nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: outercourse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of outer + intercourse. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtə(ɹ)ˌkɔː(ɹ)s/ 1. Sexual activity without vaginal or anal penetration. Labels: uncountable Example: Afterplay, also referred to as postcoital play, spans a wide variety of possible activities, including cuddling, holding hands, kissing, talking, stroking, massaging, or reengaging in sexual acts like oral sex, mutual masturbation, outercourse, or intercourse.
Word: columned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From column + -ed. 1. Having columns. Labels: not-comparable Example: The columned great hall seemed smaller because there were no straight lines of sight not blocked by a column. Example: […] the wall that bounds it on the side of the Palace, the one-columned portico at its southern end, and the paved ways that lead to it, […]
Word: rimming Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪmɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of rim Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rimming Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪmɪŋ/ 1. The act of performing a rim job; anilingus. Labels: informal, slang, uncountable, vulgar
Word: arsonic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. the acid HAs(=O)(OH)₂ derived from arsine 2. any hydrocarbyl derivative of this compound
Word: arsonium compound Part of Speech: noun 1. Any compound containing a cation of general formula R₄As⁺; the arsenic analog of quaternary ammonium compounds.
Word: snobbery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From snob + -ery – doubled ‘b’ to clarify pronunciation of ‘o’. Pronunciation: /ˈsnɔbəɹɪj/ 1. The property or trait of being a snob. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: snobbery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From snob + -ery (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈsnɔbəɹɪj/ 1. Synonym of snobby. Labels: colloquial, rare Example: The only thing Volksworld acts snobbery about is the amount of dangerously built shit they have had to put with over the years. Example: When I was at college, studying music, ALW [Andrew Lloyd Webber] music was frowned upon. In fact all show-type music was seen as non-classical, and non-innovative! Looks were given by staff, if someone were heard jamming ALW tunes. […] It is just so snobbery!! I think attitudes have changed slightly since I was there.
Word: snobberies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of snobbery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coordinated Part of Speech: adj 1. Organized, working together, cooperating 2. Physically graceful or skillful 3. Having coordinate bonds
Word: coordinated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of coordinate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: gick Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɪk/ 1. Excrement. Labels: Ireland, slang, uncountable Example: If I did a gick in me pants he'd kill me!
Word: policy-maker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of policymaker. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: American policy-makers reject the idea that a purportedly friendly, free market, democratic Japan could ever become a geopolitical rival. Example: From the briefing room at the State Department to the corridors of Whitehall in London and NATO headquarters in Brussels, a word usually avoided by policy-makers is being uttered ever more frequently to describe events in Kosovo: genocide. […] Policy-makers in the United States and Europe are invoking the word to help provide a legal justification for their military campaign against Serbia.
Word: architectonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”). Pronunciation: /ɑɹ.kə.tɛkˈtɑ.nɪk/ 1. Relating to or characteristic of architecture, design and construction. Example: architectonic wisdom Example: [T]he great Creator hath likevviſe ſignalized his Care and Skill, by giving Animals an architectonick Faculty, to build themſelves convenient places of Retirement, in vvhich to repoſe and ſecure themſelves, and to nurſe up their Young. 2. Foundational, fundamental; supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture. Labels: figuratively Example: We do not of course always, or even often, find the moral principles clearly and consciously expressed or consistently supported, but we cannot but feel that they are present in the shape of instincts, and those instincts pervading and architectonic. Example: […] the Agamemnon and the Libation-Bearers contain extensive choral odes, unequalled for their architectonic majesty in the whole range of dramatic art. 3. Relating to the scientific systematization of the totality of knowledge.
Word: architectonic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”). Pronunciation: /ɑɹ.kə.tɛkˈtɑ.nɪk/ 1. The design, structure, or architecture of something. Example: Because the poems are an investigation into the nature of time, it is important to be aware of the overall temporal architectonic of the love-cycle. Example: The question of commandeering social space and, by extension, reviving a public sphere could well be developed within the architectonic of Bakhtin's theory.
