nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: distress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiō, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringō (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringō (“to draw tight, strain”). The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringō. Pronunciation: /dɪˈstɹɛs/ 1. To cause strain or anxiety to someone. Example: She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair. 2. To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. Example: This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm. 3. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. Example: a pair of distressed jeans Example: She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.
Word: ECB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of European Central Bank. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: With more than €300bn of new bonds to be issued next year, Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, and his colleagues had reason to be grateful to the ECB. Example: The latest projections were issued after a policy meeting at ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, where the bank's governing council voted to hold interest rates steady at 1%, as expected. 2. Initialism of England and Wales Cricket Board (“the governing body for the sport of cricket in England and Wales”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: ECB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of event control block (IBM). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bill of quantities Part of Speech: noun 1. A list, prepared by a quantity surveyor, of the quantities of materials needed for a project.
Word: mail relay Part of Speech: noun 1. A device or program that routes an e-mail to the correct destination. Labels: Internet
Word: loath Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lōth (“loath; averse, hateful”), from Old English lāð, lāþ (“evil; loathsome”), or Old Norse leið, leiðr (“uncomfortable; tired”) from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“loath; hostile; sad, sorry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyt- (“to do something abhorrent or hateful”). The word is cognate with Danish led (“disgusting, loathsome; nasty”), Dutch leed (“sad; (Belgium) angry”), French laid (“ugly; morally corrupt”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Icelandic leiður (“annoyed, vexed; sad; (archaic or poetic) annoying, wearisome”), Italian laido (“filthy, foul; obscene”), Old Frisian leed, Old High German leid (Middle High German leit, modern German leid (“uncomfortable”), Leid (“grief, sorrow, woe; affliction, suffering; harm, injury; wrong”)), Old Saxon lêð, lēth (“evil person or thing”), Swedish led (“bored; tired; (archaic) disgusting, loathsome; evil”). Pronunciation: /ləʊθ/, /loʊθ/ 1. Averse, disinclined; reluctant, unwilling. Always followed by a verbal phrase. Example: I was loath to return to the office without the Henderson file. Example: Then ſaid Faint-heart, Deliver thy Purſe; but he making no haſte to do it (for he was loth to loſe his Money,) Miſtrust ran up to him, and thruſting his hand into his Pocket, pull'd out thence a bag of Silver. 2. Angry, hostile. Labels: obsolete 3. Loathsome, unpleasant. Labels: obsolete
Word: loath Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ləʊθ/, /loʊθ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of loathe. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […] Example: […] O Hypocrites! ye hope for Enjoyment of Chriſt, but be perſwaded of it, Chriſt ſhall eternally loath you, and ye ſhall eternally loath Chriſt: […]
Word: readily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English redily, rediliche. By surface analysis, read(i) + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdɪli/ 1. Without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness. Example: The suspect readily answered all questions the police officers asked him. 2. Without impediment, easily. Example: readily available; readily achievable Example: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
Word: pervade Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō. Pronunciation: /pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/, /pəˈveɪd/, /pɚˈveɪd/ 1. To be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate. Labels: transitive Example: Cruel wars pervade history. Example: "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
Word: caress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French caresse, from Italian carezza (“dear”), from Latin cārus (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-, akin to Sanskrit काम (kāma, “love”). Doublet of karezza. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛs/ 1. An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. Example: He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Example: And he wooed her with his soft caresses, / Wooed her with his smile of sunshine, […] 2. A gentle stroking or rubbing.
Word: caress Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French caresse, from Italian carezza (“dear”), from Latin cārus (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-, akin to Sanskrit काम (kāma, “love”). Doublet of karezza. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛs/ 1. To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle. Labels: transitive Example: She loves being caressed by her boyfriend. Example: The Guacho then goes up to him, caresses him, removes the poncho from his eyes, continues to caress him; so that, according to the notion of the country, the horse becomes [...] 2. To affect as if with a caress. Labels: transitive Example: The love and anguish in his voice caressed my mind and soul.
