nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sleeve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sleve, slefe, from Old English slīef and slīefe (“sleeve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sleeuwe (“sleeve”), West Frisian slúf, Dutch sloof (“apron”), Low German sluve, dialectal German Schlaube. The Canadian sense of “measure smaller than a pint” is due to a former conflict between federal law and provincial law in British Columbia. According to federal law, a pint must be 20 imperial ounces (~568 ml), but according to provincial law at the time, the maximum individual serving size was 500 ml, so an individual portion could not be called a “pint” in British Columbia, and required a different term. The provincial law has been changed, allowing servings of up to 24 oz (~682 ml), but the term remains in use. The term sleeve itself for a cylindrical glass of beer is also found in the UK and Australia (as sleever), and may be due to stacked glasses resembling a sleeve. Pronunciation: /sliːv/, /sliv/ 1. The part of a garment that covers the arm. Example: The sleeves on my coat are too long. 2. A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc. Example: This bearing requires a sleeve so the shaft will fit snugly. 3. A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD. 4. A tattoo covering the whole arm. 5. A narrow channel of water. Example: Even from Southhampton ' s shore through Wilts and Somerset The Attrebates in Bark unto the bank of Tames Betwixt the Celtic sleeve and the Sabrinian streams 6. Sleave; untwisted thread. 7. A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces. Labels: British-Columbia Example: For example, you may serve a patron a 12 oz sleeve of beer and a 5 oz glass of wine (or alternately 1.5 oz spirits) at the same time. 8. A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers, or a similar package of disposable drinking cups. Labels: US Example: A three-alarm fire tore through a family home on Newark's East Side early Saturday morning, completely gutting the two-story residence and tragically claiming a half-sleeve of Oreo cookies that was trapped inside a cupboard. 9. A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
Word: sleeve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sleve, slefe, from Old English slīef and slīefe (“sleeve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sleeuwe (“sleeve”), West Frisian slúf, Dutch sloof (“apron”), Low German sluve, dialectal German Schlaube. The Canadian sense of “measure smaller than a pint” is due to a former conflict between federal law and provincial law in British Columbia. According to federal law, a pint must be 20 imperial ounces (~568 ml), but according to provincial law at the time, the maximum individual serving size was 500 ml, so an individual portion could not be called a “pint” in British Columbia, and required a different term. The provincial law has been changed, allowing servings of up to 24 oz (~682 ml), but the term remains in use. The term sleeve itself for a cylindrical glass of beer is also found in the UK and Australia (as sleever), and may be due to stacked glasses resembling a sleeve. Pronunciation: /sliːv/, /sliv/ 1. To fit and attach a sleeve to an upper garment (e.g. to a shirt, blouse, sweater, jacket, coat, etc.) or to a folder. Labels: transitive 2. To hide something up one's sleeve. Example: There are certain types of sleeving that are difficult to perform with the shirt sleeves down, and it is difficult and risky to attempt sleeving while wearing a shirt with "French" cuffs.
Word: workout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from work out. Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːk.aʊ̯t/, /ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/ 1. An exercise session; a period of physical exercise. Example: The following guidelines for smart weekly scheduling can simplify this piece of the planning: Swim three or four workouts each week. Example: Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you. 2. A schedule or program of specific exercises, especially one intended to achieve a particular goal. Example: If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout. Example: I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day! 3. Any activity that requires much physical or mental effort, or produces strain. Labels: broadly Example: Cynthia's phone got a workout, as well. In approximately three days since the news had hit the street, a total of five bridal showers had been booked, not to mention a luncheon at Esther Cunningham's and tea at Olivia Harper's. Example: After the camera pans around and we welcome back a lot of familiar faces (Edmure Tully! Yara Greyjoy! Brienne!), the themes of opposition to fate, emotional appeals, and ethical duty get an even better workout.