Word: ligger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English liggere; equivalent to lig + -er. Doublet of ledger. Many senses (especially sense 5) are likely formed anew from lig rather than continuations of the preceding senses. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪɡɚ/, /ˈlɪɡə/ 1. The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger. 2. A simply supported plank over a stream used as a footbridge. 3. A nether millstone. 4. A coverlet for a bed. 5. A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry. Labels: slang Example: Peaches Geldof may be a top showbiz ligger – but now she’s got a group of her own. Example: The ligger caused a scene when he begged one reveller to find him some gear – and offered sexual favours in return. 6. A kelt (“thin, recently spawned salmon”). 7. A baited fishing line attached to a float, for night fishing, etc. 8. One who lies in bed. Labels: dialectal 9. A layer. Labels: dialectal
Word: dire wolf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque from taxonomic name †Canis dirus. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.ɚ wʊlf/, /ˈdaɪə wʊlf/ 1. An extinct canine (†Aenocyon dirus) from the Pleistocene epoch, heavier and slightly larger than the modern grey wolf. Example: Colossal scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living relative, the company announced Monday. […] The three dire wolves are living on a 2,000-acre site at an undisclosed location enclosed by 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) “zoo-grade” fencing, where they are monitored by security personnel, drones and live camera feeds. 2. Synonym of warg (“type of wolf”).
Word: cloud-cuckoo-land Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkugía), from Aristophanes. Pronunciation: /klaʊdˈkʊkuːlænd/, /klaʊdˈkukulænd/ 1. An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside. Labels: uncountable Example: That glabrous dome that lifts itself so grand, / There in the marish, is the omphalos, / The navel, umbo, middle, central boss / Of the unique, sole, true Cloud-Cuckoo Land.
Word: wetback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback. Pronunciation: /ˈwɛtbæk/ 1. A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: 1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141, Mr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that. The CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”? Mr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously. Example: The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week. 2. A person of the mestizo race; a mojado. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: cracklins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cracklin (“cracklings”) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mojado Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mojado (literally “wet”), from espalda mojada. Pronunciation: /moʊˈhɑdoʊ/ 1. wetback Labels: US, slang Example: “They're trying to mess around with us,” said a 33-year-old carpenter who identified himself as Alfredo. “But there will still be work, and as long as there's work there will still be ‘mojados.’” Example: Mr. Davis provides his own (at times overly folksy) narration, telling us that since a 1994 federal law stepped up immigration patrols in urban centers, people like these mojados have been forced to reroute through the desert, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths from exposure, dehydration and injury in the last 10 years.
Word: wetbacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hang, draw and quarter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hang + draw and quarter. 1. To execute (someone) by hanging until nearly dead, followed by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering; especially as a punishment for high treason. Labels: historical, transitive Example: […]- and The Postgate, an inn named after a local priest, Father Nicholas Postgate, who was one of England's last Roman Catholic martyrs. He was hung, drawn and quartered at York in 1679 after baptising a child into the Roman faith. 2. To savagely attack, or attempt to utterly destroy. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: hanged, drawn and quartered by the press Example: One ASLEF representative believed: "We have been made to a degree the scapegoat of many politicians. We have been hanged, drawn and quartered by Dr Beeching in order that some people can prove the failure of public ownership."
Word: make haste Part of Speech: verb 1. To hurry or hasten. Labels: dated, intransitive Example: Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make haste: but, till I come again, No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay, Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain. Example: Bid the players make haste. Will you two help to hasten them?
Word: destroys Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of destroy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lowlands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lowland Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lowland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From low + land. 1. An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas. Example: Near-synonyms: bottomland, bottomlands, alluvial plain, floodplain, slough, bayou, marsh, bog, fen, moor, morass Example: The lowland region was prone to flooding during the rainy season.
Word: McNaughton rules Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1843, from the trial of Daniel McNaughton, who shot and murdered Edward Drummond, the Private Secretary to the then British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. 1. A test of criminal insanity by which "it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong". Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: kaross Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans karos, from Khoekhoe karo.s (“dried skin”). 1. A treated animal-skin cloak or blanket with the hair still left on. Labels: South-Africa Example: In South Africa, where the caracal abounds, its hide is made by the Kaffres into skin cloaks, known as karosses. Example: The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth.
