nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: spack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a contraction of spastic (as a term of abuse). 1. A person with cerebral palsy. Labels: UK, derogatory, offensive, slang 2. An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person. Labels: UK, derogatory, offensive, slang Example: You spilt beer on your shirt, you spack! Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:spack.
Word: pose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from *pus- (“to blow, breathe hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”). Pronunciation: /poʊz/, /pəʊz/ 1. Common cold, head cold; catarrh. Labels: archaic Example: Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses. Example: Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.
Word: pose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause. Pronunciation: /poʊz/, /pəʊz/ 1. To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. Labels: transitive Example: To pose a model for a picture. 2. To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.). Labels: transitive 3. To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world. Example: Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence. 4. To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal. Labels: transitive 5. To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude. Labels: intransitive Example: He […] posed before her as a hero. 6. To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration. Labels: intransitive Example: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle. 7. To interrogate; to question. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: She pretended to […] pose him and sift him. 8. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose or puzzle him. Example: The Doctor […] had likewise a pair of little eyes that were always half shut up, and a mouth that was always half expanded into a grin, as if he had, that moment, posed a boy, and were waiting to convict him from his own lips.
Word: pose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause. Pronunciation: /poʊz/, /pəʊz/ 1. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body). Example: Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera. Example: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…]. 2. Affectation.
Word: pose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English posen, a combination of aphetic forms of Middle English aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose. Pronunciation: /poʊz/, /pəʊz/ 1. To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate. Labels: obsolete Example: And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them. Example: 'Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved Ænigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with Incarnation and Resurrection. 2. to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions. Labels: archaic 3. To perplex or confuse (someone). Labels: archaic
Word: boga Part of Speech: noun 1. Haemulon vittatum, a species of grunt.
Word: somnambulistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English somnambulist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English somnambulistic From somnambulist + -ic. Pronunciation: [sɒmˌnæmbjʊˈlɪstɪk] 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a somnambulist. Labels: not-comparable
Word: consistence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French. Compare French consistance. By surface analysis, consist + -ence. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪst(ə)ns/, /kənˈsɪstəns/ 1. Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year. Example: This composer’s musical work is of extraordinary consistence. 3. The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup. Example: It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding. 4. The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Example: VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […] 5. That which stands together as a united whole; a combination. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members. 6. Standing still; quiescence, state of rest. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 7. A substance which adheres together. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ægyptian ingenuity vvas more unſatisfied, contriving their bodies in ſvveet conſiſtences, to attend the return of their ſouls. But all vvas vanity, feeding the vvinde, and folly.
Word: undisputed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English disputed English undisputed From un- + disputed. 1. Universally agreed upon; not disputed. Example: She may be declining in popularity, relevance and quality, but Ayumi Hamasaki is still the undisputed Queen of J-Pop, and it will be a long while before anyone can surpass her. Example: The publishing industry is littered with frequent blurbers. Still, Mr. Shteyngart managed to stand out as an undisputed master of the form. 2. Unchallenged and accepted without question.
Word: credenza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian credenza. Doublet of credence. Pronunciation: /kɹəˈdɛnzə/ 1. A sideboard or buffet. Example: Two credenze dating about the middle of the century, shown in Figures 135 and 136, illustrate the stage of excessive ornamentation of furniture reached about this time. Example: The furniture consists of many fine small and large cabinets, credenze and tables, all especially alluring and of unusual types not very frequently found today; […] 2. A horizontal filing cabinet, typically placed behind a desk. Example: I wandered over to his record collection, past his mantel displaying mid-century lighters, past his closet filled with trench coats and shoehorns, past his credenza stacked with pamphlets.
Word: angiosperm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “receptacle”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”), equivalent to angio- + sperm. Pronunciation: /ˈæn.d͡ʒi.əˌspɝm/ 1. Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant. Example: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc. Example: The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms, justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.
