nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: press Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English presse (“throng, crowd, clothespress”), partially from Old English press (“clothespress”) (from Medieval Latin pressa) and from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser (“to press”), from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere (“to press”). Cheifly displaced native Middle English thring (“press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þring (“a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines”)). see English thring Pronunciation: /pɹɛs/, /pɹes/, /pɾɛs/, /pɻɛs/ 1. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Connecting to the service is almost idiot proof and takes just a few button presses. Example: a slaloming winger putting lumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes. 2. A device used to apply pressure to an item. Labels: countable Example: a flower press Example: a cheese press 3. A crowd. Labels: uncountable Example: And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. Example: The press in the square grew. Something would happen now. 4. A printing machine. Labels: countable Example: Stop the presses! Example: That books are pouring off the world’s presses at unprecedented rates is a fact often alluded to as a flood that is inundating libraries and the book trades. 5. The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers). Labels: collective, uncountable Example: according to a member of the press Example: This article appeared in the press. 6. A publisher. Labels: countable 7. An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard). Labels: countable, especially Example: Put the cups in the press. Example: Put the ironing in the linen press. 8. An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs. Labels: countable Example: This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench[…]. 9. An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet. Labels: countable Example: He can even the match with a press. Example: The way a press works is, say you're two down after six holes; you can then start another bet (in effect another match) from the seventh hole, for the same amount, starting all square on the seventh tee. 10. Pure, unfermented grape juice. Labels: countable Example: I would like some Concord press with my meal tonight. 11. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have misused the king's press. 12. In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The environmental comfort category is illustrative of cases in which there are low environmental presses matched against a number of personal competences.
Word: press Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pressen (“to crowd, thring, press”), from Old French presser (“to press”) (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre, from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen (“to press, crowd, throng”) (from Old English þringan (“to press, crowd”)), Middle English thrasten (“to press, force, urge”) (from Old English þrǣstan (“to press, force”)), Old English þryscan (“to press”), Old English þȳwan (“to press, impress”). Pronunciation: /pɹɛs/, /pɹes/, /pɾɛs/, /pɻɛs/ 1. To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it. Labels: transitive 3. To compress, squeeze. Labels: transitive Example: to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice 4. To clasp, hold in an embrace. Labels: transitive Example: With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt. 5. To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth. Labels: transitive Example: to press cloth with a clothes-iron Example: to press a hat 6. To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas. Labels: transitive 7. To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction. Labels: transitive Example: to press a crowd back 8. To force weight away from the body by extending the arms or legs. Labels: transitive Example: Start with two weights on the floor. Grab one with your right hand, then curl or clean it to your shoulder, then press it overhead. 9. To weigh upon, oppress, trouble. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted. 10. To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly. Labels: transitive Example: The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days. 11. To try to force (something upon someone). Example: to press the Bible on an audience Example: He press'd a letter upon me within this hour. 12. To hasten, urge onward. Labels: transitive Example: to press a horse in a race 13. To urge, beseech, entreat. Labels: transitive Example: God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name. 14. To lay stress upon. Labels: transitive Example: If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not. 15. To throng, crowd. Labels: ambitransitive 16. To print. Labels: obsolete, transitive 17. To force into service, particularly into naval service. Example: The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.
Word: cupboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cuppeborde, cupbord. Equivalent to cup + board. Phonetic variants show that the /p/ in the original forms had assimilated to the present-day /b/ by the 16th century; the etymological spelling has, however, dominated from the 18th century. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌb.əd/, /ˈkʌb.ɚd/, /ˈkɐb.əd/, /ˈkʌp.boɹd/, /ˈkʊbəd/ 1. A board or table used to openly hold and display silver plate and other dishware; a sideboard; a buffet. Labels: obsolete Example: Cupboꝛde of plate or to ſette plate upon buffet z ma. Example: from the cobbarde byſyde owr dyninge table 2. Things displayed on a sideboard; dishware, particularly valuable plate. Labels: obsolete Example: But howe comme to pas, / Your cupbord that was / Is tourned to glasse, / From syluere to brasse, / From golde to pewter, / Or els to a newter, / To copper, to tyn, / To lede, or alcumyn? 3. A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items. Example: Put the cups back into the cupboard. Example: Cupborde to putte meate in – dressover s, m. 4. A closet for storing coats. Labels: Pennsylvania, UK, Western Example: I hung the coat in the cupboard and bided my time. 5. Things stored in a cupboard; particularly food. Labels: obsolete Example: Some men they [make] love for what they can get, / And 'tis certain there's many a Lubbard; / Will sigh and will pant, seeming ready to faint, / And all for the love of the cubbard, brave boys! / And all [for the love of the Cup-board].
