nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: run down Part of Speech: verb 1. To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them. Labels: transitive Example: He was run down while crossing the main road. Example: 'One of our witnesses has already had the misfortune to be rather badly run down while cycling, and I've had a natty-looking box of chocolates by post from an "unknown friend" myself,' replied the inspector. 2. To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly. Labels: transitive Example: Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down. Example: My sister is always running me down in front of my friends. 3. To find something or someone after searching for a long time. Labels: transitive Example: I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly. 4. To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: You need to wind up the clock every day so that it doesn't run down. Example: If you don't switch off the car lights, you will run the battery down. 5. To read quickly a list or other short text. Labels: transitive Example: Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately. 6. To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary. Labels: transitive Example: When the minute was up, John Jay managed to make the woman twice as nervous as he ran down the rules and the possibilities. 7. To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure. Labels: UK, transitive Example: The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale. Example: Before you move, you should run down your food supplies in the fridge, freezer, and pantry to use up as much as possible. 8. To decline in quality or condition. Example: to run down in health Example: TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: "This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account." 9. To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted. Example: to run down a stag 10. To run against and sink, as a vessel. Labels: transitive Example: The Jylland only missed running down a schooner by a few yards in the fog; it was a near thing—near enough, in fact, to allow of some shouted remarks between those on the bridge of the motorship and the man at the wheel of the schooner to be clearly heard. Example: Hiei now loomed into the action, causing the leading U.S. destroyers to scatter before the oncoming behemoth lest they be run down. 11. To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. Labels: transitive Example: Religion is […]run down by the prevailing licence of these times. 12. To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack. Labels: slang, transitive Example: He ran down on Rashad and them. 13. To move (some copy) down to the next line. Labels: transitive Example: If they occasionally supply any additional copy after this element, run it down with a manual line break. 14. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, down.
Word: bellyache Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From belly + ache. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛliˌeɪk/ 1. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen. Example: Eating too much candy can give you a bellyache.
Word: bellyache Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From belly + ache. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛliˌeɪk/ 1. To unnecessarily complain or whine, often about simple matters. Labels: figuratively, informal, intransitive Example: Quit bellyaching about the problem and help us fix it.
Word: no-no Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that is forbidden, prohibited, discouraged or taboo. Labels: childish, colloquial, often Example: Smoking indoors is becoming a real no-no these days, in many places. Example: Mr. UDALL. Madam Chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bingham), is wrong in his supposition that the use of a picture is to be prohibited on a newsletter. Let me make some legislative history. The masthead or the heading of a newsletter with a picture of the Member is intended to be approved. As a matter of fact, in this language we turned it around. These no-noes are taken out of the old Post Office Manual, where they had over the years compiled a list of things one could or could not do, and pictures, except to illustrate text, used to be under the prohibitions. 2. A no-hitter; a game in which no batter on one of the teams got a hit. Labels: colloquial Example: He threw two no-nos in his career.
Word: mechanical advantage Part of Speech: noun 1. The ratio of the output force produced by a machine (especially a simple machine) to the applied input force. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]and it will always be found, that the mechanical advantage of the wedge may be ascertained by comparing its perpendicular elevation with its base. Example: In the case of a lever with a mechanical advantage of 10 the effort has to move ten times as far as the load. This is the price which must always be paid for a mechanical advantage. Any machine which is designed to have a high mechanical advantage must also have a high velocity ratio. In fact, 'what is gained in force is lost in speed'.
Word: effrontery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late 17th century French effronterie, from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), from Old French esfronté, from Vulgar Latin *exfrontātus. Compare Latin effrōns (“barefaced”), from the prefix ex- (“from”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English: front). By surface analysis, ef- + front + -er + -y. Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɹʌntəɹi/, /ɛˈfɹʌntəɹi/ 1. Insolent and shameless audacity. Labels: uncountable Example: We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country. Example: Let not the Englishman in Scotland believe that the undoffed hat, the curt reply, the apparent assumption of equality, all spring from deliberate effrontery, and are wholly beyond the reach of southern influence. 2. An act of insolent and shameless audacity. Labels: countable Example: Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery. Example: All was going as planned until the bag hit a snag and failed to surround the entire nest. This effrontery was too much. The wasps exploded off the nest at me.
