nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ese, eise, aise, from Anglo-Norman ese (“ease”), from Old French eise, aise (“elbow room; opportunity”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Apparently related to Provençal ais, Italian agio and asio, Sicilian aciu and Portuguese azo. Sometimes ascribed to Vulgar Latin *āsia or *āsium, possibly from Latin ānsa (“handle, haft”) or Frankish *ansiju (“handle, loophole, eyelet; cup-handle; arms akimbo, elbow room”), but more often derived from Vulgar Latin *adjace(m), from Latin adjacēns (“adjacent, neighbouring”), present participle of adjaceō (“lie next to, border on”), though the forms and senses are difficult to trace clearly. Alternatively, possibly from a non-Latin source such as Germanic or Celtic on the basis of the conflicting forms which appear in various Romance languages. Compare Old English īeþe (“easy”), Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐌹 (azēti, “ease; pleasure”), *𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*azēts, “easy”), Breton eaz, ez (“easy”), Irish adhais (“easy; leisure”). See also eath. The verb is from Middle English esen, ultimately of the same origin. Pronunciation: /iːz/, /iz/ 1. Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He played the ukelele with ease. Example: The ease of lifting the weight, despite lack of skill, came from her pure strength. 2. Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work. 3. Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The pension set her mind at ease. Example: There is ease in the soul of Slid and there be calms upon the sea; also, there be storms upon the sea and troubles in the soul of Slid, for the gods have many moods. 4. Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness Labels: uncountable, usually Example: We took our ease on the patio. 5. Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness Labels: uncountable, usually Example: His inheritance catapulted him into a life of ease. 6. Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She dealt with the faculty with combined authority and ease. 7. Relief, an end to discomfort Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Take one pill every 12 hours to provide ease from pain. 8. Relief, an end to discomfort Labels: euphemistic, obsolete, uncountable, usually 9. Relief, an end to discomfort Labels: uncountable, usually Example: At ease, soldier! 10. Relief, an end to discomfort Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Add some ease to the waist measurement. 11. A convenience; a luxury. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 12. A relief; an easement. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually
Word: editor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”). Pronunciation: /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/, /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/, [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.tɚ], [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɚ] 1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents. Example: Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.) 2. A copy editor. 3. A person who edited a specific document. Example: John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson. 4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish. Example: John is the city editor at the Daily Times. 5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film 6. A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files. Example: The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor. 7. Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
Word: kvetch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”). Pronunciation: /kvɛt͡ʃ/ 1. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly. Example: Is this truth I’m delivering up, or is it just plain kvetching? Or is kvetching for people like me a form of truth? Example: Make a commitment, Charlie. Go with life or go with death, but quit the kvetching. Don’t keep us all in suspense.
Word: kvetch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish קוועטשן (kvetshn, literally “to squeeze, pinch”), from Middle High German quetschen (“crush, press”). Pronunciation: /kvɛt͡ʃ/ 1. A person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything. 2. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.
Word: neo-Nazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally from postwar French néonazi which first appears in 1952, equivalent to neo- + Nazi, and used to describe any number of movements, which saw themselves as believers of Nazi ideology or whose ideology had similar attributes. The term spread throughout the Western world acquiring a broader usage. However, its first use appears c. 1941 in the now-defunct Piqua Daily Call. Pronunciation: /ˌnioʊˈnɑːtsi/ 1. An adherent of neo-Nazism, any of various (far right, authoritarian, or bigoted) post-World War II Nazi ideologies. Example: Andrew Anglin, head of the now defunct alt-right publication Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi, and friend of Richard Spencer claimed on his site that “the only thing in our movement that really matters [is] anti-Semitism […] Last but not least, President Trump himself was key in mainstreaming alt-right politics, referring to white supremacists and Neo-Nazis as “very fine people”, […] Example: Among his first moves, he dismantled Twitter's trust and safety infrastructure, laying off the vast majority of the staff responsible for things like taking down violent threats and hate speech. In their place, he welcomed neo-Nazis.
