nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rebore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der. Proto-Germanic *burōną Proto-West Germanic *borōn Old English borian Middle English boren English bore English rebore From re- + bore. 1. To bore through an existing hole, generally to correct its shape, or to enlarge. Labels: transitive Example: If you want to keep using that rifle, you'll have to rebore the barrel. Example: The cylinders of your engine are so worn the rings don't seal any more; you have to have it rebored to stop it from burning oil.
Word: rebore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der. Proto-Germanic *burōną Proto-West Germanic *borōn Old English borian Middle English boren English bore English rebore From re- + bore. 1. The process of modifying the bore of an engine. Example: However, any increase in capacity is useful and, if an engine is worn and needs a rebore, it's worth considering boring to a near maximum size rather than simply having it bored to the next oversize.
Word: rebore Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rebear, generally used in the context of Christianity. Labels: form-of, participle, past, rare, transitive Example: And on that day the Lord rebore me and I was reborn.
Word: arvo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of afternoon + -o (“colloquialising suffix”). Pronunciation: /ˈɐː.vəʉ/, /ˈɑː(ɹ).vəʊ/ 1. Afternoon. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, informal Example: “Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.” Example: The usual reaction of a footsoldier observing such incidents is well summed up by the comments of Private Derrick in the Salient at Tobruk: ‘Seen a human side of the war yesterday arvo Red Cross partys [sic] burying dead & treating wounded one of our partys were fired on by enemy & I will always remember it’.⁵⁰
Word: -o Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Originally a special use of the interjection O or oh appended to street cries and nautical calls to project a hail or shout (as in milk-oh, smoke-oh, and sail-ho). Its later use as a colloquializing noun suffix, particularly prominent in Australian English, developed from the substantivation of these cries (e.g., smoko), reinforced by early nautical adaptations of Mediterranean Lingua Franca or pseudo‐Spanish words (such as guardo). As noted by the Australian National Dictionary, this vocative “hailing” origin naturally led to its frequent attachment to personal names to form nicknames (e.g., John‐o, Jacko). Some senses may also derive from o (“one”), from Middle English o, oo, a variant of a, on, oon, an (“one”). See one and -y. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, /əʉ/, [æ̠ʉ~ɐʉ], /oʊ/ 1. A vocative or exclamative particle appended to street cries, nautical calls, or names to project a hail or shout. Labels: historical, morpheme Example: smoke + -o → smoko Example: milk + -o → milko 2. A colloquializing suffix, typically appended to names, abbreviations of long words, or substantive uses of adjectives. Labels: morpheme Example: kid + -o → kiddo Example: sick + -o → sicko
Word: -o Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From many Spanish or Italian words that end in o. This ending in such Spanish or Italian words generally derives from -um, the accusative singular inflectional ending for masculine and neuter nouns in Latin. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, /əʉ/, [æ̠ʉ~ɐʉ], /oʊ/ 1. Converts certain words to faux Italian or Spanish. Can be used with Spanish el for expressions such as el stinko. Labels: humorous, morpheme Example: no problemo
Word: -o Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Rebracketing of typo. Pronunciation: /əʊ/, /əʉ/, [æ̠ʉ~ɐʉ], /oʊ/ 1. Added to verb stems to create a noun describing an error relating to the action described by the verb. Labels: morpheme
Word: Salvos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Salv(ation Army) + -o (“diminutive suffix”), analysed as a plural. Pronunciation: /ˈsælvəʉz/ 1. The Salvation Army. Labels: Australia, plural, plural-only Example: Thank God for the Salvos. — marketing tagline Example: 2006, Amanda Lohrey, Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia, Quarterly Essay, Issue 22, page 25, At the Salvos, the writer claimed, she found emotional support and got her electricity bill paid. But the Salvos are often dealing with the desperate – “losers” – and their emergency needs for food and shelter, while the focus of the megachurches is unapologetically middle class […] .