Word: binocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French binoculaire. Pronunciation: /bɪˈnɔkjʊlə/, /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚ/, /bəˈnɑ.kjə.lɚ/ 1. Using two eyes or viewpoints; especially, using two eyes or viewpoints to ascertain distance. Labels: not-comparable Example: a binocular microscope or telescope Example: Most animals are binocular.
Word: binocular Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French binoculaire. Pronunciation: /bɪˈnɔkjʊlə/, /(ˌ)baɪˈnɑ.kjə.lɚ/, /bəˈnɑ.kjə.lɚ/ 1. Attributive form of binoculars. Labels: attributive, form-of 2. A pair of binoculars. Example: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. 3. Any binocular glass, such as an opera glass, telescope, or microscope. Labels: dated
Word: tip off Part of Speech: verb 1. To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: An anonymous caller tipped off the police that the suspect would be in the area. Example: Someone must have tipped him off. [A likely explanation for why he has disappeared.] 2. To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents. 3. To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents. Example: The game tips off in an hour, so hurry back! 4. To pour out (liquor); to tip the vessel and drink until it is empty. Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint. Labels: intransitive, transitive
Word: tip-off Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from tip off. 1. An obvious clue or indication. Labels: idiomatic Example: The broken window and overturned plant pots were a tip-off that something was wrong. 2. A report of suspicious behaviour, especially to an authority. Labels: idiomatic Example: The police received a tip-off about a recent bank robbery. Example: Haws also alleged that Hay was engaged in a conspiracy to disrupt the parade. "People called a week before and said he would be doing something." The alleged tip-off was anonymous. 3. Jump ball that starts a game.
Word: masthead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mast + head. 1. The top of a mast. Example: In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground. 2. The list of a newspaper's or another periodical's main staff, contributing writers, publisher, circulation, advertising rates etc. Labels: US 3. The title (normally in a large and distinctive font, and at the top of the front page) of a newspaper or another periodical. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Example: Maree said she felt worse after articles were written about the video, including by this masthead. 4. The title (normally in a large and distinctive font, and at the top of the front page) of a newspaper or another periodical. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, broadly 5. The logo of a broadcaster used in an ident. Labels: broadly
Word: masthead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mast + head. 1. To send to the masthead as a punishment. Labels: transitive Example: “I was mast-headed, sir.” “Mast-headed! how - for what?” Example: When the ship happened to be in a warm climate, mastheading constituted a fairly mild punishment; indeed, many regarded it as rather a relief from duty. But in inclement weather the experience was most unpleasant. 2. To furnish (a newspaper) with a masthead. Labels: transitive Example: It was mastheaded as "Palatka's Only Independent Home-Owned Newspaper."
Word: bacon-fed Part of Speech: adj 1. Fat. Labels: dated, derogatory, idiomatic, not-comparable, possibly, slang
Word: back gammon player Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably derived from a pun on backgammon, with backside and gammon (“the lower or hind part of a side of bacon”) in the context of anal sex. 1. A person, chiefly a homosexual, who has anal sex. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, slang Example: Sir Thomas found it convenient to believe Doctor Nooth's assertion, and therefore packed up his baggage and effects to sail for England, on board the Triumph, with his military friend and back gammon player, Colonel Willington; this gentleman, while on shore, laughed at the absurdity of fearing the infection, but the moment he was on board, his opinion altered, it shifted with the wind, he began to insinuate, that it might be communicable, and in consequence, Sir George Barlow absolutely refused to permit Sir Thomas, or his baggage, to have a passage in the Triumph: Sir George acted very prudently, and Sir Thomas staid from necessity. Example: They always have boys with them because they're all back-gammon players, which is what we call sodomites.
