nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: prefecture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French préfecture, from Latin praefectūra. Equivalent to prefect + -ure. As an East Asian administrative division, a calque of Chinese 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn), also used to describe 縣 /县 (xian, “county”) and 州 (zhou, “province”) in some eras. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːfɛkt͡ʃə/, /ˈpɹiːfɛktjʊə/, /ˈpɹiˌfɛkt͡ʃəɹ/, /ˈpɹɛfɛkt͡ʃəɹ/ 1. The office or position of a prefect. 2. The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions. Example: The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China’s Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation. Zhang Xiulan, who has been governor of Wenshan prefecture since March 2015, is suspected of “grave violations of discipline and the law,” the Yunnan Province Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement, without elaborating. Example: In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).
Word: euonym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- (“good, well; true, genuine”) + -onym (“name, word”). Pronunciation: /ˈju.əˌnɪm/ 1. A name well suited to the person, place or object which bears it. Labels: rare
Word: caconym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to caco- + -onym or caco- + -nym. 1. An incorrect name for something, especially in taxonomic classification.
Word: Catch-22 Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American writer Joseph Heller in 1961 in his novel Catch-22, in which the main character feigns madness in order to avoid dangerous combat missions, but his desire to avoid them is taken to prove his sanity. Pronunciation: /ˌkætʃ ˌtwɛnti ˈtuː/ 1. A difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions. Labels: idiomatic Example: For us it’s been a real Catch-22: when we have the time to take a vacation, we don’t have enough money, and when we have enough money, we don’t have the time. Example: Herein lies my personal “Catch 22”; the choice between three hours sleep and some discomfort or six hours sleep and real pain. Usually I choose the lesser evil of insomnia because in addition to the pain at 6am, I am incapacitated by the hangover from the sedative.
Word: scrapie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scrape + -ie, from the tendency of affected animals to scrape themselves against solid objects. Pronunciation: /ˈskɹeɪpi/ 1. A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.
Word: mob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). Pronunciation: /mɒb/, /mɑb/ 1. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action. Example: Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Example: See also: Mob (the masses) 2. The lower classes of a community; the rabble. Labels: archaic Example: A cluster of mob, who were making themselves merry with their betters. 3. A group of animals such as horses or cattle. Labels: collective Example: Well behind the fire were the pack-saddles and a dark mob of feeding horses[.] 4. (collective) A group of kangaroos. Labels: Australia 5. (collective) A group of emus. Labels: Australia 6. A mafia: a group that engages in organized crime. Example: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face. Example: The Greeks, displaying a characteristic often a mark of defeated armies, pursued a 'scorched earth' policy toward western Anatolia... The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating troops and accompanying civilian Christian mobs. 7. A group of Aboriginal people associated with an extended family group, clan group or wider community group, from a particular place or country. Example: There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry. Example: There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.
Word: mob Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mob, short for mobile, from Latin mōbile (vulgus) (“fickle (crowd)”). Pronunciation: /mɒb/, /mɑb/ 1. To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. Labels: transitive Example: The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols. Example: Politicians have been turning up to Glastonbury for years, but this year the leader of the opposition was among the most hotly anticipated attractions: when he arrived on site, his Land Rover was mobbed by fans. 2. To crowd into or around a place. Labels: transitive Example: The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Word: mob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of mab. Pronunciation: /mɒb/, /mɑb/ 1. A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute. Labels: obsolete 2. A mob cap. Example: c. 1773-1774, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs Bunbury cover their faces with mobs
Word: mob Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of mab. Pronunciation: /mɒb/, /mɑb/ 1. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. Labels: transitive
Word: mob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of mobile. The video-gaming sense is sometimes reported as an abbreviation of man or beast or of mobile object, but these are backronyms. Pronunciation: /mɒb/, /mɑb/ 1. Abbreviation of mobile phone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. A creature or non-player character, especially one meant to be fought or killed. Example: Instead of fighting the mobs myself someone led me around to "help" me level; […] Example: You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. 3. A background character in general. Labels: Japanese
Word: restore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre. By surface analysis, re- + store. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɔː/, /ɹɪˈstoɹ/, /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/, /ɹɪˈstoə/ 1. To reestablish, or bring back into existence. Labels: transitive Example: to restore harmony among those who are at variance Example: He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed. 2. To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin. Labels: transitive Example: and his hand was restored whole as the other Example: our fortune restored after the severest afflictions 3. To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace. Labels: transitive Example: Now therefore restore the man his wife. Example: Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat. 4. To give in place of, or as restitution for. Labels: transitive Example: He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 5. To recover (data, etc.) from a backup. Labels: transitive Example: There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system. 6. To bring (a note) back to its original signification. Labels: transitive 7. To make good; to make amends for. Labels: obsolete Example: But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
Word: restore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English restoren, from Old French restorer, from Latin rēstaurāre. By surface analysis, re- + store. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɔː/, /ɹɪˈstoɹ/, /ɹɪˈsto(ː)ɹ/, /ɹɪˈstoə/ 1. The act of recovering data or a system from a backup. Example: We backed up the data successfully, but the restore failed.
