nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: verge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga. Pronunciation: /vɜːd͡ʒ/, /vɝd͡ʒ/, /ˈvøːd͡ʒ/, /ˈvɛɾd͡ʒ/, /veːd͡ʒ/ 1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. 2. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. Labels: UK, historical 3. An edge or border. Example: Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theory[…]implies an absurdity. Example: But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail. 4. An edge or border. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, Western Example: The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock. Example: On the other side of the car, another armed officer was seen attending to the passenger, who was lying on a grassy verge. 5. An edge or border. Labels: figuratively Example: I was on the verge of tears. Example: The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved – it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of his reason. 6. The phallus. Labels: obsolete 7. The phallus. Labels: obsolete 8. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland. 9. A circumference; a circle; a ring. Example: The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. 10. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft. 11. The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof. Example: The smaller ribs of tiles that run down to the eaves, along the ridges in a hip-roof, or border the verge in a gable-roof , often terminate in some ornamental tile in high-relief . 12. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
Word: verge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vergō (“to bend, turn, tend toward, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *werg- (“to turn”), from a root *wer- (“to turn, bend”) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun. Pronunciation: /vɜːd͡ʒ/, /vɝd͡ʒ/, /ˈvøːd͡ʒ/, /ˈvɛɾd͡ʒ/, /veːd͡ʒ/ 1. To be or come very close; to border; to approach. Labels: intransitive Example: Eating blowfish verges on insanity. 2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
Word: vengeance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛnˌd͡ʒəns/ 1. Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men. Example: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. 2. Desire for revenge. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […] Example: If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]
Word: venture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of adventure. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ 1. A risky or daring undertaking or journey. Example: My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture. Example: Other jobs which the governor entrusted to Ch'ao-tung dealt with the economic exploitation of the newly won mountain areas. In the Miao-li region, Ch'ao-tung headed an office for developing the petroleum resources discovered there.³⁸ Without much success during his tenure, the venture was later turned over to private entrepreneurs. 2. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen. Example: A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness. 3. The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade. Example: My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Word: venture Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of adventure. Pronunciation: /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃə/, /ˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ/ 1. To undertake a risky or daring journey. Labels: transitive Example: who freights a ship to venture on the seas Example: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […] 2. To risk or offer. Labels: transitive Example: to venture funds Example: to venture a guess 3. To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Labels: intransitive 4. To put or send on a venture or chance. Labels: transitive Example: to venture a horse to the West Indies 5. To confide in; to rely on; to trust. Labels: transitive Example: A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse. 6. To say something; to offer an opinion. Labels: transitive Example: “Unctuous is probably quite a good description, but there's a sweetness, too, and a mouthfeel,” ventures Heston Blumenthal, chef at the Fat Duck at Bray.
Word: Bakelite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Patented July 1907 by its inventor, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. See -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪk.ə.laɪt/ 1. A heat-resisting chemically inert phenol formaldehyde resin (an early thermosetting plastic). Labels: uncountable
Word: sheugh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish seoch, from English sough. Pronunciation: /ʃu/, /ʃuːx/, /ʃuː/, /ʃʌx/ 1. A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries. Labels: Ireland, Scotland Example: The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh). 2. The space between the buttocks. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Scotland, colloquial Example: The sweat is running down the sheugh of my arse. 3. The Atlantic Ocean; the sea. Labels: Ireland, colloquial Example: The Irish Sea is the little sheugh, the Atlantic is the big sheugh.
