nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Malthusianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Malthus Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Malthusian Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Malthusianism From Malthusian + -ism. 1. The viewpoint that the population will always grow faster than the food supply that it needs to survive and prosper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “[…] The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.” [citing Dune] Gloomy Malthusianism was much in vogue in the 1960s and 70s.
Word: jigaboo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbuː/ 1. A black person. Labels: dated, offensive, slang Example: […] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […] 2. Any dark-skinned person. Labels: dated, offensive, slang
Word: bow-wow Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. Representing the sound of a dog barking. Example: Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh. Example: She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
Word: bow-wow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. The sound of a dog barking. Example: And a chorus of quadruped, white and brown, / Bark’d affirmative, “gone to town,” / With affable bursts of French bow-wow; / (As part of the family they knew how!) Example: The pack commenced to work back and forth along the ridge. We neared a hollow where Prince barked eagerly. Curley answered, and likewise Queen. Mux’s short, angry bow-wow showed that he was in line. 2. A dog. Labels: childish, humorous Example: Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow wow! bow wow! / Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow wow! bow wow, / I've got a little cat, / And I'm very fond of that, / But I'd rather have a bow wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Example: 1902, Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Kermit Roosevelt dated 13 October, 1902, in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (editor), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36, Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit.
Word: bow-wow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow
Word: bow-wow Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. Grandiose. Labels: dated, informal, not-comparable Example: Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry, and some truth, that “Dr. Johnson’s sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way;” but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions. Example: 1826, Walter Scott, Diary entry for 14 March, 1826, in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott; with a Biography, New York: Conner & Cooke, 1833, Volume 7, Chapter 68, p. 475, Miss Austen […] had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Word: antidisestablishmentarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English anti- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English establishment ▲ English dis- English establish Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English disestablishment English -arian English antidisestablishmentarian From anti- + disestablishment + -arian. 1. One who believes that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state. Example: 1892, letter of Edward White Benson, quoted in James Anderson Carr, The life-work of Edward White Benson, D.D., sometime Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Elliot Stock, 1898. But the Free Kirk of the north of Scotland are strong anti-Disestablishmentarians. A meeting for Disestablishment can't be got up, even by popular Ministers. Example: 1900 letter to Pall Mall Gazette A correspondent gives "nonintercommunicability" as the longest word In the English language. While reading the life of Archbishop Benson I came across the following extract from his diary for September, 1892 (page 411): "But the free kirk of the north of Scotland are strong antidisestablishmentarians"—ten syllables, twenty-six letters!
Word: antidisestablishmentarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English anti- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English establishment ▲ English dis- English establish Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English disestablishment English -arian English antidisestablishmentarian From anti- + disestablishment + -arian. 1. Of or relating to the belief that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.
Word: abortionism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English abortion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English abortionism From abortion + -ism. 1. The advocacy or practice of abortion. Labels: uncountable
Word: safe seat Part of Speech: noun 1. A seat in a legislature that is traditionally held by one political party because of the make-up of the local electorate. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK
Word: footy Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfʊti/, /ˈfʉte/, /fʉtɪ/, /fʉti/ 1. Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand). Labels: Ireland, UK, uncountable 2. The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer. Labels: Australia, uncountable Example: But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son. 3. The ball used in a game of footy. Labels: Australia, countable Example: Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by. 4. Rugby union or rugby league. Labels: New-Zealand, uncountable 5. A short sock. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable 6. A football fan. Labels: countable, slang Example: Sam is a real footy, he's always watching it on TV and talking about it. 7. Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would! Example: […] playing footy under the table with Bee Amidon finished that for her. 8. A footjob. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: he's getting a footy under the table
Word: footy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Compare Dutch vochtig. In the senses “insignificant, paltry; poorly kept, shoddy” Merriam-Webster suggests derivation from French foutu, past participle of foutre (“to copulate, fuck, screw”). 1. Having foots (settlings). Labels: UK, dated, dialectal Example: footy oil or molasses 2. Of bad quality; mean, poor. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal Example: [N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones. Example: 'Those sketches look rather footy,' I said; 'but I had to put something in my notebook.'
