nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: groom Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grom, grome (“man-child, boy, youth”), of uncertain origin. Apparently related to Middle Dutch grom (“boy”), Old Icelandic grómr, gromr (“man, manservant, boy”), Old French gromme (“manservant”), and also to Middle Dutch grom (“fish guts”), Middle Low German grôm (“fish guts”), from the same Proto-Germanic root. Possibly from Old English *grōm, from Proto-West Germanic *grōm (“swollen belly, stomach tumour, womb-child, fish roe, fish guts”), from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow”). Alternative etymology describes Middle English grom, grome as an alteration of gome (“man”) with an intrusive r (also found in bridegroom, hoarse, cartridge, etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms. Pronunciation: /ɡɹuːm/, /ɡɹʉwm/, /ɡɹum/, /ɡɹʉːm/, /ɡɾuːm/ 1. To attend to one's appearance and clothing. 2. To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them. Labels: transitive Example: 2010 (April 20) "The Collection" s1e6 of TV series Justified The wife didn't care about riding, but Owen did. Well, he cared about me. I went from doing everything — grooming, feeding, looking out — to being handed the reins of the most magnificent creatures ready to ride. Example: Rabbits show dominance by demanding to be groomed, while cats show dominance by grooming the other. A perfect relationship 💕 3. To care for (horses or other animals) by feeding, currying and tending to them. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To prepare (someone) for an event Labels: transitive Example: It appears that Broderick's seconds, although cool, brave men, were entirely without experience in arranging a duel, and did not know that a man should be groomed for one as carefully as a horse is groomed for a race. 5. To prepare (someone) for election or appointment. Labels: transitive Example: It is of special interest to note the subjects considered as important to those who are being groomed for top administrative posts Example: 2002, Clone High episode 1 - "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" Our mission is to unfreeze those clones, send them back to high school, and secretly groom them to one day rule the world. Failure to do so could mean world leaders just keep getting worse. 6. To gain, or attempt to gain, the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually (if under the age of consent). Labels: transitive Example: 2009, Suzanne Ost, Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses 7. In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog. Labels: transitive 8. To prepare (a ski slope) for skiers by packing down the snow. Labels: transitive
Word: marionette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French marionnette. The word had originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet. Pronunciation: /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/ 1. A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings. Example: If you think we are worked by strings, Like a Japanese marionette, You don't understand these things: It is simply Court etiquette. 2. The buffel duck. Labels: obsolete
Word: marionette Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French marionnette. The word had originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet. Pronunciation: /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/ 1. To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate. Labels: transitive
Word: bride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognates Cognate with Yola breede (“bride”), Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), Alemannic German Bruut (“bride”), Central Franconian Brock, Brutt, Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German and Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese and Icelandic brúður (“bride”), Norwegian Nynorsk brud, brur (“bride”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), Friulian brût (“daughter-in-law”) (from Old High German brut (“bride”)). Pronunciation: /bɹaɪd/, /bɹɑjd/, /bɾʌɪd/, /bɾaɪd/, /bɹɑed/ 1. A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. Example: I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Example: Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. 2. An object ardently loved. Labels: figuratively, obsolete
Word: bride Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”). Cognates Cognate with Yola breede (“bride”), Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), Alemannic German Bruut (“bride”), Central Franconian Brock, Brutt, Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German and Luxembourgish Braut (“bride”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brud (“bride”), Faroese and Icelandic brúður (“bride”), Norwegian Nynorsk brud, brur (“bride”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “bride”), French bru (“daughter-in-law”), Friulian brût (“daughter-in-law”) (from Old High German brut (“bride”)). Pronunciation: /bɹaɪd/, /bɹɑjd/, /bɾʌɪd/, /bɾaɪd/, /bɹɑed/ 1. to make a bride of Labels: obsolete
Word: bride Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”). Pronunciation: /bɹaɪd/, /bɹɑjd/, /bɾʌɪd/, /bɾaɪd/, /bɹɑed/ 1. an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