Word: gentleman of the back door Part of Speech: noun 1. A man, chiefly a homosexual, who has anal sex. Labels: rare Example: Perkoff is a Gentleman of the Back Door. Example: Doll Sneerpiece closed the book. Ruggiero, a Gentleman of the Back Door? Ruggiero, preferring a leg of lamb to proper English beef? Ruggiero, importing Turkish wares to an honest English stall? 'Well then,' said the Doll, 'If it is Sodomy he wants, then a Sodomite he shall have.'
Word: one of His Majesty's bad bargains Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Suggesting that the soldier is not worth the pay he receives (the King's shilling). 1. An incapable (sick, etc) or incompetent soldier. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, no-plural, rare
Word: malingeror Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From malinger + -or. 1. Archaic form of malingerer. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: badge-cove Part of Speech: noun 1. A parish pensioner. Labels: archaic 2. A licensed (badged) beggar. Labels: obsolete 3. An old person; a senior citizen. Labels: Polari
Word: squint like a bag of nails Part of Speech: verb 1. To squint very much, as though one's eyes were directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails. Labels: idiomatic Example: Does she squint like a bag of nails? Is she hideous? They always are!' The Earl stood back.'You may judge for yourself,' he said dryly. 'Miss Taverner, little though he may have recommended himself to you, I must beg leave to present my brother, Captain Audley.' Example: In his own language, he called out, “Where is she then, Rob? Is she hideous? Does she squint like a bag of nails? Does she screech like a shrew with toothache?” This time, the silence was definitely appalled – not least, I suspected, because there was more than a grain of truth in Hereward's unflattering description.
Word: bakers dozen Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of baker's dozen. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: ballocks Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bollocks. Labels: Ireland, alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-normally Example: "Turn to gangsterism." "Sebastian, I couldn't." "Tone, pride has you at its mercy." "Has me by the very ballocks." "Tony, I think a pint would see us right." "I think you're right for the first time since you last said that." Example: "I began at the beginning, like an old ballocks, can you imagine that?"
Word: ballocks Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of bollocks. Labels: Ireland, alt-of, alternative
Word: balum rancum Part of Speech: noun 1. A dance, performed by a company of prostitutes naked. Labels: idiomatic Example: And just when did you last see decorous Sea Officers, Lewrie asked himself in wonder at such a ludicrous statement? Leaping rantipole and playing balum-rancum in church? Hymn-singing in brothels?
Word: balsam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew בושם (“spice, perfume”)); compare Old English balsam, balsamum (“balsam, balm”), Doublet of balm and desman. Not related to balsa. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl.səm/, /ˈbɔl.səm/, /ˈbɑl.səm/ 1. A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 2. A plant or tree yielding such substance. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 3. A soothing ointment. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 4. Something soothing. Labels: UK, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Classical music is a sweet balsam for our sorrows 5. A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The balsam family of flowering plants (Balsaminaceae), which includes Impatiens and Hydrocera. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A balsam fir Abies balsamea. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Canada balsam, a turpentine obtained from the resin of balsam fir. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Any of various traditional European herbal liqueurs, originally used medicinally. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: balsam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew בושם (“spice, perfume”)); compare Old English balsam, balsamum (“balsam, balm”), Doublet of balm and desman. Not related to balsa. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl.səm/, /ˈbɔl.səm/, /ˈbɑl.səm/ 1. To treat or anoint with balsam. Labels: transitive
Word: humbug Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Origin unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that “the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention”. It has been suggested that the word possibly derives from hummer (“(slang) An obvious lie”), or from hum (“(dialectal and slang) to cajole; delude; impose on”) + bug (“a goblin, a spectre”). In his Slang Dictionary (1864), English bibliophile and publisher John Camden Hotten (1832–1873) suggested a link to the name of the German city of Hamburg, “from which town so many false bulletins and reports came during the war in the last century”, or alternatively a derivation from ambage. Hotten also said he had traced the earliest occurrence of the word to the title page of Ferdinando Killigrew’s book The Universal Jester (see quotations), which he dated to about 1735–1740. This dating has therefore been adopted by other dictionaries. However, the OED dates the word to about 1750, as the earliest edition of Killigrew’s work has been dated to 1754. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌmbʌɡ/, /ˈhəmˌbəɡ/ 1. Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! Labels: slang Example: [Mr. Clarendon] Steady. Aristotle laughs at you. / [Mr. Algernon Sidney] Twist. He's an impertinent fellow! I say again—Liberty! freedom! glory! / Steady. Humbug! humbug! humbug! Example: "A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. / "Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!" / […] "Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure." / "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! what right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough." / "Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough." / Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, "Bah!" again; and followed it up with "Humbug."
