nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: scapegoat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows. Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt/, /ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/ 1. To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own. Example: They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
Word: fairytale Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of fairy-tale. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: City, who lost Kevin De Bruyne to injury midway through the second half, threw on Sergio Aguero for his final appearance but there was no fairytale ending for the club's greatest goalscorer as Chelsea closed out the win.
Word: fairytale Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fairy tale. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fairy-tale Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Denominal adjective of fairy tale. 1. Of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale. Labels: not-comparable Example: a fairy-tale romance
Word: fairy-tale Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of fairy tale. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: fairy godmother Part of Speech: noun 1. In certain fairy tales, a fictional benevolent woman with magical powers who uses them to help the cause of the protagonist. Example: I thought it was clever the director cast the same woman to play both the Wicked Witch and Prince Charming's fairy godmother. 2. Any generous benefactor. Labels: broadly Example: How lucky you are to have me for a friend! I am a fairy godmother to you! Example: "Yeah, well, just remember, Maureen, you're not her fairy godmother. You can't wave your magic wand and fix her fucked-up life."
Word: fairy primrose Part of Speech: noun 1. A Chinese ornamental (Primula malacoides) grown for its large, rose to pink flowers, grouped in many-flowered umbels. 2. A species of flowering plant in the Primrose family (Primula minima).
Word: fairy ring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The idea of a ring where fairies danced was a traditional explanation for the fungal phenomenon before it was understood. 1. A place where fairies congregate in a ring, particularly in order to dance. Example: They are fond of music and dancing. It is their dancing that forms the fairy rings. Example: 1914, "Rhys at the Fairy Dance" in Maud Keary, Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children, Macmillan and Company, page 102, Though many a year has passed away, / None have seen Rhys since that day! / Does he dance and does he sing / For ever in a Fairy Ring? 2. A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium. Example: This curious phenomenon has been differently accounted for. The following is Mr. Nicholson's description and explanation: "the appearance in the grass, says he, commonly called Fairy Rings, is well known. It consists either of a ring of grass of more luxuriant vegetation than the rest, or a kind of circular path in which the vegetation is more defective than elsewhere. It appears to be pretty well ascertained that the latter state precedes the former. […] Example: The best known Fungus occupant of fairy rings is the Fairy Ring Agaric or Champignon, Marasmius oreades, termed in the older botanical textbooks Agaricus oreades.
Word: periphery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Ancient Greek περί (perí) Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-) Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō) Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ια (-ia) Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor. Latin peripheriabor. Middle French peripheriebor. English periphery Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it. Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/ 1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something. Example: The suburbs are a city's periphery. Example: Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months. 2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces. 3. The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
Word: fungi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/, /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/, /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/, /ˈfʌŋɡiː/ 1. Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound. 2. plural of fungus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fungi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours. Pronunciation: /ˈfuːnd͡ʒi/, /ˈfund͡ʒi/, /ˈfuːnd͡ʒiː/ 1. Alternative spelling of fungee (“a cornmeal dish from the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish, or chicken”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable 2. A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm. Labels: broadly, uncountable
Word: fairy shrimp Part of Speech: noun 1. A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back. Example: Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions. They live in the ground in eggs until weather conditions such as floods can bring them to the surface, says IFL Science.
Word: appendage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti Proto-Italic *pendō Latin pendō Latin appendō Old French apendrebor. Middle English appenden English append Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English appendage From append + -age. Pronunciation: /əˈpɛndɪd͡ʒ/ 1. An external body part that projects from the body. Example: bodily appendage Example: The insect has a pair of sensory appendages. 2. A natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism. Example: The small building was added as an appendage to the main structure. 3. A part that is joined to something larger. Example: He disliked being treated as a mere appendage to the committee.