Word: Scotland Yard Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the address, originally at Great Scotland Yard off Whitehall, then at New Scotland Yard on the Embankment, and (currently) at New Scotland Yard in Westminster. 1. The headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police Force. Labels: UK Example: I, for my part, drew up as full a précis of the case as I deemed advisable, and as time permitted, which I despatched by one of the company’s police to Scotland Yard. 2. The police in London. Labels: metonymically
Word: psychopathological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logie French pathologiebor. English pathology English psychopathology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical ▲ English psycho- ▲ English pathology ▲ English -ical English pathological English psychopathological From psychopathology + -ical, or from psycho- + pathological. Pronunciation: /saɪ.kəʊˌpæθ.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.k(ə)l/, /saɪ.koʊˌpæθ.əˈlɑːd͡ʒ.ɪ.k(ə)l/ 1. Of or relating to psychopathology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: institutionalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English institution English -al English institutional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English institutionalization From institutional + -ization. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnstɪˌtjuːʃnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The process of establishing a practice as a norm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The government began the institutionalization of background checks for internet users. 2. The process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The institutionalization of Syd Barrett was a major event in the history of the rock group Pink Floyd. 3. The presence of social deficits or disabilities as a result of a long period spent in a prison, mental hospitals, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mental hospital Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Piecewise doublet of mental hotel. 1. A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
Word: insane asylum Part of Speech: noun 1. A facility where persons with serious mental disorders are housed. Labels: dated
Word: emits Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of emit Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: crankle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crank + -le. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’." Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæŋkəl/, [ˈkʰɹʷæŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷæŋkl̩], /ˈkɹeɪ̯ŋkəl/, [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkl̩], /ˈkɹɛ̃ŋkəl/ 1. A bend, twist or crinkle.
Word: crankle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From crank + -le. Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’." Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæŋkəl/, [ˈkʰɹʷæŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷæŋkl̩], /ˈkɹeɪ̯ŋkəl/, [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkəl] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ŋkl̩], /ˈkɹɛ̃ŋkəl/ 1. To bend, turn, or wind. Example: Meander, who is said so intricate to bee, Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee. Example: Along the crankling path. 2. To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Example: Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.
Word: ELL Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of RNA polymerase II elongation factor: an enzyme found in Cajal bodies. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Initialism of English-language learner. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: lunatic asylum Part of Speech: noun 1. A facility where persons with serious mental disorders are housed. Labels: dated, offensive
Word: owls Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /aʊlz/, /ˈæ.wʉlz/ 1. plural of owl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: how've Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Germanic *hwō Old English hū Middle English how English how English -’ve English how've From how + -’ve. Pronunciation: /haʊv/ 1. Contraction of how + have. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction Example: How’ve you been?
Word: institutionalize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English institution English -al English institutional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English institutionalize From institutional + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃənəˌlaɪz/ 1. To establish as a normal practice. Example: Gary Orlando, legislative aid to McDonald, told GCN that the congressman sponsored the bill because "he does not want to institutionalize homosexual acts. We can't use funds to promote, legitimize, or accept this kind of behavior. 2. To commit a person to confinement in an institution.
Word: masquerading Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of masquerade Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: masquerading Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who masquerades. Example: At supper, the same evening, after his return, the emperor was relating to Berthier, Mortier, Duroc, and other officers present, the history of his unfortunate masqueradings, at the same time laughing very heartily at his want of success in un-playing the emperor.
Word: institutionalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of institutionalize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: institutionalized Part of Speech: adj 1. Having been established as an institution. Example: It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices. 2. Having been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum. Example: Once a potential employer learns that you've been institutionalized, you can forget about getting the job. 3. Having become dependent after a long time in, and unable to function outside of an institution, especially a prison.
Word: regular expression Part of Speech: noun 1. A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions. 2. Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression. Labels: broadly
Word: divided Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. simple past and past participle of divide Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: divided Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English divided, devided, devidid, past participle of Middle English dividen (“to divide”), equivalent to divide + -ed. 1. separated or split into pieces 2. having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions Example: divided opinions 3. disunited Example: divided nation 4. (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median Labels: US
Word: scobberlotcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown Pronunciation: /ˈskɒbəlɒt͡ʃə/ 1. An idle person.