Word: humbug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) states that “the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention”. It has been suggested that the word possibly derives from hummer (“(slang) An obvious lie”), or from hum (“(dialectal and slang) to cajole; delude; impose on”) + bug (“a goblin, a spectre”). In his Slang Dictionary (1864), English bibliophile and publisher John Camden Hotten (1832–1873) suggested a link to the name of the German city of Hamburg, “from which town so many false bulletins and reports came during the war in the last century”, or alternatively a derivation from ambage. Hotten also said he had traced the earliest occurrence of the word to the title page of Ferdinando Killigrew’s book The Universal Jester (see quotations), which he dated to about 1735–1740. This dating has therefore been adopted by other dictionaries. However, the OED dates the word to about 1750, as the earliest edition of Killigrew’s work has been dated to 1754. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌmbʌɡ/, /ˈhəmˌbəɡ/ 1. To play a trick on (someone), to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: Here's a Humbugger come, / Will prove the reſt nothing at all, / 'Tis a Jobber, a Factor, / A damn'd Corn Contractor, / Who makes all our Loaves be ſo ſmall; […] And may all ſuch elves, / Be thus Humbugg'd themſelves, / Who thus are Humbugging the poor: / And as ſure as the Bone makes the Cleaver to ſound, / Humbugging, Humbugging goes all the world round. Example: Of all trades and arts in repute or possession, / Humbugging is held the most ancient profession. / Twixt nations, and parties, and state politicians, / Prim shopkeepers, jobbers, smooth lawyers, physicians, / Of worth and of wisdom the trial and test / Is—mark ye, my friends!—who shall humbug the best. 2. To fight; to act tough. Labels: US, slang 3. To waste time talking. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: pierogi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Polish pierogi, the plural of pieróg (“dumpling”), which ultimately is derived from Proto-Slavic *pirъ (“party”). Relationship to Turkish börek is unclear. Doublet of pirogi (from Russian), pirohy (from Czech and Slovak), and pyrohy/pedaheh (from Ukrainian). Pronunciation: /pəˈɹoːɡi/, /pɛˈɾoːɡi/ 1. A square- or crescent-shaped dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling. Labels: Canada, US Example: Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.
Word: gherkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɝkɪn/, /ˈɡɜːkɪn/ 1. A small cucumber, often pickled whole. 2. Pickled cucumber regardless of size; a pickle Labels: Ireland, UK 3. The penis. Labels: slang Example: “Even my gherkin is sorry, and it didn't talk shit about anybody," persists Adrian. The edge of Titus's mouth quivers in laughter. Example: “Yes, daddy,” I moaned, lying big-time as his finger played in my sudsy pussy. “Say please,” he ordered, taking my hand to circle around his gherkin.
Word: gherkin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɝkɪn/, /ˈɡɜːkɪn/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Gherkin. Labels: alt-of
Word: jingoistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English jingo Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -istic English jingoistic From jingo + -istic. Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊˈɪst.ɪk/, /ˌd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊˈɪst.ɪk/ 1. Overly patriotic or nationalistic, often with an element of favouring war or an aggressive foreign policy. Example: My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters. Example: The truth is that all classes—Christian and non-Christian—have yielded fatally to the pernicious interpretation which interested politicians, soldiers, manufacturers, and Jingoistic writers have put on the real economic needs of the country.
