nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: covetous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English coveitous, from Anglo-Norman *cuveitus, from Medieval Latin as if *cupiditosus, from Latin cupiditas (“desire”); see covet. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌvətəs/ 1. Distastefully desirous or keen, especially for something belonging to someone else; avaricious. Example: The couaitous deſyre of riche men is euer vnſaciable. It always raueneth and neuer is ſatisfied. Example: Intimate as she was with Lady Anne, she would not but see how little the Misses Granard had of the ordinary pleasures of their age—but it never entered into her head to add to them—had one of their sweet faces been seen in her box at the opera, it might have attracted that attention she was feverishly covetous of engrossing.
Word: critic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/ 1. A person who appraises the works of others. Labels: countable Example: Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics. Example: The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad. 2. A specialist in judging works of art. Labels: countable 3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault. Labels: countable Example: When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature. 4. An opponent. Labels: countable 5. Obsolete form of critique (“an act of criticism”). Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete Example: Make each day a Critick on the last. 6. Obsolete form of critique (“the art of criticism”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Word: critic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/ 1. To criticise. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete Example: 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
Word: crave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”). Pronunciation: /kɹeɪv/ 1. To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to crave for peace Example: to crave after wealth 2. To ask for earnestly; to beg or demand, as from a figure of authority. Labels: archaic, literary, transitive Example: I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end. Example: My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, The penalty and forfeit of my bond. 3. To call for; to require as a course of action. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder and that craves wary walking
Word: crave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”). Pronunciation: /kɹeɪv/ 1. A formal application to a court to make a particular order.
Word: crooked Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /kɹʊkt/, /kɹɵkt/, /kɾʊkt/, /kɾʉkt/, /kɻʉkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of crook Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: crooked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English croked, crokid, past participle of croken (“to crook, bend”). Cognate with Danish kroget (“crooked”). More at crook. Pronunciation: /kɹʊkɪd/, /kɹɵkɪd/, /kɹʊkəd/, /kɾʊkɪd/, /kɾʉkɪd/ 1. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles. Example: We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill. 2. Set at an angle; not vertical or square. Example: That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me? 3. Dishonest or illegal; corrupt. Labels: figuratively Example: He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals. Example: He's so crooked that everyone avoids interacting with him as much as they can help it. 4. ill-tempered; grumpy; cranky. Labels: Newfoundland Example: I wouldn't try to talk to him just now, b'y! He's some crooked today!
Word: cunning Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English cunning, kunning, konnyng, alteration of earlier Middle English cunninde, kunnende, cunnand, from Old English cunnende, present participle of cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”), equivalent to con + -ing. Cognate with Scots cunnand (“cunning”), German könnend (“able to do”), Icelandic kunnandi (“cunning”). More at con, can. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌnɪŋ/ 1. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. Example: They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere. 2. Skillful, artful. Labels: obsolete Example: Esau was a cunning hunter. Example: a cunning workman 3. Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious. Labels: obsolete Example: cunning work Example: Over them Arachne high did lift / Her cunning web. 4. Cute, appealing. Labels: Maine, colloquial, dated Example: everybody gives something to the cunning little boy; his eyes are large and soft, and he wears a pointed hat, and tight breeches, and jacket Example: “I shan't mind that at all, I like the little house 'cause it's got a garden, and there's a cunning room with a three-cornered closet in it that I always wanted.[…]”
Word: cunning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cunning, kunnyng, partially from Old English *cunning (verbal noun), from Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”); partially from Old English cunnung (“knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge”), from cunnian (“to search into, try, test, seek for, explore, investigate, experience, have experience of, to make trial of, know”), equivalent to con + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌnɪŋ/ 1. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: indeed at this very moment he's slipped away with the utmost cunning into a form that's most perplexing to investigate. 2. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit; art or magic. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. 3. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The natural wit or instincts of an animal. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the cunning of the fox or hare 5. Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: conquest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin quaerō Latin conquirō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin conquīsītusder. Old French conquestebor. Middle English conquest English conquest Inherited from Middle English conquest, borrowed from Old French conqueste. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋkwɛst/, /ˈkɒŋkwəst/, /ˈkɑnkwɛst/, /ˈkɑnkwəst/, /ˈkɑŋ-/ 1. An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians 2. An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles. Labels: broadly, countable, figuratively, often, uncountable Example: Mankind's conquest of space Example: Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. 