Word: marigold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryɔm)bor. Aramaic מרים (maryam)bor. Ancient Greek Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ (Mărĭ́ā)bor. Latin Marīa Old French Mariebor. Middle English Marie Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder. Proto-Germanic *gulþą Proto-West Germanic *golþ Old English gold Middle English gold Middle English golde Middle English marigolde English marigold From Middle English marigolde, marygoldye, from Mary (referring to the Virgin Mary) + Middle English golde (“marigold”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡəʊld/, /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/, /ˈmɛɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/ 1. Any of the Old World plants, of the genus Calendula, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers. Example: A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed. Example: After studying the book for several minutes, he began to assemble a weird collection of plants and herbs on the floor in front of him. Hemlock and foxglove, ivy and deadnettle, henbane and marigold[.] 2. Any of the New World plants, of the genus Tagetes, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers. Example: Native Americans introduced whites and slaves to several edible greens including marigold, milkweed, and pokeweed (Whit 2007). 3. A million pounds sterling. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang 4. Alternative form of Marigold (rubber glove for cleaning). Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative
Word: marigold Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryɔm)bor. Aramaic מרים (maryam)bor. Ancient Greek Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ (Mărĭ́ā)bor. Latin Marīa Old French Mariebor. Middle English Marie Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder. Proto-Germanic *gulþą Proto-West Germanic *golþ Old English gold Middle English gold Middle English golde Middle English marigolde English marigold From Middle English marigolde, marygoldye, from Mary (referring to the Virgin Mary) + Middle English golde (“marigold”). Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡəʊld/, /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/, /ˈmɛɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/ 1. Having the color of marigolds, a bright yellowish-orange hue.
Word: thrush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd). Pronunciation: /θɹʌʃ/ 1. Any of numerous species of songbirds of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, such as the song thrush, mistle thrush, bluebird, and American robin. Example: I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush. 2. A female singer. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: thrush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, though likely not related to the "bird" sense of Etymology 1; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish torsk, Norwegian trøske. Perhaps also related to Old French fourchette (“frog of a horse's hoof”). Pronunciation: /θɹʌʃ/ 1. A fungal infection caused by species of genus Candida, affecting the mouth or vagina; candidiasis. Example: Cervical cancer and recurrent vaginal thrush are both strongly linked to the presence of HIV in women.
Word: weigh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English weyen, from Old English wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wey, wee, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector. Pronunciation: /weɪ/ 1. To determine the weight of an object. Labels: transitive 2. Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. Labels: transitive Example: He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client. 3. To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Example: He took a long time weighing his options. 4. To judge; to estimate. Labels: figuratively, intransitive, obsolete Example: But ſhe thereof grew proud and inſolent, / That none ſhe worthie thought to be her fere, / But ſcornd them all, that loue vnto her ment; / Yet was ſhe lou’d of many a worthy pere, / Vnworthy ſhe to be belou’d ſo dere, / That could not weigh of worthineſſe aright. 5. To consider a subject. Labels: transitive 6. To have a certain weight. Labels: copulative, intransitive, stative Example: I weigh ten and a half stone. Example: Each half-section of the battery weighs about eight tons, and the two underframes had to be strengthened to take this weight. 7. To have weight; to be heavy; to press down. Labels: intransitive Example: If they ſhall faile, I with mine Enemies Will triumph o're my perſon, which I waigh not, Being of thoſe Vertues vacant. Example: They only weigh the heavier. 8. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. Labels: intransitive Example: Your vowes to her, and me,[…] / Will euen weigh, and both as light as tales. Example: I anſwer, this is a good Objection, and ought to weigh with thoſe whoſe Reading is deſign’d for much Talk and little Knowledge, and I have nothing to ſay to it. 9. To raise an anchor free of the seabed. Labels: transitive 10. To weigh anchor. Labels: intransitive Example: Towards the euening we wayed, & approaching the ſhoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but ſaw not a Salvage. Example: Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home. 11. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up. Example: Weigh the vessel up. 12. To consider as worthy of notice; to regard. Labels: obsolete Example: Thinke you I weigh this treaſure more than you? Not all the Gold in Indias welthy armes, Shall buy the meaneſt ſouldier in my traine. Example: Them all, and all that ſhe ſo deare did way,[…]
Word: weigh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English weyen, from Old English wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wey, wee, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector. Pronunciation: /weɪ/ 1. The act of weighing, of measuring the weight Example: Give the sugar a quick weigh.
