nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: drought Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English droughte, droghte, drouȝte, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. By surface analysis, dry + -t (abstract nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaʊ̯t/, /ˈdɹɐʊ̯t/, /ˈdɹɜʊ̯t/, /ˈdɹʌʊ̯t/, /ˈdɹəʊ̯t/ 1. A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His village had faced a drought twice. Example: The weather looked like drought―a thoroughly wicked drought; if the rain did not come before long, their crops would be burnt up. 2. A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport. Labels: broadly, countable, informal, uncountable Example: Sri Lanka ended their ten-game drought with a consolation win over Bangladesh. Example: Kane had been going through something of a drought by his own standards. His previous England goal came 500 days ago, in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo, and his header in Tirana ended a run of 496 minutes without scoring. 3. dryness, aridness, dry heat Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Example: The consequences are, that a few days of severe drought, in the early parts of summer, or even when the grain is ripening, is sometimes fatal to the crop on moss.
Word: demon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Displaced native Old English sċucca and Old English þyrs. Doublet of daimon. Pronunciation: /ˈdiː.mən/ 1. An evil supernatural being. Example: So what does the Gospel of Judas really say? It says that Judas is a specific demon called the "Thirteenth." In certain Gnostic traditions, this is the given name of the king of demons - an entity known as Ialdabaoth who lives in the 13th realm above the earth. Judas is his human alter ego, his undercover agent in the world. These Gnostics equated Ialdabaoth with the Hebrew Yahweh, whom they saw as a jealous and wrathful deity and an opponent of the supreme God whom Jesus came to earth to reveal. Whoever wrote the Gospel of Judas was a harsh critic of mainstream Christianity and its rituals. Because Judas is a demon working for Ialdabaoth, the author believed, when Judas sacrifices Jesus he does so to the demons, not to the supreme God. This mocks mainstream Christians' belief in the atoning value of Jesus' death and in the effectiveness of the Eucharist. 2. An evil supernatural being. Labels: historical 3. An evil supernatural being. Labels: broadly, figuratively 4. An evil supernatural being. Example: The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth. 5. An evil supernatural being. Labels: in-plural Example: After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons. 6. A neutral supernatural being. Example: Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable. Example: “You saw her. And I picked her up,” Lyra said, blushing, because of course it was a gross violation of manners to touch something so private as someone else's dæmon. 7. A neutral supernatural being. Labels: Greek 8. A neutral supernatural being. 9. A neutral supernatural being. Example: Let the orders now be that each demon is to stop all molecules from crossing his area in either direction except 100 coming from A, arbitrarily chosen to be let pass into B, and a greater number, having among them less energy but equal momentum, to cross from B to A. 10. Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. Example: He’s a demon at the card tables. Example: Chelsea defended like demons to snuff out Manchester City but this was a perfectly calibrated triumph, built upon a structured attacking approach, choosing the right moments to transition, and illuminated by the smoothness of Havertz’s technique. 11. A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US. Example: ‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’. 12. Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Word: demon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From distinct electron motion + -on. Pronunciation: /ˈdiː.mən/ 1. Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: demon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym. Pronunciation: /ˈdiː.mən/ 1. Alternative spelling of daemon. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Manx Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋks/, /ˈmaŋks/, [mæŋks], /meɪŋks/, [meɪ̯ŋks] ~ [mɛ̃ŋks] 1. Relating to the Isle of Man or its Celto-Germanic people. 2. Relating to the Manx language (also known as Manx Gaelic), a Gaelic language of the Goidelic family. 3. Relating to the Manx cat breed native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body. 4. With a truncated or missing tail. Labels: broadly Example: At the rear there is a cut-off Manx tail, similar to those of the early Cooper sports cars, and as currently used by Feirari. Example: The Manx Rat: This tailless rat variety is usually smaller than the standard rat with front legs that are shorter than its hind legs.
