nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: upblow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow. 1. To inflate. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: 1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […] Example: And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was vpblowne with luxury; 2. To explode, blow up. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing. Example: The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown! 3. To blow in an upward direction. Labels: ambitransitive, archaic Example: The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste, Example: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;
Word: gray Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/ 1. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness. Labels: US 2. Dreary, gloomy, cloudy. Labels: US, figuratively, sometimes Example: the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation Example: It's a pretty grey outlook for England if these are a sample of the mothers of the coming generation. 3. Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability. Labels: US 4. Gray-haired. Labels: US Example: I have already gone gray and lost my looks. 5. Old. Labels: US Example: Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […] Example: In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places. 6. Relating to older people. Labels: US Example: the gray dollar Example: February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.
Word: gray Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/ 1. To turn gray. Labels: US, ergative Example: My hair is beginning to gray. 2. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) Labels: US, slang Example: the graying of America Example: It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular. 3. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate. Labels: US, transitive
Word: gray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”). Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪ/ 1. An achromatic colour between black and white. Labels: US 2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. Labels: US 3. A gray wolf Labels: US Example: Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray. 4. A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus. Labels: US Example: Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray. 5. Synonym of grey alien. Labels: US 6. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating. Labels: US
Word: gray Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965). 1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Labels: US
Word: skimmed milk Part of Speech: noun 1. UK standard form of skim milk. Labels: UK, alt-of, countable, standard, uncountable Example: We like to drink skimmed milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.
Word: TLA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of three-letter acronym/abbreviation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism 2. Initialism of 3-letter agency: the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, humorous, initialism 3. Initialism of trilaurylamine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: TLA Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Tlaxcala: a state of Mexico. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: atmosphere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere. Pronunciation: /ˈætməsˌfɪə/, /ˈatməsˌfɪː/, /ˈatməsˌfɪj.ə/, /ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/, /ˈɛtməsˌfiə/ 1. The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We may smile now to hear witchcraft spoken seriously of; but we forget perhaps that a belief in it is like a belief in the after appearance of the dead among the blue waters, the green graves, the still starry atmosphere and the great shadowy woods of our earth; […] Example: To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres. 2. The air in a particular place. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The last hue of crimson had died away in the west, and the depth of the rich purple atmosphere was unbroken. Example: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…]. 3. The conditions (such as music, illumination, etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 4. The apparent mood felt in an environment. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: The atmosphere for the football match was great. Example: For by the hearth the children sit / ⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death, / ⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath, / Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […] 5. A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the formula P₂Mo_(20–24)O_(2–60). 6. Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines. Labels: uncountable Example: Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […] Example: "It is estimated conservatively that there are some 50,000 would-be film extras in and around the celluloid capital, persons who would jump at the opportunity to appear as atmosphere in pictures," Scott concluded.
Word: indigo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/, /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡo/, /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡoː/ 1. A purplish-blue color. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A greenish dark blue color; the color of indigo dye. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity. 3. A blue-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A Southern planter has been sowing indigo and cotton together. Perhaps he contemplates raising blue cotton; and should he wa­ter the plants with nitric acid, he would probably raise gun cotton—if any.
Word: indigo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: 16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/, /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/, /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡo/, /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡoː/ 1. having a deep purplish-blue colour
Word: ivory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪv(ə)ɹi/ 1. The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals. Labels: uncountable Example: “Leave the ivory!” he cried. “Leave the ivory! Dead men have no use for ivory!” Some of the Manyuema started to lay down their loads, but this was altogether too much for the avaricious Arabs. 2. A creamy white color, the color of ivory. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Something made from or resembling ivory. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The teeth. Labels: collective, countable, plural, singular, uncountable Example: Ye forgot some o' yer ivories, didn't ye, on th' grass? 5. The keys of a piano; or, the white keys, as opposed to the black keys (ebonies). Labels: collective, countable, plural, singular, uncountable Example: to tickle the ivories Example: Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories. 6. A white person. Labels: countable, ethnic, slang, slur, uncountable 7. A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance). Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: c. 1846, Alexandre Dumas (translated by William Barrow), The Three Musketeers The triumphant Englishman did not give himself the trouble even to shake the dice; and, so sure was he of winning, that he threw the ivory on the table without looking.