Word: gymnosperm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). By surface analysis, gymno- + sperm. 1. Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary. Example: Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm. Example: The palynoassemblage is rich in angiosperm taxa (45.63%) followed by gymnosperms (0.45%), pteridophytes (18.49%) and fungal remains (23.88%).
Word: Uzziel Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew עֻזִּיאֵל (“strength of God”). 1. A minor character in the Old Testament. Example: Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve. 2. A name ascribed to a cherub. Example: When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake. Uzziel, half these draw off, and coast the South With strictest watch; 3. A male given name from Hebrew. Labels: rare
Word: terminated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From terminate + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːmɪneɪ̯tɪd/, [ˈtʰɜːmɪneɪ̯tʰɪd], /ˈtɝmɪneɪɾɪd/, [ˈtʰɝmɪneɪ̯ɾɪd], /ˈtɝmɪneɪɾəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of terminate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: terminated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From terminate + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːmɪneɪ̯tɪd/, [ˈtʰɜːmɪneɪ̯tʰɪd], /ˈtɝmɪneɪɾɪd/, [ˈtʰɝmɪneɪ̯ɾɪd], /ˈtɝmɪneɪɾəd/ 1. Having been the subject of termination; ended or destroyed. 2. Having lost a job or assignment. 3. Having an end or a boundary.
Word: terminating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of terminate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: terminating Part of Speech: adj 1. Coming to an end. 2. Of a decimal: having a finite number of digits. Example: Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
Word: ascetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἀσκέω (askéō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀσκητής (askētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ἀσκητῐκός (askētĭkós)der. Medieval Latin asceticusbor. English ascetic First use appears c. 1646. From Medieval Latin asceticus, from Ancient Greek ἀσκητικός (askētikós), from ἀσκητής (askētḗs, “monk, hermit”), from ἀσκέω (askéō, “to exercise”). Pronunciation: /əˈsɛ.tɪk/ 1. Of or relating to ascetics. 2. Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure. Example: In a word, the stern, ascetic rigor of the temple discipline, which had been so long exchanged for prodigal and licentious indulgence, seemed at once to have revived at Templestowe under the severe eye of Lucas Beaumanoir. Example: 1999, Alan Davies, Tradition and Modernity in Protestant Christianity, Karigoudar Ishwaran (editor), Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Worldly Engagement, page 30, The rich communal life of the most ascetic Protestants, for example, the Hutterites and the Old Order Mennonites, with their nineteenth century dress and preference for antiquated technology, refutes such superficial judgments.
Word: ascetic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ἀσκέω (askéō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀσκητής (askētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ἀσκητῐκός (askētĭkós)der. Medieval Latin asceticusbor. English ascetic First use appears c. 1646. From Medieval Latin asceticus, from Ancient Greek ἀσκητικός (askētikós), from ἀσκητής (askētḗs, “monk, hermit”), from ἀσκέω (askéō, “to exercise”). Pronunciation: /əˈsɛ.tɪk/ 1. One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence. Example: First, the technical terms used to signify hindu ascetics, hermits, mendicants and some related terms are analysed in their religious meaning with the view of avoiding a good deal of confusion that exists in such studies. Example: Female ascetics find shelter in a wide variety of establishments and vary greatly in the degree to which they travel.