Word: Manx Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋks/, /ˈmaŋks/, [mæŋks], /meɪŋks/, [meɪ̯ŋks] ~ [mɛ̃ŋks] 1. A member or descendant of the Celto-Germanic people of the Isle of Man; a Manxman or Manxwoman. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. the Manx; Manx people. Labels: collective, countable, in-plural, uncountable 3. A breed of domestic cat native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A cat of the Manx breed; a Manx cat. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Manx Part of Speech: name Etymology: Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk. Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋks/, /ˈmaŋks/, [mæŋks], /meɪŋks/, [meɪ̯ŋks] ~ [mɛ̃ŋks] 1. A Goidelic language spoken on the Isle of Man. Labels: uncountable
Word: Maya Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”) or Yucatec Maya maaya, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. maya’ wíinik (“Maya man”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/ 1. A member or descendant of various peoples: 2. A member or descendant of various peoples: 3. A member or descendant of various peoples: 4. A member or descendant of various peoples:
Word: Maya Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”) or Yucatec Maya maaya, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. maya’ wíinik (“Maya man”). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/ 1. The Yucatec Maya language. 2. Any of the other various Mayan languages. 3. Any of the other various Mayan languages. 4. Any of the other various Mayan languages.
Word: Maya Part of Speech: name Etymology: * From Maria, ultimately from Hebrew, * From Maia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa) Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/ 1. A female given name Example: When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la Concepción. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, that con in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound like Maya. "Maya!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." So Maya it was from then on - Maya Walter. 2. A female given name 3. A female given name 4. A female given name
Word: Maya Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit माया (māyā). Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/ 1. In Sanskrit, illusion and the power that creates it; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this"). 2. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India. Example: Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities. - - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'
Word: Maya Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit माया (māyā́) or Pali Māyā. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪə/ 1. The mother of Gautama Buddha.
Word: Papago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Pápago, itself from O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa (“they eat tepary beans”). 1. A Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People"). Labels: historical Example: In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.
Word: Papiamento Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Papiamentu Papiamento. Compare Portuguese papeamento (“chatter”). This spelling is used in Aruba, while the spelling Papiamentu is used in Bonaire and Curaçao. 1. A Creole language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire.
Word: pidgin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. All attestations of pidgin from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean “business; an action, occupation, or affair” (the earliest being from 1807). Other suggested derivations include: * Hebrew פִּדְיוֹן (pidyón, “exchange; trade; redemption”) * Chinese pronunciation of Portuguese ocupação (“occupation; business”) * South Seas pronunciation of beach * Portuguese baixo (“low”) Pronunciation: /ˈpɪ.d͡ʒɪn/, /ˈpɪ.d͡ʒən/ 1. An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. The speech is slow and supported by mime and gesture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ‘I didnʼt know you can speak pidgin,’ he said and laughed. 2. A person's business, occupation, work, or trade (also spelt as pigeon). Labels: archaic, countable, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Forget money. That's my pidgin. Example: It's up to the detective sergeant to ask his own questions, that's not my pidgin. But I did wonder if either of you gentlemen had an idea of the exact time of the shot.
Word: heretic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English heretyk, heretike, from Old French eretique, from Medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin haereticus, from Ancient Greek αἱρετικός (hairetikós, “able to choose, factious”), itself from Ancient Greek αἱρέω (hairéō, “to choose”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹɪtɪk/ 1. Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to. Example: He semeth a sysmatyke Or els an heretike, For fayth in hym is faynte. Example: In the framework of traditional medical ethics, the patient deserves humane attention only insofar as he is potentially healthy and is willing to be healthy—just as in the framework of traditional Christian ethics, the heretic deserved humane attention only insofar as he was potentially a true believer and was willing to become one. 2. Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices. Labels: broadly
Word: heretic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English heretyk, heretike, from Old French eretique, from Medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin haereticus, from Ancient Greek αἱρετικός (hairetikós, “able to choose, factious”), itself from Ancient Greek αἱρέω (hairéō, “to choose”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹɪtɪk/ 1. Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics. Labels: archaic
Word: carillon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French carillon. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛɹɪˌlɑn/, /kəˈrɪljən/ 1. A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries. 2. A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
Word: carillon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French carillon. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛɹɪˌlɑn/, /kəˈrɪljən/ 1. To play a carillon. 2. To ring out like a carillon. Example: High carilloned Anne's laughter.
Word: Mohican Part of Speech: name Etymology: From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”), though the precise meaning and etymology have been debated. Doublet of Mahican and Mohegan; compare also Mohawk. 1. An indigenous people of New England; the Mohicans. Example: The Mohican are an Algonquian-speaking people. 2. The Mohegan people.