Word: folk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk. Pronunciation: /fəʊk/, /foʊk/, /foʊlk/ 1. A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants. Labels: archaic, countable Example: The organization of each folk, as such, sprang mainly from war. Example: We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk and the Germanic folk have become Gaulish! 2. People, persons. Labels: collective, countable, plural, uncountable Example: There were a lot of folk in the streets. Example: Young folk, old folk, everybody come / To our little Sunday School, and have a lot of fun. 3. One’s relatives, especially one’s parents. Labels: collective, countable, plural, uncountable, usually Example: I need to call my folks back home. 4. Ellipsis of folk music. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: folk Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulkazder. Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk From Middle English folk, from Old English folc, from Proto-West Germanic *folk, from Proto-Germanic *fulką, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁-gós, from *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with German Volk, Dutch volk, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish folk, Icelandic fólk. Doublet of volk. Pronunciation: /fəʊk/, /foʊk/, /foʊlk/ 1. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or related to local building materials and styles. Labels: not-comparable 4. Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically or ideologically correct or rigorous. Labels: not-comparable Example: folk psychology; folk linguistics Example: Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
Word: cock-and-bull story Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. The phrase is noted as similar in meaning and form to French coq-à-l'âne (“satire, incoherent story”, literally “cock to the ass”) which was borrowed into Scots as cockalane. theories of origin Theories of the term's ultimate origin include allusions to stories which feature talking animals and that the term refers to gossip typical of what were historically two coaching inns, The Cock and The Bull, in Stony Stratford, England. 1. A far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity. Labels: idiomatic Example: The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg—especially as Peter Coffin’s cock and bull stories about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with. Example: Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
Word: validity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From valid + -ity, borrowed from Middle French validité, from Late Latin validitas. Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪd.ᵻ.ti/, [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ti], [vəˈlɪɾ.ɪ~ə.ɾi], [vəˈlɪd.ə.ɾi], [vəˈlɪɾ.ə.ti] 1. The state of being valid, authentic or genuine. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. State of having legal force. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability). Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: inside out Part of Speech: adv Etymology: In the sense thoroughly, an asyndetic clipping of inside and out. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsaɪdˈaʊt/ 1. With the inside surface turned to be on the outside. Labels: not-comparable Example: I now realise that I have my shirt on inside out. 2. Thoroughly; extremely well. Labels: not-comparable Example: I know IBM Assembler Language inside out. 3. Completely; through and through; to the core. Labels: not-comparable Example: We're hometown hockey fans inside out. 4. Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field. Labels: not-comparable Example: He hit the ball inside out in an ugly manner, but scored a four.
Word: inside out Part of Speech: adj Etymology: In the sense thoroughly, an asyndetic clipping of inside and out. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsaɪdˈaʊt/ 1. Alternative form of inside-out. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: upside down Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English up sid doun, an alteration of earlier upsadowne, upsedowne, up-so-doun (“upside down”), equivalent to up + so + down, literally “up as down”. Pronunciation: /ˌʌpsaɪd ˈdaʊn/, /ˌʌpsaɪˈdaʊn/ 1. Inverted, so that the top is now at the bottom. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Union flag was flying upside down, a sign of danger. Example: His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance. 2. In great disorder. Labels: not-comparable Example: The thief had turned the room upside down. Example: Peaſe and beanes are as danke here as a dog and that is the next way to giue poore iades the bots: this houſe is turned vpſide downe ſince Robin Oſtler died.
Word: upside down Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English up sid doun, an alteration of earlier upsadowne, upsedowne, up-so-doun (“upside down”), equivalent to up + so + down, literally “up as down”. Pronunciation: /ˌʌpsaɪd ˈdaʊn/, /ˌʌpsaɪˈdaʊn/ 1. Inverted; turned so that the top is at the bottom. Labels: not-comparable Example: The pattern resembled an upside down letter W. 2. In great disorder. Labels: not-comparable Example: The wenches and the men have been on the streets all day, and the kitchen is upside down. You never saw the like. 3. Owing more money for something than it is worth; having negative equity. Labels: not-comparable Example: He's upside down on his mortgage. 4. Australian. Labels: humorous, not-comparable
Word: upside down Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English up sid doun, an alteration of earlier upsadowne, upsedowne, up-so-doun (“upside down”), equivalent to up + so + down, literally “up as down”. Pronunciation: /ˌʌpsaɪd ˈdaʊn/, /ˌʌpsaɪˈdaʊn/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Upside Down. Labels: alt-of Example: It is in the upside down where we can find many opportunities to grow and learn. Example: it asks courts to step into the reality educators face: the reality of teaching in the upside down.
Word: über alles Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the verse Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt (“Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world”), from the German national anthem Lied der Deutschen, composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797. The verse originally meant that the Germans and their rulers have to overcome existing divisions and keep in mind the goal of a unified Germany. 1. Invokes a perception of the specified country as superior to others, or having a supreme status when compared to others. Labels: humorous, ironic, usually Example: Similarly, British Finance Capitalism forced back to its last line of defence will cry: "Britain über alles" though for the moment, Socialism having neglected Scottish Nationalism [..] Example: Pax Americana and all that bullshit? Grissom said. 'America über alles. You want to make the rest of the world our slaves.'
