nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: roast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English rosten, a borrowing from Old French rostir (“to roast, to torture with fire”), from Frankish *rōstijan (“to roast, broil”), from Proto-Germanic *raustijaną (“to roast”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrews- (“to crackle; roast”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian rosterje (“to roast”), Dutch roosten, roosteren (“to roast”), German rösten (“to roast”). Displaced native Middle English breden, bræden (“to roast”), from Old English brǣdan, related to German braten (“to roast, grill”). The noun is from Middle English roste, from Old French rost, roste, from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹoʊst/, /ɹəʊst/ 1. Having been cooked by roasting. Labels: not-comparable 2. Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable
Word: entail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”). Pronunciation: /ɛnˈteɪl/, /ɪnˈteɪl/, /ənˈteɪl/, /enˈtæɪl/, /ɪnˈtæɪl/ 1. To imply, require, or invoke. Labels: transitive Example: This activity will entail careful attention to detail. Example: What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”). 2. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage. Labels: transitive Example: Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Example: 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates. 3. To appoint hereditary possessor. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
Word: entail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above. Pronunciation: /ɛnˈteɪl/, /ɪnˈteɪl/, /ənˈteɪl/, /enˈtæɪl/, /ɪnˈtæɪl/ 1. That which is entailed. Example: A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. 2. That which is entailed. 3. That which is entailed. Example: All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter. 4. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. Labels: obsolete Example: A worke of rich entayle.
Word: assuage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English aswagen, from Old French asuagier (“to appease, to calm”), from Vulgar Latin *assuāviō (“to sweeten, to butter up, to calm”), derived from Latin ad- + suāvis (“sweet”) + -iō. Pronunciation: /əˈsweɪd͡ʒ/, /əˈswɑʒ/ 1. To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain, etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Example: to assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man 2. To pacify or soothe (someone). Labels: transitive 3. To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: pelican Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pellican, pellicane, from Old English pellican (“pelican”), from Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάν (pelekán), πέλεκυς (pélekus, “hatchet”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən/, /ˈpɛl.ə.kən/ 1. Any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae, having a long bill with a distendable pouch. Example: The old have outlived that mental world we so misname in calling it a world of enjoyment;—they have outlived the feverish dreams which waste those keen hopes—the pelicans of the heart, feeding on the life-blood of their parent;—they have now no part in the excitement of success, whether in its desire or disappointment. Example: Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen. 2. A native or resident of the American state of Louisiana. 3. A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation. Labels: obsolete 4. A set of forceps used to force overcrowded teeth apart. 5. A waterbomber. Labels: Canada, slang 6. An ageing prostitute. Labels: slang
Word: penile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pes- Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s Proto-Italic *peznis Latin pēnislbor. English pen(is) Latin -īlislbor. English -ile English penile From pen(is) + -ile. Pronunciation: /ˈpiː.naɪ.əl/, /ˈpiː.nəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to the penis. Labels: not-comparable Example: penile strength Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:penile.
Word: waiting Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English waitinge, waytynge, waitende, weytende, waitand, waytand, equivalent to wait + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/, [ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ] 1. present participle and gerund of wait Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: Your guest has been waiting for you. (progressive) They hurried into the waiting car. (participle used as adjective) Example: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
Word: waiting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English waitynge, waytynge, equivalent to wait + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/, [ˈweɪ̯ɾɪŋ] 1. Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Waiting for any news in a waiting room. (gerund) Example: In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified. 3. Attendance, service. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.