Word: Novocastrian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin novus (“new”) + castra (“castle, fort”). 1. Of or relating to Newcastle upon Tyne or Newcastle, New South Wales. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Novocastrian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin novus (“new”) + castra (“castle, fort”). 1. A native or resident of Newcastle upon Tyne or Newcastle, New South Wales.
Word: niece-in-law Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From niece + -in-law. 1. Someone's nephew's wife. 2. Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised). 3. Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised). 4. Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised). 5. Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised). 6. Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised). 7. Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised). 8. Someone's spouse's niece. Labels: rare 9. Someone's spouse's niece. Labels: rare
Word: phaeton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French phaéton. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.ɪtən/, /ˈfeɪ.ətən/, /ˈfeɪtən/ 1. a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses Example: It had been settled that Lorraine was to drive Emily in his phaeton. It is true the sun was full in her eyes, the wind high, and the dust, which is just mud in high spirits, flew round them in clouds; but Emily found her ride delightful. Example: ...I saw the girls of Nob Hill on their way to school, kicking pebbles at each other and laughing; I saw young ladies coming home past curfew in their beaus' phaetons... 2. a large open touring motorcar with a folding top
Word: melee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/, /ˈmɛ.li/, /ˈmeɪˌleɪ/, /meɪˈleɪ/, /məˈleɪ/ 1. A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling. Labels: countable, especially, uncountable Example: Honestly, a lot of what this episode did right had more to do with the scenes that surrounded the enormous melee than those hyper-edited clashes of swords. Example: The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea. 2. A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The ball did not appear to cross the line, a view supported by television replays as Blues captain John Terry also joined the melee, but referee Atkinson awarded the goal - to the obvious anger of Spurs and their management team. Example: Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver said Tuesday that the federal assault charges filed against her a day earlier related to a chaotic melee outside an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility are “absurd.” 3. Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little. 4. Lively contention or debate, skirmish. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 6. Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The video game Super Smash Bros. Melee. Labels: capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually
Word: melee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/, /ˈmɛ.li/, /ˈmeɪˌleɪ/, /meɪˈleɪ/, /məˈleɪ/ 1. To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon. Labels: slang
Word: melee Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛˌleɪ/, /ˈmɛ.li/, /ˈmeɪˌleɪ/, /meɪˈleɪ/, /məˈleɪ/ 1. Of a weapon: used in close-range combat, e.g. a sword. Compare with ranged. Labels: not-comparable Example: A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you, whereas a ranged weapon is used to attack a target at a distance. 2. Of a character, using melee weapons. Labels: not-comparable
Word: suss Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sʌs/, /sʊs/ 1. Alternative form of soss (“miry place”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: suss Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus. Pronunciation: /sʌs/, /sʊs/ 1. Suspicious; suspect. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, US, colloquial Example: 2001, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, 2008, Bantam, UK, page 244, ‘Yes – OK, OK. Try not to struggle, Tracey. It just makes you look even more suss.’ Example: 2009, Barbara Ward Smith, Dead Centre: Murder Mystery, AuthorHouse, UK, page 191, I think it was Amber Johnson dressed up said Marc, but its proving it, we don′t have much to go on according to her said Jan her friend has been driving her car, yes very convenient said Marc and it′s even more suss that this friend has gone on holiday, did she ever give us the name of this mystical friend? Asked Jan.
Word: suss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus. Pronunciation: /sʌs/, /sʊs/ 1. Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent. Labels: UK, uncountable
Word: suss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus. Pronunciation: /sʌs/, /sʊs/ 1. To arrest for suspicious behaviour. Labels: UK, obsolete, transitive
Word: suss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”). Pronunciation: /sʌs/, /sʊs/ 1. To discover, infer or figure out. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, often, transitive Example: Think we're standing for injustice / White gets two and black gets five years / Well it took me quite a while to suss this Example: This David did without the crook knowing he had been sussed out.[…]When David returned home after sussing this new crook, he made sure one or two key people were informed about his true nature, and they were all then further protected. 2. To study or size up, to check out (examine). Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive
Word: suss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”). Pronunciation: /sʌs/, /sʊs/ 1. Social nous. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: ‘I′m surprised at you, Danny Weston! I thought you had a bit more suss than this. I never thought you were capable of something so ... silly.’ Example: The next painter the sultan approached was a sly old dog with more suss than a Cockney two-card trickster.
