nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: who Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís. The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h. Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver. Pronunciation: /huː/, [huː], [hʊw], [hʉw], [hʉː] 1. What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question. Labels: interrogative, nominative, plural, singular Example: You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question) Example: I don't know who it is. (indirect question) 2. Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent. Labels: nominative, plural, relative, singular Example: That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining) Example: My sister, who works in the accounts department, just got promoted to manager. (non-defining) 3. Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent. Labels: nominative, plural, relative, singular Example: That's the man who I saw earlier. Example: My brother, who you met the other day, is coming to stay for the weekend. 4. Whoever, he who, they who. Labels: nominative, plural, singular Example: Who insults my mother insults me. Example: Give it to who deserves it. 5. Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams. Labels: informal, nominative, plural, singular Example: Who are the Miami Heat?
Word: who Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís. The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h. Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver. Pronunciation: /huː/, [huː], [hʊw], [hʉw], [hʉː] 1. A person under discussion; a question of which person. Example: A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
Word: who Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís. The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h. Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver. Pronunciation: /huː/, [huː], [hʊw], [hʉw], [hʉː] 1. whose Labels: dialectal, interrogative Example: Who phone just rang?
Word: whose Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”). Pronunciation: /huːz/ 1. Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's. Labels: interrogative Example: Whose (wallet) is this? Example: We should buy a house. ~ With whose money? 2. Of whom, belonging to whom. Labels: relative Example: This is the man whose dog caused the accident. Example: Venus, whose sister is Serena, won the latest championship. 3. Of which, belonging to which. Labels: relative Example: We saw several houses whose roofs were falling off.
Word: whose Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”). Pronunciation: /huːz/ 1. That or those of whom or belonging to whom. Labels: interrogative Example: Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found? Example: He asked whose the umbrella was. 2. That or those of whom or belonging to whom. Labels: relative Example: This car is blocking the way, but Mr Smith, whose it is, will be here shortly. Example: For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Word: whose Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: From Middle English whos, from Old English hwæs, from Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who”) *hwat (“what”). Pronunciation: /huːz/ 1. Misspelling of who's. Labels: alt-of, contraction, misspelling
Word: whom Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English whom, wham, from Old English hwām, hwǣm, from Proto-Germanic *hwammai, dative case of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Scots wham (“whom”), German wem (“whom, to whom”), Danish hvem (“who, whom”), Swedish vem (“who, whom”). Pronunciation: /hʉwm/, /ʔʉwm/, /huːm/, /h(w)uːm/, /h(w)ɔːm/ 1. What person or people; which person or people. Labels: formal, interrogative, often Example: Whom did you ask? Example: “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.” 2. What person or people; which person or people. Labels: formal, interrogative, often Example: To whom are you referring? Example: With whom were you talking? 3. Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people. Labels: formal, often, relative Example: That is the woman whom I spoke to earlier. (defining) Example: Mr Smith, whom we all know well, will be giving the speech. (non-defining) 4. The person(s) whom; whomever. Labels: formal, often Example: To whom it may concern, all business of John Smith Ltd. has now been transferred to Floggitt & Runne. 5. Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams. Labels: formal, informal, often Example: Whom was Lemmy bassist for? Motörhead!
Word: which Part of Speech: det Etymology: From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz. Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”). Pronunciation: /wɪt͡ʃ/, /ʍɪt͡ʃ/ 1. What, of those mentioned or implied. Labels: interrogative Example: Which song shall we play? Example: They couldn't decide which song to play. 2. The/Any ... that; whichever. Example: Take which one you want. Example: You may go which way you please. 3. Designates the one(s) previously mentioned. Labels: relative Example: After glaring upon the smoking philosopher, who took his misfortunes with such positive nonchalance, he growled out an oath in German, which language is particularly adapted for growling in; then, raising his hand, he dealt him a blow on his pipe, which sent it, like a rocket, into the midst of the players. Example: Whitaker’s blog post, housed on a website called Minutes Before Six, goes on to make references to Albert Camus’ 1947 classic, The Plague, dips into a Camus-inspired existential ramble and returns to an attempt to convey the detail of Prieto’s being essentially “noble,” which fact, he admits, will be lost in translation to anyone unfamiliar with death row units.