3. That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? 4. The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: What we call purchase, perquisitio, the feudists called conquest, conqucestus, or conquisitio 5. A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections. Labels: colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: And, crowning glory of the evening! a conquest was made, a conquest so sudden, so brilliant, and so obvious, that it was enough to give any fête at which it occurred the immortality of a season. 6. A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: conquest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin quaerō Latin conquirō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin conquīsītusder. Old French conquestebor. Middle English conquest English conquest Inherited from Middle English conquest, borrowed from Old French conqueste. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋkwɛst/, /ˈkɒŋkwəst/, /ˈkɑnkwɛst/, /ˈkɑnkwəst/, /ˈkɑŋ-/ 1. To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
Word: conquest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Medieval Latin conquestōlbor. Old French conquester Middle French conquesterbor. Middle English conquesten English conquest Inherited from Middle English conquesten, borrowed from Middle French conquester, from Old French conquester. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋkwɛst/, /ˈkɒŋkwəst/, /ˈkɑnkwɛst/, /ˈkɑnkwəst/, /ˈkɑŋ-/ 1. To conquer. Labels: archaic
Word: confess Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan). Doublet of confiteor. Sense 6 is a calque of 告白 (kokuhaku). Pronunciation: /kənˈfɛs/ 1. To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: I confess to spray-painting all over that mural! Example: I confess that I am a sinner. 2. To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in. Labels: transitive Example: Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven. Example: For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both. 3. To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution. Example: If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse. Example: Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father. 4. To hear or receive such a confession of sins from. Labels: transitive Example: 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed. Example: A jealous man confesses his wife under a priest's habit, who tells him that she is visited every night by a friar; […] 5. To disclose or reveal. Labels: transitive Example: Tall thriving trees confess;d the fruitful mould. 6. To profess one's love. Labels: intransitive
Word: conquer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English conqueren, from Old French conquerre, from Late Latin conquaerere (“to knock, strike; to search for, procure”), from Latin con- + quaerere (“to seek, acquire”). Displaced native Old English oferwinnan. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒŋkə/, /ˈkɑŋkɚ/ 1. To defeat in combat; to subjugate. Example: I lay in the desert beyond all cities and sounds, and above me flowed the River of Silence through the sky; and on the desert’s edge night fought against the Sun, and suddenly conquered. 2. To acquire by force of arms, win in war; to become ruler of; to subjugate. Example: In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople. Example: I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […] 3. To overcome an abstract obstacle. Example: Today I conquered my fear of flying by finally boarding a plane. Example: to conquer difficulties or temptations 4. To gain, win, or obtain by effort. Labels: dated Example: to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace
Word: conceit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Old French concevoirbor. Middle English conceyven Middle English conceyte English conceit From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto. Akin to Portuguese conceito. Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːt/ 1. Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Example: a man wise in his own conceit 2. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a man of quick conceit Example: How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. 3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet. 4. Opinion, (neutral) judgment. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. Esteem, favourable opinion. Labels: archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte. Example: [G]ive him thy thanks for putting her into conceit with the sex that thou hast given her so much reason to execrate. 6. A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. Labels: countable Example: On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. Example: Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line. 7. An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. Labels: countable, rhetoric Example: The “cyberspace” conceit allows him to dramatize computer hacking in nontechnical language, although I wonder how much his somewhat florid descriptions of the “bodiless exultation of cyberspace” will mean to readers who have not experienced the illusion of power that punching the keyboard of even a dinky little word-processor can give. Example: In the next and final stanza, Donne expands the conceit of world exploration to present us with a further distinction between the spirituality of the lovers and the “map reader” and “sea-discoverers.” 8. Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. Labels: uncountable Example: Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud. 9. Design; pattern. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And yet I know not how conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft;
Word: conceit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Old French concevoirbor. Middle English conceyven Middle English conceyte English conceit From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto. Akin to Portuguese conceito. Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːt/ 1. To form an idea; to think. Labels: obsolete Example: Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes. 2. To conceive. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [T]his Medicine he conceits worse than the Disesase.
