nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rill Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From or akin to West Frisian ril (“rill; a narrow channel”), Dutch ril (“rill; gully; trench; watercourse”), German Low German Rille, Rill (“a small channel; brook; furrow”), German Rille (“a groove; furrow”). Pronunciation: /ɹɪl/ 1. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream. Example: And fainter, finer, trickle far To where the listening uplands are; To pause—then from his gurgling bill Let the warbled sweetness rill, And down the welkin, gushing free, Hark the molten melody; Example: Alladad Khan was panting hard, soaked in sweat, and his rolled-up sleeve was all blood, blood rilling down his arm.
Word: rill Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A stylized variant of real prevalent in hip-hop. 1. Real. Labels: slang
Word: rimer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rime + -er. 1. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
Word: rimer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rime (“to rhyme”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). 1. Archaic spelling of rhymer. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: rimmer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old English rima Middle English rim English rim English -er English rimmer From rim + -er. 1. An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc. 2. A mixture of confections, spices, and/or salt applied to the rim of a beverage glass or mug. 3. One who performs anilingus (rimming). Labels: slang, vulgar 4. A bowl (part of a pipe or bong) which is completely filled with marijuana. Labels: slang Example: There were days when I literally didn't feel a dab and there are some days where two rimmers get me higher than a regular dab. Example: Baccy cones for my breakfast, lunch and dinner, pack a rimmer / Bury me with a pouch, punching baccy cones as it goes
Word: ritter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Ritter. 1. knight
Word: robbin Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities used to be exported from Southeast Asia. Labels: archaic, historical Example: The robbin of rice in Malabar weighed about 84 pounds. 2. The spring of a carriage. 3. Alternative form of ropeband. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: roil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”) Pronunciation: /ˈɹɔɪl/, [ˈɹʷɔɪl] 1. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of. Labels: transitive Example: to roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles Example: to roil a spring 2. To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord. Labels: transitive Example: That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly. Example: […] and amid Musk’s sale of 10% of his Tesla stock, a process that roiled markets, cost him billions and should produce enough tax revenue to fund the Commerce Department for a year. 3. To bubble, seethe. Labels: intransitive Example: By noon, Brian's stomach had begun to roil and knot. He hurried down to the bathroom at the end of the hall in his stocking feet, closed the door, and vomited into the toilet bowl as quietly as he could. Example: Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood. 4. To romp or tumble. Labels: intransitive Example: The finale was a romp in which the entire troupe burst out of the bouldering cave and roiled along the walls. Example: As artists they were exploratory; in Rose Colored Dance they performed in playful embrace, smelled each other's feet, and roiled in mischief, rolling on top of each other.
Word: romano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian romano (“Roman”). Doublet of Roman. 1. A hard, sharp cheese served grated as a garnish. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rondo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian rondò, itself an unadapted borrowing of French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau; see there for further etymology. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/ 1. A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. Labels: countable 2. A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy. Labels: countable 3. A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others. Labels: countable 4. A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation. 5. A gambling game played with small balls on a table. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: rooky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rook + -y. 1. full of rooks. Labels: not-comparable 2. misty; gloomy. Labels: not-comparable 3. rascally, rakish, scampish. Labels: UK, not-comparable, obsolete, slang
Word: rooter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English root 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 rooter From root (“to cheer for”) + -er. 1. One who roots for, or applauds, something. Labels: US, slang Example: Then, as the victorious team, streaming and slimy with mud, was borne by, literally in the arms of the populace, in a bit of momentary abstraction the beat wildly upon the thing nearest at hand, which happend to be the top of a blue and gold rooter's hat, beneath which, naturally enough, was the head of the aforementioned rooter. Example: In my country a mythology exists concerning the rooter. Great names, great deeds, great passions, great fights, and great deaths from heart attacks are the landmarks on the battlefield of a sport incorporated in Brazilian folklore. However, the different types of rooters are more interesting to the psychologist than soccer folklore proper.