Word: neo-Nazi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originally from postwar French néonazi which first appears in 1952, equivalent to neo- + Nazi, and used to describe any number of movements, which saw themselves as believers of Nazi ideology or whose ideology had similar attributes. The term spread throughout the Western world acquiring a broader usage. However, its first use appears c. 1941 in the now-defunct Piqua Daily Call. Pronunciation: /ˌnioʊˈnɑːtsi/ 1. Of or pertaining to neo-Nazism or neo-Nazis. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: On the whole the Galicians have been at the more pitiful end of the spectrum, trading infantile political insults on the web, each trying desperately to appear more neo-Nazi than the other. Example: Wilson has tweeted the phrase “Ausländer Raus” at least four times, including the slogan, “Deutschland den Deutschen. Ausländer raus.” The phrase, which means, “Germany for Germans, foreigners out,” is explicitly considered to be an extremist slogan in Germany with neo-Nazi roots; in fact, a 1992 paper about its use among German skinheads is available on a Department of Justice website.
Word: teh Part of Speech: article Etymology: Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard. Pronunciation: /tɛ/ 1. Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect. Labels: Internet, alt-of, dated, deliberate, misspelling Example: This is teh game for your new box! Example: You are teh haxor!
Word: second cousin Part of Speech: noun 1. A grandchild of a grandparent's sibling. 2. A relative who has with the other person only two great-grandparents in common, but where the parents and grandparents are different.
Word: rangeomorph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Rangea + -o- + -morph. 1. Any organism of the clade Rangeomorpha, Precambrian (Ediacaran) sessile organisms resembling ferns, possibly descended from sponges and among the oldest known complex lifeforms. Example: Previous comparisons of rangeomorphs with cnidarians or ctenophores now seem unlikely. The fact that both sides of the rangeomorph structure are essentially identical, is not consistent with the rangeomorph frondlet "representing the bases of an array of open tubes that housed polyps or other filter feeding organisms." Example: Although the possibility that they were passive “mattresses” holding symbiotic algae is plausible for the shallow-marine specimens of Australia, the oldest Ediacarans are the branching, frond-shaped rangeomorphs from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, which lived without light in deep water (Narbonne, 1998).
Word: removed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmuːvd/ 1. Separated in time, space, or degree. Example: Now that we are here one week removed... 2. Of a different generation, older or younger Example: Steve is my second cousin once removed.
Word: removed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmuːvd/ 1. simple past and past participle of remove Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: woolen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlən/ 1. Made of wool. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat. 2. Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths. Labels: US, not-comparable Example: woolen manufactures Example: a woolen mill
Word: woolen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlən/ 1. An item of clothing made from wool. Labels: US Example: Put all the woolens in this basket. Example: American woolens could not compete with British fabrics when quality was important.
Word: braize Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps akin to English barse (“bass, perch”) and English bream. Pronunciation: /bɹeɪz/ 1. A European marine fish, Pagrus pagrus, allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
Word: braize Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɹeɪz/ 1. Dated form of braise (“meat cooked by braising”). Labels: alt-of, dated 2. Alternative spelling of braze (small charcoal for melting ore) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The fuel was wood, either alone or mixed with peat, or pure peat - as in the north of Lancashire - or mineral coal, but most frequently it was small charcoal, called braise or braize.
Word: braize Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɹeɪz/ 1. Dated form of braise. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: braizing meat
Word: cockerel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English kokerel. By surface analysis, cock + -rel. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒkəɹəl/, /ˈkɒkɹəl/, /ˈkɑkəɹəl/, /ˈkɑkɹəl/ 1. A young male chicken. Example: “Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” Example: He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour.
Word: coppice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpɪs/ 1. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse. Example: […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…] Example: It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.
Word: coppice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpɪs/ 1. To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth. Labels: transitive Example: Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely. 2. To sprout from the stump. Labels: intransitive Example: Few conifer species can coppice.
Word: standel Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈstæn.dəl/ 1. a young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut. Example: It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.
Word: storer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From store + -er. 1. One who lays up or forms a store. Example: Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.