Word: ivory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”). Pronunciation: /ˈaɪv(ə)ɹi/ 1. Made of ivory. Labels: not-comparable Example: Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say. 2. Resembling or having the colour of ivory. Labels: not-comparable Example: The walls and ceiling of this drawing-room in Montague Square are painted ivory.
Word: navy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”). By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -y. Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”). Pronunciation: /ˈneɪvi/, /ˈnɛjvɪj/, /ˈnæɪvi/, /ˈneve/, /-vɪ/ 1. A country's entire maritime military force, including ships and personnel. Labels: countable Example: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy. Example: People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy. 2. A governmental department in charge of a country's maritime military force. Labels: countable 3. Any fleet of maritime vessels, and especially the entire fleet of any particular nationality, including vessels that are commercial, military, or both. Labels: archaic, countable 4. A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: navy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nave, navye, from Anglo-Norman, Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia < nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, nāvis (“boat”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Compare Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Persian ناو (nâv, “boat, warship”), Sanskrit नाव (nāva, “ship”), Old English nōwend (“mariner, sailor”). By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -y. Displaced native Old English sċiphere (literally “ship army”). Pronunciation: /ˈneɪvi/, /ˈnɛjvɪj/, /ˈnæɪvi/, /ˈneve/, /-vɪ/ 1. Having the dark blue colour of navy blue. Example: The cover is as navy as a bruise. Example: The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face. 2. Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy. Example: […] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors' own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up. Example: Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.
Word: maroon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more. Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. Example: Further north a Maroon community in the Bahoruco Mountains thrived for eighty-five years, until the French proposed a truce under the terms of which the Maroons would be permitted to form an independent clan. Example: Joining others who had escaped before them, they formed communities of Maroons in which many traditional African customs and social mores were preserved. 2. A castaway; a person who has been marooned (abandoned).
Word: maroon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more. Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples. Labels: not-comparable Example: In her discussion of Michelle Cliff's Abeng, a novel that historicizes maroon culture and the Jamaican warrior heroine Nanny of the Maroons, Francoise Lionnet examines linguistic “metissage” […]
Word: maroon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French marron (“feral; fugitive”, adjective), from Spanish cimarrón (“fugitive, wild, feral”); see that entry for more. Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island. Example: Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty. Example: After the harrowing stories of being marooned at sea and stranded in the frozen wastelands of Alaska and the Poles, one would think that survival on dry land would be easier […]
Word: maroon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon)bor. Italian marronebor. French marronbor. English maroon From earlier marone, marron, borrowed from French marron (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón. Doublet of marron (“sweet chestnut”). Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Is it a really dark maroon or a lighter maroon or a maroon that leans toward the red side? Or the magenta side? To address this issue, scientists use something called a color space.
Word: maroon Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon)bor. Italian marronebor. French marronbor. English maroon From earlier marone, marron, borrowed from French marron (“chestnut; brown”). Compare Spanish marrón. Doublet of marron (“sweet chestnut”). Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. Of a dark red or reddish-brown color.
Word: maroon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to the sense “castaway” (etymology 1), or owing to the fact that the color of a fired flare was commonly red (etymology 2). Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (for example, to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid). Example: On Sunday afternoon a serious firework explosion occurred in Lambeth, whereby three persons were seriously injured. Two lads […] purchased a firework called a “maroon”, which is a bomb consisting of a small ball of string covered with a red composition. It is loaded with gunpowder, and there is also a fuse attached. Example: As the evening falls, colored lamps and Chinese lanterns are lighted around the venerable oak which stands in the middle of the fairground and boys climb about among its topmost branches with maroons and Bengal lights.