Word: rotor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an irregular clipping of rotator, originally in mathematics, coined by English mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford based on vector, see quotations. Doublet of rota and ruote. Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊ.tə/, /ˈɹoʊ.tɚ/, /ˈɹoʊ.tə/ 1. A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump. Example: Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work. 2. A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump. 3. A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump. 4. A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain. Example: A glider instructor, who had been in the COS area for more than 25 years, was interviewed. He stated that around 1200 on the day of the accident, he observed a rotor hit the ground with estimated wind speeds of 70 to 80 miles per hour. 5. A quantity having magnitude, direction, and position. Example: These quantities are unit lengths measured anywhere on the axes in the positive directions. They have magnitude, direction, and position, and are thus what I have called rotors (short for rotators) to distinguish them from vectors, which have magnitude and direction but no position. 6. The set of cells within an oscillator that switch between being alive and dead over the course of the oscillator's period. Example: The following figure shows examples of the most versatile class of these oscillators. The first emulates the p10 shown above; the second has period 62 and a rotor of size 10. Example: The problem of determining the asymptotic colouring for a cyclic pattern from a given initial black and white pattern is completely solved. The analysis leads to the proposal of the distinction between primary and secondary rotor cells (i.e. a refinement of the classical stator-rotor distinction). 7. An amusement park and carnival ride consisting of a rotating cylindrical chamber in which centrifugal force adheres riders to the wall as the floor drops away, creating a sensation of defying gravity.
Word: rouser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rouse + -er. 1. Something very exciting or stimulating. 2. One who rouses another from sleep. 3. A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. Labels: archaic, colloquial 4. A roustabout. Labels: Australia Example: They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’ Example: The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]
Word: rube Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Generic use of the name Rube. See hey rube for more. Pronunciation: /ɹuːb/ 1. A person of rural heritage; a yokel. Labels: Canada, US, informal Example: "Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done—did. […]" Example: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. 2. An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person. Labels: derogatory
Word: ruff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. Labels: transitive Example: The Ladies too were carp’d at, and their Dreſs, / He wants ’em all ruff’d up like good Queen Beſs! 2. Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it. Labels: transitive Example: Instantly the keen-eyed hawk "stooped," or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called "rifling," or "ruffing" it. 3. To ruffle; to disorder. Labels: rare, transitive Example: Thenceforth the fether in her lofty creſt, / Ruffed of loue, gan lowly to auaile, / And her prowd portaunce, and her princely geſt, / VVith which ſhe earſt tryumphed, now did quaile: […] Example: To return to the thatching: Straw is not so durable as one could wish; besides, in very high winds, it is liable, if not reeded, to be ruffed a good deal; and the reeding, which is almost like counting the straws one by one, is expensive. 4. Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: "Scat," the crow said. I ignored him. He ruffed up his feathers, doubling his size. 5. To boast, to brag. Labels: obsolete, transitive 6. To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: […] Mr Gillies ruffed and screamed out so loud in approbation, that he fell from his chair, and brought an American gentleman down with him.
Word: ruff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from rough. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. Alternative spelling of ruffe: a small freshwater fish of the genus Gymnocephalus; specifically a Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua or Gymnocephalus cernuus) which has spiny fins; the pope. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Of Fiſhes thoſe we feed on in England, are either ſcaled, as ſturgian, ſalmon, grailing, ſhuins, carps, breams, the barbel, mullet, pike, luce, perch, ruffs, herrings, ſprats, pilchers, roche, ſhads, dorry, gudgin, and umbers;[…] Example: Its Principal R[iver] of all thoſe mention'd, is the Yare on which Norwich and Yarmouth ſtands, in which R[iver] the Ruff, a Fish is found, remarkable for being all over Prickles; [...] 2. A fish of species Arripis georgianus, found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia Example: In the same genus there is another species which makes better eating. This is A[rripis] georgianus, popularly known as the ruff or tommy ruff (again, nothing to do with anything bearing that name in the Old World), but now officially called 'Australian herring' (another aberration). [...] The ruff, on the other hand, although a smaller fish, makes good eating; its flesh is tender and tasty. 3. A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream. Labels: obsolete Example: A Ruff, or Sea-bream. Melanurus.
