nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: hen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hen, from Old English henn (“hen”), from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan-, *kana- (“to sing”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hanne (“hen”), West Frisian hin (“hen”), Dutch hen (“hen”), German Low German Heen (“hen”), German Henne (“hen”), Danish høne (“hen”), Swedish höna (“hen”), Icelandic hæna (“hen”). Related to Old English hana (“cock, rooster”). Also cognate to Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”). Compare Russian пету́х (petúx, “rooster, cock”) from Russian петь (petʹ, “to sing”). Etymology 1, noun sense 7 after cock (“male chicken; man's penis”). Pronunciation: /hɛn/, /hɪn/, /hen/ 1. Synonym of mother-hen. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Once he had flared up, "If ever a man was henned, it's me!" Example: Mammy henned the black workers into placing the trunks beside the girls.
Word: hen Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English henne, heonne, hinne, from earlier henene, heonenen, henen, from Old English heonan, hionan, heonane, heonone (“hence, from here, away, from how”), from Proto-Germanic *hina, *hinanō (“from here”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch heen (“away”), German hin (“hence, from here”), Danish hen (“away, further, on”). See also hence. Pronunciation: /hɛn/, /hɪn/, /hen/ 1. Hence. Labels: dialectal, not-comparable
Word: hen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hen (“hence, away”), or a variant of hench. Pronunciation: /hɛn/, /hɪn/, /hen/ 1. To throw. Labels: dialectal
Word: chick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪk/ 1. A young bird. Example: Near-synonyms: nestling, fledgling Example: Published in the Communications Earth & Environment journal, scientists conclude that due to sea ice loss last year, it is highly probable that no chicks had survived from four of the five known emperor penguin colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica. 2. A young bird. Labels: especially Example: Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast. 3. An attractive, young woman; or, more generally, a woman. Labels: colloquial Example: This chick's a machine but her friend is way more fun. Example: They're going to have a chick weekend. No guys allowed. 4. A friendly fighter aircraft. Labels: slang Example: The Aldis lamp flashes at the underside of each aircraft. It shows that the gear is down. Diegal is relaxing. This is such low responsibility, easy night duty. All the “chicks” (fighter aircraft) are home to roost except one. 5. A young child. Labels: dated, endearing
Word: chick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chicke, chike, variation of chiken (“chicken", also "chick”), from Old English ċicen, ċycen (“chicken”). Sense of "young woman" dates to at least 1860 (compare chit (“young, pert woman”)). More at chicken. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪk/ 1. To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate. Labels: obsolete Example: plowing in his oats with a very feet furrow; and, after they have “chicked” but before they appear aboveground 2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise. Example: He chicked his lips; he cracked his whip; he winked with a knowing leer; he ran down the alley and up the stair, then down the stair and up the alley
Word: chick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi चिक़ (ciq) / Urdu چق (ciq)), ultimately from Classical Persian چق (čiq). 1. A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows. Labels: India, Pakistan Example: 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […] Example: It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.
Word: chick Part of Speech: noun 1. A chickeen, or zecchino. Labels: India, obsolete Example: Whenever master spends a chick I keep back two rupees, sir! Example: "Can't do much harm by losing twenty chicks," observed the colonel, in Anglo-Indian argot, as the lot was knocked down to him; "and after all, there is a good deal of uncertainty about steeplechasing."
Word: gosling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English goslyng (“gosling”), alteration (due to Middle English goos (“goose”)) of earlier gesling (“gosling”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse gæsling, géslingr (“gosling”), from gás (“goose”) + -lingr (“-ling”), equivalent to goose + -ling. Cognate with Danish gæsling (“gosling”), Swedish gässling (“gosling”). Compare also Low German gossel, gössel (“gosling”), German Gänslein (“gosling”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒzlɪŋ/, /ˈɡɑzlɪŋ/ 1. A young goose. Example: Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs. 2. An inexperienced and immature, or foolish and naive, young person. Example: Two stout woodmen with difficulty cut down this tree, the chips of which flew far and wide about the hall; but at my command my two green goslings carried away the fragments without any difficulty. 3. A catkin on willows, nut trees, and pines. Labels: dated Example: These Aments (we must no longer call them catkins) are composed both of male and female flowers; what Henry calls goslings in spring are the Aments of the willow tree ; his green goslings are female Aments , and , when mature , have the appearance of little tufts of wool, which appearance is caused by the downy material that crowns their feeds; Example: When the oak puts on his goslings grey 'Tis time to sow barley night or day.
