nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: bird song Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of birdsong. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: birdsong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bird + song. 1. Vocalisations made by birds, considered collectively. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: First a solitary blackbird started up, and soon the whole forest was alive with birdsong. 2. A vocalisation made by a bird, more complex than a call, for purposes associated with courtship and territory. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: black currant Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of blackcurrant. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: crestfallen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crest + fallen, from the appearance of a horse with its crest (head) on its chest after defeat in a battle. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛstfɔːlən/, /ˈkɹɛstfɔlən/, /ˈkɹɛstfɑlən/ 1. Sad because of a disappointment. Example: Tom's cheeks burned. He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen. Example: Gregson looked quite crest-fallen. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side. Labels: obsolete
Word: through Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English thrugh, thruch, thruh, metathetic variants of thurgh, thurh, from Old English þurh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw (“through”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷe, suffixed zero-grade from *terh₂- (“to pass through”) + *-kʷe (“and”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian döör (“through”), Saterland Frisian truch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Luxembourgish duerch (“through”), West Flemish deur (“through”), Yiddish דורך (durkh, “through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Latin trans (“across, over, through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough. Pronunciation: /θɹuː/, /θɹʉw/, /θɹu/, /θɹʉː/, /θɾʉ/ 1. Passing from one side of something to the other. Labels: not-comparable Example: Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads. Example: It is possible to use a through bolt so that the bolt will be loaded axially, but usually axial loads are only components of the total load on the bolt. 2. Finished; complete. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: They were through with laying the subroof by noon. Example: Early in the Talmudic period the service was divided between two officers. One was invited to recite the Shema including the benedictions connected with it […] After he was through, another man was invited to stand up before the pulpit facing the direction of Jerusalem to recite the prayer proper, i.e., the Amida. 3. Along the course of a task etc.; used in expressions of progress towards the end. Labels: not-comparable Example: It's a big job but we're halfway through. 4. Without a future; done for. Labels: not-comparable Example: After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services. Example: You chumps are tougher than you look. But I'm not through yet! Everyone! GET 'EM!!! 5. No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience. Labels: not-comparable Example: She was through with him. Example: “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”. 6. Proceeding from origin to destination without the need to change transport vehicle. Labels: not-comparable Example: The through flight through Memphis was the fastest. Example: When is the next through train to London? 7. In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal. Labels: not-comparable Example: With the Swifts calling for offside the striker was through and only a great save from McIlravey prevented the opener. 8. (usually followed by "to") Able to progress (to the next stage or a higher level) following success in an exam, sports match, etc. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, not-comparable, rare Example: Manchester United are through to the FA Cup Final for the thirteenth time.
Word: through Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English thrugh, thruch, thruh, metathetic variants of thurgh, thurh, from Old English þurh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw (“through”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷe, suffixed zero-grade from *terh₂- (“to pass through”) + *-kʷe (“and”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian döör (“through”), Saterland Frisian truch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Luxembourgish duerch (“through”), West Flemish deur (“through”), Yiddish דורך (durkh, “through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Latin trans (“across, over, through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough. Pronunciation: /θɹuː/, /θɹʉw/, /θɹu/, /θɹʉː/, /θɾʉ/ 1. From one side of something to the other. Labels: not-comparable Example: The arrow went straight through. Example: I didn't like the look of the place, so I drove through without stopping. 2. From one side of something to the other. Labels: not-comparable Example: I opened the window and climbed through. 3. From one side of something to the other. Labels: not-comparable Example: The road is blocked by an overturned truck, and cars can't get through. Example: The American army broke through at Saint-Lô. 4. So as to pass a stage in a process and proceed to the next stage or level. Labels: not-comparable Example: The bill will be tabled tomorrow, but I doubt that it will be voted through. Example: She progressed through to the final round of the competition. 5. From beginning to end, or from the present position to the end. Labels: not-comparable Example: Others went to bed for the night; he worked straight through. Example: She read the letter through. 6. Throughout something; all the way across or into. Labels: not-comparable Example: Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through. 7. So as to connect or reach. Labels: not-comparable Example: I've been ringing my bank all day, and finally I've got through. Example: Can you put me through to the manager?