Word: ruff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French roffle, rouffle (earlier romfle, ronfle), or from Italian ronfa (“card game similar to whist”); these words are possibly from Old French triomphe (“a triumph, victory”), Italian trionfo (“triumph; trump card”), from Latin triumphus (“hymn to Bacchus; celebration, triumph”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρῐ́ᾰμβος (thrĭ́ămbos, “hymn to Dionysius, thriambus”). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of trump. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card). Labels: ambitransitive Example: Zia [Mahmood] ruffed the club return and then played the ace of hearts and a heart, leaving declarer with another spade loser for two down. Example: The declarer may not have fear of losing control on trumps, because even after ruffing in one hand, the other hand will have sufficient length to draw the trumps. A 4-4 fit of trumps is considered to be the best and most convenient for the declarer. […] He can easily make 5 or 6 or even 7 tricks in trumps by way of ruffing once, twice or thrice in one hand. 2. Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led. Labels: transitive Example: Then I played on diamonds, to ruff out the suit – but East had four diamonds and West none, so I had annoyingly to lose a trick to East's ♣K in the end. Example: It never ceases to amaze me how many times people get in trouble by failing to first ruff out their sure losers.
Word: ruff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French roffle, rouffle (earlier romfle, ronfle), or from Italian ronfa (“card game similar to whist”); these words are possibly from Old French triomphe (“a triumph, victory”), Italian trionfo (“triumph; trump card”), from Latin triumphus (“hymn to Bacchus; celebration, triumph”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρῐ́ᾰμβος (thrĭ́ămbos, “hymn to Dionysius, thriambus”). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of trump. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit. Example: Take, for example, the axiom "Never give declarer a ruff-and-sluff." 2. A game similar to whist and its predecessor. Labels: obsolete Example: [W]hat ſhall wee haue a game at Trumpe or Ruffe to driue away the time, how ſay you?
Word: ruff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle. Labels: often Example: I also used quite a few of the flat-fingered kind of ruff (as used before on the doumbek in the baladi section) to embellish some notes.
Word: ruff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum. Labels: often, transitive Example: [A] wooden leg and an empty coat sleeve, and fourteen poor pennies a-day, are all that I have got by allowing myself to be seduced by the cursed din of a Scotchman's bagpipe. I was once a good yeoman, in Kent, and in an evil hour went to the fair at Maidstone. The drum ruffed, and the pipe screamed in the market-place, and away I went to see what was to happen. […] I fairly forgot myself, and scarcely ever knew where I was or what I was doing, till I found myself on board a ship, and saw the olive hills and vineyards of Spain, […] 2. Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it. Labels: intransitive, often Example: If anything could have kept me awake, this cracked drum would; and, in truth, I had my fears, when, on entering my room, I heard my hero ruffing it away immediately in front of the window; but they were groundless apprehensions, though his efforts were varied and unceasing, for I undressed to the tune of the "Grenadiers' March," stepped into bed to the "Reveille," and dropped fast asleep to the first part of "Yankee Doodle!"
Word: ruff Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. The bark of a dog; arf, woof. Labels: often Example: "Ruff, ruff!" Around the corner, a little light brown, short-haired dog came running. On seeing the little brown terrier, Annie and Marie looked at one another. Letting out a moan, Annie said, "Oh no, it's JB! I wish Joyce would take him to dog school and have him taught some manners."
Word: ruff Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɹʌf/, /ɹəf/, /ɹɐf/, /ɹʊf/, /ɾʌf/ 1. Alternative spelling of rough. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, obsolete, often Example: The Herb Pantagruelion hath a little Root somewhat hard and ruff, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt Point, and having some of its Veins, Strings or Filaments coloured with some spots of white, […] Example: Up to this time it have been an uphill bisness. The teem was a good one, and the gear all sound, and the waggin greasd, but the rode is perhaps the ruffest in the world.
Word: rugger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rugby (“Rugby football”) + -er (Oxford “-er”). Compare contemporary soccer, from Association football. Both words seem to have originated at the University of Oxford during the 1880s. See Oxford -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌɡə/, /ˈɹʌɡɚ/ 1. rugby Labels: uncountable Example: That . . . . . . may for once put a full Rugger team in the field Example: Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen. 2. rugby player Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Some people refer to a Dropped Goal as if it were a misfortune rather than the perfection of football ... Genuine "Ruggers" will, of course, scoff at this Example: To this day ruggers belittle soccer, and they will tell anyone who expresses the slightest interest in their game that rugby is "a ruffian's game played by gentlemen," while soccer is "a gentleman's game played by ruffians."