Word: which Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz. Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”). Pronunciation: /wɪt͡ʃ/, /ʍɪt͡ʃ/ 1. What one or ones (of those mentioned or implied). Labels: interrogative Example: Which is which? Example: By now, you must surely know which is which. 2. The/Any ones that; whichever. Example: Please take which you please. 3. In a non-restrictive relative clause, referring to something previously mentioned. Labels: relative Example: I dropped a saucepan, which knocked over the eggs, which went all over the kitchen floor. Example: I found my camera, which I thought I'd lost, under the bed. 4. In a non-restrictive relative clause, referring to something previously mentioned. Labels: archaic, relative Example: She had a young child, which cried incessantly. 5. In a non-restrictive relative clause, referring to something previously mentioned. Labels: relative Example: The front door was open, which concerned me. Example: He had to leave, which was very difficult. 6. In a restrictive relative clause, referring to a noun previously mentioned. Labels: proscribed, relative, sometimes Example: This is the letter which I received. Example: This is the letter in which he explains his decision. 7. In a restrictive relative clause, referring to a noun previously mentioned. Labels: archaic, proscribed, relative, sometimes Example: The men which acompanyed him on his waye stode amased, for they herde a voyce, butt sawe no man.
Word: which Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English which, hwic, wilche, hwilch, whilk, hwilc, from Old English hwelċ (“which”), from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind”, literally “like what”), derived from *hwaz. Cognates include Scots whilk (“which”), West Frisian hokker (“which”), Dutch welk (“which”), Low German welk (“which”), German welcher (“which”), Danish hvilken (“which”), Swedish vilken (“which”), Norwegian hvilken (“which”), Icelandic hvílíkur (“which”). Pronunciation: /wɪt͡ʃ/, /ʍɪt͡ʃ/ 1. And. Labels: informal, nonstandard Example: We didn’t find any strips of skin. Which, by the way, ughhh! Example: Scientists have discovered the bones of a three-foot-tall, 15-pound parrot that lived some 16 million years ago. The remains had initially been misidentified as those of an “enormous, possibly human-eating eagle,” which … yikes.
Word: slim Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning. The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly." Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”). Pronunciation: /ˈslɪm/, [ˈslɪm] 1. Slender; thin. Example: Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young. 2. Slender; thin. Labels: broadly 3. Slender; thin. 4. Slender; thin. 5. Very small, tiny. Example: I'm afraid your chances are quite slim. Example: Juries who will convict on the slimmest evidence. 6. Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland Example: A slimly-shod lad; Example: a slimly-made cart. 7. Sly, crafty. Labels: South-Africa, obsolete
Word: slim Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning. The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly." Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”). Pronunciation: /ˈslɪm/, [ˈslɪm] 1. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I only smoke slims. 2. A potato farl. Labels: Ireland, countable, regional, uncountable 3. AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. Labels: Africa, East, uncountable Example: As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified. 4. Cocaine. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: slim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning. The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly." Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”). Pronunciation: /ˈslɪm/, [ˈslɪm] 1. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness. Labels: intransitive 2. To make slimmer; to reduce in size. Labels: transitive
Word: slim Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈslɪm/, [ˈslɪm] 1. Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”) Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Crump, having fortified himself with a bobstick of rum slim, moved cautiously among the crowds who bustled along Fleet Street.
Word: British Columbia Part of Speech: name Etymology: A name given by Queen Victoria when it became a British colony in 1858, referring to the Columbia District, a territory drained by the Columbia River. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪt.ɪʃ kəˈlʌm.bi.ə/ 1. A province in western Canada. Capital: Victoria. Largest city: Vancouver. Example: In that year [1871] British Columbia decided to become part of the Dominion of Canada, on condition that a transcontinental railway should be completed without delay.
Word: Alberta Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Albert + -a. The province was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. Pronunciation: /ˌælˈbɜː(ɹ).tə/ 1. A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary. 2. Former name of Rockwood: an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California, United States. 3. A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Albert. Example: Alberta is more like a man's name than any other name that comes from a men's, more than Georgianna which is just like a magnolia blossom or Henrietta which most people change to Etta or Geraldine which nobody ever thinks of coming from a man's Irish name like Gerald. Alberta also sounds sort of Canadian, and everything from Canada is masculine the way everything from Mexico is feminine, even the men. In saying it carelessly or reading it you hardly notice the a in the end. 4. A surname.