Word: storer Part of Speech: noun 1. A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut; a standel. Example: It was ordered that twelve standels or storers per acre in coppices or underwoods of twenty-four years' growth or less should be excluded from felling, and twelve 'great trees' on every acre above twenty-four years' growth.
Word: collier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English colier, colyer, alteration of earlier coler, collere (“one who makes or sells charcoal”), from Old English *colere (“collier”), equivalent to coal + -ier. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒlɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈkɑliɚ/, /ˈkɔlɪjə(ɹ)/ 1. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel). Example: The Black Dwarfs wear black jackets and caps, are not handsome like the others, but on the contrary are horridly ugly, with weeping eyes, like blacksmiths and colliers. Example: Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner 2. A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel). Labels: dated, historical Example: For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order. 3. A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal. Example: By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s. 4. A sailor on such a vessel. 5. A non-traveller. Labels: slang
Word: second cousin once removed Part of Speech: noun 1. A child of a second cousin. 2. A second cousin of a parent.
Word: first cousin once removed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From first cousin + once removed. 1. A first cousin's child. 2. A parent's first cousin.
Word: tuyere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere (“pipe-hole”), from tuyau, tueil, tudel (“pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”). Pronunciation: /twiːˈ(j)ɛə/, /tuːˈjɛə/, /ˈtwɪə/, /ˈtwaɪə/, /twiˈjɛɹ/ 1. A nozzle or similar fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge Example: Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace.
Word: bloom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more. Pronunciation: /bluːm/ 1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics 2. Flowers. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable 3. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. Labels: uncountable Example: The cherry trees are in bloom. Example: sight of vernal bloom 4. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: the bloom of youth Example: every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. 5. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off. 7. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it 8. An algal bloom. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky. 9. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A bright-hued variety of some minerals. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the rose-red cobalt bloom 12. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A natural protective coating on an eggshell. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen. Labels: countable, uncountable 15. The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down. 16. A fan of Filipino girl group BINI. Labels: Philippines, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable 17. A group of ladybugs. Labels: collective, countable, uncountable Example: Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed.
Word: bloom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”). Pronunciation: /bluːm/ 1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. Labels: transitive Example: Charitable affection bloomed them. 2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. Labels: transitive Example: The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold. Example: Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— / While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; [...] 3. Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. Labels: intransitive Example: A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom. 4. To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Shadows bloomed over the yard. Example: Anger bloomed up from his throat. 5. Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested. Example: The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete. 6. To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil. 7. To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling. Labels: intransitive 8. To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste. 9. To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
Word: bloom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English blome, from Old English blōma (“lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Bloom, bluum, blööm (“flower”), Saterland Frisian Bloume (“flower”), West Frisian and Limburgish blom (“flower”), Bavarian Bleame, Bleaml, Bleampl (“flower”), Dutch bloem, blom (“flower”), German Blume (“flower”), Luxembourgish Blumm (“flower”), Vilamovian błum (“flower”), West Flemish blomme (“flower”), Yiddish בלום (blum, “flower”), Danish blomme (“flower”), Faroese blóma (“flower”), Icelandic blóm (“flower”), Norwegian Nynorsk blom, blome (“flower”), Swedish blomma (“flower”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma, “lily”), Vandalic *bluma (“flower”); also Breton bleuñv (“flowers; flowering”), Cornish blejan, blejen, bleujen, bleujenn (“blossom, flower”), Irish bláth (“flower”), Manx blaa (“flower; heyday”), Scottish Gaelic blàth (“bloom, blossom, flower; consequence, effect; heyday”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Latin flōs (“blossom, flower”), Greek φύλλο (fýllo, “leaf; blade; sheet; foil, plate”), Armenian բող (boġ), բոխի (boxi, “a kind of bitter field-plant, probably horse fennel, Hippomarathrum or a kind of fennel or wild parsley”), Tocharian A pält (“leaf; blade”), Tocharian B pilta (“leaf; blade”), Sanskrit फुल्ल (phulla, “full-blown flower”), पुल्ल (pulla, “flower”). Related to blow, blade, blead; also related to flower, foil, and belladonna. Pronunciation: /bluːm/ 1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process. Example: These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.