Word: wait Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”). Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch. In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan, source of bide. Pronunciation: /weɪt/, [weɪ̯ʔt], /wɛjʈ/, /weʈ/ 1. To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. Labels: intransitive Example: Wait here until your car arrives. Example: I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you.. 2. To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. Labels: US, intransitive, stative Example: She used to wait in this joint. 3. To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) Labels: archaic, transitive Example: to wait one’s turn Example: Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide. 4. To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral. Example: Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion. 5. To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany. Labels: obsolete 6. To defer or postpone (especially a meal). Labels: colloquial, obsolete Example: Montague Thorold, who impatiently watched her wherever she went, came to tell her that his mother waited breakfast for her. 7. To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait Labels: obsolete 8. To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence. Labels: intransitive Example: She did not question him. Before leaving, she asked only, "When will I see you again?" He answered, "I don't know. Don't wait for me, Dagny. Next time we meet, you will not want to see me." Example: I will wait / Even if it takes forever / I will wait / Even if it takes a lifetime
Word: wait Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”). Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch. In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan, source of bide. Pronunciation: /weɪt/, [weɪ̯ʔt], /wɛjʈ/, /weʈ/ 1. A delay. Example: I had a very long wait at the airport security check. 2. An ambush. Example: They lay in wait for the patrol. Example: an enemy in wait 3. Ellipsis of wait state. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. One who watches; a watchman. Labels: obsolete 5. Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians. Labels: UK, in-plural, obsolete Example: […]as he returned home to his owne house, the waits should sound the hautboies all the way 6. Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. Labels: UK, in-plural Example: Hark! are the waits abroad? Example: 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon The sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mild watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
Word: wait Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”). Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch. In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan, source of bide. Pronunciation: /weɪt/, [weɪ̯ʔt], /wɛjʈ/, /weʈ/ 1. Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification. Labels: informal Example: - And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?
Word: eating establishment Part of Speech: noun 1. A public place where food and drinks are served for a fee.
Word: wait for Part of Speech: verb 1. To wait until the specified event occurs. Example: Wait for the light to change before you cross the street. Example: What are you waiting for? 2. To await the arrival of. Example: I'm waiting for my date. Example: I'm waiting for the train.
Word: wait on Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈweɪt ˌɑn/, /ˈweɪt ˌɒn/ 1. To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. Example: Is someone waiting on you yet? Example: How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait on myself, must I? 2. To wait for (a person). Labels: colloquial Example: I'm waiting on you before we can leave. Example: Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: 3. To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). Labels: colloquial Example: I'm waiting on the light to change. Example: […] a time was coming […] when his waiting on events should have its reward. 4. To be in store for (someone). Example: the destruction that waits on Monarchs, who consider fidelity to them as the most degrading of all vices Example: Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown. 5. To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony. Labels: archaic Example: In the Evening our Commander sent a Message to Mr. Jones, that if a Visit would not be troublesome he would wait on him. Example: The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form. 6. To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something). Labels: archaic Example: that ruine which waits upon such a supine temper Example: For Blessings ever wait on virtuous Deeds; And tho’ a late, a sure Reward succeeds. 7. To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.). Labels: archaic Example: Aaron and his sons […] shall wait on their priest’s office: 8. To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung. 9. To court (someone). Labels: US, archaic, colloquial 10. To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone). Labels: archaic
Word: wait on someone hand and foot Part of Speech: verb 1. To attend to (someone's) every need, to the point of excess. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy.
Word: wait state Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved. Example: With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.
Word: fluke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, perhaps dialectal. It seems to have originally referred to a lucky shot at billiards. Possibly connected to sense 3, referring to whales' use of flukes to move rapidly. Possibly derived from German Glück (“luck, good fortune, happiness”). Pronunciation: /fluːk/, /fluk/, /fljuːk/ 1. A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated. Example: We've classified by a fluke; actually, the first goal was just a total fluke. Example: “[…] That's the first time in the history of Bierce's Cove that two men made that jump on the same sea. And all the risk was yours, coming last.” “It was a fluke,” Billy insisted.
Word: fluke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown, perhaps dialectal. It seems to have originally referred to a lucky shot at billiards. Possibly connected to sense 3, referring to whales' use of flukes to move rapidly. Possibly derived from German Glück (“luck, good fortune, happiness”). Pronunciation: /fluːk/, /fluk/, /fljuːk/ 1. To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. Example: I fluked a pass in the multiple-choice exam. 2. To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. Example: He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss.
Word: fluke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old English flōc (“flatfish”), of Germanic origin, related to German flach (“flat”), Old Norse floke (“flatfish”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz. Pronunciation: /fluːk/, /fluk/, /fljuːk/ 1. A summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) 2. A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda, related to tapeworms (class Cestoda). Example: The man became infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.
Word: fluke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mid-16th century in the sense of “anchor blade”. Probably the same word as in etymology 2 above or else a related word for something flat (cf. Proto-Germanic *flakaz). A derivation from Middle Low German vlögel (“wing”), from Proto-Germanic *flugilaz, seems phonetically impossible. If anything, related vlōch, vlucht (“flight”, both also “wing”) or even *vlunke (modern Low German Flunk (“wing, pinion”)) are more plausible candidates. Note that the kind of whale's fin is called Fluke in contemporary German, but this is likely from English. Pronunciation: /fluːk/, /fluk/, /fljuːk/ 1. Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground. Example: The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged. Example: The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up. 2. Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail. Example: The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it. Example: But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes. 3. A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent. Example: The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point. 4. In general, a winglike formation on a central piece. Example: After casting the bronze statue, we filed down the flukes and spurs from the molding process. 5. Waste cotton.