Word: rotten borough Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rotten (“in a state of decay”) + borough (“type of administrative district”), because such boroughs were regarded as having “decayed” due to their voters moving away to other places. Pronunciation: /ˌɹɒtn̩ ˈbʌɹə/, /ˌɹɑtn̩ ˈbʌɹoʊ/, /-ˈbɜ-/, [ˌɹɑʔn̩-] 1. A parliamentary borough that was represented in Parliament although the number of voters had diminished so greatly that they were largely controlled by the main landowner; such boroughs were abolished in the 19th century. Labels: UK, historical Example: […] Queen's Crawley was no longer so populous a place as it had been in Queen Bess's time—nay, was come down to that condition of borough which used to be denominated rotten–yet, as Sir Pitt Crawley would say with perfect justice in his elegant way, "Rotten! be hanged—it produces me a good fifteen hundred a year." 2. A parliamentary constituency or electoral district in a similar situation. Labels: UK, broadly
Word: traductor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin trāductiō, from trādūcō (“lead across, bring across”), from trans (“across, beyond”) + dūcō (“bear, carry”). 1. translator. Labels: obsolete Example: This early use of the words is most decisive of their meaning : when the two languages reflect the same meaning, the evidence overflows. Both are consecrated to one religious idea. Who could be so well qualified as the Alexandrine traductors to construe Mosaic phrase, — not only by a knowledge of the Hebrew language, but by an accurate acquaintance with the manner in which these terms had always been understood? Example: There are doctors, traductors, advocates, doctors in law, bookkeepers notaries, etc., amongst women. 2. Anything that translates information from one format into a different format. Example: An information traductor carries information from some source (such as an expression) to some destination (such as a register, or module port). Example: The determinant factors are in connection with: the nature of the molecular biorecognition layer of the biological traductor, the enzymatic activity of the whole system or even of the isolated enzymes (in a well-defined biosensor area or fixed on a polymeric membrane) and the concentration of the L-glutamate substrate. 3. A long arm that is used to suspend a bag to be dropped onto a passing train and which retracts automatically be means of a spring when the bag is dropped. Example: As soon as the bag is removed, the lever returns to its normal position by the action of the spring in the column, the traductor striking the rubber disc already referred to. Example: Six pouches were to be put out at Warrington, and preparations were being made to use the traductors on the leading Aberdeen sorting carriage, as well as the four in the stowage van. […] from Moore station we counted five overbridges, and then, swiftly, with one man at each door the four bags in our van were fixed to the traductor arms. […] One more landmark, the Mersey bridge; once over this the traductors were lowered, and the moving of a big lever extended the net.
Word: designer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Italic *seknom Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *seknāō Latin signō Latin designōder. Old French designerder. Middle English designen English design Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English designer From design + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ 1. A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession. Example: While the thought of a home urinal may seem vaguely “Animal House,” Mr. Scherer’s interior designer, Ashley Astleford, wasn’t surprised by his request. This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects. Example: The ­festival, held every two years, showcases work by more than 180 designers across disciplines including textiles, homeware and more. […] “For us, it’s about getting design and creativity out into communities across the city. With the festival, we want to build capacity, grow skills, employ people and create opportunities to make a living from being a designer here.” 2. A plotter or schemer. 3. A software tool for designing things. Example: a font designer Example: a level designer for a video game
Word: designer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-nóm Proto-Italic *seknom Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *seknāō Latin signō Latin designōder. Old French designerder. Middle English designen English design Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English designer From design + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/ 1. Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer. Labels: not-comparable Example: designer swimwear Example: a designer briefcase
Word: browser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English browse Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English browser From browse + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊ.zə/, /ˈbɹaʊ.zəɹ/ 1. One who or which browses. Example: Giraffe have a long, muscular tongue, which aids in gathering leaves into the mouth; and the dentition is typical of browsers. 2. One who or which browses. Example: While still in the mood for antique bartering, The Emerald City on the South End section of Dartmouth St. has expanded just in time for browsers and buyers. Allow some time here as it's a poke-and-find shop of 1800's pictures and prints, turn-of-the-century kitchen ware, and some very unusual furnishings and lamps. 3. Ellipsis of web browser. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser. 4. Any other type of information browser. Labels: broadly Example: The real strengthof AR browsers is their discoverability. Today, browsers have most of the attention and it's amazing how many people have yet to experience a browser for themselves. Browsers are incredibly useful ways to discover information about places and objects around you.
