of islands" and the "thousand islands," are a series of such atolls; […]
Word: mohur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian مهر (mohr, “seal; stamp”). Pronunciation: /ˈməʊhə(ɹ)/ 1. A Persian gold coin. 2. A gold coin of British India, worth from twelve to fifteen rupees. Labels: historical
Word: pipi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori pipi (“Paphies australis”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪpi/ 1. The edible saltwater clam Paphies australis, of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. Labels: New-Zealand Example: She chuckles, and prises another shrinking pipi from its shell. 2. The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, endemic to Australia. Labels: Australia, New-South-Wales Example: The sand whiting feeds on nippers, pipis, prawns and especially beach, squirt or blood worms and all these make terrific baits. Example: Pipis are very good baits for catching bream, trevally, whiting, particularly King George Whiting, leatherjackets and many others.
Word: pipi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɪpi/ 1. The astringent pods of Caesalpinia paipai, a Brazilian plant used in tanning. Labels: uncountable