nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: strident Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹaɪ.dn̩t], /ˈstɹɑe.dənt/, [ˈstɹɑe̯.dn̩t] 1. Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding. Example: The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra. Example: But as they were upon going forth, a trumpet was sounded without, three strident blasts. 2. Grating or obnoxious. Example: The artist chose a strident mixture of colors. Example: If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999. 3. Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive. Example: The impact of [Jimmy Carter's] anger [at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan] on his attitude is confirmed by the moderation in his attitude that occurred. Once the president's anger began to subside, he became less strident in his pronouncements and more uncertain of Soviet motives. 4. Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way. Labels: nonstandard Example: Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.
Word: strident Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French strident, from Latin strīdēns, present active participle of strīdō. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪ.dənt/, [ˈstɹaɪ.dn̩t], /ˈstɹɑe.dənt/, [ˈstɹɑe̯.dn̩t] 1. One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
Word: EIN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Employer Identification Number. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: grp Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of group. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: disjointed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪsˈdʒɔɪn.tɪd/ 1. Not connected, coherent, or continuous. Labels: figuratively Example: The hours of his illness were disjointed and confusing as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Example: England can look forward to a quarter-final next weekend against a similarly struggling France, a reward they scarcely deserve on the evidence of this disjointed display. 2. Having the paws and head (but not the tail) detached from the body. Example: a lion disjointed 3. Cut into pieces at the joints. Example: They argued over the menu. The fish was described as being 'Made From Flaky Tender Boneless Filets and the chicken as 'Delicious French Fried to a Golden Brown, Served Disjointed.'
Word: givens Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪ.vənz/ 1. plural of given Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sweetness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English swetnes, swetnesse, from Old English swētnes (“sweetness”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtinassī (“sweetness”), equivalent to sweet + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian swietens (“sweetness”), obsolete Dutch zoetenis (“sweetness”), Old High German swuoznessi, suoznessi (“sweetness”). Pronunciation: /ˈswiːtnəs/, /ˈswitnəs/ 1. The condition of being sweet (all senses). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds. 2. A pleasant disposition; kindness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades. 3. The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate. Example: Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings. 4. A term of address for one's sweetheart. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head. Example: "Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?"
Word: incongruous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin incongruus, from in- (“not”) + congruus (“congruent”), equivalent to in- + congruous. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɒn.ɡɹʊu.ʌs/, /ɪnˈkɒŋ.ɹʊu.ʌs/, /ɪnˈkɑn.ɡɹu.əs/, /ɪŋˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əs/ 1. Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in. Example: [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene. Example: Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets. 2. Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder. Example: 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.
Word: flowering Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊəɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flower Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flowering Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊəɹɪŋ/ 1. The period of time during which a plant is in flower. 2. The period of time during which someone or something is at its peak. Labels: figuratively
Word: flowering Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊəɹɪŋ/ 1. Of a plant, that produces flowers. Labels: not-comparable Example: Azaleas are flowering plants. 2. aflower, in bloom Labels: not-comparable
Word: flattering Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈflætəɹɪŋ/ 1. Attractive or good-looking; that makes one look good. Example: The dress really did not look very flattering on her figure. 2. Gratifying to one's self-esteem; complimentary. 3. That which represents too favorably.
Word: flattering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈflætəɹɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flatter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flattering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flatering, flatrung (gerund), equivalent to flatter + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈflætəɹɪŋ/ 1. The action of the verb to flatter. 2. Instances of flattery.
Word: portends Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of portend Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: scorned Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /skɔɹnd/, /skɔːnd/ 1. Hated, despised, or avoided. Example: Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.
Word: scorned Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skɔɹnd/, /skɔːnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of scorn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: supplying Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /səˈplaɪ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of supply Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: juré Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of rhythmic song performed by the Creoles of Louisiana.
Word: dactylogram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dactylo- + -gram. Pronunciation: /dækˈtɪləɡɹæm/, /ˈdæk.tɪ.ləˌɡræm/ 1. A fingerprint.