Word: lice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lys, from Old English lȳs. Pronunciation: /laɪs/ 1. plural of louse Labels: form-of, plural 2. louse Labels: proscribed
Word: aquarium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ Proto-Italic *akʷā Latin aqua Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Latin aquāriumbor. English aquarium Borrowed from Latin aquārium, neuter of aquārius (“of or pertaining to water”), from aqua + -arium. Doublet of ewer; see also Aquarius. Also claimed to be coined by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, as a blend of aquatic + vivarium. Pronunciation: /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/, /-ɛɹiəm/ 1. A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals. 2. A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited.
Word: fucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English fucker From fuck + -er (agent suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌk.ə(ɹ)/ 1. An undesirable person. Labels: derogatory, offensive, vulgar Example: You fucker, you wrecked my car! Example: There are many fuckers in the warehouses. 2. A person. Labels: vulgar Example: Never stood a chance. The poor fucker was cooked. Example: It’s easy to get reflective after a few brunchtime cocktails. “Was I one of these little fuckers?” Savannah Engel wondered aloud to me one Sunday after Bloody Marys at Cafe Cluny. 3. The object of some effort. Labels: vulgar Example: Let’s see if we can fix this fucker. Example: Now if I can put that fucker in there installed. 4. One who fucks. Labels: rare, vulgar Example: She was a good fucker, but to tell the truth, I had had enough for the night. Example: A system in which men are conditioned to be the pursuer, the agressor ^([sic]), the possessor, the fucker.
Word: motherfucking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Back-formation from motherfucker. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfʌkɪŋ/ 1. An intensifier, used in the same contexts as fucking, but more intense. Labels: not-comparable, slang, vulgar Example: America, fuck yeah! / Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah! Example: I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
Word: motherfucking Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Back-formation from motherfucker. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌðə(ɹ)ˌfʌkɪŋ/ 1. To an extreme degree. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: He is one motherfucking mean dude.
Word: fucking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -ing English fucking From fuck + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, [ˈfɐkɪŋ], /ˈfʌkiŋ/, [ˈfɐkiŋ], /ˈfʌkɪn/ 1. An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love. Labels: countable, uncountable, vulgar Example: I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date. Example: c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II Like the French fool, that wanders up and down Starving his people, hazarding his crown. Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such, And love he loves, for he loves fucking much. 2. An act of mistreatment. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable, vulgar Example: I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.
Word: fucking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -ing English fucking From fuck + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, [ˈfɐkɪŋ], /ˈfʌkiŋ/, [ˈfɐkiŋ], /ˈfʌkɪn/ 1. An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies. Labels: attributive, not-comparable, vulgar Example: No fucking way. Example: This is a fucking nightmare! 2. Offensive, annoying or worthless. Labels: attributive, not-comparable, vulgar Example: Get your fucking car out of the way. Example: Get me off your fucking mailing list.
Word: fucking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -ing English fucking From fuck + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, [ˈfɐkɪŋ], /ˈfʌkiŋ/, [ˈfɐkiŋ], /ˈfʌkɪn/ 1. present participle and gerund of fuck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: fucking Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -ing English fucking From fuck + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, [ˈfɐkɪŋ], /ˈfʌkiŋ/, [ˈfɐkiŋ], /ˈfʌkɪn/ 1. Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause. Labels: not-comparable, vulgar Example: This is fucking ridiculous! Example: I'm not fucking well paying this time.
Word: fucking Part of Speech: infix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -ing English fucking From fuck + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, [ˈfɐkɪŋ], /ˈfʌkiŋ/, [ˈfɐkiŋ], /ˈfʌkɪn/ 1. Alternative form of -fucking-, used when the infix is put between two words. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme, vulgar Example: New Fucking York. Example: She had been, as I say, drinking all afternoon and she suddenly howled, “Ten o’clock! It’s ten o’fucking clock! Why doesn’t he come? Why in God’s name doesn’t he come?” Something along those lines.