Word: spout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew. Pronunciation: /spaʊt/, /spʌʊt/ 1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. Example: I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke. Example: I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap 2. A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”). 3. A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force. Example: A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers. 4. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall. Example: […] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore. Example: The Spout of Garnock is a wild and romantic waterfall upon that stream in the moors of Kilbirnie parish. The rock here is also porphyry. The porphyry upon the east side of the fall is much rent, and has fallen forward[…] 5. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc. Example: The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up. Example: From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.' 6. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”). Example: He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea. 7. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale. 8. A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off. Labels: Australia
Word: spout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew. Pronunciation: /spaʊt/, /spʌʊt/ 1. To gush forth in a jet or stream Labels: intransitive Example: Water spouts from a hole. 2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The whale spouted. Example: The mighty whale […] spouts the tide. 3. To speak tediously or pompously. Labels: intransitive 4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. Labels: transitive Example: Pray, spout some French, son. 5. To pawn; to pledge. Labels: dated, slang, transitive Example: to spout a watch
Word: sprout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sproute, either from Middle English sprouten (“to sprout”) (see below); or from Middle Dutch sprute or Middle Low German sprûte (“sprout”), all related to Proto-West Germanic *spreutan. Doublet of spruit. Pronunciation: /spɹaʊt/, /spɹʌʊt/ 1. A new growth of or on a plant, whether from seed or other parts. 2. A germinated seed, an incipient young plant. Example: Near-synonyms: seedling, chit 3. A germinated seed, an incipient young plant. 4. A germinated seed, an incipient young plant. 5. A child. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: Oh my, how your sprouts have grown! 6. A Brussels sprout. Example: In our family we only eat sprouts once a year, at Christmas.
Word: sprout Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sprouten, spruten, from Old English sprūtan, from Proto-West Germanic *spreutan, from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną. Pronunciation: /spɹaʊt/, /spɹʌʊt/ 1. To grow from seed; to germinate. Labels: intransitive Example: The crocuses should be sprouting after 2 months, provided they're well tended. 2. To cause to grow from a seed. Labels: transitive Example: I sprouted beans and radishes and put them in my salad. 3. To deprive of sprouts. Labels: transitive Example: to sprout potatoes 4. To emerge from the ground as sprouts. Labels: intransitive 5. To emerge haphazardly from a surface. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Whiskers sprouted from the old man's chin. 6. To emerge or appear haphazardly. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: A lot of coffee shops have sprouted up in this neighbourhood since the block of flats was put up. Example: In those early years of the 1830s and 1840s, railways were sprouting up all over the country in a haphazard way.
Word: serif Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier ceriph, ceref, of obscure derivation. There are two (not directly interrelated) candidates for a possible Dutch origin: 1.) the noun schreef (“stroke”, now also “serif” as a semantic loan), related with schrapen (“to scrape”); and 2.) the verb schrafferen (“to provide with horizontal lines, to shade”), from Italian sgraffiare. For the latter, compare German Schraffe (“serif”), although this again may be a semantic loan based on the English word rather than original to it. Alternatively, from Late Latin cerificus (“waxen”), from Latin cera (“wax”), after the ruled lines used in writing on wax tablets. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹɪf/, /səˈɹiːf/ 1. A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman. Example: It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.
Word: serif Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier ceriph, ceref, of obscure derivation. There are two (not directly interrelated) candidates for a possible Dutch origin: 1.) the noun schreef (“stroke”, now also “serif” as a semantic loan), related with schrapen (“to scrape”); and 2.) the verb schrafferen (“to provide with horizontal lines, to shade”), from Italian sgraffiare. For the latter, compare German Schraffe (“serif”), although this again may be a semantic loan based on the English word rather than original to it. Alternatively, from Late Latin cerificus (“waxen”), from Latin cera (“wax”), after the ruled lines used in writing on wax tablets. Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹɪf/, /səˈɹiːf/ 1. Of a typeface, provided with serifs. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.