Word: assassin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From either French assassin or Italian assassino, from Arabic أَسَاسِيِّين (ʔasāsiyyīn, “people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]”) and the folkloric etymology Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users; low-lives”). The mathematical sense was introduced by Bourbaki, playing on the notation operatorname Ass(M) and the fact that an associated prime is the annihilator of an element, and so is said to kill that element. Pronunciation: /əˈsæsɪn/ 1. Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure. Example: The hand that held the bond of so many jarring interests lay powerless beneath the pall. The perils of war had been about him, and the midnight assassin had watched his path; yet he died quietly in his bed. Example: What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause can ever be stilled by an assassin’s bullet. 2. Any ruthless killer. 3. A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period. Labels: capitalized, historical, usually Example: The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists of a soveraigne devotion and puritie of maners; they hold, that the readiest and shortest way to gaine Paradise, is to kill some one of a contrary religion[…]. 4. An associated prime of a module. Labels: humorous
Word: assassin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From either French assassin or Italian assassino, from Arabic أَسَاسِيِّين (ʔasāsiyyīn, “people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]”) and the folkloric etymology Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users; low-lives”). The mathematical sense was introduced by Bourbaki, playing on the notation operatorname Ass(M) and the fact that an associated prime is the annihilator of an element, and so is said to kill that element. Pronunciation: /əˈsæsɪn/ 1. To assassinate. Labels: nonstandard
Word: hashish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”). Pronunciation: /həˈʃiːʃ/, /hæˈʃiːʃ/, /ˈhæʃɪʃ/ 1. The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much. Example: You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp? 2. A cannabis extract. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Marijuana generally. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually
Word: tiff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown; it is possibly originally dialectal and may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of a small puff of air or gas. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. A (generally small) argument or disagreement; a petty quarrel, a spat. Labels: informal Example: My Lord and I have had another little—Tiff, ſhall I call it? It came not up to a quarrel. Married people vvould have enough to do, if they vvere to trouble their friends every time they miſunderſtood one another. Example: There's Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here! 2. A brief outburst or period of bad temper; a snit; also (rare) any brief outburst (for example, of laughter). Labels: archaic, informal Example: [A]s if / Returning homevvards in a furious Tiff; / Your Hoſt declares, he's ſorry at his Heart, / And humbly acts the penitential Part. Example: Wilhelmina […] answered his romances and him with tiffs of laughter, in a prettily fleeting manner.
Word: tiff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown; it is possibly originally dialectal and may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of a small puff of air or gas. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. To be involved in a (generally small) argument or disagreement; to squabble. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: I very much indeed approve / Of maidens moderating love / Until they've twenty pounds; / […] / Until the twenty pounds were safe, / She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph, / Squire nodded … deuce a curtsy! Example: Poor Newton! he little knew to what he owed that glance. The fact is, the Captain was late, and Miss Bowers tiffed.
Word: tiff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See TIFF. Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of TIFF (acronym of tagged image file format). Labels: alt-of, informal
Word: tiff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a back-formation from or clipping of tiff(in) (“(light) midday meal or snack, luncheon”). Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. Synonym of tiffin (“to eat a (light) midday meal or snack; to have lunch, to lunch”). Labels: British, India, informal, intransitive Example: Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day. Example: Go home, Jack. I will tiff with you to-day at half-past two.
Word: tiff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown; it may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of liquor being sipped. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. A small draught or sip of liquor (especially diluted or poor quality liquor) or punch. Labels: archaic, countable, informal, obsolete, slang Example: Come, Captain, let not your noble Courage be caſt dovvn; vvhat ſay you to a Glaſs of vvhite VVine, or a Tiff of Punch, by VVay of VVhet? Example: "Good wife," said Skriegh, gathering up his mouth, and sipping his tiff of brandy punch with great solemnity […] 2. Liquor, especially diluted or poor quality liquor. Labels: archaic, informal, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: By dint of drinking acid tiff, as above mentioned, and smoking segars, in which I am no novice, my Public are to be informed, that I gradually drank and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with un homme comme il faut [a proper man], one of the few fine old specimens of nobility who are still to be found in France; […]
Word: tiff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown; it may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of liquor being sipped. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. To drink (liquor), especially slowly or in small amounts; to sip. Labels: archaic, informal, obsolete, slang, transitive Example: Nor did the Doctor fail to go / To the bright region of the Row; / There tiff'd his punch and talk'd and smok'd, / Was sometimes grave and sometimes jok'd; […]
Word: tiff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tiffen, tif, tiffe (“to adorn, dress up; to arrange (a hairstyle); to disguise”), from Old French tifer, tiffer (“to adorn, dress up”) (modern French attifer (“to deck out”)), from Frankish *tipfōn, *tippōn (“to decorate”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“plait of hair, tuft; summit, top”) (see the further etymology at that entry). The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Dutch tippen (“to clip the points or ends of the hair”) * English tip (noun) * Middle High German zipfen (“to bob; to flutter; to frisk, prance, skip; to sashay”) * Old Norse tippa (“point, tip”) Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. To deck out or dress (someone or oneself, or their body or hair). Labels: archaic, informal, obsolete, reflexive, slang, transitive Example: Is the Miſs under a force vvhen ſhe culls among her trinkets vvith curious toil to tiff herſelf out in the most engaging manner, or teazes pappa for money to buy a nevv-faſhioned ſilk? 2. To deck out or dress one's body or hair. Labels: archaic, informal, intransitive, obsolete, slang Example: I never pin up my Hair vvith Proſe. I fancy ones Hair vvou'd not curl if it vvere pinn'd up vvith Proſe. […] Ay, poor Mincing tift and tift all the morning.