Word: gad Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of God. Pronunciation: /ɡæd/ 1. An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. Example: The clasp slips free (gad, what lush kazooms) and she even helps him pull off the blouse that is now cuffing her at the elbows.
Word: gad Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin. Pronunciation: /ɡæd/ 1. To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. Labels: intransitive Example: This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable. Example: So when he saw King Arthur he said: "Thou knave! Wherefore didst thou quit thy work to go a-gadding?" 2. To run with the tail in the air, bent over the back, usually in an attempt to escape the warble fly.
Word: gad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gadden (“to hurry, to rush about”), of obscure origin. Pronunciation: /ɡæd/ 1. One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
Word: gad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gade (“a fool, simpleton, rascal, scoundrel; bastard”), from Old English *gada (“fellow, companion, comrade, associate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadō, from Proto-Germanic *gadô, *gagadô (“companion, associate”), related to Proto-West Germanic *gaduling (“kinsman”). Cognate with Dutch gade (“spouse”), German Gatte (“male spouse, husband”). See also gadling. Pronunciation: /ɡæd/ 1. A greedy and/or stupid person. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, derogatory Example: Get over here, ye good-for-nothing gadǃ Example: Ye greedy ged, ye have taken the very breath out o' me.
Word: gad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gad, gadde, borrowed from Old Norse gaddr (“goad, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *gazdaz (“spike, rod, stake”). Doublet of goad and yard. Pronunciation: /ɡæd/ 1. A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose. Labels: UK, US, dialectal, especially Example: Ist yoakes and bowes and gad and yoaksticks there? Example: Does your cow kick? Do not fly into a passion and pound her with a handspike, or trim her with a gad or a cow-hide. 2. A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod. Labels: UK, US, dialectal Example: And we'll prepare our limber gads, Lang lines, and braw brass wheels; Example: Seek out thy tackle, thy creel and thy gad. 3. A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock; a pick. Labels: especially Example: I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words. Example: Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp 4. A metal bar. Labels: obsolete Example: they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved. Example: Flemish steel […] some in bars and some in gads. 5. An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds. Labels: dated Example: Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours. 6. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Example: Sometimes we see the knuckles ornamented with gads or gadlings. Example: His gauntlets have embroidered cuffs; there are gads or gadlings on the fingers.
Word: finery Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnəɹi/ 1. Fineness; beauty. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Labels: countable Example: The city also shone through the luxury of the higher castes: in the fineries of their dress, the rich manner of their living, their many servants, silver table services, and showy furnishings. 3. fine point; minute characteristic Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the translator should master the language he translates from as thoroughly as his mother tongue, knowing all its fineries 4. A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.
Word: chafery Part of Speech: noun 1. An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars. Example: The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney.
Word: woollen Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of woolen. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
Word: woollen Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of woolen. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: woolly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊli/ 1. Made of wool. Example: Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat. Example: Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu. 2. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. Example: woolly hair Example: There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears. 3. Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy. Labels: figuratively Example: That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start. Example: To call David Lean's Dr Zhivago a translation of Pasternak's novel is not only to disregard the specificity of film art, but to make such woolly use of the word ‘translation’ as to fit it to refer to any kind of transformation. Knitting included. 4. Clothed in wool. Labels: obsolete Example: woolly breeders 5. Cross; irritable. Labels: archaic, slang Example: […] and don't get woolly because some of your little "deals" don't come off. You'd soon consider yourself the superior of God Almighty Himself if He didn't set you in your place once in a while. 6. Uncivilized and unruly. Labels: US, informal Example: wild and woolly
Word: woolly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊli/ 1. A sweater or similar garment made of wool. Labels: informal Example: `I've got a rotten cold and I'm not taking my woollies off until it's better.' Example: Being an innocent Australian abroad in a European winter, I had taken with me every winter woolly I could borrow or squeeze out of friends and associates. 2. A sheep not yet shorn. Labels: US, slang 3. A piece of woolwork.