Word: fungo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/ 1. A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught. Example: The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up. Example: Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids. 2. A fungo bat. Labels: informal Example: He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
Word: fungo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/ 1. To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
Word: squalor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin squālor. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/, /ˈskwɑlɚ/ 1. Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. Example: bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes
Word: sluggish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English slug Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English sluggish From slug + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈslʌɡɪʃ/, [ˈslʌɡɪʃ] 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive Example: a sluggish man Example: [I]f he leaves the School poſſeſs'd of a ſluggiſh indolent Diſpoſition, and of Learning rather forc'd upon him than choſen, it is probable he will forget what he brought thence; but if he be active, emulous and aſpiring, he will certainly find Time for Reading and Thinking; for tho' it be a homely, it is a true Saying, that where there is a Will, there is a Way. 2. Slow; having little motion. Example: Vp thou tame River, vvake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drovvn'st thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggiſh vvaters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flovv. Example: We float upon a sluggish stream, / We ride no rapids mad, / While life is all a tempered dream / And every joy half sad. 3. Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert. Example: Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. 4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. 5. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth. Example: Inflation has been rising despite a sluggish economy. Example: After an initial bounce back, the post-Covid Chinese economy has turned sluggish. Its property market - once a key driver of growth - is now mired in a credit crisis, exacerbating a domestic "debt bomb" that has ballooned from years of borrowing by local government and state-owned enterprises.
Word: slothful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sloth + -ful. 1. Lazy; idle; tending to sloth. Example: He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Example: This Book will make a Travailer of thee, / If by its Counſel thou wilt ruled be; / It will direct thee to the Holy Land, / If thou wilt its Directions understand: / Yea, it will make the ſloathful, active be; / The Blind alſo, delightful things to ſee.
Word: rabid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin rabiō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rabidusbor. English rabid From the Latin rabidus, from rabiō (“to rave”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæbɪd/, /ˈɹeɪbɪd/ 1. Affected with rabies. Example: a rabid dog or fox 2. Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia. Example: a rabid virus 3. Furious; raging; extremely violent. Labels: broadly Example: It seems a very likely agreement that the Maestre’s activity against Cabra, at and after Ciudad Real, should be balanced by the service of Aguilar’s brutal underlings in the Rebellion at Fuente Ovejuna." In any event, there were “algunos caballeros (sic) cordobeses a devocién de . . . Rodrigo Girén,” who in 1473 had already proved themselves only too eager for the most rabid violence. Example: Brutal compulsion was the necessary accompaniment of the large-scale organization and the extensive order introduced by kingship. Herodotus’ history is full of revolting descriptions of the rabid violence of kings, such as the tale he told of Cambyses. 4. Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous. Labels: figuratively Example: a rabid socialist Example: rabid Green Bay Packers fans
Word: rabid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin rabiō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin rabidusbor. English rabid From the Latin rabidus, from rabiō (“to rave”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæbɪd/, /ˈɹeɪbɪd/ 1. A human or animal infected with rabies. 2. Someone who is fanatical in opinion.
Word: logo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1937, clipping of logogram or logotype. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.ɡəʊ/, /ˈloʊ.ɡoʊ/ 1. A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization. Example: The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead. Example: Branding remains constant and TfL's roundel stays the dominant logo on trains and at stations. 2. An audio recording for the same purpose; a jingle. Labels: broadly Example: What about including a CD of your music or a copy of your audio logo/jingle in your promotional items […] 3. A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements. 4. An ensign, a badge of office, rank, or power. 5. A corporate customer. Example: How many new logos did we close this quarter?
Word: rabies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.biːz/ 1. An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death. Labels: uncountable
Word: encephalitis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From encephal- + -itis. Pronunciation: /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlaɪtɪs/, /ɛnˌkɛfəˈlaɪtɪs/ 1. Inflammation of the brain. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: racial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English racial From race + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪʃəl/ 1. Of or relating to a race (or a people). Example: the racial complexion Example: racial stereotypes
Word: racial Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English racial From race + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪʃəl/ 1. A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.