Word: suss out Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of suspect + out. Compare sus. 1. To come to understand (a person). Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: We've sussed him out—he only drinks on Fridays and only in that bar in town. Example: In essence, security experts most familiar with this breach believe that a nation-state — likely China or Russia — stole the data in order to suss out current spies and pick out potential targets they could recruit as spies. 2. To manage to work (something) out, to discover or determine (something). Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: We've sussed out how to open the lock. Example: You sussed it out, didn't you?
Word: aggro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/, /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/ 1. Aggravation; bother. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: But the thing to remember was that some women were prepared to provide an outlet, in spite of all the aggro, if the money was right. And lots of guys were prepared to pay, in spite of the aggro. And what the aggro boiled down to, if you thought about it, was the shame of being known to be the person who had been involved. 2. Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent. Labels: Australia, UK, slang, uncountable Example: Move along, lads; we don't want any aggro. Example: That is the case because, according to Marsh, soccer hooliganism is one of Britain's principal forms of aggro. If it is true that there is an absence of aggro traditions in the USA — and there is a wealth of evidence which suggests that Marsh is wrong on this score — then it is reasoble to deduce from Marsh′s arguments that it is unlikely that phenomena such as soccer hooliganism could or ever will develop there. 3. A measure of a player's level of belligerence. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own. Example: What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive. 4. Hostile attention from an enemy. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: You just pulled aggro off the tank and wiped the raid.
Word: aggro Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/, /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/ 1. Angry. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: “The Chuckster say you two be finding aggro idiot who kilt Long,” said Dude. I thought I understood but looked at Charles for help. “Aggro means pissed off.” translated Charles. He still hadn't cracked a smile. Tardiness made Charles aggro. 2. Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked). Labels: colloquial, slang Example: He […] gets over to the wasp nest and the wasps are aggro on him. He pours the petrol down the hole, stands back and throws a match in. Wooomph! Problem solved, there's no problem at all. The only problem was that all he'd done was to burn all the wings off the wasps and then[…] Example: Australian Magpies have nested in a gum just inside the front gate, and are aggro to all the other birds. I watched a 'maggie' feeding a baby almost as big as itself - it hauled out of the front lawn a huge spider, so big it had trouble beaking it, and it was comical to see it fly with […] 3. Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked). Labels: colloquial, slang 4. Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked). Labels: colloquial, slang 5. Hardcore, aggressive. Labels: UK, US, slang Example: At the beginning of the twenty-first century the physically adept aggro femme had become a recurring motif in new circus and physical theatre. Example: Each Black Flag line-up had a personality and vibe. They were all totally aggro and totally rocking.
Word: aggro Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive. Pronunciation: /ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/, /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/ 1. To become aggressive towards the player's character. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: They'll aggro on you if you get too close. 2. To cause (a non-player character) to become aggressive towards the player's character. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I aggroed the dragon by stealing from its hoard, and it killed me.
Word: Fijian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an. Pronunciation: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/ 1. A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
Word: Fijian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an. Pronunciation: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/ 1. Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people. Labels: not-comparable Example: [S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.
Word: Fijian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an. Pronunciation: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/ 1. an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Word: ǃXũ Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /kuː/ 1. A Northern Khoisan language of Namibia, Angola, and Botswana. This language has about 5,000 speakers in the Kalahari Desert.