Word: portions Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpɔɹʃənz/, /ˈpɔːʃənz/, /ˈpoəɹʃənz/, /ˈpoːɹʃənz/, /ˈpoɹʃənz/ 1. plural of portion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: otic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Mid 17th century borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠτῐκός (ōtĭkós, “of or for the ear”), from οὖς (oûs, “ear”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.tɪk/, /ˈɒt.ɪk/, /ˈoʊ.tɪk/ 1. Of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear. Labels: not-comparable Example: Otic preparations are used to treat infections of the ear canal.
Word: cross-dresser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross-dress + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒsˌdɹɛ.sə/, /ˈkɹɔsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/, /ˌkɹɔsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/, /ˈkɹɑsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/, /ˌkɹɑsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/ 1. A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex. Example: For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'
Word: tomboyish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Aramaic תאמא Aramaic תאומאbor. Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor. Latin Thōmāsbor. Middle English Thomas Middle English Thomme English Tom English tom Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō- Proto-West Germanic *bōjō Old English *bōia Middle English boye English boy English tomboy Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English tomboyish From tomboy + -ish. 1. Displaying behavior associated with a tomboy.
Word: kiss of death Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Biblical reference that when Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, he kissed Jesus. 1. A kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence. 2. Something that may seem good and favorable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress. Example: Confronted with the savage defenses, many of the Japanese pilots flinched. Failure to hold formation was the kiss of death. As they reached the crucial moment of decision—push ahead and drop the torpedo, or lose nerve and turn away—most chose the latter. Turning, they lost airspeed and showed their bellies to the hungry Navy gunners, and that was it. The twenties and forties lit them like fuses. The five-inch guns "seemed to literally hammer them down," Captain Hoover of the Helena remarked.
Word: A-frame Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈeɪˌfɹeɪm/ 1. An architectural structure, in the shape of an "A", having two straight sides meeting at the top.
Word: comedian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French comédien, from comédie + -ien, from Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía). By surface analysis, comed(y) + -ian. Pronunciation: /kəˈmiː.di.ən/ 1. An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes. Example: According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely. 2. Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion. Labels: broadly Example: It's been my job for many years and taken me to many places, and into many a tight spot, but, on the railway, you'll always find a comedian in the gang, to raise a laugh and keep you going. 3. A person who performs in theatrical plays. Labels: dated Example: […] the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels; Example: 1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface, I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d. 4. A writer of comedies. Labels: obsolete Example: This doth the Comedy handle ſo in our priuate and domeſtical matters, as with hearing it, we get as it were an experience, what is to be looked for of a nigardly Demea: of a crafty Danus: of a flattering Gnato: of a vaine glorious Thraſo: and not onely to know what effects are to be expected, but to know who be ſuch, by the ſignifying badge giuen them by the Comedian. Example: Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old Comedians were supprest, though the acting of them were forbid;
Word: euryhaline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁wer- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérus Proto-Hellenic *eurús Ancient Greek εὐρῠ́ς (eurŭ́s)der. English eury- English haline English euryhaline From eury- + haline. 1. Able to tolerate various saltwater concentrations.
