nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: slake Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sleɪk/ 1. A slack, a tidal wetland. Example: The slakes are waste lands bordering on the seashore, which are covered with water when the tide comes in. The word is common in Northumberland, where the slakes between the Mainland and Holy Island, are much frequented by sportsmen[…] Example: A "slake" of similar character, but of much less extent, was, until recently, found within the estuary of the Tyne. This is […] "Jarrow Slake" [...] frequented by great numbers of aquatic birds.
Word: slam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”). Pronunciation: /ˈslæm/, [ˈslæm] ~ [ˈslam], /ˈslam/, [ˈslam], [ˈslam] ~ [ˈsläm] 1. A sudden impact or blow. Labels: countable Example: How many slams in an old screen door? / Depends how loud you shut it. 2. The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. Labels: countable Example: The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam. 3. A slam dunk. Labels: countable 4. One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events. Labels: countable 5. An insult. Labels: US, colloquial, countable Example: I don't mean this as a slam, but you can be really impatient sometimes. Example: “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going. 6. The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product. Labels: UK, dialectal, uncountable 7. A poetry slam. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A slambook. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos. Example: Pen pals also make and pass around friendship books, slams and crams. In recent years, pen pal correspondence with prison inmates has gained acceptance on the Internet. 9. A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs. Labels: uncountable
Word: slam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown and long-speculated, though perhaps at least reinforced by Etymology 1. Doublet of chelem. Pronunciation: /ˈslæm/, [ˈslæm] ~ [ˈslam], /ˈslam/, [ˈslam], [ˈslam] ~ [ˈsläm] 1. A type of card game, also called ruff and honours. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 2. A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Losing or winning all the tricks in a game. Labels: countable 4. A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump. Labels: countable 5. Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season. Labels: countable Example: In the 125 Grand Prix, I. D. Fuller (4) made it a grand slam by setting the fastest time trial, winning his heat and getting the checkered flag in the final. Example: I have never been a fan of tennis, I'll be honest, but even I can appreciate a great tennis player when I see one, and one of the finest of all was the American champion, Andre Agassi. Agassi was at one time number one in the world. He won eight grand slam titles (including a Wimbledon title) and a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
Word: slam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown and long-speculated, though perhaps at least reinforced by Etymology 1. Doublet of chelem. Pronunciation: /ˈslæm/, [ˈslæm] ~ [ˈslam], /ˈslam/, [ˈslam], [ˈslam] ~ [ˈsläm] 1. To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand. Labels: transitive Example: D having seven Spades in his Hand wins them, and consequently slams A and B 2. To make a slam bid. Labels: intransitive
Word: slam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Dutch slomp, German Schlampe. Pronunciation: /ˈslæm/, [ˈslæm] ~ [ˈslam], /ˈslam/, [ˈslam], [ˈslam] ~ [ˈsläm] 1. A shambling fellow. Labels: obsolete
Word: slap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”). Pronunciation: /slæp/ 1. A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat. Labels: countable Example: He gave me a friendly slap on the back as a sign of camaraderie. 2. A sharp percussive sound like that produced by such a blow. Labels: countable Example: the slap of my feet on the bathroom tiles 3. The percussive sound produced in slap bass playing. Labels: countable Example: Havens goes into the terrific Freedom for an encore, which will turn out to be a highlight of the movie; its chopped guitar and conga slaps pre-empt late 90s R&B. 4. Makeup; cosmetics. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy. Example: If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look. 5. An eye-catching sticker used in street art. Labels: countable, slang Example: […] which seek to retake public space for their own expression, using graffiti, stickering, 'slaps' and street art to dissent from the commercialisation of the public sphere.
Word: slap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”). Pronunciation: /slæp/ 1. To strike someone, typically with an open hand, often on the face. Labels: transitive Example: She slapped him in response to the insult. 2. To cause something to strike soundly. Labels: transitive Example: He slapped the reins against the horse's back. 3. To strike soundly against something. Labels: intransitive Example: The rain slapped against the window-panes. Example: Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol. 4. To be excellent, especially when relating to music. Labels: intransitive, slang, stative Example: The band's new single slaps. Example: There are some cinematic elements, but at the end of the day, the album fucking slaps. 5. To place, to put carelessly. Labels: transitive Example: We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall. Example: Louise Belcher: "On Monday there was supposed to be some big schoolboard inspection or something, so instead of cleaning the place up, what does the principal do? He panics. He and the janitor and the janitor's brother slap a wall where the door used to be." Gene Belcher: "Wall slap." 6. To impose a penalty, etc. on (someone). Labels: figuratively, informal, transitive Example: I was slapped with a parking fine. Example: As part of Switzerland's direct democratic system, voters will also be weighing in on whether to slap new taxes on the super-rich to help finance the country's effort against climate change. 7. To play slap bass on (an instrument). Labels: informal, transitive Example: With no drums, Black began slapping his bass to keep time while Moore's guitar leaped in and out of the melody line.