Word: relict Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English relicte (“widow”), from Middle French relicte (“widow”), from Late Latin relicta (“widow”), from Latin relictus, past participle of relinquō (“to abandon, to relinquish, to leave (behind)”), from re- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”). Doublet of relic, derelict, and relinquish. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛlɪkt/ 1. Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic. Labels: archaic, formal Example: Upon which the Chancellor, by way of note said, 'it is suggested, that there is a relict of the deceased, married to another man, who has joined her in a power of attorney to authorize the sale of her interest, […]' Example: But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future. 2. Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic. Labels: formal Example: […] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […] Example: The species may be a relict of former stages of historical vegetation and landscape development resulting from past climate changes (glacial and post- glacial periods). 3. Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic. Labels: formal Example: Dark rims around the pillows are caused by glaucophane enrichment, possibly a relict of a primary interaction between basalt and seawater, causing Na- enrichment in the original glass crust of the pillows. 4. Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic. Labels: formal Example: A small number of linguists believe that Cimbrian is not an Austro-Bavarian dialect but a relict of Lombardic.
Word: relict Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English relicte (“widow”), from Middle French relicte (“widow”), from Late Latin relicta (“widow”), from Latin relictus, past participle of relinquō (“to abandon, to relinquish, to leave (behind)”), from re- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”). Doublet of relic, derelict, and relinquish. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛlɪkt/ 1. Surviving, remaining. Labels: not-comparable 2. That is a relict; pertaining to a relict. Labels: not-comparable Example: In the lakes and in the streams were species of fish not known elsewhere on earth and birds and lizards and other forms of life as well all long relict here for the desert stretched away on every side.
Word: in full swing Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Proceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress. Example: We arrived an hour late and found the event already in full swing. Example: The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
Word: discontinued Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/ 1. Permanently no longer available for sale Labels: not-comparable 2. Permanently no longer in production Labels: not-comparable
Word: discontinued Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuːd/ 1. simple past and past participle of discontinue Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: This software line has been discontinued.
Word: exasperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/, /ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/ 1. To tax the patience of; irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry. Labels: transitive Example: And this report Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war. Example: The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
Word: exasperate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin exasperātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin exasperō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + asperō (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/, /ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/ 1. Exasperated. Labels: obsolete Example: And this report Hath ſo exaſperate their King, that hee Prepares for ſome attempt of Warre. 2. Exasperated; embittered. Labels: obsolete Example: Thersites. Do I curse thee? Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no. Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk […] Example: Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning […]
Word: exasperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A pun on the usual sense of exasperate (to annoy) and aspirate. Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæsp(ə)ɹeɪt/, /ɪɡˈzɑːspəɹeɪt/ 1. To overaspirate the letter h, or to aspirate it whenever it begins a word, once a common form of hypercorrection. Labels: UK, humorous, obsolete, slang Example: quoted (from Punch magazine) in 2005, David Crystal, The Stories of English COCKNEY HOBSERVATION. — Cockneys are not the only people who drop or exasperate the 'h's.' It is done by common people in the provinces, and you may laugh at them for it.
Word: run off Part of Speech: verb 1. To flee or depart quickly. Example: Near-synonym: run away Example: Don't run off before the end of the event. 2. To make photocopies, or print. Labels: idiomatic Example: Near-synonyms: print off, print out Example: Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out. 3. To write something quickly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Near-synonyms: dash off, whip up Example: Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days. 4. To pour or spill off or over. Example: They kept a barrel to store rainwater that has run off the roof. 5. To cause to flow away. Example: to run off a charge of molten metal from a furnace 6. To chase someone away. Example: Near-synonyms: chase off, chase away, scare off Example: If anyone comes into this field, the bull will soon run them off. 7. To operate by a particular energy or fuel source. Example: This radio runs off batteries. Example: This radio runs off of batteries. 8. To have diarrhea. 9. To recite, especially items on a list. Example: Near-synonyms: check off, tick off, rattle off, run down Example: He ran off the checklist one by one but still missed a couple of items. 10. To steal (horses). Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonym: make off with Example: He ran off a pony from the ranch.