Word: maroon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an intentional mispronunciation of the word moron used by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny. Pronunciation: /məˈɹuːn/, /məˈɹəʉn/, /məˈɹʉːn/ 1. An idiot; a fool. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: At least, I would not be sleeping that night. Why did I have that espresso? What a maroon!
Word: room Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH-der. Proto-Germanic *rūmą Proto-West Germanic *rūm Old English rūm Middle English roum English room From Middle English roum (“room, space”), from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to root; to rip, tear”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, open”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian rüm (“room, space”), Saterland Frisian and Low German Ruum (“room, space”), Dutch ruim (“open space; cargo hold”), German and Luxembourgish Raum (“room, space”), Vilamovian raojm (“room”), Danish and Swedish rum (“room, space”), Faroese and Icelandic rúm (“space, room”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk rom (“room, space”), Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼 (rum, “room, space”); also Irish rúsc (“bark”), Manx roost (“bark; peel, rind”), Scottish Gaelic rùsg (“rind; bark; fleece; shell”), Welsh rhisgl (“bark”), Latin rūs (“country, fields, lands; estate, farm; village”), Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō), ὀρύττω (orúttō, “to dig”), Latvian raut (“to pull with force”), Lithuanian rauti (“to grub, pull”), Belarusian рыць (rycʹ, “to dig”), Bulgarian ри́я (ríja, “to excavate”), Czech rýt (“to dig; to engrave”), Polish ryć (“to dig”), Russian рыть (rytʹ, “to dig; to burrow, mine”), Slovak ryť (“to dig; to engrave”), Slovene riti (“to dig”), Ukrainian ри́ти (rýty, “to dig, excavate”), Central Kurdish ڕێو (rêw, “public hair”), Tocharian A kärpi (“raw, rough; common”), Tocharian B kärpiye (“raw, rough; common”), Sanskrit लोमन् (loman), रोमन् (roman, “body hair; down, wool”). More at rural. Doublet of Raum, a surname from German. The word superficially appears to be an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which might have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but the retention of Middle English /uː/ before /m/ is regular. In fact, /aʊ/ does not occur before non-coronal consonants in Standard Modern English native vocabulary. Some dialects did undergo diphthongization in such a position and the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ occurs, for example, in Lancashire. Pronunciation: /ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/, /ɹɵm/, /ɹʉwm/, /ɹum/ 1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. Labels: intransitive Example: Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street. Example: Even without looking up, I knew right away who it was. It was Robert Ackley, this guy that roomed right next to me. 2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. Labels: transitive Example: […] convinced (with no scientific evidence) that they would contract the dread disease by breathing the same air in which the patient was roomed, by touching the patient or even by changing the sheets of a patient's bed.
Word: room Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English rūm (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”). Pronunciation: /ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/, /ɹɵm/, /ɹʉwm/, /ɹum/ 1. Wide; spacious; roomy. Labels: dialectal, obsolete
Word: room Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English rome, from Old English rūme (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb). Pronunciation: /ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/, /ɹɵm/, /ɹʉwm/, /ɹum/ 1. Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent. Labels: dialectal, obsolete 2. Off from the wind.
Word: room Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɹʊm/, /ɹuːm/, /ɹɵm/, /ɹʉwm/, /ɹum/ 1. Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: tan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu). Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. A light, brown-like colour. 2. A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. Example: She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico. Example: I'm hoping to get a tan this weekend at the beach. 3. The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained. Example: In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.
Word: tan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English tan, from Old French tan (“tanbark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“green oak”) – compare Breton tann (“red oak”), Old Cornish tannen –, from Proto-Celtic *tannos (“green oak”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)dʰonu (“fir”). Per this hypothesis, related to Hittite [script needed] (tanau, “fir”), Latin femur, genitive feminis (“thigh”), German Tann (“woods”), Tanne (“fir”), Albanian thanë (“cranberry bush”), Ancient Greek θάμνος (thámnos, “thicket”), Avestan 𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬆 (θanuuar^ə), Sanskrit धनु (dhánu). Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. Yellowish-brown. Example: a tan suit Example: Mine is the white car parked next to the tan pickup truck. 2. Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect. Example: You’re looking very tan this week.