Word: tiff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tiffen, tif, tiffe (“to adorn, dress up; to arrange (a hairstyle); to disguise”), from Old French tifer, tiffer (“to adorn, dress up”) (modern French attifer (“to deck out”)), from Frankish *tipfōn, *tippōn (“to decorate”), possibly related to Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“plait of hair, tuft; summit, top”) (see the further etymology at that entry). The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Dutch tippen (“to clip the points or ends of the hair”) * English tip (noun) * Middle High German zipfen (“to bob; to flutter; to frisk, prance, skip; to sashay”) * Old Norse tippa (“point, tip”) Pronunciation: /tɪf/ 1. The way in which one's body or hair is decked out or dressed. Labels: archaic, informal, obsolete, rare, slang Example: Did you mark the beau Tiff of his VVig, vvhat a deal of Pains he took to toſs it back, vvhen the very VVeight thereof vvas like to dravv him from his Seat?
Word: DJ Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdi(ː)(.)d͡ʒeɪ/, /(ˌ)diːˈd͡ʒeɪ/ 1. Initialism of disc jockey. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Last night a DJ saved my life / Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart Example: Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ / Because the music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life 2. Initialism of dinner jacket. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of dust jacket. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DJ Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdi(ː)(.)d͡ʒeɪ/, /(ˌ)diːˈd͡ʒeɪ/ 1. To act as a DJ (disc jockey); to play, cut and mix/blend recorded music. Example: A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.
Word: DJ Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈdi(ː)(.)d͡ʒeɪ/, /(ˌ)diːˈd͡ʒeɪ/ 1. Dow Jones & Company, an American publishing firm. 2. Initialism of David Jones, an Australian luxury department store. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: DJ shares fell as much as 4.7% in Sydney after Australia’s second-biggest department-store chain said McInnes would leave his role and the board immediately and that Paul Zahra, general manager, would assume the CEO’s role. Example: But one shareholder started building a position in DJ shares that, if it continued to grow (as it can in Australia up to 20%), could come close to blocking the deal.
Word: boondock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunduk Tagalog bundokbor. English boondock 1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːn.dɒk/, /ˈbun.dɑk/ 1. A brushy, rural area or location. Labels: US Example: We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere. Example: It was hard to respect his opinion after he'd called their humble but respectable town "a godforsaken boondock." 2. A shot that strikes a squopped wink and sends it flying far away. Example: My family has just rediscovered tiddlywinks. […] [I] haven't quite worked out the boondock!
Word: boondock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunduk Tagalog bundokbor. English boondock 1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːn.dɒk/, /ˈbun.dɑk/ 1. To camp in a dry brushy location. Labels: US 2. To stay in a self-contained recreational vehicle without connections to water, electricity, or sewer services, especially in a remote location. Labels: US Example: When traveling in the American Southwest, we avoid other people by boondocking in the desert. 3. To strike a squopped wink and send it flying far away. Example: The wise winker also engages in boondocking, a defensive strategy. It involves sending an opponent's winks far from the cup.