Word: cupboard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cuppeborde, cupbord. Equivalent to cup + board. Phonetic variants show that the /p/ in the original forms had assimilated to the present-day /b/ by the 16th century; the etymological spelling has, however, dominated from the 18th century. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌb.əd/, /ˈkʌb.ɚd/, /ˈkɐb.əd/, /ˈkʌp.boɹd/, /ˈkʊbəd/ 1. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. Example: There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]
Word: wardrobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wer- Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús Proto-Germanic *warduz Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardō Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardāną Frankish *wardēnbor. Early Medieval Latin wardō Old Northern French warder Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der. Proto-Germanic Frankish *roubader. Old French robe Old Northern French warderoubebor. Middle English warderobe English wardrobe From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe. By surface analysis, ward + robe. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/, /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/ 1. A room for keeping clothes and armor safe, particularly a dressing room or walk-in closet beside a bedroom. Labels: obsolete 2. A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes. Labels: figuratively 3. The building housing such a department. Labels: figuratively 4. Any closet used for storing anything. Labels: obsolete 5. A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room. 6. The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s). Labels: figuratively 7. A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture. Example: A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. 8. A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom. 9. Anything that similarly stores or houses something. Labels: figuratively, uncommon Example: Now death... crams his store house to the top with bloud, Might I now and Andrea in one fight, Make vp thy wardroope Richer by a knight. 10. The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing. 11. Any collection of clothing. Labels: figuratively 12. Any collection of anything. Labels: figuratively, uncommon 13. A private chamber, particularly one used for sleeping or (euphemistic) urinating and defecating. Labels: obsolete 14. Badger feces, particularly used in tracking game. Labels: obsolete
Word: wardrobe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wer- Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús Proto-Germanic *warduz Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardō Proto-Germanic *-āną Proto-Germanic *wardāną Frankish *wardēnbor. Early Medieval Latin wardō Old Northern French warder Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der. Proto-Germanic Frankish *roubader. Old French robe Old Northern French warderoubebor. Middle English warderobe English wardrobe From Middle English warderobe, from Old Northern French warderoube, wardereube, northern variants of Old French garderobe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe. Subsequently influenced by various senses of garderobe as they developed in French. Doublet of garderobe. By surface analysis, ward + robe. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːdɹəʊb/, /ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/ 1. To act as a wardrobe department; to provide clothing or sets of clothes. Labels: intransitive Example: […] impressed with the quality of the talent and production, good wardrobing and speedy pacing. 2. To order clothing online and return it for a refund after having worn it. Example: Wardrobing, the act of buying a nice piece of clothing, wearing it once, and returning it, is an $8.8 billion problem for the retail industry. 3. To order multiple sizes of the same clothing online and return all but the one that fits best. Example: Wardrobing is where people will order the same thing in three different sizes to see which one fits and then they return the other two, not realizing that those other two most of the time don’t go back on that retailer’s shelves.
Word: hot press Part of Speech: noun 1. An airing cupboard. Labels: Ireland
Word: hot press Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of hot-press. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tedious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”). Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.dɪəs/, /ˈti.di.əs/, [ˈti.ɾi.əs], /ˈti.d͡ʒəs/, /ˈtiː.di.əs/ 1. Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong. Example: But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him. Example: However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
Word: dracology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin dracō (“dragon”) + -logy (“scientific study”). 1. The study of the mythology surrounding dragons. Labels: uncountable
Word: dracaena Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name Dracaena, from Latin dracaena, from Ancient Greek δράκαινᾰ (drákaină, “she-dragon”). Pronunciation: /dɹəˈkeɪ.nə/ 1. Any of the genus Dracaena of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. Example: “Again with this?” I groaned to the dracaenae. (“Talk to them!” numerous readers advised.) The plants chuckled and shook their heads. No they didn’t. They’re plants!