Word: ESCB Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of European System of Central Banks. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: fondle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English fond Proto-Germanic *-lōną Old English -lian Middle English -len English -le English fondle From fond (“love, admire”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒndəl/ 1. To touch or stroke lovingly. Labels: transitive Example: Mothers fondle their babies. Example: idly fondling the cat's ears 2. To grasp. Labels: transitive Example: The lovers fondled each other.
Word: fondle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fond Proto-Germanic *-lōną Old English -lian Middle English -len English -le English fondle From fond (“love, admire”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈfɒndəl/ 1. A caress. Example: I gave the sleeping dog's ears a fondle as I walked past.
Word: titillate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin tītillātus, from tītillāre (“to tickle”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɪtɪleɪt/ 1. To stimulate or excite sensually. Example: The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.
Word: laundry list Part of Speech: noun 1. Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered. Labels: archaic Example: Learn how to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home. 2. A long and often tedious list of items. Labels: broadly, idiomatic Example: Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline. Example: The senior Liberal Democrat, echoing the private views of other senior figures across parties, said a daily "laundry list" sent out by the party headquarters contributes to the "diminution of individual expression or even thought in politics" as politicians are expected to repeat a positive central message over and over again. 3. An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff. Labels: colloquial 4. An equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé. Labels: broadly, colloquial
Word: pertinent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pertinent, borrowed from Old French pertinent and Latin pertinēns, pertinentem. Pronunciation: /ˈpəːtɪnənt/, /ˈpɚtɪnənt/ 1. A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.
Word: pertinent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pertinent, borrowed from Old French pertinent and Latin pertinēns, pertinentem. Pronunciation: /ˈpəːtɪnənt/, /ˈpɚtɪnənt/ 1. Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant. Example: Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.
Word: insinuate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1529; Borrowed from Latin īnsinuātus, perfect passive participle of īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪnjueɪt/ 1. To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement. Example: She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her. Example: And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow? 2. To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices. Labels: rare Example: 1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks Example: Some speakers allow the sound of r to insinuate itself between the a and s of wash 3. To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Example: Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
Word: insinuate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1529; Borrowed from Latin īnsinuātus, perfect passive participle of īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsɪnjueɪt/ 1. Insinuated. Labels: obsolete Example: The great mistery of Christes passyon […] lyttle and lyttle at sundry seasons to bee sygnifyed and insinuate conueniently to man.
Word: rifled slug Part of Speech: noun 1. A shotgun cartridge having only a single projectile, with oblique grooves on the projectile causing it to spin and thus increasing accuracy.
Word: demure Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English demure, demwre, an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman de mure port (“with a mature demeanor”) (compare Old French meur from Latin mātūrus): *si il seyt coy e de mure port (Amur curteiz) (“he sits quietly and with a mature appearance”) * Documents illustrating the history of Scotland, CLV, 1306, Orders for the custody of Scottish prisoners, CLV: …et que eles soient de bon et meur port (“…with a good and mature demeanor”) * mss. Arundel, 220: ke cely qe vus amerez soyt de gentil manere, coy, de meure porture (“with a mature demeanor”) * (Monastic rule): de aunciene dame de meure porture ke pusse les plus ieuenes rieueler e endoctriner (“an old lady with a mature demeanor able to rule and educate the young girls”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/, /dəˈmjɔː(ɹ)/, /dɪˈmjɵː(ɹ)/, /dɪˈmjʊɹ/, /dɪˈmjɔɹ/ 1. Modest, quiet, reserved, or serious. Example: She is a demure young lady. Example: Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. 2. Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity. Example: Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.