Word: rackett Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹækɪt/ 1. An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
Word: regarding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/, /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of regard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: regarding Part of Speech: prep Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/, /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/ 1. Concerning, respecting. Example: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
Word: regarding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/, /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is regarded or observed. Example: […] God Invisible by the assumption of His Manhood was laid open to the regardings of our sight. Example: […] to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been of the crunching teeth of sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below […]
Word: concerning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/, /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/ 1. Causing concern; worrying. Example: It's very concerning that our neighbour seems to be crying very loudly these days. 2. Important. Labels: obsolete Example: So great and so concerning truth.
Word: concerning Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/, /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/ 1. Regarding, respecting. Example: Physically, everything is perfect, but concerning your mental state, you have some problems. Example: The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Word: concerning Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/, /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of concern Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: concerning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/, /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/ 1. That which one is concerned in; one's business. Example: We shall write to you, / As Time and our Concernings shall importune, / How it goes with us, and do look to know / What doth befall you here.
Word: rehash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English hash English rehash From re- + hash. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈhæʃ/ 1. To hash (chop food into small pieces) again. Labels: transitive Example: I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.] 2. To repeat with minor variation. Labels: transitive Example: Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments. Example: The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference. 3. To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event. Labels: transitive Example: Let's not rehash what we did last night. 4. To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items. Labels: transitive
Word: rehash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English hash English rehash From re- + hash. Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/ 1. Something reworked, or made up from old materials. Example: He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay. 2. A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
Word: rehibition Part of Speech: noun 1. The return of a purchased item to the seller, on the ground of defect or fraud. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: resentful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From resent + -ful. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɛntfəl/ 1. Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged. 2. Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment. Example: ‘Them bloody chaps 'ave a cushy job,’ said little Martlow with resentful envy. ‘Just fly over the line, take a peek at ol' Fritz, and as soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, fuck off 'ome jildy, toot sweet.’ Example: Is it serving Hashem to be machmir and resentful, rather than adhere to the letter of the law and be relaxed and happy?
Word: reservoir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛz.ə.vwɑː/, /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/, /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɔɹ/, /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vɔɹ/ 1. A place where anything is kept in store. Example: Notwithstanding the way in which she had, in what she termed "the delicacy of her feelings," contrived to pour the receipts of the fancy fair into one reservoir, the duke and several other persons complimented Lady Anne very much on the superior beauty and value of her articles,... Example: The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear. 2. A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply. Example: (obsolete) 3. A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. 4. A supply or source of something. Example: To replace them and also to provide a reservoir for relief trains, a certain amount of spare stock must be kept on hand. Example: The goal is to draw on reservoirs of strength that defy rational thought, so you can wrench your poor, obsessed spirit away from work and orient it toward stuff that matters. 5. A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species. Example: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents. 6. A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
Word: reservoir Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛz.ə.vwɑː/, /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/, /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɔɹ/, /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vɔɹ/ 1. To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir. Labels: transitive
Word: aqueduct Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ Proto-Italic *akʷā Latin aquae Latin ductus Latin aquaeductusbor. English aqueduct Adapted borrowing from Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + dūcō (“to lead”, “to bring”); compare the French aqueduc. Pronunciation: /ˈæk.wɪˌdʌkt/, /ˈæk.wəˌdʌkt/, /ˈɑk.wəˌdʌkt/ 1. An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. 2. A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure. Example: All the years he’d been down there in the traffic he’d taken this aqueduct for just another bridge, nothing to tell you that canal boats and waterfowl were being carried along above your head. 3. A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.
Word: receiving reservoir Part of Speech: noun 1. A principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.
Word: rolling-pin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rolling pin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “And we must get a rolling-pin,” she cried, “for I shall make pumpkin pies every day.[…]”
Word: rollway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From roll + way. 1. An inclined slope or chute prepared for rolling logs into a stream or into a mill. 2. A series of cylindrical metal rolls placed between two rails and spaced apart, used to convey materials along a production line. Labels: rare Example: Ingots that fully pass inspection are moved along the rollway to a point opposite to which they are to be piled, and then piled by means of a small magnet on an air hoist carried by a movable wall jib crane.
