nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rove Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”). Pronunciation: /ɹəʊv/, /ɹoʊv/ 1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving. 3. The act of wandering; a ramble. Example: In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.
Word: rove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inflected forms. Pronunciation: /ɹəʊv/, /ɹoʊv/ 1. simple past of rive Labels: form-of, past 2. simple past of reeve Labels: form-of, past
Word: skipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/, [ˈskɪp.ə], /ˈskɘp.ɘ/, [ˈskɘp.ɘ], /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ 1. The master of a ship. Example: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy. Example: It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous. 2. A coach, director, or other leader. 3. The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling. Example: But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool 4. Synonym of detective sergeant, especially as a term of direct address. Labels: UK, informal
Word: skipper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/, [ˈskɪp.ə], /ˈskɘp.ɘ/, [ˈskɘp.ɘ], /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ 1. To captain a ship or a sports team. Labels: transitive Example: Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license
Word: skipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/, [ˈskɪp.ə], /ˈskɘp.ɘ/, [ˈskɘp.ɘ], /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ 1. Agent noun of skip: one who skips. Labels: agent, form-of 2. A person who skips, or fails to attend class. 3. One who jumps rope. 4. Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern. Example: Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […] 5. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat). 6. A young, thoughtless person. Labels: obsolete Example: Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth 7. The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.
Word: skipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/, [ˈskɪp.ə], /ˈskɘp.ɘ/, [ˈskɘp.ɘ], /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ 1. A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
Word: skipper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”). Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/, [ˈskɪp.ə], /ˈskɘp.ɘ/, [ˈskɘp.ɘ], /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ 1. To take shelter in a barn or shed. Labels: intransitive
Word: skipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, perhaps related to jumper. Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/, [ˈskɪp.ə], /ˈskɘp.ɘ/, [ˈskɘp.ɘ], /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ 1. A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt. Labels: South-Africa Example: Plain nylon doeks...Men's knitted skippers, long sleeves, three buttons in front. Example: The special constables..were issued with one pair of boots, two overalls, one raincoat, and two skippers — but no shirts or warm coats.
Word: slurp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing. Pronunciation: /slɜːp/, /slɝp/ 1. To eat or drink noisily. Labels: transitive Example: They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti. Example: As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table. 2. To make a loud sucking noise. Labels: intransitive Example: The mud slurped under our shoes.
Word: slurp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing. Pronunciation: /slɜːp/, /slɝp/ 1. A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking. 2. A mouthful of liquid sucked up. Example: I took another slurp of my soup.
Word: smelting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of smelt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smelting Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. Example: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
Word: smuggle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier smuckle, either from Dutch smokkelen (“to smuggle”), a frequentative form of Middle Dutch smūken (“to act secretly, be sneaky”), from Old Dutch *smugan, or from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German smuggeln; all are from Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to creep; slip through or into”). cognates and related terms Cognate with Saterland Frisian smuggelje (“to smuggle”), West Frisian smokkelje (“to smuggle”), German Low German smuggeln, smuckeln (“to move insidiously, smuggle”), German schmuggeln (“to smuggle”), Danish smugle (“to smuggle”), Swedish smuggla (“to smuggle”). Related also to Icelandic smjúga (“to creep, penetrate”), Swedish smyga (“to sneak, slip, crawl, lurk, steal”), German schmiegen (“to nestle, wrap, snuggle”), Old English smēogan, smūgan (“to creep, crawl, move gradually, penetrate”). Pronunciation: /ˈsmʌɡəl/ 1. To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: A lorry driver who smuggled illegal immigrants into the UK in the back of his trailer has been jailed. Example: 'Smuggling was a way of life here, with no stigma attached,' David explained. His own granny used to smuggle out rabbit meat, tied to her body, and bring back such coveted Italian goods as chocolate, coffee and brooms. 'Brooms?' I asked him in disbelief. 'Yes, ordinary sorghum brooms, which were in short supply in Communist Yugoslavia, like many other basic household goods,' he said with a smile. 2. To bring in surreptitiously Labels: transitive Example: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival. 3. To fondle or cuddle. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner. Labels: slang Example: England finally found some urgency in the closing stages, when O'Reilly held his head in his hands after hitting the woodwork, with Guehi similarly disappointed to see his header smuggled off the line.
