nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: bloweth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow English -eth English bloweth From blow + -eth. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blow Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.
Word: remaineth Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of remain Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. Example: What remaineth concerning Maſtiffs is referred to the same Topick in Somerſetſhire.
Word: blindeth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blind + -eth. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blind Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Word: perverteth Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pervert Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Word: -ote Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Ancient Greek -ωτά (-ōtá), neuter plural of -ωτός (-ōtós), verbal adjective from the stem of -όω (-óō, denominal verb suffix). Related to translingual -ota. 1. Having or equipped with a certain feature or structure. Labels: morpheme Example: amnion + -ote → amniote
Word: industriousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English industrious Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English industriousness From industrious + -ness. 1. The quality of being industrious. Labels: uncountable
Word: volitional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-influ. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition English -al English volitional From volition + -al. Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃənəl/, /vɒˈlɪʃənəl/ 1. Of or relating to the volition or will. Labels: formal, not-comparable Example: Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent. Example: Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards. 2. Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental. Labels: comparable Example: A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. Example: “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will. 3. Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: volitional Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-influ. Proto-Italic *welō Latin volō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Medieval Latin volitiōbor. French volitionder. English volition English -al English volitional From volition + -al. Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃənəl/, /vɒˈlɪʃənəl/ 1. The volitional grammatical mood. 2. A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.
Word: wicket keeper Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of wicketkeeper. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: come unhinged Part of Speech: verb 1. To become angered or crazy; to lose control of one's senses or sanity. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: Dad came unhinged when he saw the report card with such bad grades.
Word: GTFO Part of Speech: verb 1. Initialism of get the fuck out, can be used to express disbelief or displeasure. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, vulgar Example: GTFO of my house. Example: "I just found a hundred bucks." "GTFO!" 2. Initialism of get the fuck off. See get off Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, vulgar Example: Also, the Supreme court has ruled that we don't have to restrict media to "only what is fit for children". Live with it or GTFO Usenet. Example: He told the morons to GTFO my porch...^([sic – meaning ellipsis in original])
Word: endeth Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of end Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: Here endeth the lesson.
Word: soylent green Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a foodstuff in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green, from soylent in the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, from soy and lentils. 1. Any foodstuff of dubious nature or origin. Labels: humorous, uncountable
Word: ogrish Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of ogreish. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: verbal diarrhoea Part of Speech: noun 1. British standard spelling of verbal diarrhea. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: sybilline Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of sibylline. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable
Word: sibylline Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪbɪlaɪn/ 1. Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. Labels: not-comparable Example: Cleopatra immediately comes down to the chair of state; seizes Ptolemy and drags him out of his seat; then takes his place in the chair. Ftatateeta seats herself on the step of the loggia, and sits there, watching the scene with sybilline intensity. Example: But directly she had closed the door behind her, Mother Théot's manner underwent a chance. Here the broad light of day appeared to divest her of all her sybilline attributes. She became just an ugly old woman, wrinkled and hook-nosed, dressed in shabby draperies that were grey with age and dirt, and with claw-like hands that looked like the talons of a bird of prey. 2. Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. Labels: broadly, not-comparable 3. Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. Labels: broadly, not-comparable 4. Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.) Labels: not-comparable
Word: sibylline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪbɪlaɪn/ 1. One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
Word: stiffener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stiffen + -er. 1. Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar. Example: […] he wears a wisp of black silk round his neck, without any stiffener, as an apology for a neckerchief […] Example: […] each of these stiffener-columns must be designed to resist approximately 26 tons. Sometimes single angles are thus used as stiffeners […] 2. One of a series of angle bars, Z-bars, beams, rods, or other shapes, attached in order to provide them the necessary stiffness or rigidity. 3. An alcoholic drink taken to fortify oneself. Labels: slang Example: I believe the old man has taken himself off to the nearest bar for a stiffener.
Word: fætus Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of fetus. Labels: alt-of, hypercorrect, obsolete Example: A way Of preſerving Birds taken out of the Egge, and other ſmall Fætus’s; communicated by Mr. Boyle.