Word: back to front Part of Speech: adv 1. Turned so that the back is now at the front; the wrong way around. Example: I was in such a hurry that I put my underpants on back to front. Example: (figuratively, by extension) Of an order or cause of events, misunderstood or misinterpreted.
Word: back to front Part of Speech: adj 1. Reversed, with the back now at the front. Example: The classic VW Beetle is a back to front car, with the engine at the rear.
Word: widdershins Part of Speech: adv Etymology: First use appears c. 1513, from Middle Low German weddersins (also wēder-, -sinnes), from wed(d)der- (“wither-, against, opposite”) + genitive of sin (“direction, way”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪ.də.ʃɪnz/, /ˈwɪ.dɚ.ʃɪnz/ 1. Anticlockwise, counter-clockwise. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church. Example: If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think, have used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise. 2. The wrong way. Labels: Scotland, not-comparable
Word: base over apex Part of Speech: adv 1. Falling over in a jumbled heap. Labels: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable
Word: blowhard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Essentially deverbal in nature, albeit not from a unitary phrasal verb; from blow hard. Pronunciation: /ˈbləʊhɑːd/, /ˈbloʊhɑɹd/ 1. A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner. Labels: Canada, US, derogatory Example: The merchants are the most ultra Secessionists, one of the secret springs of action among this class being the heavy indebtedness owing to Eastern creditors. Some men of Northern origin were the most rabid. A "blow-hard," named JAMES PATTERSON, of Augusta, Jackson County, was originally from Pennsylvania. He stumped the county and was elected to the Convention, and cast his vote for secession. Example: [T]he loud-mouthed blowhard seemed just the man to flinch when real danger confronted him; […]
Word: braggart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French bragard (“bragging, flaunting, vain", also "a showy, arrogant individual”), from braguer (“to boast, brag”). No firm relation to English brag has been established. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæɡɑːt/, /ˈbɹæɡɚt/ 1. Someone who constantly brags or boasts. Example: O I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And Braggart with my tongue. Example: Shallow water gives a great splash, and so a braggart has ever been contemptible in my eyes.
Word: braggart Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French bragard (“bragging, flaunting, vain", also "a showy, arrogant individual”), from braguer (“to boast, brag”). No firm relation to English brag has been established. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæɡɑːt/, /ˈbɹæɡɚt/ 1. Characterized by boasting; boastful. Example: O my fair Mistress, Truth! Shall I quit thee, / For huffing, braggart, puft Nobility? Example: Captain [Benjamin] Bonneville was delighted with the game look of these cavaliers of the mountains, welcomed them heartily to his camp, and ordered a free allowance of grog to regale them, which soon put them in the most braggart spirits.
Word: -icle Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From a back-formation of icicle, the second element of which ultimately from Old English ġicel (“icicle, ice”). More at icicle, ickle. 1. Alternative form of -sicle. Labels: alt-of, alternative, morpheme, rare Example: brinicle, limicle, rusticle, snoticle
Word: -icle Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Latin -culus (diminutive suffix). 1. Used to form diminutive nouns. Labels: diminutive, morpheme, uncommon Example: thesis + -icle → thesicle
Word: forked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)kt/ 1. That splits into two or more directions, or parts. Example: It's a forked road. Turn left at the fork. Example: A baidarka has a forked bow. 2. Having forks (parts into which anything is furcated or divided). Example: A three-forked trident.