Word: rhotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from rhotacism, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊ.tɪk/, [ˈɹəʊ̯.t(ʰ)ɪk], /ˈɹoʊ.tɪk/, [ˈɹoʊ̯.ɾɪk], /ˈr(h)o.ʈɪk/ 1. That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent. Labels: not-comparable Example: Rhotic speech is common in Ireland, Scotland, much of the United States, Canada, West Country England, and many parts of the north and west of England. Example: Rhotic (or r-ful) dialects are linguistic relics in England, as shown in Map 7-5. Nonrhotic or r-less dialects have been displacing them since the seventeenth century. Among the linguistically most conservative population in England, represented by the NORMs of the SED, both rhotic and nonrhotic dialects are found throughout the country. The fact that the rhotic dialects are relics is indicated on Map 7-5 not by the predominance of nonrhotic dialects, but by the discontinuity of the regions where rhotic dialects are found. A century or so earlier, they covered even more of the country, and the three regions probably formed part of a continuous network. 2. Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: retroflex Example: In the IPA, a rhotic vowel (aka R-coloured vowel, retroflex vowel, vocalic r or rhotacised vowel) is indicated by the affixing of a hook diacritic ( ˞ ) to the right of the regular symbol for the vowel. The rhotic consonants are /r/, /ɾ/, /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ʀ/, /ʁ/, /ɽ/ and /ɺ/.
Word: rhotic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from rhotacism, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊ.tɪk/, [ˈɹəʊ̯.t(ʰ)ɪk], /ˈɹoʊ.tɪk/, [ˈɹoʊ̯.ɾɪk], /ˈr(h)o.ʈɪk/ 1. A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel). Example: It is well known that the phonetic realization of rhotics varies considerably from language to language, even from dialect to dialect. Rhotics can be realized as flaps, taps, trills (uvular, coronal or bilabial), or as assibilated or fricative variants. Example: 2012, Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, 5: The Phonemes of Spanish, José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke (editors), The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell), page 100, Spanish also has two rhotics, a tap /ɾ/(vibrante simple) and a trill /r/(vibrante múltiple).
Word: non-rhotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- English rhotacismbf. English rhotic English non-rhotic From non- + rhotic. Pronunciation: /nɒnˈɹəʊtɪk/ 1. Of an accent, most often one of English: not pronouncing the written letter "r" unless it is followed by a vowel, as in Received Pronunciation, most other accents of England, the Boston accent, traditional NYC English, many accents of southern Louisiana, Australian English, etc. Labels: not-comparable Example: In a non-rhotic accent, the word 'sort' can be pronounced like the word 'sought'.
Word: incubus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubō (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubō (“to lie upon, to hatch”, from in- (“on”) + cubō (“to lie down”)). Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋ.kjʊ.bəs/, /ˈɪn.kjə.bəs/ 1. An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep. 2. A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare. Example: it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] . 3. Any oppressive thing or person; a burden. Labels: broadly Example: Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition. Example: Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land. 4. One of various of parasitic insects, especially subfamily Aphidiinae.
Word: succubus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration in Middle English (based on incubus m) of Late Latin succuba (“strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep”), from Latin succubo (“to lie under”), from sub- (“under”) + cubare (“to lie down”). Pronunciation: /ˈsʌk.jʊ.bəs/, /ˈsʌk.jə.bəs/ 1. A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death. Example: 1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver. When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera. 2. A strumpet, whore or prostitute.
Word: portal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtl̩/, /ˈpɔːɹtl̩/, [ˈpʰɔːɹɾɫ̩] 1. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. Example: The local library, a portal of knowledge. Example: Last, but very much not least, are the portals of the Ffestiniog Railway's Moelwyn Tunnel. The tunnel's story itself is well told - it was part of the preservationists' deviation required to get around a reservoir that had flooded the earlier route. But the reason for its inclusion here is that it is probably the most recently constructed, properly architected tunnel portal in Britain. 2. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. 3. A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. Labels: Internet Example: The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites. 4. A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. Labels: Internet, Philippines Example: I have already inputted my info on the portal. 5. A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet. Labels: Internet, Philippines Example: You need to have a portal to have a driver's license. 6. A short vein that carries blood into the liver. 7. A magical or technological aperture leading to another location, period in time, or dimension. 8. A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. 9. Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. 10. A grandiose and often lavish entrance. Example: Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone. 11. The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. 12. A prayer book or breviary; a portass. 13. The NCAA transfer portal, a database and compliance tool designed to facilitate student-athletes who wish to change schools. 14. A connecting window between volumes, in portal rendering.
