nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: baby face Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baby + face. Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbɪ feɪs/, /ˈbeɪbi ˌfeɪs/ 1. A face, often chubby, resembling that of a baby; a youthful face. Example: I now also saw that famous beauty, but in my opinion of a childish, simple, and baby face, Mademoiselle Querouaille [Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth], lately Maide of Honʳ to Madame, and now to be so to yᵉ Queen. Example: My Stomach ſvvells vvith ſecret Spight, / To ſee my fickle, faithleſs Knight, / […] / On a meer Girl his Thoughts to place, / VVith dimpl'd Cheeks and baby Face, / A Child! a Chit! that vvas not born, / VVhen I did Tovvn and Court adorn. 2. A person having such a face, especially a young man having a beardless appearance. Labels: derogatory, often Example: God alone knows what has happened to our Indian Princes. Why are there so many of them running after baby faces? Why have they become so recklessly careless of their name and reputation? Example: ‘Cheers, baby face!’ she sang. ‘Cheers!’ I giggled. I had never, ever been called ‘baby face’ before. 3. A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a good guy, especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned. Labels: broadly, slang Example: [Jim] Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces and, second, that they triumph by different means, relying on secret holds, sly managers, secret weapons, and illegal maneuvers, whereas babyfaces trust to their physical abilities and athletic training alone. Example: And they [wrestling fans] identified with the local farmer Kasaboski, the French-Canadian boys from Montreal, the clean-cut American lads and the handsome, muscular baby faces. At the same time, they jeered the heels, the masked men, the arrogant, bearded Russians and Germans, and the treacherous Japanese. Promoters always played on stereotypes and post-war biases.
Word: Lusatian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Lusatia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Lusatian From Lusatia + -an. Pronunciation: /luːˈseɪʃən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Lusatia or its people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Lusatian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Lusatia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Lusatian From Lusatia + -an. Pronunciation: /luːˈseɪʃən/ 1. The Slavic language spoken by the Lusatian people, closely related to Czech.
Word: Lusatian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Lusatia Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Lusatian From Lusatia + -an. Pronunciation: /luːˈseɪʃən/ 1. A member of the Lusatian people.
Word: egotist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ego + -t- inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc. + -ist 1. A person who talks excessively about themself. 2. A person who believes in their own importance or superiority. 3. An egoist (advocate of egoism). Labels: nonstandard
Word: amerce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Anglo-Norman amercier, from Old French a (“at”) + merci (“mercy”), thus “at the mercy of”. Pronunciation: /əˈmɝs/, /əˈmɜːs/ 1. To impose a fine on; to fine. Labels: transitive Example: But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine That you shall all repent the loss of mine: Example: The person, in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum. 2. To punish; to make an exaction. Labels: transitive Example: The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemn'd For ever now to have their lot in pain, Millions of Spirits for his fault amerc't Example: Thou know'st thou art naked! Must the time Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown,
Word: northeastern Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English norþesterne, from Old English norþēasterne, equivalent to north + eastern. Pronunciation: /ˌnɔːˈθiː.stn̩/, /ˌnorˈθiː.stɚn/ 1. Of, related to, located in, or from the northeast.
Word: northeasterly Part of Speech: adj 1. Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast. 2. Coming from the northeast.
Word: northeasterly Part of Speech: noun 1. A persistent wind from the northeast
Word: pissing contest Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall. 2. A pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I'm not getting into a pissing contest with him over who has the fastest car. Example: She won him in a pissing contest.
Word: thalassic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French thalassique, from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”) + -ique. 1. of or relating to seas and oceans 2. pelagic
Word: admiralty law Part of Speech: noun 1. The area of law that deals with ships at sea and the rights of sailors, passengers, and owners of cargo. Labels: uncountable
Word: attorney's work product Part of Speech: noun 1. Evidence which a party to a lawsuit does not have to reveal during the discovery process because it represents the thought process of the attorney preparing for trial. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: gravestone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪvstoʊn/ 1. A stone slab set at the head of a grave. Example: The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised. The discovery of a single gravestone may provide more information on the history of a family than could be gleaned from […] Example: How the gravestone got inside the home in Okemos, Michigan, outside Lansing? Now that’s a mystery, according to Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries (FOLHC) President Loretta S. Stanaway.
