nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: nubbin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps nub + -in. Pronunciation: /ˈnʌbɪn/ 1. A stub, especially a stub of undeveloped corn or fruit or nipple. 2. A small protuberance, bud, bump, or knob. Labels: informal Example: As an avid button collector, I have had to develop an efficient way of removing the nubbin of thread from the buttonhole. Example: She walks to the next room, a little larger, holding a double bed. The shade is half drawn, and low light gives each nubbin of the bedspread a shadow. 3. Synonym of clitoris. Labels: euphemistic, slang, vulgar
Word: habeas corpus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin habeas corpus ad subiciendum (“You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”), referring to the body of the detainee (not the body of a victim, similar to corpus delicti). Pronunciation: /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːpəs/, /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːrpəs/, /ˌheɪbiæs ˈkɔrpəs/ 1. A writ ordering that a person be brought before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal. Example: While Trump has not explicitly mentioned habeas corpus in public, it’s what he was referencing last month when he commented on steps he could take to combat nationwide injunctions against his actions on deportations, according to one of the people familiar with the talks.
Word: habeas corpus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin habeas corpus ad subiciendum (“You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”), referring to the body of the detainee (not the body of a victim, similar to corpus delicti). Pronunciation: /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːpəs/, /ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːrpəs/, /ˌheɪbiæs ˈkɔrpəs/ 1. To apply the legal principle of habeas corpus to an individual or situation. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Hawley […] particularly desired, judging by his actions, to put polygamists out of existence, at the same time very mercifully habeas corpused all the prostitutes and their supporters[.] Example: He saw that according to the fable typed on its lily white face one, John Grimaldi of Brooklyn, was summoned, advised, entreated, requested, ordered, corpus delictied, habeas corpused and generally invited to appear in said court[.]
Word: you'll Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of you will and you shall. Pronunciation: /ˈjuːl/, /ˈjuːəl/, /ˈjul/, /ˈjʊl/, /jʊl/ 1. you will Labels: contraction 2. you shall Labels: contraction
Word: bill of attainder Part of Speech: noun 1. A legislative determination imposing punishment without trial. Example: They resolved to copy a Tudor precedent and to proceed against him by bill of attainder. Doubts of law and defects of evidence would thus be cured Example: Coupled with the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws is a similar prohibition against bills of attainder.
Word: dolce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian dolce. Doublet of douce, doux, and dulce. Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊl.tʃeɪ/ 1. A soft-toned organ stop.
Word: jazz Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒæz/ 1. A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house! Example: Of later composers of Jewish musical plays we mention Joseph Rumshinksy (born in Wilna in 1879), who gained popularity in New York. His music is based upon folk motives and influenced by "Jazz" rhythms and melodic curves 2. Energy, excitement, excitability. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: “You want something zippy there. Something with a bit of jazz to it!” Example: He loves the risk. The danger. He loves the jazz. 3. The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: and all that jazz Example: What is all this jazz lying around? 4. Something of excellent quality, the genuine article. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: That show was the jazz! Example: This risotto is simply the jazz. 5. Nonsense. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Stop talking jazz. 6. Semen, jizz. Labels: slang, uncountable, usually Example: Suddenly, Bobby oozed his jazz into Gene's throat. Example: […] making Glenn feel as though he could never stop shooting his jazz wildly up inside the man's brawny body! 7. A red-skinned variety of eating apple. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: jazz Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒæz/ 1. To destroy; to ruin. Labels: slang Example: You’ve gone and jazzed it now! 2. To play (jazz music). 3. To dance to the tunes of jazz music. 4. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting. 5. To complicate. Labels: slang Example: Don’t jazz it too much! 6. To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself. Labels: US, dated, intransitive, slang Example: ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered […]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’ 7. To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush! Example: "In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!" "George, do keep to the point. Miss Dorland doesn't jazz--" 8. To distract or pester. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Stop jazzing me! 9. To ejaculate. Labels: slang Example: Twenty-four black men jazzed madly as trumpets exploded her eardrums in tom-tom time. Ebony orgasm flooded her with creme. Example: The thrill of the rimming soon made this guy beg for me to stop before he jazzed his nuts.