Word: kine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English kyn, kyne, equivalent to ky + -en (plural ending), a double plural. Pronunciation: /kaɪn/ 1. plural of cow Labels: archaic, dialectal, form-of, plural Example: Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.
Word: kine Part of Speech: noun 1. The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second. Example: It may be well to note that a mile per hour is equal to 44.7 kines, and that accordingly a sharp walking pace may attain 200 kines […] Example: The Committee on Mechanical Nomenclature suggest the usage of the term Kine, Bole, and Barad thus:– 1 cm. per sec. = 1 kine.
Word: kine Part of Speech: noun 1. Clipping of kinescope (“type of recording”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: kine Part of Speech: noun 1. In kinesics, any of the individual movements composing a kineme.
Word: trouble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌbəl/, [ˈtɹʌbɫ̩], /ˈtɹʊbəl/, [ˈtɹʊbɫ̩], /ˈtɾʌbəl/ 1. A distressing or dangerous situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was in trouble when the rain started. 2. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The trouble was a leaking brake line. Example: The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction. 3. A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ’Cause I knew you were trouble when you walked in So shame on me no-ow 4. The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […] 5. Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Your trouble is that you quit too readily. Example: The trouble with that suggestion is that we lack the funds to put it in motion. 6. Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the troubles in Northern Ireland Example: “I don’t know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there’ll be trouble. It’s bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that ’cause I'm paid for it. What I won’t stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]” 7. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It’s no trouble for me to edit it. Example: She never took the trouble to close them. 8. Difficulty in doing something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She has trouble eating. 9. Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He’s been in hospital with some heart trouble. 10. A malfunction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My old car has engine trouble. 11. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had some trouble with the law. 12. A fault or interruption in a stratum. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife. Labels: Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable 14. An unplanned, unwanted or undesired pregnancy. Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable Example: I never had schoolin’ but he taught me well / With his smooth southern style / Three months later I’m a gal in trouble / And I haven’t seen him for a while.
Word: trouble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin *turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌbəl/, [ˈtɹʌbɫ̩], /ˈtɹʊbəl/, [ˈtɹʊbɫ̩], /ˈtɾʌbəl/ 1. To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water). Labels: archaic, transitive Example: For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: Example: God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt 2. To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed. Labels: transitive Example: What she said about narcissism is troubling me. Example: Now is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre, but for this cause came I vnto this houre. 3. In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience. Labels: transitive Example: I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. 4. To physically afflict. Labels: transitive, usually Example: My bad knee is troubling me. 5. To take pains (to do something); to bother. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: I won’t trouble to post the letter today; I can do it tomorrow. Example: « The hut’s not very tidy, if you don’t mind, » he said. « I cleared it what I could. » / « But I didn’t want you to trouble! » she said. 6. To worry; to be anxious. Labels: intransitive Example: Why trouble about the future? It is wholly uncertain.
Word: Troubles Part of Speech: name 1. The continued violence and terrorist, military and paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland that happened from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s. Labels: Ireland, historical, plural, plural-only Example: Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border.
Word: clou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French clou. Doublet of clove. Pronunciation: /kluː/ 1. Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest. Example: But had he not refused her the wherewithal to remember him—the pearls she needed as the clou of her dear collection, the great relic among relics? Example: Partly because they were constructed of multiple shot-scenes and recorded exclusively in LS, their elaborate decors acquired an even more privileged role — as tableaux and clous of spectacle — much in the manner of late nineteenth-century French stage productions […]
Word: trouble maker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of troublemaker. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hooligan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a variant of the Irish surname Houlihan, 1890s. Pronunciation: /ˈhuː.lɪ.ɡən/ 1. A young person who causes trouble or violence, typically as a member of a gang or other group. Labels: attributive, informal Example: She also heard boys from other classes behind her talking: “So, Teacher Tang is a female hooligan.” Example: And I was in danger of turning into a right little hooligan if left to my wayward ways. 2. Ellipsis of football hooligan. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: These excursions abroad confirm that displacement has actually been a feature of the development of hooligan conflicts for some time, but an important wider point is that domestic hooligan displacement also seems to be a much more central issue today, as policing and other control strategies (segregation, seating, stewarding and CCTV in and around the larger English football grounds) have become more comprehensive, and especially as sentences for hooliganism have become much more forbidding. 3. A member of the United States Coast Guard. Labels: US, slang Example: Many professional Navy and Coast Guard men were inclined to scoff. What kind of Navy was this, and what did they think they were up to, anyway? This bunch of hooligans wouldn't be any good to anyone; wouldn't be worth the powder to blow 'em to hell. Hooligan's Navy. Example: It often seemed to Al that the entire Coast Guard was a little embarrassed about being Coast Guardsmen—except maybe the cocky bearded men off the convoy cutters, who needed to apologize to no man because of any lack of battle stars. But in general, Army and Navy guys looked down on Hooligans.