Word: tiredness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tiredness, terednesse, equivalent to tired + -ness. 1. The state of being tired. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: jousting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/ 1. A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: jousting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of joust Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: there're Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /ˈðɛəˌɹə(ɹ)/, /ˈðɛɹɚ/ 1. Contraction of there are. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction Example: No, my prince. It's less than truthful. There are princes among men. There're men endowed with a special quality. It’s a quality for which they are loved—it may be by those who scarcely know them. As you were loved in Navarre. Example: There're a few blacks and Hispanics in town, but you somehow don't notice them.
Word: in the pink Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Ellipsis of in the pink of health. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal Example: The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity[…] 2. Nude, naked. Labels: informal Example: I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham. Example: [I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]
Word: kithless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English kith Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English kithless From kith + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪθ.lɪs/ 1. Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances or family. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete
Word: blackbirding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blackbird + -ing, perhaps from the putative slang blackbird (“indigenous Pacific islander”). 1. The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, uncountable Example: Burns Philp was to incur public odium in the most notorious case in Queensland concerning blackbirding. Example: Douglas Oliver, in Black Islanders, tells the story of a blackbirding party which, in 1871, captured a group of eighty-five unsuspecting Bougainvilleans who had taken their twenty-man canoes to the blackbirding ship out of curiosity or a desire to trade.
Word: blackbirding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blackbird + -ing, perhaps from the putative slang blackbird (“indigenous Pacific islander”). 1. present participle and gerund of blackbird Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spatulate Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈspa.tjʊ.lət/, /ˈspa.tʃʊ.lət/ 1. Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity. Example: “I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting. Of course, it is obvious that it is music. You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions?[…]” Example: For a moment he was sunk in thought, coiling (so it seemed) and uncoiling his long spatulate fingers. 2. Of a leaf: having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.
Word: spatulate Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈspa.tjʊ.lət/, /ˈspa.tʃʊ.lət/ 1. To treat or mix with a spatula. 2. To incise the end of (a pliable cylindrical structure) such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened.
Word: holstein Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Holstein (“breed of cattle”). Labels: alt-of, rare Example: The farm bureau, through subscriptions from members, was able to give a holstein bull calf and a trio of fowls as prizes in a contest among the winners of the six districts. Example: For Sale—Three registered holstein cows. Due to freshen the first of Jan. February and March. Prices that will sell. Age three and five years. Eugene Gibson, Smyrna.
Word: splotch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a variation of splot (“a spot”) (compare blotch, from blot). More at splot. Pronunciation: /splɒt͡ʃ/, /splɑt͡ʃ/ 1. An irregular-shaped spot or stain.
Word: splotch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a variation of splot (“a spot”) (compare blotch, from blot). More at splot. Pronunciation: /splɒt͡ʃ/, /splɑt͡ʃ/ 1. To mark with splotches.
Word: seriatim Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seriēs (“row, chain”) + -ātim, adverbial suffix. Pronunciation: /sɪəɹɪˈeɪtɪm/, /sɛɹɪˈeɪtɪm/ 1. One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an order; sequentially. Labels: not-comparable Example: That pen should go on, lay bare these wounds of our constitution, expose these decisions seriatim, and arouse, as it is able, the attention of the nation to these bold speculators on its patience. Example: The author then took up each step seriatim of the technique and after-treatment.
Word: seriatim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin seriatim, from Latin seriēs (“row, chain”) + -ātim, adverbial suffix. Pronunciation: /sɪəɹɪˈeɪtɪm/, /sɛɹɪˈeɪtɪm/ 1. Point by point; sequential. Labels: not-comparable Example: a seriatim review Example: The argument will also be the first test of the court’s announced hybrid system for oral argument, involving both the usual free-for-all questioning that was missing from the telephone arguments, and one round of seriatim questioning at the end of each arguing attorney’s presentation.
Word: blackbirder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blackbird + -er. 1. A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour). Example: The renaming of New South Wales’s Ben Boyd National Park — named for Australia’s first blackbirder — as Beowa National Park in 2022 was a good first step. But apologising for running a slave trade that tore tens of thousands of Pacific islanders from their families should not be a hard sell in Australia’s parliament. 2. A ship used for blackbirding; a slaver. 3. A slavecatcher Labels: US Example: Runaway slaves and free blacks were constantly being kidnapped by New York City’s many “Blackbirders,” slave-catching bounty hunters who deported their captures to the plantations.