Word: SFX Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the initial letter of special or sound, and the pronunciation of effects. 1. Abbreviation of sound effects. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, plural, plural-only 2. Abbreviation of special effects. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, plural, plural-only
Word: granduncle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English graunt oncle, equivalent to grand- + uncle. 1. Synonym of great-uncle.
Word: shuriken Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 手裏剣 (しゅりけん shuriken), from Middle Chinese 手 (ʃúw "hand") + 裏 (lí "inside") + 劍 (kjæ̀m "sword"). Pronunciation: /ˈʃuː.ɹɪ.kən/, /ˈʃʊə.ɹɪ.kən/, /ˈʃɝ.ɪ.kən/ 1. A dart or throwing blade, sometimes with multiple points, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
Word: tycoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon). Pronunciation: /taɪˈkuːn/ 1. A wealthy and powerful business person. Example: Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon. Example: Sometimes even Greek shipping tycoons run out of money. 2. A business simulator game, typically involving building and managing some form of infrastructure. Example: Zoo Tycoon is only one of several "tycoon" types of games, such as Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Pizza Tycoon, and, without the "tycoon" title, but with all the fun and challenge, The Movies. Example: Whilst making spaces more green is generally a goal for town planning these days, this game in the style of classic tycoons like SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon, does the complete opposite. 3. A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox. Example: Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades. Example: In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks. 4. The first placer of Tycoon.
Word: mese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English mēse, mēose, mīse, mȳse (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐍃 (mēs). Compare Old English mēsan (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *mōsijaną, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic *mat- (“food”). 1. A dinner; meal. Labels: obsolete
Word: mese Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek. 1. To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
Word: mese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin mesē, from Ancient Greek μέση (mésē, literally “middle [string]”). 1. In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the hypate, with two movable notes between them, the parhypate (lower in pitch) and the lichanos (higher in pitch). The mese was lower than the paramese (the lower-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 8:9.
Word: bokken Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 木剣 (ぼっけん, bokken, “wooden sword”), see below. Pronunciation: /ˈbɒk.ən/ 1. A wooden katana, used as a training sword.
Word: Gebrauchsmusik Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Gebrauchsmusik (literally “utility music”). 1. Music composed for a specific, identifiable purpose, not just for its own sake. Labels: uncountable Example: Copland's own criticism of Gebrauchsmusik as a “contaminated” musical style can also be read as a rebuke of its ties to musical styles associated with the culture industry.
Word: mag Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ/, [ˈmæɡ], /ˈmeɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈmeɪ̯ɡ] 1. Clipping of magazine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: NY Mag Example: stash of porno mags 2. Clipping of magnet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: Get the mag in there to clear away the scrap. 3. Clipping of magnesium. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, especially Example: She looks fine on physical exam, but I don't like these low mag levels. 4. Ellipsis of mag wheel. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis Example: brand new tires and factory-original mags 5. Clipping of magnitude. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 6. Clipping of magistrate. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial 7. Clipping of magnetometer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: mag hits Example: Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.
Word: mag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Mag, a nickname for Margaret. Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ/, [ˈmæɡ], /ˈmeɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈmeɪ̯ɡ] 1. To steal. Labels: error-unknown-tag, obsolete, transitive 2. To talk. Labels: error-unknown-tag, intransitive, obsolete Example: "Is that why you're always magging with Pascoe?" Horrible John went on. […] "So that's why you and him are always talking. And here's me thinkin' you was crawlin' for stripes."
Word: mag Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ/, [ˈmæɡ], /ˈmeɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈmeɪ̯ɡ] 1. A halfpenny. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way. Example: When all your tin is gone and spent, And you've not a mag for bread or rent
Word: having Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhævɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of have Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: having Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhævɪŋ/ 1. The act of possessing; ownership. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.' 2. Something owned; possession; goods; estate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Out of my lean and low ability I’ll lend you something: my having is not much; I’ll make division of my present with you: Hold, there’s half my coffer. Example: Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade— Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush— 3. A person's behaviour. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. Good manners. Labels: Scotland, countable, in-plural, obsolete, uncountable
Word: having Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈhævɪŋ/ 1. Grasping; greedy. Labels: obsolete Example: The new man in Humanity, which is the communication of the Son of Man Who is the Interceder, is an asking man, although it is not a greedy and a having man.