Word: hooligan Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably a variant of the Irish surname Houlihan, 1890s. Pronunciation: /ˈhuː.lɪ.ɡən/ 1. To act as a hooligan (etymology 1, noun sense 1). Labels: intransitive 2. To treat (a person) roughly. Labels: broadly, transitive
Word: hooligan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Chinook Jargon ulakan, from Clatsop Chinook, with spelling and pronunciation influenced by the preceding. Pronunciation: /ˈhuː.lɪ.ɡən/ 1. A type of fish, an anadromous smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, found in the North Pacific. Example: One year there was a strong wind. We couldn’t catch herring, but they were there. We caught lots of hooligans (smelt) and got through the year on those. Example: Haines and Klukwan hooligan harvesters reported that they exchanged hooligan products primarily for other food items, especially those unavailable in the Chilkat and Chilkoot area or those which were inaccessible to the harvester for various reasons. Respondents reported that virtually any wild food might be obtained for hooligan oil.
Word: incident Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsɪdənt/, [ˈɪnsɪdənt] ~ [ˈɪnsɪdn̩t] 1. An event or occurrence. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She could not recall the time of the incident. Example: It was an incident that he hoped to forget. 2. A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error. Labels: countable, often, uncountable
Word: incident Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Recorded since 1412, from Middle French incident, from Latin incidens, the present active participle of incidō (“to happen, befall”), itself from in- (“on”) + -cidō, the combining form of cadō (“to fall”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsɪdənt/, [ˈɪnsɪdənt] ~ [ˈɪnsɪdn̩t] 1. Arising as the result of an event, inherent. Labels: not-comparable Example: No major hazards incident to this job. Example: It is at this juncture that Toder launches into the familiar and troubling topic of monogamy versus non-monogamy. She outwardly expresses no preference for either option, considering each to hold certain consequences incident to it. 2. Falling on or striking a surface. Labels: not-comparable Example: The incident light illuminated the surface. 3. Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous. Labels: not-comparable Example: As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered. 4. Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining. Labels: not-comparable Example: All chances incident to mans frail life. Example: 17th century, Richard Milward, "Preface" to Seldeniana the studies incident to his profession 5. Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal. Labels: not-comparable 6. In a relation of incidence Labels: not-comparable Example: The second inequality follows from the fact that all the edges incident with a fixed vertex separate [an arbitrary graph] G. Example: If there is only one ideal point U and only one ideal line u, then either (i) every point in u is incident with a line in U, or else (ii) no point in u is incident with any line of U.
Word: coup d'œil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French coup d'œil. 1. Alternative spelling of coup d'oeil. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper.
Word: coup de foudre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”). 1. A sudden unexpected event, especially an emotional one; love at first sight. Example: The encounter with Laura that Good Friday was a coup de foudre, and for the rest of his life he was to adore her, mostly from afar. Example: They immediately fell madly in love. A lightning bolt. Coup de foudre.
Word: love at first sight Part of Speech: noun 1. an instantaneous attraction Labels: idiomatic, uncountable Example: For the young striker and the fans, it was love at first sight.
Word: doux Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French doux. Doublet of douce, dolce, and dulce. Pronunciation: /duː/ 1. Sweet.
Word: fou Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet. 1. Drunk. Labels: Scotland Example: Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.