Word: metathesize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English metathesis Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English metathesize From metathesis + -ize. 1. To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word. Example: Cases like mu·yh : mu·hyut may be accounted for under a rule that clusters of h plus sonorant metathesize in word-final position. Example: The significance of noticing the existence of this adjective tharf by the side of the metathesized form thraf is of course apparent
Word: vacuum-clean Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from vacuum cleaner. 1. To clean with a vacuum cleaner. Labels: transitive
Word: swallow one's pride Part of Speech: verb 1. To set aside one's feelings of pride and adopt a more humble or appropriate stance. Labels: idiomatic
Word: come to pass Part of Speech: verb 1. To happen; to occur. Labels: idiomatic Example: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Example: I need the feel of your tender touch / Your smiling face that warms my heart so much / Sadness in my life will never come to pass / 'Cause within my heart I know it's got to last
Word: builded Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, nonstandard, poetic Example: Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd. / No it was buylded far from accident, Example: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Word: sub silencio Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sub silencio (“beneath the silence”). 1. in a clearly implied but not overtly stated way Labels: not-comparable
Word: instructer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From instruct + -er. 1. One who instructs. Labels: obsolete Example: And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Word: silly money Part of Speech: noun 1. A ridiculously large (or, less commonly, small) sum of money. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: Buying a house in central London will set you back close to a million quid, these days – it's just silly money. Example: With collectors prepared to pay silly money for limited edition cars, Aston Martin commissioned Zagato to build a new body on the Vantage chassis.
Word: mad money Part of Speech: noun 1. A sum of money, often relatively small in amount, kept in reserve to use for impulsive, frivolous purposes. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: Ultrasuede minibags "are just the solution for waste." And for crime. Most minis hardly hold more than mad money and a comb. 2. A sum of money kept in reserve or to insulate oneself financially in the event of the sudden breakdown of a relationship in which one is economically dependent. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: Such an expression is mad money, noted as early as 1922 by Howard J. Savage (Dialect Notes 5:148) at the end of an article on Bryn Mawr slang. Savage's definition is 'money a girl carries in case she has a row with her escort and wishes to go home alone.'
Word: air bridge Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of airbridge. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Berliners referred to both missions as die Luftbrucke - "the air bridge."
Word: nunchuck Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnʌnt͡ʃʌk/ 1. Alternative form of nunchaku. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cubicula Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cubiculum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loculi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loculus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beggars can't be choosers Part of Speech: proverb 1. Something is better than nothing: those who can't provide for themselves should accept whatever help is available. Labels: idiomatic Example: Mo went online and found me a beggars-can't-be-choosers flight out of Denver: a 5.45 a.m. takeoff, a three-hour layover at O'Hare. I'd land in Hartford by late afternoon. "I'll be fine," I said. "Drink a lot of coffee, drive right from school to the airport. I can crash once I get on the plane." She frowned. "Okay, let me rephrase that. I can sleep once I get on the plane."
Word: good things come to those who wait Part of Speech: proverb 1. A patient seeker will be satisfied in due time.
Word: cribbed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɹɪbd/ 1. simple past and past participle of crib Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cribbed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /kɹɪbd/ 1. Placed in a crib. Labels: not-comparable Example: The cribbed baby was quite content.
Word: patience is a virtue Part of Speech: proverb 1. It is better to be patient than impatient.
Word: the early bird catches the worm Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of the early bird gets the worm. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sell ice to Eskimos Part of Speech: verb 1. To persuade people to go against their best interests or to accept something unnecessary or preposterous. Labels: idiomatic Example: He's such a smooth talker, he could sell ice to Eskimos.
Word: carry coals to Newcastle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Newcastle upon Tyne (in England) was a major coal-exporting city, so sending coal there would be pointless. 1. To do something that is unneeded or redundant. Labels: idiomatic Example: However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare. Example: He's the fellow who likes to let off stink bombs in night clubs, which rather falls under the head of carrying coals to Newcastle […]
Word: carry owls to Athens Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of bring owls to Athens. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bring owls to Athens Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Calque from Ancient Greek proverb γλαῦκ’ εἰς Ἀθήνας (glaûk’ eis Athḗnas). The owl, which roosted in the rafters of the old Parthenon (the one burnt by Xerxes I), was the symbol of the city of Athens, and was sacred to its patron goddess, Athena. It was featured on Athens’ silver coins, and as Athens both mined its own silver and minted its own coins, bringing owls (either the real birds, or the coins) to Athens would be pointless. Pronunciation: /bɹɪŋ ˈaʊlz tu ˈæ.θɪnz/ 1. To undertake a pointless venture, one that is redundant, unnecessary, superfluous, or highly uneconomical. Labels: idiomatic Example: Euelpides: Who brings owls to Athens? Example: Forgive me, then, for bringing owls to Athens as a thanks-offering.