Word: spook Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Pronunciation: /spuːk/, /spʊk/ 1. A ghost or phantom. Labels: informal Example: The building was haunted by a couple of spooks. Example: "I'll say what I think, no more and no less, and I won't be scared by you or your spooks into altering my opinions." 2. A hobgoblin. 3. A scare or fright. Labels: informal Example: The big spider gave me a spook. 4. An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst. Labels: slang Example: From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies? Example: The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks. 5. A black person. Labels: dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Example: Some won't take spooks—hell, don't make no difference to me. Example: "[…] Dryades Street and that whole uptown neighborhood is gonna be worth a fortune once the white people take it back from you spooks and develop it. […]" 6. A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct. Example: He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. 7. A psychiatrist. Labels: US, slang Example: Commonly, the surgeons view nonsurgeons with disdain. The most disdain is directed toward the “shrinks” or the “spooks,” as the psychiatrists are called. 8. A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present. Labels: slang
Word: spook Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Pronunciation: /spuːk/, /spʊk/ 1. To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling). Labels: transitive Example: The hunters were spooked when the black cat crossed their path. The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran. Example: As that was happening, an East Midlands train came through at 90mph. George [a Labrador] was spooked as the train went past him and ran backwards across the neighbouring slow lines and off towards the sidings. 2. To become frightened (by something startling). Labels: intransitive Example: The deer spooked at the sound of the dogs. 3. To haunt. Labels: transitive
Word: stoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock. Pronunciation: /stəʊk/, /stoʊk/, /stəʉk/, /stɐʉk/, /stok/ 1. To poke, pierce, thrust. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bityng / No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde / Ne no man shal un to his felawe ryde / But o cours with a sharp ygrounde spere
Word: stoke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stoken, from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”) or Middle Low German stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from Old Dutch *stokon or Old Saxon *stokon, both from Proto-West Germanic *stokōn, from Proto-Germanic *stukōną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to push, beat”). Cognate with Middle High German stoken (“to pierce, jab”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to push, thrust”). Alternative etymology derives the Middle English word from Old French estoquer, estochier (“to thrust, strike”), from the same Germanic source. More at stock. Pronunciation: /stəʊk/, /stoʊk/, /stəʉk/, /stɐʉk/, /stok/ 1. An act of poking, piercing, thrusting
Word: stoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From a back-formation of stoker, apparently from Dutch stoker, from stoken (“to kindle a fire, incite, instigate”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to poke, thrust”), from stock (“stick, stock”), see: tandenstoker. Ultimately the same word as above. Pronunciation: /stəʊk/, /stoʊk/, /stəʉk/, /stɐʉk/, /stok/ 1. To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. Labels: transitive 2. To encourage a behavior or emotion. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: Stoking the star maker machinery behind the popular song Example: To stoke motivation and ambition, focus instead on the road ahead. 3. To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. Labels: intransitive
Word: stoke Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /stəʊk/, /stoʊk/, /stəʉk/, /stɐʉk/, /stok/ 1. Misconstruction of stokes, a unit of kinematic viscosity. Labels: alt-of, misconstruction
Word: monosodium glutamate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sodium + glutamic acid. 1. The mono sodium salt of the amino acid, glutamic acid; present in soy sauce; used as a condiment in Chinese and Japanese cooking, and as a food additive to enhance flavor and add the umami taste. Abbreviations: MSG, E621. Labels: uncountable
Word: sword fighting Part of Speech: noun 1. Dueling with swords; fighting an opponent when both are using swords as weapons. Labels: uncountable 2. The practice of crossing urine streams with another man while both urinating. Labels: slang, uncountable 3. Mutual penile frottage. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: comatose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: * perhaps from French comateux * From Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”) (genitive κώματος (kṓmatos)). Equivalent to coma + -ose (“full of”) Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.məˌtoʊs/, /ˈkɒm.əˌtəʊs/, /ˈkoʊ.məˌtoʊs/, /ˈkɑm.əˌtoʊs/ 1. In a coma: unconscious. Example: the patient was comatose for 2 weeks before finally passing away. 2. Drowsy or lethargic. Labels: informal Example: Weary of big Sunday dinners that leave you feeling comatose (and result in your having to spend Sunday evening scrubbing the kitchen)? Example: The thought of food snapped her out of her comatose demeanor. 3. Fast asleep. Labels: informal Example: She was lying comatose on the sofa.