Word: Plautine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Plautīnus. 1. Of or pertaining to, or in the style of, Plautus (a Roman comic playwright), his works, or his authorship.
Word: micrographia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + -graphia. 1. The condition of having small handwriting, sometimes a symptom of Parkinson's disease and related conditions. Labels: uncountable
Word: pinealocyte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pineal Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der. Latin cytader. English -cyte English pinealocyte From pineal + -o- + -cyte. 1. A single cell within the pineal gland which is involved in melatonin secretion and circadian rhythms. Example: The pineal gland is lined on the inside with tissue called pinealocytes. These pinealocytes are similar to the rods and cones in the retina of your eye. That’s right; it’s the third eye! Your brain has a third eye in the center and it has retinal tissue. It also has the same wiring that your physical eyes do to the visual cortex in your brain! How did they know that all the way back when?
Word: melatonin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mela- + tone + -in, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”). Pronunciation: /ˌmɛləˈtəʊnɪn/, /ˌmɛləˈtoʊnɪn/, /ˌmeləˈtəʉnɪn/, /ˌmeləˈtɐʉnən/ 1. A hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep and wake and reproductive cycles in mammals. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: How exactly melatonin relates to sleep is still not understood. Example: Melatonin production can be delayed or arrested by even brief flashes of bright light entering the eye, research has shown. 2. Any material similar in its chemistry and effect to the natural hormone. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: prefixes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prefix Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of prefixe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prefixes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of prefix Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: languorously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English languorous Middle English -ly English -ly English languorously From languorous + -ly. 1. In a languorous manner; without exertion; lazily. Example: I stretched languorously, and then remained in bed. Example: "I did!" She had reached the barricades, and leaned over them languorously. "I can't take all the credit, though, just, you know, most of it." She folded her arms over the edge, and kicked back both of her feet again and again. "Somebody once told me I have a mind like a steel trap."
Word: lankly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English lank Middle English -ly English -ly English lankly From lank + -ly. 1. In a lank way.
Word: lankness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lank 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 lankness From lank + -ness. 1. The property of being lank, slender or thin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The boy's lankness reflected his malnutrition. Example: The gravity of his dress, together with a certain lankness of cheek and stiffness of deportment, added nearly ten years to his age, but his figure was that of one not yet past thirty. 2. The property of being lank: straight, flat and limp. (of hair) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Linen, from what œconomy I know not, is seldom allowed in those portraits, even to the ladies, who lean carelesly on a bank, and play with a parrot they do not look at, under a tranquillity which ill accords with their seeming situation, the slightness of their vestment and the lankness of their hair having the appearance of their being just risen from the bath, and of having found none of their cloaths to put on, but a loose gown.
Word: Homburg hat Part of Speech: noun 1. A stiff felt hat similar to a fedora.
Word: layover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lay + over. Pronunciation: /ˈleɪˌəʊvə(ɹ)/ 1. A break between stages of a journey. Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, Philippines, US Example: Near-synonyms: stopover, stayover (both sometimes synonymous) Example: We had a layover while waiting to change planes, so we stretched our legs.
Word: lead-in Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from lead in. Pronunciation: /ˈliːdɪn/ 1. An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something. Example: After the long lead-in, the climax of the story was a disappointment. 2. A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents. 3. A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.
Word: anticlimactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́) Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der. English anti- English climax Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English climactic English anticlimactic From anti- + climactic. Pronunciation: /ˌantɪjklɑjˈmaktɪk/ 1. Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing. Example: After all the build up, the ending of the story was an anticlimactic letdown.
Word: ironically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English ironic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English ironically From ironic + -ally. Pronunciation: /aɪˈɹɒnɪkli/, /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/ 1. In an ironic manner; in a way displaying irony. Example: My colleague ironically avoids doctors like the plague! 2. Used to draw attention to an ironic aspect of a situation being described. Example: Ironically, the automated checkout system ended up costing more in repairs than the workers it was meant to replace.