Word: romaunt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Rōma Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin Rōmānus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin rōmānicus Latin -ē Vulgar Latin rōmānicē Old French romanz Old French romauntder. English romaunt From Old French romaunt (modern roman), variant of romanz. Pronunciation: /ɹəˈmɔːnt/, /ɹəʊˈmɔːnt/ 1. A romantic story told in verse; a romance. Labels: archaic Example: They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted[…]; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts. Example: 1844, Caroline de Crespigny (translator), Ernst Schulze, The Enchanted Rose: A Romaunt in Three Cantos, [1818, Ernst Schulze, Die Bezauberte Rose: Romantisches Gedicht in drei Gesängen], W. Hoffmeister.
Word: roughly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English rough Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English roughly From rough + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌf.li/ 1. In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness. Example: They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them. 2. Unevenly or irregularly. 3. Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately. Example: Satanism can be divided, roughly, into two branches: the Luciferians and the Palladists. Example: Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common.
Word: roughsetter Part of Speech: noun 1. A mason who builds rough stonework.
Word: romanesque Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative letter-case form of Romanesque. Labels: alt-of
Word: quim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds". Pronunciation: /kwɪm/, [kʰw̥ɪm] 1. The female genitalia; the vulva. Labels: vulgar Example: For one day, when amusing herself with this whim The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim. Example: Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims? 2. An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person. Labels: derogatory, vulgar Example: (to Black Widow) In every way, [Clint Barton] knows your fear! And then he'll wake…to see his good work…When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!
Word: quim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots queem. Compare English queem. 1. Affectedly nice, prim. Labels: Ulster 2. Moving with ease and precision. Labels: Ulster
Word: op shop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From contraction of opportunity + shop. 1. A shop, usually operated by a charity, to which new or used goods are donated, for sale at a low price. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: The Lutherans, who have an Op Shop not far from ours, made friendly comparisons with the kind and quality of the goods. They had to get in through our Op Shop to the lower vestry and as they passed looked at our shelves and said ‘Amazing what people bring in’ and ‘We get quite a few of them too’. Example: The Red Cross Op-Shop was the best. It didn′t have that op shop smell, even, and for once there were young people working there. Not that I′m against old ladies in op shops, but I think it′s pretty cool to walk into an op shop where the radio is tuned to FM and there′s an essential-oil burner on the counter.
Word: Durex Part of Speech: name Etymology: Condom brand name: 1929, from durability, reliability, excellence. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌ.ɹɛks/, /ˈdʊ.ɹɛks/ 1. A brand of condom. Labels: UK, US 2. A brand of adhesive tape. Labels: Australia
Word: Durex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Condom brand name: 1929, from durability, reliability, excellence. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌ.ɹɛks/, /ˈdʊ.ɹɛks/ 1. A condom. Labels: UK, countable Example: All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Durex. Example: Pocket full of Durex, body full of Mandrex / Are we gonna have sex? Will you wear your knee socks? 2. Adhesive tape. Labels: Australia, uncountable
Word: greedy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gredy, from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (“greedy, hungry, eager”) (cognate West Saxon form grǣdiġ), from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *grēdaz, *grēduz, *grēdô (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-. Equivalent to greed + -y. Cognate with Old Saxon grādag (“greedy”), Dutch graag (“gladly, willingly”), Old High German grātag (“greedy”), Danish grådig (“greedy”), Norwegian Bokmål grådig (“greedy”) (from Old Norse gráðigr (“greedy”), gráði (“greed, hunger”)), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (grēdags, “hungry”). Sanskrit गृद्धि (gṛddhi, “greed”) is a false cognate. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːdi/ 1. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires. Example: For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye. Example: “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.” 2. Prone to overeat. 3. Tending to match as much text as possible. Example: This regular expression performs a greedy match. 4. That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage. 5. Greedily sought or pursued. Labels: archaic Example: Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
Word: douce Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce. Pronunciation: /duːs/ 1. Sweet; nice; pleasant. Example: Beyond the bed stood the woman. Dark and pale, aged about twenty-one . . . his mother, Mary de Bohun. Death had stolen none of her douce beauty and sweetness. Example: The sun broke through the cloods, and the douce song o’ a laverock filled me wi’ gledness. 2. Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober. Labels: dialectal Example: The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner. Example: what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?