Word: Saskatchewan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Cree ᑭᓯᐢᑳᒋᐘᓂ ᓰᐱᕀ (kisiskâciwani-sîpiy, “swift-flowing river”). The province is named after the river, which flows through it. Pronunciation: /səˈskæt͡ʃ.əˌwɑːn/, /səˈskæt͡ʃ.ə.wən/ 1. A prairie province in western Canada. Capital: Regina. 2. A major river in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada.
Word: Manitoba Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ojibwe ᒪᓂᑐᐸᐦ or Cree ᒪᓂᑐᐘᐳᐤ (manitowapow, “spirit strait”), referring to the Narrows of Lake Manitoba. Compare English manitou, Ojibwe manidoo. Pronunciation: /ˌmæn.ɪˈtəʊ.bə/, /ˌmænɪˈtoʊbə/ 1. A province in western Canada. Capital and largest city: Winnipeg.
Word: Ontario Part of Speech: name Etymology: Probably from Wyandot ontari꞉io (literally “great lake”). If so, ultimately from Proto-North Iroquoian *-õtaɹeʔ and Proto-Iroquoian * -õːtaɹiʔ. Pronunciation: /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.əʊ/, /ɑnˈtɛəɹ.i.oʊ/, /ɒnˈtɛə.ɹi.o/, /ɒnˈtæɹ.i.o/ 1. A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Toronto. Example: In some Canadian provinces - namely Ontario, the largest by population - American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday. 2. A large lake in North America, between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York; one of the Great Lakes; Lake Ontario. 3. A village in the Cayo District, Belize. 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: Example: Dan Cummings, the community development director in Ontario, Ore., a city of roughly 11,000 people in the eastern part of the state, had spent some early mornings at his office in the days leading up to that clatter. […] Four years earlier, when Oregonians approved Measure 91 to legalize cannabis cultivation and adult-use statewide during the 2014 general election, residents in Malheur County, where Ontario is located, were on the other side, voting 68.3% against that measure. 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States:
Word: New Brunswick Part of Speech: name Etymology: From new + Brunswick (“Braunschweig”), after the German duchy, the ancestral home of George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820). Pronunciation: /njuː ˈbɹʌnz.wɪk/, /nju ˈbɹʌnz.wɪk/ 1. A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Fredericton. 2. An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States. 3. A city, the county seat of Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
Word: Nova Scotia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scōtia (“Scotland”). Pronunciation: /ˌnoʊ.və ˈskoʊ.ʃə/, /ˌnəʊ.və ˈskəʊ.ʃə/ 1. A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax. 2. A peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia peninsula.
Word: Prince Edward Island Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the son of King George III and father of Queen Victoria. 1. A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Charlottetown. 2. An island in eastern Canada, which forms the majority of the eponymous province. 3. An island administered by South Africa in the subantarctic Indian Ocean, part of the Prince Edward Islands.
Word: Newfoundland Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land. Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)u.fənd.lənd/, /ˌn(j)u.fəndˈlænd/, /ˈn(j)u.fɪn.lənd/, /ˈnjuːˌfaʊnd.lənd/, /ˈnjuː.fənd.lənd/ 1. A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it. 2. Former name of Newfoundland and Labrador. Labels: historical 3. Ellipsis of Newfoundland and Labrador. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal Example: Cecil Stuckless was fixing a Jeep in Salvage, Newfoundland with his son-in-law, who was working under the car. 4. A former North American constituent country of the British Empire; in full, Dominion of Newfoundland. Labels: historical 5. A former North American colony of the British Empire; in full, Colony of Newfoundland. Labels: historical
Word: Newfoundland Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land. Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)u.fənd.lənd/, /ˌn(j)u.fəndˈlænd/, /ˈn(j)u.fɪn.lənd/, /ˈnjuːˌfaʊnd.lənd/, /ˈnjuː.fənd.lənd/ 1. A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition. Example: The younger, a frank, bold, bright-eyed child, was mounted on a large Newfoundland dog, whose impatience the elder brother was trying to soothe.
Word: Yukon Territory Part of Speech: name 1. Synonym of Yukon.
Word: Northwest Territories Part of Speech: name 1. A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Yellowknife. Labels: error-lua-exec Example: Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.
Word: Nunavut Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Inuktitut nunavut (“our land”)/ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (nonafot). Compare Greenlandic nunarput (“our country, Greenland”), Inuvialuktun nunakput (“our land”), and Alutiiq nunapet (“our land”) Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)uːnəˌvuːt/, /ˈnʊnəvʊt/, /ˈnʌnəvət/ 1. A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Iqaluit. Example: All of the houses in Nunavut must be built on stilts because the permafrost makes it impossible to sink foundations.
