nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: flinders Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin; see flinder. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪndəz/ 1. fragments, splinters Labels: plural, plural-only Example: The heat brought sweat and the sweat blinded. Black flinders gyrated in the fiery air like bats.
Word: flinders Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See flinder. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪndəz/ 1. plural of flinder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flinders Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See flinder. Pronunciation: /ˈflɪndəz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of flinder Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: flinder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flendris, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Norwegian flindra, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”). Pronunciation: /flɪndə/ 1. A small piece or fragment; a thin slice; splinter Example: “It’s to swear to stand by one another, and never tell the gang’s secrets, even if you’re chopped all to flinders, and kill anybody and all his family that hurts one of the gang.”
Word: flinder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English flindre. Compare Dutch vlinder. Pronunciation: /flɪndə/ 1. A butterfly or moth. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: flinder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English flindre. Compare Dutch vlinder. Pronunciation: /flɪndə/ 1. To flirt; run about in a fluttering manner Labels: intransitive
Word: fluminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin flūmen, flūminis + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈfluːmɪnəs/ 1. flowing, fluent (of rivers) Labels: not-comparable Example: ‘By God, you speak our British language, as we must now call it since the new naming of our kingdom, with a fine accent and fluminous smoothness,’ Dick Burbage said.
Word: foin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”). Pronunciation: /fɔɪn/ 1. A thrust. Labels: archaic Example: And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere throughoute the body more than a fadom. "And there King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear, throughout the body, more than a fathom." Example: They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain, / Nor blow nor foin they struck or thrust in vain.
Word: foin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”). Pronunciation: /fɔɪn/ 1. To thrust with a sword; to stab at. Labels: archaic Example: And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good. Example: They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore / Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. 2. To prick; to sting. Labels: archaic
Word: foin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French fouine (“a marten”). Pronunciation: /fɔɪn/ 1. The beech marten (Martes foina, syn. Mustela foina). 2. A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name. Example: He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins.
Word: foramen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix). Pronunciation: /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/, /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/ 1. An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone. Example: The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit. Example: There is — as I have explained — a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.
Word: freshet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French freschete, a diminutive of fres (“fresh”) via its feminine form fresche. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃɪt/ 1. A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw. Example: Log after log is hauled to the bank of the river, and in a short time their first raft is made on the shore and loaded with cordwood. When the next freshet sets it afloat, it is secured by long grapevines or cables until, the proper time being arrived, the husband and sons embark on it and float down the mighty stream. Example: “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …” 2. A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea. Labels: poetic Example: “His arrival upon any scene was never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet of tumbling water into a still pool!” Example: Between the curbs and the snow banks a freshet of clear blue water rises. Within me a freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins.
Word: frith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frith, from Old English friþ, friþu (“peace, tranquility, security, refuge”), from Proto-West Germanic *friþu, from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“beloved, happy”). Cognate with Dutch vrede (“peace, quiet, tranquility”), German Frieden (“peace, tranquility”), Danish fred (“peace, serenity”), Swedish frid (“peace, serenity”), Icelandic friður (“peace, tranquility”). Related to free. Pronunciation: /fɹɪθ/ 1. Peace; security. Labels: archaic, poetic, rare, uncountable Example: Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to frith all that the king wills to be frithed 2. Sanctuary, asylum. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: frith Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English frithen, from Old English friþian (“to give frith to, make peace with, be at peace with, cherish, protect, guard, defend, keep, observe”), from Proto-Germanic *friþōną (“to make peace, secure, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *prēy-, *prāy- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Scots frethe, freith (“to set free, liberate”), Danish frede (“to have peace, protect, inclose, fence in”), Swedish freda (“to cover, protect, quiet, inclose, fence in”), Icelandic friða (“to make peace, preserve”). Pronunciation: /fɹɪθ/ 1. To protect; guard. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: This monument and the Cairns themselves have been purchast by the State, and are now therefore "frithed", protected and national property. Example: Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to 'frith all that the king wills to be frithed 2. To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: On the other of these improvements, the base of the mound was six feet, its height five feet, and breadth at the top nearly the same; this, with the side-drains or ditches on each side, made the whole scite of the fence about 12 feet; cost of raising the mound and frithing, 4s . per perch. Example: In the halfe circle enclosed between the flood-gate and the compasse frith, there is digged a round pit, of three foot diameter, and foure foot depth, frithed on the sides, which is continually fedde with the water soaking from the sayd flood-gate, and serueth to keepe any fish aliue, that you haue before taken, and so to saue ouer often drawing.