Word: Scottish Gaelic Part of Speech: name 1. The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country.
Word: Scots Gaelic Part of Speech: name 1. Synonym of Scottish Gaelic.
Word: office Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)). The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office. Pronunciation: /ˈɒf.ɪs/, /ˈɔf.ɪs/, /ˈɔ.fɪs/, /ˈɑ-/ 1. To provide (someone) with an office. Example: Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA? Example: Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building. 2. To have an office. Labels: intransitive Example: "I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together.
Word: radii Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪ.di.aɪ/ 1. plural of radius Labels: form-of, plural Example: The radius of the Sun is equal to about 109 Earth radii. Example: Now the centrifugal forces of bodies revolving in the ſame time in different circles being to one another as the radii of the circles (as ſhall be ſhewn when I come to treat of thoſe forces) it follows that the centrifugal force muſt be greateſt at the æquator, and thence be continually diminished towards the poles.
Word: fortis Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and forte. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tɪs/ 1. Relatively strongly articulated, hence voiceless and possibly aspirated; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants. Labels: not-comparable Example: Unaspirated [p] is fortis in French, the corresponding lenis consonant being [b]. The same sound is lenis in Danish, the corresponding fortis consonant being [pʰ]. Example: All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).
Word: fortis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin fortis (“strong”). Doublet of fort and forte. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)tɪs/ 1. A fortis consonant.
Word: palabra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish palabra (“word”). Doublet of parable and parabola. Pronunciation: /pəˈlɑːbɹə/, /pəˈlæbɹə/ 1. A word; idle talk. Labels: poetic, rare Example: Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbor Verges.
Word: manus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”). Doublet of mano. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪnəs/, /ˈmɑːnəs/, /ˈmænəs/ 1. A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. Labels: formal 2. The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife. Labels: Roman, obsolete
Word: manus Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪnəs/, /ˈmɑːnəs/, /ˈmænəs/ 1. plural of manu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: astroturfing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and Astroturf." 1. The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion. Labels: uncountable
Word: kike Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally used by German-American Jews as a slur for Eastern European Jews immigrating to the United States. The most dominant theory is from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X, in order to avoid using a symbol reminiscent of a Christian Cross. If so, a doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and wheel. Other theories also exist, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase “Ikey-Kikey”, an American-origin reduplication of ikey, which in turn is a British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac. Alternatively, from Scots keek (“to peek or peep surreptitiously”), used in the New York City clothing industry to refer to the practice of sending spies to work in competing garment factories to copy designs which would then be reproduced and sold at lower cost. Eastern European Jews played a major role in the clothing industry and were perceived to frequently participate in underhanded business tactics. Originally mostly used by older, established German Jews to refer to the Eastern European newcomers, eventually it became generalized to all Jews. Pronunciation: /kaɪk/ 1. A Jew. Labels: US, ethnic, offensive, slur, vulgar Example: "Now you quit kidding me! What's the nice little name?" "Oh, it ain't so darn nice. I guess it's kind of kike. But my folks ain't kikes. My papa's papa was a nobleman in Poland, and there was a gentleman in here one day, he was kind of a count or something--" Example: In one tweet, Weisman was referred to as a "kike." Another threatened to have him put "in the oven." 2. A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one. Labels: US, offensive, vulgar Example: That greedy kike would not give me any money when I was starving and needed food. 3. An Eastern European Jew. Labels: Judaism, US, ethnic, obsolete, offensive, slur, vulgar Example: The German Jews are bitterly opposed to the "Kikes," as they persist in calling the Russian Jews.