Word: woolly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From woolly back. Pronunciation: /ˈwʊli/ 1. A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself. Labels: derogatory
Word: wooly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. 1. Alternative form of woolly. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative Example: wooly hair Example: Put on a wooly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
Word: wooly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. 1. Alternative form of woolly. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: daddy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English dad Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English daddy The noun is probably derived from dad (although this word is attested later) + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈdædi/ 1. To father (a child); to beget, to sire. Labels: Appalachia, informal, transitive Example: "Just supposin' Mister [a dog] has daddied a pup here and there," said old man Rivers. "What's wrong with that? Ain't your foxhounds han'some and hard-runnin'?" Example: Well, it seems that Franklin Ransom had him a girlfriend in nigger holler all along, even when me and him were going out so much together, yes all that whole long time. […] Franklin had daddied two little nigger babies on her, so they say.
Word: daddy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English dad Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English daddy From dad + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’). Pronunciation: /ˈdædi/ 1. Characteristic of or resembling a dad or father. Labels: informal, uncommon Example: […] Daddy looked at himself more these days, as if to catch himself fading away—though in Junior's eyes he was only growing Daddier. Example: Taking stock of our muddles gives us permission to look up and see the God-Man [Jesus] in his eternal sacrifice for all of us, for those two young, irresponsible girls and for this "Dad" who is only likely to get daddier as he goes along.
Word: MPEG Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.pɛɡ/ 1. Moving Pictures Experts Group
Word: MPEG Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.pɛɡ/ 1. Any of a group of computer file formats for the compression and storage of digital video and audio data. 2. A computer file (as of a movie) in an MPEG format.
Word: screenshot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”). Pronunciation: /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/, /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/ 1. An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time. Example: I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.
Word: screenshot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”). Pronunciation: /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/, /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/ 1. To take a screenshot of something. Labels: transitive Example: To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find. Example: Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.
Word: set on fire Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause to begin to burn. Labels: transitive Example: I don't want to set the world on fire / I just want to start a flame in your heart 2. To arouse passionate feelings in. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: You set my heart on fire.
Word: firefly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Endocentric compound of fire + fly, because the insects glow; whence also lightning bug. Compare glow fly, glowworm, and lanternfly. Compare typologically Ancient Greek λαμπυρίς (lampurís, “glowworm”) (<+ πῦρ (pûr)). Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪ.əˌflaɪ/, /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌflaɪ/ 1. Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight. Labels: Florida, Northern-US, US, Western Example: 2000, Exploring Life Science, 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish, page 96, Fireflies are the best-known insects that produce light. […] Many fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together. Example: The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
Word: lightning bug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lightning + bug, because the insects glow; whence also firefly. Compare glow fly, glowworm, and lanternfly. 1. A firefly. Example: I watched as lightning bugs drifted in, glowing yellow against the shadows.
Word: shite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse. Pronunciation: /ʃaɪt/ 1. Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense. Labels: Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually, vulgar Example: That’s a load of shite. Example: Look at all this shite. 2. A foolish or deceitful person. Labels: Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, uncommon, usually, vulgar Example: He's a useless shite. Example: Pull yourself together. It’s not like he’s going to break in and rape you, is it? He’s just a nasty wee shite, as they say hereabouts, a misogynistic pick-up artist who’s too cheap to use a tissue.
Word: shite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse. Pronunciation: /ʃaɪt/ 1. Bad; awful; shit. Labels: Ireland, UK, vulgar Example: That was a shite film. Example: In the end, you find yourself […] thinking about what the Gnome said about home brew. Shite beer, he’d said, unless you add a cofactor.
Word: shite Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse. Pronunciation: /ʃaɪt/ 1. An expression of annoyance or dismay. Labels: Ireland, UK, vulgar Example: Shite! I left my wallet at home. Example: Shite. It’s three o’fucking clock in the afternoon!
