nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mad as a hatter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First recorded 1829. Of uncertain origin, though usually explained as referring to hat-makers suffering from Erethism due to handling mercury-contaminated felt. Derivation from Old English ātor (“poison”) or its descendant English atter lacks evidence. Pronunciation: /ˌmæd æz ə ˈhætə/, /ˌmæd æz ə ˈhætɚ/ 1. Crazy or demented. Labels: not-comparable Example: He's a very good fellow, but as mad as a hatter. He's called Madman, you know. And never was such a fellow for getting all sorts of rum things about him. He tamed two snakes last half, and used to carry them about in his pocket; and I'll be bound he's got some hedgehogs and rats in his cupboard now, and no one knows what besides. Example: "I think he’d be as mad as a hatter at your insinuation that he would invite any of his wives, if all I hear of him is true; and what I’ve heard, Wolsey has told me."
Word: sextile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sextīlis (“one sixth”), from sextus (“sixth”) + īlis (“-ile”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛks.taɪl/ 1. Of or denoting the aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 60°. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sextile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sextīlis (“one sixth”), from sextus (“sixth”) + īlis (“-ile”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛks.taɪl/ 1. A quantile of six equal proportions; any of the subsets thus obtained. 2. A segment that is a sixth of the whole. 3. A sextile aspect or position.
Word: sextiles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈsɛks.taɪlz/ 1. plural of sextile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: quantile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) + -ile. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒn.taɪl/ 1. One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability. Example: It should be noted that quantile regression controls for the quantiles of the y variable, and not of the original covariate i.e. the x variable.
Word: quantiles Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒn.taɪlz/ 1. plural of quantile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: literatim Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Medieval Latin litterātim, from littera (“letter”). First known use: 1643. Pronunciation: /ˌlɪ.tɚˈeɪ.tɪm/ 1. Letter by letter. Labels: not-comparable Example: In order to give its Scots flavor to the eye, as I cannot to the ear, I shall transcribe its beginning literatim.
Word: gradatim Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Attested in English since 1575–1585: from Latin gradātim, from gradus (“step”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹæ.dæˈtiːm/, /ɡɹəˈdeɪ.tɪm/ 1. Step by step; gradually and methodically. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…
Word: methodically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English methodical Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English methodically From methodical + -ly. Pronunciation: /mɪˈθɑdɪkəli/, [mɪˈθɑɾɪkəli] 1. In a methodical manner; with order. Example: He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.
Word: graph theorist Part of Speech: noun 1. A mathematician or computer scientist who specializes in graph theory
Word: number theorist Part of Speech: noun 1. A mathematician who specializes in number theory
Word: group theorist Part of Speech: noun 1. An algebraist who specializes in group theory
Word: ring theorist Part of Speech: noun 1. An algebraist who specializes in ring theory.
Word: representation theorist Part of Speech: noun 1. An algebraist who specializes in representation theory
Word: swilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swilling Part of Speech: noun 1. Greedy drinking. Example: Amid raucous shouts and swillings of beer they informed Tommy that he had just been awarded an immediate bar to his D.F.C. […]
Word: anthimeria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin antimeria, from Latin anti- (from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ- (ăntĭ-, “opposite”)) + Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + Latin -ia, with non-etymological ⟨h⟩. Pronunciation: /ænθɪˈmɪəɹiə/ 1. The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable, usually Example: Not only is "I googled that hottie" great publicity for the company, but it's fresh and funny and an excellent example of how anthimeria gives English an invigorating slap upside the head. Example: Consider some other examples of anthimeria using slightly different types of words in the noun slot: Crystal's slogans "Full of Wow" and "Full of Yum," and the popular use of fail as a noun, as in "an epic fail" or "buckets of fail."
Word: gaje Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gadjo (“non-Roma”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: laste Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of last. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: longe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope. Pronunciation: /lʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope. Labels: US, transitive
Word: longe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope. Pronunciation: /lʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing. 2. A lunge; a thrust. Labels: obsolete Example: […] he parried my thrusts with great calmness, until I had almost exhausted my spirits; and when he perceived me beginning to flag, attacked me fiercely in his turn.—Finding himself however better opposed than he expected, he resolved to follow his longe, and close with me; accordingly, his sword entered my waistcoat […] 3. The training ground for a horse. Example: LONGE.—The training ground for the instruction of a young horse, to render him quiet, tractable, and supple; to give him free and proper use of his limbs, to form his paces, and to prepare him in all respects for the cavalry service.