Word: slap Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”). Pronunciation: /slæp/ 1. Exactly, precisely Labels: not-comparable Example: He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table. Example: You just take my orders, Cap’n Hawkins, and we’ll sail slap in and be done with it.
Word: slap Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slappen, of uncertain origin, possibly imitative. Compare Low German Slappe (“slap”), whence also German Schlappe (“defeat”). Compare also Italian sleppa (“slap”). Pronunciation: /slæp/ 1. Very good, excellent, amazing. Labels: UK, slang Example: These cookies are slap.
Word: slapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slap + -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman." Pronunciation: /ˈslæpɚ/, /ˈslæpə/ 1. One who, or that which, slaps. Labels: countable 2. A prostitute. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang Example: A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore Example: You've got a photo of the dead grandad, no pic of the blonde slapper? 3. A woman of loose morals. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang 4. A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact. Labels: countable 5. Anything monstrous; a whopper. Labels: archaic, countable, slang
Word: slater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsleɪtɚ/, /ˈsleɪtə/ 1. One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings. 2. Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, Scotland 3. A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something. Example: Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.
Word: slayer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slear, sleere, sleare, slaare, dissimilated from Old English slaga (“slayer”), equivalent to slay + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsleɪə/ 1. A killer; a murderer; someone who slays. 2. A butcher. Labels: uncommon
Word: sled Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide. Pronunciation: /ˈslɛd/, [ˈslɛd], /ˈsled/, [ˈsled] 1. A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it. Example: The child zoomed down the hill on his sled. 2. A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs. Labels: Canada, US Example: "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled. 3. A snowmobile. Labels: Canada, US, slang Example: We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section. 4. A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well. Labels: Canada, US, figuratively, slang Example: Near-synonyms: land yacht, boat Example: He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8. 5. A piece of exercise equipment, used in American football training etc., that provides resistance as it is moved over a flat surface.
Word: sled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide. Pronunciation: /ˈslɛd/, [ˈslɛd], /ˈsled/, [ˈsled] 1. To ride a sled. Labels: intransitive 2. To convey on a sled. Labels: transitive
Word: sleek Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink. Pronunciation: /sliːk/ 1. Having an even, smooth surface; smooth Example: sleek hair Example: So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make. 2. Glossy. 3. Not rough or harsh. Example: Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek. 4. Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky. Example: But if it were like a rabbit that Rosa went, she came back like a weasel or some such sleek and lissom creature. 5. Healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition. 6. Dated form of slick (“convincing but untrustworthy”). Labels: alt-of, dated Example: 'Are these the Carrara marbles?' the lady queried. 'Yes, madam,' responded the sleek salesman.
Word: sleek Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink. Pronunciation: /sliːk/ 1. With ease and dexterity. Labels: colloquial, dated, not-comparable
Word: sleek Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink. Pronunciation: /sliːk/ 1. To make smooth or glossy; to polish. Labels: transitive Example: The sloping brush sleeks the surface. 2. To calm or soothe. Labels: dated, transitive 3. To glide. Labels: dated, intransitive
Word: sleek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink. Pronunciation: /sliːk/ 1. That which makes smooth; varnish. Labels: uncountable
Word: sleigh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide. Pronunciation: /sleɪ/ 1. A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller) Example: Santa travels in a sleigh. Example: In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
Word: sleigh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide. Pronunciation: /sleɪ/ 1. To ride or drive a sleigh. Labels: intransitive 2. To transport (cargo, freight) via sleigh. Labels: transitive Example: Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The empty cans were returned to the farm when the next load was picked up. This required the farmer to purchase and keep extra milk cans on hand, but that was a small price to pay for convenience. Platforms were erected by the side of the main road through Pomfret so that during the winter farmers could sleigh their milk cans to them for pickup by the milk trucks, which were unable to navigate the infrequently maintained back roads where many farmers lived.