Word: brake noodle Part of Speech: noun 1. A rigid or stiffly flexible sheath used on some bicycles to turn a brake cable neatly around a corner.
Word: pool noodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pool + noodle. 1. A long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly coloured, used as an exercise tool or toy in swimming pools.
Word: beat Banaghan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The Classic 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue speculates "perhaps Banaghan was a minstrel famous for dealing in the marvellous." 1. To tell wonderful stories, or something which is amazing and remarkable. Labels: Ireland, idiomatic Example: "'Jack Palmer, as I'm a sinner,' cried Titus. 'Why this beats Banaghan. Arrah ! Jack, honey, what does this mean ? Is it yourself I see in such company?'" Example: "He watched her as she slowly disappeared, and shook his head with a puzzled air. ¶'This beats Banaghan, and he beats --'"
Word: TNN Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of The Nashville Network. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Word: Banbury story of a cock and a bull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown. Folk history claims derivation from the rivalry between two inns in Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England, one called “The Cock” and the other called “The Bull”, where travellers would congregate to hear fanciful stories told; one such story involved travellers destined for the city of Banbury. However, there is little evidence supporting this etymology. Pronunciation: /ˈbænbɹi ˈstɔːɹi əv ə ˈkɒk ənd ə ˈbʊl/, /ˈbænb(ə)ɹi ˈstɔːɹi əv ə ˈkɑk ənd ə ˈbʊl/ 1. A roundabout, nonsensical story. Labels: UK, idiomatic, obsolete, slang Example: BANBURY STORY, of a Cock and a Bull, an Idle relation, in order to pick Acquaintance on the Road, till a convenient Place and Opportunity offer to rob or plunder. Example: Banbury story of a cock and a bull. A roundabout nonſenſical ſtory.
Word: LAX Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the IATA airport code. 1. Los Angeles International Airport Example: I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved. Example: Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.
Word: bandog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From band + dog. Pronunciation: /ˈbandɒɡ/ 1. A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog. Labels: archaic Example: The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name. Example: Patriots may smile; and, using him [ Jean-Paul Marat ] as bandog now to be muzzled, now to be let bark.... 2. A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs. Labels: specifically 3. Something that or someone who pursues doggedly. Labels: figuratively, literary Example: He escaped from that experience confounded, horrified, and conscious of degradation. Those infernal bandogs of the law had treated him as a piece of insensate property to their drivelling mumbo-jumbo, as if mere contact with it had robbed him of all rights to the dignity and integrity of his own ego. 4. A bailiff or prison guard. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: COE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of code of ethics. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of college of education. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of college of engineering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of center of excellence. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of cab over engine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of confirmation of enrolment. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of close of escrow. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of Certificate of Entitlement. Labels: Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 9. Initialism of code of ethics. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: COE Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of cab-over-engine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: GU Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of general user. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Abbreviation of genitourinary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: GU — Had polyuria (large volumes every hour) yesterday; incontinent when paramedics arrived
Word: ITV Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Independent Television, a British commercial television network. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RE Part of Speech: prep Etymology: See at re. 1. Alternative form of re (“regarding”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: RE Part of Speech: symbol Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement. 2. The radius of the Earth specifically.
Word: RE Part of Speech: name Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India. 3. Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: RE Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbreviations. 1. Initialism of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a “yes” answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. See more at RE (complexity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of religious education. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of rare earth. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of response element. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of real estate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of renewable energy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 7. Initialism of run-time environment. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 8. Initialism of reverse engineering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 9. Initialism of reproductive endocrinologist. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: I am new to this group and have not had the courage to post many messages. I just had my second/follow-up apointment with my RE today. I have only recently been diagnosed with PCO and had the routine tests, HSG, etc.. done. Today, we talked about those results and what our next plan of action is.