Word: eucaine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Eukain; comparable to eu- + -caine. 1. A derivative of cocaine used as a local anesthetic in veterinary medicine. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: evaporable Part of Speech: adj 1. Capable of evaporation. Example: For so it is, that the apparently most inflammable or evaporable of all earthly things, wood and water, are, in this view, immensely the most endurable.
Word: polymorphism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * (object-oriented programming) Coined by British computer scientist Christopher Strachey in 1967. By surface analysis, poly- + -morphism. Pronunciation: /pɒlɪˈmɔːfɪz(ə)m/, /pɑliˈmɔɹfɪz(ə)m/ 1. The ability to assume different forms or shapes. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since 1990 they have found an entirely new role: they promise understanding of how and why our genes are all so different. They hold the key to human polymorphism. Example: Some polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.
Word: litro Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Clipping of literally + -o (diminutive suffix). Literally is pronounced (in British English) with a reduced or completely absent ⟨e⟩, which may explain the syncope of the ⟨e⟩ in this term. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪt.ɹəʊ/ 1. Abbreviation of literally. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable, slang Example: yh bro i litro used a cosine graph for that q
Word: rim-job Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of rimjob. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: aftertaste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- English taste English aftertaste From after- + taste. Pronunciation: /ˈæftɚˌteɪst/ 1. A taste of something that persists when it is no longer present. Example: Canopy 19 is perfectly placed For the reasonably frightening fall from the aftertaste You'll have to slip away, I am unhappy to say Behold as the crook in the hammock plays 2. The persistence of the taste of something no longer present. Example: Many people think certain artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant aftertaste. 3. finish.
Word: meteoritics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English meteor Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English meteorite Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English meteoritics From meteorite + -ics. Pronunciation: /miːtɪəˈɹɪtɪks/ 1. The science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids. Labels: uncountable Example: From the beginning of the nineteenth century forward, meteoritics progressed steadily to an exacting and highly interdisciplinary field. Example: Following the precedents set in previous editions of the Catalogue of Meteorites, it is not the intention of this Introduction to discuss the science of meteoritics, but simply to provide a summary of the nomenclature and classification of meteorites and the system of entries adopted.
Word: distro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of distribution, + -o. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstɹəʊ/, /ˈdɪstɹoʊ/ 1. A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users. Labels: Internet, countable 2. The propagation of warez by distributing it to various sites. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: If anyone can help me with obtaining a source with an updated ftp list, either distro sites or non ratio sites, please contact me on ICQ […] 3. The act of distributing printed material such as magazines or newspapers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I started writing my own zine, Thought Bombs, and organized a distro of other good, anarchist, anti-racist/abolitionist and feminist zines.
Word: distro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of distributor, + -o. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪstɹəʊ/, /ˈdɪstɹoʊ/ 1. A mid-level drug dealer; A distributor. Labels: slang Example: JASON: Hey Tommy, get over here! TOMMY (played by Joseph Sikora): I was just loading up my shipment, what’s up?. JASON: There’s someone I want you to meet. My guy right here, one of my highest earning distros in New York City, Tommy Egan. Tommy, Rodolfo Ramirez. 2. An organization that distributes printed material such as magazines or newspapers. Example: I went on to explain that we would continue to work with Mordam—who had recently merged with another indie distributor, Lumberjack, to become a much larger distro—for record store distribution but that "now we get the best of both worlds: the best music distributor in the country getting Punk Planet into record stores and the best newsstand distro getting us onto magazine racks."
Word: falsificationism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English false English -ification English falsification Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English falsificationism From falsification + -ism. 1. A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted, then it is not a scientific claim. Labels: uncountable
Word: naive falsificationism Part of Speech: noun 1. An invalid scientific philosophy in which any single instance of refuting data is enough to falsify the entire claim. Labels: uncountable Example: Under naive falsificationism, the birth control pill would be considered as ineffective since there are instances (3 in 1000) in which it does not work.