Word: comatose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * perhaps from French comateux * From Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”) (genitive κώματος (kṓmatos)). Equivalent to coma + -ose (“full of”) Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊ.məˌtoʊs/, /ˈkɒm.əˌtəʊs/, /ˈkoʊ.məˌtoʊs/, /ˈkɑm.əˌtoʊs/ 1. To make comatose; to send into, or as if into, a coma. Labels: colloquial, nonstandard, rare Example: killing everybody is a stupid idea, and comatosing everybody is equally so. Example: [Liverpool is] #1 in the league for murdering and comatosing fans of othe rclubs.
Word: avo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese avo. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːvəʊ/, /ˈævəʉ/ 1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Macanese pataca.
Word: avo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of avocado. Pronunciation: /ˈɑːvəʊ/, /ˈævəʉ/ 1. Clipping of avocado. Labels: Australia, South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: Given the challenges of trying to propagate avocados, one might wonder why we don't simply get hold of seeds and/or nursery starts and go that route – especially since avos tend to grow somewhat 'true to seed.' Example: But what would my trip be if I didn’t Instagram my food? I upload a picture of the avo toast with the caption “✨✨✨one of the prettiest red velvet rose latte i’ve ever seen !!! ✨✨✨✨ , despite the fact I have only ever seen one red velvet rose latte in my life.
Word: break wind Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested 1552. From break + wind (“flatulence”). Compare Saterland Frisian wiendje (“to break wind”). 1. To expel gases generated during digestion, especially through the anus; to fart. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic Example: I broke wind and excused myself afterwards. Example: I asked him to lower my blind, but he took one look and huffed, “Can’t reach that!” I gave him a frosty “That will be all, then,” instead of a tip. He broke wind as he left, poisonously.
Word: bani Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ban (currency) Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bando Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare bandy. 1. A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. Labels: uncountable 2. The curve-ended stick used in this game. Labels: countable
Word: bando Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of abandoned. 1. A drug lair, a trap house. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: She my trap queen, let her hit the bando / We be countin' up, watch how far them bands go Example: Still don’t give a fuck, shoot a nigga broad day / Care for trappin out the bandos in the hallways / Will I bang for the gang? Yeah, that’s always […] / I’m still in the trap, I’m still in the bando / I’m trying to get rich
Word: bando Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Burmese ဗန်တို (bantui). 1. A traditional Burmese martial art. Labels: uncountable
Word: coloring Part of Speech: adj 1. That colors something. 2. That conveys or imparts color. Labels: also, figuratively
Word: coloring Part of Speech: noun 1. An act or process which applies color. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any substance used to give color. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our cookies contain no artificial flavorings or colorings. Example: The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday a series of measures to phase out eight artificial food dyes and colorings from America's food supply by the end of next year. […] The proposal also outlined a commitment for companies to supply food for school lunches that does not include artificial dyes or coloring. 3. The appearance as to color. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Rolands, both U.S.-educated lawyers with faculty positions in the national law school, are olive skinned, with the coloring of some Italians or Sephardic Jews. 4. A disguise or discoloration. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: coloring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of color Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: colostomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From colo- + -stomy. 1. An incision into the colon to allow for drainage. 2. The opening produced in such incision.
Word: cryptospora Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any plant of the genus Cryptospora, of the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. 2. Any of a genus Cryptospora of fungi, of the family Gnomoniaceae, now genus Cryptosporella Labels: archaic
Word: insectoid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From insect + -oid. 1. Insect-like. Labels: not-comparable Example: Living beyond the Omega-4 mass relay in the Terminus Systems, the mysterious Collector species is glimpsed so rarely as to be taken for a myth by most in galactic society. In reality, Collectors are human-sized insectoid bipeds and can resemble massive winged beetles. They are a terrifying force in the galaxy, responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands.
Word: insectoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From insect + -oid. 1. An insect-like creature. Example: Two hundred Earth years earlier, a race of Insectoids discovered them as the Squishys were sending their first probes to other planets in their own star system.