Word: kike Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Originally used by German-American Jews as a slur for Eastern European Jews immigrating to the United States. The most dominant theory is from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X, in order to avoid using a symbol reminiscent of a Christian Cross. If so, a doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and wheel. Other theories also exist, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase “Ikey-Kikey”, an American-origin reduplication of ikey, which in turn is a British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac. Alternatively, from Scots keek (“to peek or peep surreptitiously”), used in the New York City clothing industry to refer to the practice of sending spies to work in competing garment factories to copy designs which would then be reproduced and sold at lower cost. Eastern European Jews played a major role in the clothing industry and were perceived to frequently participate in underhanded business tactics. Originally mostly used by older, established German Jews to refer to the Eastern European newcomers, eventually it became generalized to all Jews. Pronunciation: /kaɪk/ 1. To render something more Jewish. Labels: offensive, transitive, uncommon 2. To haggle or swindle in order to obtain a better deal from. Labels: offensive, transitive, uncommon
Word: kike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Originally used by German-American Jews as a slur for Eastern European Jews immigrating to the United States. The most dominant theory is from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X, in order to avoid using a symbol reminiscent of a Christian Cross. If so, a doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, and wheel. Other theories also exist, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase “Ikey-Kikey”, an American-origin reduplication of ikey, which in turn is a British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac. Alternatively, from Scots keek (“to peek or peep surreptitiously”), used in the New York City clothing industry to refer to the practice of sending spies to work in competing garment factories to copy designs which would then be reproduced and sold at lower cost. Eastern European Jews played a major role in the clothing industry and were perceived to frequently participate in underhanded business tactics. Originally mostly used by older, established German Jews to refer to the Eastern European newcomers, eventually it became generalized to all Jews. Pronunciation: /kaɪk/ 1. Jewish. Labels: dated, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: If you repeat that lie, I'll wring that skinny kike neck of yours with my own hands! 2. Of goods or manufacturing, poor-quality. Labels: dated, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: She had on a kike hat from a Division Street department store, of one department - the dollar down and a dollar a week department - and a shirtwaist with green and yellow stripes that would drive you dippy.
Word: chink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of uncertain origin, but apparently an extension, with diminutive -k (see more at -ock), of Middle English chine (or, if already suffixed in Middle English, *chinek), from Old English ċine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine + -k. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. Example: What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. Example: Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work. 2. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. Example: I noticed a chink of light under the door. Example: A chink of light offering a possible settlement to one part of the rail dispute comes as the RMT is to ballot its members at Network Rail on whether to accept an improved offer. 3. A chip or dent in something metallic. Example: The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly. 4. A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system. Labels: figuratively Example: The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets. Example: The first chink in Arsenal's relaxed afternoon occurred when key midfielder Samir Nasri pulled up with a hamstring injury and was replaced.
Word: chink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Of uncertain origin, but apparently an extension, with diminutive -k (see more at -ock), of Middle English chine (or, if already suffixed in Middle English, *chinek), from Old English ċine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine + -k. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk. Labels: transitive Example: to chink a wall 2. To crack; to open. Labels: intransitive 3. To cause to open in cracks or fissures. Labels: transitive
Word: chink Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink. Labels: countable Example: She swallow, set the cup down like she want to break it, and the ice-blocks jump, make a chink sound. 2. Ready money, especially in the form of coins. Labels: archaic, colloquial, dated, uncountable Example: to leave his chink to better hands Example: I thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink, and all belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her when I wanted to […]
Word: chink Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching. Labels: intransitive Example: The coins were chinking in his pocket. 2. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Labels: transitive Example: He chinks his purse
Word: chink Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chink Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chink Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪŋk/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Chink. Labels: alt-of