Word: frith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frith (“forest, woodland; hedging”), from Old English fyrhþe, fyrhþ (“forest, wooded country; game preserve, hunting ground”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi (“forest, woodland”), Proto-Germanic *furhiþją (“forest, wooded country”), *furhiþǭ, from *furhu (“fir; pine”), from *furahō, *furhō (“fir; pine; (fir or pine) forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”), from *perkʷ- (“oak”). The English word is cognate with Latin quercus (“oak”), Old English fyrh (“fir, pine”), Old High German forst, foreht (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine-wood, coniferous forest”). Latin foresta (whence eventually English forest), may be borrowed from the same West Germanic source. Pronunciation: /fɹɪθ/ 1. A forest or wood; woodland generally. Example: As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; [...] 2. Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use. Labels: UK, dialectal 3. Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge. 4. A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle. 5. A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish. Labels: obsolete
Word: frith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A metathetic variant of firth. Pronunciation: /fɹɪθ/ 1. Alternative form of firth (“an arm or inlet of the sea”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic Example: He [Agricola] had observed, that the island [Britannia; now Great Britain] is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland. Example: / The southern hills / That to the setting Sun, their graceful heads / Rearing, o'erlook the frith, where Vecta breaks / With her white rocks, the strong impetuous tide, / When western winds the vast Atlantic urge / To thunder on the coast
Word: fuliginous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin fūlīginōsus, from fūlīgō (“soot”). Pronunciation: /fjuːˈlɪ.d͡ʒɪ.nəs/ 1. Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky. Example: 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England …the fuliginous Matter form'd, by the Drift of the Air, into the Shape of a Species of marine Lichen, in Creeks of Chimneys, Stoves, Forges and Furnaces, where there are Fires kept for a considerable Time, and much Fuel spent. Example: 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of The Fossils of England ...the Tali, and Septa, are of a more dusky, or, as Wormius expresses it, of a more fuliginous Colour, than ours in England commonly are...
Word: furfur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin furfur (“bran”), reduplication of *fur, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰur-, metathesis of *gʰrus- (compare Lithuanian grū́sti (“to grind (barley)”), Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “skin, husk”)). Pronunciation: /ˈfɜːfə/, /ˈfɝfɚ/ 1. a particle of dandruff Labels: archaic, countable, usually 2. dandruff Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: ‘Aye,’ said WS, still in bed, scratching his baldness, examining the furfur in his fingernails.
Word: futter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined by Richard Francis Burton from French foutre, from Latin futuo, futuere. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌtə/ 1. (obsolete) To fuck. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Sir John Fastolf called out cheerfully over Miranda’s shoulder to his departing guests, remarking on the sweetness of the night air now that the storm of yesterday night had cleared it, and the day’s rain momentarily had ceased. And all the while he futtered Miranda’s anal canal from behind, and frigged her clitoris. Example: When Doge is not feeding or futtering, depend on it, he is hunting.
Word: hieroglyphs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hieroglyph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hieroglyphs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hieroglyph Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gallous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A distortion of gallows, used attributively. See -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæləs/ 1. fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous
Word: gallus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gallu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gallus Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of gallows. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: […] he's unfortinitly ^([sic]) known to be cornected ^([sic]) with a gallus bad lot of cads.
Word: gallus Part of Speech: noun 1. One strap of a pair of galluses (suspenders). Labels: US, dated, dialectal Example: […] left gallus of his suspenders […]
Word: gamahuche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French gamahucher. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæməhuːʃ/ 1. Oral sex, especially cunnilingus. Labels: dated, slang, uncountable Example: “Frank and Louisa are too busy to notice what we do,” I whispered in her ear, as I inclined the willing girl backwards on the soft pillow of sand, and reversing my position, we laid at full length, side by side, both of us as eager as possible for the game; my head was buried between her loving thighs, with which she pressed me most amorously, as my tongue was inserted in her loving slit; this was fine gamahuche. Example: O Muses, Sacred Nine, and Memory most of all, mother of all of them, and they our mothers – I was Doll Tearsheet’s alchemist that night, and by gamahuche turned her base metal into gold.