Word: salvo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salvāre (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”). Pronunciation: /ˈsælvəʊ/, /ˈsælvoʊ/ 1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse. Example: 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.
Word: salvo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration from 1719 of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”). Pronunciation: /ˈsælvəʊ/, /ˈsælvoʊ/ 1. A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley. 2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon. Example: “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]” 3. Any volley, as in an argument or debate. Labels: broadly Example: It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign. Example: Together, Johnson's plans mean that the clashes in parliament and the Supreme Court may be only the opening salvos in what promises to be the biggest constitutional storm in centuries. 4. The combined cheers of a crowd.
Word: salvo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: An alteration from 1719 of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”). Pronunciation: /ˈsælvəʊ/, /ˈsælvoʊ/ 1. To discharge weapons in a salvo. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: wymyn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A respelling of women in order to deliberately exclude the string men. 1. Feminist spelling of women (Compare womyn.) Labels: nonstandard, rare
Word: wimmin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Eye dialect, also used as a feminist spelling of the word women in order to deliberately exclude the word men. 1. Eye dialect spelling of women. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: I thank the lord that thare aint menny wimmin in the wurld who want tu know evry thing. I kalkerlate that 9 out ov evry 10 ov the wimmin who luv their huzbands and glory in their children, will sa that tha had ruther be looked down upon in luving tenderniss than tu be looked up tu in silent aw. Example: "Damn waste of time," he always said of the convention. "Nothin but drinkin and wimmin, and none of the wimmin even worth lookin at, let alone that other thing." 2. Feminist spelling of women. Example: This is about wimmin sticking together (bois too), and fighting for equal rights and opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Example: So eager was I to meet new wimmin-lovin' wimmin—or even just some womyn-lovin' womyn—one didn't need a Ouija board to figure out that I would fling myself forthwith into the world of regional Amazonia.
Word: Yoruba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Yorùbá. Pronunciation: /ˈjɒɹʊbə/, /ˈjɔːɹəbə/ 1. A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba. Labels: in-plural Example: Approximately 40 percent of Yorubas in Nigeria are Muslim and 60 percent are Christian. […] Its members express a strong preference for being among Yorubas during their worship service: “Since I am a Yoruba and we Yorubas have our own Church. . . ."
Word: Yoruba Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Yorùbá. Pronunciation: /ˈjɒɹʊbə/, /ˈjɔːɹəbə/ 1. A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in The United States, Brazil and Cuba. Example: In the parlour, she could hear Aunty Biola attempting to teach her father Yoruba, collapsing into helpless giggles whenever he mispronounced his vowels, giving them the flat English sound instead of lifting them upwards with the slight outward puff of breath that was required. Example: Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala. 2. An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See Yoruba religion.) Example: The Yoruba practitioner describes it as a condition where a man's semen will flow out of the vagina before fertilization can take place. Example: The Yoruba practitioner has no difficulty in knowing the difference between what we have classified as magic, medicine or sorcery.
Word: fulfill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”). By surface analysis, full- + fill. Pronunciation: /fʊlˈfɪl/, /fəˈfɪl/, /fɔɹˈfɪl/ 1. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). Labels: US, transitive Example: You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it. Example: Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition. 2. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. Labels: US, transitive Example: This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done. 3. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). Labels: US, transitive Example: Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time. 4. To package, distribute, or ship goods. Labels: US 5. To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up. Labels: US, archaic Example: My lady is positively fulfilled of grace. Example: The silence which benumbs or strains the sense Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
Word: satisfy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree ▲ Latin satisfacerepcalq. Old French satisfierder. Middle English satisfyen English satisfy From Middle English satisfyen, satisfien, from Old French satisfiier, satisfier (also Old French satisfaire), from Latin satisfacere, from satis (“enough, sufficient”) + faciō (“to make; to do”). Pronunciation: /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ 1. To be enough (for) Labels: ambitransitive Example: That brief explanation will never satisfy. Example: Death shall […] with us two / Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw. 2. To be enough (for) Labels: ambitransitive, transitive Example: The final rehearsal of the day seemed to satisfy the director. 3. To be enough (for) Labels: ambitransitive, transitive Example: Even three giant helpings of turkey and ham didn't satisfy her appetite. 4. To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due. Labels: transitive Example: to satisfy a creditor 5. To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for. Labels: transitive Example: to satisfy a claim or an execution 6. To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe. Labels: transitive Example: The complex numbers satisfy #92;existsx#58;x²#43;1#61;0. 7. To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt. Labels: dated, literary, transitive Example: I was resolved to satisfy myself whether this ragged Elijah was really dogging us or not, and with that intent crossed the way with Queequeg, and on that side of it retraced our steps. Example: The Siamese officer and the Consul having satisfied themselves of the honest intentions of the applicant, will assist him...