Word: slipper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English slypper, equivalent to slip + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/, /ˈslɪpəɹ/, [ˈslɪpɚ] 1. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. 2. A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper. Example: Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs. 3. A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal). Labels: Hawaii, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, US 4. A person or creature that slips. Example: He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness. Example: Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street. 5. A kind of apron or pinafore for children. 6. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel. 7. A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib. 8. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper". Example: 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. " 9. The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment. Labels: euphemistic Example: "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms." 10. A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
Word: slipper Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English slypper, equivalent to slip + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/, /ˈslɪpəɹ/, [ˈslɪpɚ] 1. slippery Labels: obsolete Example: O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.
Word: slipper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English slypper, equivalent to slip + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/, /ˈslɪpəɹ/, [ˈslɪpɚ] 1. To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK Example: 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research "One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."
Word: jeopardy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English jupartie, jeupartie (“even chance”), from Anglo-Norman giu parti and Middle French jeu parti (“a divided game, i.e. an even game, an even chance”), from Medieval Latin iocus partītus (“an even chance, an alternative”), from Latin iocus (“jest, play, game”) + partītus, perfect passive participle of partiō (“divide”); see joke and party. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛpədi/, /ˈd͡ʒɛpɚdi/, /ˈd͡ʒepədi/ 1. Danger of failure, harm, or loss. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The poor condition of the vehicle put its occupants in constant jeopardy. Example: Thus chaunce hath (by exchaunge) the flie ſo trapt, / That ſodainly he loſt his libertee: / The more he wrange, the faſter was he wrapt [in the spider's web] / And all to thencreaſe of his ieoberdee, […]
Word: jeopardy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English jupartie, jeupartie (“even chance”), from Anglo-Norman giu parti and Middle French jeu parti (“a divided game, i.e. an even game, an even chance”), from Medieval Latin iocus partītus (“an even chance, an alternative”), from Latin iocus (“jest, play, game”) + partītus, perfect passive participle of partiō (“divide”); see joke and party. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛpədi/, /ˈd͡ʒɛpɚdi/, /ˈd͡ʒepədi/ 1. To jeopardize; to endanger. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: propagandist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From propaganda + -ist, after French propagandiste. Pronunciation: /pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/ 1. A person who disseminates propaganda. Example: Every country has been officially invited by the Belgian Government to send delegates to the International Congress of Agricultural Associations, which will take pace at Brussels in September, 1910. In most countries propagandist committees have been formed in connection with this Congress. Example: "Astroturfers and propagandists tend to attack and controversialize the news organizations, personalities and people surrounding an issue rather than sticking to the facts."
Word: propagandist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From propaganda + -ist, after French propagandiste. Pronunciation: /pɹɒpəˈɡandɪst/ 1. Consisting of or spreading propaganda. Example: Of course many of these accounts were propagandist in intention and designed for an unsophisticated audience. Example: In another comment from the audience, one woman raised what is perhaps the anti-pornography movement's strongest point. "There's a strain of pornography which is incredibly propagandist against women," she said.
Word: exam Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæm/, /ɛɡˈzæm/, /ɛkˈsam/, [ɪɡˈzæm] 1. Clipping of examination, especially when meaning “test” or in compound terms. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
Word: exam Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæm/, /ɛɡˈzæm/, /ɛkˈsam/, [ɪɡˈzæm] 1. Shortened form of examine Example: Thin sections were stained with lead citrate and then examed using 1200EX electron microscope (JEOL, Tokyo, Japan).
Word: evidential Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Medieval Latin ēvidentiālis, from Latin ēvidentia + -ālis. Pronunciation: /ˌɛ.vɪˈdən.t͡ʃəl/ 1. Of or providing evidence.
Word: evidential Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin ēvidentiālis, from Latin ēvidentia + -ālis. Pronunciation: /ˌɛ.vɪˈdən.t͡ʃəl/ 1. A syntactic element (affix, clitic, or particle) that indicates evidentiality.