Word: restrain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English restreinen, from Old French restreindre, from Latin rēstringere (“fasten, tighten”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/ 1. To control or keep in check. Labels: transitive Example: As with vicarious mismenstruation, the abnormal cessation only requires strict attention to the general health, with such measures to restrain hemorrhage as have already been indicated. 2. To deprive of liberty. Labels: transitive 3. To restrict or limit. Labels: transitive Example: He was restrained by the straitjacket. Example: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
Word: restrain Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + strain. 1. To strain again. Labels: transitive Example: Squeeze the juice from 3 oranges and let the juice stand. Then pour it off, strain, and mix with the syrup. Restrain the liquid and chill in a mold.
Word: toponym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from toponymy. By surface analysis, topo + -nym. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒpənɪm/ 1. A placename. Example: As we celebrate one hundred years of official 'standardization' of Canadian toponyms, this would be an appropriate time to reflect upon the state of toponyms used by the Aboriginal people of Canada. Example: Conquests were recorded using toponyms that refer to specific cities or locations, and war captives were identified by their place of origin. 2. A word derived from the name of a place. Labels: uncommon Example: ‘Tangerine’ is a toponym of Tangier. Example: The name Rūmī, by which he is widely known in the West, is a toponym referring to the fact that he lived in the province of Rūm (Anatolia), the country now known as Turkey. 3. The technical designation of any region of an animal.
Word: syllabus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin syllabus (“list”), which arose from accusative plural syllabōs appearing as a corruption of sittybās (accusative plural of sittyba, from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label; table of contents”)) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's “Ad Atticum” IV.5 and 8, influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to put together”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪləbəs/ 1. A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture. Example: In the first half of the year, teachers attended the training workshop for the new K-10 Chinese syllabus. In July, almost all the teachers attended the teacher training courses provided by OCAC. Example: ‘I checked online for a beginner syllabus,’ she say. ‘A syllabus is a plan for how we would work, what I can teach you.’ 2. The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.
Word: messy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mess Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English messy From mess + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛsi/ 1. In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. Labels: person Example: a messy office Example: Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair. 2. Prone to causing mess. Example: He is the messiest person I've ever met. 3. Difficult or unpleasant to deal with. Example: a messy divorce Example: Say bonjour to the botched R.S.V.P. The practice of replying to invitations, let alone actually showing up to parties as promised, has become as antiquated as the chimney sweep, and much messier. 4. Argumentative, spreading spreading gossip, talking behind someone's back Example: They keep starting fights with Sam, they're so messy.
Word: tomatoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tomato Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of tomatoe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disorderly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From disorder + -ly (adjectival suffix) or from dis- + orderly. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɔː.də.li/ 1. Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray. Example: The books and papers are in a disorderly state. Example: This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight. 2. Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind. 3. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless. Example: disorderly people; disorderly assemblies Example: The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend. 4. Offensive to good morals and public decency. Example: a disorderly house
Word: disorderly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disorder + -ly (adjectival suffix) or from dis- + orderly. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɔː.də.li/ 1. A person who acts in a disorderly manner. Example: The police are allowed one shilling a-head upon all disorderlies who are discharged by the magistrates upon payment of expenses. The number so discharged are about a third of the number in custody.