Word: leadoff Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lead off. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: leadoff Part of Speech: adj 1. Beginning something by leading the way, e.g. being the first batter in an inning Labels: not-comparable Example: The leadoff batter began the inning with a double, setting a good example for the following players.
Word: leeriness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English leery 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 leeriness From leery + -ness. 1. The property of being leery, suspiciousness, distrustfulness. Labels: uncountable Example: In response to many people's leeriness of strangers, sharing economy companies often promote their background screening mechanisms.
Word: suspiciousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English suspicious 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 suspiciousness From suspicious + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being suspicious in the sense of arousing suspicion. Labels: uncountable 2. The state or quality of being suspicious in the sense of being distrustful or tending to suspect. Labels: uncountable
Word: leftist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English left 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 leftist From left + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛf.tɪst/, /ˈlef.tɪst/ 1. A person who holds views associated with the political left. Example: The first major clash between the two groups occurred in Shih-ho-tzu on January 26, 1967, with the leftists admitting they had suffered a bloody defeat. 2. Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist. Labels: specifically
Word: leftist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English left 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 leftist From left + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛf.tɪst/, /ˈlef.tɪst/ 1. Of or pertaining to the political left. Example: In law school, when we students thought the outcome of a case was determined by a rule we had studied, leftist professors admonished us, “Tools not rules!” In other words, rules control nothing; they’re merely tools you manipulate for the results you want. The fancy word for this kind of amorality is “instrumentalism,” and it subverts the rule of law.
Word: letup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from let up. 1. A pause or period of slackening. Example: without letup Example: It rained without letup for many hours.
Word: levelness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English level 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 levelness From level + -ness. 1. The property of being level. Labels: uncountable Example: The inspector checked the levelness of the floor before approving the work.
Word: lollypop Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lollipop. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: knocked up Part of Speech: adj 1. Pregnant, typically outside of marriage. Labels: US, not-comparable, offensive, slang, sometimes Example: My name is Wendy and I first moved to New York when I was 21 to be a dancer, but I broke my big toe and then I got knocked up by this actor who dumped me to join the Peace Corps, so for the last 16 years I been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago, she tells me that she is a bisexual and that she hates me more than any person on this planet. Example: I ask him why she doesn't get on methadone while she's knocked up. He says because she not only uses heroin but she's a crystal meth head and a crack head to boot. She got knocked up by a John she picked up one night hooking. 2. Exhausted; worn out or used up. Labels: archaic, not-comparable, slang Example: I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.
Word: knocked up Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of knock up Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: kilted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kilt + -ed. 1. Having on a kilt. 2. Plaited after the manner of kilting. 3. Tucked or fastened up; said of petticoats, etc.
Word: apostrophic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English apostrophe Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English apostrophic From apostrophe + -ic. 1. Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue). Labels: rhetoric Example: 7 June 1820, Lord Byron, a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, […] Example: The approach itself is apostrophic; or, if a more canonical term is required, it is phenomenological. 2. Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark '). Example: All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: “Fie on’t! O fie!”; […]
Word: dastard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːstəd/, /ˈdæstəd/, /ˈdæstɚd/ 1. A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak. Example: I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Example: The dastard, that did heare him selfe defyde, / Seem'd not to weigh his threatfull words at all, / But laught them out, as if his greater pryde, / Did scorne the challenge of so base a thrall: Or had not courage, or else had no gall.
Word: dastard Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːstəd/, /ˈdæstəd/, /ˈdæstɚd/ 1. Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly. Example: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto One, Stanza 22, in The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, edited by Dorothy Stephens, Hackett, 2006, p. 13, Like dastard Curres, that having at a bay The salvage beast embost in wearie chace, Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray, Ne byte before, but rome from place to place, To get a snatch, when turned is his face. Example: Now dragg'd once more beyond the western main, To groan beneath some dastard planter’s chain; Where my poor countrymen in bondage wait The long enfranchisement of ling’ring fate:
Word: dastard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːstəd/, /ˈdæstəd/, /ˈdæstɚd/ 1. To dastardize. Example: 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen, Act II, Scene 1, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12166/pg12166-images.html Would my short life had yet a shorter date! / I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, / And dastards manly souls with hope and fear; / These heats and colds still in our breast make war, / Agues and fevers all our passions are.