Word: Mohican Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”), though the precise meaning and etymology have been debated. Doublet of Mahican and Mohegan; compare also Mohawk. 1. A member of this tribe; a Mohican. 2. A Mohegan. 3. A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair in the centre kept long and made to stand on end. Labels: Australia, UK
Word: heretical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French eretical and from Medieval Latin haereticālis, from haereticus, equivalent to heretic + -al. See heretic. Pronunciation: /həˈɹɛtɪkəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics. Example: At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own form of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but antichrists. Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation. 2. Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
Word: unorthodox Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English orthodox English unorthodox From un- + orthodox. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɔɹθədɑks/, /ʌnˈɔːθədɒks/ 1. Unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic. Example: The breakthrough came after 63 minutes as United’s unorthodox defence desperately tried to hold off a spell of sustained pressure. Example: A driving teacher in China is using an unorthodox method to get his students to drive with more care. He calls it the “fatal blow” method. Basically, students have to manoeuvre the car with skill or risk crushing their smartphones... or those of their classmates.
Word: brand new Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brand (“firebrand”) + new, implying something that is newly forged (first citation 1570; compare fire-new (“fresh from the fire, brand-new”)). Alternatively, and less likely from brand as in a branding iron (i.e. newly-branded). The first element of the variant bran new, with the post nasal stop deletion common to English (compare the common pronunciation (outside Britain) of hunting as hunning [hʌnɪŋ]), is claimed to be from bran as if from cases where new items were supposedly “packaged up with unwanted grain (bran) in the 18th century to protect the objects during transit” (source unknown). Both variants are well attested. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹænd ˌn(j)uː/, /ˈbɹæn.n(j)uː/ 1. Utterly new, as new as possible. Labels: not-comparable Example: New bodies, new minds ... and all thinges new, brande-newe Example: two pair of bran-new plumpers 2. Acting in a way unusual for oneself. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: Man, quit actin' brand new, bruh. You only being this way 'cause there's a girl.
Word: orthodox Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English orthodoxe, from Middle French orthodoxe and its etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”). Displaced native Old English wuldorlīċ. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːθədɒks/, /ˈɔɹθədɑks/ 1. Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology. Example: Five important modifications were made by the Pietists to the orthodox doctrine of justification, each corresponding to a distinctive aspect of the movement's agenda. Example: ‘These speakers are academics who have specialised in Islamic sciences and are well respected in scholarly circles. It is grossly unjust to suggest that they belong to some fringe ideology rather than orthodox Islam.’ 2. Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted. Example: She tattled on: first to one, then to the other—then to all, till she had tattled herself out of breath;—and then the orthodox half hour had expired, and the bell was rung, and the carriage ordered, and Mrs. Hare rose to depart. Example: Not only the quack cures of the past but also many forms of treatment given with the best will and intentions in the world by the best and most orthodox doctors of the time seem strange to us today. 3. Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox. 4. Of a branch of Judaism. 5. Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
Word: conventional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From convention + -al. Pronunciation: /kənˈvɛnʃənl̩/ 1. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour. Example: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. Example: Young-White’s paeans to short kings encourage us to confront society’s overvaluation of men’s height, and recognize the guys under 6ft whose positive attitudes render them nothing short of regal. A short king isn’t just any male-presenting person of modest stature – it’s someone who has the strength of character to flourish in the face of conventional male beauty standards. 2. Ordinary, commonplace. Example: They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours. Example: “You’re not conventional?” Isabel gravely asked. “I like the way you utter that word! No, I’m not conventional: I’m convention itself. You don’t understand that?” 3. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd. 4. Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction. 5. Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. 6. In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
Word: conventional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From convention + -al. Pronunciation: /kənˈvɛnʃənl̩/ 1. A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
Word: convention Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveniō (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”). Equivalent to convene + -tion. Pronunciation: /kənˈvɛn.ʃən/, /ˌkɒnˈvɛn.ʃən/ 1. A meeting or gathering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The convention was held in Geneva. Example: The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010. 2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution. 3. The convening of a formal meeting. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A treaty or supplement to such. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations. 6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol. Example: The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
Word: nou Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of noh (“classical Japanese music drama”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: ancient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin *anteānus, composed of Latin ante (“before”) + -ānus (adjective-forming suffix). The non-etymological excrescent /t/ is by analogy with the common ending -ent. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/, /ˈeɪn.t͡ʃənt/, /ˈeɪŋk.ʃənt/, /ˈæn.ʃənt/, /ˈæn.t͡ʃənt/ 1. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old. Example: an ancient city Example: an ancient forest 2. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern. Example: an ancient author Example: an ancient empire 3. Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages. 4. Experienced; versed. Labels: obsolete Example: approved by the consent of the moste ancient doctors of the Churche [part of the book title] 5. Former; sometime. Labels: obsolete Example: They mourned their ancient leader lost.