Word: twunt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of twat + cunt. 1. A fool; an extremely objectionable person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar Example: Sorry for being kind of a twunt about other matters, but it's because of posts like this that I don't want to write you off or lose you as a friend. Example: Let the pub-dodging twunt embarrass himself with his primitive, witless and repetitive insults.
Word: occupancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From occupant + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈɑk.jə.p(ə)n.(t)si/ 1. The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They had a five-year occupancy on the house. 3. The specific use to which something occupied is put. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This building is for residential occupancy. 4. A mode of acquiring title to a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it with an intent of acquiring such title. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But if the matter pre-existing belong to none, then shall the Right be acquired by a kind of Occupancy: But if it it belong to another, then that the Right of Propriety descends not naturally unto us alone, will appear by what follows. Example: Occupancy is the taking possession of those things, which before belonged to nobody. 5. The expected frequency of a state. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: occupant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō). By surface analysis, occupy + -ant. Pronunciation: /ˈɒk.jʊ.pənt/, /ˈɑ.kjə.pənt/, /ˈɒk.jə.pənt/ 1. A person who occupies an office or a position. Example: I cannot say the same of the current occupant of the position Example: occupant of the Oval Office 2. A person who occupies a place. 3. A person who occupies a place. 4. The owner or tenant of a property. Example: I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing. The swing was empty.
Word: occupational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From occupation (noun) + -al (suffix forming adjectives). Pronunciation: /ɑkjuˈpeɪʃənəl/ 1. Of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense). Example: Boredom is an occupational hazard if you are a checkout operator. Example: She added that if someone is experiencing a high degree of distress because of scelerophobia and their social and occupational functioning is being affected, she recommends seeing a medical provider or mental health professional.
Word: occupy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete. Pronunciation: /ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/, /ˈɑkjəpaɪ/ 1. To take or use. Labels: transitive Example: The film occupied three hours of my time. Example: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. 2. To take or use. Labels: transitive Example: The film occupied me for three hours. Example: I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day. 3. To take or use. Labels: transitive Example: I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher. 4. To take or use. Labels: transitive Example: I occupied her friend while he made his proposal. 5. To take or use space. Labels: transitive Example: The historic mansion occupied two city blocks. 6. To take or use space. Labels: transitive Example: The better apartments were already occupied. Example: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…] 7. To take or use space. Labels: transitive Example: The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […] Example: Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold. 8. To take or use space. Labels: transitive 9. To have sexual intercourse with. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted Example: 1867, Robert Nares A Glossary OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy. These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy. 2 Hen. IV, ii, 4. Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy his land. B. Jons. Epigr., 117. Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy, nature, and the like. Ibid., Discoveries, vol. vii, p. 119. It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278. 10. To do business in; to busy oneself with. Labels: obsolete Example: All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise. Example: not able to occupy their old crafts 11. To use; to expend; to make use of. Labels: obsolete Example: all the gold that was occupied for the work Example: They occupy not money themselves.
Word: ocean current Part of Speech: noun 1. Any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.
Word: Oceanid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Oceanis, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανίς (Ōkeanís), from Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós) + -ις (-is), literally “sprung of Oceanus”. By surface analysis, Oceanus + -id. Pronunciation: /əʊˈsiːənɪd/, /oʊˈsiənɪd/ 1. Any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea-nymph. Labels: Greek
Word: octagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From octagon + -al. Pronunciation: /ɑkˈtæɡənəl/ 1. Shaped like an octagon, in having eight sides and eight angles. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles. Example: The sundials range in shape from octagonal to the usual round. Prices range from $75 to $375.
Word: octavo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin octavo. Doublet of octave, oitava, and ochava. 1. A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves. 2. A book of octavo pages. Example: He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo.