Word: longe Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of longa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plene Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb). Pronunciation: /pliːn/, /ˈpliːniː/ 1. With matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out. Labels: not-comparable Example: In the Mishnah (according to the Kaufmann Codex), this vowel is nearly consistently written plene (about 10,000 occurrences); most exceptions are in the tractate Avot.
Word: plene Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb). Pronunciation: /pliːn/, /ˈpliːniː/ 1. Full, complete, whole. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Yet, Sir, think you, that your Omission, must so farre charme us to oblivion, as to make us forget, that as King Charles the first, did in plene Parliament, An. 1641. under his hand-writing, ratifie the Nationall Covenant, with the explication, and Bond thereto annexed, and prior Acts made anent it, with such solemnities and concurrent considerations, as it is impossible to question it; 2. Written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels). Labels: not-comparable Example: The Samaritan Pentateuch reflects the trend of the plene spellings in the post-Pentateuchal books rather than the defective spellings in the Torah in the Masoretic Text.
Word: plene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb). Pronunciation: /pliːn/, /ˈpliːniː/ 1. A word written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels). Example: Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.
Word: publike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pub + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a pub.
Word: publike Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of public. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: seke Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of seek. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: They fle from me, that ſometyme did me ſeke
Word: tute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tutorial. Pronunciation: /tut/ 1. Abbreviation of tutorial. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, slang Example: Tute [tutorial] in the morning. Morrison couldn't think of much to say to us.' Example: The highlight of my day was at the end of the tute when the two Asian students came up to me and thanked me for letting them read.
Word: tute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of institute. Pronunciation: /tut/ 1. Abbreviation of institute. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, slang Example: How did you know I went to the tute?
Word: tute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish tute, previously from Italian tutti. 1. A trick-taking card game, originally from Italy.
Word: there are Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person plural present indicative of there be. see also there is. Labels: form-of, indicative, plural, present, third-person Example: There are three zeros in “1000”.
Word: knowed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of know Labels: form-of, nonstandard, often, participle, past Example: Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty. Example: I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.
Word: unsung hero Part of Speech: noun 1. One who accomplishes great deeds but receives little or no recognition for them. Labels: idiomatic Example: Embedded computers are the unsung heroes of modern life.
Word: imaginist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English imagine 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 imaginist From imagine + -ist. 1. An imaginative person. Example: Could a linguist, could a grammarian, could even a mathematician have seen what she did, have witnessed their appearance together, and heard their history of it, without feeling that circumstances had been at work to make them peculiarly interesting to each other?—How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight!—especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made. Example: […] there is something in the study itself only appreciable to a simple and earnest heart; it is not sufficiently sensual for the voluptuary, nor chimerical for the speculative imaginist […] 2. One of the Russian poets belonging to the imaginism movement. Example: One evening, with no boisterous or bibulous Imaginists about her and no sign of any other callers, she suggested to the secretary of the school that they ought to play with the ouija board. Example: […] during the years of the civil war, scarcely any works of pure literature were printed at all. Poetry was recited orally: futurists and their close literary allies, the imaginists, organized poetry soirées, open to the public, in Moscow cafés.
Word: delimitation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French délimitation. 1. The act of delimiting something. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A limit or boundary. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: acropoli Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acropolis Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural Example: 1927: Serving as places of refuge and market centres, the Gallic towns resembled the acropoli of ancient Greece and the castles and fortified towns of the Middle Ages — Frantz Funck-Brentano, The Earliest Times, tr. Elsie Finnimore Buckley (Heinemann 1927, p. 62) Example: 1955: The ancient town, above which the modern one was built, has left a confusion of remains. It boasted two acropoli — Ogrizek, Greece (McGraw-Hill 1955, p. 207)
Word: megalopoli Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megalopolis Labels: form-of, plural Example: All the megalopoli of the future—in this country and elsewhere—will transcend national boundaries in many ways. Example: This problem has been made more serious in the contemporary city by the emergence of a new form of spatial ordering in the form of sprawling megalopoli.