Word: through Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thrugh, þrouȝ, throgh, from Old English þrūh (“trough, conduit, pipe; box, chest; coffin, tomb”), from Proto-Germanic *þrūhs (“hollowed-out wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₃u- (“to rub, turn, drill, bore”). Not directly related with German Truhe (“chest”), which belongs to the root of English trough. However, these two Germanic roots seem to have influenced each other early on. Pronunciation: /θɹʌf/, /θɹuː/ 1. A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb, or in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend. Labels: obsolete
Word: thus Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English thus, þus, from Old English þus (“thus, in this way, as follows, in this manner, to this extent”), from Proto-West Germanic *þus (“so, thus”), perhaps originally from a variant of the instrumental form of this, related to Old English þȳs (“by this, with this”), Old Saxon thius (“by this, with this”). Cognate with Scots thus (“thus”), North Frisian thus, Saterland Frisian dus, düs (“thus”), West Frisian dus (“thus”), Dutch dus (“thus, so”), Middle High German dus (“thus, as follows”). Compare also Dutch zus (“thus, hence”), Low German sus (“thus, hence”), Middle High German sus (“thus, hence”), a similar formation from the stem of Proto-West Germanic *swā (“so”). Pronunciation: /ˈðʌs/, /ðʊs/ 1. In this way or manner. Labels: formal, literary, not-comparable Example: If you throw the ball thus, as I’m showing you, you’ll have better luck hitting the target. Example: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]. 2. As a result. Labels: conjunctive, formal, literary, not-comparable Example: I have all the tools I need; thus, I will be able to fix the car without having to call a mechanic. 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.
Word: thus Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈðʌs/, /ðʊs/ 1. Alternative form of thuris. Labels: alt-of, alternative, formal, literary, uncountable
Word: fig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico. Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. 2. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. Example: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 3. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. Example: I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter! Example: About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig. 4. A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata) 5. A raisin (dried grape). Labels: Newfoundland, dated Example: figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins 6. A small piece of tobacco. Example: “You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.” Example: This was followed by his presenting his sable acquaintance with a fig of tobacco, whereupon, instead of thanking the donor in the usual way, the black signified his gratitude by throwing a spear at twenty or thirty yards' distance. 7. A fico, a contemptuous gesture.
Word: fig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico. Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture. Labels: obsolete Example: When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard. 2. To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. Labels: obsolete 3. To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. Labels: dated Example: For filling figged soaps silicate of potash is best adapted, as soda prevents in a measure the proper crystallization. [...] Artificially figged soap [...makes] a very close imitation of the naturally figged soap. Example: Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.
Word: fig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variation of fike. Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. To move suddenly or quickly; rove about. Labels: intransitive
Word: fig Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. A person's figure; dress or appearance. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: fig Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. Abbreviation of figure (“to calculate; to think; to come to understand”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. To dress; to get oneself up a certain way. Labels: colloquial, dated, transitive
Word: fig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See figging. Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man. Example: He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.
Word: fig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See figging. Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/ 1. The piece of ginger root used in figging.
Word: fig leaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *figge leef (attested in the plural figge leves), a partial calque of Old English fīclēaf (“fig leaf”). By surface analysis, fig + leaf. 1. A leaf of the fig plant. 2. A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness). Example: This figleaf morality expresses a very unhealthy mental attitude. 3. Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered. Labels: figuratively Example: True, David Brog, one of the organizers of last week’s conference, insisted that national conservatives are not anti-immigrant. But this is a fig leaf. [University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy] Wax explicitly made an argument for limiting the number of nonwhites entering the US. Example: In fact, speaking of paedos, the prime minister chose to use one as a figleaf.