Word: smell Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *smel-der. Proto-West Germanic *smalljan Old English *smiellan Middle English smellen English smell From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother. Pronunciation: /smɛl/ 1. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I love the smell of fresh bread. Example: The penetrating smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry[…] 2. The sense that detects odours. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.
Word: smell Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *smel-der. Proto-West Germanic *smalljan Old English *smiellan Middle English smellen English smell From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”). The noun is from Middle English smel, smil, smul (“smell, odour”). Related to Saterland Frisian smeele (“to smoulder”), Middle Dutch smōlen (“to burn, smoulder”) (whence Dutch smeulen (“to smoulder”)), Middle Low German smölen (“to be hazy, be dusty”) (whence Low German smölen (“smoulder”)), Low German smullen (“emit smoke”), West Flemish smoel (“stuffy, muggy, hazy”), Danish smul (“dust, powder”), Lithuanian smilkyti (“to incense, fumigate”), Lithuanian smilkti (“to smudge, smolder, fume, reek”), Lithuanian smalkinti (“to fume”), Middle Irish smál, smól, smúal (“fire, gleed, embers, ashes”), Russian смола́ (smolá, “resin, tar”). Compare smoulder, smother. Pronunciation: /smɛl/ 1. To sense a smell or smells. Labels: transitive Example: I can smell fresh bread. Example: Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off. 2. To sense a smell or smells. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: I smell a device. 3. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: The roses smell lovely. Example: Her feet smell of cheese. 4. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. Labels: broadly, copulative, intransitive Example: I do smell all horse-piss 5. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: Ew, this restroom smells (loathsomely). 6. Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. Labels: copulative, figuratively, intransitive Example: A report smells of calumny. Example: Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft. 7. To give heed to. Labels: obsolete Example: So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.
Word: pants Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn) Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der. Italian Pantalonebor. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pants Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /pænts/ 1. An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. Labels: Australia, Canada, India, New-Zealand, Northern-England, Philippines, Singapore, South-Africa, US, plural, plural-only Example: “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.” Example: It's in the evening after dark when the blackleg miner creeps to work. With his moleskin pants and his dirty shirt, there goes the blackleg miner. 2. An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only Example: I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière. Example: Big girls get candy for dry pants. 3. Rubbish; something worthless. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only, slang Example: You're talking pants! Example: The film was a load [or pile] of pants.
Word: pants Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn) Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der. Italian Pantalonebor. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pants Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /pænts/ 1. Of inferior quality, rubbish. Labels: UK, slang Example: Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine? Example: 'Is that what you're going to do when you graduate?' he asked. 'Be a photographer?' 'I wish, but I'm pants at the technical stuff. ...'
Word: pants Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-énts Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts? Proto-Hellenic *pánts Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs) Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn) Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn) Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der. Italian Pantalonebor. French pantalonbor. English pantaloon English pantaloons English pants Shortened from pantaloons (“trousers”): borrowed from French pantalon, itself derived from Italian Pantalone, one of the principal characters found in commedia dell'arte, who wore tight trousers. Doublet of pantsu. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /pænts/ 1. To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants. Example: Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable. Example: [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
Word: pants Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pænts/ 1. plural of pant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pants Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pænts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pant Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: translate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”). Pronunciation: /tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/, /tɹænz-/, /tɹɑːns-/, /tɹæns-/, /tɹænzˈleɪt/ 1. In Euclidean spaces: a set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point of a given set. Example: [F]ractions with a defining relation are nothing but linear orthogonal arrays or their translates. Example: If L is a vector space, a linear manifold (or affine subspace) in L is a subset which is a translate of a subspace M#92;subsetL, that is, a set F of the form x#95;0#43;M for some x#95;0#92;inL. [...] The dimension of a linear manifold is the dimension of the subspace of which it is a translate.
Word: re Part of Speech: prep Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”). Pronunciation: /ɹiː/, /ɹeɪ/ 1. About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law. Example: Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254 Example: "I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."