Word: spear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognates See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”). Pronunciation: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/, /spɪɹ/ 1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion. Example: It's not like you killed someone It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why He did it all for you 2. A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman. Labels: historical Example: Now toil'd the Bruce, the battle done , To use his conquest boldly won; And gave command for horse and spear To press the Southron's scatter'd rear Example: Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […]. 3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish. 4. An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player. 5. In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection. 6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire. 7. The feather of a horse. 8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. 9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable. Example: asparagus and broccoli spears
Word: spear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognates See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”). Pronunciation: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/, /spɪɹ/ 1. To pierce with a spear. Labels: transitive Example: By the 1970s, herders were spearing rhinos and poisoning lions to protest the loss of their land to conservation, then represented by the independent Kenyan government. 2. To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: Former teammate Derek Sanderson recalls that Maki hit Ted from behind as Green was clearing the puck from the Boston zone. Green turned to knock Maki down, but Maki speared him as he rose from the ice. 3. To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet. 4. To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do. Labels: intransitive Example: you may prepare them for spearing by laying the Keys in Earth or Sand 5. To ignore as a social snub. Labels: especially, obsolete, transitive Example: The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.
Word: spear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-. Cognates See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”). Pronunciation: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/, /spɪɹ/ 1. Male. Labels: not-comparable Example: a spear counterpart Example: When I was young, I was so desperate I'd go looking on the spear side. 2. Pertaining to male family members. Labels: not-comparable Example: the spear side of the family
Word: spear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of spire, from Middle English spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr (“stalk of a plant, shoot, blade”). More at spire. Pronunciation: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/, /spɪɹ/ 1. The sprout of a plant, stalk 2. A church spire. Labels: obsolete
Word: pepper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Norwegian Bokmål pepper, Norwegian Nynorsk pepar, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛp.ə/, [ˈpʰɛp.ə], /ˈpɛp.ɚ/, [ˈpʰɛp.ɚ], [ˈpʰɛp.ɹ̩] 1. A plant of the family Piperaceae. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant. Labels: uncountable 3. A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties. Labels: Canada, Ireland, UK, US, countable, uncountable 4. A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games". 5. A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A beating; a thrashing. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: He means to snatch the laurels from his brow, / At all his boasted pluck and prowess smile, / And give him pepper in superior style. Example: [T]he Chicken had been tapped, and bunged, and had received pepper, and had been made groggy, and had come up piping, and had endured a complication of similar strange inconveniences, until he had been gone into and finished. 7. A shotgun. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Chew beef like breakfast (Yum) Two shanks, get 'round in seconds (Two) Be feeding my area, peppers Example: Number plates already hot, and plus we've got like three peppers
Word: pepper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Norwegian Bokmål pepper, Norwegian Nynorsk pepar, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛp.ə/, [ˈpʰɛp.ə], /ˈpɛp.ɚ/, [ˈpʰɛp.ɚ], [ˈpʰɛp.ɹ̩] 1. To add pepper to. Labels: transitive 2. To strike with something made up of small particles. Labels: transitive 3. To cover with lots of (something made up of small things). Labels: transitive Example: After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes. 4. To add (something) at frequent intervals. Labels: transitive Example: He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation. 5. To beat or thrash. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me 6. To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing). 7. To shoot (upon) with the dotty. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive 8. To write accents or disambiguating marks in script. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: hurry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“to run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush. Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌ.ɹi/, /ˈhɝ.i/, /ˈhʊ.ɹi/, /ˈhə.ri/ 1. A rushed action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Why are you in such a big hurry? Example: At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […] 2. An urgency. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is no hurry on that paperwork. 3. An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At Alabama, Jedrick Wills Jr. anchored the right side of the offensive line for two years, allowing only one sack and three-and-a-half quarterback hurries on 714 snaps last season. 