Word: lim Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of limb. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: […] ſhe ſees his lims with ſweating ſpent, / And his neck dry’d, as when he did ſuſtaine / The heavens: […]
Word: barite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of baryte, from French barote, 1782 coinage from Ancient Greek βαρύτης (barútēs, “heaviness”), from βαρύς (barús) + -της (-tēs). By surface analysis, bar- + -ite. 1. A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: barytes Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαρύτης (barútēs, “heaviness”), from βαρύς (barús, “heavy”). 1. Barite. Labels: uncountable 2. plural of baryte Labels: form-of, plural, uncountable
Word: venefic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin venēficus, from venēnum (“poison”). Pronunciation: /vəˈnɛfɪk/ 1. poisonous; pertaining to poison or poisoning Labels: archaic Example: Our attorney and Elder Noyse and many others talk of venefic and malignant particles, which shoot from the eyes of witches and enter the bodies of the afflicted.
Word: Dene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Chipewyan, though most Athabaskan languages have a similar word meaning "person" that's often used as the name for the people who speak the language and/or the language itself. Doublet of Diné. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛneɪ/ 1. An Athabascan people of Canada, especially of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.
Word: fremman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of fremd + man. 1. A person not related; a non-relative or non-relation; a stranger.
Word: new- Part of Speech: prefix 1. newly, recently Labels: morpheme Example: newborn Example: newfound 2. anew, again, re- Labels: morpheme Example: newcreate Example: newmodel
Word: tickey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dubious: Possibly from Malay tiga (“three”). 1. A silver threepenny (2+¹⁄₂ cents from 1961) bit (last minted 1964). Labels: South-Africa, obsolete
Word: mielie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans mielie, from Portuguese milho. Pronunciation: /ˈmiː.li/ 1. Maize. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable Example: "Throughout most of the country, however, South African cuisine relies on meat and mielies. Many South Africans, black and white, would cheerfully go through their lives eating little else. Up to half the arable land in South Africa is planted with maize, which was grown by tribes across Southern African long before the colonists arrived. https://web.archive.org/web/20060720101224/http://www.southafrica.info/plan_trip/holiday/food_wine/920091.htm
Word: butt naked Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of butt-naked. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: When he told the story our father laughed out loud at the ide of them, scrambling up the bank, butt naked, chased by the furious driver. Example: On the other hand, someone may see me running butt naked and call the police to pick me up in a straight jacket.
Word: vaaljapie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans [Term?], from Dutch vaal (“pale, cloudy”) + japie (“Jack or Jim”). 1. Very raw young wine, usually with sediment. Labels: South-Africa, uncountable
Word: new chum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From new + chum. 1. A newly arrived convict. Labels: Australia, archaic 2. A beginner; a novice. Labels: Australia 3. A newly arrived and inexperienced immigrant; a newcomer. Labels: Australia, dated, derogatory, mildly Example: 1906, Edward Dyson, In the Roaring Fifties, 2005, Gutenberg eBook #17045, ‘New chum?’ queried the barman, after serving him. ‘I suppose I am,’ replied Jim. ‘Look here, would you mind telling me what in the devil′s name a new chum is?' ‘A new chum is a man fresh from home.’ ‘From England?' ‘Scotland, Ireland, anywhere else, if he′s green and inexperienced. Miners from the Californian fields don′t rank as new chums.’ 'And how am I known as a new chum?’ The barman grinned. ‘That′ll tell on you all over the place,’ he said, indicating the bag. ‘That′s a true new chum′s bundle. No Australian would expatriate himself by carrying his goods in that fashion. He makes them up in a roll, straps them, and carries them in a sling on his back. His bundle is then a swag. The swag is the Australian′s national badge.’ Example: Once, said he, a new chum came to the jarrah bush. A new chum is a tenderfoot, specifically an English tenderfot; he is, of course, the butt of every bush and mining camp in Australia.