Word: gamahuche Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French gamahucher. Pronunciation: /ˈɡæməhuːʃ/ 1. To perform oral sex, especially cunnilingus, on. Labels: dated, slang, transitive Example: [Stephen kneels and begins to undo Eddy’s trousers] EDDY: “J-Jem? Jem, what are you…?” STEPHEN: “Shhh. I want to gamahuche you, Eddy. Do say I might.” Example: You gamahuche the girl I love, And give her not the manly shove, Yet brag about the deed you've done, As if you were a fucktious one ; But if I catch you at the trick, I'll stop your talking with my prick.
Word: gaw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gowen (“to stare”), from Old Norse gá. Pronunciation: /ɡɔː/, /ɡɔ/, /ɡɑ/ 1. To gape or stare. Labels: obsolete
Word: gaw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Minced oath for God. Pronunciation: /ɡɔː/, /ɡɔ/, /ɡɑ/ 1. An expletive expressing disbelief, disdain, or horror Example: "Gaw!" he whispered, "I don' like dead bodies some'ow! I'd almost rather that chap was alive."
Word: gematria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Aramaic [Term?], from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry”). Doublet of geometry. Pronunciation: /ɡɪˈmeɪ.tɹi.ə/, /ɡɪˈmɑ.tɹi.ə/ 1. A cabalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Suppose a secret force of Jesuits, receives each Day a summary of Observations made at Greenwich, and transcalculates it according to a system known to the Kabbalists of the Second Century as Gematria, whereby Messages may be extracted from lines of Text sacred and otherwise, a Knowledge preserv’d by various Custodians over the centuries, and since the Last, possess’d by Jesuit and Freemason alike. Example: each letter in this alphabet also has its own numerical value, what was known among ancient Jewish students of the Torah as ‘gematria’.
Word: chronic fatigue syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. A condition characterized by immune, endocrine and neurologic pathology whose main symptoms are extreme fatigue, extremely low stamina, muscle pain, lymph node swelling, postexertional malaise, and cognitive difficulties. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cores Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kɔːz/, /kɔɹz/, [kʰo̞ɹz], /ko(ː)ɹz/, /koəz/ 1. plural of core Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cores Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɔːz/, /kɔɹz/, [kʰo̞ɹz], /ko(ː)ɹz/, /koəz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of core Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: psittacosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin psittacus (“parrot”) + -osis. By surface analysis, psittac- + -osis. Pronunciation: /ˌsitəˈkoʊsɪs/, [ˌsiɾəˈkoʊsɪs] 1. An infection by Chlamydia bacteria, caught from infected birds, and characterised by fever, pneumonia and headaches. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: witter Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈwɪtɚ/, [ˈwɪɾɚ] 1. To speak at length on a trivial subject. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about. Example: When people witter on about pollution nowadays, I think of the days when going to school in broad daylight, I couldn't see my feet in the London smog. I had to feel the kerb with my front bike wheel.
Word: witter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English witter, witer, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitr (“wise, knowing”), from Proto-Germanic *witraz (“knowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈwɪtɚ/, [ˈwɪɾɚ] 1. knowing, certain, sure, wis. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: witter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English witteren, witeren, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse vitra (“to make wise, make sure”), from Proto-Germanic *witrōną (“to make wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know”). Cognate with Icelandic vitra (“to make wise, make certain”), Icelandic vitur (“wise”). More at wit, wis. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈwɪtɚ/, [ˈwɪɾɚ] 1. to make sure, inform, or declare. Labels: dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
Word: atwitter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English twitter English atwitter From a- + twitter. Pronunciation: /əˈtwɪtɚ/ 1. twittering Labels: not-comparable, postpositional 2. nervously excited Labels: not-comparable, postpositional Example: I had lumbered into the kitchen, taste buds a-twitter with expectation, planning to make my “breakfast of champions” […].
Word: Ephraim Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם (Efráyim, “Ephraim”, literally “fruitful”), via Latin. Pronunciation: /ˈifɹi.əm/, /ˈifɹəm/, /ˈɛf.ɹəm/ 1. The younger son of Joseph in the Bible, eponymous ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Example: And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. 2. A male given name from Hebrew. 3. A hunter's name for the grizzly bear.