Word: watermelon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old English wæter Middle English water English water English melon English watermelon Endocentric compound of water + melon. Compare French melon d'eau, German Wassermelone, and Spanish melón de agua. The meanings referring to environmentalists and behind-schedule projects derive from the idea of having a green (eco-friendly, on-schedule) outward appearance while being red (socialist, behind schedule) in a hidden way comparable to that of the fruit. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəˌmɛlən/, /ˈwɑtəɹˌmɛlən/, /ˈwɒːt̞ɚˌmɛlən/, /ˈwaːhɐˌmɛlən/, /ˈwaːʔɐˌmɛlən/ 1. A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black seeds. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An environmentalist with socialist leanings, an ecosocialist. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: According to this distorted view of life, environmentalists are watermelons – green on the outside, red on the inside – who want to impose regulation, “the slippery slope to socialism”, on the use of tobacco, ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases. 4. A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh (also called watermelon pink). Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A project that is presented as on schedule when it actually has parts that are falling behind. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The nuts and bolts of any project are transparency. If the project status is transparent, the watermelons can’t arise. If anybody is able to get the information, it will be difficult to hide something. Example: As a PMO [project management officer], wherever I see watermelon reporting, I encourage the PM [project manager] to be brave and honest enough to ask for help. 6. A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human. Labels: colloquial, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: jar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”). The word is cognate with Italian giara (“jar; crock”), Occitan jarro, Portuguese jarra, jarro (“jug; ewer, pitcher”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑː/, [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)], /d͡ʒɑɹ/, [d͡ʒɑɹ], /d͡ʒɐː/ 1. An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial. Example: She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening. Example: As I was going over the far fam'd Kerry mountain / I met with Captain Farrell [a]nd his money he was counting, / I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier, / Sayin', "Stand and deliver for you are my bold deceiver,["] / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, There's whiskey in the jar / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, Whack fol the diddle, / O, There's whiskey in the jar. 2. A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes. Example: The Leyden jar is charged, like the condenser of Œpinus and the fulminating square, by making one of the armatures communicate with the earth and the other with the electric source. Example: These important deficiencies in air-tight jars for preserving eggs have led me to invent a jar purposely for egg preserving, and which jar is not only perfectly air-tight, but it will show at a glance whether it is so, and how long it remains so, by means of its patent pneumatic self-indicating cap. 3. A container and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful. Example: A smaller plate was immersed, while the combustion was in active operation, in a glass jar of carbonic acid gas without any diminution of the incandescence of its surface, showing that the combustion is independent of the atmosphere in which takes place. Example: Who do you think you are? / Runnin' 'round leaving scars / Collecting your jar of hearts / And tearing love apart 4. A pint glass Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial 5. A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, metonymically Example: About a shopping trolley, I thought I'd let ye know. Ya'd try to push it straight but it never seems ta go. Ya'd wobble through the car park, hopping off the cars. Anyone would think ya had a few auld jars.
Word: jar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English jarre (“jar”), from Medieval Latin jarra, or from Middle French jarre (“liquid measure”) (from Old French jare; modern French jarre (“earthenware jar”)), or from Spanish jarra, jarro (“jug, pitcher; mug, stein”), all from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”). The word is cognate with Italian giara (“jar; crock”), Occitan jarro, Portuguese jarra, jarro (“jug; ewer, pitcher”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑː/, [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)], /d͡ʒɑɹ/, [d͡ʒɑɹ], /d͡ʒɐː/ 1. To preserve (food) in a jar. Labels: transitive Example: It's important to consider the safety of jarring food. Eating food that has been spoiled because it wasn't jarred properly correctly can result in the disease botulism.
Word: jar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier jar, jur, jarre, jurre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier *char, *chur, *charre, *churre (now spelt chirr, churr (“to make a sound”); compare also nightjar and its variant nightchurr), from Middle English *chirren, *cherren, *churren (“to sound, cry, murmur, complain”), from Old English ċeorian (“to murmur, gripe, complain with just cause”), from Proto-West Germanic *karēn (“to complain”). For the change of ch to j, compare also charm, jarm (“chirping”); achar, ajar (“slightly turned or open”), chaw, jaw, etc. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑː/, [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)], /d͡ʒɑɹ/, [d͡ʒɑɹ], /d͡ʒɐː/ 1. A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality. Labels: countable 2. A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck. Labels: also, countable, figuratively Example: [...] yet (good-deed) Leontes, I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay? Example: Through the stir and motion of the commoner streets; through the roar and jar of many vehicles, many feet, many voices; with the blazing shop-lights lighting him on, the west wind blowing him on, and the crowd pressing him on; he is pitilessly urged upon his way, and nothing meets him, murmuring, "Don't go home!" 3. A sense of alarm or dismay. Labels: broadly, countable 4. The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash. Labels: countable Example: Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors. 5. A disagreement, a dispute, a quarrel; (uncountable) contention, discord; quarrelling. Labels: archaic, countable Example: So loue does raine / In ſtouteſt minds, and maketh monſtrous warre; / He maketh warre, he maketh peace againe, / And yett his peace is but continuall iarre: / O miſerable men, that to him ſubject arre. Example: I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