Word: portal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtl̩/, /ˈpɔːɹtl̩/, [ˈpʰɔːɹɾɫ̩] 1. Of or relating to a porta, especially the porta of the liver. Labels: not-comparable Example: the portal vein
Word: portal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtl̩/, /ˈpɔːɹtl̩/, [ˈpʰɔːɹɾɫ̩] 1. To use a portal (magical or technological doorway).
Word: toss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”). The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English. Pronunciation: /tɒs/, /tɔs/, /tɑs/ 1. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A haughty throwing up of the head. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Concern or consideration. Labels: British, countable, slang, uncountable Example: I don't give a toss about her. 5. A state of agitation; commotion. Labels: British, countable, slang, uncountable Example: This put us at the board into a Tosse. Example: "We are all in a toss, in our neighborhood," said Mistress Pottle. 6. A measure of sprats. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It will differ from the heaped measure of oysters, improperly called the peck, by about one-seventh part in excess, and from the toss of sprats by about one-third part in excess. 7. A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The introduction would still be done by the Monitor host in New York's Studio 5B, followed by the toss to the newsperson in Washington. 8. Nonsense; drivel. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: Then I look again at this message. What a load of toss. Example: 'You were,' John said, with infinite love, 'talking such absolute toss.' 9. An act of masturbation. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable, vulgar Example: And Uncle Frank is having a wank, And Auntie Floss is having a toss, With Grandad. Example: This girl was a wank, a toss, something to be used over and over again, even when she was a pensioner; the pictures would be around till the next millennium.
Word: toss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”). The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English. Pronunciation: /tɒs/, /tɔs/, /tɑs/ 1. To throw with an initial upward direction. Example: Toss it over here! 2. To lift with a sudden or violent motion. Example: to toss the head Example: He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay. 3. To agitate; to make restless. Example: Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. 4. To subject to trials; to harass. Example: Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. 5. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention. Example: We should toss for it. Example: I'll toss you for it. 6. To discard; to throw away. Labels: informal, transitive Example: I don't need it any more; you can just toss it. 7. To stir or mix (a salad). Example: to toss a salad; a tossed salad. 8. To masturbate. Labels: UK, slang 9. To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime. Labels: informal, transitive Example: John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell. Example: Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell, they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place. 10. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion. Labels: intransitive Example: tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep Example: “We can’t stand this, you know,” the young Englishmen said to each other; and they tossed about all night more boisterously than they had tossed upon the Atlantic billows. 11. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas. Labels: intransitive Example: Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore 12. To keep in play; to tumble over. Labels: obsolete Example: spend four or fiue yeares, in tossing all the rules of Grammer in common scholes 13. To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. 14. To drink in large draughts; to gulp. Labels: UK, slang Example: Their modest stole, to garish looser weed, Deck'd with love-favours their late whoredoms' meed: And where they wont sip of the simple flood, Now toss they bowls of Bacchus' boiling blood, Example: Why, forſooth, an you think ſo, you had beſt go to bed. For my part, I mean to toſs a Can, and remember my Sweet-Heart, afore I turn in; may-hap I may dream of her. 15. To vomit. Labels: slang, usually
Word: Tanakh Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תנ״ך (TaNaKh). Acronym of Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim. Pronunciation: /tɑˈnɑx/, /tɑˈnɑk/, /tə-/, /tæˈnæx/, /tæˈnæk/ 1. The body of Jewish scripture comprising the Torah, the Neviim (prophets) and the Ketuvim (writings); corresponding to the Christian Old Testament (or roughly so, depending on the denomination). Labels: Judaism Example: Meronyms: Torah, Neviim, Ketuvim
Word: pie-eater Part of Speech: noun 1. A person from Wigan in northern England or the surrounding area. Labels: derogatory Example: Wiganers do like pies, but the term Pie-eaters is actually an insult, dating back to a pit strike when Wigan miners were starved back to work before their St Helens counterparts, thereby eating humble pie.