Word: forked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)kt/ 1. simple past and past participle of fork Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: smilie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smile + -ie. 1. Alternative spelling of smiley. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare
Word: orienteering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish orientering, from orientera (“orient, orientate”) + -ing. 1. The act of racing across unfamiliar place using a map and compass. Labels: uncountable
Word: plebeian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin plēbēius (“a commoner; common”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix), from Latin plēbēs + -ius (adjective-forming suffix), possibly under the influence of Middle French plebeyen, plebein, plebien (“a commoner”) and plebeien (“concerning the common people”). Cf. Medieval Latin plēbēiānus (“a commoner”), from plēbēius + -ānus. Pronunciation: /pliˈbiːən/, /plɛbˈiːən/ 1. A member of the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome. Labels: Ancient-Rome, historical Example: Na plebeane will tak þe dochter of ane patriciane but hir consent. [No plebeian will take the daughter of any patrician but her consent] Example: The cognomen was first used in patrician families, who were distinguished from the plebeians by their three names. 2. A commoner, particularly (derogatory) a low, vulgar person. Example: There blude... vald hef na bettir cullour nor the blude of ane plebien or of ane mecanik craftis man. [Their blood... would have no better color nor the blood of any plebeian or of any mechanic craftsman] Example: The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
Word: plebeian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin plēbēius (“a commoner; common”) + -an (adjective-forming suffix), from Latin plēbēs + -ius (adjective-forming suffix), possibly under the influence of Middle French plebeyen, plebein, plebien (“a commoner”) and plebeien (“concerning the common people”). Cf. Medieval Latin plēbēiānus (“a commoner”), from plēbēius + -ānus. Pronunciation: /pliˈbiːən/, /plɛbˈiːən/ 1. Of or concerning the plebs, the common citizens of ancient Rome. Labels: historical Example: To what purpose be the plebeian Magistrates ordeined? 2. Of or concerning the common people. Example: ...priuate person or plebian multitude... 3. Common, particularly (derogatory) vulgar, crude, coarse, uncultured. Example: For to plebeyan wits, it is as good, As to be silent, as not vnderstood. Example: […] told me love was too plebeian / told me you were through with me
Word: teddybear Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of teddy bear. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: futile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French futile, from Latin fūtilis. Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.taɪl/, /ˈfju.taɪl/, /ˈfju.təl/, [ˈfju.ɾəl] 1. Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting. Example: But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy’s neglect was more than ordinarily evident. Example: He seemed hitherto to have been living by proxy, in a vision, in reflection—to have been an echo, a shadow, a futile attempt;[…] 2. Insignificant; frivolous. Example: Of its history little is recorded, and that little futile. Example: This idiosyncrasy is brought out by social pressure, while in a state of nature it might have betrayed itself only in trivial and futile ways, as it does among barbarians.
Word: futility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fūtilitās (“worthlessness, futility”). By surface analysis, futile + -ity. Pronunciation: /fjuːˈtɪlɪti/, /fjuˈtɪləti/ 1. The quality of being futile or useless. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: an exercise of futility Example: His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility. 2. Something, especially an act, that is futile. Labels: countable, usually Example: But fashion and authority apart, and bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him, his sophisms, futilities, and incomprehensibilities, and what remains? Example: No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn. […] No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like? 3. Unimportance. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Her empty chatter, her futility, her childish coquetry and frivolity—such light wares could hardly be the whole substance of any woman’s being; […]
Word: porker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pork + -er. * (obese person; police officer): Carried over from the same senses of pig. * (a lie): Extension of the rhyming slang pork pie. Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːkə/, /ˈpɔɹkɚ/ 1. A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter. Example: Jerry Lynch, a pig's head pickled. Term usually applied to the long Irish heads which are sent over here for sale in the poorer districts of London, and which are vastly different from the heads of “dairy-fed” porkers. Example: In every vacant space new houses are being built, and all sorts of odd little cooking-sheds are erected against the old ones, while in some out-of-the-way corners, massive log pigsties are tenanted by growing porkers; for how can the Chinamen exist six months without one feast of pig? 2. An obese person. Labels: derogatory, slang 3. A lie. Labels: Cockney, UK, slang 4. A police officer. Labels: US, derogatory, slang
Word: un-American Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Germanic *amalą Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder. Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz ▲ Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.? Italian Amerigoder. New Latin Americalbor. English America Middle English -n English -n English American English un-American From un- + American. 1. Contrary to the principles, institutions or interests of the United States; anti-American. Example: Besides, how can you talk about church politics? It would certainly be anti-Catholic and might easily become un-American. Example: In 1959 ex-President Truman, never one to mince words, called the Committee the “most un-American thing in the country today.” Mr. Goodman strongly disagrees: “…unless one is prepared to blank out large and significant patches of our history, there is nothing un-American about the Un-American Activities Committee.” 2. Incivil, immoral. Labels: US, informal 3. Unrelated to America or the U.S.; untypical of U.S. mores or habits; non-American, not American. Example: [About British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock:] It’s not often addressed in criticism, but Hitchcock was un-American enough to dwell on the uneasiness or the unreliability of heroes.