Word: anna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindi अन्न (ann, “food, grain”), आना (ānā), from Sanskrit अन्न (anna). Pronunciation: /ˈænə/ 1. A former Indian coin, being a 16th of a rupee. Labels: historical 2. Money (like "bucks" and "quid"). Labels: India, slang
Word: Hannah Part of Speech: name Etymology: From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana. Pronunciation: /ˈhænə/ 1. Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am I not better to thee than ten sons? 2. A female given name from Hebrew. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "What about Hannah Schreiber?" He smiled, flashing some gold in his mouth. "How do you like that name? She was only a girl, but she had an old lady's name. - - - Example: She could buy pretty clothes for a girl and plait her hair with ribbons. And she could call her a nice, old-fashioned, middle-class name like Sarah or Emma or Hannah. 3. A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A place name in the United States, which could be from the given name or surname: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A hamlet in Hannah cum Hagnaby parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF5079). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Hannah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From previous romanizations of Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ), chiefly for the mother of Samuel, from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a Wren with the Royal Marines, after Hannah Snell (1723–1792) who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British military. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Ana. Pronunciation: /ˈhænə/ 1. A Wren serving with the Royal Marines.
Word: Hannah Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈhænə/ 1. An Irish and Scottish surname, a variant of Hanna.
Word: chacun à son goût Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Mutation of the French à chacun son goût (“to each his own taste”), typically heard amongst Laurentian, Quebecois and Louisiana Francophones. The well-known aria by this name in the Strauss opera Die Fledermaus may have helped establish the mutation. 1. Used to acknowledge that different people have different tastes or preferences.
Word: ou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōʻū. Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.uː/ 1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
Word: ou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”). Pronunciation: /əʊ/, /oʊ/ 1. A fellow, guy, bloke. Labels: South-Africa, colloquial Example: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee Example: I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
Word: roux Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French roux. Pronunciation: /ɹuː/ 1. A mixture of fat (usually butter) and flour used to thicken sauces and stews.
Word: sous Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /suːz/ 1. plural of sou Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sous Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /suː/ 1. Obsolete form of sou (“French coin”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The moment I cast my eyes upon him, I was predetermined not to give him a single sous […] Example: A tritish maxim and not worth a sous 2. plural of sous Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sous Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /suː/ 1. Clipping of sous-chef. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Denise left the Generator [restaurant] in the hands of her sous and took the train to New York to bail out her feckless brother and entertain her parents. Example: A chef always looks out for his sous chef; a sous is always “under” his chef's wing—guided, nurtured, cared for, long after the stoves are turned off and the aprons are hung up. While other cooks are apprenticed to the kitchen, the sous is the lieutenant, the executor of Chef's wishes.
Word: sue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English seuen, sewen, siwen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suer, siwer et al. and Old French sivre (“to follow after”) (modern French suivre), from Vulgar Latin *sequere (“to follow”), from Latin sequi. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Doublet of segue. Related to suit. Pronunciation: /sjuː/, /sɪu̯/, /suː/, /ʃuː/ 1. To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal (civil) action. Labels: transitive Example: sue someone for selling a faulty product Example: I plan to sue you for everything you have. 2. To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The king of Bimsa sued for peace after Nynal's armies overran his territory; he knew any further resistance would only harm the common people. 3. To clean (the beak, etc.). Labels: transitive 4. To leave high and dry on shore. Labels: transitive Example: to sue a ship 5. To court. Labels: obsolete, transitive 6. To follow. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’ Example: though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd, / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
Word: trou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From trousers. Pronunciation: /tɹaʊ/ 1. Trousers. Labels: New-Zealand, US, uncountable 2. Rowing spandex shorts. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: tout le monde Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Borrowed from French tout le monde. 1. everyone, everybody Example: And when the aura of sports reaches the stratospheric level of a Michael Jordan, tout le monde takes notice. Example: What's the sample here - a dozen people, a thousand, a million, tout le monde?
Word: kegger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From keg + -er. 1. Synonym of keg party. Labels: slang Example: raging kegger Example: In March, Bryan went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with Spring Break … Here to Party, a collection of songs about getting wasted at oceanside keggers.