4. A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hurry Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“to run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush. Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌ.ɹi/, /ˈhɝ.i/, /ˈhʊ.ɹi/, /ˈhə.ri/ 1. To do things quickly. Labels: intransitive Example: He's hurrying because he's late. Example: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. 2. Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. Labels: intransitive Example: If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time. 3. To cause to be done quickly. Labels: transitive 4. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Labels: transitive Example: the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently. Example: They hurried him aboard a bark. 5. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. Labels: transitive Example: And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends. 6. To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway. Example: Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]
Word: haste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”). Pronunciation: /heɪst/ 1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: We were running late so we finished our meal in haste. Example: The king's business required haste. 2. Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Word: haste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”). Pronunciation: /heɪst/ 1. To urge onward; to hasten. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke. 2. To move with haste. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. Example: He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
Word: hasten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally intransitive, from haste + -en (verbal suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈheɪ.sn̩/ 1. To move or act in a quick fashion. Labels: intransitive 2. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. Labels: transitive Example: I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Example: Hamlet: Bid the players make haste. Will you two help to hasten them? 3. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. Labels: transitive Example: The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Example: […]and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.
Word: hasty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪsti/ 1. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Example: Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. Example: If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is. 2. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Example: Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June. Example: [We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble. 3. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Example: ... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be. Example: I speke not of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmasse 4. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Example: ... the Queene is not so hasty of your death. Example: ... how is it that ye be so hasty to […] departe hens? 5. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Example: a hasty decision, a hasty assertion Example: ... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…] 6. Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time). Labels: archaic Example: This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche. Example: Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison. 7. Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger. Example: his hasty temperament Example: The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…] 8. Heavy, violent. Example: Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […] Example: ... hasty rain. When we came home we found Cousin Gwinn Harris and wife at our home. In the evening there was still another rain. These rains are all alike (hard and hasty).[…]
Word: Common Market Part of Speech: name 1. European Economic Community, a predecessor of the European Union. Labels: dated, historical Example: The continued growth of cross-Channel traffic, the urgent question of the renewal of the short-sea fleet of the B.T.C. and its installations, and the possible entry of Britain into the Common Market make an early decision on the tunnel highly desirable, if not vital. Example: Does a common market in goods require a common market in transport services? Although nearly five years have passed since the inception of the 12-year phased transition of the Six to full "common market" conditions, this general question has still to be settled among member countries.
Word: bulldozer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/, /ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə/ 1. A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc. Example: The bulldozer is a caterpillar tractor on the front of which is mounted a heavy steel blade which can be moved up and down by hydraulic gear. By sheer brute force it can push down trees and hedges, remove obstructions (including light brickwork) and level and consolidate newly-tipped banks. Example: More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks. 2. One who bulldozes. 3. A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents. Labels: historical, in-plural 4. A bully; an overbearing individual. Labels: broadly
Word: bulldozer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally bull-dozer (1875, Louisiana, US), in the bullier and terrorizer sense; bulldoze + -er. The name for the earthmoving machine came later, figuratively, from that sense. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlˌdoʊzɚ/, /ˈbʊlˌdəʊzə/ 1. To bulldoze (demolish with a bulldozer). 2. To bulldoze (push through forcefully). Example: They bulldozered through the crowd.