Word: jar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier jar, jur, jarre, jurre, of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier *char, *chur, *charre, *churre (now spelt chirr, churr (“to make a sound”); compare also nightjar and its variant nightchurr), from Middle English *chirren, *cherren, *churren (“to sound, cry, murmur, complain”), from Old English ċeorian (“to murmur, gripe, complain with just cause”), from Proto-West Germanic *karēn (“to complain”). For the change of ch to j, compare also charm, jarm (“chirping”); achar, ajar (“slightly turned or open”), chaw, jaw, etc. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑː/, [d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)], /d͡ʒɑɹ/, [d͡ʒɑɹ], /d͡ʒɐː/ 1. To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement. Labels: transitive Example: He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose. Example: [T]he wrought iron arms of a fly-wheel were jarred loose in the cast iron rim, and broke off quite short from the rapid and continued violent shocks caused by the cam striking the helve, although the iron was of the toughest description originally. 2. To harm or injure by such action. Labels: transitive 3. To shock or surprise. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since. 4. To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: VVhen thoſe renoumed^([sic – meaning renowned]) noble Peres of Greece, / thrugh ſtubborn pride amongſt theſelues did iar / forgetfull of the famous golden fleece, / then Orpheus vvith his harp theyr ſtrife did bar. Example: For Orders and Degrees / Jarr not with liberty, but well conſiſt. 5. To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The clashing notes jarred on my ears. Example: How irkſome is this Muſick to my heart? / When ſuch Strings iarre, what hope of Harmony? 6. To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck. Labels: intransitive 7. Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent. Labels: figuratively, intransitive
Word: purse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”). Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”). Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”). Pronunciation: /pɜːs/, /pɜɹs/ 1. A small bag for carrying money. Example: And then muſt many a man occupie as farre as his purſe would reache, and ſtretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet. 2. A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items) Labels: US Example: Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather. 3. A quantity of money given for a particular purpose. Example: It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns. 4. A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia. Labels: historical
Word: purse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”). Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”). Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”). Pronunciation: /pɜːs/, /pɜɹs/ 1. To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. Labels: transitive Example: 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, https://archive.org/details/landofcockayne00seraiala The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun. Example: 1916, Leonid Andreyev, "An Original" in The Little Angel and Other Stories, translated by W. H. Lowe, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 85, https://archive.org/details/littleangelother00andriala Anton Ivanovich pursed up his lower lip so that his grey moustache pressed against the tip of his red pitted nose, took in all the officials with his rounded eyes, and after an unavoidable pause emitted a fat unctuous laugh. 2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. Example: […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […] Example: Upon hearing Billy's version, the sage Dansker seemed to divine more than he was told; and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore, "Didn't I say so, Baby Budd?" 3. To put into a purse. Example: And I will go and purse the ducats straight, 4. To steal purses; to rob. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare Example: Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.
Word: Jones Part of Speech: name Etymology: Genitive of John. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊnz/, /d͡ʒoʊnz/ 1. An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name John. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally. Example: If you had done anything drastic you would have told me so in your letter. You would have said, ‘Dear Peter, I have a case to submit to you; but before doing so I think it only right to inform you that I am engaged to Mr. Jones of Jesus.’ […] ”Good God!” said Wimsey, turning to Harriet. “Is this by any chance Mr. Jones of Jesus?” ”Who are you calling a bloody Welshman?” snarled the young man, much exasperated. “My name’s Pomfret.” 2. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: Jones Part of Speech: name Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊnz/, /d͡ʒoʊnz/ 1. plural of Jone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mrs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mistress. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪs.ɪz/, /-səz/, /-sɪs/, /ˈmɪs/, /ˈmɪz/ 1. Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress; used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: Mrs Mal[aprop]. O, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! ſhe's as headſtrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Example: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
Word: soft Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same. Pronunciation: /sɒft/, /sɔːft/, /sɔft/, /sɑft/, /sæft/ 1. Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast. Labels: archaic Example: Soft you; a word or two before you goe: / I haue done the State ſome ſeruice, and they know’t: / No more of that. Example: But ſoft, what light through yonder window breaks?