Word: motherfuck Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Back-formation from or clipping of motherfucker. 1. A more intense form of fuck. Labels: vulgar
Word: motherfuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from or clipping of motherfucker. 1. A motherfucker. Labels: vulgar Example: “We oughta make the motherfucks fry in hell,” the second boy said; too quickly for the program editor to beep out the profanity. 2. A damn; the least amount of concern. Labels: vulgar Example: I don't give a motherfuck about that!
Word: motherfuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from or clipping of motherfucker. 1. Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something. Labels: derogatory, transitive, usually, vulgar
Word: fuckup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from fuck up. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkʌp/ 1. A serious mistake. Labels: vulgar Example: Forgetting our anniversary was a major fuckup. Example: The gate was high; it had been a nine-foot drop; she had landed wrong and broken her arm. Oh Jesus Christ, what a fuckup. 2. One who continually makes mistakes; a person who fucks up a lot. Labels: derogatory, vulgar Example: You've got to fire that fuckup. Example: I can't believe she's dating that colossal fuckup. All he does is yap about baseball. 3. A mentally or emotionally damaged person. Labels: derogatory, offensive, vulgar
Word: Eeyore Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the donkey in A.A. Milne's books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, whose name is onomatopoeic from a donkey's bray (compare hee-haw). Pronunciation: /ˈiː.jɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A talking donkey from the English children's book series Winnie-the-Pooh, noted for his melancholy and drowsiness.
Word: Eeyore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the donkey in A.A. Milne's books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, whose name is onomatopoeic from a donkey's bray (compare hee-haw). Pronunciation: /ˈiː.jɔː(ɹ)/ 1. An excessively negative or pessimistic person. Labels: figuratively Example: SVEN nods toward SNORRI THE MISERABLE - an Eeyore of a Viking if ever there were one. Example: Ecclesiastes, who sometimes seems to cast himself as the Eeyore of the Old Testament, would simply shrug his shoulders and tell you to make the best of what you had.
Word: fuckload Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fuck (“large amount”) + load. Pronunciation: /ˈfʌkˌloʊd/ 1. An indeterminate but large number. Labels: humorous, often, slang, vulgar Example: We're getting a fuckload of complaints about that product. Example: There're all kinds of ways to interact with our friends over the network: we can play hallucinogenic games, chat, send pictures, code, music, funny articles, metric fuckloads of porn… The interaction is high-quality!
Word: fuckwad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -wad English fuckwad From fuck + -wad. 1. A large amount; a fuckload. Labels: humorous, slang, vulgar Example: That's going to cost a fuckwad of money. 2. Someone of substandard intelligence; dipshit; fuckwit. Labels: derogatory, offensive, slang, vulgar Example: He put his shoes on the wrong feet!?! What a fuckwad.
Word: nait Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English naiten, nayten, borrowed from Old Norse neita, later variant of níta (“to deny, refuse”). Cognate with Icelandic neita (“to deny”), Danish nægte (“to deny”), Old English nǣtan (“to annoy, afflict, press upon”). More at nyte, nay. 1. To refuse; deny; disclaim. Labels: transitive
Word: nait Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English naiten, nayten, from Old Norse neyta (“to use, employ”), from Proto-Germanic *nautijaną (“to use”). Cognate with Icelandic neyta (“to make use of, employ”). Related to Old English nēotan (“to use; to enjoy”). More at note. 1. To use; employ. Labels: transitive 2. To go over; recite; repeat. Labels: transitive 3. To exert oneself. Labels: reflexive
Word: nait Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English naite, from Old Norse neyte, neyti (“use”), from Proto-Germanic *nautiz (“use”). 1. Use; profit; foredeal; advantage. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. End; purpose. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: nait Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nait, nayt, from Old Norse neytr (“in good order, fit, fit for use”), from Proto-Germanic *nautiz (“useful, helpful”). Compare Old English nyttol (“useful”). 1. Useful; good at need; fit; able. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. Quick and effective; deft; skilful. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal 3. In good order; trim; tidy; dainty; clean. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: hutch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut. (cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor. Pronunciation: /hʌt͡ʃ/ 1. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet. 2. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc). Example: “No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.” Example: To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled[…] 3. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed. 4. A cabinet for storing dishes. 5. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk. 6. A measure of two Winchester bushels. 7. The case of a flour bolt. 8. A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. 9. A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore. 10. A baker's kneading-trough. 11. The pavilion or dressing room. Labels: slang 12. An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water. Example: There were deep pools in the river, known as hutch pools because they are formed by hutches - breakwaters - built out from the bank.