Word: Jing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 京 (jīng), as in 京族 (Jīngzú). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
Word: Jing Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 涇 /泾 (Jīng), as in 涇河／泾河 (Jīnghé) or 涇水／泾水. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. A river in China, a tributary of the Wei.
Word: Jing Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ/, /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/ 1. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 井 (jǐng) 2. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 景 3. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 京 (jīng) 4. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 荊 /荆 (jīng) 5. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 經 /经 or 经 6. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 更 7. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 敬 (jìng) 8. A transliteration of the Mandarin surname 靖 (jìng)
Word: Gemütlichkeit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Gemütlichkeit. 1. The state or fact of being gemütlich; middle-class niceness or cosiness, hospitality. Labels: uncountable Example: John never got over contrasting her taste in clothes coupled with her experiments in domestic interiors and gemutlichkeit. Example: […] and Vincent Sheean "the king of gemutlichkeit".
Word: Gesellschaft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Gesellschaft, from Geselle + -schaft. Compare to English gemeinschaft. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈzɛlʃaft/ 1. A hypothetical mode of society, made up of self-serving individuals linked by impersonal ties; as opposed to Gemeinschaft. Example: Seven years later, Hernández wrote a Return of Martín Fierro in which the Gaucho sells out: assimilates back into Christian society, gives up his freedom for the kind of constitutional Gesellschaft being pushed in those days by Buenos Aires.
Word: ghazal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic غَزَل (ḡazal, “to display love to the loved one via speech, to exchange talk of love with the loved one”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡæzæl/ 1. A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Middle Eastern, South, and Central Asian poetry. Example: Indeed, this is a realm where colors harmoniously recite magnificent ghazals to each other, where time stops, where the Devil never appears. Example: A poet could explain him to himself but he was a soldier and had no place to go for ghazals or odes.
Word: Aiea Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻAiea. Pronunciation: /aɪˈeɪ.ə/ 1. A census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.
Word: milkweed bug Part of Speech: noun 1. an insect, of the family Lygaeidae, that mostly feeds on the seeds and tissue of the milkweed plant (Asclepias). Labels: US
Word: ghazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic غَازٍ (ḡāzī, “raider, holy warrior”), from the active participle of غَزَا (ḡazā, “to raid”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːzi/ 1. A Muslim warrior who fights in war against non-Muslims, especially one who has won renown as a martial champion; often used as a title. Example: I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Example: Then suddenly, an hour before first light, wave after wave of screaming tribesmen, led by suicide-bent Muslim fanatics known as ghazis, began to hurl themselves against the British positions.
Word: alfalfa weevil Part of Speech: noun 1. A European weevil (Hypera postica) that infests alfalfa crops. Labels: US
Word: giaour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French giaour, from Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur), from Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), a variant of گَبْر (gabr, “infidel”); see there for more. Doublet of Gheber and Gueber. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒaʊə/, /ˈd͡ʒaʊəɹ/ 1. A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. Labels: slur Example: And far beyond the Moslem's power / Had wrong'd him with the faithless Giaour. Example: We men are not a race of freebooters or giaours; not when our argosies are prey and food to the evil fish-of-metal whose lair is a German U-boat.
Word: gladial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin gladius. Pronunciation: /ˈɡleɪdɪəl/ 1. Pertaining to swords. Example: Enderby thrust towards his backside and then felt pity. Enough was enough. He lunged half-heartedly instead at the one who had not yet received gladial attention.
Word: glair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”). Pronunciation: /ɡlɛə(ɹ)/ 1. Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If you beat an egg white until a froth forms on the surface, the clear liquid below the froth is glair. 2. Any viscous, slimy substance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some rain fell during the past few days but had little effect on the river which remains very low and full of glair. Example: She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will. 3. A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. Labels: countable
Word: glair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”). Pronunciation: /ɡlɛə(ɹ)/ 1. To smear with egg-white.
Word: glaur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots glaur, from Middle Scots glar, of unknown origin. Pronunciation: /ɡlaʊə/, /ɡlaʊɚ/ 1. Mud, slime, mire. Example: ’twas all there in the Stars, the whole miserable story, but did I pay attention? Nooaahh...I was regretting the Sixpence, a fool with his eyes in the glaur.