Word: soft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte, alteration of earlier sēfte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *sōmiz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same. Pronunciation: /sɒft/, /sɔːft/, /sɔft/, /sɑft/, /sæft/ 1. A soft-headed or foolish person; an idiot. Labels: archaic, countable Example: It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch. 2. A soft drink. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Artois' story with water and softs was embodied in the difficult relationship between Raymond Boon and Spa's main owner and CEO, Guy du Bois. 3. A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts. Labels: countable 4. A soft sound or part of a sound. Labels: colloquial, countable Example: The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […] 5. A piece of software. Labels: countable, dated, nonstandard, rare Example: Sega and third-party licensees are set to release an abundance of softs that range from intense shooters to sports to reflex-testers. 6. Banknotes. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: At the end of the two years and a half I got into the way of forged Bank-of-England notes. A man I knew in the course of business, said, ‘I would cut that game of ‘smatter-hauling,’ (stealing handkerchiefs), and do a little soft,’ (pass bad notes). Example: Putting his mouth to my ear, he whispered hoarsely. "Do you want to buy any queer soft?" […] In my dream I had been haunted by a counterfeiter, vulgarly called "a smasher."
Word: soft Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English softe, from Old English sōfte (“softly”), from Proto-West Germanic *samftō (“softly”). Pronunciation: /sɒft/, /sɔːft/, /sɔft/, /sɑft/, /sæft/ 1. Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly. Labels: obsolete Example: A Knight soft ryding towards them they spyde Example: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Word: absolut Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of absolute. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: So, remetting all to your consideration, I rest ever hym quhome you haue most absolut pouer to command, BUKCLEUGHE Example: […] even the most absolut politick Empire that can be lawfully set up by men is Iyable to these implyed yea indispensable conditions and exceptions, […]
Word: acar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay/Indonesian acar. Doublet of achar, atchara, and atsara. 1. A vegetable pickle of Maritime Southeast Asia, a local version of the Indian achar. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: malediction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English malediccion, from Middle French malédiction, from Latin maledictiō (“curse”) from malus (“evil”) + dictiō (“speech”) noun of action from perfect passive participle dictus (“spoken”), from verb dīcō (“speak”). Pronunciation: /ˌmæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən/, /-.ɪˈ-/ 1. A curse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [H]is friend, with great ebullience of paſſion, many praiſes of his own good play, and many maledictions on the power of chance, took up the cards, and threw them into the fire. Example: In view of all that we have said in the foregoing sections, the many obstacles we appear to have surmounted, what casts the pall over our victory celebration? It is the curse of dimensionality, a malediction that has plagued the scientist from earliest days. 2. Evil speech. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pettyfogger Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who quibbles over trifles. Example: [page 200] This Fellow, I ſay, ſtiled himſelf a Lawyer, but was indeed a moſt vile Petty-fogger, without Senſe or Knowledge of any Kind; one of thoſe who may be termed Train-bearers to the Law; [...] [page 206] The Pettyfogger now likewiſe departed, and then Jones deſired the favour of Mrs Whitefield’s Company to drink Tea with him; but ſhe refuſed, and with a Manner ſo different from that with which ſhe had received him at Dinner, that it a little ſurprized him.
Word: adjutant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably in part from Spanish ayudante and in part from Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), nominal uses of present participial adjectives from respectively ayudar and ajudar, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after its present participle adiūtāns (acc. adiūtantem). The stork's name is derived from the military sense, owing to its marchlike stiff gait when on ground. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/ 1. An assistant. 2. A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs. 3. Either the greater or the lesser adjutant, stork species of the genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae, native to India and Southeast Asia. Example: Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
Word: adjutant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably in part from Spanish ayudante and in part from Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), nominal uses of present participial adjectives from respectively ayudar and ajudar, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after its present participle adiūtāns (acc. adiūtantem). The stork's name is derived from the military sense, owing to its marchlike stiff gait when on ground. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.d͡ʒə.tənt/ 1. Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer. Labels: not-comparable Example: adjutant officer
Word: aeroport Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértusder. Proto-Italic *portus Latin portusbor. Old English port English port English aeroport From aero- + port as a modification of earlier airport. Compare French aéroport. 1. An airport. Labels: dated Example: Almost all the air accidents occur in the near vicinity of an aeroport […] Example: ...to imitate flow of aircraft through an airspace and behavior of landing and taking-off aircraft in an aeroport area.
Word: skydive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sky + dive. Pronunciation: /ˈskaɪˌdaɪv/ 1. An instance of skydiving.