Word: pie-eyed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pie (“type of pastry consisting of an outer crust and a filling”) + eyed, a hyperbole suggesting that a person’s eyes are open so wide that they are as large as pies. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪˌaɪd/, /ˌpaɪˈaɪd/ 1. With one's eyes wide open and staring in an expressionless manner; wide-eyed. Labels: informal Example: [H]ere I've been roosting all day long, with nothing to do but gaze at this bunch of would-be scribes grinding out jazz copy, and now, at half-past four, that pie-eyed zebra of a Sunday editor has to hand me an assignment about as concrete as a hunk of Hudson River mist; and I've got a date with Vita for supper at six. Example: Of all the blockheads in the world, I have the finest collection working for me. Terence Tadpole is a dolt, Sidney Squirrel is a sentimental idiot, Freddie Fox is a pie-eyed fool, Felix Frog is a perfect imbecile. 2. (Extremely) drunk or intoxicated. Labels: broadly, informal Example: "He's just pie-eyed," said Dart quietly. "God knows how much straight alcohol he's had. Better come over here, Andy." Example: I sat there, getting more and more pie-eyed, without anyone noticing, as far as I could judge, since the sole manifestation of my drunkenness was that my tongue was looser than usual.
Word: jelly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛli/, /ˈd͡ʒeli/, /ˈd͡ʒɛle/, /-lɪ/, /-li/ 1. A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. Labels: Commonwealth, countable, uncountable Example: His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert. Example: Rincewind relaxed slightly, which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly. 2. A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Labels: Canada, US, countable, uncountable Example: Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass. Example: Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy. 3. Clipping of jelly coconut. Labels: Caribbean, Jamaica, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable 4. A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: calf's-foot jelly Example: Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch. 6. A jellyfish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger. 7. A pretty girl; a girlfriend. Labels: archaic, countable, slang, uncountable Example: ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’ 8. A large backside, especially a woman's. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance Example: At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair. 9. Alternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, countable, uncountable 10. A jelly shoe. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […] 11. Blood. Labels: US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: jelly Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛli/, /ˈd͡ʒeli/, /ˈd͡ʒɛle/, /-lɪ/, /-li/ 1. To make into jelly. Labels: transitive 2. To preserve in jelly. Labels: transitive 3. To wiggle like jelly.
Word: jelly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛli/, /ˈd͡ʒeli/, /ˈd͡ʒɛle/, /-lɪ/, /-li/ 1. Jealous. Labels: slang Example: If the guy wants to party and bang porn stars, and he's not hurting anyone who really cares? I think a lot of guys are just jelly! :-) Example: "I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."
Word: jelly Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛli/, /ˈd͡ʒeli/, /ˈd͡ʒɛle/, /-lɪ/, /-li/ 1. Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads. Labels: India, uncountable Example: Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.
Word: marmalade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada (“quince jam”), from marmelo (“quince”), from Latin melimēlum (“sweet apple”), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”). A false folk etymology claims that this comes from the French phrase “Marie est malade” (“Mary is ill”), referring to Mary, Queen of Scots, falling ill and being given marmalade to feel better. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.mə.leɪd/, /ˈmɑɹ.mə.leɪd/ 1. A kind of jam made with citrus fruit, distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partial caramelisation during manufacture. Most commonly made with Seville oranges, and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: lime marmalade Example: thick cut marmalade 2. Quince jam. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A cat having orange- or ginger-colored fur. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We breed our marmalades for a modern taste. Gingers can be tiger-striped, splotched, or all one shade in a choice of spicy colors; […]
Word: marmalade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French marmelade, from Portuguese marmelada (“quince jam”), from marmelo (“quince”), from Latin melimēlum (“sweet apple”), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”). A false folk etymology claims that this comes from the French phrase “Marie est malade” (“Mary is ill”), referring to Mary, Queen of Scots, falling ill and being given marmalade to feel better. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑː.mə.leɪd/, /ˈmɑɹ.mə.leɪd/ 1. To spread marmalade on. Labels: transitive
Word: pie-faced Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a round, unblemished face. Example: She is already up to feeling sorry for the pie-faced wife and children in the oak frames on his filing cabinet, the small cluster of people who have Jon Folan in every one of their days. Example: Jolene was a pie-faced, heavy girl and I always thought she looked the type to have gone and found trouble just to show you didn't have to be a cheerleader to be fast.