Word: rulier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of ruly: more ruly Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: rumen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rūmen. Pronunciation: /ˈɹu.mən/ 1. The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants. Example: In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809). As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.
Word: rummer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Dutch roemer, rummer (West Flanders); partly from Middle Low German römer; partly from German Römer (“Roman person or thing”), named because it was made in glassworks dating from the Roman era. See also roemer; and for the etymology compare Romeware. 1. A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem. Example: I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch.
Word: rummer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. comparative form of rum: more rum Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: rumpus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. First use appears c. 1745. The OED indicates: "perhaps an arbitrary formation". Possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”). The use of the verbal form first appears c. 1839. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌm.pəs/ 1. A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "I'd like to know how on earth we are going to finish the case with all this umptydoodle rumpus going on." Example: But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan. 2. A rumpus room. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
Word: rumpus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. First use appears c. 1745. The OED indicates: "perhaps an arbitrary formation". Possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”). The use of the verbal form first appears c. 1839. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌm.pəs/ 1. To cause a noisy disturbance or commotion. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: All night, as wide awake as gnats, The terriers rumpused after rats, Or, just for practice, taught their brats, To worry cast-off shoes and hats. Example: ... and Marie routed up Mammy nights, and rumpussed and scolded, with more energy than ever, all day, on the strength of this new misery.
Word: rune Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.? Proto-Germanic *rūnō Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo) Old Norse rúnbor. English rune Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun. ; Finnic epic poem ; "code point" Pronunciation: /ɹuːn/ 1. A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons. Example: Yet they made for man those mystic swords of superhuman workmanship engraved with magic runes and dipped when red hot in blood or in a broth of poisonous herbs and twigs. Example: Runes were the letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, ultimately derived from the Mediterranean alphabets, which was used for carving on wood or stone and which to some extent survived the introduction of writing. 2. A letter from any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script). 3. A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala. 4. A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol. Example: And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him. Example: "Finding you somewhere to live isn't going to be easy," he said. "We must cast the runes," said Catweazle. "They will tell us." 5. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation. Example: Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, / And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, / The Owls sit in council like prophets of Fate, / Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State. Example: the fiddle sang and sang as ceaselessly as the chanting cicada without, and the frogs intoning their sylvan runes by the waterside. 6. Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete 7. A Unicode code point. Example: Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.
Word: rune Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.? Proto-Germanic *rūnō Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo) Old Norse rúnbor. English rune Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun. ; Finnic epic poem ; "code point" Pronunciation: /ɹuːn/ 1. To compose or perform poetry or songs. Labels: dated, intransitive, poetic
Word: Runic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From rune + -ic, because such languages were written using runes. 1. Any of the ancient Germanic languages which were written using runes. Labels: nonstandard Example: So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished.
Word: Runic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rune + -ic, because such languages were written using runes. 1. Alternative letter-case form of runic. Labels: alt-of
Word: rusk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese rosca (“a twist or roll of bread”) Pronunciation: /ɹʌsk/, /ɹʊsk/ 1. A rectangular, hard, dry biscuit. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat. 2. A twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp; zwieback. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A newly-arrived couple at the next table […] admitted that “this was more like” and that if the Alpenrose could also produce a proper cup of tea it would be just like home. Bill Andreyef, who was eating a lightly-boiled egg and a rusk, regarded the other diners with resentment. 3. A weaning food for children. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A cereal binder used in meat product manufacture. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”). Pronunciation: /ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ], /ɹʊt/ 1. Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: grunt, roar 3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat. Example: All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.