Word: pain in the ass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dysphemistically modelled after pain in the neck. First attested in the early to mid-20th century. 1. Something or someone that causes discomfort, frustration, or annoyance. Labels: Canada, US, countable, idiomatic, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Strangely enough, the days I spent at this pain-in-the-ass job were some of my most memorable and valuable. Example: His one obligation is that, every day, he must gather $10,000 worth of items from the store – stuff he doesn’t need: electronics, nappies, pet food and so forth – and exchange them for the cash. This is both an acute pain in the ass, and the one thing that prevents him from going insane with boredom. ) 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pain, in, the, ass. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: show barn Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From show + barn. 1. A building for exhibiting cattle and other domestic animals, as at a county fairgrounds. Example: The Okmulgee County Commissioners voted to award Bid #5 for a new show barn at the Okmulgee County Fairgrounds.
Word: jockeys Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒkiz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑkiz/ 1. Synonym of jockey shorts. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Standing in the cavernous barracks clad only in my jockeys, shivering next to other miserable schlubs and being handled like a piece of beef with "mad cow" disease did nothing to improve my mood. Example: "Are you for real? I’d think with those green eyes you'd be peeling the chicks off your jockeys before they peeled your jockeys off you!"
Word: jockeys Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒkiz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑkiz/ 1. plural of jockey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jockeys Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒkiz/, /ˈd͡ʒɑkiz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of jockey Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: long johns Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reputedly named after American heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan (1858–1918); also posed as an approximation of French longues jambes (“long legs”); see Wikipedia. 1. A full-length undergarment, worn on the bottom half of the body, or two-piece, to keep the wearer warm in cold weather. Labels: US, plural, plural-only
Word: long johns Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of long john Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disc jockeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disc jockey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chaulk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See chalk. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɔːk/, /t͡ʃɔk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. Alternative spelling of chalk. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, nonstandard, obsolete, rare, uncountable Example: At Compton Chamberlayne in 1597 the surveyor noted that, '. . . there is a chaulk pytt at the south-west corner of Compton arable fields neere the bottom of the Downe, where the tenants doe fetche Chaulk for manuringe theyr Lands Example: Apelles Not drew liker in charcole then he in Chaulk.
Word: chaulk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See chalk. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɔːk/, /t͡ʃɔk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. Alternative spelling of chalk. Labels: alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, obsolete, rare Example: This Book it chaulketh out before thine eyes / The man that ſeeks the everlaſting Prize: / It ſhevvs you vvhence he comes, vvhither he goes, / VVhat he leaves undone; alſo vvhat he does: / It alſo ſhovvs you hovv he runs, and runs, / Till he unto the Gate of Glory comes.
Word: omphalomancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From omphalo- + -mancy. 1. Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Labels: uncountable
Word: xiexie Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 謝謝 /谢谢 (xièxie, “thank you”). 1. thank you Labels: Chinese, colloquial Example: When I was there, at about 0200 this morning [15 May], hundreds of students had swarmed up the steps of the Great Hall and sat there making political speeches. Troops were moved in, 100 or so filed out of the hall and drove the students back, but they were extremely gentle, saying xiexie, xiexie, thank you, thank you, and the relations seemed to be extremely good; I don't think that there is anything the authorities can do now to get them off even though they have said the square will be closed to pedestrians. Example: Throughout the week, please feel free to share your view of the Games and our discussion in our comments section. I'll be checking in regularly. Until then, thanks to all or, more appropriately, xiexie.
Word: muzzleloader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From muzzle + loader. 1. A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the end that discharges the projectile (the muzzle).
Word: muzzleloaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of muzzleloader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breechloader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From breech + loader. 1. A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the breech (the end opposite that which discharges the projectile).