Word: demure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English demure, demwre, an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman de mure port (“with a mature demeanor”) (compare Old French meur from Latin mātūrus): *si il seyt coy e de mure port (Amur curteiz) (“he sits quietly and with a mature appearance”) * Documents illustrating the history of Scotland, CLV, 1306, Orders for the custody of Scottish prisoners, CLV: …et que eles soient de bon et meur port (“…with a good and mature demeanor”) * mss. Arundel, 220: ke cely qe vus amerez soyt de gentil manere, coy, de meure porture (“with a mature demeanor”) * (Monastic rule): de aunciene dame de meure porture ke pusse les plus ieuenes rieueler e endoctriner (“an old lady with a mature demeanor able to rule and educate the young girls”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/, /dəˈmjɔː(ɹ)/, /dɪˈmjɵː(ɹ)/, /dɪˈmjʊɹ/, /dɪˈmjɔɹ/ 1. To look demurely. Labels: obsolete Example: Your Wife Octavia, with her modeſt eyes, / […] ſhall acquire no Honour / Demuring vpon me:
Word: encompass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English encompassen. By surface analysis, en- + compass. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/, /ən-/, /-ˈkɑmpəs/, /ɛn-/, /ɪnˈkɐmpəs/ 1. To form a circle around; to encircle. Labels: transitive 2. To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain. Labels: transitive Example: his piercing inſtruments of ſight: Whose fiery circles beare encompaſſed A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares: Example: Those trajectories encompassed absolute social extremes: the kings of France making their solemn entries into Paris through the Ludovician Arch of the Porte [...] 3. To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively. Labels: transitive Example: This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs. 4. To go around, especially, to circumnavigate. Labels: transitive Example: Drake encompassed the globe.
Word: incite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsaɪt/, /ɪnsajʈ/ 1. To call into action. Labels: transitive Example: The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime. Example: incite people to violence 2. To entreat an act. Labels: transitive 3. To instigate a specific incident. Labels: transitive
Word: lantern Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-container”). Pronunciation: /ˈlæntən/, /ˈlæ̝ntɚn/, /ˈleə̯ntɚn/, /ˈlɛə̯ntɚn/ 1. A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings. 2. Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight). 3. An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. Example: On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting here—as here he is—with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog. Example: The station also boasts a large semi-domed French pavilion roof with fish-scale tiles and iron cresting, plus a rectangular hall with arcaded upper storey and wooden lantern. 4. A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns. 5. A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light. Example: the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral 6. A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. 7. A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass. 8. A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night. 9. A perforated barrel to form a core upon. 10. Aristotle's lantern
Word: lantern Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-container”). Pronunciation: /ˈlæntən/, /ˈlæ̝ntɚn/, /ˈleə̯ntɚn/, /ˈlɛə̯ntɚn/ 1. To furnish with a lantern. Labels: transitive Example: to lantern a lighthouse
Word: lantern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lanterne (13th century), via Old French lanterne from Latin lanterna (“lantern”), itself a corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”) (see lamp, λάμπω (lámpō)) by influence of Latin lucerna (“lamp”). The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare French lanterner to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-container”). Pronunciation: /ˈlæntən/, /ˈlæ̝ntɚn/, /ˈleə̯ntɚn/, /ˈlɛə̯ntɚn/ 1. Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern. Labels: not-comparable Example: A youngish looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.
Word: minge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Angloromani mintš, from Romani minʒ (“female genitals”), probably from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior; the middle part of the body; loins, reins; waist; belly, abdomen; back”). Doublet of medius. Other possible etymology: from the Latin mingere (“to urinate”), synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically). Pronunciation: /mɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. The pubic hair and vulva. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar Example: Last week, she ended up on a binge / She got off her tits and showed the bouncers her minge Example: Big Bird / Sesame / Big minge energy
Word: minge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably corrupted from midge. Pronunciation: /mɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. Synonym of midge (“small biting fly”). Labels: US, archaic, dialectal Example: If troubled by black flies, mosquitoes, minges, or other insects, build a smudge in this way[…] Example: The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks. She waved at them but didn't slap. Slap at mosquitoes, but it's better just to wave at the little ones, her Mom had told her ...
Word: minge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix; mingle”). More at ming. Pronunciation: /mɪnd͡ʒ/ 1. Synonym of ming (“to mix”). Labels: obsolete
Word: TVE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Township and Village Enterprises (鄉鎮企業 /乡镇企业). Labels: China, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: -all Part of Speech: suffix 1. Obsolete spelling of -al. Labels: alt-of, morpheme, obsolete Example: line + -all → lineall Example: base + -all → basall
Word: McGuffin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of MacGuffin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Aldebaran Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic اَلدَّبَرَان (ad-dabarān, “the follower”), named so because it follows the Pleiades. Pronunciation: /alˈdɛbəɹən/ 1. One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. Example: The kingly brilliancy of Sirius pierced the eye with a steely glitter, the star called Capella was yellow, Aldebaran and Betelgueux shone with a fiery red. Example: The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.