Word: ? Part of Speech: noun 1. A question. Labels: Internet Example: i hav a ? 4 u 2. objects seen/shaped as the question mark Example: a ? block
Word: ? Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of questioning. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: blender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English blend Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English blender From blend + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈblɛn.də/, /ˈblɛn.dɚ/, /ˈblɪ̟n.dɚ/ 1. A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients. 2. A piece of fabric sewn into the front of a theatrical wig to make it blend in with the performer's natural hair. Example: A blender is added to a wig in the same way that a quick front is added. It can be added at the same time as the fronting lace is added or after the wig is completed. 3. A subtly patterned fabric printed in different shades of a single color, often used in place of a solid to create visual texture.
Word: blender Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English blend Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English blender From blend + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈblɛn.də/, /ˈblɛn.dɚ/, /ˈblɪ̟n.dɚ/ 1. To mix in a blender
Word: Mixer Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unexplained. 1. A surname.
Word: Mixer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English (Little) Mix Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English Mixer From (Little) Mix + -er. 1. A fan of the British girl group Little Mix. Labels: slang Example: Mixers, what do you think of the new song? Example: Jade Thirlwall tells us about sharing a heritage with her Middle Eastern Mixers, fearing fame and inspiring young girls […] You’ve got a lot of Middle Eastern Mixers (the name given to their fans); […] 2. A member of the British girl group Little Mix. Labels: slang Example: Mixer Jesy Nelson was bowled over that a rap diva of the highest order like Elliott would want to work with them. Example: Leigh-Anne from the band confessed to thinking Austin Mahone was a cutie. He later told me he would love to take her for dinner and on the London Eye – bless him. […] Sadly for Austin, the Mixer is spoken for, and currently in Jamaica with her long-term boyfriend.
Word: mixer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English mix Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English mixer From mix + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/ 1. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together. 2. One who mixes or socializes. Example: I had seen so many people all my life—I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny with those of all classes that I came in contact with. Example: Bad mixer as he was, he preferred to be "out of it" in a crowd than out of it altogether. 3. A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below. 4. A nonalcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails. Example: Do we have any mixers? I don't want to drink this vodka neat. 5. A mixing console. Example: I have such a quiet bong that I literally have to put my mixer in my lap and turn both knobs all the way up just to get it to pick up the bubbles. 6. A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year. Labels: US Example: To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450. 7. Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners. 8. A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head. 9. A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it. 10. A chiropractor who uses other treatments in addition to spinal adjustment. 11. Synonym of tumbler.
Word: zymo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs Proto-Indo-European *yúHs-meh₂ Ancient Greek ζῡ́μη (zū́mē) English zymo- From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Greek combining form, from Ancient Greek ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven”). Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪmə(ʊ)/ 1. Fermentation; fermentational. Labels: morpheme 2. Enzyme; enzymatic. Labels: morpheme
Word: zym- Part of Speech: prefix 1. Alternative form of zymo- (before a vowel). Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
Word: zygotes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zygote Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zygo- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”). Pronunciation: /zaɪɡoʊ-/ 1. union Labels: morpheme 2. pair Labels: morpheme
Word: zyg- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”) 1. union Labels: morpheme 2. pair Labels: morpheme
Word: zonks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of zonk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: zonking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of zonk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: zonking Part of Speech: adj 1. Striking; great. Labels: slang Example: Anyway, the zonking eight-part series that took butter off middle-class tables for at least a week was entitled ‘The Art of Body Maintenance’ […]
Word: zonker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zonk + -er. 1. Someone who zonks, especially by taking drugs. Labels: slang
Word: zonker Part of Speech: noun 1. A lure resembling a small baitfish.
Word: zonkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zonker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zones Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of zone Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: zoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of zone Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: zoning Part of Speech: noun 1. Legislative action for the purpose of regulating the use of property and the construction of buildings within the area under the jurisdiction of the legislative body concerned. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: These towers are not only the product of advances in construction technology – and a global surfeit of super-rich buyers – but a zoning policy that allows a developer to acquire unused airspace nearby, add it to their own lot, and erect a vast structure without any kind of public review process taking place. 2. The use of zones, such as fare zones. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The system of zoning would lead logically to the introduction of the modern ticket barriers from 1987 (the Underground Ticketing System, or UTS), in that it allowed the software in the ticket gates to be relatively simple.