Word: breechloaders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of breechloader Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caterpillar tree Part of Speech: noun 1. A tree consisting of only a path (the spine or stalk of the tree) and vertices directly connected to (i.e. one edge away from) that path; a tree whose vertices with a degree of at least 3 are all surrounded by at most two vertices of degree two or greater. 2. Catalpa bignonioides; the southern catalpa, a deciduous tree of family Bignoniaceae growing in Southeastern U.S., which is the host plant for the catawba worms, caterpillars that are popular fishing bait.
Word: chamber pot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chamber + pot, from its usual use in one's chamber (i.e., bedroom). 1. A container used for urination and defecation, particularly those used in early modern towns before the advent of the flush toilet.
Word: chamber pots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chamber pot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bedpan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bed + pan ("chamber pot"). Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdˌpæn/ 1. A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience. Example: The nurse emptied the patient's bedpan each morning.
Word: bedpans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bedpan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hoared Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hoar + -ed. Pronunciation: /hɔː(ɹ)d/ 1. moldy; musty Labels: obsolete Example: hoared headed frosts Example: […] they played wilily, and went and sent ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their Asses, and wine bottles old and rent and knit together again, and old clouted shoes upon their feet, and old raiment upon them and all their provision of bread was dried up and hoared.
Word: gossips Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gossip Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gossips Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of gossip Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: knee-high Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From knee + high (adjective). Pronunciation: /ˌniːˈhaɪ/, /ˌniˈhaɪ/ 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee, high: reaching to the height of a person's knees. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonym: knee-deep Example: knee-high by the Fourth of July 2. Very young. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.
Word: knee-high Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From knee + high (adjective). Pronunciation: /ˌniːˈhaɪ/, /ˈniˌhaɪ/ 1. A sock or stocking that reaches to just below the knees. Labels: US, plural-normally
Word: and change Part of Speech: phrase 1. And some quantity, but less than the increment to the next round number. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky. Example: She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see and, change.
Word: chorrin Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle of chor Labels: Geordie, form-of, participle, present Example: "He's been chorrin gear from work agyen, he'll get caught man!"
Word: barra boy Part of Speech: noun 1. A man who works on market stalls. Labels: Geordie
Word: stalls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stalls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stall Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: think one's shit doesn't stink Part of Speech: verb 1. To be arrogant or overconfident. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic, slang, vulgar
Word: barras Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of barra Labels: form-of, plural
Word: barras Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French barras. 1. galipot resin Labels: archaic, uncountable 2. coarse linen fabric Labels: uncountable
Word: barras Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of barrace (“the lists in a tournament”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: perfecta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From American Spanish quiniela perfecta (“perfect quinella”). Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛktə/ 1. A kind of bet wherein the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order. Labels: US
Word: perfecta Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pəˈfɛktə/ 1. A female perfect (Cathar leader). Labels: historical
Word: Wenis Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian wnjs, wn:n-i-s Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnəs/ 1. An Egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty Example: The passages were eventually separated and categorized, as well as illustrated and eventually evolved into the Book of the Dead, or more properly, 'The Book of the Coming forth by Day'. The oldest of these text come from that Pyramid of Wenis, or more popularly these days, Unas at Saqqara. Example: Unas (Wenis) reigned at the end of Dynasty V, for a period of up to 30 years.
Word: loculus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin loculus. 1. A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet. 2. In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn. 3. One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. 4. One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary.
Word: kife Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kaɪf/ 1. To steal. Labels: slang
Word: boko Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Circa 1820. Multiple potential origins: * From beak (“nose”) * From French beaucoup (“very much”) * Blend of beak (“nose”) + coconut * From boke (“point; thrust”) * From poke, as in poke one's nose into Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ.kəʊ/, /ˈboʊ.koʊ/ 1. The nose. Labels: Australia, West-Midlands, dated Example: […] the way he hid the Pernod card and bumped me on the boko when I tried to have a dekko at it proves that. Example: He sang Landor's lines in a quavering falsetto, then broke raucously into the schoolboy battle-cry of "Hit him on the boko, hit him on the boko, Jericho!"
Word: trademark erosion Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation that occurs when a trademarked name becomes a generic name through constant use. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While many companies object to the process of trademark erosion, there is little that can be done to prevent it.