Word: spoof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense. Pronunciation: /spuːf/ 1. An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. Labels: countable Example: “Rahther, I say. But you understand, of course, that I’m giving him a bit of spoof.” / “A bit of what?” / “Spoof—spoof. Is it possible that you have been here since Saturday without learning what ‘spoof’ means? It means to chaff, to joke. In the States the slang equivalent would be ‘to string’ someone.” / “How did you learn it?” / “A cabby told me about it. I started to have some fun with him, and he told me to ‘give over on the spoof.’[…]” 2. An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Don't click anything on that website! That whole site is a spoof! Call IT right now. 3. A light parody. Labels: countable Example: On Broadway, where it opened in 1949, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a spoof of the madcap Twenties which gave Carol Channing her first starring role; on the screen, it was an up-to-date spoof of sex which gave Marilyn Monroe her first starring role in a musical. Example: The final piece of the country puzzle is found at the corner of Brisbane Street and Kable Avenue, where the Hands of Fame cornerstone bears the palm-prints of more country greats. A glorious spoof, the Noses of Fame memorial, can be savoured over a beer at the Tattersalls Hotel on Peel Street. 4. A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. Labels: UK, countable, historical Example: The British journalist and author Richard Boston supplies an illustrative example of a drinking game once commonly played in British public houses but which has since faded from use: The game Spoof involves three or more players concealing between zero and three coins or similar small objects in a clenched fist that they hold in front of their body or place on the bar counter or table. Players are then prompted to correctly guess the total number of coins held by all players. As the game progresses, correct guesses allow players to drop out until the final round, in which the "loser," determined by making an incorrect guess, is punished by being required to buy the next round of drinks. 5. Nonsense. Labels: uncountable Example: I think you used the expression that you came out because people at home were not aware whether it was "spoof" or whether it really could be carried into effect?—A large number of people at home thought it was "spoof."
Word: spoof Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense. Pronunciation: /spuːf/ 1. Fake, hoax. Labels: not-comparable Example: His most recent art project, 'Consuming Desire', explored men's relationship with pornography, using invisible art strategies (a spoof sex shop and a spoof porn CD-ROM), media interventions (TV/radio and press exposure), and therapeutic work with men addicted to pornography. Example: Despite appearances, Hajime Furukawa's wacky I Don't Like Friday was never aimed at children, but ran as a spoof sex-education English course in Business Jump.
Word: spoof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense. Pronunciation: /spuːf/ 1. To gently satirize. Labels: transitive Example: Her [Jean Harlow's] best film is generally considered to be Bombshell (1933), in which she spoofed her own career as a Hollywood sex goddess. Example: [T]he ensemble [of From A to Z] included […] Elliott Reid spoofing television coverage of a political convention, Kelly Brown trying out another of those nostalgic soft-shoe numbers, and so on. The first-act finale observed a venerable revue tradition by spoofing a current hit show; From A to Z chose The Sound of Music. 2. To deceive. Labels: transitive Example: Bandy is a few miles from Duffersville—how many I won't say, because when, on local information, I told Ebsworth three and he walked it, he declared he had been deliberately spoofed, and went about vowing reprisals. Example: Amidst surroundings thus happily suggesting the idyllic and pastoral associations of Arcady, is an unpretending booth, the placards on which announce it to be the temporary resting-place of the "Far-famed Adepts of Thibet," who are there for a much-needed change, after a "3500 years' residence in the Desert of Gobi." There is also a solemn warning that "it is impossible to spoof a Mahatma." 3. To falsify; especially, to falsify identities by impersonating for scamming purposes. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The fraudsters convincingly spoofed a Microsoft webpage and then invited their victims to click various links found there. Example: However, MULTOPS assumes that packet rates between two hosts are proportional and the IP addresses are not spoofed.
Word: spoof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff. Pronunciation: /spʊf/ 1. Semen. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable Example: ‘Holy-Jesus-fuckin’-Christ! I’m comin’! I’m shootin’ me bolt! I’m gonna fill ya twat with spoof!’