Word: suss law Part of Speech: noun 1. A former (1824–1981) law by which police officers were permitted to arrest anyone under suspicion of having committed a crime Labels: UK
Word: fulfil Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fʊlˈfɪl/, /fəˈfɪl/ 1. UK standard spelling of fulfill. Example: It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate. Example: While in the most serious cases mounting an investigation is usually mandatory, there are other occasions where it is less clear-cut or when it is concluded that an investigation would not fulfil RAIB's objectives to improve safety or prevent future accidents.
Word: snobby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From snob + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsnɑbi/, /ˈsnɒbi/ 1. Characteristic of a snob. Example: His tastes are snobby.
Word: jobbie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From job + -ie. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɔbi/, /ˈdʒɒbi/ 1. Faeces; a piece of excrement. Labels: slang Example: Ye had to watch no to step in mud or a puddle or else in jobby, dogs were aye doing jobbies, or else ye watched for broken glass. 2. A generic object; a thingy. Labels: informal Example: Have a look at that jobbie! 3. A job, normally a task rather than a form of employment for which one is paid. Labels: UK, informal Example: I'll take care of the pasta jobbie, don't worry about that.
Word: Bobbie Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the male given name Robert. 2. A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
Word: gobby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gob (“lump”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒbi/ 1. Marked by the presence of gobs (lumps). Labels: informal Example: But if, however, the bees make from it a "gobby" article of comb honey, no one will be quicker to drop it than the Root Co. Example: ...to have a gobby mess of unrelated and meaningless color hung in a metropolitan show...
Word: gobby Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gob (“mouth”) + -y. The meaning "inclined to talk" is probably related to gabby. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒbi/ 1. Inclined to speak in a loud and offensive manner. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang
Word: gobby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gob (“mouth”) + -y. The meaning "inclined to talk" is probably related to gabby. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒbi/ 1. An act of fellatio. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: In year eight, crouched in a playground cubby, she gave Ryan Glover a gobby. Brief, busy, urgent. Then afterwards, slipping it back into his pants, he said thank you. Example: He bustles me into a cubicle and locks the door. "I'm not really in the mood for a gobby," I slur, and laugh girlishly at my joke as I unzip my fly, "but if you insist..."
Word: offy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From off (“first element of noun”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”). 1. An off-licence. Labels: Ireland, UK, slang 2. An off break. Labels: Australia, slang 3. An off spinner. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: off-licence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the fact that such stores have a licence only to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises. 1. A shop selling alcohol for consumption only off the premises. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board about six inches wide and two yards long, fixed to the garden palings by pieces of wire, so as to form a ledge. Example: After six such encounters in tiny corner shops which normally complained that they were out of sugar, that the cornflakes were late in again and that they couldn't get tomato sauce for love nor money, the Captain, his head reeling, had staggered into the High Street off-licence.