Word: knaa Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English knawe, from Old English cnawan. Pronunciation: /naː/ 1. To know Labels: Geordie Example: A divint knaa, man!
Word: divint Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Contraction of the Geordie dee (“do”) + not. Cognate with Scots divvent. Also dinna in parts of Scotland and the north-east of England. 1. do not, don't Labels: Cumbria, Geordie, not-comparable Example: "Divint gan near the Seghill mine". Lyric from the Northumbrian folk song Blackleg Miner
Word: numpties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of numpty Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of numptie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bizarrerie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bizarrerie. Pronunciation: /bɪˈzɑːɹəɹi/ 1. The state or measure of being bizarre. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with an utter abandon. 2. A bizarre thing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Being of independent and even of abundant means, the Clarendons had for many years stuck to their old Manhattan mansion in East Nineteenth Street, whose ghosts must have looked sorely askance at the bizarrerie of Surama and the Thibetans. Example: But even as I harboured these doubts I felt ashamed that so fantastic a piece of bizarrerie as Henry Akeley’s wild letter had brought them up.
Word: within an ace of Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Very near; on the point of. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: [The horse] falling with a mighty crash, gave him a purler on the opposite side, and was within an ace of striking him dead with his hoof in frantic struggles to recover. Example: If you have ever been within an ace of a monumental discovery you will understand the torment of anxiety and self-reproach that possessed me.
Word: Kotka Part of Speech: name 1. A city and municipality of the Kymenlaakso region, in southern Finland.
Word: charver Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Of uncertain origin; possibly from nineteenth-century Romani charver (“prostitute”), or Italian chiavare (“to nail, to attach, to fuck”), or from Romani ćhavo (“child”) and/or its derivatives, especially Spanish chava (“girl”), or from Spanish chabacanada (“vulgarity”). (Compare charva.) 1. To have sex with; to fuck. Labels: Polari
Word: charver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of uncertain origin; possibly from nineteenth-century Romani charver (“prostitute”), or Italian chiavare (“to nail, to attach, to fuck”), or from Romani ćhavo (“child”) and/or its derivatives, especially Spanish chava (“girl”), or from Spanish chabacanada (“vulgarity”). (Compare charva.) 1. Sexual intercourse; fucking. Labels: Polari 2. A woman, especially as a sexual partner. Labels: Polari 3. Alternative spelling of charva (“unruly youth; chav; friend, mate”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: myopically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English myopic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English myopically From myopic + -ally. 1. As if suffering from myopia. Example: She squinted myopically at the small print.
Word: meaningfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English meaningful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English meaningfulness From meaningful + -ness. 1. The state or measure of being meaningful. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Near-synonym: meaning
Word: charvette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From charva + -ette. 1. A female charva. Labels: Geordie, derogatory
Word: charvettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of charvette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pluckt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pluck Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Word: scallywags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scallywag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mythconception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos)bor. English myth Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin conceptiōlbor. Old French conceptionbor. Middle English concepcioun English conception English misconception blend English mythconception Blend of myth + misconception. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪθ.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/ 1. A popular misconception; something often held to be true that in fact is not. Labels: informal, rare Example: That Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world is a common mythconception. Example: The claim that when you have a cold, drinking heavily will get rid of it is just a mythconception.
Word: burnt offering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *h₁epi From Middle English brend offring, brend offringe, from brend (past participle of brennen (“to burn”)) + offring, offringe (“presentation of something as a religious offering; offering presented to God or another deity”), used in biblical texts to translate Late Latin holocaustum (“burnt offering wholly consumed by fire”) in the Vulgate version of the Bible. The English term is analysable as burnt + offering. Pronunciation: /bɜːnt ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/, /bɝnt ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/, /-ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/ 1. A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin. Example: […] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge]. Example: When they faſt I will not heare their crie, and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation I wil not accept them: but I will conſume them by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence. 2. Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person. Labels: broadly 3. Overcooked food. Labels: humorous Example: A cooler oven would give heavy, doughy loaves while a hotter oven would provide the family with the inevitable burnt offerings.