Word: skydive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sky + dive. Pronunciation: /ˈskaɪˌdaɪv/ 1. To be in freefall after jumping from an aircraft and landing safely by deploying a parachute. Labels: intransitive
Word: terrorist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English terrorist From terror + -ist. In the historical sense, after French terroriste. First used in 1794 in the Courier and Evening Gazette. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/ 1. A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals. Example: Hooooly shit! That is terrible, because (1), he is not a terrorist, and (2), I do hope we have a better strategy for dealing with terrorists than flagging their credit reports and denying them their dream apartments! Hey, not in America! Not in America! 2. An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Labels: historical 3. Deliberate misspelling of tourist. Labels: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, humorous, misspelling
Word: terrorist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English terrorist From terror + -ist. In the historical sense, after French terroriste. First used in 1794 in the Courier and Evening Gazette. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/ 1. Of or relating to terrorism. Labels: not-comparable Example: 2002 January 29, George Walker Bush, "2002 State of the Union Address". States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. Example: This controversy is quite similar to the red-tagging brouhaha exploded against me by Gabriela and its ilk in the CPP-NPA-NDF legal front. In a Facebook post, I had warned Liza Soberano of the deceptive tactics of the group in recruiting showbiz icons into the communist terrorist insurgency. I was very specific in that post, saying the advice is being issued by a father, a brother or an uncle not wanting to have his daughter, sister or niece led down the road to perdition. The seeming mouthpieces of the CPP hiding in Rappler, Inquirer and Philippine Star suddenly had a heyday slamming me for allegedly red tagging the actress as well as Miss Universe Catriona Gray.
Word: solum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin solum (“base, bottom; soil”). Doublet of soil. Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊləm/, /ˈsoʊləm/, /ˈsəʉləm/, /ˈsɐʉləm/ 1. Within a soil profile, a set of related soil horizons that share the same cycle of pedogenic processes; the upper layers of a soil profile that are affected by climate.
Word: parcel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle. Pronunciation: [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ], /ˈpɑɹsəl/, [ˈpʰɑɹ.səɫ], [ˈpʰɐː.səɫ] 1. A package wrapped, as for shipment or transport. Example: I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep. Example: At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor. 2. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form. 3. An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels). 4. A division of land bought and sold as a unit. Example: I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery. 5. A group of birds. Labels: obsolete 6. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. Example: […] this youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, Example: "Come, now," said the hill-man, "let us hear who else is to be at the christening?" "Ah," said the boy, "we are to have a great parcel of strangers and great people." 7. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry. 8. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. Example: A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. Example: The same Experiments succeed on two Parcels of the White of an Egg […]
Word: parcel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle. Pronunciation: [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ], /ˈpɑɹsəl/, [ˈpʰɑɹ.səɫ], [ˈpʰɐː.səɫ] 1. To wrap something up into the form of a package. 2. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope. Example: Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way. 3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into. Example: Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general. Example: Thoſe ghoſtly Kings would parcel out my pow’r, / And all the fatneſs of my Land devour; 4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. Example: […] that mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy!
Word: parcel Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English parcel, from Old French parcelle (“a small piece or part, a parcel, a particle”), from Late Latin particella, diminutive of Latin particula (“particle”), diminutive of partem (“part, piece”). Doublet of particle. Pronunciation: [ˈpʰɑː.səɫ], /ˈpɑɹsəl/, [ˈpʰɑɹ.səɫ], [ˈpʰɐː.səɫ] 1. Part or half; in part; partially. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […] Example: […] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]
Word: bud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English budde, bodde (“bud, seed pod”), from Old English *budde, from Proto-West Germanic *buʀdā, from Proto-Germanic *buzdǭ (compare archaic German Butte (“rosehip”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”). Compare also German Low German Butte, Butt (“bud”), Dutch bot (“bud”), regional German Butz, Butzen (“seed pod; apple core”), German Low German Haagbutt ("rosehip"; Haagbudden (“rosehips”, plural)). Pronunciation: /bʌd/ 1. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds. Example: Among Turks, pills consisting of hemp buds, muscat nuts, saffron, and honey were a popular aphrodisiac. 2. Something that has begun to develop. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: breast buds 3. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds. 4. Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable, usually Example: You got any buds? 5. Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, slang, uncountable, usually Example: Hey bro, want to smoke some bud? 6. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A pretty young girl. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: My pretty bud was unfolding and I was not there to see it. She was developing so rapidly, I felt I could not be from her a day without missing some sweetness that could never come again.