Word: spoof Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff. Pronunciation: /spʊf/ 1. To ejaculate, to come. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: [T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.
Word: sear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h₂sews-). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian saũsas (“dry”), Ukrainian сухий (suxyj, “dry”), Polish suchy (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek αὖος (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare. Pronunciation: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/, /sɪː(ɹ)/, /sɪɹ/, /siə̯(ɹ)/ 1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation. Example: There are in all but three vvayes of going thither [to the moon]. […] [The] third, Old Empedocles vvay; vvho vvhen he leaped into Ætna, having a drie ſeare bodie, and light, the ſmoake took him and vvhift him up into the Moone, vvhere he lives yet vvaving up and dovvne like a feather, all foot and embers comming out of that cole-pit; our Poet met him, and talkt vvith him. Example: The autumn winds rushing / Waft the leaves that are searest, / But our flower was in flushing, / When blighting was nearest.
Word: sear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”). Pronunciation: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/, /sɪː(ɹ)/, /sɪɹ/, /siə̯(ɹ)/ 1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. Labels: transitive Example: He likes to sear his steaks while maintaining rareness at the center. Example: I will sear the skin from your flesh. You will die a thousand deaths! 2. To wither; to dry up. Example: The drought was so severe as to sear the grass and the leaves of maple trees which had grown well for two years, standing in sward land by the roadside, and yet the corn, within ten feet, on the subsoiled land, did not roll once in the whole season, even at mid-day, and there was scarcely another piece in the neighborhood which escaped serious injury. Example: The spring and summer of 1936 brought to the Great Plains one of those terrible periodic droughts that sear the crops and convert the “short-grass country” into a desert. 3. To make callous or insensible. Labels: figuratively, transitive 4. To mark permanently, as if by burning. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: The events of that day were seared into her memory.
Word: sear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English sēarian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀēn (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijaną (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German sōrēn (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”). Pronunciation: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/, /sɪː(ɹ)/, /sɪɹ/, /siə̯(ɹ)/ 1. A scar produced by searing
Word: sear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Old French serre (“claw, talon, grasp”) Pronunciation: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/, /sɪː(ɹ)/, /sɪɹ/, /siə̯(ɹ)/ 1. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.
Word: kiss-up Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from kiss up. 1. One who flatters a supervisor, or superior, in order to get special attention Labels: colloquial Example: Joe got that promotion because he was a kiss-up, not because he knew the job.
Word: finching Part of Speech: noun 1. A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings Labels: uncountable Example: Its characteristic finching—the white streak that runs along the spine from neck to tail—that is so noticeable in cave paintings at Lascaux, is also still to be found occasionally, notably in the last surviving handful of Gloucestershire cattle on some farms on[...]. Example: The white face and finching which are the visual hallmarks of the modern Hereford were becoming established by the end of the eighteenth[...]. 2. The sport of hunting of finches Labels: uncountable Example: The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite. 3. the sport of competitive finch display Labels: uncountable
Word: fat-ass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fat + -ass. Pronunciation: /ˈfætæs/, [ˈfæɾæs] 1. A rotund, overweight, or obese person. Labels: derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: He is such a fat-ass he can barely put his feet together. 2. A jibe used on someone disliked, frequently someone regarded as lazy. Labels: derogatory, vulgar Example: My boss is a fat-ass who doesn't know his job as well as I do. Example: Yes, your whole department is full of fat-asses.
Word: pleb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs. Pronunciation: /plɛb/ 1. A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society. 2. A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person. Labels: derogatory Example: You're under my roof, you pleb. 3. A freshman cadet at a military academy. Labels: US, derogatory, slang, usually Example: I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline. Example: At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.
Word: pleb Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs. Pronunciation: /plɛb/ 1. Of or concerning the lower class of a society. Labels: not-comparable 2. Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse. Labels: derogatory, not-comparable
Word: Jacky Howe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the gun shearer John Robert (“Jacky” or “Jackie”) Howe, who in 1890 set a long-standing world record by shearing 321 sheep in 7 hours 40 minutes. He is said to have worn a shirt with the sleeves cut off. 1. A type of blue sleeveless shirt worn by sheep shearers and labourers. Labels: Australia Example: Still, no one has ever thought before of associating a papaw with a “Jacky Howe,” or, say, fruit salad with a flannel shirt. Example: 1949, Ruth Park, Poor Man's Orange, in 2010, The Harp in the South Trilogy, Penguin, unnumbered page, He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.