Word: hangar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard. Pronunciation: /ˈhæŋ.ə/, [ˈhæŋ.ə], /ˈhæŋ.ɚ/, [ˈhæŋ.ɚ] ~ [ˈhæŋ.ɹ̩], /ˈheɪ̯ŋ.ɚ/ 1. A large garagelike structure where aircraft are kept. Example: The plane taxied on over to the hangar for repairs. Example: By the side of it ran an open hangar upheld by a score of rough tarred posts. 2. A covered shed for carriages. Labels: obsolete
Word: hangar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French hangar (“shed, hangar”), from Middle French hanghart (“enclosure near a house”), from Old French hangart, *hamgart, from Old Frankish *haimgard (“fence around a group of houses”), from *haim (“home, village, hamlet”) + *gard (“yard”). Cognate with Old High German heimgart (“forum”). More at home, yard. Pronunciation: /ˈhæŋ.ə/, [ˈhæŋ.ə], /ˈhæŋ.ɚ/, [ˈhæŋ.ɚ] ~ [ˈhæŋ.ɹ̩], /ˈheɪ̯ŋ.ɚ/ 1. To store (an aircraft) in a hangar. Labels: transitive
Word: matinee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French matinée. Pronunciation: /ˈmætɪˌneɪ/ 1. A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. Example: 59 sneak in some red Smuggle a bottle of wine, two glasses, and a corkscrew into a long matinee. Red wine is rich in life-extending antioxidants, and the caper will add zest even to a bad movie. 2. A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner. Labels: dated Example: Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.
Word: matinee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French matinée. Pronunciation: /ˈmætɪˌneɪ/ 1. To put on a matinee performance (of). Labels: ambitransitive
Word: bacteriophage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bactériophage, coined by microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle, from bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phage (“eater”). Pronunciation: /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəʊˌfeɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A virus that specifically infects bacteria. Example: Another possibility is to enlist a bacteriophage, a kind of virus, to hunt down and kill harmful bacteria for us.
Word: phage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos, “eater”), from φαγ- (phag-), aorist stem of ἐσθίω (esthíō), ἔδω (édō, “to eat, to consume”). Pronunciation: /feɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A virus that is parasitic on bacteria. Example: "The plural word phages refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, →ISBN, p. 81
Word: concubine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English concubine (first attested 1250–1300), from Anglo-Norman concubine, from Latin concubīna, equivalent to concub- (variant stem of concumbō (“to lie together”)) + feminine suffix -īna. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑŋkjəbaɪn/ 1. A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married. 2. A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife. Example: And that is more than I will yield unto: / I know I am too mean to be your queen, / And yet too good to be your concubine. 3. A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service. Labels: historical Example: He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch, And in my Sarell tend my Concubines: Example: And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Word: meow Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou. Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew, possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry (contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/). (mephedrone): Perhaps because of the drug's distinctive smell resembling cat urine. Pronunciation: /miˈaʊ/, [mjaʊ̯] 1. Used to indicate the cry of a cat. Example: “The last thing they had seen in 2012 before that break was a short from Simon’s Cat called ‘Cat Man Do,’” said Lamothe. “When you leave 800 people in the dark, they will do something. That’s what Fantasia is. But because they had just seen that cat go meow, they meowed.” 2. Used in reply to a spiteful or catty comment. Labels: colloquial 3. Used to express seductiveness, mimicking a growl. Labels: colloquial
Word: meow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou. Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew, possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry (contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/). (mephedrone): Perhaps because of the drug's distinctive smell resembling cat urine. Pronunciation: /miˈaʊ/, [mjaʊ̯] 1. The cry of a cat. Labels: countable Example: A cat’s meow and a cow’s moo, I can recite them all / Just tell me where it hurts you, honey Example: It’s from within that breathing room the meow finally emerged. […] These days every Fantasia screening begins with a cacophony of meows — timed by the audience to start and stop at black leader. 2. The drug mephedrone. Labels: UK, slang, uncountable
Word: meow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou. Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew, possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry (contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/). (mephedrone): Perhaps because of the drug's distinctive smell resembling cat urine. Pronunciation: /miˈaʊ/, [mjaʊ̯] 1. Of a cat, to make its cry. Labels: intransitive Example: “The last thing they had seen in 2012 before that break was a short from Simon’s Cat called ‘Cat Man Do,’” said Lamothe. “When you leave 800 people in the dark, they will do something. That’s what Fantasia is. But because they had just seen that cat go meow, they meowed.” Example: The cat meows at me and bird-watches by the window facing the street. Sometimes I bird-watch with him because the older I get, the more interested I get in birds lol.