Word: SSN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of social security number. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Furthermore, the requirement of the child’s SSN for purposes of claiming the credit is maintained and expanded upon to require the taxpayer’s SSN and, for joint filers, the spouse’s SSN in order to claim the credit. The SSNs provided must be considered work-eligible in order to claim the credit. 2. Abbreviation of nuclear-powered attack submarine. Labels: Navy, US, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: FLOTUS Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfloʊ.təs/ 1. Acronym of First Lady of the United States. Labels: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: bang up Part of Speech: adj 1. Good, superior, excellent. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: He's doing a bang up job.
Word: bang up Part of Speech: verb 1. To damage. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He banged up his new car last night. 2. To put someone in prison, or into their individual cell. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He was so drunk that the police banged him up for the night. Example: A combination of having too many plates spinning, ill-health, being banged up for debt (1822-23) and bankruptcy all served to impede James' progress, although the Central Junction Railway - a 16-mile horse-drawn tramway between Stratford and Moreton (Gloucestershire) - did materialise in 1826. 3. To inject a recreational drug. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: I knew some fellows who banged up, I mean heroin, but I kind of stayed away from it.
Word: bang-up cove Part of Speech: noun 1. a dashing fellow who spends his money freely Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: hand off Part of Speech: verb 1. To pass (the ball) to a teammate. 2. To pass or transfer. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Before we hand off the project to him, let's make sure to write some instructions.
Word: bang straw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bang + straw. 1. A farmer's servant, especially a thresher. Labels: archaic, idiomatic Example: Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard. With this he sprung onto the bulwark and roared out to Williams: 'I've not struck, sir! Tell your bloody bang-straws to try and hit my stick!'
Word: bankrupt cart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Said to be so called by a Lord Chief Justice, from their being so frequently used on Sunday jaunts by extravagant shopkeepers and tradesmen. 1. A one-horse chaise. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete Example: " No, no, I was too prudent when I was young to risk the expenses of a bankrupt cart, and now I am old I am too wise to attempt the difficult art of driving one."
Word: bantling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from band(s) (“swaddling clothes”) + -ling, or a modification of German Bänkling (“bastard-child”), equivalent to bench + -ling. 1. An infant or young child. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal Example: And I even question whether any tender virgin, who was accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling, would save her character at parlour fire-sides and evening tea-parties, by ascribing the phenomenon to a swan, a shower of gold, or a river god. Example: "You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling!..." 2. A bastard-child. Labels: archaic 3. A brat. Labels: archaic, derogatory
Word: raya Part of Speech: noun 1. A former territory of the mediaeval principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia held under the direct administration of the Ottoman Empire, as opposed to the principalities. Labels: historical
Word: raya Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of rayah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: barber's sign Part of Speech: noun 1. A standing pole and two wash-balls, historically used outside barber's shops. Labels: archaic, idiomatic
Word: barker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English berkere; equivalent to bark (“dog noise”) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)kɚ/ 1. Someone or something who barks. Example: My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night. Example: Edmund was barker on sight, like foolish stay-at-home dogs. 2. A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival. Example: Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint. Example: [… 3. A shelf-talker. 4. A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game. Example: The barker looks action-packed, but actually playing the game is rather dull. 5. A pistol. Labels: dated, slang Example: Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets. “Barkers for me, Barney," said Toby Crackit. “Here they are,” replied Barney, producing a pair of pistols. Example: Parkin, the Oxford Street gunmaker, sent me a brace of barkers in silver mountings, with my initials engraved—good for trade, I imagine. 6. The spotted redshank.
Word: barker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English barker; equivalent to bark (“surface of tree”) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)kɚ/ 1. A person who removes needed or valuable tree bark, as on a cinnamon or cinchona plantation. Labels: historical Example: The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the realization that in most cases saplings can be cultivated far more profitably. 2. A tanner. Labels: obsolete Example: The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname. 3. A machine used to remove unneeded bark from wood. Example: Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.