Word: prolly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Clipping of probably. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒ.li/, /ˈprɑ.li/ 1. Probably. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable, slang Example: I should prolly keep my eyes on the road. Example: Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
Word: damask Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm.əsk/ 1. An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: True damasks are pure silk. Example: […]but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. 4. Damascus steel. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The peculiar markings or water of such steel. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A damask rose, Rosa × damascena. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thursday. D. certainly improved. Better night. Slight tinge of damask revisiting cheek.
Word: damask Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm.əsk/ 1. Of a grayish-pink colour, like that of the damask rose. Example: But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek Example: They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.
Word: damask Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English damaske, from Medieval Latin damascus, named after the city Damascus, where the fabric was originally made. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm.əsk/ 1. To decorate or weave in damascene patterns Example: Madame de Mercœur had herself arranged her dress, which was splendid white silk, damasked with silver flowers; but it was with much internal misgiving that she put on the graceful cap and plume.
Word: brolly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɒli/ 1. Alternative form of brelly. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, informal Example: It's going to rain today – you'd better take your brolly. Example: “The young lady’s hi,” he said suddenly, holding out the umbrella, “is fixed on this here. I am well aware that it is not for the lowest of the low to carry a gentleman’s brolly, and I ask your ladyship’s pardon for the liberty. I come by it accidental-like, and should be glad of a reasonable offer from any gentleman in want of a honest article.”
Word: Wally Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the male given names of Waldo, Walter, Wallabee, and Wallace. Example: "'Mr. Szalla' is my eighty-two-year-old father, Nikki. Please call me 'Wally'." "Well. 'Wally'." I felt my face burn pleasantly. "Wally" was such a comfortable old-shoe kind of name.
Word: Wally Part of Speech: name 1. The trophy awarded to winners of an NHRA national event (named after founder Wally Parks).
Word: dancing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːns.ɪŋ/, /ˈdæns.ɪŋ/, [dɛə̯ns.ɪŋ], [deə̯ns.ɪŋ] 1. The activity of taking part in a dance. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A dance club in France. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons. Example: Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.
Word: dancing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːns.ɪŋ/, /ˈdæns.ɪŋ/, [dɛə̯ns.ɪŋ], [deə̯ns.ɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of dance Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Walter Part of Speech: name Etymology: A Germanic name, from Middle English Walter, from Old Northern French Waltier, from Frankish *Waltheri (compare Old High German Waltheri, which see for more details), from Proto-West Germanic *Waldahari, from Proto-Germanic *Waldaharjaz, from *waldą (“ruler”) + *harjaz (“army, host”). Related to Old English Waldhere. Compare herald and Harold, in which these elements are reversed. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒltə/, /ˈwɔːltə/, /ˈwɔltɚ/, /ˈwɑltɚ/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Example: Whitmore. And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright? Suffolk. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by Water I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - Gaultier, being rightly sounded. Example: And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view. 2. A surname. Example: Prof Barbara Walter notes in her book How Civil Wars Start that two conditions are key: ethnic factionalism and anocracy – when a country is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic. 3. An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama, United States. 4. A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
Word: darkness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English derknesse, from Old English deorcnes; equivalent to dark + -ness. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːknəs/, /ˈdɑɹknəs/ 1. The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light. Labels: uncountable Example: The darkness of the room made it difficult to see. Example: Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers. 2. The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color. Labels: uncountable Example: The darkness of her skin betrayed her Mediterranean heritage. 3. Any space that such colour pervades. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Out of the darkness came some flickers of light. 4. Gloom; gloominess; depression. Labels: uncountable 5. The product of being dark. Labels: countable 6. Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness. Labels: uncountable Example: And now, the prophecy. One will come, the voice from the outer world, bringing the holy war, the jihad, which will cleanse the universe and bring us out of darkness. 7. Secrecy; concealment. Labels: uncountable 8. Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown. Labels: uncountable Example: It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. 9. Nothingness, vanity, emptiness. Labels: uncountable Example: My own dim life should teach me this, ⁠That life shall live for evermore, ⁠Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is; […] 10. Hell. Labels: uncountable Example: Shepard: Can you tell me anything about the beacon? Dr. Warren: It's some type of data module from a galaxy-wide communications network. Remarkably well-preserved. It could be the greatest scientific discovery of our lifetime! Dr. Warren: Miraculous new technologies. Groundbreaking medical advances. Who knows what secrets are locked inside? Dr. Manuel: We have unearthed the heart of evil. Awakened the beast. Unleashed the darkness.