Word: transpose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”). Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/, /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/, /tɹænsˈpoʊz/ 1. To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange. Labels: transitive 2. To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key. Labels: transitive 3. To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. Labels: transitive 4. To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. Labels: transitive 5. To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph). Labels: transitive 6. To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures. Labels: transitive 7. To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order. Labels: intransitive Example: After e6, the opening transposed to a Sicilian.
Word: transpose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”). Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/, /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/, /tɹænsˈpoʊz/ 1. Created by transposing a specified matrix. Labels: not-comparable 2. Created by transposing a specified graph. Labels: not-comparable
Word: transpose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”). Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈpəʊz/, /tɹɑːnsˈpəʊz/, /tɹænsˈpoʊz/ 1. The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix. 2. A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
Word: transpose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹænzpoʊz/, /ˈtɹɑːnspəʊz/ 1. The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
Word: juxtapose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French juxtaposer, corresponding to juxta- + pose, derived from Latin iuxtā (“near, next to”) + pōnō (“place”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəʊz/, /ˈd͡ʒʌk.stəˌpoʊz/ 1. To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison. Labels: transitive Example: The artist used contrasting colors to juxtapose light and dark. Example: The documentary effectively juxtaposes the lives of two rival politicians.
Word: elated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin elatus (“raised”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈleɪtɪd/ 1. Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric. Example: She was elated with her new car.
Word: elated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Latin elatus (“raised”). Pronunciation: /ɪˈleɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of elate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: torment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mɛnt/, /ˈtɔː(ɹ)mənt/ 1. A catapult or other kind of war-engine. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I've gone through living torment. 3. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce. Example: They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
Word: torment Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”). Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)ˈmɛnt/ 1. To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.) Labels: transitive Example: The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off. Example: Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
Word: tormentor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tourmentour, from Old French tormenteor. Pronunciation: /tɔːˈmɛn.tə(ɹ)/, /tɔɹˈmɛn.tɚ/, /toːˈmen.tə(ɹ)/ 1. One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering. Example: Before that estimable lady could recover herself, or offer the slightest retaliation, she was forced into a kneeling posture by a crowd of shouting tormentors, and compelled to swallow a spoonful of the odious mixture […] Example: A girl of the village […] came and rang at my bell as soon as it was light […] perfectly maddened with an aching tooth. […] The poor thing begged me with tears in her eyes to take out her tormentor, if I dragged her head off. 2. One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering. Labels: archaic Example: And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. Example: All the racks and dungeons of Rome, with their tormentors, could not terrify him. 3. Something abstract that causes suffering. Labels: figuratively Example: These words hereafter thy tormentors be! Example: Thoughts my Tormenters arm’d with deadly stings Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts, 4. One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width. Example: Then Nathan Eldred, gently pushing, was muttering, ‘On you go, dear. Good luck!’ and she was edging between the tormentor and the backing flats, in front of the curtain, holding her small hands out to the sudden-silenced audience […] 5. An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. 6. A long meat-fork. Labels: obsolete Example: 1813, Charles Stewart, enclosure in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated 18 October, 1813, in William S. Dudley (editor), The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Washington D.C.: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 1992, Volume 2, p. 392, Cabin furniture received onboard the U.S.F. Constellation at Washington […] 1 Cleaver and tormentors/Cook; [footnote:] A tormentor is a long iron meat fork used by sea cooks.
Word: brio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian brio (“finesse, talent”), from Spanish brío, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brīgos. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiːoʊ/ 1. Vigour or vivacity. Labels: uncountable Example: He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio. Example: And as if to undermine their authority still further, Welsh Philpott in his innocence has made the error of placing Rick beside the pulpit in the very spot from which in the past he has read us the day's lesson with such brio and persuasion.
Word: vivacity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vīvācitās (whence -acity). Pronunciation: /vɪˈvæsɪti/ 1. The quality or state of being vivacious. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business. Example: 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination, We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea.