Word: pejorative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin peiōrātus (“worsened”, past participle of peiōrāre (“worsen”), from Latin peior (“worse”)) + -ive. Compare French péjoratif (“depreciative, disparaging”). By surface analysis, pejorate + -ive. Pronunciation: /pɪˈd͡ʒɒɹətɪv/, /pɪˈd͡ʒoɹətɪv/, /pɪˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ə.tɪv/, /pəˈd͡ʒoɹətəv/ 1. Disparaging, belittling or derogatory. Example: These days, on platforms like X, slopulism is a pejorative label often applied to posts by politicians and pundits alike, anyone who shares out lowest-common-denominator ideas designed to appeal to loyal political bases.
Word: pejorative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin peiōrātus (“worsened”, past participle of peiōrāre (“worsen”), from Latin peior (“worse”)) + -ive. Compare French péjoratif (“depreciative, disparaging”). By surface analysis, pejorate + -ive. Pronunciation: /pɪˈd͡ʒɒɹətɪv/, /pɪˈd͡ʒoɹətɪv/, /pɪˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ə.tɪv/, /pəˈd͡ʒoɹətəv/ 1. A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression. Example: “Get away from me, freak.” “Actually, my designation is Logic-y. I take issue with the pejorative when I am simply a product of your self-inflicted bifurcation.”
Word: frost Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *prustós Proto-Germanic *frustaz Proto-West Germanic *frost Old English frost Middle English frost English frost From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze. Pronunciation: /fɹɒst/, /fɹɔst/, /fɹɑst/ 1. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Example: It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month; 3. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath. Example: Up to that time the girl had never really done her hair, and she regarded boots merely as things to protect the feet. Suddenly it dawned on her that she was considered plain and that she diffused an atmosphere of intellectual frost. 4. The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. A shade of white, like that of frost. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A disappointment; a cheat. Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable 7. A kind of light diffuser. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Frosts and diffusion are flame retardant and produce similar results except that some of the frosts are very subtle in their effects. For example: Hamburg Frost will soften the beam edge with little additional spread of the beam.
Word: frost Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *prustós Proto-Germanic *frustaz Proto-West Germanic *frost Old English frost Middle English frost English frost From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze. Pronunciation: /fɹɒst/, /fɹɔst/, /fɹɑst/ 1. To cover with frost. Labels: transitive 2. To become covered with frost. Labels: intransitive Example: “The weather is pleasant while it frosted a little at night.” 3. To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost. Labels: transitive 4. To anger or annoy. Labels: informal, transitive Example: I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit. 5. To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice. Labels: transitive 6. To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched. Labels: transitive
Word: mince pie Part of Speech: noun 1. A pie, traditionally served around Christmas time, having a filling of mincemeat (now usually in the sweet sense) and sometimes also containing alcohol or other ingredients. 2. An eye. Labels: Cockney, in-plural, slang Example: Gorblimey, guvnor, I couldn't believe me mince pies!
Word: vocab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of vocabulary. Pronunciation: [ˈvəʊ.kab], [ˈvoʊ.kæb], [ˈvəʉ.kæb] 1. Vocabulary, especially that acquired while learning a language. Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: Shaggy: Please! This time don't say "Split up!" Fred: Fine! Divide into two groups! Shaggy: Changing the vocab! Should have seen that coming! Scooby: Jerk move, Jones!
Word: jamjar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jam jar. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: On the windowsill glowed the blue Mercator globe, and wild flowers were scattered in jamjars on the sills and all about the room. […] My mother named these flowers for me as we walked, and sometimes we stopped and picked them for the jamjars.
Word: mincemeat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration of earlier minced meat; equivalent to mince + meat. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnsˌmit/ 1. A mixture of fruit, spices and suet used as a filling for mince pies. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And not to rub salt in wounds, when it comes to making mincemeat of the competition, American Joey Chestnut is still top banana. 2. Minced meat, mince. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 3. A badly cut-up body or parts of a body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Slicing up every man, woman, and child into mincemeat. Example: This was another phenomenon for which there was no word: someone had reduced the body of another man to mincemeat. 4. Something or someone utterly destroyed. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Weevil Underwood: My army of insects will make mincemeat out of you! Example: No one was to be spared in this frightful slaughter. The American 34th, 36th Texas, lst Armored, the British, the New Zealanders, the Indians, the Poles and the French, under the brilliant General Juin; all were to be ground to mincemeat by futile attacks against this fortress.