Word: extend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”). Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstɛnd/ 1. To increase in extent. Labels: intransitive 2. To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space. Labels: intransitive Example: The desert extended for miles in all directions. Example: Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west. 3. To cause to increase in extent. Labels: transitive 4. To cause to last for a longer period of time. Labels: transitive 5. To straighten (a limb). Labels: transitive 6. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply. Labels: transitive Example: to extend sympathy to the suffering Example: to extend credit to a valued customer 7. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions. Example: There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes. Example: The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water. 8. To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Labels: UK 9. Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class. Example: The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal. 10. To reenlist for a further period. Labels: US, intransitive Example: Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
Word: extend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English extenden, from Anglo-Norman extendre, estendre, from Latin extendō (“to stretch out”). Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstɛnd/ 1. Misspelling of extent. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: intimate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin intimātus, the perfect passive participle of intimō (“to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar”) (see -ate (adjective forming suffix)), from intimus (“inmost, innermost, most intimate”), superlative of intus (“within”), from in (“in”); see interior. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/ 1. Closely acquainted; familiar. Example: an intimate friend Example: He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for. 2. Personal; private. Example: an intimate setting 3. Pertaining to sex organs or underwear. Labels: euphemistic Example: Intimate apparel departments have separate sections for bras and panties; within those sections, our intimate apparel firm would have its bras displayed separately from its panties. 4. Pertaining to sexual acts or a sexual relationship. Labels: euphemistic Example: She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband. Example: The man, who had been arrested for being intimate with a donkey, admitted the conduct in question but claimed that the donkey had not been a donkey when he met her at a nightclub last Saturday night, but rather a prostitute. 5. Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know. Example: The candidate showed an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of politics. Example: Grélard et al.⁸⁷ determined the intimate structure of pseudoviral particles of hepatitis B subvirus using solid-state NMR, light scattering, and cryo-electron microscopy. 6. Very finely mixed. Example: Black powder consists of an intimate mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.
Word: intimate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/ 1. A very close friend. Example: Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing. 2. Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store. Example: You'll find bras and panties in the intimates section upstairs.
Word: intimate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin intimātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French intimer. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɪ.meɪt/ 1. To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly. Labels: ambitransitive Example: He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated. Example: And ſince this Family, called Ciu, which now holdeth the Souereigntie, hath reigned, it is called Min [translating 明 (Míng)], which intimateth Splendour, and by vſuall addition of one ſyllable Ta-min [translating 大明 (Dàmíng)], that is, the Kingdome of Great Splendour, Brightneſſe or Glory. 2. To notify. Labels: India, transitive Example: I will intimate you when the details are available.
Word: tolerate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tolerātus, the perfect passive participle of tolerō (“to endure”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with Old English þolian (“to tolerate, suffer, bear”) and French tolérer. More at thole. Pronunciation: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹeɪt/, /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/, /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹæɪt/, [ˈtɔ̟l.ə.ɹæɪt] 1. To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative. Labels: transitive Example: The party tolerated corruption within its ranks. 2. To bear, withstand. Labels: transitive Example: I can tolerate working on Saturday, but not Sunday. Example: The elevator can tolerate up to 360 kilograms.
Word: Dresden Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”) in the 1730s, from Middle High German Dresden, from a Sorbian source akin to Lower Sorbian Drježdźany, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dręzga, of which the locative case is *dręzdzě. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛzdən/ 1. The capital city of Saxony, Germany, on the River Elbe. 2. A village in Kent County, Ontario, Canada. 3. A number of places in the United States, including: 4. A number of places in the United States, including: 5. The Bombing of Dresden. Labels: metonymically Example: The actual total hardly matters: if Dresden was indeed a war crime, just one death would make it so. Example: ‘Father, you saw the papers, when Dresden happened. You see the papers today. People are seeing the cost of this, truly. Now that we know the consequences, countries will not use it.’