Word: sleigh Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /sleɪ/ 1. Sly. Labels: obsolete
Word: sleight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sly and slöjd/sloyd. Pronunciation: /slaɪt/ 1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. Labels: countable Example: If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers? 3. Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: slice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit. Pronunciation: /slaɪs/ 1. That which is thin and broad. Example: I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and when I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to about half my height and thus commanded the roof and a slice of the interior of the cabin. 2. A thin, broad piece cut off. Example: a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread Example: Jim was munching on a slice of toast. 3. An amount of anything. Labels: colloquial Example: Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. 4. A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle. Example: For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke. 5. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling. Labels: UK Example: I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station. 6. A broad, thin piece of plaster. 7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink. 8. A salver, platter, or tray. 9. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. 10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching. 11. A removable sliding bottom to a galley. 12. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw. 13. A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter. 14. Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK 15. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray. 16. A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.) 17. A contiguous portion of an array.
Word: slice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit. Pronunciation: /slaɪs/ 1. To cut into slices. Labels: transitive Example: Slice the cheese thinly. 2. To cut with an edge using a drawing motion. Labels: transitive Example: The knife left sliced his arm. Example: How could it all be / We've never been dead / But never awake from this dream / How could it all be / We've never been dead / Just mirrors running scared / Slicing wrists while we look for our own mortality / All the lights went out cold / Shadow covers the soul / Essence of the world made ceremonial / Now we all wait for the demise / What was the question? / Why do you need an answer? / You make me nauseous 3. To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. Labels: transitive 4. To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards. Labels: transitive 5. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player). Labels: transitive 6. To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke. Labels: transitive 7. To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high. Labels: transitive Example: Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. 8. To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce. Labels: transitive
Word: slice Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīȥan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit. Pronunciation: /slaɪs/ 1. Having the properties of a slice knot. Labels: not-comparable
Word: slight Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”). Pronunciation: /slaɪt/, [slɑjt], [sl̥ɐɪt], [sl̥əɪ̯t], /slaːt/ 1. Minor; small in amount Example: give it a slight kick Example: a slight hint of cinnamon 2. Minor; small in amount Example: make a slight examination 3. Minor; small in amount Example: we made a slight mistake Example: a slight pain 4. Minor; small in amount Labels: archaic, rare Example: in the slight future 5. Of slender build. Example: a slight but graceful woman Example: his own figure, which was formerly so slight 6. Even, smooth or level. Labels: regional Example: A slight stone 7. Still; with little or no movement on the surface. Labels: especially Example: The sea was slight and calm 8. Foolish; silly; not intellectual. Labels: obsolete Example: But no beast ever was so slight, For man, as for his god, to fight; They have more wit, alas! and know Themselves and us better than so. 9. Bad, of poor quality. Labels: obsolete, regional Example: 1889 (first published), George Washington, Writings we frequently have slight Goods and sometimes old and unsaleable Articles 10. Slighting; treating with disdain. Labels: dated Example: This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]
Word: slight Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”). Pronunciation: /slaɪt/, [slɑjt], [sl̥ɐɪt], [sl̥əɪ̯t], /slaːt/ 1. To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of. Labels: transitive Example: the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies 2. To give lesser weight or importance to. Labels: transitive Example: Incontiguously (accent on tig; the rest of the syllables slighted) means in an incontiguous manner. 3. To treat (someone or something) with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully; to skimp on one's duties toward. Labels: transitive Example: Though true of heart, she was somewhat of a coquette in manner; and I was jealous as a Turk. She slighted me in a thousand ways, yet would never acknowledge herself to be in the wrong. She would drive me mad with anger, and then force me to beg her pardon. 4. To act negligently or carelessly. Labels: intransitive 5. To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition. Labels: transitive Example: When the parliament had finished the war , they reduced and slighted most of the inland garrison 6. To make even or level. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: After your ground is sowne and harrowed, you shall then clotte it, sleight it, and smooth it. 7. To throw heedlessly. Labels: transitive Example: The rogue slighted me into the river.
Word: slight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”). Pronunciation: /slaɪt/, [slɑjt], [sl̥ɐɪt], [sl̥əɪ̯t], /slaːt/ 1. The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy. Example: Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest. Example: But you, you're not allowed You're uninvited An unfortunate slight 2. Sleight. Labels: obsolete Example: For till that stownd could never wight him harme, By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme.