Word: apple pie Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/, [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ], /ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/, [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ] 1. A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair. 2. Anything positive that is quintessentially American. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: […] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of. Example: Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas. 3. Any of various willowherbs. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: apple pie Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/, [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ], /ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/, [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ] 1. Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed. Labels: transitive
Word: jam sandwich Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jam, sandwich. 2. (from the common UK colour scheme of white with a red reflective horizontal band) A police car. Labels: Ireland, UK, slang
Word: rescue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”). Displaced native Old English nerian. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/, /ˈɹɛs.kju/, /ˈrɛs.kju/, /rɪsˈkju/ 1. To save from any violence, danger or evil. Labels: transitive Example: The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche. Example: Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies. 2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. Labels: transitive Example: to rescue a prisoner from the enemy 3. To recover forcibly, especially from a siege. Labels: transitive 4. To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls. 5. To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less. Example: Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund. 6. To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation. Labels: transitive Example: Mecp2^(R255X/+) [mice] developed an overweight body weight phenotype by 10 weeks age and increased liver and heart weight by 8 months age. Abnormal body, liver and heart weight in Mecp2^(R255X/+) was rescued by MECP2ᵀᵍ¹ allele. 7. To salvage and restore something that has been discarded. Labels: transitive Example: I rescued a set of antique dining chairs. Example: She had rescued a sofa once, had managed to locate the dealer who had bought it from under her nose while she perused a junk shop, and offered to buy it from him. 8. To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking. Labels: transitive Example: The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle. Example: To rescue whipped cream that has been overwhipped and appears grainy, add a little more liquid cream and whip it briefly or until very smooth and soft. 9. To adopt (an animal). Labels: transitive Example: We rescued a dog, Dylan, which would begin my lifelong love of animals, especially dogs.
Word: rescue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”). Displaced native Old English nerian. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/, /ˈɹɛs.kju/, /ˈrɛs.kju/, /rɪsˈkju/ 1. An act or episode of rescuing, saving. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues. 2. A liberation, freeing. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders 5. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A rescuee. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.
Word: eucalyptus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁wes- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus? Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-? Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- Proto-Hellenic *ehu- Ancient Greek ἐΰς (eǘs) Ancient Greek εὖ (eû) Ancient Greek εὐ- (eu-) Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek καλυπτός (kaluptós) taxonomic name Eucalyptuslbor. French eucalyptusbor. English eucalyptus Borrowed from French eucalyptus. Pronunciation: /ˌjuː.kəˈlɪp.təs/ 1. Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia. 2. Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae, especially of the genera Corymbia and Angophora formerly classified in the Eucalyptus genus. Labels: broadly Example: I got a few more of these at the blossoms of the Eucalypti, and also the allied species Trichoglossus iris, and a few other small but interesting birds. 3. A greenish colour, like that of eucalyptus leaves.
Word: calx Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk. Pronunciation: /kælks/ 1. The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation). Labels: historical Example: [S]ome ladies apply to what are termed coſmetics under various names, which crowd the newspapers. Of theſe the white has deſtroyed the health of thouſands; a calx, or magiſtery, of biſmuth is ſuppoſed to be ſold in the ſhops for this purpoſe; but it is either, I am informed, in part or entirely white lead or ceruffa. […] The real calx of biſmuth would probably have the ſame ill effect. Example: The regeneration of mercury from its calx, without addition of any other substance, had been a chief example for anti-phlogiston, but that could, as Kirwan showed, be explained in a way consistent with phlogiston theory. 2. In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.
Word: hai Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Intentional misspelling modelled after romaji. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯/ 1. Hi. Labels: Internet, endearing Example: As her famously no-BS longtime PT Don Saladino, who has a next-level celeb roster (oh HAIII, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt!), told WH: ‘It’s about improving your body’s resilience and energy […] making sure we’re optimising everything we do’.
Word: Noh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An irregular romanization of Japanese 能 (nō, literally “[performing] skill, talent”). 1. A kind of classical Japanese musical drama. Labels: uncountable 2. An individual play in this style. Labels: countable, dated, possibly, rare Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Noh.