Word: mariner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mariner, maryner, from Anglo-Norman mariner, marinier, from Old French marinier, maronnier, from marin and Medieval Latin marinellus and marinarius (“sailor”), from marīnus (“marine”), from mare (“sea”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”). Eclipsed Middle English marinel, marynell (“mariner, sailor”) from Old French marinel from the same sources. Equivalent to marine + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɹɪnə/, /ˈmæɹɪnɚ/, /ˈmɛɹɪnɚ/, /-ɹə-/ 1. Synonym of sailor, particularly one on a maritime vessel. Example: My mariners, / Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me— Example: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
Word: debility Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English debylite, from Old French debilité (French débilité), from Latin dēbilitās (“weakness”), from dēbilis (“weak”), from dē- + habilis (“able”). Pronunciation: /dɪˈbɪlɪti/ 1. A state of physical or mental weakness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] and is the onlie laſt remedie for all debilities which haue long vexed the body through a hote diſtemper of the Lever, ſuch as a hote Gutte; it allayeth all Inflamations inward & outward. Example: As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment. […] I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
Word: jackpot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/ 1. A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot is rolled over and added to the next week's jackpot; several weeks of rollovers can build up jackpots up to $350 million or more. 2. A large cash prize or money. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An unexpected windfall or reward. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A concentration of surface wood or fuel. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a juniper jackpot 5. A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A ball game in which a thrower calls out a point value and whether the ball must be caught "alive" (in the air) or "dead" (having touched the ground), and a group of catchers compete to catch the ball. Labels: uncountable Example: As a little girl, I was something of a tomboy. I played jackpot in the mud at recess, and my Christmas wish lists consisted of baseball mitts and remote controlled cars.
Word: jackpot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/ 1. Of a slot machine, to issue a jackpot. Labels: intransitive Example: I went into the Las Vegas Casino and played $20 in a nickel slot, and it jackpotted for $300. Example: She sought out the machines along the aisles, the ones most frequently used, stuffed with tokens, especially likely to jackpot. 2. To fraudulently exploit an automatic teller machine so that it dispenses cash that has not been withdrawn from an account. Labels: transitive, uncommon
Word: jackpot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Criminal slang usage as "trouble, especially an arrest" attested 1902. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒækpɒt/ 1. A difficult situation. Labels: US, Western Example: and if you are not next to the ways and customs, the first thing you know you are in a jackpot so big four one spots would not be openers. I don't know what that last expression means, but I heard a fellow use it, and he was talking about a fellow that was in a very bad fix. Example: "I'm in a jackpot." Sympathy shone from those friendly eyes at once. "It's shore too bad for a lady to be in a jackpot," he answered me earnestly. 2. A jumble of felled timber. Example: It frequently happens that trees fall across one another, forming what is known as a jackpot. A number of trees may fall in a single jackpot. One of the tools with which appellant claims a bucker should be provided is an undercutter rigging. When trees are in a jackpot, the proper method of procedure is to first cut the lower tree, and then the upper one. This lessens the liability of an upper log rolling or falling upon the workman while he Is engaged in cutting the lower tree. The cut of the lower tree is ordinarily made by sawing it from the upper side, but, when its position produces a strain which pinches the saw, it is sawed from the under side by what is known as an undercut. To make an undercut, it is necessary to have some appliance to support the moving saw which is then operated teeth upward. The appliance which appellant contends Is ordinarily used is known as an undercutter rigging. Having no undercutter rigging, appellant requested respondent's foreman to provide one, complaining that his work in a jackpot of large trees without one was unsafe and dangerous.
Word: pita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Greek πίτα (píta, “pie”), more at pizza. Doublet of pide and pizza. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/ 1. A piece of pita bread; a flatbread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There is a wide variety of pites, small triangles of butter laden crispy filo dough, voluptuously filled with cheeses, vegetables or spiced meats. Example: A sweet smell of cheese and milk pites permeates the air of the homes of Greek housewives who prepare the pites according to the tradition of their forefathers.
Word: pita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pita (“century plant”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪtə/, /ˈpiːtə/ 1. A fiber obtained from the Agave americana and related species, used for making cordage and paper. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The plant which yields the fiber. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: you-uns Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Eye dialect of you ones. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːʌnz/, /ˈjuənz/, /ˈjʌnz/, [jɪ̈nz] 1. You (plural, as subject or object). Labels: Appalachia, Midwestern-US, US Example: Guthrie turned upon him a face aglow with gratification. ‘That's what makes me like you-uns, stranger,’ he said, cordially.