Word: member for Barkshire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A pun on member for Berkshire, i.e. a Member of Parliament for that district. 1. A person who has a cough which causes them to sound as if they are barking. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, rare
Word: Armageddon Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Hermagedon, from Old English Ermagedon, from Latin Harmagedōn, from Ancient Greek Ἁρμαγεδών (Harmagedṓn), used in Revelation 16:16, referring to Mount Megiddo, the place of the last battle at the Last Judgment; from Hebrew הר מגידו / הַר מְגִדּוֹ (har megiddo). Pronunciation: /ˌɑː.məˈɡɛ.dn̩/, /-ˈɡɛ.dən/, /ˌɑɹ.məˈɡɛ.dn̩/ 1. Mount Megiddo, the site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil. Example: And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon. 2. The battle itself. Labels: broadly 3. Any end of the world, especially by way of a cataclysmic battle or something analogous to one. Labels: broadly Example: Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon I certainly hope we will I sure could use a vacation from this ...
Word: hand over fist Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Related to earlier hand over hand, this phrase originally referred to a speedy method of climbing up or hauling on a rope. 1. Quickly or in great quantity, especially in reference to earning money. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: to make money hand over fist Example: Are you coming over again to see me some day soon? I keep returning, and now hand over fist, from the realms of Hades: I saw that gentleman between the eyes, and fear him less after each visit.
Word: heebie-jeebies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The earliest found occurrences of spelling variants (it is not established whether the first one coined the term or committed to print an earlier oral expression): * In 1923, the spelling "heeby jeebys" was used by U.S. cartoonist Billy De Beck in his comic strip Barney Google (New York American, 26 October 1923). * In 1925, the spelling "heebee-jeebees" was used in U.S. magazine Ladies' Home Journal (Vol. 42, Part 2, p. 44). * In 1926, the spelling "heebie jeebies" was used by U.S. singer Louis Armstrong for his single "Heebie Jeebies" (written by Boyd Atkins). * In 1928, the spelling "heebee-geebees" was used in U.S. article "We All Have the Heebee-Geebees" by G. M. Keller of Swift & Company (Modern School Store, Vol. 11, p. 269 via Google Books). * In 1956, the spelling "heeby jeebies" was used by U.S. singer Little Richard on the cover of his homonymous SP record (and the hyphenated spelling "heeby-jeebies" on its vinyl disc itself). Pronunciation: /ˌhiː.biːˈdʒiː.biːz/ 1. A general feeling of anxiety, fear, uneasiness, or nausea. Labels: US, informal, plural, plural-only Example: I don't mind worms, but spiders give me the heebie-jeebies. Example: When I see that weird house, I get the heebie-jeebies.
Word: texas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the practice of naming cabins after US states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛk.səs/, /ˈtɛk.sɪs/, /ˈtɛk.sɪz/ 1. The topmost cabin deck on a steamboat. Example: She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers. Example: Now Will saw lights ahead and they were to the landing where the steamboats lay moored, banking the river front solidly as far as the ... whose lights rose tier upon tier from main deck to the cupola-like pilot houses atop the texases.
Word: bass-ackwards Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbæs ækwəɹdz/, /bæs ˈækwəɹdz/ 1. Spoonerism of ass-backwards Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, informal Example: Their whole approach is bass-ackwards.
Word: bass-ackwards Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈbæs ækwəɹdz/, /bæs ˈækwəɹdz/ 1. Spoonerism of ass-backwards Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, informal Example: What do you expect? They did the job bass-ackwards. Example: It’s certainly not helped by the bass-ackwards direction of team director Walter Godefroot. The man never met talent he couldn’t squander.
Word: blob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber. Pronunciation: /blɒb/, /blɑb/ 1. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape. Example: Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment. Example: It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs. 2. A large cloud of gas. 3. A large cloud of gas. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. A bubble; a bleb. Labels: dialectal 5. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb. 6. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing. 7. A score of zero. Labels: slang Example: A gentleman named W. Shakespeare scored a blob in the Worcestershire v. Lancashire match. We understand that he got out because the ball pitched on a "damned spot." 8. Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system. 9. An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.