Word: slime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”). Pronunciation: /slaɪm/, /slɑem/, [slɑe̯m] 1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. 2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night. 3. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball. Labels: countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable Example: "What about that, you slime?" Example: If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail. 5. A monster having the form of a slimy blob. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released. 6. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form. Labels: countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […] 7. Jew’s slime (bitumen). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 8. A friend; a homie. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: slime Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk slim, Swedish slem, Faroese and Icelandic slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”). Pronunciation: /slaɪm/, /slɑem/, [slɑe̯m] 1. To coat with slime. Labels: transitive Example: ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’ Example: Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it. 2. To besmirch or disparage. Labels: figuratively, transitive 3. To carve (fish), removing the offal. Example: If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day. Example: You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there. 4. To move like slime. Labels: intransitive 5. To behave in a slimy, unethical manner. Labels: figuratively, intransitive 6. To murder. Labels: slang, transitive 7. To denigrate or slander. Labels: Singapore, transitive
Word: sliver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)). Pronunciation: /ˈslɪvə/, /ˈslɪvɚ/, /ˈsləvə/, /ˈslɪvəɾ/ 1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment. Example: This is the tasting ritual, the lay Eucharist of cheese. The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were the most subtle caviar. Example: A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside). 2. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment. Labels: Canada, Essex, Kent 3. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning. 4. Bait made of pieces of small fish. 5. A narrow high-rise apartment building. Labels: New-York, US 6. A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
Word: sliver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)). Pronunciation: /ˈslɪvə/, /ˈslɪvɚ/, /ˈsləvə/, /ˈslɪvəɾ/ 1. To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit. Labels: transitive Example: to sliver wood Example: slips of yew, Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
Word: slouch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“lazy fellow”). See also Swedish sloka (“to slouch, wilt”), related to Swedish slak (“slack, soft and flexible”) and Latin laxus (“loose, slack”). Pronunciation: /ˈslaʊ̯t͡ʃ/, [ˈslaʊ̯t͡ʃ], /ˈslɐʊ̯t͡ʃ/, /ˈslɜʊ̯t͡ʃ/, /ˈslʌʊ̯t͡ʃ/ 1. A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance. Example: He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch. 2. Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim. Example: The plant hung in a permanent slouch. 3. Someone who is slow to act. Example: In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress. Example: Its Rotten Tomatoes score — 97 percent — is similar to that of “The Godfather” and “Schindler’s List.” Plus, unlike those latter two slouches, this cartoon has singalong screenings in the United States, Britain and Australia. 4. An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow. Labels: dated
Word: slouch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“lazy fellow”). See also Swedish sloka (“to slouch, wilt”), related to Swedish slak (“slack, soft and flexible”) and Latin laxus (“loose, slack”). Pronunciation: /ˈslaʊ̯t͡ʃ/, [ˈslaʊ̯t͡ʃ], /ˈslɐʊ̯t͡ʃ/, /ˈslɜʊ̯t͡ʃ/, /ˈslʌʊ̯t͡ʃ/ 1. To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture Labels: intransitive Example: Do not slouch when playing a flute. 2. To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. Labels: intransitive Example: I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat. 3. To cause to hang down or droop; to depress. Labels: transitive Example: […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep. Example: Disappointment slouched him into the pew.
Word: sly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd Pronunciation: /slaɪ/ 1. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. 2. Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice 3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle Example: a sly trick 4. Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Word: sly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”). Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd Pronunciation: /slaɪ/ 1. Slyly.