Word: ansible Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 1966 in her novella Rocannon's World; Le Guin states that she derived it from answerable . The word was further spread by its adoption into other science fiction worlds, including by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game (1986), Vernor Vinge in The Blabber (1988) and Dan Simmons in Hyperion (1989). Pronunciation: /ˈæn.sɪ.bəl/, /ˈɑːn.sɪ.bəl/ 1. A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device. Example: “You remember the ansible, the machine I showed you in the ship, which can speak instantly to other worlds, with no loss of years– […] ” “An ansible would theoretically be powered by subatomic particles that have undergone quantum entanglement, which utilizes Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', allowing the alteration of one particle to instantaneously alter the state of its paired particle. […] ” Example: “[…] The master ansible is there, in contact with all our invasion fleet; the ships are all working, ready to fight. […]”
Word: instantaneously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English instantaneous Middle English -ly English -ly English instantaneously From instantaneous + -ly. 1. Without any delay; in an instantaneous manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done! Example: Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world, involve being in the right rooms, overhearing the right things, and more or less maintaining appearances.
Word: instantaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin īnstāntāneus, from Latin īnstantem. Pronunciation: /ɪnstənˈteɪni.əs/ 1. Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time. Labels: not-comparable Example: This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift. Example: However, no lovers in romance ever cemented a more inſtantaneous friendſhip.
Word: naan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi नान (nān) / Urdu نان (nān), from Classical Persian نان (nān), from Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”). Pronunciation: /nɑːn/, /nɑn/, /næn/ 1. A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
Word: willy nilly Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of willy-nilly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them. Example: And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit.
Word: at the best of times Part of Speech: prep_phrase Pronunciation: /æt‿ðə ˈbɛst‿əv ˈtaɪmz/ 1. Even under the most favourable conditions. Labels: idiomatic Example: When that gentleman came from the city, and was welcomed in the drawing-room by his daughters and the elegant Miss Wirt, they saw at once by his face—which was puffy, solemn, and yellow at the best of times—and by the scowl and twitching of his black eye-brows, that the heart within his large white waistcoat was disturbed and uneasy. Example: Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times, but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time.
Word: Bosnia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the name of the river Bosna. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒz.ni.ə/, /ˈbɑz.ni.ə/ 1. A geographic region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of the northern three fourths of the country. 2. A country in southeastern Europe; in full, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Example: On behalf of many Bosnian war victims’ and survivors’ organizations in Bosnia and North America we urge you to end all contact and co-operation with Mr. Parenti without delay or hesitation.
Word: borra Part of Speech: noun 1. leafy matter found in wax Labels: uncountable Example: […] continuously discharging borra from said zone as a solid, removing the water from said slurry and mechanically recovering solid wax.
Word: gat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling. Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. A Gatling gun. Labels: archaic, slang 2. Any type of gun, usually a pistol. Example: You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail. Example: Goin' off on a motherfucker like that With a gat that's pointed at yo ass
Word: gat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling. Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm. Labels: slang Example: He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western. Example: Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.