Word: sophisticated falsificationism Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of falsificationism in which claims are evaluated statistically, as opposed to naive falsificationism, which takes an absolutist perspective. Labels: uncountable Example: The birth control pill, under sophisticated falsificationism, is considered extremely effective since the statistics show only a 0.3% failure rate.
Word: patrol Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French patrouiller, from Old French patrouiller (“to paddle, paw about, patrol”), from patte (“a paw”). Pronunciation: /pəˈtɹəʊl/, /pəˈtɹoʊl/ 1. To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat. Labels: intransitive 2. To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman Labels: transitive Example: to patrol a frontier Example: to patrol a beat
Word: full and by Part of Speech: adv 1. Keeping the sails full and steering by the wind. Example: We sailed full and by for quite a while before getting down to serious navigation.
Word: polysyllabic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English syllabic English polysyllabic From poly- + syllabic. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/, /ˌpɔ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/, /ˌpɑ.li.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/ 1. Having more than one syllable; having multiple or many syllables. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Antidisestablishmentarianism" definitely qualifies as a polysyllabic word. 2. Characterized by or consisting of words having numerous syllables. Labels: not-comparable Example: I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.
Word: polysyllabic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English syllabic English polysyllabic From poly- + syllabic. Pronunciation: /ˌpɒ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/, /ˌpɔ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/, /ˌpɑ.li.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/ 1. A word having more than one syllable
Word: frontal bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity. Example: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…]. 2. Either of the pair of bones from which the frontal bone is formed by fusion in infancy.
Word: parietal bone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin parietalis (“pertaining to walls”), from paries (“wall”) + bone. 1. Either of two bones that together form the sides and top of the skull.
Word: temporal bone Part of Speech: noun 1. Either of two compound bones that collectively make up the sides and base of the skull.
Word: bucket bong Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of bong for smoking marijuana, usually consisting of a bucket or similar device for holding water, a large bottle with its bottom cut off, and a socket for holding the marijuana in the cap.
Word: conepiece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cone + piece. 1. An implement used for holding marijuana while it is smoked, used in conjunction with a pipe or bong.
Word: occipital bone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin occiput; compare ob- (“towards, against”) and caput (“head”) 1. The bone at the back of the skull in humans and various other animals.
Word: shot-glass Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shot glass. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sphenoid bone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, sphen- + -o- + -id + bone. 1. A compound bone at the base of the skull behind the eyes in humans and various other animals.
Word: aptonym Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From apt + -onym, on the model of other terms suffixed with -onym. Pronunciation: /ˈæp.toʊ.nɪm/, /ˈæp.tə.nɪm/ 1. A proper name that aptly describes the occupation or character of the person, especially by coincidence. Example: The following is a selected list of aptonyms, i.e., people whose names and occupations or situation (e.g., workplace) have a close correspondence Example: New aptonyms appeared for both Matt and Donna at this juncture — "DoorMatt" and "Donnasaur."
Word: ethmoid bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The bone of the skull between the eyes and at the roof of the nose.
Word: soar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale. Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soː/, /soɹ/, /soɾ/, /soə/ 1. To fly high with little effort, like a bird. Labels: intransitive Example: When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd, 2. To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents. 3. To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft. 4. To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high. Example: The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued. Example: A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year. 5. To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood. Labels: figuratively Example: Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles, Example: Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune.
Word: soar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale. Pronunciation: /sɔː/, /soː/, /soɹ/, /soɾ/, /soə/ 1. The act of soaring. Example: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor this apparent soar of the hooded falcon 2. An upward flight.
Word: zygomatic bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The cheekbone.
Word: cheekbone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”); equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”). Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃikˌboʊn/ 1. The small prominent bone of the cheek. Example: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. Example: A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.
Word: zygoma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζύγωμα (zúgōma), from ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”). 1. The cheekbone.
Word: appal Part of Speech: verb 1. UK spelling of appall.
Word: malar bone Part of Speech: noun 1. The cheekbone.