Word: ocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒk.jə.lə/, /ˈɒk.jʊ.lə/, /ˈɑ.kjə.lɚ/, /ˈɑ.kjʊ.lɚ/ 1. Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight Example: The medication may have adverse ocular side effects. Example: It took some time after he lost his eye for him to receive his ocular prosthesis. 2. Resembling the eye. Example: ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly 3. Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual. Example: Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore, Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof: Or by the worth of man’s eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my waked wrath! Example: For as Thomas was an ocular Witness of Christ’s Death and Burial, so were the other Disciples of his Resurrection; having actually seen him after he was risen.
Word: ocular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒk.jə.lə/, /ˈɒk.jʊ.lə/, /ˈɑ.kjə.lɚ/, /ˈɑ.kjʊ.lɚ/ 1. The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument, i.e., the optical element closest to the eye. 2. Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.
Word: oculist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French oculiste (“oculist”), from Latin oculus (“eye”). Pronunciation: /ˈɒkjəlɪst/, /ˈɑkjəlɪst/ 1. An eye doctor; an ophthalmologist or optometrist. Example: Five minutes later, […] Carrados was arranging to take rooms for his attendant and himself for the short time that he would be in London, seeing an oculist.
Word: hermaphroditism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hermaphrodite 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 hermaphroditism From hermaphrodite + -ism. 1. The condition of an organism that is able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphroditism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequential hermaphroditism or dichogamy). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Among other organisms, alternative methods of reproduction include budding, hermaphroditism (one individual carrying both kinds of sex organs) and isogamy (two individuals, not distinguished as male and female, combining their genes). 2. The condition of intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics or pseudohermaphroditism. Labels: countable, dated, historical, offensive, uncountable
Word: androgyny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From andro- + -gyny. See androgynous. Pronunciation: /ænˈdɹɑd͡ʒəni/, /ænˈdɹɒdʒəni/ 1. Hermaphroditism. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The state of having traits of both male and female genders. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Now androgyny has come to mean the adoption of social behavior that is not strictly masculine or feminine according to the old role definitions. An attempt to escape from gender-identified role-playing, androgyny does not necessarily determine sexual behavior. 3. The state of appearing to be neither feminine nor masculine. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The plot isn't the film's greatest asset, nor are its insights into Margaret, Larry and the brave new world of affectless androgyny that they inhabit. Example: ‘No, I like short hair on girls. I like that androgyny thing. Seriously.’ 4. The state or ability, of a connector or docking port, to connect with either male (plug) or female (socket) or other neutral connectors or ports. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: […] it is obvious that the idea of androgyny of docking/berthing interfaces […]
Word: oy gevalt Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish אוי געוואַלט (oy gevalt). 1. oh my God 2. uh-oh 3. enough already
Word: nauseate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier nauseat, from Latin nauseātus (“nauseated”), perfect past participle of nauseō (“to feel sea sick, nauseate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía), from ναῦς (naûs), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. By surface analysis, nausea + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈnɔziˌeɪt/ 1. To cause nausea in. Labels: transitive Example: […] this room, where misfortune seems to ooze, where speculation lurks in corners, and of which Madame Vauquer inhales the warm, fetid air without being nauseated. Example: After another three-quarters of an hour we pick up eleven children, nearly all of them objectionable on the score of smell. The air we breathe over and over begins to be so foul that it nauseates me. 2. To disgust. Labels: transitive Example: […] I have not treated you as a Wise man would have done in silence, but it is time to put an end to this tittle tattle which has nauseated you for three days together. Example: […] can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son’s morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted bawdy-houses in town, where he took care he should be familiarized with all those scenes of debauchery, so fit to nauseate a good taste? 3. To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust. Labels: intransitive Example: As one of Woodward’s Patients, sick and sore, I puke, I nauseate,—yet he thrusts in more; Example: I prescribed Iodized Lime, 1-2 grain every half hour. The stomach soon began to nauseate. 4. To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] he made a Sign to me, that the Salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own Mouth, he seem’d to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his Mouth with fresh Water after it […] Example: 1753, J. Wall, A letter from J. Wall M.D. to Edward Wilmot M.D.F.R.S. and Physician to His Majesty, concerning the Use of the Peruvian Bark in the Small Pox, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1753, p. 594, In Children and delicate Persons, who are apt to nauseate this Remedy, I have with Success given it mix’d up with thin Chocolate; which, if sufficiently sweetened, disguises it better than any thing I know of. 5. To be disgusted by (something). Labels: figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won, And hates the Muse by which she was undone. Example: 1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, London: T. Payne, T. Cadell & W. Davies, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 151, What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing and performing what is wrong.