Word: buta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian بته (butta); see boteh. 1. Alternative form of boteh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: evet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See eft. 1. The smooth newt Labels: archaic 2. Any other newt or salamander. Labels: US, archaic
Word: heavenly body Part of Speech: noun 1. A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies. 2. An astronomical object. 3. The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.
Word: shend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English schenden, from Old English sċendan (“to put to shame, blame, disgrace”), from Proto-West Germanic *skandijan (“to scold, berate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kem- (“to cover”). Cognate with Dutch schenden (“to infringe, profane, defile”), German schänden (“defile”). Related to Old English sċand (“infamy, shame, scandal”). More at shand, shame. Pronunciation: /ʃɛnd/ 1. To disgrace or put to shame. Labels: obsolete Example: Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend Example: Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back? 2. To blame. Labels: archaic 3. To destroy; to spoil. Labels: archaic Example: Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.] 4. To overpower; to surpass. Labels: archaic Example: Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway. Example: Not since I backed a horse have I been perssed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down. But I be not yet shent. Some of my lads will pick me their way home.
Word: shende Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of shend. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: göl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gul. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: shikse Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shiksa. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: My father…and a shikse? Can’t be. Was beyond his ken. My own father – fucked shikses? I’ll admit under duress that he fucked my mother…but shikses? I can no more imagine him knocking over a gas station. Example: So that's your task when your mother releases you into the world: to warm back into life the chilly universe of shiksehs.
Word: damar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay damar. Compare Middle English dambre (“a kind of resin”). 1. A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) and Symplocos (family Symplocaceae), used in varnishes and inks Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (family Araucariaceae) and Hopea (family Dipterocarpaceae), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: suffixes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suffix Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suffixes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of suffix Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”). Pronunciation: /ʃaɪv/ 1. A slice, especially of bread. Example: Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue Example: In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport. 2. A sheave. Labels: obsolete 3. A beam or plank of split wood. 4. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle. Example: If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.
Word: shive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English schyfe, schyffe, from Proto-Germanic *skibō-; cognate with German Schäbe, Dutch scheef, and Low German Schääv, all ‘fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp’. The expected pronunciation would be /ʃɪv/; the pronunciation /ʃaɪv/ is probably due to the combined influence of Etymology 1 and the spelling. Pronunciation: /ʃaɪv/ 1. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching 2. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool. 3. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material. 4. A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
Word: shive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of shiv. Pronunciation: /ʃɪv/ 1. Alternative form of shiv. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.
Word: shive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See shiva Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪvə/ 1. Alternative spelling of shiva. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.
Word: bat an eyelash Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of bat an eyelid.
Word: hab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of the various words indicated in the definitions. 1. A habitation or habitation facility. 2. A house. Labels: informal 3. A habanero. Labels: informal Example: You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]
Word: moly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin mōly, from Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu) (probably a loanword). Pronunciation: /ˈməʊli/ 1. A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe. Labels: Greek, countable, uncountable Example: It excels Homers moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities. Example: Or, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, / How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly,) 2. Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: moly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of molybdenum. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒli/ 1. Molybdenum. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: The fuselage and tail unit were constructed of welded chrome-moly steel tubing, fabric covered, with two seats in one elongated open 'bathtub' cockpit. 2. Molybdenum grease. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: thiabendazole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-der.? Ancient Greek θέειον (théeion) Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon)der. English thio- Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō) Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ) French azotebor. English azote English azo- English -ole English azole English thiazole German Benzoe Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. German -in German Benzinbor. English benzine English benzene Egyptian jmnbor. Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor. Latin Ammōn Latin ammoniacusder. English ammonia Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English amide English imide ▲ English azole English imidazole English thiabendazole From thiazole + benzene + imidazole. Pronunciation: /ˌθʌɪ.əˈbɛn.də.zəʊl/, /ˌθaɪ.əˈbɛn.dəˌzoʊl/ 1. A synthetic compound with anthelmintic properties, derived from thiazole and used chiefly to treat infestation with intestinal nematodes.