Word: witblits Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans wit (“white”) + blits (“lightning”). 1. Home-distilled brandy or raw spirit, colourless and with a powerful kick. Labels: South-Africa, uncountable
Word: comorbidity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌkəʊmɔːˈbɪdɪti/, /ˌkoʊmoɹˈbɪdɪti/, [ˌkoʊmoɹˈbɪɾɪɾi] 1. The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder. Labels: uncountable Example: Extensive comorbidity is the hallmark of immunodeficiencies. Example: The reported comorbidity between categorical personality disorders and OCD ranges between 33 and 87 percent (Bejerot et al, 1998). 2. A disease thus coexisting. Labels: countable Example: Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus. Example: Yet in private conversations, members of his staff were also candid that the president has comorbidities that could make him more susceptible to a severe bout of the virus. 3. The effect of such additional disorders or diseases. Labels: uncountable
Word: mampoer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans, from Mampuru, the name of a Pedi chief. 1. Strong home-distilled peach or fruit liquor. Labels: South-Africa Example: "The Americans call it 'moonshine', to the warm-blooded Irish it is 'Poteen' and the Swiss call it 'Kirsch'. In South Africa, it is 'Witblits' in the Cape and to Transvalers it is just 'Mampoer'. Mampoer and the variety of names given to it are the names of strong, homemade distilled brandy made from fruit." https://web.archive.org/web/20060517051232/http://www.encounter.co.za/article/179.html - 15k
Word: boerewors Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans boerewors. 1. A type of sausage, usually flavoured with coriander seed, black pepper, nutmeg, cloves and allspice. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable Example: To make truly authentic boerewors you'll need a sausage stuffer and casings. Example: In the halcyon^([sic]) of sausages, if there were such a thing, boerewors would likely be crown prince.
Word: dark horse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally an allusion to an unknown horse with a dark coat winning a race, as used in the 1831 novel The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881). 1. Someone who possesses talents or favorable characteristics that are not known or expected by others. Labels: idiomatic Example: ‘She’s a dark horse,’ he said. ‘She knows just as much about climbing mountains as you or I. In fact, she was ahead of me the whole time, and I lost her.’ Example: As she pulled the door closed behind her, she heard the nurse say, “Well! You’re a dark horse, I must say! Do you know that extraordinary-looking girl?” 2. A candidate for an election who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice. Labels: idiomatic Example: That left Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69 — a quiet American dark horse who had, surprisingly, emerged in the evening’s vote — as a source of particular interest. 3. A horse whose capabilities are not known. 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, horse.
Word: die down Part of Speech: verb 1. To become less virulent or strong; to subside. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: We'll be able to sail safely across the bay once the storm dies down. Example: By the morning the fire had died down.
Word: eye of the storm Part of Speech: noun 1. A region of calm weather right in the middle of a storm. 2. A period of calm in a tumultuous time. Labels: idiomatic
Word: feel free Part of Speech: verb 1. To feel able without giving offense. Labels: idiomatic Example: The co-pilot didn't feel free to speak up to the pilot in the cockpit. 2. You have my permission. Example: While you're babysitting, feel free to open anything in the spirit cupboard. Example: Throughout the week, please feel free to share your view of the Games and our discussion in our comments section. I'll be checking in regularly. Until then, thanks to all or, more appropriately, xiexie. 3. You have my permission. Example: "Can I take a look at the draft you've prepared?" / "Feel free."
Word: fit as a fiddle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown; possibly alliterative. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪt æz ə ˈfɪdl̩/ 1. Perfectly fit; in excellent condition or health. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: This is excellent ynfayth, as fit as a Fiddle: […] Example: You wake up, feeling as fit as a fiddle; you look at the window and see the sun, and thank Heaven for a fine day.
Word: arsonous acid Part of Speech: noun 1. the acid HAs(OH)₂ derived from arsine 2. any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives
Word: flat out Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/ 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, out. Labels: not-comparable Example: So many of them took pictures, of themselves and of me, that we ran flat out of black-and-white film the second day out, and there wasn′t a Queen Mary necktie to be had in the shops after we left the port. 2. Complete, total, downright. Labels: not-comparable Example: Avoid Flat-Out Opposites The slob vs. the neatnik. The artist vs. the precision-freak. The freethinker vs. the tightass. Liberal vs. conservative. Jock vs. nerd. David vs. Goliath. Good vs. evil. Beauty and the Beast. Jekyll^([sic]) and Hyde. Example: I put up with a lot from them: sexist and racist jokes, routine descriptions of masculinist sexploitation, flat-out ridicule for my feminist views. 3. Very busy. Labels: not-comparable Example: I know we are all flat out. That is the way it is. We are flat out, and it becomes a way of life. Example: He [Riz Ahmed] duly leaves the way he came in: smiling, flat out, up against the clock. 4. Lazy, sleeping. Labels: Australia, not-comparable Example: flat out (like a lizard in the sun) - doing absolutely nothing
Word: flat out Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/ 1. At top speed. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath. Example: I had travelled one morning down to Aylesbury, and had left my train, and was about to cross the footbridge, when I heard the imperious whistle of a "B1." I paused, and round the bend came the "Master Cutler" with its engine working absolutely flat out. 2. Without hesitation or reservation, bluntly, no holds barred, totally, outright. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out. Example: He was flat out furious when his car was stolen.