Word: blob Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber. Pronunciation: /blɒb/, /blɑb/ 1. To splash in the form of a blob or blobs. Labels: transitive Example: Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope. Example: […] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. 2. To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs. Labels: transitive Example: She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows. Example: Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […] 3. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs. Labels: intransitive Example: Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin. Example: 2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2400118/Blood-gore-real-dunnits-SILENT-WITNESSES-BY-NIGEL-MCCRERY.html […] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards. 4. To spill sauce on oneself while eating. Labels: UK, colloquial, intransitive 5. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out. Labels: intransitive, slang 6. To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread. Labels: intransitive Example: […] where he had surreptitiously tickled small trout, or openly "blobbed" for eels with worms threaded on to darning wool when the rains came, […]
Word: blob Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /blɒb/, /blɑb/ 1. Alternative spelling of BLOB. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: region free Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of region-free. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: pissed as a fart Part of Speech: adj 1. Very drunk. Labels: not-comparable, slang, vulgar
Word: vinaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin vinaceus, from Latin vinum. 1. Containing wine. 2. Of the colour of red wine. Example: Near-synonym: winelike Example: Caudal femora of the lighter general color inclined to vinaceous pink on the ventral portion of the lateral face, dorsal and bounding carinae of the paginae sparsely beaded, face of the paginae suffused with the dark color, […] 3. Of the colour of red wine.
Word: vinaceous Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin vinaceus, from Latin vinum. 1. A specific color among several that represent red wine. Labels: uncountable
Word: ass-backwards Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Recorded in the US in the 1930s. From ass + backwards 1. Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap. Labels: colloquial Example: The car spun out of control and I ended up ass-backwards in a ditch. 2. Hopelessly misguided; contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical; having taken the utterly wrong choice. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: No wonder it doesn't work. The whole design is ass-backwards.
Word: ass-backwards Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Recorded in the US in the 1930s. From ass + backwards 1. Moving backwards, that is, rear end first. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable 2. In a hopelessly misguided manner; in a manner contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic, not-comparable Example: They did the whole design ass-backwards. No wonder it doesn't work.
Word: vinous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”), from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪnəs/ 1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine. Example: The man who firſt tranſplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (obſerve he was a Dutchman) never dreamt of drinking the ſame wine at the Cape, that the ſame grape produced upon the French mountains—he was too phlegmatic for that—but undoubtedly he expected to drink ſome ſort of vinous liquor; […] 2. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine. Example: The bride, in passing down stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her—flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast. 3. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine. Example: Near-synonyms: winelike, wine-dark, wine-blue Example: […] François' quick eye detected the presence of some very small birds moving among the blossoms. They were at once pronounced to be humming-birds, and of that species known as the "ruby-throats" (Trochilus rolubris), so called, because a flake of a beautiful vinous colour under the throat of the males exhibits, in the sun, all the glancing glories of the ruby. 4. Tending to drink wine excessively. Example: Yet fat and vinous old Jack Falstaff, whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes. Example: Curiosity induced him to ask the wild-eyed vinous old man if he knew the lady. 5. Affected by the drinking of wine. Example: The vinous Greek to whom he had address'd / His question, much too merry to divine / The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine, […] Example: "Come, come," said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, "no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me.[…]"
Word: viridian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin viridis, from the verb vireō (“be verdant, sprout”). 1. A bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this addition to the artist’s palette. The colour of viridian is a very deep bluish green of great purity and transparency. It furnishes, with aureolin on the one hand and with ultramarine on the other, an immense number of beautiful hues, adapted to represent the colours of vegetation and of water. Example: Then Miss Sloviak emerged from the ladies' room, hair reestablished, cheeks rouged, eyelids freshly painted a soft viridian, smelling of what I recognised as Cristalle, the fragrance worn both by my wife, Emily, and also by my lover, Sara Gaskell. 2. A bluish-green color. Labels: countable, uncountable