Word: fungaemia Part of Speech: noun 1. a form of sepsis in which fungi circulate in the blood. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: liftin Part of Speech: adj 1. Stinky, noisome, putrid. Labels: Geordie Example: The rubbish dump was liftin 2. Alive with parasites or pests. Labels: Geordie Example: Ees claes were liftin wi vormin! 3. Heavenly; Upon the sky.
Word: parasites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parasite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: parasites Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of parasite Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: oor kid Part of Speech: noun 1. Younger (sometimes older) sibling, usually masculine. Labels: West-Midlands
Word: royal flush Part of Speech: noun 1. An ace-high straight flush; a hand consisting of the cards A, K, Q, J, 10, of the same suit and the rarest and strongest hand in poker.
Word: fill in the blank Part of Speech: noun Etymology: As a noun, a clipping of fill-in-the-blank question, problem, &c. 1. A language exercise in which one or more words are replaced with a blank line and the reader is tasked with supplying a valid replacement. Example: The test consisted of fill-in-the-blank sentences. Example: The emphasis on doing the Bible study portion. This is not a fill in the blank with a simple answer from the Bible that “says” what we are looking for. 2. A placeholder allowing for any of a variety of possible answers or a single elicited answer. Labels: figuratively, idiomatic Example: It was important that she make something memorable. She wanted to be complimented. She wanted people to go home after the party and say, “Wasn't Dorothy's — fill in the blank — amazing?"
Word: fill in the blank Part of Speech: verb Etymology: As a noun, a clipping of fill-in-the-blank question, problem, &c. 1. To complete a single fill in the blank question. 2. To complete an interruption, ambiguity, or vagueness in understanding, perception, or context. Labels: figuratively, idiomatic Example: The Zionists intended to shape the perceptions of a global public with limited interest in or understanding of the issues, filling in the blanks with their own narrative.
Word: psychogenic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From psycho- + -genic. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪkɒˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/ 1. Originating from or caused by state of mind; having a psychological rather than a physiological cause. Labels: not-comparable
Word: on top of the world Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Delighted; ecstatic; exceptionally pleased, happy, or satisfied. Labels: idiomatic Example: He was on top of the world after she agreed to marry him.
Word: witcha Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wí Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *wíterosder. Proto-Indo-European *wíterom Proto-Germanic *wiþrą Proto-West Germanic *wiþr Old English wiþerclip. Old English wiþ Middle English wiþ English with English -cha English witcha From with + -cha. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪ.t͡ʃə/ 1. Contraction of with + you. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction
Word: dreamlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English dreamlike From dream + -like. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹimlaɪk/ 1. Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness. Example: Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss. Example: The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients.
Word: out of this world Part of Speech: adj 1. Of exceptionally high quality; wonderful; marvelous; excellent. Labels: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable Example: You must try the chef's special: it's just out of this world. Example: A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out, of, this, world; for example, not of this Earth: extraterrestrial, celestial, or supernatural. Labels: not-comparable
Word: chrysoprase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῡσόπρασος (khrūsóprasos). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪsəˌpɹeɪz/ 1. A variety of light-green translucent quartz. Example: […]or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase,[…] Example: On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.
Word: brownstone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brown + stone. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊnˌstoʊn/ 1. A variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material. Labels: uncountable 2. A row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City. Labels: countable Example: Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto, I’ve lived all over this town. Example: Did I mention he lives in a fantastic, expensive-looking brownstone? Did I mention that he’s a published novelist? Did I mention that he’s an involved, attentive father?
Word: brownstone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From brown + stone. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊnˌstoʊn/ 1. To scour (steps) with a donkey stone. Labels: historical, transitive
Word: row house Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From row + house. 1. A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof Labels: US Example: The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down. Example: When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.