Word: perusal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peruse + -al. Pronunciation: /pəˈɹuːzl̩/ 1. The act or process of perusing, or an instance of it. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Please find attached the relevant documents for your perusal. Example: Having therefore no assistance but from general grammar, I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; 2. The act or process of perusing, or an instance of it. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: perusing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From peruse + -ing. 1. Synonym of perusal. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: perusing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From peruse + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of peruse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: champers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of champagne + -ers. Pronunciation: /ˈʃæmpə(ɹ)z/ 1. Champagne (wine). Labels: countable, informal, uncountable
Word: champers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. Plural of champer. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fleur-de-lis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier flower-de-luce, from Middle English flourdelis, from Anglo-Norman flour de lis (“lily flower”); later remodelled after modern French fleur de lis (“lily flower”). Pronunciation: /ˌflɝdəˈlis/, /ˌflɝdəˈli/, /ˌflɜːdəˈliːs/, /ˌflɜːdəˈliː/ 1. A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom (⚜, ⚜️), often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy. Example: Adorned all with gemmes of endlesse price, […] And all embost with Lyons and with Flour-delice. Example: And waſh the Sanguin’d Fleur-de-Liſſes white. 2. The main element in the logo of most Scouting organizations, representing a major theme in Scouting: the outdoors and wilderness.
Word: Passamaquoddy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Peskotomuhkat (“those who spear pollock / those who live where there are pollock”). 1. A member of an Algonquian people who reside in Maine (US) and New Brunswick (Canada).
Word: Passamaquoddy Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Peskotomuhkat (“those who spear pollock / those who live where there are pollock”). 1. The Algonquian language of these people, a dialect of Malecite-Passamaquoddy, still spoken in Maine and New Brunswick.
Word: chicane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chicane. Pronunciation: /ʃɪˈkeɪn/, /t͡ʃɪˈkeɪn/ 1. A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1775, Edmund Burke, speech on conciliation with America In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. Example: ‘That they may be unlearned in the detestable chicane of politics, is certain; but, they are also uncorrupted by the odious and pernicious maxims of the unfeeling tools of despotism.’ 3. The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight. 5. A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chicane Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French chicane. Pronunciation: /ʃɪˈkeɪn/, /t͡ʃɪˈkeɪn/ 1. To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge. Labels: intransitive 2. To deceive. Labels: transitive
Word: kiss of life Part of Speech: noun 1. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: The lifeguard pulled the man out of the lake and gave him the kiss of life.
Word: serpentine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English serpentine, from Old French serpentin, from Latin serpentīnus, from serpēns (“serpent”), equivalent to serpent + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.pənˌtaɪn/, /ˈsɝ.pənˌtaɪn/, /ˈsɝ.pənˌtin/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes. 2. Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness. Example: The wily criminal was known for his serpentine behavior. 3. Having the form or shape of a snake. Example: There are serpentine species of lizards which do not have legs. 4. Curving in alternate directions; sinuous. Example: The serpentine path through the mountains was narrow and dangerous. Example: So! keep looking so— / My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds! 5. Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals. Example: serpentine soils
Word: serpentine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English serpentine, from Old French serpentin, from Latin serpentīnus, from serpēns (“serpent”), equivalent to serpent + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.pənˌtaɪn/, /ˈsɝ.pənˌtaɪn/, /ˈsɝ.pənˌtin/ 1. Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites. 2. An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century. Labels: historical 3. A kind of firework. 4. A coiled distillation tube. 5. Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea 6. In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena. 7. Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin. Example: It is reached by five-and-twenty steps of porphyry and serpentine. 8. An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
Word: serpentine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English serpentine, from Old French serpentin, from Latin serpentīnus, from serpēns (“serpent”), equivalent to serpent + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.pənˌtaɪn/, /ˈsɝ.pənˌtaɪn/, /ˈsɝ.pənˌtin/ 1. To serpentize; to turn or bend; to meander. Example: 1813, George Nicholson, The Cambrian Traveller's Guidey There were two little lakes, or rather large pools which stood in the bottom, whence issued a rivulet which serpentined in view for two or three miles, offering a pleasing relief to the eye. Example: The mountains were fully in their gorgeous autumn garb the next morning, as the train serpentined up and up toward the divide.