Word: disorderly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From disorder + -ly (adverbial suffix) or from dis- + orderly. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɔː.də.li/ 1. In a confused or lawless manner.
Word: she'll be apples Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From rhyming slang - apples and spice = nice; compare she's apples. 1. Everything will be all right. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial Example: “She′ll be right,” Bob exuded a confidence much out of touch with the reality of the situation, “She′ll be apples.” Example: The thought made him smile and he patted Cec on the shoulder. ‘She′ll be apples,’ he encouraged, and Cec took up his cup.
Word: she's apples Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From rhyming slang - apples and spice = nice. 1. Everything is all right, or in good working order. Labels: Australia, colloquial Example: The other saw Mama-san; ‘She’s apples, Frank! We don't have to go any further. Here's Mama-sa’ waiting to turn it on for us! Konichiwa, Mama-san,’ he said enticingly. Example: I'm no good now, I'm burnt out. I was real good but only got one good and one bad one. My leg, look! That's it! But the other leg, she's apples. And that's how it is.
Word: waiting room Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From waiting + room. Compare Dutch wachtruimte (“waiting room, waiting area”), German Warterraum (“waiting room”). 1. A room in a public place for people to wait. Example: In the third place, by its situation it serves only for a waiting-room, and a passage to the principal apartments, instead of being reserved, as it ought to be, for entertaining company […] Example: A blind bearing the monogram G.V.T. is pulled down over the waiting room window as if still in mourning for the passing of the railway.
Word: KISS Part of Speech: verb 1. Acronym of keep it simple, stupid. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: KISS when you're writing.
Word: waiting list Part of Speech: noun 1. An ordered list of people waiting to obtain a good or service. Example: He is still on the waiting list for public housing. Example: An end to austerity, with the fastest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years.
Word: waken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪkən/ 1. To wake or rouse from sleep. Labels: transitive 2. To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. Labels: intransitive Example: Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Example: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Word: wake up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wake + up. Pronunciation: /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/, [ˌweɪˈkʌp] 1. To stop sleeping; to awake. Labels: intransitive Example: I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan. Example: "Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head" 2. To awaken somebody. Labels: transitive Example: Wake your brother up; it's time for school. Example: It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.” 3. To become more aware of a real-life situation; to concentrate on the matter in hand. Labels: intransitive Example: Some businesses were slow to wake up to the importance of the Internet. Example: That's the third time you've made the same mistake. Wake up!
Word: kiss chase Part of Speech: noun 1. A children's game similar to tag, the object being for the person who is "it" to catch and kiss another of the participants, who then subsequently becomes "it". Labels: uncountable
Word: walkabout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from walk about, originally in Australian Pidgin English; the Australian aboriginal word wokabat is derived from this term. 1. A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society. Labels: Australia Example: The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts. 2. A walking trip. 3. A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally. Labels: UK Example: While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the throwing open of the royal palaces to visitors – even the paying of income tax, and royal podcasts – would have been inconceivable as innovations at the time Elizabeth came to the throne. 4. An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
Word: walkover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from walk over. 1. An easy victory; a walkaway. Example: Along the way, there was another backdrop to this match, in the form of the goal updates from Serravalle informing everyone that Ukraine were on their way to the obligatory walkover against San Marino. 2. A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game. 3. A horse race with only one entrant. 4. An uncontested election. Labels: Singapore 5. Someone easy to defeat. 6. Someone who does not stand up for themselves when mistreated; a doormat. Labels: colloquial 7. A backbend combined with a handstand. 8. A match whose winner is declared because the other boxer does not appear in the ring within one minute of the official time. 9. A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel Example: The train's walkover seats are turned by the crew. Example: It took about 10 minutes to flip the walkovers in each car. 10. An ecological survey carried out by walking across and examining a piece of land.