Word: gat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From guitar, by shortening. Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. A guitar. Labels: New-Zealand, slang
Word: gat Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. Simple past of get. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, archaic, form-of, past Example: And Abraham gat up early in the morning
Word: gat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch gat and/or Middle Low German gat. Compare Icelandic gat. Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. An inshore channel or strait dividing two landmasses (such as two islands or sandbanks, or an island and a peninsula, etc) or connecting coastal waters with the open sea, especially on the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas. Example: Frisian North Sea islands lie off the coast, each interrupted by a gat (eyelet hole), through which the tidal water can enter and run off again. Between the North Sea islands and the coast lies the East Frisian Wadden Sea, which is […]
Word: gat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Korean 갓 (gat). Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.
Word: gat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. Alternative spelling of khat. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡæt/ 1. Guinness (type of beer). Labels: Ireland, slang, uncountable Example: Ruairí can tell you who goes to what bill, and I can spare a few minutes to show you how to pour a proper pint of gat.
Word: jokes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊks/, /d͡ʒoʊks/ 1. plural of joke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jokes Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊks/, /d͡ʒoʊks/ 1. Really good. Labels: UK, slang Example: this thing is so jokes...i think it would be wack if someone responded to this.. but plz do cause that would be, like, some cool shit. Example: Andrew VS Neil and Mike is totally jokes! I love it when Andrew gets pissed, lol. It's so cool! 2. funny or entertaining. Labels: UK, slang Example: Man, that video is bare jokes!
Word: jokes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊks/, /d͡ʒoʊks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of joke Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: call on the carpet Part of Speech: verb 1. To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily. Labels: US Example: Randal calls onto the carpet Heath and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler for her department's negligence in responding to the AIDS crisis.
Word: on the carpet Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Under consideration; subject to discussion or deliberation. Example: That same evening the treaty of marriage was brought upon the carpet, and by means of Mr. Pickle and the lieutenant settled to the satisfaction of all parties, without the intervention of lawyers […]. Example: Nor is this tribute to the reclaimed animals in question so wide a digression into the realms of Natural History as it may, at first sight, appear to be; for the present business of these pages in with the dragon who had his retreat in Mr Pecksniff’s neighbourhood, and that courteous animal being already on the carpet, there is nothing in the way of its immediate transaction. 2. Being reprimanded or carpeted. Example: Whenever a policeman made a mistake he was either brought on the carpet before the Mayor or rebuked by the Magistrate. Example: But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.
Word: whomp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps a variant of whip, similar to whup. Pronunciation: /ʍɒmp/, /wɒmp/, /ʍɑmp/, /wɑmp/ 1. To hit extremely hard. Labels: slang, transitive Example: If you don’t cut that out, I’m going to whomp you so hard your head will spin! Example: Other sources are less committal, saying only that Celts were (a) the ancient warrior people who whomped the Picts, etc., […]
Word: Garfield Part of Speech: name Etymology: Also Garfeld, from Old English gār (“spear”) + feld (“field”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːfiːld/, /ˈɡɑɹfild/ 1. An English surname, thought to be habitational. 2. James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States. 3. A male given name transferred from the surname. 4. The fictional, orange and anthropomorphic cat who is the protagonist of the comic strip Garfield. Example: One product is a Garfield telephone. Between rings, it says out loud: "You get it. I'm not getting it!" Example: Someone hiding behind a giant Garfield balloon blocked the doorway. Only the person's legs were visible[…] 5. A place name: 6. A place name: 7. A place name: 8. A place name: 9. A place name: 10. A place name: 11. A place name: 12. A place name: 13. A place name: 14. A place name: 15. A place name: 16. A place name: 17. A place name: 18. A place name: 19. A place name: 20. A place name: 21. A place name: 22. A place name: 23. A place name: 24. A place name: 25. A place name: 26. A place name: 27. A place name: 28. A place name: 29. A place name: 30. A place name: 31. A place name: 32. A place name: 33. A place name: 34. A place name: 35. A place name: 36. A place name:
Word: Ivan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian Ива́н (Iván), and from Ivan in several Slavic languages. Doublet of John and its relatives Evan, Giovanni, Ian, Johann, and Sean, etc. Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.vən/, /ɪˈvɑːn/, /ˈivɑːn/ 1. A male given name from Russian of English speakers. Example: Amy's husband was called Ivan. Ivan the Terrible, Barry always called him, naturally. 'Ivan? What kind of name is that?' he said to Tracy after Amy's engagement was announced. 'Bloody Russian.' 'Actually, I think it's because he had a Norwegian grandfather', Tracy said. 'Norwegian?' Barry said incredulously, as if she'd just announced that Ivan's family came from the moon. 2. A transliteration of the Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, or Russian male given name Иван (Ivan). 3. A transliteration of the Belarusian or Ukrainian male given name Іва́н (Iván). 4. A Russian. Labels: slang Example: Ivan is yelling curses at his friends. 5. Russians (collectively, personified). Labels: slang Example: Ivan is planning an attack on our flank. 6. A Soviet. Labels: archaic, slang 7. Soviets (collectively, personified). Labels: archaic, slang Example: I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan. 8. An online troll who promotes views supportive of Russian nationalism or the 2022 invasion of Ukraine; a vatnik. Labels: Internet, derogatory Example: Ivan, stop repeating Kremlin propaganda.