Word: tan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: As a verb, from Middle English tannen, from late Old English tannian (“to tan a hide”), from Latin tannare. Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan, though I do burn. 2. To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. Labels: transitive 3. To work as a tanner. Labels: stative, transitive 4. To spank or beat. Labels: informal, transitive Example: "Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."
Word: tan Part of Speech: num Etymology: From a Brythonic language; influenced in form by yan (“one”) in the same series. Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting. Labels: dialectal, rare
Word: tan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian թան (tʻan). Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
Word: tan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 擔／担 (daam3). Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: tan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *tan, from Old English tān (“twig, shoot, switch”), from Proto-West Germanic *tain, from Proto-Germanic *tainaz (“rod, twig, straw, lot”). Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. A twig or small switch. Labels: dialectal
Word: tan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: It may either be a figurative use of the usual verb tan (“to cause to acquire a brownish colour”) or a Jamaican Creole pronunciation of turn, compare bun (“to kill particularly by gunshot”). Pronunciation: /tæn/, [tɛən], /tan/, /tæːn/, [teːn] 1. To kill by gun, to shoot. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive Example: Step on the wing, see an opp and I'll whack it Do it like Super Savage Who's the yute I Jet-Li-rise that dots and tan him (whoosh) Rise that dots and tan him
Word: lob Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2. Pronunciation: /lɒb/ 1. To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc. Labels: transitive Example: The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender. Example: The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake. 2. To throw. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information. Example: I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand. 3. To put, place. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Lob the bacon in the pot. 4. To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game. Labels: transitive Example: Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post. 5. To let fall heavily or lazily. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And their poor jades / Lob down their heads. 6. To reach or arrive at (a place). Labels: Australia, informal, intransitive Example: So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]
Word: lob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2. Pronunciation: /lɒb/ 1. A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air. Example: The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender. Example: Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
Word: lob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”). Pronunciation: /lɒb/ 1. A lump. Example: And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I — 2. A country bumpkin; a yokel. Labels: obsolete Example: Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon. Example: THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […] 3. A clumsy person. 4. The person who comes last in a race. 5. A lob-worm.
Word: lob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging." Pronunciation: /lɒb/ 1. A fish, the European pollock.
Word: lob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of long + bob. Pronunciation: /lɒb/ 1. A long bob haircut.
Word: lob Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /lɒb/ 1. A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.
Word: sombrero Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sombrero (“hat”), from sombra (“shadow, shade”) + -ero, literally, "shade-maker". The drink was named after the hat. Pronunciation: /səmˈbɹɛɹ.əʊ/, /sɒmˈbɹɛɹ.əʊ/, /səmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/, /sɑmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/, /soʊmˈbɹɛɹ.oʊ/ 1. A kind of hat with a high conical or cylindrical crown and a saucer-shaped brim, highly embroidered, made of plush felt. Example: Beatrice looked up and saw a man standing before her; the huge sombrero overshadowed his face, but the light of the lamp shone on a large and glittering knife in his girdle. Example: `Hey listen Pancho, take your hands off me or I'll stick your sombrero up your Khyber.' 2. A mixed drink with coffee liqueur and cream. 3. A series of four consecutive strikes. 4. An umbrella. Labels: obsolete