Word: walkie-talkie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From walking + talking. Pronunciation: /ˌwoː.ki ˈtoː.ki/, /ˌwɔk.i ˈtɔk.i/, /ˌwɑ.ki ˈtɑ.ki/ 1. A portable, bidirectional radio transceiver, usually one of a pair. Example: It is intended to equip the yard foremen and shunters with "walkie-talkie" apparatus to keep them in close touch with the control office. Example: A walkie-talkie is a handheld, portable, two-way radio transceiver. It includes a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission. 2. A walk and talk. Labels: rare Example: It could be that her walkie-talkie with Naylor had concerned a private matter not connected with what was about to happen to him, ... Example: Go on a walkie-talkie. Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.
Word: walking stick Part of Speech: noun 1. A tool, such as a cane, used to ease pressure on the legs, and to aid stability, when walking. Example: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side. 2. A stick insect (order Phasmida). 3. A playing card with the rank of seven. Labels: slang
Word: alpenstock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Alpenstock, from Alpen (“alps”) + Stock (“stick”), early 19th c. Pronunciation: /ˈælp.ən.stɑk/, /ˈælp.ən.stɒk/ 1. A stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain. Example: […]liaison being leaked to Der Spiegel resulted in the bizarre deaths of both an Ottawan paparazzo and a Bavarian international-affairs editor, of an alpenstock through the abdomen and an ill-swallowed cocktail onion, respectively?’
Word: wallet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English walet (“a bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“a roll; bag; a knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.ɪt/, /ˈwɑl.ət/, /ˈwɔl.ət/, /ˈwɒ.lɪt/ 1. A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc. Labels: UK, US Example: The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet. Example: I forgot my wallet and left it at home. 2. A person's bank account or assets. Labels: broadly, informal Example: It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not. Example: In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion—or more simply, in the poorer latitudes, for the mere acquisition of things—would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan […] 3. An e-wallet or digital wallet. 4. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored. Example: I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet. 5. A bag or pouch. Labels: archaic Example: He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road. 6. A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet). Labels: slang Example: He fell down and landed on his wallet.
Word: waltz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną. Pronunciation: /wɒlts/, /wɔːlts/, /wɔlts/, /wɑlts/ 1. A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. Example: Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high. 2. A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time). 3. A simple task. Labels: informal
Word: waltz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną. Pronunciation: /wɒlts/, /wɔːlts/, /wɔlts/, /wɑlts/ 1. To dance the waltz (with). Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record. Example: While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once. 2. To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited. Labels: intransitive, transitive, usually Example: He waltzed into the room like he owned the place. Example: You can't just waltz him in here without documentation! 3. To accomplish a task with little effort. Labels: informal Example: Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it. 4. To move with fanfare. Labels: transitive Example: And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to[…] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
Word: waltz Matilda Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From waltz + matilda (“romantic name for a swag”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːl(t)s məˈtɪldə/ 1. To travel on foot carrying a swag (belongings wrapped in a blanket); to travel in this manner looking for work. Labels: Australia Example: Coercionist Byrnes tells an S. M. Herald reporter that things in Queensland are eminently satisfactory. He doesn't "Waltz Matilda," evidently. Example: As far as I was concerned the choice was Alice Springs, the center of the great Outback or a box car. There was no contest. I was ready to waltz Matilda.
Word: wanderlust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Wanderlust (“an urge to travel; a love of the ‘great outdoors’”), from wandern (“to wander; to hike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + Lust (“a desire, a wish to do or have something; fun, pleasure”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)); analysable as wander + lust. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒndəlʌst/, /ˈwɑndɚˌlʌst/ 1. A strong impulse or longing to travel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Very often we made detours from the main caravan, rejoining it at a given spot, and this spirit of "wanderlust" brought us into a nice quandary one fine day. Example: For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife. 2. An impulse to be unfaithful or seek out other romantic or sexual partners; a straying heart. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Males like lots of rapid anonymous sex. It's a biological drive. When you get a male-female couple together the male often gives up his wanderlust in exchange for the security of having a home. Example: I was the slapper ... was in a short piece where I was a jealous girlfriend who slapped my date for his wanderlust.