Word: re Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪ/ 1. A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale. Labels: uncountable
Word: re Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the prefix re-. Pronunciation: /ɹiː/ 1. Clipping of rematch. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang Example: gg, no re' 2. Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 3. Clipping of age regressor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Word: vis comica Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originating from an inaccurate interpretation of verses attributed to Julius Caesar: “Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adiuncta foret vis, Comica ut aequato virtus polleret honore Cum Graecis …”. An erroneous interpunction lead to mistaking cōmica as tied to vīs rather than to virtūs. 1. Comic force. Labels: uncountable Example: Also Steiner tells of someone who claimed that the comic elements comes about when someone has the vis comica, or "power of being comical." Again - the dormitive principle at work.
Word: mea culpa Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity. Pronunciation: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʊl.pə/, /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʌl.pə/, /ˌmiː.əˈkʊl.pə/, /ˌmiː.əˈkʌl.pə/ 1. My fault, due to my error; I am to blame.
Word: mea culpa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity. Pronunciation: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʊl.pə/, /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʌl.pə/, /ˌmiː.əˈkʊl.pə/, /ˌmiː.əˈkʌl.pə/ 1. An instance of mea culpa; an apology. Example: For Example, when St. Anthony ſaid his Confiteor, which he did often enough, all the Spectators fell down on their Knees, and gave themſelves ſuch rude Mea Culpa’s as was enough to beat the breath out of their Bodies. Example: Basketball had been replaced by breathless commentators cross-talking and speculating, politicians on split screens eagerly interrupting each other to find scapegoats, and most mute (male) state officials, including Hawaii Gov. David Ige, opening their mouths to sputter (paraphrasing here) — golly gee, we don’t know what happened, but we plan to find out — mea culpas.
Word: mea culpa Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the Latin phrase meā culpā (“through my fault”), ablative case of mea culpa (“my fault, guilt”), taken from the Confiteor, a traditional penitential prayer in Western Christianity. Pronunciation: /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʊl.pə/, /ˌmeɪ.əˈkʌl.pə/, /ˌmiː.əˈkʊl.pə/, /ˌmiː.əˈkʌl.pə/ 1. To apologize for something, especially excessively. Labels: ambitransitive Example: When it was over and he grew tired of not being invited to the good parties on the Vineyard, he mea culpa’ed his way back into the good graces of the liberals who’d abandoned old LBJ years earlier.
Word: de lunatico inquirendo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dē lūnāticō inquīrendō. 1. A legal document inquiring about the sanity of an individual. Example: But, unless the fact is withheld by the reporters out of delicacy, the ladies who have lectured on Bloomerism are not mad—not, at least, in the de lunatico inquirendo sense of the term.
Word: credendum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin credendum. Pronunciation: /kɹɪˈdɛndəm/ 1. Something to be believed; an article of faith. Example: the great articles and credenda of Christianity
Word: benzoline Part of Speech: noun 1. A benzole. Labels: dated 2. amarine Labels: dated
Word: fella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fellow. Pronunciation: /fɛ.lə/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of fellow. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Am I right, fellas? Example: By the third go-around, the essence of what I wrote was, "And the same to you, fella!" I am glad that our relationship has survived that exchange. 2. Used as a general intensifier; a pfella. Example: This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia. Us people want our land back, we want 'em rights, we want 'em fair deal, all same longa white man. Now this fella longa Canberra, he bin talkin' about a Bran Nue Dae—us people bin waiting for dijwun for 200 years now. 3. An Internet troll engaged in information warfare against Russia, especially with regard to the Russo-Ukrainian war. Labels: Internet
Word: fellah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlə/ 1. A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa. Example: The Egyptian fellaheen, in many of their ways and customs, reproduce almost exactly their ancient prototypes. They use the same ploughs and the same shadoofs for raising water. Example: Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fellaḥ in the neighbourhood of Cairo had become Mohammedan, the Mohammedan Arab had become a townsman with a townsman’s sense of superiority over the country bumpkin.
Word: fellah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛlə/ 1. Alternative spelling of fella. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fellahin Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fellah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grafter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From graft + -er. 1. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting. 2. An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. 3. The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. 4. Someone who works in market stalls. Labels: slang 5. a hard worker who puts in long hours Labels: UK, colloquial
Word: grafter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English graft Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English grafter From graft + -er. 1. A corrupt person, one who receives graft. Example: If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would be unpopular. His popularity is proof that the people, as a whole, are honest. Example: It is rather confused rhetoric to call a grafter a thief. His crime is not that he filches money from the safe but that he betrays a trust.