Word: magic wand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sense 3 is a genericized trademark from the Hitachi Magic Wand, a sex toy by the Japanese company Hitachi. 1. A wand, usually made of wood, that is used to perform magic. 2. A means which will effect an instant solution. Labels: figuratively Example: We have to work hard together to find a solution. There is no magic wand. 3. A long vibrator with a vibrating rubber head. Example: Stealthily, she slid her nightstand drawer open, located the knee-high sock and pulled out her magic wand vibrator, ready to go with new batteries. Example: The vibration wasn't as strong as that of her magic wand, but she slid the tip up and down the valley of her sex.
Word: squab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒb/, /ˈskwɑb/ 1. A fledgling (young) bird. Labels: attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable 2. A fledgling (young) bird. Labels: attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable 3. A fledgling (young) bird. Labels: attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable 4. The meat of young dove or pigeon, typically under four weeks old, used as food. Labels: uncountable Example: Squab may be consumed by ripping the bird apart with your hands and sucking the meat from the bones. 5. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa. Labels: countable Example: a. 1744, Alexander Pope (imitating Earl of Dorset), Artemisia, 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, page 86, On her large ſquab you find her ſpread, / Like a fat corpſe upon a bed, / That lies and ſtinks in ſtate. Example: [H]erds of shabby vampires, Jew and Christian, over-run the house, [...] punching the squabs of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists, touzling the feather-beds, opening and shutting all the drawers, balancing the silver spoons and forks, looking into the very threads of the drapery and linen, and disparaging everything. 6. A person of a short, fat figure. Labels: countable Example: Gorgonius sits abdominous and wan, / Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan:
Word: squab Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒb/, /ˈskwɑb/ 1. To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. Labels: obsolete 2. To furnish with squabs, or cushions. Labels: transitive 3. To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc. Labels: transitive
Word: squab Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒb/, /ˈskwɑb/ 1. Fat; thick; plump; bulky. Example: Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. Example: So on his Nightmare through the evening fog / Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog […]. 2. Unfledged; unfeathered. Example: broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons precipitated from above 3. Clumsy. 4. Curt; abrupt. 5. Shy; coy.
Word: squab Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to dialectal Swedish skvabb (“fatty, flabby”). First attested in the 17th century. Pronunciation: /ˈskwɒb/, /ˈskwɑb/ 1. With a heavy fall; plump. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.
Word: piper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.pə/, /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/, /ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/ 1. A musician who plays a pipe. 2. A bagpiper. Example: At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over. 3. A baby pigeon. 4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines. 5. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts. 6. A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand. 7. A broken-winded hack horse. Labels: obsolete, slang 8. A person who smokes crack cocaine. Labels: slang Example: 2025, Rev. Yolanda E. Johnson, Dr. Viola J. Malone, Journey: Pain and Purpose On one occasion after returning from vacation one of the 'pipers' (crack addicts) as they were called, was in my kitchen cooking. That was the last straw.
Word: piper Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of pepper. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: thrushling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thrush + -ling. 1. A young thrush.