Word: rut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”). Pronunciation: /ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ], /ɹʊt/ 1. To be in the annual rut or mating season. Labels: intransitive 2. To have sexual intercourse. Labels: intransitive Example: “Well, Mayella was raisin‘ this holy racket so I dropped m’load and run as fast as I could but I run into th’ fence, but when I got distangled I run up to th‘ window and I seen—” Mr. Ewell’s face grew scarlet. He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. “—I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” 3. To have sexual intercourse with. Labels: rare, transitive Example: “Alfred,” Ragnar continued scathingly. “All he cares about is rutting girls, which is good![…]” Example: VVhat Piety forbids the luſty Ram / Or more ſalacious Goat, to rut their Dam? 4. To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Near-synonym: hump Example: We have just rescued a dog from a shelter; she has a great personality, except the one problem with her is that she ocassionally^([sic]) likes to "rut" against my husband's leg or arm !
Word: rut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter. Pronunciation: /ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ], /ɹʊt/ 1. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. 2. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. Labels: figuratively 3. A dull routine. Labels: figuratively Example: Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut. Example: Some people might say my life is in a rut / I'm quite happy with what I got
Word: rut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter. Pronunciation: /ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ], /ɹʊt/ 1. To make a furrow. Labels: transitive
Word: rutile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin rutilus (“red”) because of its common color, named in 1803. 1. The most frequent of the three polymorphs of titanium dioxide, crystalizing in the tetragonal system, TiO₂. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: rutty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rut + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌti/ 1. Imprinted with ruts. Example: a rutty country road Example: But I’m oblig’d each day to roam Many a furlong from my home, And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick From off the ground a single stick; Or, in some long and rutty lane, I find by chance a single grain. 2. In a rut (dull routine). Labels: US, dated Example: Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways. Example: Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little. 3. Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal. Example: I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell Example: You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.
Word: rutty Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌti/ 1. Full of roots. Labels: obsolete Example: […] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes, Was paynted all with variable flowers, Example: […] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues, And with their verdure his white head embraues, To chide the windes,
Word: rutty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi रत्ती (rattī), literally “the seed of the plant Abrus precatorius.” Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌti/ 1. A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains. Labels: India, obsolete Example: […] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […] Example: 1858, Henry Yule, Narrative of the Mission … to the Court of Ava, London: Smith, Elder, Appendix, “Note on Metals, Minerals, &c., of Burma,” p. 348, [Sapphires] of ten to fifteen rutties without a flaw are common, whereas a perfect ruby of that size is hardly ever seen.
Word: sabra Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Sabra. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sachem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett sachem; compare Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”) and Unami sakima (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa. Doublet of sagamore. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪt͡ʃəm/, /ˈsæt͡ʃəm/ 1. A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians; a sagamore. Labels: US, historical Example: Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head. Example: If a sachem was too harsh, a tribesman might leave and join another tribe. 2. A boss, a leader. Labels: US, historical, informal 3. An eminent member of a group, or an eminent person in society; a sagamore. Labels: US, archaic, historical, informal 4. A high-ranking officer of the Tammany Hall political organization. Labels: US, historical Example: The society elects annually thirteen sachems, which represent the original thirteen States. […] The other officers of the society are a Secretary, Treasurer, Sagamore, and Wiskinkie. Example: Aboriginal titles were adopted and the head of each tribe was called a sachem. […] Its proprietor, Abraham Martling, was elected a sachem on several occasions and members of Tammany were often called Martling Men. 5. A butterfly of the Americas, Atalopedes campestris. Labels: US, historical
Word: sadist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the name of the Marquis de Sade; see sadism. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪdɪst/, /ˈsædɪst/ 1. One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others. 2. One who enjoys teasing others. Labels: colloquial, slang
Word: sage Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece. Pronunciation: /seɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Wise. Example: Harry the fift is crownd, vp vanitie, / Downe royall ſtate, all you ſage counſailers, hence, / And to the Engliſh Court aſſemble now / From euery region, apes of idleneſſe: […] Example: Howbeit the Caledonians with great preparation, and by rumor, as of things unknown much greater, taking Armes, and of thir own accord begining Warr by the aſſault of ſundry Caſtles, ſent back ſome of thir fear to the Romans themſelves: and there were of the Commanders, who cloaking thir fear under ſhew of ſage advice, counſel’d the General to retreat back on this ſide Bodotria. 2. Grave; serious; solemn. Labels: obsolete
Word: sage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sage, from Old French sage (11th century), from Vulgar Latin *sapium, from Latin sapere (“to taste, to discern, to be wise”). The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece. Pronunciation: /seɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A very wise person or spiritual teacher; someone of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher. Example: ’Tis certain, that, while we aſpire to the magnanimous Firmneſs of the philoſophic Sage, and endeavour to confine our Pleaſures altogether within our own Minds, we may, at laſt, render our Philoſophy, like that of Epictetus and other Stoics, only a more refin’d Syſtem of Selfiſhneſs, and reaſon ourſelves out of all Virtue, as well as ſocial Enjoyment. Example: All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.