Word: hutch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hucche (“storage chest”), variation of whucce, from Old English hwiċe, hwiċċe (“box, chest”). Spelling influenced by Old French huche (“chest”), from Medieval Latin hūtica, from a different Germanic root, from Frankish *hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjō, *hudjǭ (“box, hut, hutch”). Akin to Old English hȳdan (“to conceal; hide”). More at hide, hut. (cricket pavilion or dressing room): An extension of the rabbit metaphor. Pronunciation: /hʌt͡ʃ/ 1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. Labels: transitive Example: She hutched the all-worshipt ore. 2. To wash (ore) in a box or jig. Labels: transitive 3. To move with a jerk; to hitch. Labels: ambitransitive Example: And the mind was very disinclined to hutch out of the crevice and face what must be done. […] He hauled himself out of the crevice and the air was warm so that he undressed to trousers and sweater. […] He hutched himself back against a rock with his legs sprawled apart.
Word: vespine Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈvɛspaɪn/ 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of wasps. Example: Ori braced himself, dropped with a cry when a ghost image of the wasp returned in air again momentarily varicose, and went, and came back once more, now nothing but a vespine insinuation, and was, finally, all gone.
Word: vespine Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈvɛspaɪn/ 1. Any wasp of the subfamily Vespinae.
Word: hippo Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpəʊ/, /ˈhɪpoʊ/ 1. Clipping of hippopotamus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: There was an old hippo that had the bad habit of getting out on the bank and roaming at night over the station grounds. Example: "I've seen them buryin' a chief up the Aruwimi River, and they ate a hippo that must have weighed as much as a tribe." 2. An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force. Labels: South-Africa, historical, slang 3. An overweight or obese person. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, informal 4. Hippopotamus Defence. Labels: informal
Word: owlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From owl + -et. Compare howlet. Pronunciation: /ˈaʊlət/ 1. Diminutive of owl. Labels: diminutive, form-of Example: And in faith Sir unlesse your hospitalitie doe releeve us, wee are like to wander with a sorrowfull hey ho, among the owlets, & Hobgoblins of the Forrest […] Example: Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 2. A young owl; owling. 3. One of a species of small owls, such as Athene noctua. 4. An owlet moth. Example: Noticeable features found in many of the owlets are two markings that often appear on the upper forewings.
Word: doe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English do (“(female) fallow deer”), from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”). Cognate with Middle Scots da, dae (“female fallow deer”), Danish då (“fallow deer”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus. Pronunciation: /dəʊ/, /doʊ/ 1. A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them Across the wall, as near the wall as they. She saw them in their field, they her in hers. Example: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park. 2. A female fallow deer. Labels: countable, specifically, uncountable 3. A female rabbit or hare. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A female squirrel. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A female kangaroo. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: doe Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dəʊ/, /doʊ/ 1. Obsolete spelling of do. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…]. Example: […] a voyage to plant yͤ first colonie in yͤ Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in yͤ presence of God […]
Word: doe Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /dəʊ/, /doʊ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of though. Labels: Internet, Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Word: hatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge. Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/ 1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. Example: Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground. 2. A trapdoor. 3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through. Example: The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch. Example: A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. 4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance. Example: A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch. 5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine 6. A gullet. Labels: slang 7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. 8. A floodgate; a sluice gate. Example: The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass. 9. A bedstead. Labels: Scotland Example: It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame 10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Word: hatch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge. Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/ 1. To close with a hatch or hatches. Labels: transitive Example: 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Word: hatch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’. Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/ 1. To emerge from an egg. Labels: intransitive Example: These three chicks hatched yesterday morning. 2. To break open when a young animal emerges from it. Labels: intransitive Example: She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching. 3. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch. Labels: transitive Example: I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest. 4. To devise (a plot or scheme). Labels: transitive Example: World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years. Example: As for Cersei, pretending to work with her enemies while secretly hatching some grander scheme was pretty much what I expected for the truce going into it.