Word: vex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin vexōbor. Old French vexerbor. Middle English vexen English vex From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman. Pronunciation: /vɛks/ 1. To annoy, irritate. Labels: transitive Example: Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades. Example: The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy. 2. To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. Labels: transitive Example: I will not again vex her ear with words of love, however true, however deep: ours is an evil destiny, and we may not control it! Example: I vex my heart with fancies dim: ⁠He still outstript me in the race; ⁠It was but unity of place That made me dream I rank’d with him. 3. To trouble aggressively, to harass. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them. 4. To twist, to weave. Labels: rare, transitive Example: some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom 5. To be irritated; to fret. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Wake when thou would'st wake, fear nought, vex for nought 6. To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet. Labels: transitive Example: White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.
Word: vex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin vexōbor. Old French vexerbor. Middle English vexen English vex From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman. Pronunciation: /vɛks/ 1. A trouble. Labels: Scotland, obsolete
Word: torturer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English torture 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 torturer From torture + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtɔː.t͡ʃə.ɹə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɔː.tju.ɹə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɔɹ.t͡ʃə.ɹəɹ/ 1. Someone who tortures. Example: I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […] Example: My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
Word: viva Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva. Pronunciation: /ˈviː.və/ 1. Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support). Example: The message has been mostly perverted from the moment of his death, but it hasn't been invalidated. So, viva Jesus of Nazareth and joy to the world!
Word: viva Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva. 1. To cheer, applaud Labels: ambitransitive, dated Example: ...the people clapped and vivaed, groaned and hooted, as they were pleased or disappointed, until at length the intense excitement began to subside... Example: The next evening Paine went to the theatre. The state-box had been prepared for him. The house rose and vivaed as he entered.
Word: viva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.və/ 1. A shout of applause. Example: When the cibolero returned to the plain, he was received with a fresh burst of vivas, and kerchiefs were waved to greet him.
Word: viva Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from viva voce, Latin for “live voice” Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.və/ 1. An oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.
Word: viva Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortened from viva voce, Latin for “live voice” Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪ.və/ 1. To subject to an examination of this kind. Labels: transitive Example: I was vivaed by Charles Cannan, who was then a Fellow of Trinity... Example: Throughout his life, he took college responsibilities seriously, he came to All Souls whenever possible on weekends, he vivaed or interviewed candidates...
Word: dissolve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Recorded since c. 1374 (displacing Old English toliesan) as Middle English dissolven, from Latin dissolvere (“to loosen up, break apart”) but with the sense from Anglo-Norman dissoldre (variant of Old French dissoudre), itself from dis- (“apart”) + solvere (“to loose, loosen”). By surface analysis, dis- + solve. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɒlv/, /dɪˈzɑlv/, /dɪˈzɔlv/ 1. To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding. Labels: transitive Example: The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority. 2. To destroy, make disappear. Labels: transitive 3. To liquify, melt into a fluid. Labels: transitive Example: as if the world were all dissolved to tears 4. To be melted, changed into a fluid. Labels: intransitive 5. To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material. Labels: physical, transitive Example: There was a legend that Cleopatra was accustomed to dissolve pearls in vinegar and drink the fluid in order to promote her amorousness. 6. To be disintegrated by such immersion. Labels: intransitive, physical 7. To disperse, drive apart a group of persons. Labels: transitive Example: Nothing can dissolve us. 8. To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate. Labels: transitive Example: Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder. Example: For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. 9. To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release. Labels: transitive Example: to dissolve an injunction Example: Jon Snow is the legitimate heir to the Targaryen line, by the old rules, of the old government, which was dissolved and reshaped by King Robert. 10. To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in. Labels: intransitive 11. To resolve itself as by dissolution. Labels: intransitive 12. To solve; to clear up; to resolve. Labels: obsolete Example: dissolved the mystery Example: Make interpretations and dissolve doubts. 13. To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. Example: Seraph and Cherub, careleſs of their charge, / And wanton, in full eaſe now live at large: / Unguarded leave the paſſes of the Sky; / And all diſſolv'd in Hallelujahs lye. 14. To separate a ligature into its component letters.