Word: complexion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English complexion (“temperament”), from Old French complexion (French complexion), from Medieval Latin complexiō (“complexion, constitution”), from complector, past participle complexus (“to entwine, encompass”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈplɛkʃən/ 1. The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face. Example: a rugged complexion Example: a sunburnt complexion 2. The outward appearance of something. Labels: figuratively Example: It was a little unfortunate that the fib unfibbed gave their consultations something the complexion of that close understanding which exists between penitent and confessor. 3. Outlook, attitude, or point of view. Example: That minister was galbet, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master’s confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion. Example: But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion, and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value. 4. The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry. Labels: obsolete Example: Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood […] Example: “Indeed, sir,” answered the lady, with some warmth, “I cannot think there is anything easier than to cheat an old woman with a profession of love, when her complexion is amorous; and, though she is my aunt, I must say there never was a more liquorish one than her ladyship. […] 5. An arrangement. Labels: especially Example: 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky Second there is the level at which the energy or velocity components of each molecule are specified. He calls this a Komplexion, which we translate literally as complexion.
Word: complexion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English complexion (“temperament”), from Old French complexion (French complexion), from Medieval Latin complexiō (“complexion, constitution”), from complector, past participle complexus (“to entwine, encompass”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈplɛkʃən/ 1. To give a colour to. Labels: transitive Example: From the pale refinement of her genteel heroine to the sallow complexioning of poor white trash, Stowe colors her narrative with the hues of the body.
Word: chide Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chiden (“to chide, rebuke, disapprove, criticize; complain, grumble, dispute; argue, debate, dispute, quarrel”), from Old English ċīdan (“to chide, reprove, rebuke; blame, contend, strive, quarrel, complain”). Cognate with German kiden (“to sound”); Old High German kīdal (“wedge”). Pronunciation: / t͡ʃaɪd/ 1. To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. Labels: transitive Example: Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. Example: Whiles you chid me, I did love; How then might your prayers move! 2. To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? 3. To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales, Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me? Example: […] though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make ’em, and Appear in forms more horrid,—yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.
Word: nicker Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. Pound sterling. Labels: UK, slang Example: This coat cost me 50 nicker. Example: Seems? Well, this seems to be a waste of my time. That is 900 nicker in any shop you're lucky enough to find one in. And you're complaining about 200? What school of finance did you study?
Word: nicker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative; from 1774. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse. 2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.
Word: nicker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative; from 1774. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse. Example: Behind him, old Akthoob was grumbling loudly, saying something about the midday meal, and Haral, the black Feridoon pony, snuffing in the old, familiar scent of the green meadows of the Chaya's banks, the warm sweet smells of home, was nickering eagerly. Example: "Nasrullah's nickerin’, Mr. Arthur. Somethin's wrong." "Hell, he's nickered before. He nickers all the time!" Robinson and Snow looked at each other, saying nothing for a moment, and finally Snow told Hancock that Nasrullah never nickered in the paddock. 2. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
Word: nicker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nick + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: 1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers 2. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored. 3. Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief. Labels: informal Example: He […] was far more interested in the fact that I was a car thief and an expert driver than that I was a bandit. […] Car nicker, are you?
Word: nicker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nick + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. To snatch or steal. Labels: UK, informal
Word: nicker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikwis. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“female water-spirit”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman. Example: And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people. 2. Hippopotamus.
Word: nicker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Mispronunciation of nigger. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/ 1. nigger. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, euphemistic, offensive, slur, vulgar
Word: cheek Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːk/ 1. The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper, / That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek: / Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world / Could turn so much the constitution / Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […] 2. The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts. Labels: countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable 3. Impudence. Labels: figuratively, informal, uncountable Example: You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money! 4. One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 5. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the cheeks of a vice Example: the cheeks of a gun carriage 6. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The branches of a bridle bit. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 8. Either side of an axehead. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cheek Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːk/ 1. To be impudent towards. Example: Don't cheek me, you little rascal! Example: We did not like him much because he kissed us and was preachy when we cheeked pretty Tallie, who did not rule over us as Dede did […] 2. To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle. Example: Such horses might need to be "cheeked" for a while. Example: Thurman caught the bridle headstall and cheeked the horse's head near his left knee when he swung aboard. 3. To put or keep something in one’s cheek. Example: The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.