Word: hatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’. Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/ 1. The act of hatching. 2. Development; disclosure; discovery. Labels: figuratively Example: There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination 3. A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time. Example: These pullets are from an April hatch. 4. The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity. Labels: often Example: a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104, The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago. Example: The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches, but it's also useful for midge hatches. 5. A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper). Labels: informal Example: hatch, match, and dispatch
Word: hatch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack. Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/ 1. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch). Labels: transitive Example: Those hatching strokes of the pencil. Example: Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. 2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: His weapon hatch'd in blood.
Word: does Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dos, variant of doth, doþ, equivalent to do + -s. For the shortened vowel compare says. Pronunciation: /dəz/, /dʌz/, /dʊz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of do Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: Likes her tea, my mom does.
Word: does Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /dəʊz/, /doʊz/ 1. plural of doe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-ko-s Proto-Germanic *bukkaz Proto-Germanic *bukkô Proto-West Germanic *bukkō Old English bucca Middle English bukke English buck Inherited from Middle English bukke. Doublet of puck (“billy goat”). Currency-related senses hail from American English, a clipping of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748). The idea of rigidly standing implements is instilled by Dutch bok (“sawhorse”) as in zaagbok (“sawbuck”). The sense of an object indicating someone’s turn then occurred in American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck, which reinforced the term “pass the buck” used in poker, and eventually a silver dollar was used in place of a knife, which also led to a dollar being referred to as a buck. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. To copulate, as bucks and does. Labels: intransitive
Word: buck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See beech. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. The beech tree. Labels: Scotland Example: There is in it also woodes of buck, and deir in them. Example: But, whilst we thus condemn the timber, we must not omit to praise the mast, which fats our swine and deer, and hath, in some families, even supported men with bread. Chios endured a memorable siege by the beniefit of this mast. And, in some parts of France, they now grind the buck in mills; it affords a sweet oil, which the poor people east most willingly.
Word: buck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed. Labels: archaic Example: 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236, […] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm. 2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed. Labels: archaic Example: Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!
Word: buck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German būken. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process. Labels: archaic 2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water Labels: archaic 3. To break up or pulverize, as ores. Labels: archaic Example: This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.
Word: buck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal 2. Belly, breast, chest. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal 3. Size. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal
Word: buck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bouk (“belly, trunk, body, hull of a ship, fishtrap, container”), from Old English būc (“belly, bottle, jug, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz. Doublet of bucket. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. To swell out. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive
Word: buck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Hindi बकना (baknā, “babble, talk nonsense”). Pronunciation: /ˈbʌk/, /ˈbʊk/, /ˈbɜk/, /ˈbäk/, /ˈbɐ̞k/ 1. To boast or brag. Labels: archaic, intransitive, slang Example: And then […] he bucks with a quiet stubborn determination that would fill an American editor, or an Under Secretary of State with despair. He belongs to the 12-foot-tiger school, so perhaps he can't help it. Example: He was certainly bucking about his trophies, and for the sake of the argument you will be good enough to admit that you probably bucked about yours. What happens? You are overheard; you are followed; you are worked into the same scheme, and robbed on the same night.
Word: dray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw. Pronunciation: /dɹeɪ/ 1. Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads. Labels: historical Example: Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart. Example: Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a “jog” at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire 2. A kind of sledge or sled.
Word: dray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw. Pronunciation: /dɹeɪ/ 1. To convey (goods) by dray. Labels: transitive
Word: dray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /dɹeɪ/ 1. Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: drey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /dɹeɪ/ 1. A squirrel’s nest, built of twigs in a tree. Labels: UK 2. A possum’s nest, built of twigs and leaves in a tree. Labels: Australia
Word: disseminate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also Middle English disseminat(e) (“disseminated”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/, /dɪˈsɛməˌneɪt/, /dɪˈsemɪˌnæɪt/ 1. To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds. Labels: transitive 2. To become widespread. Labels: intransitive Example: The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world. Example: As the missletoe is disseminated by birds, its existence depends on birds; and it may metaphorically be said to struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds rather than those of other plants. In these several senses, which pass into each other, I use for convenience sake the general term of struggle for existence.