Word: basto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish basto. Pronunciation: /ˈbæstəʊ/ 1. A card of the suit clubs in Spanish-suited playing cards Example: Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord ! / Let off two captive trumps, and swept the board. / As many more Manillio forc'd to yield, / And march'd a victor from the verdant field. / Him Basto follow'd, but his fate more hard / Gain'd but one trump and one Plebeian card[…]
Word: bati Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of batty (“buttocks, anus; homosexual man”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bedo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bedon, from Old English bedōn (“to shut”), equivalent to be- + do. Pronunciation: /bəˈdu(ː)/ 1. To shut; make or put to. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To befoul; defile with ordure. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To adorn; ornament; garnish. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: impudent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English impudent, originally meaning immodest, shameless, from Latin impudēns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- + pudere (“to feel shame”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpjʊdənt/, /ˈɪmpjədn̩t/ 1. Not showing due respect; bold-faced, impertinent. Example: The impudent children would not stop talking in class. Example: Sir Iohn, ſir Iohn, I am well acquainted with your maner of wrenching the true cauſe,the falſe way. It is not a confident brow, nor the throng of wordes, that come with ſuch (more then impudent) ſawcines from you, can thruſt me from a leuell conſideration, […] 2. Lacking modesty or shame; indelicate. Labels: obsolete Example: Dian. Good my Lord, Aske him vpon his oath, if hee do’s thinke He had not my virginity. Kin. What ſaift thou to her? Ber. She’s impudent my Lord, And was a common gameſter to the Campe. Dia. He do’s me wrong my Lord: If I were ſo, He might haue bought me at a common price. Example: So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.
Word: smörgåsbord Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of smorgasbord. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: “ … Of course, we have nothing to equal your wonderful smörgåsbords here in England. Food is scarce, except for the army which provides bountiously. Speaking of smörgåsbord reminds me that we have not had a songfest for ages.[…]” Example: Swedish smörgåsbords, Italian spaghetti with Chianti and garlic Vienna bread, Wiener Schnitzel. It all depends upon where one goes to eat.
Word: tung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tonge, from Old English tung, tunge (“tongue, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ (“tongue”); along with Dutch tong, German Zunge, Swedish tunga, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s. 1. Obsolete spelling of tongue, both as language and as part of the body. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, … Example: … ever exposed to their envy, and the tung of slander …
Word: tung Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chinese 桐 (tóng). 1. A tung tree.
Word: sten Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Sten Labels: alt-of
Word: borg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of cyborg, a contraction of cybernetic organism. Pronunciation: /bɔːɡ/, /bɔɹɡ/ 1. Synonym of cyborg. Example: You'll also have to put together a team or Force of borgs that you won from winning battles. Before battle you assemble your Force within the GF Energy Limit. Each borg has a cost attached to them and this GF Energy Limit is kind of like your budget.
Word: borg Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of cyborg, a contraction of cybernetic organism. Pronunciation: /bɔːɡ/, /bɔɹɡ/ 1. Alternative spelling of Borg. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: borg Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɔːɡ/, /bɔɹɡ/ 1. Alternative form of BORG. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tribadism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English tribade Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English tribadism From tribade + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪbədɪz(ə)m/ 1. Lesbianism. Labels: uncountable Example: Things changed when Théophile Gautier made tribadism a fashionable feature of French decadence, and Baudelaire reminded the world that it all started on Lesbos. 2. A sexual act in which two women rub their vulvas together. Labels: specifically, uncountable Example: The Lesbian is the analogue among women of Persian love among men, and this perversion takes place in two ways, either by friction of the two female bodies, known as tribadism, or by the tongue, designated as cunnilinguism. Example: In Bali[…] homosexuality is almost as common among women as among men, though it is more secretly exercised; the methods of gratification adopted are either digital or lingual, or else by bringing the parts together (tribadism).
Word: ginger root Part of Speech: noun 1. Ginger, the underground stem, or rhizome, of the plant Zingiber officinale.
Word: stereopticon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós) Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der. English stereo- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs Proto-Hellenic *ókʷs Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós) English stereopticon From stereo- (“three-dimensional”) + Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós, “visual”). 1. A magic lantern, especially one with two projectors arranged so as to produce dissolving views or combinations of images. Example: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator. Example: Certain unscrupulous individuals grow rich through the manufacture and distribution of suggestive postcards, obscene steriopticon views, and inexcusable books and typewritten pamphlets.