Word: Londoner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Londonere, from Old English Lundenware, Lundenwaran pl (“Londoners”), from Lunden (“London”) + -ware pl (suffix denoting inhabitants), equivalent to London + -er (“inhabitant of”, demonymic suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlʌn.dən.ə(ɹ)/ 1. A person from, or an inhabitant of, London. Example: But the raw material that the Underground had to work on - Londoners themselves - was possibly not of the best. In 1905 Charles Yerkes had said: Londoners are the worst people to get a move on I ever knew. To see them board and get off a train one thinks they had a thousand years to do it in; still they are getting better, and in the end I shall work them down to an allowance of thirty seconds. Example: Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
Word: hardcore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.) Pronunciation: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Having an extreme dedication to a certain activity. Example: He's a hardcore gamer. 2. So hard as to require extreme dedication to complete. 3. Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger. Labels: colloquial Example: That show was hardcore, dude. 4. Resistant to change. 5. Obscene or explicit. 6. Depicting penetration and abnormal sexual activity. 7. Faster or more intense than the regular style.
Word: hardcore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.) Pronunciation: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Broken bricks, stone and/or other aggregate used as foundations, especially in road and path laying. Labels: uncountable Example: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. 2. Several music genres, including: Labels: uncountable Example: Fields began recording the hardcore punk bands in 1978 when few others would. 3. Several music genres, including: Labels: uncountable 4. Several music genres, including: Labels: uncountable 5. Several music genres, including: Labels: uncountable Example: Always more multiracial than other post-Rave scenes, Hardcore got “blacker” as hiphop, Ragga, dub and Soul influences kicked in, and by 93 it had evolved into Jungle. By this point, Hardcore/Jungle (the terms remain interchangeable) was universally scorned by dance hipsters and banished from the media. 6. Several music genres, including: Labels: uncountable
Word: hardcore Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hard + core: hard to the core; 1936 (n.); 1951 (adj.) Pronunciation: /hɑː(ɹ)dˈkɔː(ɹ)/ 1. In a hardcore manner; intensely or extremely. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable
Word: oral sex Part of Speech: noun 1. Stimulation of another person's genitals or anus using the mouth, lips, and/or tongue. Labels: uncountable Example: The Beard’s climactic scene, an oral sex act, is not as startling or fresh as McClure apparently thinks. It is a continuation of the second act curtain of Albee's Tiny Alice, in which Irene Worth, shielded from the audience by her robe, seemingly displayed her nude body to John Gielgud, who dropped to his knees before her while she uttered orgiastic cries. Example: What Ms Whitaker did is no longer a crime in Georgia. The state’s sodomy laws, which in 1996 barred oral sex even between willing spouses, were struck down by court rulings in 1998 and 2003.
Word: softcore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From soft + core, by analogy with hardcore. 1. Pornography that does not contain depictions of explicit sexual penetration. Labels: uncountable
Word: softcore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From soft + core, by analogy with hardcore. 1. Less intense, committed or aggressive than hardcore. Labels: slang, usually Example: Distinct from hardcore punks, softcore punks expressed less commitment to punk values […]
Word: Peter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Pedro, Piers, and Boutros. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːtə/, /ˈpitɚ/, [ˈpʰitɚ], [ˈpʰiɾɚ] 1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
Word: Peter Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Peter, from Old English Petrus, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Pedro, Piers, and Boutros. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːtə/, /ˈpitɚ/, [ˈpʰitɚ], [ˈpʰiɾɚ] 1. A male given name from Ancient Greek. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance. Example: What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune, 2. The leading Apostle in the New Testament: Saint Peter. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A surname originating as a patronymic. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah, United States, named after Peter Maughan. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cru Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cru (“growth”), from French crû, past participle of French croître (“grow”). Pronunciation: /kɹuː/ 1. A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation. Example: Each cru has an official quality rating on a scale of 100: Grand cru vineyards all rate 100, and premier cru vineyards rank from 90 to 99 points.
Word: cru Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cru (“growth”), from French crû, past participle of French croître (“grow”). Pronunciation: /kɹuː/ 1. Alternative spelling of crew Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cyning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English cyning. Doublet of king and knez. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪnɪŋ/ 1. An Anglo-Saxon (early English) king. Example: The firſt cynings of the Anglo Saxons ſeem to have been their war-kings, continued for life, and the crown was not hereditary, but elective. Example: To write the history of the numerous Gypsy dynasties in the British Isles, from the somewhat mythical days of Johnnie Faa to the demise of the last of his royal house who claimed and bore the royal title, would be a more difficult task than to trace and verify the genealogy of the petty cynings and bretwaldas of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy up to Hengist, Horsa, and Ida, and thence back to Thor and Odin.