Word: Dresden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Dresden (“Dresden”) in the 1730s, from Middle High German Dresden, from a Sorbian source akin to Lower Sorbian Drježdźany, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dręzga, of which the locative case is *dręzdzě. Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛzdən/ 1. A variety of china, originally manufactured in the city, but manufactured in Meissen from the 18th century. Labels: uncountable
Word: Uncle Tom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Referring to the character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1. A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur Example: ...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy. Example: Some blacks don't want to deal with the black cop because they see him as an Uncle Tom, a person who stands by while the white cop abuses and shows disrespect toward other blacks.
Word: vibe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apocopic form of vibration, vibrator, etc. Pronunciation: /vaɪb/ 1. An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing. Labels: in-plural, informal, often Example: The couple canceled their night out when they got a bad vibe from the new babysitter. Example: And I'm here to prove to you / That we can party on the positive side / And pump positive vibes / So come along for the ride 2. Gut feeling, an impression based on intuition instead of solid data. Labels: informal, plural-normally Example: I guess I was going on vibes alone, and was not thinking about something called common sense. I was completely mesmerized just being in the company of such a beautiful lady. Example: Analysts trot out all sorts of valuation models, but most of the time, they make educated guesses based on vibes and their gut feeling. 3. Gut feeling, an impression based on intuition instead of solid data. Labels: attributive, informal, plural-normally Example: So “vibe cooking” does not mean making it up as I go. It means cooking with enough guidance to stay flexible. 4. Something that is good, trendy, pleasant, or atmospheric; a thing or person with a good vibe. Labels: informal Example: Once inside, Clayton wasted no time testing his chemistry with the women, kissing Teddi, Kira, Eliza, Cassidy and Rachel. However, not all of his relationships were so easy — Claire announced to the other contestants that her one-on-one time with Clayton was “not the vibe,” noting that he was too nice for her. Example: I’ve noticed my attitude just hasn’t been the vibe lately. Yesterday I totally lost it at a restaurant because my pasta was only 18 C, which is two degrees below normal room temperature—like two degrees! How could they? 5. A vibraphone. Labels: colloquial, plural, plural-only 6. Vibration. Labels: informal 7. A vibrator (sex toy). Labels: informal Example: Water and electricity might not mix, but water and battery-powered fun sure do. Whether you are using a vibe alone or with a partner, in the tub or in the shower, the sensation of intense vibration feels especially nice underwater. Although waterproof vibrators can resemble anything from a lipstick to a kitty cat, most have one of four basic designs. Example: But there was still the faint sound of her vibrator humming away under the blanket.[…]Her teeth were clenched, and her hair was looking a little wild. Had she been rolling around under there, rocking herself onto her vibe?
Word: vibe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apocopic form of vibration, vibrator, etc. Pronunciation: /vaɪb/ 1. To stimulate with a vibrator. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: If your usual routine is hammering or vibing your clit for three minutes before you run out the door, try giving yourself five minutes of exploratory time. 2. To relax and enjoy oneself. Labels: colloquial, intransitive 3. To agree. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Besides, even if you don't vibe with his subject matter, he is a style king of West Coast, down-tempo gangsta-pimp music. Example: Maria took him through the events of the next morning and his recollection vibed with his statement at the time. 4. To get along; to hit it off. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Sam started out being someone I totally vibed with on every level. Example: Nervous and shaky but feigning confidence, I completed the interview with ease and even managed to vibe with the country cutie. 5. To feel in agreement with; to appreciate or enjoy. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Nia was glad she'd let Rico bring her to the club as she vibed with the fusion of Latin sounds and American hip-hop. Example: He was quoting scriptures and stuff from the bible to me and I actually was vibing it, but I know I'm not down with the whole church thing […] 6. To treat (a fellow performer) in a condescending or insulting manner, typically during a performance or jam session, to signal to them that they are unsatisfactory. Labels: colloquial, transitive 7. To vibe code.