Word: gleet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old French glette. Pronunciation: /ɡliːt/ 1. Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. Any slimy, viscous substance. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 3. A urethral discharge, especially as a symptom of gonorrhea. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.
Word: gleet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Old French glette. Pronunciation: /ɡliːt/ 1. To ooze, as gleet (noun sense); to flow in a thin, limpid humour. Labels: intransitive Example: The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins. Example: [U]pon dilating a ſmall gleeting hole about three inches above the knee, on the outside of the thigh; and introducing a jointed or ſcrew probe, I found the bone carious to ſuch a height and withal the patient ſo emaciated with the tedious diſcharge, and a hectic fever that I diſſuaded attempting the operation […] 2. Of water: to flow slowly. Labels: intransitive Example: [Water vapour bubbles] hit againſt the ſides of the more eminent and Mountainous Places, of the Globe, and by this Concuſſion are condenſed, and thus become heavier than the Air they ſvvom in, and ſo gleet dovvn the rocky Caverns of theſe Mountains, […]
Word: gloak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown. Pronunciation: /ɡləʊk/ 1. A man, a guy. Labels: UK, slang Example: You're a prime gloak, an out-and-outer, to get as far as you did before they grabbed you. Example: ‘Brit, by the look of him,’ cries a short, freckl’d seaman in whom Stature and Pugnacity enjoy an inverse relation. ‘– long way from home ain’t you old Gloak?’
Word: Fatimite Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of Fatimid.
Word: gnathic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From gnath- (“jaw”) + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈɡnæθɪk/, /ˈnæθɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to the jaw. Labels: not-comparable Example: ‘Want to get an idea of your gnathic index, and that mustache is in the way.’
Word: goffer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French gaufrer (“to stamp with a patterned tool”), from gaufre (“honeycomb”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒfə/ 1. To make wavy; to crimp. Example: On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.
Word: goffer Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒfə/ 1. soft drink; non-alcoholic drink Labels: UK, slang
Word: goitre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪ.tə/, /ˈɡɔɪ.tɚ/ 1. An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable
Word: inositol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁sder. Proto-Hellenic *wīs Ancient Greek *ϝῑ́ς (*wī́s) Ancient Greek ῑ̓νός (īnós) Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English inosite Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol English -ol English inositol From its former name inosite + -ol (“an alcohol”), from Ancient Greek ἰνός (inós, genitive singular of ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon”)) + -ite. Pronunciation: /ʌɪˈnəʊ.sɪ.tɒl/, /ɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/, /aɪˈnoʊ.səˌtɒl/, /ɪˈnoʊ.səˌtoʊl/, /aɪˈnoʊ.səˌtoʊl/ 1. A simple carbocyclic sugar (hexahydroxycyclohexane; chemical formula: C₆H₁₂O₆) which occurs in animal and plant tissue. Once treated as part of the vitamin B complex, but is not a vitamin as it can be synthesized by the body. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: discobolus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δισκοβόλος (diskobólos, “discus thrower”), from δίσκος (dískos, “discus”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”). 1. A discus thrower. 2. A statue of a discus thrower.
Word: gowk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English goke, gowke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰegʰuǵʰ- (“cuckoo”). Pronunciation: /ɡaʊk/ 1. A cuckoo. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 2. A fool. Example: "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. Example: "What does it look like?" "Like...like..." Catweazle made boulder-like gestures in the air, "like a wogle-stone, thou gowk."