Word: fathead minnow Part of Speech: noun 1. A small freshwater fish of the minnow family, Pimephales promelas, native to North America.
Word: exasperating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exasperate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exasperating Part of Speech: adj 1. That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates Example: As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.
Word: raper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rape + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪpə(ɹ)/ 1. One who commits rape; a rapist. Labels: informal Example: Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights. Example: "Jesus Christ!" Grimm says, profanely pushing Hightower aside as he goes on to shoot Christmas and to emasculate him, according to the custom of lynchers punishing the dark rapers of white women.
Word: thyroid cartilage Part of Speech: noun 1. The largest cartilage in the larynx; the Adam’s apple
Word: constructional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From construction + -al. 1. Of, pertaining to, or obtained by construction. Example: What mortal conception of constructional power and grace can equal the gothic cathedral of the middle age, in which we see a proportion and a delicacy . . . Example: 1869 The Universal Decorator No other constructional features projecting from the walls occur in any of these buildings, with the single exception of buttresses
Word: channelization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English channel 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 channelization From channel + -ization. 1. The straightening and widening of a stream or river. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Section 404 of the Clean Water Act does not regulate activities such as drainage, ditching, and channelization for agricultural production. 2. The division of a wide-band communications channel into multiple narrow-band channels. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1979, Radiofrequency use and management: impacts from the World Administrative Radio Conference of 1979. The specific frequency bands are not consistent with the current design and channelization plans for the DSCS [Defense Satellite Communications System] III.
Word: channel-surf Part of Speech: verb 1. To skim through a series of television stations, each for a brief moment, by repeated use of a remote control. Example: I channel-surfed for half an hour before deciding there was nothing worth watching. Example: To change the channel is one thing, but he was channel-surfing so much that I didn't even enjoy watching TV with him.
Word: chapbook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formerly sold by chapmen; see the etymology there, and book. 1. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts. Example: 1849 Notices of Fugitive Tracts: And Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc This was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England. Example: For Haines’s chapbook. No-one here to hear.
Word: reincarnate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English carnate English incarnate English reincarnate From re- + incarnate. 1. To be, or cause to be, reborn, especially in a different body or as a different species. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: chaperonage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chaperon Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English chaperonage From chaperon + -age. 1. The state of being a chaperon. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The protection offered by a chaperon. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: chaplaincy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chaplain + -cy. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæp.lɪn.si/ 1. The role or position of a chaplain. Example: He was appointed to the chaplaincy of Colesberg, and undertook its duties without remuneration, till such time as a salary could be procured Example: Background: Established in 1957, the US Army Chaplain Historical Holding chronicles the story of the Army chaplaincy from its inception during the American Revolution to the present. 2. A building, for example on a university campus, catering to people's religious needs.
Word: chapped Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæpt/ 1. Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface. Example: For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […] Example: […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold. 2. Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind. Labels: in-compounds Example: This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.
Word: chapped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæpt/ 1. simple past and past participle of chap Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: characterless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character 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 characterless From character + -less. 1. Having no distinguishing character or quality. Example: The great mass of American citizens estimate us, as being a characterless and purposeless people ; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt. Example: The House of All Sorts was new and characterless. It had not yet found itself—and an apartment house takes longer to find itself than do individual private houses. 2. Lacking in or devoid of personality. Example: The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl. Example: It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.
Word: charbroil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From char + broil. 1. To cook on a flat, lined metal surface that is heated from below; to chargrill.
Word: woon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Burmese ဝန် (wan, “burden; responsibility; administrative officer”). 1. A Burmese governor or officer of administration. Labels: obsolete
Word: chargeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Latin carrus Latin -ic- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ico Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English chargeable From charge + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒəbəl/ 1. Able to be charged. Example: The battery is chargeable by means of this device. 2. That may be charged to an account. Example: In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT. 3. Liable to be accused (either formally or informally). Labels: rare Example: Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder. 4. That one may be legally charged with. Example: Seferian states in the order that he agrees with Carter and the other charging parties that "the actions taken by Sister Levy have had and will continue to have the adverse effects on the union complained of by the charging parties." But Seferian found that Levy committed no chargeable offense since freedom of speech is guaranteed in AFSCME's International Constitution. 5. Imputable Example: 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of. 6. Expensive. Labels: archaic Example: A gentleman threatening to go to law, was dissuaded from it by his friends, who desired him to consider, for the law was chargeable.