Word: benzoic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic لُبَان (lubān) Proto-Indo-European *yew- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *yéwos Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.? Proto-Austronesian *zawa Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawader.? Old Javanese jawa Old Javanese -i Old Javanese Jawi Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der. Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa) Proto-Afroasiatic Proto-Semitic Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy) Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy) Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor. Catalan benjuíder. Middle French benjoinder. English benzoin Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English benzoic From benzoin + -ic. Compare French benzoïque. Pronunciation: /bɛnˈzəʊɪk/, /bɛnˈzoʊɪk/ 1. Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin. Labels: not-comparable 2. Derived from benzoic acid or its derivatives. Labels: not-comparable
Word: khaki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی (xākī) / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خَاکِی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”). Noun sense 5 was coined in reference to the colour of the uniform of British troops during the Second Boer War; compare rooinek. Pronunciation: /xɑki/, /kʰɑki/, /ˈkɑː.ki/, /ˈkæ.ki/, /ˈkɑɹ.ki/ 1. A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When you've shouted "Rule Britannia", when you've sung "God Save The Queen", When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth; Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine For a gentleman in khaki ordered South? Example: But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough. 2. Khaki green, a dull green colour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1921, War work of the Bureau of Standards, no. 46, page 54. The English Government for a long time has used a type of pigmented dope cover, khaki colored by iron pigments and lampblack, which is called P. C. 10. Example: 2007, Yuji Matsuki, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, page 4, →ISBN. At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army Air Service painted everything khaki. This khaki was practically the same as British PC10 and can be considered the basis of the later olive drab color. 3. A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A soldier wearing a khaki uniform. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable 5. A British person. Labels: South-Africa, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: "Frank, it's a khaki," I whisper, "keep straight on." Example: War and then victory raised patriotic sentiment inside Britain and brought the Colonial Secretary national popularity. Unionists were quick to milk this with a 'khaki' election in 1900 at which they won a massive landslide. 6. Khaki clothing or uniform. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: 1915 Out West magazine The porter in going through the rear coach, which was almost empty, noticed one of the occupants, a muscular, soldierly man in khakies to be apparently asleep in his seat.
Word: khaki Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani خاکی (xākī) / ख़ाकी (xākī), from Classical Persian خَاکِی (xākī, “dusty, earthy, earth-colored”). Noun sense 5 was coined in reference to the colour of the uniform of British troops during the Second Boer War; compare rooinek. Pronunciation: /xɑki/, /kʰɑki/, /ˈkɑː.ki/, /ˈkæ.ki/, /ˈkɑɹ.ki/ 1. Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.
Word: sorbet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic شَرِبَ (šariba)der. Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba)bor. Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat)bor. Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet)bor. Italian sorbettobor. Middle French sorbetbor. English sorbet Borrowed from Middle French sorbet, borrowed from Italian sorbetto, borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet), borrowed from Classical Persian شَرْبَت (šarbat), borrowed from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba), from شَرِبَ (šariba). Doublet of sherbet and sharbat, related to syrup. Pronunciation: /sɔɹˈbeɪ/, /ˈsɔːbeɪ/ 1. Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.
Word: tamale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from the plural tamales, derived from Latin American Spanish tamales, plural of tamal, derived from Nahuatl tamalli (“wrapped”), derived from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tïmaL-. Compare O'odham cemait (“tortilla”), Hopi tuma (“stone griddle for cooking corn flatbread”), Ute tʉ'ma- (“to roast under ashes”). Pronunciation: /təˈmɑː.liː/, /təˈmɑ.li/, /təˈmɒ.li/, /təˈmɐː.liː/, /təˈma.li/ 1. A Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks. Example: She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.
Word: hot tamale Part of Speech: intj 1. An exclamation of surprise. Example: Boy oh boy it’s cold today, hot tamale!
Word: hot tamale Part of Speech: noun 1. A physically attractive person. Labels: US, informal Example: "Isn't he the cutest thing?" she whispered to Evelyn. "Have you noticed? This place is absolutely crawling with gorgeous men. The ticket-taker, that Latin hot tamale […]" Example: After years of wearing her hair in braids and schlumping down Seventh Avenue all covered up in padded coats, sweaters, and undies, Wally reinvented herself as a hot tamale with a mane of wild ringlets and a Coca-Cola—shaped bod. 2. A comical person or thing. Labels: US, informal Example: He' so funny; what a hot tamale he is!