Word: miaow Part of Speech: noun 1. UK spelling of meow. Labels: dated
Word: miaow Part of Speech: verb 1. UK spelling of meow. Labels: dated
Word: purr Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /pɜː/, /pɝ/, /pʌr/, /pøː/, /peː/ 1. To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented or in certain other conditions. Labels: intransitive Example: There was no one at home but a black cat, who was sitting quite content and purring on the hearth[.] 2. To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner. Labels: transitive Example: "This is Cindy," she purred again, flashing a smile of perfect white teeth surrounded by full red lips. 3. To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure. Labels: intransitive Example: He purred like a kitten when she massaged his neck. 4. To spend time enjoying and expressing pleasure (over something); to coo; to enthuse. Labels: intransitive Example: No woman receiving her first mink would ever put it directly into storage. She would try it on and purr over it. 5. To make a low and consistent rumbling sound. Labels: intransitive Example: Beverly passed the city limits sign with the Porsche's motor purring contentedly after its two hundred and fifty-mile romp.
Word: purr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /pɜː/, /pɝ/, /pʌr/, /pøː/, /peː/ 1. The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented. Example: Instead, the tiger looked around, and gave a purr, and then a growl. What did that mean? The man could not tell. Then the tiger just flung upon the man some of the sand from the side of the hollow. 2. A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person. Example: The trill of her purr echoed inside his mouth when he kissed her again. Clutching at his shirt, her fingers traveled the muscles in his back. 3. The low consistent rumble made by an engine at slow speed Example: I sat still in the car and listened to the soft purr of the engine and my beating heart. Then slowly, and as silently as possible, I drove the car back to camp.
Word: purr Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /pɜː/, /pɝ/, /pʌr/, /pøː/, /peː/ 1. Vibrating sound made by a cat. 2. Alternative form of period. Labels: alt-of, alternative, slang
Word: caw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /koː/, /kɔ/, /kɑ/ 1. The harsh cry of a crow.
Word: caw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /koː/, /kɔ/, /kɑ/ 1. To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. Example: Rising and cawing at the gun's report.
Word: caw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic Pronunciation: /kɔː/, /koː/, /kɔ/, /kɑ/ 1. A rendering of the vocalisation of a crow or other corvid. Example: "Amen," said M., in a grave and solemn tone. "Caw," croaked the jackdaw immediately, and with such a sonorous effect, that it disturbed our pious mien and upset our gravity.
Word: croak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic. Pronunciation: /kɹoʊk/, /kɹəʊk/ 1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat. 2. The call of a frog or toad. 3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
Word: croak Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic. Pronunciation: /kɹoʊk/, /kɹəʊk/ 1. To make a croak sound. Labels: intransitive 2. To utter in a low, hoarse voice. Labels: transitive Example: The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. Example: “I am so tired,” he croaked. “It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks in Castaway years.” 3. To make its vocal sound. Labels: intransitive 4. To die. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: “I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.” 5. To kill. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him. Example: "It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair." 6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Example: Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness. 7. To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error. Labels: slang Example: The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.
Word: neigh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja. Pronunciation: /neɪ̯/, /næɪ̯/, /ne/, /neː/, /nɛj/ 1. The cry of a horse.
Word: neigh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja. Pronunciation: /neɪ̯/, /næɪ̯/, /ne/, /neː/, /nɛj/ 1. To make its cry. Example: For hovv […] ſhall I knovv thee to be a man, vvhen thou kickeſt like an aſſe, neygheſt like an Horſe after vvomen, raueſt in luſt like a Bull, raueneſt like a Beare, ſtingeſt like a Scorpion, rakeſt like a VVolfe, as ſuttle as a Foxe, as impudent as a Dogge; ſhall I ſay thou art man that haſt all the Symptomes of a beaſt? Example: "I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]" 2. To make a sound similar to a horse's cry. 3. To scoff or sneer. Labels: obsolete Example: Yes, yes, 'tis he. I will assure you Uncle, the very he, the he your Wisdom plaid withal, I thank you for't, neighed at his Nakedness, and made his Cold and Poverty your Pastime; […]