Word: pigling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *puggōder. Old English *picga Middle English pigge English pig English -ling English pigling From pig + -ling. 1. Synonym of piglet (“a young swine, one not yet mature”). Labels: dated
Word: lair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛə̯/, [ˈlɛə̯] ~ [ˈlɛː], /ˈlɛː/, [ˈlɛː], /ˈleː/ 1. A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground. Example: O dainty dew, O morning dew / That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you / And the sweet grass and manful oaks / Give lair and rest / To him who toadwise sits and croaks / His death-behest? Example: “Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?” 2. A shed or shelter for domestic animals. 3. A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway. Labels: figuratively Example: ...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?" Example: [H]e did a little scout work, and discovered the lair of that old woman. 4. A bed or resting place. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Then would I in Plenty's lap, For the first time take a nap; Falling back in easy lair, Sweetly slumb'ring in my chair; Example: Wake ye, sleep ye, my hapless boy, In this homeless house of care? Lack ye the warmth of a mother's eye On the cauldrife, lonely lair? 5. A grave; a cemetery plot. Labels: Scotland Example: […] but few knew the reason, and some thought it was because the deceased were strangers, and had no regular lair. I dressed the two bonny orphans in the best mourning at my own cost […] Example: This is one of the 'lairs' of the Harknesses of Holestain and Haprig. 6. A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
Word: lair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛə̯/, [ˈlɛə̯] ~ [ˈlɛː], /ˈlɛː/, [ˈlɛː], /ˈleː/ 1. To rest; to dwell. Labels: UK Example: The lee-light that December gies Was lairing in the wast, Whan Christy wi' her oa claes, Was boun' to dree the blast. 2. To lay down. Labels: UK 3. To bury. Labels: UK
Word: lair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛə̯/, [ˈlɛə̯] ~ [ˈlɛː], /ˈlɛː/, [ˈlɛː], /ˈleː/ 1. A bog; a mire. Labels: Scotland
Word: lair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛə̯/, [ˈlɛə̯] ~ [ˈlɛː], /ˈlɛː/, [ˈlɛː], /ˈleː/ 1. To mire. Labels: Scotland, transitive 2. To become mired. Labels: Scotland, intransitive
Word: lair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Backformation from lairy. Pronunciation: /ˈlɛə̯/, [ˈlɛə̯] ~ [ˈlɛː], /ˈlɛː/, [ˈlɛː], /ˈleː/ 1. A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial
Word: lair Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlɛə̯/, [ˈlɛə̯] ~ [ˈlɛː], /ˈlɛː/, [ˈlɛː], /ˈleː/ 1. Obsolete form of layer. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
Word: giraffine Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to the giraffe or giraffes. Labels: not-comparable
Word: geep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of goat + sheep. Pronunciation: /ɡiːp/ 1. A sheep–goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep, whether produced artificially or by natural intermating.
Word: rattler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English rattle Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English rattler From rattle + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹætələ(ɹ)/, /ˈɹætlə(ɹ)/ 1. Anything that rattles. 2. A rattlesnake. Labels: US, informal Example: You watch your step walking out there on the mesa, because in warmer season, the rattlers are up and about, and it's their turf. 3. A freight train or, (chiefly UK), a passenger train. Example: I'll lay you odds that this old rattler don't get into Shanghai on time. 4. Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train. Labels: colloquial 5. A loud, inconsiderate talker. Labels: colloquial, dated 6. A stunning blow. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing. 7. An impudent lie; a whopper. Labels: colloquial, dated
Word: rattlesnake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rattle + snake. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/ 1. Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail. Example: Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks. Example: The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.
Word: sex up Part of Speech: verb 1. To take part in sexual acts with. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I wanna sex you up! Example: Make sweet lovin' all night long / Oh, I wanna sex you up / Feels so right it can't be wrong 2. To arouse somebody sexually. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Get spanked: it'll sex you up! Example: I got my eyes shut / Praying they won't stray / Oh we're not sexed up / That's what makes the difference today 3. To make more sexually attractive. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Enrique Iglesias sexed up his music video to appeal to a younger audience. Example: Women in the UK jazz scene face discrimination and sexual harassment according to a new report, from requests to “sex up” their album covers to tokenism, maternal discrimination and scepticism about their musical capabilities. 4. To enhance in terms of fashionable appeal. Labels: slang, transitive Example: How do I sex up my phone? Example: What’s clear is that with wealth inequality at near record highs and income inequality predicted to worsen, we can’t afford to leave things as they are. It’s time to “sex up” tax. 5. To sensationalize. Labels: slang, transitive Example: BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan today said David Kelly was in no doubt the government had “sexed up” the Iraq intelligence dossier at the heart of the Hutton inquiry. Example: Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair's discredited Iraqi arms dossier was “sexed up” on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false.