Word: loco Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian. Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ 1. A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower. Labels: not-comparable
Word: loco Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”). Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ 1. Crazy. Labels: colloquial Example: It's Cottontail Smith, and he's gone plumb loco! Example: Going loco down in Acapulco / If you stay too long / Yes, you'll be going loco down in Acapulco / The magic down there is so strong 2. Intoxicated by eating locoweed. Labels: Southwestern, US
Word: loco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”). Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ 1. A certain species of Astragalus or Oxytropis, capable of causing locoism. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: loco Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Spanish loco (“insane, crazy; loose”). Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ 1. To poison with the loco plant; to affect with locoism. Labels: transitive 2. To render insane. Labels: broadly, colloquial, transitive Example: They say that he is locoed. The insane asylums of California contain many shepherds.
Word: loco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clipping of locomotive and locofoco, both from Latin locus (“place, cause”). Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kəʊ/ 1. Short for locomotive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal Example: A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. Example: Small boys in 1963 could have traction engines with real steam coming out of the funnel, and Old Western locos had flashing lights, hooters and cow-pushers. 2. Short for locofoco, in its various senses. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, informal Example: Like his fellow Young American locos, Thomas Dorr was an early and vigorous advocate of global republicanism and William Leggett’s locofocoism, though this point is little-known and less emphasized in histories of the Dorr Rebellion.
Word: handicraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; Old English handcræft. By surface analysis, handy + -craft. Pronunciation: /ˈhændɪkɹæft/, /ˈhændɪkɹɑːft/ 1. A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I regard the Grand Seignior , who is obliged , by an express command in the Alcoran , to learn and practise some handicraft trade 2. An artifact produced by handicraft. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman. Labels: countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: his men were all baſe handie craftes, as coblers, and curriers, and tinkers, whereof ſome had barres of yron[…] Example: the Handicrafts-Shops begin to open
Word: polydactylism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From polydactyl + -ism; compare French polydactylisme. 1. The possession of more than the normal number of digits. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Devendra Harne, pictured above, (India; born January 9, 1995) also has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes) as a result of the condition polydactylism.
Word: polydactyly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos) + -y, from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “digits”), equivalent to poly- + dactyly or polydactyl + -y.^((Etymology 3)) Pronunciation: /ˌpɒl.ɪˈdak.tɪl.i/, /ˌpɑl.iˈdæk.təl.i/ 1. A congenital condition in which a person or animal has more than the usual number of digits (fingers or toes) on at least one of the hands or feet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 2003, Karl-Heinz Grzeschik, 66: Greig Cephalopolysyndactyly Syndrome, Mary Ann McLaughlin (supervising editor), NORD Guide to Rare Disorders, National Organization for Rare Disorders, Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins), page 201, Postaxial polydactyly is common in the hands and preaxial polydactyly in the feet. Example: Pranamya Menaria (India; born August 10, 2005) has 25 in total (12 fingers and 13 toes). This is as a result of the condition Polydactyly and Syndactyly.
Word: pyrargyrite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ἄργῠρος (árgŭros, “silver”). By surface analysis, pyr- + argyr- + -ite. 1. A sulfosalt mineral used as a silver ore; it is dark red or black in color with a metallic adamantine luster, a sulfide of antimony and silver, Ag₃SbS₃, and occurs in rhombohedral crystals. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: unvisard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English visard English unvisard From un- + visard. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/ 1. To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask. Labels: obsolete Example: Wee know where the ſhoo wrings you, you fret, and are gall’d at the quick, and O what a death it is to the Prelates to be thus un-viſarded, thus unca’sd,^([sic]) to have the Periwigs pluk’t off that cover your baldneſſe, your inſide nakedneſſe thrown open to publick view.
Word: unvizard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English vizard English unvizard From un- + vizard. 1. Alternative spelling of unvisard. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hammerhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hammer + head. 1. The portion of a hammer containing the metal striking face (also including the claw or peen if so equipped). Example: Holonym: hammer Example: Meronym: hammer face 2. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer: 3. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer: 4. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer: 5. Any organism with head shaped like that of a hammer: 6. A stupid person, a dunce. Labels: slang Example: [The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me some name which she had forgotten to insert in previous communications. Or, of course, possibly expressing once more her conviction that I was a guffin, which, I thought, having had time to ponder over it, would be something in the nature of a bohunkus or a hammerhead. 7. A turn-around; a parking area constructed in a subdivision for initial access and construction. 8. A kind of ribozyme; hammerhead ribozyme.