Word: gowk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English goke, gowke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰegʰuǵʰ- (“cuckoo”). Pronunciation: /ɡaʊk/ 1. To make foolish; to stupefy. Example: look how the man stands as he were gowk'd
Word: gowk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain. Likely from Middle English coke, colk (“the core or heart of an apple or onion, pith”), from Old English *colc (“the gullet, esophagus; pit of the stomach; trench, pit, gully”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulkaz, *kulukaz (“gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to devour, swallow, gulp; throat, gullet”). Possibly a doublet of coke. Pronunciation: /ɡaʊk/, [ˈɡæʊ̯ˀk] 1. An apple core. Labels: Geordie 2. The central part of any thing; pith; core. Labels: Geordie, obsolete 3. The hard centre of a boil or sore. Labels: dialectal 4. The yolk of an egg. Labels: dialectal 5. The inner part of a haystack. Labels: dialectal
Word: gowk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare Norwegian Nynorsk gulka (“to burp, belch”). Compare also Scots cowk (“to strain, retch”), Dutch kolken (“to belch”), German kolken (“to gulp”), dialectal German kölken, kolksen (“to vomit”), Danish kulke (“to gulp”). 1. To retch; vomit. Labels: dialectal
Word: gowpen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse gaupn (“hollow made by cupped hands”). Doublet of yepsen. Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊpən/ 1. A bowl made of the two hands cupped together. Labels: Scotland Example: it was ordered by Marina, who had it framed and set up in her bedroom next to a picture of her brother at twelve or fourteen clad in a bayronka (open shirt) and cupping a guinea pig in his gowpen (hollowed hands) […]
Word: goyal Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪəl/ 1. Alternative form of goyle. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ’Twas thrown in a goyal of thick bushes, four hundred paces from the road. But he who found it saw a glint of the brass, amid the leaves. Example: We were come to a long deep “goyal,” as they call it on Exmoor, a word whose fountain and origin I have nothing to do with.
Word: gralloch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæləx/, /ˈɡɹælək/ 1. The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed. Labels: Scotland, rare, uncountable
Word: gralloch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæləx/, /ˈɡɹælək/ 1. (transitive) To gut or eviscerate a deer, or other game animal. Labels: Scotland, rare Example: A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh. Example: On our mattress in the secret nights, the girls whispered to me how he’d been watching her in a revival of Emma Bovary in an art-house in Berkeley and Tristessa’s eyes, eyes of a stag about to be gralloched, had fixed directly upon his and held them. 2. The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched. Example: — The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000.
Word: gralloch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæləx/, /ˈɡɹælək/ Labels: no-gloss
Word: graminivorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin grāmen, grāminis (“grass, turf, herb, plant”) + -i- + -vorous. Pronunciation: /ɡɹæmɪˈnɪvəɹəs/ 1. That eats grasses and seeds. Example: We passed a large jaguar, glaring fiercely at a calf ten feet from him; […] Had we powder to waste, we would certainly have rid the graminivorous from many of their carnivorous neighbours, but we were now entering a tract of country celebrated for the depredations of the Texians and Buggles free bands, and every charge of powder thrown away was a chance the less, in case of a fight. Example: "Bitzer," said Thomas Gradgrind. "Your definition of a horse." / "Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth; namely, twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth." Thus (and much more) Bitzer.
Word: -vorous Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Latin -vorus, equivalent to -vore + -ous. Pronunciation: /vəɹəs/ 1. forming adjectives with the sense of ‘habitually eating, feeding on’ Labels: morpheme
Word: gree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gre, from Old French gré, from Latin gradum (“step”). Compare degree. Doublet of grade. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiː/ 1. One of a flight of steps. Labels: obsolete Example: "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock." 2. A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station. Labels: obsolete Example: He is a shepherd great in gree. 3. A degree. Labels: obsolete
Word: gree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From (pre-reform) Scottish Gaelic gré, from Old Scottish Gaelic gray. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiː/ 1. Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat). Labels: Scotland, countable, uncountable Example: bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day. Example: And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
Word: gree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gre, from Old French gré (“pleasure, goodwill”), from Latin gratum, a noun use of the neuter of gratus (“pleasing”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹiː/ 1. Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke. Example: When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree, if the King permit me."
Word: gree Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English green (“to agree”), from Old French greer, from gré (hence Etymology 3). Pronunciation: /ɡɹiː/ 1. To agree. Labels: Nigeria, intransitive, obsolete Example: Gob. […]how dooſt thou and thy Maſter agree, I haue brought him a preſent; how gree you now?
Word: gregale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian grecale, apparently representing a late Latin noun from Graecus (“Greek”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪˈɡɑːleɪ/ 1. A strong Mediterranean wind blowing from the north-east. Example: The dog days have ended, the maijstral has ceased to blow. Soon the other wind called gregale will bring the gentle rains to solemnize the sowing of our red wheat.