Word: sage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sauge, from Middle French sauge, from Old French salje, from Latin salvia, from salvus (“healthy”), see safe. Doublet of salvia. Pronunciation: /seɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Any plant in the genus Salvia. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Any of a number of plants such as sagebrush considered to be similar to Salvia officinalis, mostly because they are small shrubs and have gray foliage or are aromatic. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: sage Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel. Pronunciation: /seɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Word used in the email field of imageboards to prevent a bump of the post. Used as an option rather than a word in some imageboard software. Labels: Internet Example: sage in all fields
Word: sage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese sage (sage), from 下げる (sageru, “to lower”). From 2channel. Pronunciation: /seɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply. Labels: Internet Example: Reminder to sage and report.
Word: sago Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago. Pronunciation: /ˈseɪɡəʊ/, /sɐˈɡo/ 1. A powdered starch obtained from certain palms (Metroxylon spp., esp. Metroxylon sagu), used as a flour and food thickener and for sizing textiles. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A similar starch obtained from palm-like cycad, especially Cycas revoluta. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any of the palms and cycads from which sago starch is extracted. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sago Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sego. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: saker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sacre, from Middle French sacre, from Old Spanish sacro, from Arabic صَقْر (ṣaqr). Pronunciation: /ˈseɪkə/, /ˈseɪkɚ/ 1. A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia. 2. A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century. Example: This place of strength vvas furnished of sixe great peeces, demi-Culuerins, and Sakers, vvhich shot directlie in front vpon vs as vve approched. Example: Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
Word: salina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin salīna. Pronunciation: /səˈlaɪnə/ 1. A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.
Word: salvor Part of Speech: noun 1. One who salvages; especially, one who voluntarily assists in saving a distressed ship or its goods at sea. Example: A salvor is a risktaker. […] The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War. Sorima [la Società Ricuperi Marittimi] collected "no cure, no pay" (the equivalent of "no win, no fee") contracts from governments and insurers, seeking to recoup their losses.
Word: samba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑmbə/ 1. A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And when the samba played, the sun would set so high / Ring through my ears and sting my eyes, your Spanish lullaby Example: They thought of, I don’t know, monkeys and caipirinhas and samba.”
Word: samba Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese samba, from a Bantu language. Doublet of semba. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑmbə/ 1. To dance the samba. Labels: intransitive Example: In front of an audience, he tends to have a freer conversation with himself. The right conditions turn him into an extrovert. He sambas, in the Santo Amaro style.
Word: sambar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi सांभर (sāmbhar), साँभर (sāmbhar), from Sanskrit शम्बर (śambara, “a kind of deer”). 1. A Southeast Asian deer (Rusa unicolor).
Word: sambar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tamil சாம்பார் (cāmpār), from Marathi सांभार (sāmbhār)/सांबार (sāmbār, “curry”), from Old Marathi सांबार (sāṃbāra), from Sanskrit सम्भार (sambhārá, “materials required for a particular purpose, provision; collection of spices”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sambʰārás, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-bʰor-ó-s, from *sem- (“together, one”) + *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”) + *-ós (deverbal suffix). Doublet of Anbar and ambar. 1. A food preparation common in southern India and Sri Lanka, made of vegetables and lentils (usually pigeon peas, also called toor dal) in a spicy tamarind and lentil flour soup base. Labels: uncountable Example: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels.