Word: crimp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp. Pronunciation: /kɹɪmp/ 1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. Labels: obsolete Example: Now the Fowler […] Treads the crimp Earth, 2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. Labels: obsolete Example: The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves
Word: crimp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp. Pronunciation: /kɹɪmp/ 1. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. Example: The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp. 2. The natural curliness of wool fibres. 3. Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. Labels: plural-normally 4. A card game. Labels: obsolete Example: Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her. 5. A small hold with little surface area. 6. A grip on such a hold.
Word: crimp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp. Pronunciation: /kɹɪmp/ 1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. Example: Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation. Example: Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards. 2. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. Example: He crimped the wire in place. 3. To pinch and hold; to seize. 4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky. 5. To bend or mold leather into shape. 6. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked. 7. to hold using a crimp
Word: crimp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century. Pronunciation: /kɹɪmp/ 1. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. Example: Indeed, when a maſter of a ſhip, ſuppoſe at Jamaica, hath loſt any of his hands, he applies of courſe to a crimp[…]who makes it his buſineſs to ſeduce the men belonging to ſome other ſhip, Example: Walking the street very hungry, and not knowing what to do with himself, a crimp's bill was put into his hand, offering immediate entertainment and encouragement to such as would bind themselves to serve in America. He went directly, sign'd the indentures, was put into the ship, and came over, never writing a line to acquaint his friends what was become of him. 2. One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade. Labels: specifically 3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. Labels: obsolete
Word: crimp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century. Pronunciation: /kɹɪmp/ 1. To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. Labels: transitive Example: […]nay, where in any corner he can spy a tall man, clutching at him, to crimp him or impress him. Example: To the Reverend Fathers, it seemed that Denis would make an excellent Jesuit; wherefore they set about coaxing and courting, with intent to crimp him.
Word: kip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”). Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A bundle or set of such hides. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. The leather made from such hide. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 'Stockings, madam? Shoes?' 'Yes, your Honor — both.' 'Yarn, perhaps? Morocco?' 'Yarn, your Honor. And kip.'
Word: kip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove. Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal 2. Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal Example: I’m just going for my afternoon kip. 3. A very untidy house or room. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal 4. A brothel. Labels: Ireland, UK, dated, informal
Word: kip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove. Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity. Labels: UK, informal Example: Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed. Example: "Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip."
Word: kip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep). Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. To snatch; take up hastily; filch Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, transitive 2. To hold or keep (together) Labels: intransitive, obsolete 3. To conduct oneself; act Labels: Northern-England, dialectal, intransitive
Word: kip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound. Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound. 2. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds. 3. A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds. Labels: nonstandard, rare
Word: kip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp). Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
Word: kip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”). Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up. Labels: Australia Example: Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air. Example: Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip.
Word: kip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kip (“sleep, lie down”). Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body. 2. A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill. Labels: Scotland
Word: kip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From kip (“sleep, lie down”). Pronunciation: /kɪp/ 1. To perform the kip maneuver. Labels: intransitive
Word: thread Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognates Cognate with Yola dreade (“thread”), Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), Cimbrian draat (“string, thread”), Dutch draad (“thread, wire”), German Draht (“thread, wire”), Luxembourgish Drot (“wire”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish tråd (“thread, wire”), Faroese tráður (“thread”), Icelandic þráður (“thread”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɛd/, [ˈθɹʷɛd] 1. A cord formed by spinning or twisting together textile fibers or filaments into one or more continuous strands, typically used in needlework. Example: Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility. 2. A piece of yarn, especially said of warps and wefts in a woven fabric. 3. Any of various natural (as spiderweb, etc.) or manufactured filaments (as glass, plastic, metal, etc.). Example: the threads of a spiderweb Example: He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps. 4. A slender stream of water. Example: a thread of water 5. The line midway between the banks of a stream. 6. A screw thread. 7. The continuing course of life; the thread of life. 8. An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse. Example: I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying. Example: I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings. 9. An ordered course, that which connects the successive points in a discourse. Example: All of these essays have a common thread. 10. A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently. 11. A series of posts or messages, consisting of an initial post and responses to it, generally relating to the same subject, on a newsgroup, Internet forum, or social media platform. Labels: Internet 12. A sequence of connections. 13. A precarious condition; something that which offers no real or otherwise perceived security. Example: a life hanging by a thread 14. The degree of fineness; quality; nature. Labels: figuratively, obsolete Example: A neat courtier, / Of a most elegant thread.