Word: wanderlust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from German Wanderlust (“an urge to travel; a love of the ‘great outdoors’”), from wandern (“to wander; to hike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + Lust (“a desire, a wish to do or have something; fun, pleasure”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)); analysable as wander + lust. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒndəlʌst/, /ˈwɑndɚˌlʌst/ 1. To feel a strong impulse or longing to travel. Labels: intransitive Example: Yes, he probably saw a picture of the South Sea islands last night, and now he is wanderlusting. 2. To roam or travel widely. Labels: intransitive Example: "Be assured that we will never weary listening to tales related by one who has wanderlusted so many years," flattered Mrs. Cunningham, [...] Example: It was the joy of our lives to be once more "hitting the trail," lustily as ever, Sunday last, under the brave lead of one who started the community hike here, and who, after three months wanderlusting in other lands must rejoice to find that a few brave scouts have kept up the good work here and made of us "some hikers."
Word: wanting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/, /ˈwɒntɪŋ/ 1. That wants or desires. 2. Absent or lacking. Example: Already Cæſar Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword: Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes. Example: […] but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given. 3. Deficient. Example: Kate felt privileged to have been permitted to speak through it and she was glad that, as before, she had been judged and not found wanting
Word: wanting Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/, /ˈwɒntɪŋ/ 1. Without, except, but. 2. Less, short of, minus.
Word: wanting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/, /ˈwɒntɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of want Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wanting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, equivalent to want + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/, /ˈwɒntɪŋ/ 1. The state of wanting something; desire. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Choice occurs only when we experience a conflict of wantings.
Word: warden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wartēn (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdən/, /ˈwɔɹdən/ 1. A guard or watchman. Labels: archaic, literary Example: He called to the wardens on the outside battlements. 2. A chief administrative officer of a prison. Example: The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […] 3. An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden. 4. A governing official in various institutions Example: the warden of a college
Word: warden Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wartēn (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdən/, /ˈwɔɹdən/ 1. To carry out the duties of a warden.
Word: warden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wardon, origin uncertain; perhaps from Anglo-Norman or Anglo-Latin wardo, -ōnis. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdən/, /ˈwɔɹdən/ 1. A variety of pear. Example: Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a brown Paper, and no more talk on’t: Example: I must have saffron to colour the warden pies;
Word: warder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”). 1. A guard, especially in a prison. Example: Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I. But hath thy portion wrought so happily? Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep, I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace. Example: Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song. 2. One who or that which wards or repels. Example: The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.
Word: warder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English warder, wardere, also as Middle English warderer, warderere, probably a derivative of Etymology 1 above. 1. A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands. Labels: archaic Example: 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25, When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind, Casts down his Warder to arrest them there; Example: Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
Word: ward off Part of Speech: verb 1. To parry, or turn aside. Labels: transitive Example: He raised his arms to ward off the attack. Example: Door guards are a detail that can be added readily to almost any garage door for the purpose of protecting the door from being broken off the hinges or for the protection that is afforded the customers of the garage. The simplest form of these are inclined slides for warding off the front or rear wheels of the entering car. 2. To, while in possession of the ball, move the free hand or the hand and arm holding the butt end of the stick laterally into a defending player's body or stick. 3. To avert or prevent. Labels: transitive Example: He wore garlic to ward off vampires. Example: Group 2, the never or prophylactic group, was also small compared with group 1. Iodine lockets, string shirts, underwear made of special material such as flannel (particularly red), sheep wool, angora wool, clothes made of modern synthetic fibres, and so on, would ward off arthritis.