Word: flat out Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/, /ˈflæt ˌaʊt/ 1. A total failure. Labels: US, dated 2. A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise. Example: His hands were of the same somber hue as the bare feet of the children who clustered near the table, looking toward it whistfully^([sic]) until the eldest mustered sufficient courage to ask his mother for "one of 'em yere flat-outs." 3. A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake. 4. A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down. Example: The would-be daredevils are mercifully prevented from going too fast by strategically placed flat-outs. 5. An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered. Example: The circuit is very well endowed with corners of all sorts from hairpins to flat-outs, has a 1,540-yd. straight and measures 5.2 miles, partly on an airfield, partly through a built-up area.
Word: flat out Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌflæt ˈaʊt/ 1. To fail after a promising beginning; to disappoint expectations. Labels: intransitive Example: 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 2015, Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books, Enhanced Media, page 413, I see myself there warn't no sense in the tale, to chop square off that way before it come to anything, but I warn't going to say so, because I could see Tom was souring up pretty fast over the way it flatted out […] . 2. Synonym of flatten out (to make flat) Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: arsorane Part of Speech: noun 1. the arsenic hydride AsH₅, λ⁵-arsane 2. arsenic pentafluoride, AsF₅ 3. any hydrocarbyl derivative of this compound
Word: fuddle-duddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fuddle, after fuddy-duddy, but development of meaning unclear. Perhaps from the interjection coined by Pierre Trudeau (see next etymology). 1. To depart, to be off.
Word: fuddle-duddle Part of Speech: intj Etymology: There is an example of the phrase's use in the early 1940s, in "Mother Finds a Body", by Gypsy Rose Lee: "...when [he] asks me where I was on the night of so-and-so, I'll tell him to go fuddle his duddle". However the expression fuddle-duddle is attributed to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada, who according to some sources said it in parliament on 16 February 1971 and repeated it when pressed by television reporters about using profanity in respect to members of Parliament (Canadian House of Commons). 1. Fuck! Fuck off! Labels: euphemistic Example: What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say “fuddle duddle” or something like that?
Word: aryne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Late Latin arōmaticusder. Old French aromatique Middle Frenchbor. Middle English English ar(omatic) English -yne English aryne From ar(omatic) + -yne. 1. Any hydrocarbon, normally a transient species, derived from an arene by removal of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbon atoms, and thus possessing a formal triple bond; the simplest is benzyne
Word: fiddle-faddle Part of Speech: noun 1. nonsense Labels: uncountable Example: I can understand why people read horoscopes, but for me it's a bunch of fiddle-faddle. Example: These foolish Mistresses do so hang about ye, so whimper, and so hug, I know it Gentlemen, and so intice ye, now ye are i’th’ bud; and that sweet tilting war, with eyes and kisses, th’ alarms of soft vows, and sighs, and fiddle faddles, spoils all our trade: you must forget these knick knacks, a woman at some time of year, I grant ye she is necessarie; but make no business of her.
Word: fiddle-faddle Part of Speech: verb 1. To trifle; to dally. Labels: intransitive Example: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
Word: fiddle-faddle Part of Speech: adj 1. Trifling; dallying; inclined to fuss about trifles. Labels: intransitive Example: I think, quoth Corporal Trim, with humble submission to your Honour’s better judgment,——that these ravelins, bastions, curtins, and hornworks, make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I could make of it were we in the country by ourselves, and had but a rood, or a rood and a half of ground to do what we pleased with: As summer is coming on, continued Trim, your Honour might sit out of doors, and give me the nography—(Call it ichnography, quoth my uncle,)——of the town or citadel, your Honour was pleased to sit down before,—and I will be shot by your Honour upon the glacis of it, if I did not fortify it to your Honour’s mind. Example: The witnesses made oath that they had heard some of the liverymen frequently railing at their mistress. They said she was a troublesome fiddle-faddle old woman, and so ceremonious that there was no bearing of her. They were so plagued with bowing and cringing as they went in and out of the room that their backs ached.