Word: shite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schiten, from Old English sċītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”). Pronunciation: /ʃaɪt/ 1. To defecate. Labels: Ireland, Scotland, UK, vulgar Example: […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself. Example: He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.
Word: shit oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To soil oneself. Labels: literally, slang, vulgar 2. To be very frightened or astonished (to the extent that one might lose control of one's bowels). Labels: figuratively, slang, vulgar 3. To stop working, break. Labels: figuratively, slang, vulgar Example: My AC completely shit itself as soon as the heat wave started
Word: eff Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɛf/ 1. Alternative spelling of ef; the name of the Latin script letter F/f. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Why against printers all this noise? This summoning of blackguard boys? Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and eſſes? Take my advice; to make you safe, I know a shorter way be half. Example: ‘Eff. You. En,’ said Mr Banstead. ‘Fun![…]’
Word: eff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the name of the letter f (see etymology 1), the initial letter of fuck. Compare pee. Pronunciation: /ɛf/ 1. Synonym of fuck. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: Eff off! Example: And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
Word: eff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from ineffable, ultimately from Latin effor (“utter”). Pronunciation: /ɛf/ 1. To put into words; to express. Example: […] and perhaps also because what we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail. Example: They, no more than we, found it hard to eff the ineffable, but they, you see, needed to console themselves more.
Word: clusterfuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other. Pronunciation: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/, /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/ 1. A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence. Labels: idiomatic, slang, vulgar Example: [Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck. Example: 1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell "Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event. 2. A sexual orgy. Labels: slang, uncommon, vulgar
Word: clusterfuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other. Pronunciation: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/, /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/ 1. To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of. Labels: idiomatic, slang, transitive, vulgar
Word: material Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel. Pronunciation: /məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/, /məˈtɪɹ.i.əl/ 1. Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical. Example: This compound has a number of interesting material properties. Example: the material elements of the universe 2. Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily. Example: material needs 3. Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical. Example: material cause Example: the material aspect of being 4. Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial. Labels: especially Example: found a material difference between two things Example: You've made several material contributions to this project. 5. Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic. Example: the material world Example: interested only in material progress 6. Full of substance or otherwise meaning. Labels: obsolete 7. In an important degree. Labels: obsolete
Word: material Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel. Pronunciation: /məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/, /məˈtɪɹ.i.əl/ 1. A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads. Example: In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in. 2. A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity. Labels: collective, countable, sometimes, uncountable Example: boy/girlfriend material Example: marriage material 3. Apparatus for doing or making something. Labels: countable, plural, uncountable, usually Example: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. 4. Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: teaching materials Example: We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline. 5. Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a piece of material Example: You'll need about a yard of material to make this. 6. The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The solid materials of the mixture will settle to the bottom of the container. Example: The material of his character was basically good. 7. An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The ingredients for making whisky punch. Labels: Ireland, archaic, countable, uncountable 10. The materiel of an army. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 11. Things that are material. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: material Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel. Pronunciation: /məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/, /məˈtɪɹ.i.əl/ 1. To form from matter; to materialize. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.
Word: significant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere. Pronunciation: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/ 1. Signifying something; carrying meaning. Example: a significant word or sound Example: a significant look 2. Having a noticeable or major effect. Example: That was a significant step in the right direction. Example: The First World War was a significant event. 3. Reasonably large in number or amount. 4. Having a covert or hidden meaning. 5. Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related). 6. Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.
Word: significant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere. Pronunciation: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/, /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/ 1. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol. Example: In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. Example: And in my glass significants there are
Word: porter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”). By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɹtɚ/, /ˈpɔːtə/, /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/, /ˈpoətə/ 1. A person who carries luggage and related objects. Example: By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting. Example: Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel. 2. An ant having the specialized role of carrying. 3. One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform). Example: […] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.
Word: porter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɹtɚ/, /ˈpɔːtə/, /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/, /ˈpoətə/ 1. A person in control of the entrance to a building. Labels: countable 2. An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away. Labels: countable 3. A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Stout (malt brew). Labels: Ireland, countable, uncountable Example: ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.