Word: virulent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: PIE word *wisós From Middle English virulent (“leaking or seeping pus, purulent; (of putrefaction) extremely severe (sense uncertain)”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin vīrulentus (“poisonous”), from vīrus (“poison; venom; slime, slimy liquid; stinking smell; nasty taste”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison; slime; fluidity”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’, forming adjectives). Sense 4 (“of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis”) is derived from French virulent, which was first used in this sense by the French biologist François Jacob (1920–2013) and his co-authors in a 1953 article. Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɹ(j)ʊl(ə)nt/, /-ɹ(j)ə-/, /ˈvɪɹ(j)ələnt/ 1. Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous. 2. Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious. Labels: figuratively Example: The politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president. Example: More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent. 3. Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host. 4. Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
Word: dismantle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French desmanteler, itself from des- (“dis-”), mantel (“coat”) + -er (verbal suffix). By surface analysis, dis- + mantle. Compare typologically uncloak, reveal, unmask. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmæntəl/, [dɪsˈmæntʰəɫ], [dɪsˈmænʔəɫ], [dɪsˈmæ̃nɾɫ̩], [dɪsˈmæ̃nɫ̩] 1. To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces. Labels: transitive Example: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. Example: This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics. 2. To disprove a discourse, claim or argument. Labels: transitive Example: If we can dismantle hate rhetoric and explain why it is, in fact, illogical, is the language no longer dangerous? 3. To divest, strip of dress or covering. Labels: transitive Example: This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, Should in this trice of time commit a thing So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […] 4. To remove fittings or furnishings from. Labels: transitive
Word: places Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪsɪz/ 1. plural of place Labels: form-of, plural
Word: places Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪsɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of place Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: without prejudice Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see without, prejudice. Example: without bias or prejudice Example: In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed. 2. Not affecting nor considering other possibly related issues. Labels: formal Example: It is to be hoped that the final scheme will satisfy all interests—preserving some of old Euston's magnificence but without prejudice to the progress of modernisation. 3. Without affecting a legal interest. 4. Without binding future decisions or requiring a certain position to be taken in the future; (law) used to allow a statement or proposal in communications, while allowing the party to return to their original position without being impeded by the described statement or proposal. Example: The court granted temporary custody to the mother, without prejudice as to the father's right to seek permanent custody at a later hearing. Example: When attempting to settle a lawsuit, the parties generally communicate on a "without prejudice" basis.
Word: longer Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/, /ˈlæŋ.ɡæ/, /ˈlɔŋ.ɡɚ/, /ˈlɑŋ.ɡɚ/, [ˈlɑŋ.əɾ] 1. comparative form of long: more long Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: longer Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/, /ˈlæŋ.ɡæ/, /ˈlɔŋ.ɡɚ/, /ˈlɑŋ.ɡɚ/, [ˈlɑŋ.əɾ] 1. comparative form of long: more long Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: longer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English long Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English longer From long (“yearn”) + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋ.ə/, /ˈlɔŋ.ɚ/, /ˈlɑŋ.ɚ/, [ˈlɑŋ.əɾ] 1. One who longs or yearns for something. Example: The slayer also lay, The terrible earth-drake deprived of life, Oppressed by bale: the ring-hoard longer The twisted worm, might not control.
Word: jpg Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of JPG. Labels: alt-of
Word: pl Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of plural. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: pl Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of plural. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of place. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of plates, often used to indicate the number of plate-based illustrations in a book. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: forces Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪz/, /ˈfɔː.sɪz/, /ˈfo(ː)ɹ.sɪz/, /ˈfoə.sɪz/ 1. plural of force Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forces Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪz/, /ˈfɔː.sɪz/, /ˈfo(ː)ɹ.sɪz/, /ˈfoə.sɪz/ 1. Troops. Labels: plural 2. The orchestral instrumentation (and voices) used in a musical production. Labels: plural
Word: forces Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪz/, /ˈfɔː.sɪz/, /ˈfo(ː)ɹ.sɪz/, /ˈfoə.sɪz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of force Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person