Word: zoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of zone Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: zoned Part of Speech: adj 1. Included in a zone. Example: non-zoned land 2. Synonym of zoned out (“intoxicated by drugs”). Labels: slang
Word: zoner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zone + -er. 1. Someone who zones things.
Word: zoners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zoner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zombis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zombi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zombies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zombie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zodiacal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin zōdiacus + -al. By surface analysis, zodiac + -al. Pronunciation: /zoʊˈdaɪ.ə.kəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the zodiac. Example: […] in some passages of the Old Testament they think they discover the Zodiacal course of the Sun […] Example: For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set.
Word: zlotys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zloty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zl. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of zloty. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: zizz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative in both uses, the first being of snoring: compare zzz (“sound of snoring”). Pronunciation: /zɪz/ 1. A nap or sleep. Labels: informal Example: Then I had a little zizz until Martland telephoned. 2. A buzzing or whizzing sound.
Word: zizz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative in both uses, the first being of snoring: compare zzz (“sound of snoring”). Pronunciation: /zɪz/ 1. To take a nap. Labels: informal, intransitive
Word: zircoloy Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy of zirconium with tin, chromium and nickel, widely used, especially in the nuclear power industry, for its heat- and corrosion-resistant properties Labels: uncountable
Word: zip code Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪp koʊd/ 1. A postal code, especially for addresses served by the US Postal Service, consisting of a five- or nine-figure number. Labels: US Example: 90210 was a television show popular in the 1990s about a group of high school students and their families who all lived in the zip code 90210 in Beverly Hills, California, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles. 2. Any postal code. Labels: US, broadly Example: For example, the foreign zip code H24 JZL is most certainly not a number. Example: Carrying the package to the stairs inside, I noticed it was addressed to Mom and me with a European zip code and stamp. 3. A postal code, especially for addresses served by PhilPost, consisting of a four-figure number. Labels: Philippines 4. A grouping of athletes or teams with similar skill level. Labels: broadly Example: Wallace and Brewer are almost certain to finish 1-2 in some order – no one else is even in the same zip code.
Word: zip code Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ZIP Code, a trademark of the United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪp koʊd/ 1. To provide with, or allocate to, a zip code. Labels: transitive
Word: zingy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From zing + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈzɪŋi/ 1. Full of zest. Labels: informal Example: There's not overmuch depth here, but Chambers does have a zingy wit and the one-liners fly fast and furious. Example: In the early drafts of the zingy script (by Charles Lederer), the visitor was to have been considerably more outre, but apparently the special effects folks weren't up to the job […]
Word: idea virus Part of Speech: noun 1. A concept which is transmitted between people via networks (especially the Internet) generally without the knowledge or consent of the originator, and which may be modified as it is passed on.
Word: fragor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fragor (“a breaking to pieces”), from frangō (“to break”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯ɡə/, /ˈfɹeɪ̯ɡɚ/ 1. A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash. Example: The direful fragor, when some southern blast / Tears from the Alps a ridge of knotty oaks[…]
Word: fragor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the above, by confusion with the root of fragrant. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹeɪ̯ɡə/, /ˈfɹeɪ̯ɡɚ/ 1. A strong or sweet scent; fragrance. Labels: obsolete, proscribed Example: it seems offensive; and tasted, penetrates a strong brain by its fragor
Word: tum Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tʌm/ 1. shortened form of tummy Example: For here am I without a crumb To satisfy a raging tum-- O what an oversight!" As he was indulging in these melancholy reflexions he came round a bend in the road, and discovered two people in the very act of having lunch. Example: We left the telephone, walked up two small flights of stairs, and opened the front door as, believe it or not, the car with three policemen in it was just pulling up. I mention this amazing promptitude hoping that it will be a comfort to timorous souls whose tums turn over when things go bump in the night.
Word: reprobate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ 1. Rejected; cast off as worthless. Labels: rare Example: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. 2. Rejected by God; damned, sinful. 3. Immoral, having no religious or principled character. Example: The reprobate criminal sneered at me. Example: And strength, and art, are easily outdone / By spirits reprobate.