Word: parasiticide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English parasite Latin -cīdader. Middle French -cidebor. English -cide English parasiticide From parasite + -cide. Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹəˈsɪtɪsaɪd/ 1. Any substance used to kill parasites. Example: Dung beetles dived into delicious organic cowpats left by longhorn cattle that hadn’t been fed wormers and parasiticides
Word: basted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪstɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of baste Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: basted Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪstɪd/ 1. Having been cooked by basting. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nisin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of group N + streptococci + inhibitory substance. 1. A polycyclic peptide produced by fermentation with the bacterium Lactococcus lactis; used as a preservative in processed cheese etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chasten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chastien, from Old French chastier (“punish”), from Latin castīgō. Doublet of chastise and castigate and related to chaste. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪ.sən/ 1. To make chaste. 2. To chastize; to punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement. Labels: archaic Example: I will be his father, and he shall be my sonne: if hee commit iniquitie, I will chasten him with the rodde of men, and with the stripes of the children of men. 3. To render humble or restrained.
Word: chastens Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chasten Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: natamycin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Translingual nata(lensis) + English -mycin (“antibiotic”). 1. An antifungal drug from Streptomyces natalensis, used to treat ophthalmic infections, and as a food preservative. Labels: uncountable
Word: pimaricin Part of Speech: noun 1. an antifungal drug used to treat ophthalmic infections, and as a food preservative Labels: uncountable
Word: sodium formate Part of Speech: noun 1. The sodium salt of formic acid; used in detergents, as a food preservative and in many industrial applications.
Word: calcium formate Part of Speech: noun 1. the calcium salt of formic acid; used in the scrubbing of flue gases, and as a food preservative Labels: uncountable
Word: chastened Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈtʃeɪsənd/ 1. Made chaste; purified; modest. Example: As I look back over life, I see periods, which possibly have been more crowded with ecstatic enjoyment but none in which there was more pure, equable chastened happiness, than those few weeks I spent with my children. 2. Made moderate; restrained. Example: The Trump era is not quite over, however. There are still 10 days of this presidency left, and reports from the Oval Office suggest he no longer feels chastened, regretting having agreed to an orderly transition. Example: There are, of course, better scenarios. A chastened regime could pursue some form of accommodation with America and evolution at home. 3. Chastised.
Word: chastened Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈtʃeɪsənd/ 1. simple past and past participle of chasten Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chasten'd Part of Speech: adj 1. Made chaste Labels: archaic, poetic Example: Repenting follies that full long have Red, Heaving her white breast to the balmy air, Like guilty beauty, chasten'd and more fair
Word: chemical abortion Part of Speech: noun 1. A medical, rather than surgical, abortion induced by a drug. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chemical affinity Part of Speech: noun 1. All the various attractions between elements and compounds that lead to their reaction.
Word: chemical engineering Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction and operation of industrial process plants, and the physical, chemical and biological processes to create substances or energy in a useful and economic form. Labels: uncountable
Word: ferrier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferry + -er. 1. a ferryman Labels: rare
Word: amical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French amical, from Latin amīcālis. Pronunciation: /ˈa.mɪkl/, /ˈa.mɪ.kəl/ 1. Friendly, amicable. Labels: archaic Example: The Encyclopédie pulled through this crisis mainly through the amical assistance of Malesherbes, councillor in the Paris Cour des Aides, a member of the Lamoignon clan, and official Director of the Book Trade.
Word: material logic Part of Speech: noun 1. The branch of logic that focuses on the content of reasoning.