Word: specter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum. Pronunciation: /ˈspɛktɚ/, /ˈspɛktə/ 1. A ghostly apparition, a phantom. Labels: US Example: A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor. Example: Nevertheleſſe, they which ſhould ſee thoſe Iſles thus to moove in this manner, not knowing before that the ſame were naturall: they would entertaine many and diverſe apprehenſions in their fantaſie, & would imagine that they ſawe a thing very ſtrange and prodigious, and ſuch as did very neere approach to the nature of ſome Specter [translating spectre] and viſion. 2. A threatening mental image; an unpleasant prospect Labels: US, figuratively Example: The specter of an election-vote recount is this year's political bogeyman. Example: A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. 3. Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae. Labels: US 4. Any of various species of Asian danaid butterflies of the genus Idea, family Nymphalidae. Labels: US Example: The large and handsome spectre-butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce.
Word: purveyor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English purveiour (“one who procures or supplies necessities, provider; city, military, religious, or household employee in charge of provisions, steward; one in charge, overseer; one who goes ahead to prepare the way, forerunner; one who arranges accommodations for a traveller; (figurative) one who gathers greedily”), from Anglo-Norman purveour, Middle French pourveur, pourvoyeur, and (chiefly Northern) Old French purveour (“one who procures or supplies necessities or things in general; one who arranges or prepares something”) (modern French pourvoyeur), from porveoir, purveer, purveir (“to equip, furnish, provide, purvey; to foresee; to look at; to obtain, procure”) (modern French pourvoir) + -or (suffix forming agent nouns). Porveoir is derived from Latin prōvidēre, the present active infinitive of prōvideō (“to care for, look after; to foresee; to provide, see to”), from prō- (prefix meaning ‘before; forward’) + videō (“to see; to look out for, care for, provide, see to”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”)). By surface analysis, purvey + -or (suffix forming agent nouns denoting people or things which do the actions denoted by the stems). Doublet of proveditor and provedore. Pronunciation: /pə(ː)ˈveɪə/, /pəɹˈveɪəɹ/ 1. One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner. Example: The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections. Example: I love the Sea; She is my fellovv-Creature; / My carefull Purveyor; She provides me ſtore; / She vvals me round; She makes my diet greater; / She vvafts my treaſure from a forreigne ſhore; […] 2. One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner. Labels: UK, historical Example: groom purveyor yeoman purveyor Example: Let therfore firſt and principall care be for competent prouiſion of victuall, namely bread corne, the vſe wherof is ſeene to be farre more neceſſary, then any other thinge and let there bee made three Purueyghours, or principall victuallers, to haue the ouerſighte, and ſurueighe of all victual, and make prouiſion of the ſame accordinglye: […] 3. A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc. Labels: figuratively Example: purveyors of false information 4. One who arranges or prepares something; an arranger, an orchestrator, a preparer. Labels: obsolete Example: That certayn servantes of sir Fraunces Knowles [Francis Knollys?] and other [resorting to his lectures] fell owte amonge themselfes, and were lyke to have commytted murther, and therefore he was suer of sedition and prevyer of unlawfull assemblies.
Word: Chechen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/, /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/ 1. A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya. 2. Synonym of Chechnyan: a resident of Chechnya. Labels: broadly
Word: Chechen Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/, /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/ 1. The language of the Chechens, a member of the Nakh family.
Word: Chechen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/, /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/ 1. Of or relating to the Chechen people. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or relating to the Chechen language. Labels: not-comparable 3. Synonym of Chechnyan: of or relating to Chechnya, a Russian. Labels: not-comparable
Word: maker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *makaz Proto-West Germanic *mak Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *makōn? Old English macian Middle English maken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English maker English maker From Middle English maker, makere, equivalent to make + -er. Compare Scots makar, Saterland Frisian Moaker, West Frisian makker, Dutch maker, German Macher, Danish mager, Swedish makare. Doublet of makar. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪk.ə/, /ˈmeɪk.ɚ/ 1. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. Example: The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus. Example: Ukrainian and foreign UAV makers rock up early at an open field in the outskirts of Kyiv, to take part in a drone competition organized by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. 2. God, the Creator. Example: Well might the Sun in Darkneſs hide, / And ſhut his Glories in, / When God the mighty Maker dy’d / For Man the Creature’s Sin. 3. A poet. Labels: archaic Example: Set ſophia aſyde, for euery iack raker And euery mad medler muſt now be a maker Example: It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language. 4. Someone who signs a promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