Word: aura Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsr̥h₂ Proto-Hellenic *auhrā Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra)bor. Latin aurabor. English aura Borrowed from Latin aura (“a breeze, a breath of air, the air”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breeze, soft wind”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of east, auster, air, and aria. The slang sense originated in the early 2020s and was popularized on TikTok around May 2024. Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɹə/, /ˈoːɹə/, /ˈoɹə/, /ˈɔɹə/ 1. A subtle emanation or exhalation of any substance, such as an aroma or odour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which well nigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze. 2. A distinctive atmosphere or quality surrounding or associated with something or someone. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: This place has an aura of 19th century Paris. Example: His latest successes have endued him with an aura of invincibility. 3. A supposed emanation from and surrounding a living person or thing, regarded by mystics as consisting of the essence of the individual. Labels: also, countable, uncountable Example: Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, […]. 4. The charisma or suave excellence of a person, especially implying their vibe or energy. Labels: Internet, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: rizz Example: He has insane aura. 5. A subjective sensation experienced at the onset of a neurological condition, especially a migraine headache or epileptic seizure. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A surrounding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly. 7. A gentle breeze, a zephyr. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: au revoir Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑː/, /ɔːɹ ˈvwɑː/, /o.ʁə ˈvwaʁ/, /ɔʁ ˈvwaʁ/, /ˌoʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/ 1. Goodbye; till we meet again. Example: 2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars Example: 2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org https://web.archive.org/web/20050123185851/http://www.omg.org/archives/dtc/msg03667.html After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.
Word: eulogy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wloge (“commendation of the virtues of a deceased person”), from Latin eulogium, apparently from a confusion between ēlogium (whence English elogium, elogy) and eulogia (from Ancient Greek εὐλογία (eulogía, “praise”), whence English eulogia); equivalent to eu- + logia ("good words"). Doublet of eulogium. Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.lə.d͡ʒi/, /ˈju.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral. 2. Speaking highly of someone or something; the act of praising or commending someone or something. Example: It was the prettiest and most luxurious little sitting-room I had ever seen; and I admired it with the warmest enthusiasm. The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction. He bowed with icy deference when my terms of eulogy were all exhausted, and silently opened the door for me to go out into the passage again. Example: The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
Word: eulogist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English eulogy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English eulogist From eulogy + -ist. 1. A speaker who delivers a funeral oration (eulogy) for a deceased person. 2. A person who praises another person or thing. Example: I consider, that so far as what is called military renown is concerned, the American Navy needs no eulogist but History. Example: I am his eulogist; but I am not in love with him. If he were to ask me to be his wife to-morrow, I should be distressed, and should refuse him.
Word: convulse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin convulsus, past participle of convellere (“to pluck up, dislocate, convulse”), from com- (“together”) + vellere (“to pluck, pull”). Doublet of convel. Pronunciation: /kənˈvʌls/ 1. To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort. Labels: intransitive Example: He realized she was crying. He could feel her body convulsing with little sobs and her cheek was wet where it brushed his. 2. To be beset by political or social upheaval. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war. 3. To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily. Labels: transitive Example: But while he was convulsing all London with laughter, he was fast falling a victim to consumption. 4. To cause disruption to. Labels: transitive Example: For Lucifer, as Lord of Fire, was thought to suffer the most terrible pangs whenever the element of fire, over which he presided, was convulsed or agitated.
Word: coolie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi क़ुली (qulī) / Urdu قلی (qulī, “hired laborer”)), possibly from Ottoman Turkish قول (kul, “servant”). Another theory says that it is named after Gujarati કોળી (koḷī), a Gujarati tribe or caste. Other forms occur in Bengali কুলি (kuli) and Tamil கூலி (kūli, “daily hire”). Possibly also influenced by Hindustani (कोली (kolī) / کولی (kolī, “weaver; low-class”)), or Persian کول (kūl, “shoulder [upon which goods are hauled]”). In Kurdish Koile (کۆیلە) and Quli (قولى): Slave, Servant. Kawli (Keweli): Low-Class, Gypsy. Mandarin 苦力 (kǔlì, “hard labor”) may also have been influenced by cognates of the above Hindi word in other languages and may have further influenced English. Pronunciation: /ˈkuːli/ 1. An unskilled Asian worker, usually of Chinese or Indian descent; a labourer; a porter. Coolies were frequently transported to other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries as indentured labourers. Example: One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground. Example: From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair. 2. An Indian or a person of Indian descent. Labels: Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad-and-Tobago, ethnic, slur Example: Well, he and his troops had shown the koefietjies-the little coolies-how quickly and how easily Afrikaner explosive shells could knock it down. Example: Even a coolie would have been better.