Word: congestee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From congest + -ee. Pronunciation: /kɒn.d͡ʒɛstˈiː/ 1. A person living in an area with a very high-density population. Example: See “Tombstone” in chap — the parking problems and congestee. Example: …the once united tenant movement dissolved into a series of competing subgroups (graziers and congestees, purchased and unpurchased). 2. A thing congested to the point of malfunction. Example: …based on respiratory effects, specifically, vascular congestion, peribronchiolar edema, hemorrhagic alveoli, and congestee capillaries in the lungs (IRIS).
Word: disomic Part of Speech: adj 1. Having one or more chromosomes present twice, but without having the entire genome doubled Labels: not-comparable 2. In allotetraploids, relating to inheritance that involves pairing of homologous chromosomes from the same diploid ancestor Labels: not-comparable
Word: disomic Part of Speech: noun 1. Such an organism
Word: feed-through Part of Speech: noun 1. A hermetically sealed connection between two volumes.
Word: forward link Part of Speech: noun 1. In radio communications, the link from a fixed location (e.g., a base station) to a mobile user. If the link includes a communications relay satellite, the forward link will consist of both an uplink (base station to satellite) and a downlink (satellite to mobile user).
Word: fuel molecule Part of Speech: noun 1. A molecule metabolized by a cell to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and NADPH. Types include: carbohydrate, fat and protein.
Word: pfft Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: [p͡ɸːt] 1. Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance. Example: 1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship. 2. Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement. Example: “[…] You remember that lump I got? I felt something poking out of it. So I pulled, like, I just pulled one out, put it on some folded-up toilet paper, then went back in and got another one. Then one more after that. I’m pretty sure they’re spider legs,” Orvil says. ¶ “Pfffffft,” Loother says and laughs. At which point Orvil shows him a neat pile of folds of toilet paper. 3. Used to signify a puffing sound. Labels: onomatopoeic 4. The sound of a short fart. Labels: onomatopoeic
Word: pfft Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: [p͡ɸːt] 1. A short puffing sound. Example: "Are we talking a delicate little Scandinavian pfft, or the whole raspberry tart?"
Word: konjak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of konjac. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: idée reçue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French idée reçue. Pronunciation: /iːˌdeɪ ɹəˈs(j)uː/ 1. A received, or accepted, idea.
Word: ne'er-do-wells Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ne'er-do-well Labels: form-of, plural
Word: omkar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sanskrit ओंकार (oṃkāra, “om, aum”). 1. The symbol ॐ that represents the syllable “om” or “aum”.
Word: chariness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chary Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English chariness From chary + -ness. 1. The condition of being chary; caution Labels: uncountable Example: One great thing undoubtedly was, the chariness of herself and her conduct, which an unmarried female always observes.
Word: activated complex Part of Speech: noun 1. A transitional structure, in an energetically excited state, that forms between the reactants of a chemical reaction and breaks down to form the products Labels: physical
Word: foreshadowing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foreshadow (verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; or forming present participles of verbs). Pronunciation: /(ˌ)fɔːˈʃædəʊɪŋ/, /fə-/, /fɔɹˈʃædoʊɪŋ/, /fəɹ-/ 1. Synonym of foreshadow (“a suggestion of something in advance”); specifically (usually uncountable, literature, narratology), a literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The roses blooming before Rose herself bloomed was excellent foreshadowing. Example: As an experienced editor I disapprove of backflashes, foreshadowings and tricksy devices […]
Word: foreshadowing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From foreshadow (verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; or forming present participles of verbs). Pronunciation: /(ˌ)fɔːˈʃædəʊɪŋ/, /fə-/, /fɔɹˈʃædoʊɪŋ/, /fəɹ-/ 1. present participle and gerund of foreshadow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Grand Poobah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of grand poobah. Labels: alt-of Example: Grand Poobah/Grand Imperial Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lodge No. 26. Example: Grand Poobah of Leopard Lodge No. 462" in Milwaukee.