Word: gook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in the 1890s, US military slang in reference to Filipinos (in particular, it is defined in an 1893 citation in Slang and Its Analogues as referring to prostitutes who followed army camps; it is defined similarly in a 1914 work). The word was used for Nicaraguans during the US military occupation there in the 1910s, and for Haitians during the US invasion there, when Herbert Seligman noted in 1920 that "The Haitians … are nicknamed 'Gooks'". Other early uses in the 1920 and 30s still refer to people from the Philippines (a 1921 work refers to the Philippines as "Gook Land"), and the term also resembles goo-goo (“a Filipino person”), for which a variety of etymologies have been proposed; see that entry for more. (A later folk etymology suggests that during the Korean War, North Korean soldiers would shout Korean 美國 (Miguk, “America”) at Americans, who interpreted it as "me gook", as if identifying themselves as "gooks"; this ignores the many earlier examples of the word outside Korea.) Gook was used of Pacific Islanders by World War II, and Koreans and Vietnamese people by the time of the 1950s and 60s US military interventions there, which cemented the shift to meaning "Asian". Pronunciation: /ɡuːk/, /ɡʊk/ 1. A person of (South) East Asian descent (originally revolutionaries of the Katipunan then generally to any native of the Philippines, after the enemy and collaborators hid amongst them), but now especially: Labels: US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, vulgar Example: A few days later he had a 'damned good party' at NORMASH, drinking brandy, and he then 'beat up a Gook [Korean] village.' This resulted in an 'awful hangover all day', […] Later, he walked back to his unit, alone at three o'clock in the morning, having 'swiped a Gook torch.' 2. A person of (South) East Asian descent (originally revolutionaries of the Katipunan then generally to any native of the Philippines, after the enemy and collaborators hid amongst them), but now especially: Labels: US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, vulgar Example: Of course, I've got so many confirmed kills I lost count. Nobody believes me because the gooks drag off their dead. 3. A foreigner (to the speaker), especially the (enemy) natives of a place the speaker's military is at war with or in. Labels: dated, derogatory Example: "Haiti is a country with a history, […]" "but how about the Marines, and the gendarmerie; aren't they on the job?" […] "You know darn well a civilian can't get away with handling a gook like a Marine can; […]" Example: In scenes [in Flight, 1929] based on the Marines' slaughter of several hundred Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Ocotal in July 1927, the two heroes, who are rivals for the hand of a vivacious nurse (Lila Lee), repeatedly attack the "gooks" in support of their comrades on the ground. 4. A foreigner (to the speaker), especially the (enemy) natives of a place the speaker's military is at war with or in. Labels: Rhodesia, dated, derogatory Example: "But shit, man, don't we do a fucking good job of it. Jesus, we slew long gooks this last trip," quipped Mark.
Word: gook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possible blend of goop + gunk, or related to gobbledygook. Pronunciation: /ɡʊk/, /ɡuːk/ 1. Grime or mud. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: "Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.
Word: gook Part of Speech: noun 1. A dull or hapless person. Labels: slang Example: the poor old gook was spitting blood
Word: gook Part of Speech: noun 1. A bonnet (headwear). Labels: Cornwall Example: Some say 'Mar Teazer do live in pattens and gook; must go to bed in 'em I'm thinking!
Word: gook Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the manner whereby a small child, still developing its speech, would mispronounce /l/ (spoken with the tip of the tongue behind the teeth) as /ɡ/ (spoken with the back of the tongue on the palate), which happens if one tries to say look without moving the tongue forward, thus requiring less effort to speak. Compare also wook and wike for “look” and “like”, in which cases the tongue is stationary and only the lips move. 1. Synonym of look. Labels: ambitransitive, childish
Word: Neo Latin Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Neo-Latin; Synonym of New Latin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: adrenal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-bor. English ad- Latin rēn Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin rēnālislbor. English renal English adrenal From ad- (“near”) + renal (“pertaining to the kidneys”), from Latin rēn (“kidney”). Pronunciation: /æˈdɹiːnəl/ 1. Pertaining to the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), their secretions, or the function derived therefrom. Example: She seems to inhabit some fluid, crystalline medium. Pure adrenal dream. 2. Abutting or near the kidneys. Example: Near-synonym: perirenal 3. Full of excitement or adrenaline. Labels: informal Example: [a single outstanding act of violence][…]took place inside the stadium, and in front of the watching millions, as Liam Roberts launched an adrenal, wildly dangerous flying challenge into the head of Jean-Philippe Mateta with five minutes gone.
Word: adrenal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-bor. English ad- Latin rēn Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin rēnālislbor. English renal English adrenal From ad- (“near”) + renal (“pertaining to the kidneys”), from Latin rēn (“kidney”). Pronunciation: /æˈdɹiːnəl/ 1. An adrenal gland.
Word: adulteration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French adulteration and its etymon Latin adulterātĭō. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ion. 1. The process of adulterating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The condition of being adulterated. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cast iron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from the casting of this form of iron. See wrought iron for comparison. 1. A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important. Example: The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).
Word: cast iron Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from the casting of this form of iron. See wrought iron for comparison. 1. Made of cast iron. Labels: not-comparable Example: I use a cast iron skillet for frying pancakes. Example: Various forms of conductors have been invented, such as wooden and iron pipes, of a round, square, and polygonal section; but at present, scarcely any other than sheet or cast iron pipes are employed. 2. Durable; tough; resilient. Labels: figuratively Example: Ernest has a cast iron constitution and never gets sick. Example: Just because a pilot passes a pretty severe medical test every so often, it doesn't mean that he has a Cast Iron constitution and can fly indefinitely. 3. Inflexible or without exception. Labels: figuratively Example: The school's cast iron policy on admissions fees left no leeway for needy students. Example: "The fact is," confided Tulloch, taking his place in the car, "I've been out of things for a bit, Wynn, and I'm finding civilisation a shade cast-iron now. I've been down in the wilds since you were with me."