Word: grig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The word is often used in the phrase "merry as a grig". The word is of uncertain origin, though various theories have been suggested, such as a corruption of "merry as a cricket" or "merry as a Greek", as in William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: "Then she's a merry Greek indeed." Johnson suggested that the word originally meant "anything below the natural size" (compare Swedish krik and Scots crick). Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪɡ/ 1. A dwarf. Labels: obsolete 2. A cricket or grasshopper. Example: The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig. 3. A small or young eel. Example: [W]e assembled at one o'clock, at two sat down to dinner, consisting of capital stewed grigs, a dish Mrs Burt was famous for dressing, a large joint of roast or boiled meat, with proper vegetables and a good-sized pudding or pie […] . 4. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.
Word: grig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Welsh grug, Cornish grig. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪɡ/ 1. Heath or heather. Labels: Shropshire, UK, dialectal Example: The further method of tillage pursued, was to make fallows; and if the season permitted, so that the ground could be cleared and burnt off, to destroy the grig or heath, […]
Word: grig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Irish griog. Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪɡ/ 1. To irritate or annoy. Labels: transitive
Word: grummel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌməl/ 1. Mud, sediment. 2. The dregs. Labels: in-plural Example: Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.
Word: guiche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French guiche (“a strap; a kiss-curl”). Pronunciation: /ɡiːʃ/ 1. Perineum. Labels: slang Example: “I'm getting my guiche pierced,” she'd say. “lt's that little ridge of skin running between your asshole and the bottom of your vagina.” Example: Al buries his face under those balls and starts tongue lapping at Henry's guiche while Henry's cock slides over Al's face, leaving a trail of dick snot along his furry cheek. 2. A kiss-curl. Example: At this distance, some 20 meters, she is only a dim figure in a black bombazine frock that reaches to her knees, her bare legs long and straight, a short hood of bright blonde hair keeping her face in shadow, coming up in guiches to touch her cheeks.
Word: guimpe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French guimpe, from Middle French guimpe, from Old French guimple (“wimple”), from Frankish *wimpil, *wimpila (“head scarf”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz, from *wīpaną ("to wind, sling, garland, swing"; from Proto-Indo-European *wimb-, *weyb- (“to turn, rotate”)) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Old High German wimpal and winfila (“head scarf”), Middle Dutch wumpel (“cap”), Old English wimpel, winpel (“wimple”), Old Norse vimpill (“hood, veil”). Also influenced by Old French guimpre (“a kind of trimming”), from the same Germanic source. More at wimple. Pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ 1. Gimp; a narrow flat braid or reinforced cord of fabric used for ornamental trimming. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A kind of short, high-necked blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress, jumper, or pinafore dress. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women. 3. A kind of short chemisette or yoke insert made of lace, embroidery, or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A wimple; a wide, stiffly starched cloth that covers the neck and shoulders, as part of the habit of nuns of certain orders. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.
Word: guimpe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French guimpe, from Middle French guimpe, from Old French guimple (“wimple”), from Frankish *wimpil, *wimpila (“head scarf”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz, from *wīpaną ("to wind, sling, garland, swing"; from Proto-Indo-European *wimb-, *weyb- (“to turn, rotate”)) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Old High German wimpal and winfila (“head scarf”), Middle Dutch wumpel (“cap”), Old English wimpel, winpel (“wimple”), Old Norse vimpill (“hood, veil”). Also influenced by Old French guimpre (“a kind of trimming”), from the same Germanic source. More at wimple. Pronunciation: /ɡɪmp/ 1. Alternative form of gimp. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gymnosophist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French gymnosophiste, from Latin gymnosophista, from Ancient Greek γυμνοσοφιστής (gumnosophistḗs), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “sophist”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪmˈnɒsəfɪst/, /d͡ʒɪmˈnɑsəfɪst/ 1. One of a school of ancient Indian ascetic philosophers, reported in antiquity, who wore little clothing; a mystic. Example: As that gymnosophist in Plutarch made answer to Alexander (demanding which spake best), Every one of his fellows did speak better than the other: so may I say of these causes […]. Example: I was speaking today with an unclothed Hindu religious, a parama-hamsa, on the steps of a Portuguese church, a true gymnosophist.
Word: HQP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of highly qualified personnel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: abashedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From abashed + -ness. Pronunciation: /əˈbæʃ.ɪd.nɪs/ 1. The state of being abashed; abashment. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: abashless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English abash Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English abashless From abash + -less. Pronunciation: /əˈbæʃ.lɪs/, /əˈbæʃ.ləs/ 1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame. Labels: literary Example: Nor wanted words as ready and as big As the part he played, the bold abashless one. Example: I had endured through watches of the dark The abashless inquisition of each star,
Word: fcuk Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the company initials, chosen for their controversial similarity to the word fuck. 1. French Connection United Kingdom, a UK clothing range.