Word: cheeks Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːks/, /t͡ʃɛɪks/ 1. plural of cheek Labels: form-of, plural 2. Ass; sex. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I'm going to go get some cheeks at the club tonight. 3. Something bad or disappointing. Labels: slang Example: His last album was cheeks. 4. the upright stones in a fireplace to which the bars are fixed
Word: cheeks Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiːks/, /t͡ʃɛɪks/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cheek Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: nikka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Modification of nigger or nigga. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪkə/ 1. A bowdlerization of nigga used as a reclaimed sense of nigger. Labels: slang Example: 2004, Arar Han, John Y. Hsu, Asian American X Then there's the wigga (wannabe nigga, to fit everyone), who will probably have all that AzN PrldE junk, yet call everyone "nigga" or "nikka" trying to be black. Example: What's crackin' my nikka?
Word: sov Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from sovereign. 1. Pound sterling. Labels: UK, slang Example: That car of his has got to be worth a few sovs. 2. A sovereign (former gold coin). Labels: UK, slang 3. A sovereign citizen. Labels: slang
Word: ceremony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cerymonye, from Latin caerimonia or caeremonia, later often cerimonia (“sacredness, reverence, a sacred rite”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹ.ɪ.mə.ni/, /ˈsɛɹ.əˌmoʊ.ni/, /səˈɹɛ.mɔ.ni/ 1. A ritual, with religious or cultural significance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To whom the Priest with naked armes full net Approching nigh, and murdrous knife well whet, Gan mutter close a certaine secret charme, With other diuelish ceremonies met: Example: In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep [the passover] in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. 2. An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a graduation ceremony, an opening ceremony Example: Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did. 3. A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality. Labels: uncountable Example: […] to feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. Example: Monsieur Bridet, notwithstanding his costume and his evident harrassment [sic], found in himself the presence of mind to remain the attentive manager, and with ceremony effected the proper introduction. 4. Show of magnificence, display, ostentation. Labels: uncountable Example: Meanwhile the winged Heralds, by command Of sovereign power, with awful ceremony And trumpet’s sound, throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held At Pandemonium […] Example: Immediately after her arrival, the queen rode forth to survey the camp and its environs: wherever she went, she was attended by a splendid retinue; and all the commanders vied with each other, in the pomp and ceremony with which they received her. 5. An accessory or object associated with a ritual. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […] his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man […] Example: […] Well, believe this, No ceremony that to great ones ’longs, Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. 6. An omen or portent. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: For he is superstitious grown of late, Quite from the main opinion he held once Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies. Example: Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet now they fright me.
Word: carve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kerbaną Proto-West Germanic *kerban Old English ċeorfan Middle English kerven English carve From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”). Pronunciation: /kɑɹv/, /kɑːv/ 1. To cut. Labels: archaic Example: My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure. 2. To cut meat in order to serve it. Example: You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables. 3. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices. Example: to carve a name into a tree Example: The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven[…]. 4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path. 5. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Labels: figuratively Example: […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food. Example: The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards. 6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. Example: Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Word: carve Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kerbaną Proto-West Germanic *kerban Old English ċeorfan Middle English kerven English carve From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”). Pronunciation: /kɑɹv/, /kɑːv/ 1. A carucate. Labels: obsolete Example: ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ... Example: Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land. 2. The act of carving Example: Give that turkey a careful carve.