Word: turtle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Old Occitan tortuga (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling (See birdling). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːtl̩/, /ˈtɝtl̩/, [ˈtʰɝɾɫ̩] 1. Any land, aquatic, or semi-aquatic reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. Labels: Canada, US Example: A unique anti-aphrodisiac was the heart of a turtle carried in a wolf's skin. It prevented a person from ever being tempted amorously. 2. A marine reptile of that order. Labels: Australia, UK, specifically 3. An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above. Labels: historical 4. A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program. 5. An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing. Example: Depending on which version of Logo you have, the turtle may look like an actual animal with a head and four legs or — as in Berkeley Logo — it may be represented as a triangle. 6. The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press. Labels: historical 7. A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit. 8. A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk". 9. A low stand for a lamp etc. Example: Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television Using an appropriate turtle allows the full range of pan and tilt adjustments on the luminaire and avoids possible heat damage to floor coverings. 10. A candy with pecans, caramel, and chocolate, often shaped like a turtle.
Word: turtle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Modification of Middle English tortou, tortu, from Old French tortüe (under the influence of Middle English turtel, turtur (“turtledove”), see Etymology 2 below), from Old Occitan tortuga (compare Spanish tortuga), the same source of tortoise (see there for more). Displaced native Old English byrdling (See birdling). Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːtl̩/, /ˈtɝtl̩/, [ˈtʰɝɾɫ̩] 1. To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down. Labels: intransitive Example: Were speeding when car turtled […] Auto crashed into curb and turtled. 2. To move along slowly. Labels: intransitive Example: We turtled along in Manitoba, back into the heart of the prairies. 3. To turn and swim upside down. Labels: intransitive Example: I turtled my board beneath it, flipped upright, and started paddling again. 4. To hunt turtles, especially in the water. Labels: intransitive Example: Of these, 80 turtled (65%), 26 hunted and turtled (20%), and 18 hunted (15%). 5. To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy. Labels: intransitive 6. Ellipsis of turtle head (“to struggle to hold back an imminent bowel movement”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive, slang
Word: turtle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English turtle, tortle, turtel, turtul, from Old English turtle, turtla (“turtledove”), ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtledove”), of imitative origin. Pronunciation: /ˈtɜːtl̩/, /ˈtɝtl̩/, [ˈtʰɝɾɫ̩] 1. A turtle dove. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: The same he tooke, and with a riband new, / In which his Ladies colours were, did bind / About the turtles neck […]. Example: As the turtle, every day has been a black day with her since her husband died, and what should we unruly members make here?
Word: hammerkop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans hamerkop, from hamer (“hammer”) + kop (“head”). 1. A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the family Scopidae and related to the herons.
Word: mata mata turtle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of matamata. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tutu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”). Pronunciation: /ˈtutu/, /ˈtuːtuː/ 1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting. Example: The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.
Word: tutu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori tutu. Pronunciation: [ˈtʉːˌtʉː] 1. Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: tutu Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Māori tutū (“mischievous, disobedient”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʊtʉː/ 1. to fiddle or mess around with something. Labels: New-Zealand, childish Example: "There were seven dudes here for a week just showing me how to use it and I just wanted them to leave so I could start tutuing with it."
Word: hut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide. Pronunciation: /hʌt/, /hɐt/, /hʊt/ 1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials. Example: a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut Example: And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him. 2. A small wooden shed. Example: a groundsman’s hut 3. A small stack of grain. Labels: obsolete
Word: hut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide. Pronunciation: /hʌt/, /hɐt/, /hʊt/ 1. To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: to hut troops in winter quarters Example: […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood, 2. To take shelter in a hut. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219, Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls. Example: He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia. 3. To stack (sheaves of grain). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,
Word: hut Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc. Pronunciation: /hʌt/, /hɐt/, /hʊt/ 1. Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
Word: pupa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from a special use of Latin pūpa (“little girl; doll, puppet”). Doublet of pupe; compare also puppet, puppy. Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːpə/ 1. An insect in the development stage between larva and adult. Example: The public is the pupae of the purposely purblind […]
Word: handiron Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of andiron. Labels: alt-of, obsolete