Word: Islamophilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama) Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor. English Islam Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English Islamo- Proto-Indo-European *bʰil- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s Ancient Greek φῐ́λος (phĭ́los) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der. English -philia English Islamophilia From Islamo- + -philia. 1. Love or admiration of (the values of) Islam or of Islamic civilization. Labels: derogatory, sometimes, uncountable
Word: creamiest Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English creamy Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istHos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-West Germanic *-ist Old English -est Middle English -est English -est English creamiest From creamy + -est. 1. superlative form of creamy: most creamy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: sociologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sociology 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 sociologist From sociology + -ist. 1. A scientist studying the field of sociology; a social scientist. Example: The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
Word: steamier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of steamy: more steamy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: AS level Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of AS-level. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: A-level Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for advanced level. 1. A non-compulsory examination taken in the final two years of secondary education in England and Wales as a requisite for university or other tertiary education; the qualification obtained by passing such an exam. Example: I took my A-levels last year. Example: Applicants must have at least one A level. 2. Anal sex. Labels: Internet, euphemistic
Word: shofar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Hebrew שׁוֹפָר (shofár, “shofar”). Pronunciation: /ˈʃəʊ̯fə/, /ˈʃoʊ̯fɚ/, /ˈʃoʊ̯fɑɹ/, /ʃoʊ̯ˈfɑɹ/, /ˈʃɔɪ̯fɚ/ 1. A ram’s-horn trumpet, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Labels: Judaism, countable Example: Thaddeus the fluteplayer had, it seems, found a ram’s horn or shofar, and he was blowing this not in the normal manner of an angry summons but so as to produce a melody of four notes, like a camp call to dinner or parade. Example: “This is one of those times in the history of our country and the world, where we are being presented with a wake up call — the blast of the shofar — to challenge ourselves, to ask, ‘What are we doing? What can we do?’ And know that we can do so much,” said Harris.
Word: shofroth Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shofar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoneen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Seoinín (“Johnny”), from Seán (“John, John Bull”) + -ín (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈʃəʊniːn/ 1. An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society. Labels: Ireland, derogatory, ethnic, slur Example: Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and trout. Example: So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language
Word: miscreate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree 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- English create English miscreate From mis- + create. Pronunciation: /mɪskɹɪˈeɪt/ 1. To create wrongly or poorly.
Word: miscreate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree 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- English create English miscreate From mis- + create. Pronunciation: /mɪskɹɪˈeɪt/ 1. Miscreated; illegitimate; forged. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete, poetic Example: miscreate titles Example: With opening titles miscreate, whose right / Suits not in native colours with the truth;
Word: miscreates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of miscreate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: medicaster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French médicastre or Italian medicastro, from Late Latin medicaster, from Latin medicus (“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”) + -aster (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪkastə/, /ˈmɛdəˌkæstɚ/ 1. A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge. Labels: dated, literary Example: But these innovating Medicaſters have introduced a Practice not only very precarious, but in many Reſpects extremely dangerous, and quite devoid of any one of the Qualities which conſtitute a good Remedy, viz. to cure the Patient, as the Axiom has it, cito, tuto, & jucunde, i.e. ſpeedily, ſafely, and pleaſantly. Example: The most idiotic medicaster, when he had named, or, as they term it, diagnosticated a typhoid fever, found himself upon a level with the medical celebrities of the epoch. […] If the patient died, that was perfectly simple: he had a typhoid fever to which he was inevitably doomed to succumb! If he recovered, what a noble triumph for the medicaster, even when he had perhaps arbitrarily imposed the name of typhoid upon a simple and benignant fever, as is constantly done!
Word: medicasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of medicaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: democratise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French démocratiser, equivalent to democrat + -ise. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɒkɹətaɪz/ 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of democratize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard Example: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Estonia and Ireland top V-Dem’s global democracy index for 2025. The efforts of others, including Poland, are highlighted for attempting to “U-turn” away from autocracy. But only 18 countries across the world are democratising, a historic low.