Word: ancient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English auncyen, from Old French ancien, from Vulgar Latin *anteānus, composed of Latin ante (“before”) + -ānus (adjective-forming suffix). The non-etymological excrescent /t/ is by analogy with the common ending -ent. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/, /ˈeɪn.t͡ʃənt/, /ˈeɪŋk.ʃənt/, /ˈæn.ʃənt/, /ˈæn.t͡ʃənt/ 1. A person who is very old. Example: Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding and before the ancient was well upon his road his way was blocked by Hetty. 2. A person who lived in ancient times. Example: What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients. 3. One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. Labels: UK 4. A senior; an elder; a predecessor. Labels: obsolete Example: Junius and Andronicus […] in Christianity […] were his ancients.
Word: ancient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Corruption of ensign. Pronunciation: /ˈeɪn.ʃənt/, /ˈeɪn.t͡ʃənt/, /ˈeɪŋk.ʃənt/, /ˈæn.ʃənt/, /ˈæn.t͡ʃənt/ 1. A flag, banner, standard or ensign. Labels: archaic Example: [D]iſcarded, vniuſt ſeruingmen, yonger ſonnes to yonger brothers, reuolted tapſters, and Oſtlers, tradefalne, the cankers of a calme world, and a long peace, ten times more diſhonourable ragged then an olde fazd ancient, […] Example: I got all things ready as he had directed, and waited the next morning with the boat washed clean, her ancient and pendants out, and everything to accommodate his guests.. 2. The bearer of a flag; ensign. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: I preſt mee none but such toſtes and butter with hearts in their bellies no bigger then pianes heades, and they haue bought out their ſeruices, and now my whole charge conſiſts of Ancients, Corporals, Lieutenants, gentlemen of companies: ſlaues as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the gluttons dogs licked his ſores, and ſuch as indeed were neuer ſouldiours, […]
Word: carte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart. Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)t/ 1. A bill of fare; a menu. 2. A visiting card. Labels: dated Example: "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown. 3. A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person). Labels: historical Example: Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was. 4. A playing card. Labels: Scotland, dated Example: We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should. Example: He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.
Word: carte Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)t/ 1. Alternative form of quarte. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: perambulator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi- Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der. Proto-Italic *alō Latin *alō Latin ambulō Latin perambulō Latin perambulātusbor. English perambulate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English perambulator From perambulate + -or. 1. A baby carriage. Labels: Ireland, UK, dated Example: The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill. Example: "That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway. 2. One who perambulates. 3. A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
Word: chap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæp/ 1. A man, a fellow. Example: Who’s that chap over there? Example: “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.” 2. A customer, a buyer. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning. 3. A child. Labels: Southern-US
Word: chap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæp/ 1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. Labels: intransitive 2. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. Labels: transitive Example: Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Example: whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap. 3. To strike, knock. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock. Example: The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]
Word: chap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæp/ 1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. 2. A division; a breach, as in a party. Labels: obsolete Example: Many clefts and chaps in our council board. 3. A blow; a rap. Labels: Scotland
Word: chap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæp/ 1. The jaw. Labels: archaic, in-plural, often Example: This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides! Example: His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood. 2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Word: chap Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæp/ 1. Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: chap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃæp/ 1. Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”). Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: numpty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Scots numpty (“fool, idiot”). Pronunciation: /ˈnʌmpti/ 1. An idiot, dolt or fool. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory Example: Trust me, he's Pakistani, because that's the average numpty's shorthand for Muslim.
Word: craic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of crack, respelled after Irish craic (itself a borrowing from English). Pronunciation: /kɹæk/ 1. Often preceded by the: amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable company; also, pleasant conversation. Labels: Ireland, uncountable Example: ‘It is a great atmosphere, isn’t it?’ Leon was enthusiastic, not at all cryptic or withdrawn, wholeheartedly enjoying the ‘craic’, as he called it, slapping his hand on the table in time to the bodhrán rhythm from the group singing itself hoarse and unharmonious on the stage. Example: "The craic" is how the Irish celebrate life – with music, with laughter, with joy, with old friends (and new friends just waiting to be made). […] Be careful. "The craic" is mighty!
Word: giddyup Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From get up or get ye/thee up. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/, /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/, /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/ 1. Move on!, go faster!