Word: row houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of row house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: townhouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From town + house. Compare Dutch tuinhuis (“summer house, cabana”), tuinhuisje (“bower”). Pronunciation: /ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs/ 1. A row house or terraced house. Labels: Australia, Canada, Philippines, US 2. A house in an urban setting. 3. A town hall. Labels: dated
Word: town house Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of townhouse. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: town houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of town house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: townhouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of townhouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: objectivism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English objectiv(e) 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 objectivism From objectiv(e) + -ism. First attested in 1854. Pronunciation: /əbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪ.vɪ.zəm/ 1. The state of being objective; objectivity. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Moral objectivism. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Objectivism and subjectivism need each other to exist. Each defines itself in opposition to the other and sees the other as the enemy. Objectivism takes as its allies scientific truth, rationality, precision, fairness, and impartiality. 4. The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, endorsing logical reasoning and self-interest. Labels: capitalized, countable, often, uncountable Example: First of all, I do not call it Randism; and I don’t like that name. I call it Objectivism, meaning a philosophy based on objective reality. Now let me explain it as briefly as I can. Example: Ayn Rand, the guiding spirit of the philosophy of Objectivism and an advocate of “laissez faire capitalism,” endorsed Senator Goldwater as [“]the best of what is available.”
Word: schizont Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Schizont, from the present participle of Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “divide”). By surface analysis, schiz- + -ont. 1. A cell that divides by schizogony.
Word: payphone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pay + phone. Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪˌfoʊn/ 1. A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card. Example: I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab. Example: You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober
Word: payphones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of payphone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: interdenominational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English denomination English -al English denominational English interdenominational From inter- + denominational. 1. Of, relating to, or between different denominations or churches. Labels: not-comparable Example: Near-synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical
Word: strigil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin strigilis. Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɪd͡ʒɪl/ 1. A grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc. Labels: historical Example: In another corner, more bone hinges and bronze fittings indicated another cupboard, this time containing a range of rather more prized possessions: the statuette of Venus, a glass swan, a terracotta Cupid, plus some rock-crystal jewellery, a broken horse bit, a couple of strigils (used for ‘scraping down’ after exercise) and various bits and pieces of bone and bronze, including two lamp-stands.
Word: strigils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strigil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zarf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ظَرْف (zarf), ultimately from Arabic ظَرْف (ẓarf). Also influenced by Classical Persian ظَرْف (zarf) and Hindustani (Hindi ज़र्फ़ (zarf) / Urdu ظَرْف (zarf)). Pronunciation: /zɑɹf/, /zɑːf/ 1. An ornamental container designed to hold a coffee cup or teacup and insulate it from the hand of the drinker. Example: In presenting the coffee, the servant holds the foot of the zarf with his thumb and first finger. In receiving the fingán and zarf, he makes use of both hands, place the left beneath and the right above at the same instant. Example: Cenk Girginol, a Turkish coffee consultant and author of the book Coffee: From the Soil to the Cup, says zarfs began to be used at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century. […] By the 19th century, goldsmiths in Geneva were making zarfs to export, according to the Khalili Collections. Recent auctions and museum collections show zarfs that were made in France, Syria, Iran and Switzerland. A zarf in the Louvre's collection, covered in emeralds and diamonds, was owned by Abdul Hamid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Word: zarfs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zarf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taberna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna. 1. A type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome. Labels: Ancient-Rome
Word: taberna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish taberna, from Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna. 1. A tavern in Spain. Example: When King Philip II made Madrid his capital in 1561, the taberna was already well established. The city's streets teemed with people—from lowlife and riffraff to cloaked royalty and aristocrats seeking anonymity in the crowds—and in the finest democratic tradition, all took part in the life of the tabernas.
Word: get hitched Part of Speech: verb 1. To get married, to wed. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: They're gonna get hitched next Saturday. Example: His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman […]
Word: hitched Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hɪt͡ʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of hitch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plucking Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈplʌkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of pluck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plucking Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈplʌkɪŋ/ 1. An act in which something is plucked. Labels: countable, gerund, uncountable Example: Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […]. 2. A fragment of something obtained by plucking. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934 3. The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
Word: pandar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.) Pronunciation: /ˈpændə/ 1. A person who furthers the illicit love affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. Labels: obsolete Example: From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?
Word: pandar Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus, from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros). (See also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.) Pronunciation: /ˈpændə/ 1. To pander (assist in the gratification of). Example: That degenerate aſſembly even pandared to the libidinous epicuriſm of this many-wived tyrant; and outraged, at his command, the rights of decorum, of juſtice, and of nature. Example: […]not to be confounded by all the efforts of interested writers, who would abuse the valuable immunities of the press to the wretched purposes of venal detraction, and a lucrative pandaring to the morbid tastes of the public.