Word: reprobate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ 1. One rejected by God; a sinful person. Example: And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to him, if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy, a daily trouble and paine of losse in som degree like that which Reprobats feel. 2. A person with low morals or principles. Example: I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. Example: [T]he young sinner took leave of Pen, and the club of the elder criminals, and sauntered into Blacquiere’s, an adjacent establishment, frequented by reprobates of his own age.
Word: reprobate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/ 1. To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn. Example: Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;... 2. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss. 3. To refuse, set aside.
Word: touchous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English touch Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English touchous From touch + -ous. 1. Touchy; overly sensitive. Labels: Southern, US, rare, regional Example: Don't be so touchous about everything! Example: He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.
Word: shmexy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shm- + sexy. Pronunciation: /ʃmɛk.si/ 1. Sexy. Labels: euphemistic, humorous, slang Example: Sexy, schmexy. My friend Flo is coming over and I will not have her see my daughter wearing ripped-up rags!! Example: Sir Ben Marx. Singer, model, shmexy zombie. 2. Having a desirability like sexual attractiveness. Labels: slang
Word: touchy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A variant of earlier tetchy (“cranky, easily annoyed, difficult to handle”), under influence from some senses of touch (“affect, disturb”) and simulating touch + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈtʌt͡ʃi/ 1. Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness. Example: It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin. Example: Eminent Americans are to be invited to direct by will their interment there; and in the case of Americans not so eminent as to be invited, but who have nevertheless expressed a wish to join the others, a committee will decide. It seems a touchy business all along... 2. Easily offended, oversensitive. Example: He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible. Example: I can assure you, Mr Hosier, that other people are much more touchy about my blindness than I am. 3. Inclined to engage in physical touch. Labels: informal
Word: restlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *rastō Proto-West Germanic *rastu Old English ræst 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 Old English ræstlēas Middle English restles English restless Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną 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 restlessness From restless + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛstləsnəs/ 1. The state or condition of being restless; an inability to be still, quiet, at peace or comfortable; a feeling of discomfort with stillness causes by anxiety, boredom or other emotions. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She sat and fidgeted out of restlessness as she waited. Example: With nothing to occupy his attention, Mr Enniscorthy began to manifest an unhappy restlessness that increased until the play had been proceeding for some few minutes.
Word: ossified Part of Speech: adj 1. Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass). Example: ossified cartilage 2. Inflexible, old-fashioned. Labels: figuratively Example: Launching a new platform, he said, was like starting a new country: Getting users to move from an established network that had an ossified economy and social classes to a new network requires the possibility of success — the lure of the American Dream. 3. Drunk. Labels: Ireland, US, slang Example: "Hey, are you ossified, fat daddy?[…]I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]." Example: At Wanda's house, two nights before the wedding, she, Jenny, and two other girls were doing shots with beer chasers while Tom and I and another guy watched as they all got ossified.
Word: ossified Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of ossify Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: audiophiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of audiophile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: audiophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From audio- + -phile. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/ 1. A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology. Example: However, almost every serious audiophile or electronics hobbyist already knows that bar/graph displays are close to useless for the application they are most commonly used for, which is the attempt to indicate output power levels of audio power amplifiers.
Word: audiophile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From audio- + -phile. Pronunciation: /ˈɔː.di.əʊˌfaɪl/ 1. Relating to high fidelity sound reproduction or an interest in it. Example: Fortunately, I abandoned the cheap record player and moved into more audiophile equipment once I got into high school.
Word: general semantics Part of Speech: noun 1. An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world Labels: uncountable
Word: intrusive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from intrusion, + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/ 1. Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome. Example: Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive? 2. Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. 3. epenthetic 4. Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of a collection keeping track of what items it contains. An intrusive collection does not "own" its contents and a single item can be part of multiple intrusive collections. Example: an intrusive linked list
Word: intrusive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from intrusion, + -ive. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/ 1. An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
Word: certainty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English certeynte (“surety”), from Anglo-Norman certeinte, from Old French certeinete, from Vulgar Latin *certānitās, from Latin certus. Pronunciation: /ˈsɝtn̩ti/, /ˈsɜːtn̩ti/ 1. The state of being certain. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: with certainty Example: moral certainty 2. An instance of being certain. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A fact or truth unquestionably established. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Certainties are uninteresting and sating. Example: There is a certainty attainable. A certainty of feeling will arise through the very contemplation of Jesus. But there is also attainable a certainty of Reason.