Word: giddyup Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From get up or get ye/thee up. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪdɪˌʌp/, /ˌɡɪdɪˈʌp/, /ˈɡɪdiˌʌp/ 1. To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up. Example: If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse Example: Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road. 2. To start moving or move faster; to get a move on. Labels: broadly Example: But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over. Example: “Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."
Word: balian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Balinese balian. 1. A Balinese shaman or traditional healer. Example: A balian may be consulted in order to determine the location of a lost object or the identity of a thief. Example: I had immediate misgivings when Komang, Thomas, and I visited the balian that evening.
Word: baju Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *bʰeh₂ǵʰús From Malay baju. 1. A traditional Malay jacket worn with a sarong.
Word: tali Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.laɪ/ 1. plural of talus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tali Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately of Dravidian origin, compare Tamil தாலி (tāli) and Telugu తాలి (tāli). Pronunciation: /t̪aːli/ 1. Synonym of marriage string. Labels: India
Word: kuda Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkuːdə/ 1. The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus). Labels: dated
Word: duit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of (historical) doit (“a small Dutch coin”) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The copper currency for a long time consisted almost entirely of Dutch “duits” or “challis,” which were exported for the eastern currency and circulated freely all along the western coast.
Word: pisang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay pisang. 1. A banana or plantain. Labels: archaic Example: Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine. Example: The orange crop was good; custard-apples, pisangs and pomeloes fair, the latter were poor in quality.
Word: bab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of babby (“baby”). Pronunciation: /bæb/ 1. A baby. Labels: UK, informal 2. A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms. Labels: East-Anglia Example: The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
Word: bab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of babby (“baby”). Pronunciation: /bæb/ 1. To fish for eels using a bab. Labels: East-Anglia, intransitive Example: The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night. Example: Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
Word: pulau Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pilaf. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: kayu Part of Speech: adj 1. Stupid; foolish. Labels: Singapore
Word: film Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid. Pronunciation: /fɪlm/, [fɪɫm], [ˈfɪlm̩], [ˈfɪləm], /fɪu̯m/ 1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a clear plastic film for wrapping food Example: He from thick films ſhall purge the viſual ray, / And on the ſightleſs eye-ball pour the day: […] 2. A medium used to capture images in a camera. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie. Labels: countable 4. A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally. Labels: uncountable Example: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film. 5. A professionally made movie of a substantial narrative work, around 1 to 3 hours long; a feature film; a cinematic movie. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Word: film Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid. Pronunciation: /fɪlm/, [fɪɫm], [ˈfɪlm̩], [ˈfɪləm], /fɪu̯m/ 1. To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. Labels: ambitransitive Example: A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC. Example: I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead. 2. To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound. Labels: ambitransitive 3. To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. Labels: transitive Example: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Example: Her legs folded under her, and her eyes filmed over.
Word: tanah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of thana. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: babu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बाबू (bābū), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *बाब्ब (bābba), imitative of baby talk. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːbuː/ 1. A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man. Labels: Hinglish, India, North Example: I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity. 2. Originally, a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official. Labels: India, historical Example: The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window Example: Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice. 3. an archetypical Indian bureaucrat, perceived as being corrupt, lazy or arrogant. Labels: India, derogatory Example: BBMP doesn’t have any elected representatives right now. So a babu has floated this tender to benefit his favourite businessmen.
Word: bangun Part of Speech: noun 1. An eggplant; a brinjal. Labels: India, uncommon, uncountable, usually
Word: nya Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃ (nya). Pronunciation: /ˈnjɑː/, /ˈnjæ/ 1. The cry of a cat; meow, miaow. Labels: slang
Word: dan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don. Pronunciation: /dæn/ 1. A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past. Labels: obsolete Example: Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise. Example: Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.
Word: dan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. 1. A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Word: dan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 段 (dan). Pronunciation: /dæn/, /dɑn/ 1. A rank of black belt in martial arts. 2. Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
Word: dan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 担 (dàn) and Chinese 石 (dàn). Pronunciation: /dɑn/, /dæn/ 1. Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains. 2. A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
Word: dan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Pronunciation: /dæn/ 1. A dan buoy. Example: Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…] Example: Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…]
Word: dan Part of Speech: prep 1. Pronunciation spelling of than. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'.
Word: enam Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of inam. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gila Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Malay gila. 1. Mad; crazy; insane. Labels: Singlish, not-comparable Example: You gila (mad) or what? Our government good government okay?