Word: democratises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of democratise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: democratize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French démocratiser, equivalent to democrat + -ize. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɒkɹətaɪz/, /dɪˈmɑkɹətaɪz/, /dɪˈmɔkɹətɑez/ 1. To make democratic. Labels: transitive Example: Three distinct patterns within this wave are clear: Democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies; significant reversals and often breakdown of democracy in countries that successfully democratized during the late 20th and early 21st centuries; and deepening of autocracy in already autocratic states. […] The number of autocratizing countries (red line) increases from the mid-1990s-early 2000s, to surpass the number of democratizing countries in 2012. […] Montenegro started to democratize with the 2020 elections ending nearly three decades of rule by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (DPS). 2. To broaden access to (something), especially for the sake of egalitarianism. Labels: broadly, transitive
Word: democratisers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of democratiser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: democratiser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From democratise + -er. 1. Alternative spelling of democratizer (“one who democratises”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ergology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ergo- + -logy. 1. The study of the psychological effects of work, or of work patterns; especially the causes of work-related stress (job stress). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Knowledge originating from the study of the object culture of non-European traditional societies. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: depository Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin dēpositōrium, from Latin dēpositum, past participle of dēpōnō. By surface analysis, deposit + -ory. Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/, /dɪˈpɑzɪtɔɹi/ 1. A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation. Example: He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. Example: Henrietta rang for the attendants to draw in the ponderous curtains; and in the meanwhile, curious to behold the stores of the emblazoned depository, lighted the tapers for herself. The case was speedily unclasped, and the countess stood dazzled with the brilliancy of the precious contents. 2. A trustee; a depositary. Example: depository library
Word: chemical agent Part of Speech: noun 1. Any noxious substance intended for use in military or police operations.
Word: chemical beam epitaxy Part of Speech: noun 1. a form of molecular beam epitaxy that uses a gaseous source Labels: uncountable
Word: molecular beam epitaxy Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique, used in the production of thin films of ultra-pure semiconductors, that grows the film by condensation of evaporated atoms. Labels: uncountable
Word: epitaxy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: epi- + -taxy Pronunciation: /ˈɛpətæks.i/ 1. An overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A type of crystal growth or material deposition in which new crystalline layers are formed with one or more well-defined orientations with respect to the crystalline seed layer. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: SMIL Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: chemical biology Part of Speech: noun 1. A field of study that embraces both chemistry and biology. Labels: uncountable
Word: chemical bond Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several attractive forces that serve to bind atoms together to form molecules
Word: chemical castration Part of Speech: noun 1. A medical treatment using an anaphrodisiacal hormonal drug to inhibit the function of a man's testes, intended to have the same effect on the sex drive as surgical castration. It is typically used on sex offenders as a punishment and/or preventative measure, or on people wishing to undergo male-to-female transsexualism. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fathers-in-law Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of father-in-law Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chemical change Part of Speech: noun 1. Any process in which reactants are changed into products by the breaking or creation of chemical bonds. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lengthily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English lengthy Middle English -ly English -ly English lengthily From lengthy + -ly. 1. In a lengthy way, in a manner that is long and drawn out, especially in time.
Word: chemical clock Part of Speech: noun 1. Any mixture of compounds whose relative concentrations oscillate, and in which such change is marked by a visible rhythmic change in colour.
Word: chemical composition Part of Speech: noun 1. The identities, and relative numbers, of the elements that make up any particular compound Labels: countable, physical, uncountable
Word: chemical decomposition Part of Speech: noun 1. The fragmentation of any compound into elements or smaller compounds Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chemical defense Part of Speech: noun 1. All the methods and procedures involved in defending against attack by chemical agents. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gateway drug Part of Speech: noun 1. A typically legal or less harmful substance, such as marijuana, whose use is statistically associated with an increased likelihood of progressing to a more dangerous or illicit drug. Labels: idiomatic 2. Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to a deeper involvement. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: It has been said that LINQ is a gateway drug for functional programming Example: Darn you, Downton Abbey, for being the gateway drug for all things BBC.
Word: chemical dependency Part of Speech: noun 1. physical and psychological dependency on an addictive drug Labels: countable, uncountable