Word: fcuk Part of Speech: verb 1. Deliberate misspelling of fuck. Labels: alt-of, deliberate, misspelling Example: The post included a picture of a man holding a flaming molotov cocktail, his face painted with the St George flag, emblazoned with the words: “Fcuk Ulez. People must now stand together. If Khan gets in the PURGE must begin with NO REGRETS.” Example: Responding to his caption, one user commented, “You mean fcuk [sic] sjp [Sarah Jessica Parker] & her award right? lol.” [Chris] Noth replied to said comment, writing, “Right.”
Word: fcuk Part of Speech: noun 1. Deliberate misspelling of fuck. Labels: alt-of, deliberate, misspelling
Word: fcuk Part of Speech: intj 1. Deliberate misspelling of fuck. Labels: alt-of, deliberate, misspelling
Word: toothed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Germanic *tanþs Proto-West Germanic *tanþ Old English tōþ Middle English toth English tooth English -ed English toothed From tooth + -ed. Pronunciation: /tuːθt/, /tuːðd/ 1. Having teeth. Labels: not-comparable Example: The sperm whale is a toothed whale. 2. Having projections resembling an animal's teeth. Labels: not-comparable Example: A cog is a toothed wheel. 3. Having teeth of the specified type. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: A sharp-toothed rat. Example: A fine-toothed comb.
Word: toothed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Germanic *tanþs Proto-West Germanic *tanþ Old English tōþ Middle English toth English tooth English -ed English toothed From tooth + -ed. Pronunciation: /tuːθt/, /tuːðd/ 1. simple past and past participle of tooth Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: yabbie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈjæb.i/ 1. Alternative spelling of yabby. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hachure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French hachure (“crosshatching”), from hacher (“to hatch”). Pronunciation: /hæʃˈjʊə/, /hæˈʃʊɹ/ 1. A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.⁷ Labels: historical 2. 1990, Oxford University Press, The Oxford School Atlas (27th Edition), page 9, recto
Word: hachure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French hachure (“crosshatching”), from hacher (“to hatch”). Pronunciation: /hæʃˈjʊə/, /hæˈʃʊɹ/ 1. To mark a map with hachures.
Word: hackamore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Spanish jáquima (“halter”). Pronunciation: /ˈhækəmɔː/ 1. A kind of bridle with no bit. Example: Before they could agree or disagree he’d hauled the horse around by the hackamore and was pounding off up the track.
Word: hafiz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Persian, from Arabic حَافِظ (ḥāfiẓ), present participle of حَفِظَ (ḥafiẓa, “to guard, know by heart”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːfɪz/ 1. A Muslim who has memorized the whole Qur'an. Example: He was a hafiz, one who knows the Qur’an by heart, and he sang it in a slow, simple chant.
Word: halse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”). Pronunciation: [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz] 1. The neck; the throat. Labels: archaic Example: Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.
Word: halse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English halsen, halchen, from Old English *halsian, *healsian (“to embrace”, literally “to fall upon the neck of”), from heals (“neck”). See above. Cognate with Old Saxon helsjen (“to embrace”), Old High German halsōn (German halsen (“to jibe”)), Icelandic hálsa (“to embrace”). Pronunciation: [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz] 1. To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace. Labels: dialectal Example: soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes
Word: halse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English halsen, halsien (“to beseech, adjure”), from Old English healsian, hālsian (“to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *hailisōną (“to greet”), from Proto-Indo-European *kailo-, *kailu- (“whole, safe”). Cognate with Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”), Swedish hälsa (“to greet”), Icelandic heilsa (“to salute”). More at whole. Pronunciation: [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz] 1. To greet; salute; hail. Labels: transitive 2. To beseech; adjure. Labels: transitive
Word: halse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hals (“neck”), from Old Norse háls (“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals (“neck, tack”). Pronunciation: [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz] 1. Alternative form of hawse. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: halse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hals (“neck”), from Old Norse háls (“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Danish hals (“neck, tack”). Pronunciation: [hoːs], [haːs], [hoːz] 1. To haul; to hoist. Labels: obsolete