Word: smack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Doublet of smatch (obsolete, “taste”; q.v.), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). Cognate with Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke. Pronunciation: /smæk/ 1. A distinct flavor, especially if slight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon Example: I did not call him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment, / Encouraged him to dust his drink, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack. 2. A slight trace of something; a smattering. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too. Example: I like my cousins in Holland immensely, but I feel more sib to the Northerners. Your description of Lofoten is fine. I can see them. They must be enchanting in their way, cod's head and tails or no. There is a fine eau de Javelle smack about a Dutch canal, by the way, that takes[…] 3. Synonym of heroin. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later. 4. A form of fried potato; a scallop. Labels: Northern-England, countable, uncountable
Word: smack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken. Doublet of smatch (obsolete, “taste”; q.v.), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). Cognate with Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke. Pronunciation: /smæk/ 1. To get the flavor of. Labels: transitive Example: He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness. 2. To have a particular taste; used with of. Labels: intransitive Example: 1820-25, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from. 3. To indicate or suggest something; used with of. Labels: intransitive Example: Her reckless behavior smacks of pride. Example: All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
Word: smack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Low German smack (Low German Schmacke, Schmaake (“small ship”)) or Dutch smak, perhaps ultimately related to smakken, imitative of the sails' noise. Pronunciation: /smæk/ 1. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack Example: But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington. 2. A group of jellyfish. Labels: collective
Word: smack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)). Pronunciation: /smæk/ 1. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank. 2. The sound of a loud kiss. Example: he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack. Example: Then he told them of the princess, how she came to him, and how much she had to kiss him to get the whistle, when nobody saw or heard it over in the wood - "I must get on with these lies if the vat is to be full," said Ashiepattle, - so he told them about the queen, how stingy she was with the money and how liberal she was with kisses, that one could hear the smacks all over the wood. 3. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Word: smack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)). Pronunciation: /smæk/ 1. To slap or hit someone. 2. To make a smacking sound. Example: A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel. 3. To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank) 4. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat. Example: But when, obedient to the mode / Of panegyric, courtly ode / The bard bestrides, his annual hack, / In vain I taste, and sip and smack, / I find no flavour of the Sack. 5. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
Word: smack Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)). Pronunciation: /smæk/ 1. As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply. Labels: not-comparable Example: Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave. Example: She fell smack on her face.
Word: snag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps related to *sneganą, *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”) if the original meaning of the root *sneg- was more like “pointy object, stinging creature”. Note also *snakkōną (“to snap at, smack the lips; to blow”) (German schnacken (“to chat”)) and English sneck, snatch. Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see the Dutch-origin fish names snoek and snook. Pronunciation: /snæɡ/, /snaɡ/, /snæːɡ/, /snɛɡ/, /sneɪ̯ɡ/ 1. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. Example: The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. 2. A dead tree that remains standing. 3. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. Example: ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’ Example: […]I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims;[…] 4. Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it. Labels: broadly 5. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth. Example: To ſee our Women's Teeth look white. / And ev'ry ſaucy ill-bred Fellow / Sneers at a Mouth profoundly yellow. / In China none hold Women ſweet, / Except their Snags are black as jett. 6. A problem or difficulty with something. Labels: figuratively Example: we hit a snag Example: The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgment by the parties of the second part's glamour. 7. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear. 8. One of the secondary branches of an antler.
Word: snag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps related to *sneganą, *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”) if the original meaning of the root *sneg- was more like “pointy object, stinging creature”. Note also *snakkōną (“to snap at, smack the lips; to blow”) (German schnacken (“to chat”)) and English sneck, snatch. Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see the Dutch-origin fish names snoek and snook. Pronunciation: /snæɡ/, /snaɡ/, /snæːɡ/, /snɛɡ/, /sneɪ̯ɡ/ 1. To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection. Labels: transitive Example: Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench! 2. To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface. Labels: transitive Example: The steamboat was snagged on the Mississippi River in 1862. 3. To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target. Labels: transitive Example: We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River. 4. To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog. Example: Tickets are cheaper the younger you are—snag a youth ticket (if you're twenty-five or under) for a 35 percent discount. If both you and your travel partner are twenty-six or older, the Small Group Saver will knock off 15 percent. 5. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: When felled and snagged, one end of the tree is placed upon a small sledge, and dragged out of the bush by oxen 6. To have noncommittal sexual relations. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Shit, I remember when you were just rugged, bro. Snagging around and tepee-creeping at the stomp dance.
Word: snag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag. Pronunciation: /snæɡ/, /snaɡ/, /snæːɡ/, /snɛɡ/, /sneɪ̯ɡ/ 1. A light meal. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 2. A sausage. Labels: Australia, colloquial, informal Example: I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags. Example: ‘You can get the chooks and snags from the fridge if you want,’ he replied. I smiled, remembering my bewilderment upon receiving exactly the same command at my very first barbecue back in Sydney a month after I′d first arrived. 3. A goal. Labels: slang Example: 2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."
Word: snag Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /snæɡ/, /snaɡ/, /snæːɡ/, /snɛɡ/, /sneɪ̯ɡ/ 1. A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).