Word: greatest thing since sliced bread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Adapted from the advertising slogan used in 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company (the first company to sell sliced bread), which was as follows: The greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped. 1. Something amazing, outstanding or praiseworthy, especially a relatively recent invention likely to improve people's lives. Labels: idiomatic Example: This column is about the greatest thing since sliced bread. Example: Because if he starts to write a check for the full amount and I say, “Take off $250”, or “I'll throw in door-guard trim and five steel radials for nothing”, Charley is going to think I am the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Word: great Scott Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Uncertain or disputed. May come from either the Scottish novelist Walter Scott, so called in some poems, or Gen. Winfield Scott of the American Civil War, who weighed about 300 pounds and was referred to by his troops as "Great Scott". Alternately, perhaps a corruption of German grüß Gott! (“Good day!, Hello!”, literally “May God greet (thee)!”), or a euphemism for great Satan or good God. Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪt skɒt/ 1. An exclamation of surprise or amazement Labels: dated Example: Don’t understand? Land of—why, you see—you see—why, great Scott, can’t you understand a little thing like that? Can’t you understand the difference between your—why do you look so innocent and idiotic! Example: “It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags. Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I’ll swing for it!” Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
Word: guerrilla traveler Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone who travels for travel's sake, with or without objective; someone who spends most time "on the road".
Word: guest speaker Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who has been invited to present a speech at an event where they are not the host.
Word: white bear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English white bere. By surface analysis, white + bear. 1. A polar bear. Example: She was standing in the circus ring surrounded by a dozen towering white bears. 2. A grizzly bear.
Word: hate figure Part of Speech: noun 1. a person, normally in the public eye, who is widely disliked and criticized.
Word: haute culture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French 1. cultural activities or items that achieve the highest standards. Labels: uncountable
Word: high cotton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The term "high cotton" or "tall cotton" originates from the rural farming community in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) South when "high cotton" meant that the crops were good and the prices were, too. The term has generalized to mean one is doing well or is successful. 1. The best of times; a time of well being. Labels: Southern-US, US, idiomatic, slang, uncountable Example: We're in high cotton now.
Word: high touch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a term coined by John Naisbitt, from the second chapter in his book Megatrends in 1982. 1. Dealing with or interacting with a human being as opposed to transacting with computers or through high tech. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Human interaction. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Having a high awareness of human complexity, having empathy. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Hispasian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Hispanic + Asian. 1. A person who is half Asian and half Hispanic. Labels: slang
Word: hobbledehoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots. Compare dialectal English hobbledygee (“(with a) limping movement”); also French hobereau (“country squire”), English hobby, and Old French hoi (“today”); the original sense may have been "an upstart of today". Pronunciation: /ˈhɒbəldihɔɪ/ 1. An awkward adolescent youth. Example: I met a proper vpright youth, onely for a little ſtooping in the ſhoulders: […] & hee tolde me there was a fat filthy ballet-maker, that ſhould haue once been his Iourneyman to the trade: who liu’d about the towne; and ten to one, but he had thus terribly abuſed me & my Taberer: […] I found him about the bankſide, ſitting at a play, I deſired to ſpeake with him, […] Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe. I told him, & all his anger turned to laughter: ſwearing it did him good to haue ill words of a hoddy doddy, a habber de hoy, a chicken, a ſquib, a ſquall: […] Example: […]all the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm[…]
Word: household name Part of Speech: noun 1. A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households. 2. A genericized trademark. 3. A very well-known public figure. Example: Instagram has revolutionized shopping, dealt a near-death blow to women’s magazines, taken celebrities from TV and movie screens to our fingertips and made Shih Tzus and personal trainers household names. (At least in some households.) Example: [Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
Word: Ihitha Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hindi [Term?], from Sanskrit [Term?] Iha (world or earth) and 'Hitha' ("who does Good, favor"). 1. A female given name from Hindi used in India, meaning a goddess who does good for all creatures in the world.
Word: Imtenan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِمْتِنَان (ʔimtinān, “gratitude”). 1. A unisex given name from Arabic.