Word: successive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin succedere (“to succeed in”). Pronunciation: /səkˈsɛsɪv/, /səkˈsesɪv/, /səkˈsesəv/ 1. Coming one after the other in a series. Labels: not-comparable Example: They had won the title for five successive years. Example: A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor. 2. Of, or relating to a succession; hereditary. Labels: not-comparable Example: a successive title Example: a successive empire 3. Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement. Labels: not-comparable
Word: slaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed (around 1861) from Dutch sla, shortened from salade (“salad, lettuce”). Pronunciation: /slɔː/, /slɔ/, /slɑ/ 1. Coleslaw. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: Barbecue is always served with slaw in North Carolina and always has been. Example: My boss, whose daughter was a working chef, told me that I made the best slaws that she had ever tasted. The secret is that slaws deserve as much care in their preparation as any other good meal.
Word: great grey shrike Part of Speech: noun 1. Lanius excubitor, a species of shrike.
Word: brocard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French brocard, cognate with Medieval Latin brocarda, brocardicorum opus, a collection of canonical laws written by the bishop Burchard of Worms. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊkəd/, /ˈbɹəʊkɑːd/, /ˈbɹoʊkɚd/, /ˈbɹoʊkɑrd/ 1. A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule. Example: The other question was as to the proper legal meaning of the brocard, “heres heredis mei est heres meus.” Example: Blackstone, with a like tenderness of conscience, endeavors to withdraw a single case, a sale of provisions, from the old brocard caveat emptor, and tells us that in such a contract there is a warranty that the provisions are wholesome.
Word: googles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of google Labels: form-of, plural
Word: googles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of google Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nenia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nēnia. 1. A funeral song; an elegy. Labels: Ancient-Rome Example: Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they will parentare still, omit no good office that may tend to the preservation of their names, honours, and eternal memory. Example: The corpse of L’Escuyer, stretched on a bier, the ghastly head girt with laurel, is borne through the streets; with many-voiced unmelodious Nenia; funeral-wail still deeper than it is loud!
Word: niveous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin niveus, from nix (“snow”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɪvi.əs/ 1. Snowy; resembling snow. Example: So Cinabar becomes red by the acide exhalation of sulphur, which otherwise presents a pure and niveous white. Example: One solitary author, Beckman, declares that he saw niveous crystallizations in the form of hexangular pillars, that they occurred at Frankfort, upon the Oder, in 1667.
Word: pop-up advertisement Part of Speech: noun 1. An advertisement that takes the form of a window that appears automatically on a computer screen when certain websites are visited. Labels: Internet
Word: popup Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pop-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: popup blocker Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of software that prevents pop-up advertisements from being displayed.
Word: seisin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seisin, seysen, from Old French seisin, from the verb seisir, from Early Medieval Latin sacīre, from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan) and Old English settan. More at seize, seise. 1. An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession. Labels: historical 2. The act of taking possession. Labels: obsolete 3. The thing possessed; property. Labels: obsolete Example: Diſſeiſin is a large Title, and is an unlawful Entry and Ouſter of him that has an actual Seiſin and Freehold.
Word: longshore drift Part of Speech: noun 1. The process whereby sand and shingle move along a beach shoreline when waves approach the shore at an angle.
Word: headnote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From head + note. 1. A note at the head of a page, chapter, dictionary entry, or other document element. 2. A summary of the relevant aspects of a legal case, usually found at the beginning of a case report.
Word: longshore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Aphesis of alongshore. 1. Of, relating to, or living along a seacoast. Labels: not-comparable Example: a longshore fisherman 2. Flowing parallel to the shoreline, or diagonal to it, rather than perpendicular to it. (of a current) Labels: not-comparable Example: a dangerous longshore current
Word: seacoast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”). 1. The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean. Example: Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.