Word: makan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay makan. Doublet of kai. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑkɑn/, [ˈmakan] 1. To eat. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, invariable Example: Mdm Zaiton: You makan already? Eat what?
Word: makan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay makan. Doublet of kai. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑkɑn/, [ˈmakan] 1. Food. Labels: Manglish, Singlish, uncountable Example: “HDB there already got makan, they want to come here for what? So leceh,” Mr Razali says. He opens his stall only on weekdays, from 6.30 AM to about 3 PM in the afternoon. Example: It’s not uncommon for Singapore’s F&B landscape to shift in an almost rapid and unsteady fashion. Some businesses morph and transform, closing and reopening spaces to keep up with changes.
Word: kaki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 柿(カキ) (kaki). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːki/, /ˈkæki/ 1. A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
Word: kaki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay kaki (“legs, feet, accomplices”). Unrelated to Hokkien and Teochew 家己人 (ka-kī-lâng / ga¹ gi⁷ nang⁵, “one of us”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɑki/, [ˈkaki], /ˈkɑːki/, /ˈkæki/ 1. A close friend, or group of friends with a shared common interest. Labels: Singlish Example: My usual mahjong kaki. Example: He has his posse of stylist-kakis.
Word: kaki Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːki/, /ˈkæki/ 1. Misspelling of khaki. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: lagi Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Malay lagi (“still more”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɑɡi/, [ˈlaˑ˧ɡi˦] 1. More, even more. Labels: Singapore, Singlish, not-comparable Example: Lagi worse.
Word: muka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori. 1. Prepared fibre of harakeke, used in traditional Maori weaving. Labels: uncountable
Word: Provencal Part of Speech: name 1. Misspelling of Provençal. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Romansch Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Romansh romansch, romontsch, rumantsch et al., from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman manner; in a Romance language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus. Perhaps influenced by the Germanic suffix seen in English as -ish (German -isch, -sch). Doublet of romance. Pronunciation: /ɹə(ʊ)ˈmanʃ/, /ɹoʊˈmænʃ/, /ɹoʊˈmɑnʃ/ 1. Synonym of Rhaeto-Romance. Labels: broadly Example: Romansch (Ger. Churwalsch, from the town of Chur), a name applied to the Romance dialect, or rather agglomeration of cognate dialects, spoken from the Grisons to Friuli on the Adriatic. ] 2. A Rhaeto-Romance language (or dialect continuum) spoken in the Graubünden/Grisons canton of Switzerland; it is one of the four official languages of Switzerland. Labels: strict-sense
Word: Romany Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Romani (“a member of the Roma people”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: My genes would best be described as a melting pot – my mother is part Bulgarian Roma, part Romanichal (English Romany), and my dad is part Romanichal, part Irish Traveller – thus, it was hardly surprising when I was born a blue-eyed milk bottle.
Word: Romany Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Romani (“the Indo-Aryan language of this people”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Romany Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Romani (“of or belonging to the Roma nation”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Ruanda Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Rwanda. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Scottish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot. Pronunciation: /ˈskɒt.ɪʃ/, /ˈskɑ.tɪʃ/, /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/, [ˈskɔɾ.ɪʃ] 1. Of a thing or concept, of or pertaining to Scotland. 2. Of a person, native to, born in or whose ancestors originally came from Scotland. Example: In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.
Word: Scottish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot. Pronunciation: /ˈskɒt.ɪʃ/, /ˈskɑ.tɪʃ/, /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/, [ˈskɔɾ.ɪʃ] 1. the people of Scotland. Labels: collective, plural, plural-only, with-definite-article
Word: Scottish Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot. Pronunciation: /ˈskɒt.ɪʃ/, /ˈskɑ.tɪʃ/, /ˈskɔt.ɪʃ/, [ˈskɔɾ.ɪʃ] 1. Scottish English, the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. 2. Short for Scottish Gaelic Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, rare
Word: stodge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Late 17th century, of "symbolic" origin, suggested by stuff and podge. Compare stog. Pronunciation: /stɒd͡ʒ/ 1. To stuff; to cram. Labels: transitive
Word: stodge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 17th century, of "symbolic" origin, suggested by stuff and podge. Compare stog. Pronunciation: /stɒd͡ʒ/ 1. Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: The meal was nothing but heavy stodge with no fresh vegetables. Example: After weeks of bread and porridge, he longed for something other than stodge. 2. Anything dull and bland. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Critics dismissed the book as academic stodge.