Word: inbye Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From in + by; from 18th century. 1. Inside the house; inside an inner room of the house. Labels: Scotland, not-comparable 2. Near or nearest the house. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, not-comparable 3. Belonging to the farm or croft; as opposed to common. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inbye Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From in + by; from 18th century. 1. Towards or into the house; into an inner room of the house. Labels: Scotland, not-comparable, obsolete 2. Towards the coal face. Labels: not-comparable Example: An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
Word: pogey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1891, meaning "poorhouse", possibly from British hobo slang. 1954 assistance. Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊɡi/ 1. A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc. Labels: countable, historical, usually 2. Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance. Labels: Canada, often, slang, uncountable, usually Example: There were no jobs for the unemployed, however. And thus many hundreds of thousands went “on the pogey,” although all available evidence indicates that they loathed doing so. To accept relief was an admission of defeat and failure, a humiliating stigma, whether the relief was indirect or direct.
Word: infirmarian Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.fəˈmɛə.ɹi.ən/, /ˌɪn.fɚˈmɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. One who works in a nunnery or monastery, caring for the nuns or monks who become ill, as well as caring for other old or sick people living in the compound. 2. The superintendent of an infirmary within a college or other institution.
Word: infovore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From info- + -vore; introduced as a scientific term by neuroscientists Irving Biederman and Edward Vessel. 1. A person who indulges in and desires information gathering and interpretation.
Word: Irish twins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Irish twin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jack of all trades, master of none Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Expanded form of jack of all trades, which originally was sometimes used as a term of praise. In the 21st century this phrase has itself been (rarely) expanded to a couplet: : Jack of all trades, master of none, : though oftentimes better than master of one. 1. A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one. Labels: idiomatic
Word: Jack Tar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of jacktar. Labels: UK, alt-of, idiomatic Example: What you read here are their stories—stories of whole-souled youths, with the sparkle of life in their eyes, with the love of adventure in their hearts. Jack Tar is an American clear through to his backbone!
Word: Jolly Part of Speech: name Etymology: * Cognate to the French name Jolie. It derives from the Old French word joli (merriness). * In Punjab (India) it is a corruption of the word jalli. 1. A female given name. 2. A surname. 3. A place name: 4. A place name: 5. A place name: 6. A place name: Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: journalese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English journal Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English journalese From journal + -ese. Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɜː.nəˈliːz/, /ˌd͡ʒɝ.nəˈliz/ 1. A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language, use of some vocabulary items that are mostly confined to this genre, and clipped syntax. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that. Example: The veteran newspaper columnist, Keith Waterhouse, identifies two versions of this journalese. The first is officialese. It can be found everywhere […] The second version, which he calls tabloidese, is characterised by bolted-together monosyllables and sensationalism. Both types of journalese have this in common: people don't speak like that.
Word: jurispendence Part of Speech: noun 1. jurisprudence. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: 1776, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Word: key set identifier Part of Speech: noun 1. A value that is used to identify a key set. Labels: Internet
Word: King Cotton Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˌkɪŋˈkɒtn̩/ 1. A personification of the cotton production of the southern United States. Labels: obsolete
Word: Klutz Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: knacker's yard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knacker (“one who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides”) + -'s + yard. Pronunciation: /ˈnæk.əz ˌjɑːd/, /ˈnæ.kɚz ˌjɑɹd/ 1. The area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption or other purposes are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue. Example: CXXV. The Commissioners may license such slaughter-house and knacker's yards^([sic]) as they from time to time think proper for slaughtering cattle within the limits of the special Act. CXXVI. No place shall be used or occupied as a slaughter-house or knacker's yard within the said limits which was not in such use and occupation at the time of the passing of the special Act, [...] Example: It was a horrible smell of corrupt flesh and mouldy bones, mingling with the sickly steam of from cauldrons in which the anatomized animals were seething down. None save those who have been so unfortunate as to venture upon the confines of a knacker's yard, can possibly conceive the horrible nausea produced by these blended effluvia: it was enough to make the strongest stomach heave and become sick. 2. A (notional) place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use. Labels: colloquial, figuratively Example: I’ve never met someone so incompetent. He’s only fit for the knacker’s yard. Example: No-one would argue that the system is perfect. But as it nears pensionable age, only deranged free marketeers want to see it packed off to the knacker's yard.