Word: warehouseman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ware Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house English warehouse Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English warehouseman From warehouse + -man. 1. A person who manages, or works in, a warehouse. Example: But the itinerant tradesman or street-seller is still further distinguished from the regular fixed dealer—the stallkeeper from the shopkeeper—the street-wareman from the warehouseman, by the arts they respectively employ to attract custom. Example: If a recount of an item is ordered, the warehouseman responsible for the custody of the stock accompanies and assists the rechecker to assure himself that the exact quantity of stock recorded as on hand is actually physically present. 2. One who keeps a wholesale shop for woollen goods. Labels: UK, obsolete
Word: pawn shop Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pawnshop. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pawnshop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pawn + shop. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːnʃɒp/, /ˈpɔnʃɑp/ 1. The business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security
Word: pawnbroker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pawn + broker. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːnˌbɹəʊ.kə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed. Example: "We may keep it by us," replied the pawnbroker, "for months; there is no demand for such articles." "But," exclaimed she, eagerly, "I shall soon redeem it!" "So you all say," returned the man, with imperturbable coolness.
Word: Roxy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutives + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒksi/, /ˈɹɑksi/ 1. A diminutive of the female given names Roxana, Roxane, and Roxanne.
Word: Roxy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒksi/, /ˈɹɑksi/ 1. A Roxicodone tablet. Labels: slang
Word: Roxanne Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s.
Word: e-book Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A contraction of electronic book: e- + book. Pronunciation: /ˈiːbʊk/ 1. An electronic book, a book published in electronic form. Example: The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel.
Word: warhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From war + head, originally to distinguish a live war head of a torpedo from an inert exercise head. Piecewise doublet of war chief. 1. The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage. Example: "To their anchorage off Kodiak," Chuck says. "The Orthos were all ready. They had put together a crew of ex-Navy men, guys who had worked on nuke subs in the past—X-rays, they call them—and they came and took the sub over. As for us, we had no idea that any of this had happened. Until one of the warheads showed up in the goddamn front yard." Example: "Multi Bottle Rocket". Possibly the strongest weapon around, it does a lot of damage due to its massive warhead. 2. The glans penis. Labels: slang 3. A cigarette where the tobacco is mixed with some other drug. Labels: slang
Word: pillow block Part of Speech: noun 1. A mounting used to support a rotating shaft, using a bearing in a housing which is bolted to a foundation or bedplate with the mounted shaft in a parallel plane to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the centre line of the mounting holes; functionally similar to a plummer block.
Word: voyeur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videō Old French veoir Middle French veoir French voir French -eur French voyeurbor. English voyeur Borrowed from French voyeur, from voir (“to see”). Pronunciation: /vɔɪˈjɜː/, /vwɑːˈjɜː/, /vɔɪˈjɜɹ/, /vwɑˈjɜr/ 1. A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism. 2. An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.
Word: paper money Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From paper + money. Pronunciation: /ˌpeɪpə ˈmʌni/, /ˌpeɪpəɹ ˈmʌni/ 1. Cash in the form of banknotes. Labels: uncountable
Word: paper money Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque from Chinese 紙錢／纸钱 (zhǐqián). Pronunciation: /ˌpeɪpə ˈmʌni/, /ˌpeɪpəɹ ˈmʌni/ 1. A type of joss paper resembling banknotes burnt to venerate the deceased, ancestor spirits, deities, etc. Labels: uncountable Example: Moreover, you say that serving Fuh is a profitable service; that if you burn paper money, present offerings, and keep fasts before the face of your god Fuh, he will dissipate calamities, blot out your sins, increase your happiness, and prolong your age! Example: Tablets in honour of the dead are set up in every house over a sort of family altar; and at certain times flowers are offered and paper-money is burned at these shrines.
Word: phantasy Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of fantasy. Labels: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable Example: What generous self-sacrifice—what a world of gentle affection, were now called forth in Emily by a moment's phantasy, whose life depended on that frailest of frail things, a coquette's vanity! Example: Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies. 2. The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By later Kleinians and critics alike, phantasy is often seen as identical to Freud's concept of psychic reality. Example: However, Klein's phantasy is not exactly Lacan's imaginary fantasy; it is, I think, more than that.