Word: Walt Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles. Pronunciation: /wɔːlt/, /wɒlt/ 1. A diminutive of the male given name Walter.
Word: Walt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of Walter. The derogatory British sense is a reference to the fictional character Walter Mitty from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered pushover who has wild fantasies about his life in various daring roles. Pronunciation: /wɔːlt/, /wɒlt/ 1. Someone who impersonates a veteran (retired member of the armed forces). Labels: UK, derogatory, slang Example: You're just a bloody Walt!
Word: darling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English dereling, derelyng (“beloved person; beloved of God, devout Christian”), from Old English dīerling, dēorling (“favourite, darling; minion”), from Proto-West Germanic *diuriling, from Proto-Germanic *diurijalingaz, from *diurijaz (“beloved, dear; expensive”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“hot, warm; to burn”), or *dweh₂- (“distant, long; to remove, separate”)) + *-ilingaz (suffix forming (diminutive) nouns with the sense of ‘belonging to; coming from’). By surface analysis, dear + -ling (suffix meaning ‘immature; small’). The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. The verb is also derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/, /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/ 1. Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one. Example: Pass the wine, would you, darling? Example: [I]t is better to be / An old mans derling than a yong mans werling. 2. A person who is kind, sweet, etc., and thus lovable; a pet, a sweetheart; also, an animal or thing which is cute and lovable. Example: The girl next door picks up all my shopping for me. She is such a darling. Example: When the Crocodile Queen came home, she found / That her eggs were broken and scattered around, / And that six young Princes, darlings all, / Were missing, for none of them answer'd her call. 3. A favourite. Example: And in ſo muche the more peril and haſard of the ſaid diſeaſes [“ambicion, auarice, riottous exceſſe, hatred, enuye, and ſuche others”] do the princes ſtand, as they are more then others made wantons ⁊ derelynges of fortune, and haue lybertie withoute checke or controllemente to fulfyll their owne ſenſuall luſtes and appetites. Example: [T]hat handkercher / Did an Egyptian to my mother giue, / […] ſhe told her vvhile ſhe kept it, / Tvvould make her amiable, and ſubdue my father / Intirely to her loue: […] [T]ake heed on't, / Make it [the handkerchief] a darling, like your pretious eye, / To looſe, or giue avvay, vvere ſuch perdition, / As nothing elſe could match. 4. A favourite. Example: Mary, the youngest daughter, was always her mother’s darling. Example: And tis a common obſervation in Familites, that the moſt diſcountenanc'd child oft makes better proof, then the dearling. 5. A favourite. Labels: broadly Example: a media darling Example: a darling of the theatre 6. A favourite. Labels: obsolete Example: When kyng Henry perceiued, that the cõmons [commons] wer thus ſtomacked and bent, againſt the Quenes [Margaret of Anjou's] dearlynge William [de la Pole,] Duke of Suffolke, he plainly ſawe, that neither gloſyng woulde ſette, nor diſſimulacion coulde appeace, the continuall clamor of the importunate cõmons: Wherefore to begyn a ſhorte pacificacion in to long a broyle. Example: She [Caroline of Ansbach] immediately became the darling of the Princeſs Sophia [Charlotte of Hanover], vvho vvas acknovvledged in all the Courts of Europe the moſt accompliſhed vvoman of the age in vvhich ſhe lived, and vvho vvas not a little pleaſed vvith the converſation of one in vvhom ſhe ſavv ſo lively an image of her ovvn youth.