Word: laconism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin Laconia, from Ancient Greek Λακεδαίμων (Lakedaímōn, “the region surrounding the city of Sparta”). 1. Extreme brevity in expression. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable Example: “Well, where have you been?” he said to her with offhand laconism. Example: […] Joe Montana is finally calling it quits. A retirement party in San Francisco and a press conference in Kansas City, Missouri, are planned for this week, and his agents are shopping him around to the networks as a broadcaster, even though Montana has a reputation for laconism. 2. A very or notably brief expression. Labels: countable Example: The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters, which, like the Laconism on the wall, are not to be made out but by a hint or key from that SPIRIT which indited them. Example: Perhaps the most striking difference between [A Tale of Two Cities] and his other novels may seem to lie in the all but entire absence from it of any humour or attempt at humour; for neither the brutalities of that “honest tradesman” Jerry, nor the laconisms of Miss Pross, can well be called by that name.
Word: laisser faire Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French laisser faire. 1. Alternative form of laissez faire. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: laisser faire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French laisser faire. 1. Alternative form of laissez faire. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: promulgated Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɑməlɡeɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of promulgate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: laughing stock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From laughing + stock (“source, supply; butt, target”). Compare also whipping-stock, jesting-stock. 1. An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke. Labels: idiomatic Example: Pray you let us not be laughing-stocks to other men's humours. Example: When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughing-stock of his hearers.
Word: in layman's terms Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Phrased simply, without jargon; (of English-language speech or writing) phrased in plain English. Labels: idiomatic Example: Okay, Einstein, but how about putting it in layman's terms, so the rest of us can understand? Example: Okay, let me explain this in layman's terms: no ticket, no train ride.
Word: lethality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lethal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English lethality From lethal + -ity. Pronunciation: /liˈθælɪti/ 1. The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Title 10 section 129a of the US code governing civilian personnel management in the armed forces says that the secretary of defense “may not reduce the civilian workforce programmed full-time equivalent levels unless the Secretary conducts an appropriate analysis” of how those firings could impact the US military’s lethality and readiness. Example: In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.” 2. The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [ 6 ], long-chain substituted propanediamines, the chemical group these compounds belongs to, are considered to be toxic to aquatic organisms, with observed lethality for plankton and fish at concentrations ranging from 0.75 to 170 µg L −1 .
Word: limp-wristed Part of Speech: adj 1. Limp, weak by nature; lacking strength. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. Of a man: having effeminate qualities or characteristics perceived to be homosexual in nature. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Given the doubts about manhood in the postwar years, a rough sport like football helped to establish a hierarchy of competing masculinities that favored the sturdy athlete over his limp-wristed counterpart, the heterosexual linebacker over the homosexual fop.
Word: limp-wristed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of limp-wrist Labels: form-of, past
Word: sacco Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of SACCO. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: inimically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English inimical Middle English -ly English -ly English inimically From inimical + -ly. Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kli/ 1. In an inimical manner.
Word: administrative kingship Part of Speech: noun 1. The government of a country by a sovereign via a formally constituted bureaucracy. Labels: uncountable Example: To study, therefore, the turbulent processes that led to the development of administrative kingship, to the proto-bureaucratization of the royal court, is to study the medieval state. Example: [Of Henry I, who reigned 1100–1135:] Taken together, Henry I's reforms transformed medieval government from an itinerant and often poorly organised household into a highly sophisticated administrative kingship based on permanent, static departments. […] Such was Henry's contribution to the rise of administrative kingship in England that he was lauded by some nineteenth-century historians as the first constitutional monarch.
Word: little Eichmann Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, who claimed his acts during the Holocaust was just following superior orders. 1. Someone who is like the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann; someone who seems ordinary but does evil as a member of an immoral or evil entity or system. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Russian journalist Andrei Zhukov's work in Soviet archives produced a list of over 40,000 little Eichmanns who acted as willing, if not enthusiastic, executioners.
Word: longtail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From long + tail. 1. Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species. 2. Phaethon lepturus, the white-tailed tropicbird. 3. A young, unattached female tourist. Labels: broadly 4. A longtail boat. 5. A rat. Labels: colloquial 6. A pheasant. Labels: slang 7. A greyhound. Labels: slang
Word: lord of the flies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew בַּעַל זְבוּב (baʿal zəḇûḇ, “fly-lord, Beelzebub”), which in turn is a mistranslation of the name of the Semitic devil Baal-zevuv. 1. Beelzebub; Satan 2. a ruler over a worthless kingdom; leader of a meaningless microcosm. Labels: idiomatic