Word: Ivan Part of Speech: name Etymology: Rare variant of Evan, from Welsh Ifan, the Welsh equivalent of John. 1. A male given name from Welsh of Welsh origin. Example: Dafydd ap Ivan ap Einion, an adherent to the house of Lancaster held out, in Harlech Castle, for nine years after the accession of Edward the Fourth to the throne of England.
Word: jumping jack Part of Speech: noun 1. A physical exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides. 2. A machine, roughly the size of a three-year-old child, the foot of which vibrates forcefully, causing it to "jump" rapidly, pounding the ground to compact it. 3. A toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string. Labels: dated
Word: Southeast Asia Part of Speech: name 1. A geographic region of Asia, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Example: Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers. For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.
Word: rosewood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour. Pronunciation: /ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd/ 1. The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: intrinsicality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English intrinsical Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English intrinsicality From intrinsical + -ity. 1. the state of being intrinsic; inherence Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: impeach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”). Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ/ 1. To hinder, impede, or prevent. Example: These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. Example: I was afraid the same defluxion of Salt Rheum which fell from my Temples into my Throat in Oxford, and distilling upon the Uvula, impeached my Utterance a little to this Day 2. To bring a legal proceeding against a public official. Example: President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office. 3. To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question. 4. To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
Word: Mohammedan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mohammed + -an, from the earlier form Mahometan, coined in the 17th century. Pronunciation: /məˈhæm.ɪ.dən/, /moʊˈhæm.ə.dən/, /-n̩/ 1. Muslim. Example: MOSQUE (Fr. mosquée, from Sp. mezquita, from Ar. masjid, temple, from sajada, to prostrate one's self, to pray). A Mohammedan house of prayer and worship. Examples of these buildings are found wherever the Mohammedan faith has prevailed, from Spain to India and Turkestan. Example: Mohammedan prisoners shall be allowed to observe the fast of Ramadan and during the fast shall be required to labour at such reduced task as the Medical Officer considers proper.
Word: Mohammedan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Mohammed + -an, from the earlier form Mahometan, coined in the 17th century. Pronunciation: /məˈhæm.ɪ.dən/, /moʊˈhæm.ə.dən/, /-n̩/ 1. Muslim, Islamic. Labels: not-comparable Example: At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors. 2. Relating to Mohammed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: i18n Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n. Pronunciation: /ɪntəˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/, /ɪntɚˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/ 1. Abbreviation of internationalization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Example: Don't convert between Unicode and other code pages/character sets. If you follow these two rules, you'll run into few I18N-related security issues; in fact, you can jump to the next chapter if these two rules hold true for your application! Example: After our tour through the translation components we can now make our Python code “i18n-aware”. A typical task is identifying all the places where a (Unicode) string needs to be turned into an i18n message or where the appropriate TAL […]