Word: quid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quid (“what, something”), neuter singular of quis (“who”). Pronunciation: /kwɪd/, [kʰw̥ɪd̥] 1. The inherent nature of something. 2. A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.) Labels: US, historical 3. Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else. Example: […]; but what is the quo for which they ought to give the quid? you say they ought to give a quid pro quo; what is the quo? […]; did not they give you a pretty handsome quid for the quo there? Example: Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid. […]If there exists any kind of inequity between quid and quo, then—on this line of argument—the expansive category of “friendship” emerges to account for it, siphoning the situation away from the class of objectionable quid pro quo. The claim officials here make—that for a quid to have a quo there must be some equivalency between the two—draws theoretical sustenance from the objective, exclusionary approach that critics of classical contract law apply to disproportionate exchanges.
Word: quid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Likely derives from the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”), referring to the exchange of goods/services for money. Pronunciation: /kwɪd/, [kʰw̥ɪd̥] 1. A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money. Labels: historical Example: They invited him to come to-morrow, […] and bring half a quid with him. 2. Pound sterling. (usually used with a whole number of pounds) Labels: UK, colloquial Example: Seven quid for a toastie? Are you taking the mick?! Example: Isn't this the chance of a lifetime? Have either of you ever made a couple of quids at once in your puff before—pinching goods from the back of delivery vans and smooching lead off empty houses? 3. Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound". Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, colloquial, historical 4. Euro. Labels: Ireland, broadly, colloquial 5. Dollar, dollars. Labels: Commonwealth, broadly, colloquial, rare
Word: quid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English quide, quede, from Old English cwidu, cwudu (“that which is chewed, cud”). Doublet of cud. Pronunciation: /kwɪd/, [kʰw̥ɪd̥] 1. A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco. Example: Then he lay quiet for a little, and then, pulling out a stick of tobacco, begged me to cut him a quid. Example: He broke off to open a small brass tobacco-box and place a little quid of tobacco tenderly into a pouch in his left cheek, […] 2. The act of chewing such tobacco. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: quid Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English quide, quede, from Old English cwidu, cwudu (“that which is chewed, cud”). Doublet of cud. Pronunciation: /kwɪd/, [kʰw̥ɪd̥] 1. To chew tobacco. Example: Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played 2. To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing.
Word: quids in Part of Speech: adj 1. In a position of having gained or saved money through some financial transaction. Labels: UK, slang Example: Buy three items for the price of two and you'll be quids in!
Word: canopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English canapy, canepie, canapee, canape, canope, from Old French conopé, Medieval Latin canapeum, canopeum, from Latin cōnōpēum (“mosquito net, canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon, “mosquito net”), from Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”), of uncertain origin. More at Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps). Doublet of canapé and conopeum. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.nə.pi/ 1. A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed. Example: golden canopies and beds of state Example: Platforms would be widened and covered by canopies with heated waiting areas for passengers. 2. Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors. 3. The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest. 4. In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover. 5. In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
Word: canopy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English canapy, canepie, canapee, canape, canope, from Old French conopé, Medieval Latin canapeum, canopeum, from Latin cōnōpēum (“mosquito net, canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon, “mosquito net”), from Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”), of uncertain origin. More at Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps). Doublet of canapé and conopeum. Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.nə.pi/ 1. To cover with or as if with a canopy. Labels: transitive Example: Away before me to sweet beds of flowers: Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. Example: I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle […] 2. To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline. Labels: intransitive Example: 2013, Tara Morris, “Canopying In Rio Claro,” colombiareports.com, 11 March, 2013, If you’re looking for a little adventure in Colombia, look no further than canopying through Rio Claro’s lush, secluded jungle, located just five hours bus ride from either Medellin or Bogota.
Word: canker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer (“cancer; crab”), akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French. Pronunciation: /ˈkæŋkɚ/, /ˈkæŋkə/ 1. A plant disease marked by gradual decay. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Slightly sunken brown cankers of variable size and shape affect stem parts primarily below the soil line. 3. A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud[…] 4. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the canker of destitution and violence. Example: the cankers of envy and faction 6. A kind of wild rose; the dog rose. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To put down Richard, that ſweet louely Roſe, And plant this thorne, this canker Bullingbrooke? 7. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A crab. Labels: Cornwall, countable, rare, uncountable Example: This Caſtoꝛ liueth by water and lande, he loueth to feede vpon Crabbes and Cankers of the Sea. Example: It is this power of active motion which has obtained it a local name in the West of Cornwall, where, as crabs in general are termed "cankers," this species is distinguished by the name of "flying canker."