Word: darling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English dereling, derelyng (“beloved person; beloved of God, devout Christian”), from Old English dīerling, dēorling (“favourite, darling; minion”), from Proto-West Germanic *diuriling, from Proto-Germanic *diurijalingaz, from *diurijaz (“beloved, dear; expensive”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“hot, warm; to burn”), or *dweh₂- (“distant, long; to remove, separate”)) + *-ilingaz (suffix forming (diminutive) nouns with the sense of ‘belonging to; coming from’). By surface analysis, dear + -ling (suffix meaning ‘immature; small’). The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. The verb is also derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/, /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/ 1. Very dear; beloved, cherished, favourite. Example: She is my darling wife of twenty-two years. Example: Do thou dred infant, Venus dearling doue, / From her high ſpirit chaſe imperious feare, / And vſe of avvfull Maieſtie remoue: […] 2. Very cute or lovable; adorable, charming, sweet. Example: Well, isn’t that a darling little outfit she has on? Example: Isn't it the darlingest, sweetest, prettiest, little dear darling darling! Oh! did you ever!!
Word: darling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English dereling, derelyng (“beloved person; beloved of God, devout Christian”), from Old English dīerling, dēorling (“favourite, darling; minion”), from Proto-West Germanic *diuriling, from Proto-Germanic *diurijalingaz, from *diurijaz (“beloved, dear; expensive”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“hot, warm; to burn”), or *dweh₂- (“distant, long; to remove, separate”)) + *-ilingaz (suffix forming (diminutive) nouns with the sense of ‘belonging to; coming from’). By surface analysis, dear + -ling (suffix meaning ‘immature; small’). The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun. The verb is also derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/, /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/ 1. To call (someone) "darling" (noun sense 1). Labels: informal, transitive Example: The frisky female, we have noticed, has one most unpleasant trick; it is that of darlinging and duckeying and otherwise spooneying her husband … in public. He is invariably, invariably set down as an ass, without its being in the least his fault. Example: Hullo! oh! Maud, darling, I wanted to know— / Great snakes, it's not she!—I want Miss Maud DeVaux.— / I think that I "darlinged" the old man that time. / If I did, I'll sell cheap,—this lot marked down,—one dime.
Word: dateless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps derived from Old English þeatless (“thoughtless, without plan”). See also deedless. Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtlɪs/ 1. Out of one's head; deranged. Example: Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder? Example: and he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and poor mother dateless 2. Thick-headed. Labels: UK, dialectal, slang Example: Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing. Example: You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity
Word: dateless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Coined between 1585 and 1595 from date + -less Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtlɪs/ 1. Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated. Labels: not-comparable Example: The other day was dateless, even for my dateless life; for I had forgotten time and had no notion of anything anywhere, when in a small French town I strolled into a cafe noisy with French talk. 2. Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night. Example: They were good friends, completely at ease with each other, and when they both ended up dateless on a Friday night, as they often did, they usually ended up eating pizza and watching scary movies together. 3. Timeless; immortal Labels: not-comparable Example: the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity 4. Without a start; immemorial Labels: not-comparable 5. Without an end; endless Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night
Word: dearer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of dear: more dear Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, / A dearer birth than this his love had brought, / To march in ranks of better equipage
Word: dearer Part of Speech: adv 1. comparative form of dearly: more dearly Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Those lines that I before have writ do lie, / Even those that said I could not love you dearer
Word: dearest Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈdɪəɹɪst/, /ˈdɪɹɪst/ 1. superlative form of dear: most dear Labels: form-of, superlative Example: So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, / Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
Word: dearest Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɪəɹɪst/, /ˈdɪɹɪst/ 1. A beloved person; a term of endearment. Example: I need to call my dearest and tell her the news.
Word: limey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y. In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“a British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪmi/ 1. Resembling limes (the fruit); lime-like. 2. Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit). Example: This drink is full of limey goodness.