Word: sapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sappeur (French sapeur). By surface analysis, sap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsæpɚ/ 1. A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone. Example: his knowledge of Arabic and freedom from the theories of the ordinary sapper-school enabled him to teach the art of demolition to unlettered Beduin in a quick and ready way. Example: A vast minefield trapped Ukrainian troops for weeks as infantry sappers slowly cleared an assault route on foot. 2. An officer or private of the Royal Engineers. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days. Example: Billinge, from St Austell, was one of the first soldiers to land on 'Gold' beach on June 6 1944. He was a sapper attached to the 44 Royal Engineer Commandos and was one of only four to survive from his unit. 3. a person generally engaged in digging requiring a level of professionalism Example: Let no Bank consider itself safe from the skill and daring of such sappers and miners.
Word: saran Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a trade name coined by the Dow Chemical Co. for a number of monomers and polymers made from vinylidene chloride (especially polyvinylidene chloride). 1. A plastic resin used to make packaging films. Labels: uncountable
Word: sault Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Aphetic form of assault. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːlt/ 1. Assault. Labels: obsolete
Word: sault Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In the sense "jump (made by a horse)", from Middle French sault, saut (and in the sense "waterfall", from that word's Colonial-era descendant, 17th-century French sault, corresponding to modern French saut (“jump”)), from Latin saltus. Pronunciation: /suː/ 1. A leap or jump, especially one made by a horse. Labels: obsolete 2. A waterfall; a rapid. Labels: Canada, US
Word: scat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”). Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe”), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling”), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart”), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart”), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty”), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute”), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound”). Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. A tax; tribute. 2. A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. Labels: Shetland
Word: scat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin". Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. Animal excrement; droppings, dung. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese. Example: 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings. 2. Heroin. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 3. Whiskey. Labels: countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable 4. Coprophilia, scatophilia. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth. Example: “[…] I hear he’s into S&M and scat and all kinds of kinky shit. […]”
Word: scat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. The OED, which connects the senses "blow" and "shower" only tentatively, suggests that at least the former might be onomatopoeia. Dialectally, the word can also refer to "a spell" of any kind of weather, e.g. "a scat of fine weather", "a scat of frost". Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. A blow; a hit, an impact. Labels: uncommon Example: ... a shot rang out, followed immediately by the "scat" of a bullet against the rock behind which he lay concealed. A tramp of heavy Galloway brogans was heard, and a half-hearted kicking about among the heather bushes, and at last[…] Example: ... the soft and pitying eyes seemed to shame him, "like a scat in the face," he said to himself. But who was he that he should care for any blow across the cheek now, if it was not hard enough to hurt? 2. A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Low black Clouds on it being ſoppoſed to prognoſticate Rain in the Places beneath it, it has been a ſtanding old Saw, When Haldon hath a Hat, Kenton beware a Skat. Example: ... a scat of heavy rain on a squall of wind shut out the harbour for a time. Mrs. Tregenza waited until Joan had disappeared, then went back to her kitchen, closed the door, sat in Grey Michael's great chair by the hearth,[…]
Word: scat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1920s, probably imitative. Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. Scat singing.
Word: scat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1920s, probably imitative. Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
Word: scat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Mid 19th century: * perhaps an abbreviation of scatter. * perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas (“shoo, begone”). * Alternatively, from the expression quicker than scat (“in a great hurry”), * Possibly from scoot, from the root of shoot. Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. To leave quickly. Labels: colloquial Example: Here comes the principal; we'd better scat. Example: We have to scat! Oh-oh—I forgot to look at the clock!
Word: scat Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Mid 19th century: * perhaps an abbreviation of scatter. * perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas (“shoo, begone”). * Alternatively, from the expression quicker than scat (“in a great hurry”), * Possibly from scoot, from the root of shoot. Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent. Labels: colloquial Example: Scat! Go on! Get out of here! Example: Scat! Shoo! Scat! Geet up! Geet on! Nobody's sick in this house! Nobody wants you here!
Word: scat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the taxonomic name of the family. Pronunciation: /skæt/ 1. Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
Word: scaup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”). Pronunciation: /skɔːp/ 1. Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya. Example: Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish. 2. Alternative form of scalp (“a bed or stratum of shellfish”). Labels: Scotland, alt-of, alternative