Word: phantasy Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of fantasy. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: ps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of p Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ps Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of PS (post scriptum). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Abbreviation of power steering. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: iconize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn)der. Latin īcōnbor. English icon Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English iconize From icon + -ize. 1. To form an image or likeness of someone. Labels: transitive 2. To minimize (a window) on a computer screen, replacing it with a representative icon. Labels: transitive
Word: banter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women." Pronunciation: /ˈbæntə/, /ˈbæntɚ/, [ˈbɛən.tɚ], [ˈbeːn.tɐ] 1. Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation. Labels: uncountable Example: I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler. Example: This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours. 2. Good-humoured bits of monologue and/or conversational prompts used in any of a wide range of occupations that must frequently interact with the public (for example, store clerks, salespersons, nurses). Labels: uncountable
Word: banter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women." Pronunciation: /ˈbæntə/, /ˈbæntɚ/, [ˈbɛən.tɚ], [ˈbeːn.tɐ] 1. To engage in banter or playful conversation. Labels: intransitive 2. To play or do something amusing. Labels: intransitive 3. To tease (someone) mildly. Labels: transitive Example: Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit. Example: Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. 4. To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: June 1804, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. 5. To delude or trick; to play a prank upon. Labels: transitive Example: [W]e diverted ourſelves vvith bantering ſeveral other poor Scholars, vvith hopes of being at leaſt his Lordſhip's Chaplains and putting on a Scarf; […] 6. To challenge to a match. Labels: Southern, US, Western, colloquial, transitive 7. To haggle; cheapen the price. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: fora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fora; by surface analysis, for(um) + -a. 1. plural of forum; alternative form of forums Labels: form-of, plural Example: Welcomes the Committee’s work, which has drawn on the reports of the Panel of Experts and taken advantage of the work done in other fora, to draw attention to the responsibilities of private sector actors in conflict affected areas;
Word: buttfuck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From butt + fuck. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtfʌk/ 1. An act of anal intercourse. Labels: Canada, US, slang, vulgar
Word: buttfuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From butt + fuck. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtfʌk/ 1. To perform an act of anal intercourse. Labels: Canada, US, slang, vulgar Example: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, Dwayne.
Word: Britannia metal Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy of tin with copper and antimony, somewhat like pewter. Labels: uncountable
Word: candy flipping Part of Speech: noun 1. The experience of combining the drugs LSD and MDMA. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Pretty Lights blasts from invisible speakers, making Lion think about candyflipping back in high school.
Word: candy flipping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of candy flip Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cannibalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Cariban *kariponader. Spanish caribeder. Spanish caríbalder. Spanish caníbalbor. English cannibal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English cannibalization From cannibal + -ization. 1. The act of cannibalizing. 2. The act of cannibalizing. 3. The act of cannibalizing. 4. The act of cannibalizing.
Word: hand pay Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation when a slot attendant or cage gives the player a cash payout, rather than the actual slot machine paying out from the printer with ticket voucher or coin hopper. Example: If you could get 30 or more hands an hour (the low number is due to the frequent hand-pays), the hourly return exceeded $1,000!
Word: phenome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pheno- + -ome. 1. The whole set of phenotypic entities in a cell, tissue, organ, organisms, and species. This includes phenotypic traits with genotypic origins.
Word: pootie Part of Speech: noun 1. A baby's pacifier. Labels: slang Example: Please pick up the baby's pootie and put it back in his mouth.
Word: pootie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pooty (“the female genitalia”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As Preacher Stevie's prayer drones on I imagine the things Rhonda's sweaty hand touched while she was hawking her underage pootie on the streets of Oklahoma City.
Word: catalytic reformer Part of Speech: noun 1. A reformation technique used to "strip" gasoline of impurities, improve octane rating etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: commercial model Part of Speech: noun 1. a person (usually a female actress or singer) who stars in a product advertisement (posters, TV advertisement spots etc.).
Word: croquis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French croquis. Pronunciation: /kɹoʊˈkiː/ 1. A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.
Word: globus cruciger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin globus cruciger (“globe bearing a cross”). Pronunciation: /ˌɡləʊ̯bəs ˈkɹuːsɪd͡ʒə/, /ˌɡloʊ̯bəs ˈkrusɪd͡ʒɚ/ 1. A globe topped by a cross, used as a symbol of royal power.