Word: wors Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans wors, from Dutch worst (“sausage”). Doublet of wurst. 1. boerewors Labels: South-Africa, countable, slang, uncountable
Word: atropisomer Part of Speech: noun 1. Any conformer that can be isolated as a separate chemical compound and that arises from restricted rotation about a single bond, as in biaryl atropisomers. Synonym: atropoisomer. Labels: physical
Word: auxochrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auxo- + -chrome. 1. any atom or group which, when added to a chromophore, causes a bathochromic shift in its spectrum
Word: front runner Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc. Labels: idiomatic Example: [T]he American League pennant did not shape up as much of a race. There were the Indians and the Yankees, front runners as usual. Example: Dubai, which would be the first host of a world’s fair in the Middle East, has emerged as the front-runner, offering the most financial and governmental support. 2. One who engages in front running.
Word: funny money Part of Speech: noun 1. Counterfeit money. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. Money obtained in a devious or sneaky manner. Labels: slang, uncountable 3. An outrageously high price. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: They wanted funny money for it, so I refused. 4. Banknotes of any foreign currency. Labels: derogatory, often, slang, uncountable 5. A highly inflated currency. Labels: US, informal, slang, uncountable 6. Play money. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: chromophore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chromo- + -phore. 1. that part of the molecule of a dye responsible for its colour 2. (more generally) the group of atoms in a molecule in which the electronic transition responsible for a given spectral band is located
Word: brand-new Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of brand new. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gee whiz Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Alteration of Jesus. Pronunciation: /dʒiː wɪz/, /dʒiː ʍɪz/ 1. An expression of surprise, enthusiasm, or annoyance: wow or so what? Labels: US, dated Example: You only got 10% in the test. Gee whiz – you'll get over it. Example: When people would get off they always gasped out: 'Gee whiz, what a horse! Gee whiz, did you ever see anything like that! '
Word: gee whiz Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Alteration of Jesus. Pronunciation: /dʒiː wɪz/, /dʒiː ʍɪz/ 1. Very good, impressive. Labels: informal Example: These are some gee-whiz photographs.
Word: azacarbene Part of Speech: noun 1. A nitrene.
Word: ur- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From German ur-, from Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur- (“out; without”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away, out, outwards”). Doublet of a- and or-. Cognate also with Dutch oer- and Dutch oor-. Pronunciation: /ʊə/, /ɜː/, /ʊɹ/, /ɝ/ 1. Forming words with the sense of “proto-, primitive, original”. Labels: morpheme Example: Some stories reach deeper, into the most primal and profound truths. They mirror, in new and original ways, the Ur-myth, the act of creation itself. Example: Lebanon ultimately remains hostage to the regional ur-conflict over Palestine.
Word: get down to brass tacks Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The origin is uncertain. It is probably a variant of the earlier term down to the brass (see, for example, the 1854 quotation), and the following etymologies have been suggested: * The term refers to the brass tacks used in upholstery which have to be removed when a piece of furniture is reupholstered, or brass tacks stuck into the counter of a draper’s shop or hardware store to measure items precisely in yards. * Another possibility is that the brass tacks are nails used to seal coffin lids, or tacks used to decorate or indicate a deceased person’s initials on such lids, and thus the term refers to dealing with matters as serious as death. Pronunciation: /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn tə bɹɑːs ˈtæks/, /ɡɛt ˈdaʊn tə bɹæs ˈtæks/ 1. To (start to) consider or deal with the most important details or facts about something. Labels: idiomatic Example: He did not wish to delay action, but was ready to vote instanter.—A reference now would amount to a defeat of the memorial. It was better to come right down to the brass and vote. Example: When you come down to brass tacks—if we may be allowed the expression—everybody is governed by selfishness.