Word: wrought iron Part of Speech: noun 1. A tough, malleable, ductile form of iron that is forged rather than cast, suitable for welding. Example: Wrought iron is essentially iron that has been worked so that its carbon content is radically reduced. For the purposes of rail bridge-building in the 19th century, this proved revolutionary, and highly advantageous over the dangerously brittle properties of cast iron.
Word: quicken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From quick(silver) (“mercury”) + -en (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪk(ə)n/ 1. To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver. Labels: rare, transitive
Word: quicken Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quiken (“(chiefly in place names) probably the European rowan or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia), and possibly also the aspen (Populus tremula), juniper (genus Juniperus, specifically the common juniper (Juniperus communis)), or service tree (Sorbus domestica)”), possibly from Old English cwician (“to bring to life, vivify; to come to life, become living; to quicken”) (see etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪk(ə)n/ 1. In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia). Labels: Ireland, Northern-England Example: […] Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken at the edges and small green haws to show.
Word: quicken Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quiken (“couch grass (Elymus repens); a leguminous plant, vetch”) [and other forms], a variant of quich, quik (“couch grass (Elymus repens); a leguminous plant, vetch”) [and other forms] (whence modern English quick, quitch (“couch grass, quitchgrass”); the -en element remains unexplained), from Old English cwiċe (“couch grass”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive; lively; quick”); see further at etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪk(ə)n/ 1. Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses. Labels: Northern-England, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, countable, uncountable Example: Quickens-bog may at first seem to derive its name from the plant Quicken, by which, Scotticé, we understand couch-grass, dog-grass, or the Triticum repens of [Carl] Linnæus, and the common English monosyllable Bog, by which we mean, in popular language, a marsh or morass; in Latin, Palus.
Word: quicksand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quyksande, from Old English cwecesand (“quicksand”), equivalent to quick (“living”) + sand. Cognate with Swedish kvicksand (“quicksand”), Icelandic kviksandur, kviksyndi (“quicksand”). More at quick, sand. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪkˌsænd/ 1. Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it. 2. Anything that metaphorically pulls one down or buries one; a treacherous, risky danger Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: the quicksands of youth
Word: quicksilver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vīvum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/ 1. The metal mercury. Labels: error-unknown-tag, literary, uncountable 2. An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors; quicksilvering. Labels: broadly, error-unknown-tag, literary, uncountable
Word: quicksilver Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vīvum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/ 1. Unpredictable, erratic, or fickle; mercurial. Labels: error-unknown-tag, literary, not-comparable Example: Summer is not the most auspicious season for theater in New York. Aside from a few certifiable Broadway hits, it is, in fact, a rather quicksilver commodity. Example: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
Word: quicksilver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vīvum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/ 1. To overlay with quicksilver. Labels: transitive 2. To treat with quicksilver. Labels: transitive
Word: quickstep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quick + step. 1. A fast foxtrot noted for its complex and intricate footwork. 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.
Word: quickstep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From quick + step. 1. To dance the quickstep. 2. To move with a hurried step. Example: "Nice to see you, too, Vidar" , Kate said, and she and Mutt quickstepped inside.
Word: Wasser Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: ferrum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor. Old Latin *fersom Latin ferrumlbor. English ferrum Learned borrowing from Latin ferrum. 1. Any of various remedies made from iron-containing compounds. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cattlewoman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English cattle Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English cattlewoman From cattle + -woman. 1. A woman who raises or tends cattle.
Word: super Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpə/, /ˈsʉwpə/, [ˈsypɑ], [ˈsup̚ʔɐː], /ˈsupɚ/ 1. Of excellent quality, superfine. Labels: not-comparable 2. Better than average, better than usual; wonderful. Labels: not-comparable
Word: super Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpə/, /ˈsʉwpə/, [ˈsypɑ], [ˈsup̚ʔɐː], /ˈsupɚ/ 1. Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-). Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: The party was super awesome. Example: The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people. 2. Absolutely; utterly. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: I super don't care about that.