Word: canker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /ˈkæŋkɚ/, /ˈkæŋkə/ 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. Labels: transitive Example: Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Labels: transitive 3. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. Labels: intransitive 4. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. Labels: intransitive Example: as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. Example: […] the road, always in bad condition, was edged with dog roses that scratched the paint. Blossom after blossom crept past them, draggled by the ungenial year: some had cankered, others would never unfold:
Word: twoccer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From TWOC + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒkə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who engages in twoccing; a car thief. Labels: UK Example: The police caught the twoccer breaking into the car. Example: Not all modes of reading (and not all readers) can be described in its terms, but just as those who joyride in twocced cars often know and care more about their chosen vehicles than do the owners, so it is the more astute and committed fans of reading who are most likely to be twoccers.
Word: captive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English captif; derived from Latin captīvus, probably through a borrowing from a Middle French intermediate. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“seize, hold”). Doublet of caitiff. Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪv/ 1. One who has been captured or is otherwise confined. Example: I envy not in any moods ⁠The captive void of noble rage, ⁠The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: […] Example: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. The captive made no resistance[…]. 2. One held prisoner. 3. One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated. Labels: figuratively 4. A captive insurance company, a subsidiary of a company used as its internal insurer.
Word: captive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English captif; derived from Latin captīvus, probably through a borrowing from a Middle French intermediate. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“seize, hold”). Doublet of caitiff. Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪv/ 1. Held prisoner; not free; confined. Labels: not-comparable Example: A poor, miserable, captive thrall. 2. Subdued by love; charmed; captivated. Labels: not-comparable Example: Even in so short a space, my woman's heart / Grossly grew captive to his honey words. 3. Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine. Labels: not-comparable Example: captive chains; captive hours
Word: captive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English captif; derived from Latin captīvus, probably through a borrowing from a Middle French intermediate. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“seize, hold”). Doublet of caitiff. Pronunciation: /ˈkæptɪv/ 1. To capture; to take captive. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: carcanet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French carcan + -et. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːkənɛt/, /ˈkɑɹkənɛt/ 1. A richly decorative collar. Labels: archaic Example: Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, / Or captain jewels in the carcanet. Example: Lo you! let me have a blue robe, and—search for the ruby carcanet, which was part of the King of Cyprus's ransom—it is either in the steel-casket, or somewhere else.
Word: twoccing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From TWOC + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒkɪŋ/ 1. The act of taking a car without the owner's consent, usually in order to engage in joyriding. Labels: UK, uncountable Example: He pleaded guilty to twoccing. Example: Twoccing (of cars or writings) is not a glamorous crime of cultural politics or personal passion, not epic or heroic; it's a routine, low grade, show-off offence, and as such it cannot be romanticized as a form of consumer resistance.
Word: twoccing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From TWOC + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of twoc Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: TWOC Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of "taken (or taking) without owner's consent". From section 12 of the United Kingdom's Theft Act 1968, which states 'a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it'. 1. The crime of taking a car without the consent of the owner. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: […] women making arrests for aggravated burglary represent 22 per cent of the total and for aggravated TWOCs, 23 per cent […] Example: […] the reported victimisation rate for TWOC and attempted TWOC (six out of 28 available vehicles victimised, and […])
Word: TWOC Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Initialism of "taken (or taking) without owner's consent". From section 12 of the United Kingdom's Theft Act 1968, which states 'a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it'. 1. Of a car, taken without consent of the owner. Labels: UK, not-comparable
Word: TWOC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: There is no scientific or medical research to support "trans panic" theory, and this defence is nothing but a poor justification for committing violence against TWOC. Example: Her advocacy campaign, “Stop the Unjust Arrests of TWOC (Transgender Women of Color), #FreeEisha,” challenges what to be an inevitability for Black transgender women who dare to defend themselves against gender-based violence
Word: TWOC Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of trial without catheter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: all-eating Part of Speech: adj 1. Eating all; consuming everything. Labels: not-comparable Example: Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, / Where all the treasure of thy lusty days / To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, / Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.