Word: monde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French monde. Doublet of mondo. 1. A ball-like object, located near the top of a crown, symbolizing the globe. Example: Jesus Christ is represented as a lad about twelve years old, in a tunic and robe of brocade, with a full, fair wig, a gold crown much larger than the head, and a monde in his hand.
Word: jus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French jus (“juice”). Doublet of juice and ukha. Pronunciation: /ʒuː(s)/, /ʒu(s)/ 1. The juices given off as meat is cooked. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A lightly-reduced gravy or stock made from this. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: jus Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of just. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: I JUS WON A GRAMMY Example: Hey jus really quick wanna ask if anyone got some recommendations for some SoundCloud Playlists Pluto thug gunna 21 yktv lmao thanks in advance 😭
Word: earn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną. This verb is denominal from the noun *azaniz (“harvest”). Pronunciation: /ɜːn/, /ɝn/, /ɛːrn/, /ɛrn/ 1. To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. Labels: transitive Example: You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well. Example: With their hard work and dedication, they earned respect and a seat at the table. 2. To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate). Labels: transitive Example: He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO. My bank account is only earning one percent interest. Example: She earns more than forty thousand dollars a year in passive income from her parents' investments — that's what she gets before she even gets out of bed or lifts a finger. 3. To receive payment for work. Labels: intransitive Example: Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent. 4. To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward. Labels: transitive Example: My CD earns me six percent! Example: In that era, all their long, hard, dangerous labor in the mines barely earned them even enough to eat! 5. To achieve by being worthy of. Labels: transitive Example: to earn a spot in the top 20
Word: earn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably either: * from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnan (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or * a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”). 1. To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process. Labels: UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive 2. Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process. Labels: UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete
Word: earn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of yearn. 1. To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something). Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive Example: And ever as he rode, his hart did earne / To prove his puissance in battell brave. 2. To grieve. Labels: UK, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete Example: [M]y manly heart doth erne. […] Boy, briſsle thy Courage vp: For Falſtaffe hee is dead, and wee muſt erne therefore.
Word: earn Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of erne Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal Example: They gleamed on many a dusky tarn , Haunted by the lonely earn
Word: fisc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal. Pronunciation: /fɪsk/ 1. The public treasury of Rome. Labels: Ancient-Rome 2. Any state treasury or exchequer. Example: When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […]. Example: He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.
Word: mona Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish mona (“monkey”). Pronunciation: /ˈmoʊnə/ 1. Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.
Word: lufu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 滷腐／卤腐 (lǔfǔ). 1. A type of fermented bean curd from Yunnan province in Southwest China with a reddish yellow color, soft texture, and savory flavor. Labels: uncountable
Word: duce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian duce. Doublet of doge, duc, duke, and dux. Pronunciation: /ˈduːtʃeɪ/ 1. An authoritarian leader, especially Benito Mussolini.
Word: ule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish hule, from Classical Nahuatl ōlli. Pronunciation: /ˈuleɪ/, /ˈuli/ 1. A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilla elastica), related to the breadfruit tree, whose milky juice contains caoutchouc.
Word: left-handed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed. Pronunciation: /lɛftˈhændɪd/ 1. Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. Labels: not-comparable 2. Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. Labels: not-comparable 3. Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. Labels: not-comparable 4. Awkward or maladroit. Labels: not-comparable 5. Insincere or malicious. Labels: not-comparable Example: The commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive. 6. Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path Labels: not-comparable Example: On the other hand, nearly all magic tends in time to the left-handed path; as being a devious means of attaining desires unobtainable by ordinary methods. 7. Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule. Labels: not-comparable
Word: left-handed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English left handyd, lyfthonded, equivalent to left + handed. Pronunciation: /lɛftˈhændɪd/ 1. Left-handed people, taken as a whole. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Evidence contradicting this principle came from a study of epileptic patients by Penfield and Roberts (1959) who found that dysphasia following surgery on the right hemisphere was not significantly more frequent in the left-handed than in the right-handed.