Word: sinuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin sinus Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin sinuōsuslbor. English sinuous Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪn.ju.əs/ 1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering. Example: We followed every bend of the sinuous river. Example: [W]hen a transverse, or, within certain limits, an oblique impulse, impinges laterally upon a continuous mountain range, two movements of vibration are communicated; the one, a wave transmitted along and in the line of the axis, the other a transverse wave, which causes the axial line to sway laterally, and transmit a quam prox. horizontal transverse wave, along from one end to the other; like the sinuous movement which travels along a long rope when, hanging suspended between two points at the same level, it is jerked suddenly at one end, transversely to its length. 2. Moving gracefully and in a supple manner. Example: We were entranced by her sinuous dance. Example: Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder. 3. Morally crooked; shifty. Labels: figuratively Example: On 16 December 1999, Lanny Davis, one of the President's more sinuous apologists, was asked on an MSNBC chat show to address the issue and replied that Ms. Broaddrick had been adjudged unreliable by the FBI.
Word: supplely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English supple Middle English -ly English -ly English supplely From supple + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌp.ə(l).li/, /ˈsʌp.li/ 1. In a supple manner: 2. In a supple manner:
Word: scammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English scam Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English scammer From scam + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈskæmə/, [ˈskæmə], /ˈskæmɚ/, [ˈskæmɚ], /ˈskeə̯mɚ/ 1. A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter. Labels: slang Example: According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con. Example: TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
Word: supple Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English souple, from Old French souple, soupple (“soft, lithe, yielding”), from Latin supplic-, supplex (“suppliant, submissive, kneeling”), of uncertain formation. Either from sub + plicō (“bend”) (compare complex), or from sub + plācō (“placate”). More at sub-, placate. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌpəl/ 1. Pliant, flexible, easy to bend. Example: Global supply chains, meanwhile, have grown both tighter and more supple since the late 1990s—the result of improving information technology and of freer trade—making routine work easier to relocate. 2. Lithe and agile when moving and bending. Example: supple joints Example: supple fingers 3. Compliant; yielding to the will of others. Labels: figuratively Example: a supple horse Example: If punishment […] makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. 4. Smooth and drinkable.
Word: supple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English souple, from Old French souple, soupple (“soft, lithe, yielding”), from Latin supplic-, supplex (“suppliant, submissive, kneeling”), of uncertain formation. Either from sub + plicō (“bend”) (compare complex), or from sub + plācō (“placate”). More at sub-, placate. Pronunciation: /ˈsʌpəl/ 1. To make or become supple. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe Example: The Stones (a Miracle to Mortal View, / But long Tradition makes it paſs for true) / Did firſt the Rigour of their Kind expel, / And ſuppled into ſoftneſs, as they fell; […] 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. Labels: transitive Example: They should supple our stiff wilfulness. Example: a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will
Word: flexibly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English flexible Middle English -ly English -ly English flexibly From flexible + -ly. 1. In a flexible manner. Example: But while the decline in season ticket sales as a proportion of fares income has continued, commuting has by no means died. Instead, people are working more flexibly. Therefore, a monthly or annual season ticket is not worthwhile.
Word: swindler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774. Pronunciation: /ˈswɪnd.lə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds. Example: But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him. Example: There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.
Word: swindle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of the verb swintan, from Proto-West Germanic *swindan (“to diminish”). See also Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish שווינדל (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”). Pronunciation: /ˈswɪndəl/, [ˈswɪndəl] ~ [ˈswɪndl̩] 1. To defraud. Labels: transitive Example: The two men swindled the company out of $160,000. Example: Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation. 2. To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods. Labels: ambitransitive Example: She swindled more than £200 out of me. 3. For a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.