Word: obiter dictum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obiter dictum (“something said by the way”). Pronunciation: /ˌəʊbɪtə ˈdɪktəm/, /ˌoʊbɪɾɚ ˈdɪktəm/ 1. An incidental remark; especially (law) a statement or remark in a court's judgment that is not essential to the disposition of the case. Example: All I know is that we had a patent suction jack—for of course we daren't use leverage—capable of raising five tons dead weight drawing on a stone weighing something less than five hundredweight and it couldn't budge it a hair. No, sir; do what we might it had us beaten to cold cinders. And if you want my obiter dictum I should say the biggest thing in W.S. enigmas is waiting patiently there for some bright boy to come along and scoop it. Example: Casual obiter dicta by men of accepted godliness belonged to a different category from the ecstatic claims to immediate revelation made by obscure persons who thrust themselves into the limelight […].
Word: seashore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sea + shore. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːʃɔː/, /ˈsiːʃoɹ/, /ˈsiːʃo(ː)ɹ/, /ˈsiːʃoə/ 1. The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean. 2. The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.
Word: foreshore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + shore. 1. The part of a shore between high water and low water. Example: The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75. Example: It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore.
Word: per curiam Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Latin per (“by means of”) curiam (“the court”) 1. An opinion delivered by an entire court rather than a single judge.
Word: blockquote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of an HTML element for this purpose, from block + quote. Pronunciation: /ˈblɑk.kwoʊt/, /ˈblɒk.kwəʊt/ 1. a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage, as by italicization and indentation Labels: Internet
Word: ming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among. Pronunciation: /mɪŋ/ 1. To mix, blend, mingle. Labels: archaic Example: I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof. 2. To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse. Labels: obsolete Example: the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...]. 3. To produce through mixing; especially, to knead. Labels: Ireland, UK, dialectal
Word: ming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among. Pronunciation: /mɪŋ/ 1. A mixture. Labels: Ireland, UK 2. The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: 17 September 1811, [Description of] Counterpart of Demise from John Thorold to John Wilson of Grantham, Lincolnshire Archives, Ref. Thor 1/2/ZA25/4 Published by The National Archives, Accessed 19 June 2022. Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of Grayingham.
Word: ming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Backformation from minging. Pronunciation: /mɪŋ/ 1. To be unattractive (person or object). Labels: Ireland, UK, slang 2. To be foul-smelling. Labels: Ireland, UK, slang
Word: ming Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, muneȝen, from Old English myngian, mynegian, ġemynegian (“to bring to mind, have in mind”), from myne (“mind”), from ġemunan (“to remember”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Merged in Middle English with Old English ġemyndgian (“to remember, be mindful, remind, intend, commemorate, mention, exhort, impel, warn, demand payment”). More at mind. Pronunciation: /mɪŋ/ 1. To speak of, to mention. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: ming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chinese 命 (mìng, “destiny, fate; luck”). Pronunciation: /mɪŋ/ 1. Destiny, fate. Labels: uncountable
Word: minging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Scots mingin (“stinking”), present participle of ming (“to stink”), from Middle English mengen (“to mix”), from Old English mengan (“to mix”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪŋɪŋ/ 1. Very unattractive; ugly. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: Once, Cookie even tried to get me to give it a go with Jez – can you believe the nerve of that? 'Why would I want to do that? He's minging.' 'Why not? It won't hurt. He never gets a shag.' 'No, Cookie. Bloody hell.' He hasn't got a clue. 'Wouldn't you be jealous?' 'No.' 'You're an idiot. Why do you think he never gets a shag?' 'Why?' 'Because he's minging!' 'So? I'm minging. We're all minging. None of us are exactly page three, are we, Billie?' 2. Unclean or dirty; disgusting and foul-smelling. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: Cleaners are always prime suspects for office thefts but in my long experience it's nearly all employees, with a tiny remainder down to traditional burglary. My advice is to presume the Nike-clad cleaner innocent and take personal stuff home, especially minging sportswear. Example: How can you shag bare lads? / Is your fanny not stinging? / I bet your fanny's fucking minging