Word: nausea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nausea, a borrowing from Latin nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “sea-sickness”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. Displaced native Old English wlǣtta. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːzɪə/, /ˈnɔːsɪə/, /ˈnɔzi.ə/, /ˈnɔsi.ə/, /ˈnɔʒə/ 1. A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He got nausea after two hours of travelling on the plane. 2. Strong dislike or disgust. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Motion sickness. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: mutually exclusive Part of Speech: adj 1. Describing multiple events or propositions such that the occurrence of any one implies the nonoccurrence of all other events or propositions. Boolean function of NOR logic gate Labels: not-comparable
Word: cryptic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin crypticus, from Ancient Greek κρυπτικός (kruptikós), from κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to hide”). Doublet of kryptic. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪptɪk/ 1. Having hidden (unapparent) meaning. 2. Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive. Example: I think the Original of this conceit might be, That the Students of Nature, conſcious to her more cryptick wayes of working, reſolve many ſtrange effects into the nearer efficiency of ſecond cauſes[…] Example: Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept, the cryptic induration of the aphrodisiac function. 3. Involving use of a code or cipher. 4. Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions. 5. Well camouflaged; having good camouflage. Example: Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic. 6. Serving as camouflage. Example: cryptic colouring Example: Episematic characters are far less common than aposematic, and these than cryptic; although, as regards the latter comparison, the opposite impression is generally produced from the fact that concealment is so successfully attained. 7. Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct. Labels: not-comparable Example: cryptic species 8. Living in a cavity or small cave. Example: Much of the Permian Capitan reef was strongly differentiated into open surface and cryptic communities.
Word: cryptic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin crypticus, from Ancient Greek κρυπτικός (kruptikós), from κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to hide”). Doublet of kryptic. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪptɪk/ 1. A cryptic crossword puzzle. Labels: informal Example: He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent. He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife. Example: This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.
Word: romantic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Rōma Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin Rōmānus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin rōmānicus Latin -ē Vulgar Latin rōmānicē Old French romanz Old French romauntder. English romant ▲ Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English romantic From romant + -ic, or borrowed from Late Latin romanticus (“(of a poem) having qualities of a romance”). Compare French romantique, which is borrowed from English. Also compare Spanish romántico, Portuguese romântico, Italian romantico, Dutch romantisch, and German romantisch and Romantiker (“a composer of Romantic music”), all of which are borrowed from English or French. Pronunciation: /ɹə(ʊ)ˈmæntɪk/, /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, [ɹə-], [-mæɾ̃ɪk], [-meə̯ntɪk] 1. A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance). 2. A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love). Example: Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic. Example: Kaldor is an interesting lyricist, and it is easy to identify with her imagery. She's also an unabashed romantic of the most extreme kind, with lines like "For we can talk without speaking/we can see without light/I'll never leave you...."
Word: romance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch. Pronunciation: /rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/, /ˈrəʊman(t)s/, /roʊˈmæn(t)s/, /ˈroʊˌmæn(t)s/, /roˈmæns/ 1. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance. 2. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: `Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.' 6. A tale of high adventure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on! 7. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the romance of cruising down the Nile. Example: There's a comforting romance to the space—the chalky white walls, the soaring ceilings, the natural light flooding in through the windows, all of which create a warm, flattering glow. 8. A literary or filmic genre about idealized love. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His life was a romance. 11. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing. 12. A sentimental piece of music; a romanza. Labels: countable, uncountable