Word: broach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *brokkos Gaulish *brokkosbor.? Latin broccus Vulgar Latin brocca Old French brochebor. Middle English broche English broach From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure. Pronunciation: /bɹəʊtʃ/, /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/ 1. A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here. 2. A broad chisel for stone-cutting. 3. Alternative spelling of brooch. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Mr. S. had a large straw hat, and striped jacket and trousers, and his shirt fastened at the throat by a broach with Carry's hair, for he was always quite above wearing a neckcloth. Example: She pinned a broach on her jacket. When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flower broach?” 4. A spit for cooking food. Example: He turned a broach that had worn a crown. 5. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. Example: It [the straw] is laid on to a considerable thickness and firmly secured by ropes or twisted straw, and pinned down by sharpened sticks called 'broaches' 6. A spire rising from a tower. Labels: UK, dialectal 7. A spit-like start on the head of a young stag. 8. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. 9. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
Word: broach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *brokkos Gaulish *brokkosbor.? Latin broccus Vulgar Latin brocca Old French brochebor. Middle English broche English broach From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure. Pronunciation: /bɹəʊtʃ/, /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/ 1. To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid. Labels: transitive Example: How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage. 2. To open, to make an opening into; to pierce. Labels: transitive Example: French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line. 3. To begin discussion about (something). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity. Example: Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
Word: broach Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɹəʊtʃ/, /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/ 1. To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves. Labels: intransitive Example: The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves. 2. To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative). Labels: transitive Example: 18th C, Thomas Dibdin, Tom Bowling Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling ... for death hath broached him to. Example: Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow. 3. To break the surface of the water. Labels: intransitive Example: The Politovskiy soared through the surface of the Atlantic like a broaching whale, coming three quarters of her length out of the water before crashing back.
Word: Aegyptus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”). Pronunciation: /iːˈd͡ʒɪptəs/ 1. A king of Egypt in Greek mythology.
Word: bastardisation Part of Speech: noun 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of bastardization. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: Mary Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryɔm)bor. Aramaic מרים (maryam)bor. Ancient Greek Μᾰρῐ́ᾱ (Mărĭ́ā)bor. Latin Marīa Old French Mariebor. Middle English Marie English Mary From Middle English Marie, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם (maryām) or Biblical Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryām), of uncertain meaning (see the Hebrew entry for more). Doublet of Miriam, Marie, Maria, and Mariah. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛə.ɹi/, /ˈmɛːɹɪj/, /ˈmɜːɹɪ/, /ˈmeɾe/, [ˈmeːɾe] 1. A female given name from Aramaic or Hebrew. Example: I have a passion for the name of Mary, For once it was a magic sound to me: And still it half calls up the realm of fairy Where I beheld what never was to be. Example: Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young; 2. The mother of Jesus; believed in Christianity and Islam to have been a virgin, and believed by most Christians to have been born herself without sin, to have been assumed into Heaven without death, and to act as a sympathetic intercessor for believers. Example: Now the birth of Jeſus Chriſt was on this wiſe: When as his mother Mary was eſpouſed to Joſeph (before they came together) ſhee was found with childe of the holy Ghoſt. 3. Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably: 4. Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably: Example: And Jeſus anſwered, and ſaide vnto her, Martha, Martha, thou art carefull, and troubled about many things: But one thing is needefull, and Mary hath choſen that good part, which ſhall not bee taken away from her. 5. Synonym of Maryam (“The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an”) 6. A term of address for a male homosexual. Labels: US, slang Example: Note also that male homosexuals will call most anyone Bessie or Mary, e.g. ‘Oh, Bessie, you're a camp!’ Example: In America in the 1950s,... Mary was often used in the vocative to address any fellow homosexual (‘Well, Mary...’). 7. A male middle name, given in honour of the Virgin Mary. Labels: Ireland, dated
Word: Mary Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Turkmen Mary. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑ(ː).ɹɪ/ 1. A city, the capital of the region of Mary, in southeastern Turkmenistan. 2. A region in southeastern Turkmenistan.
Word: lapis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened form of lapis lazuli. Pronunciation: /ˈlæpɪs/ 1. Ellipsis of lapis lazuli. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Lapis, opal, &c. are poliſh'd on a wooden wheel. To faſhion and Engrave vaſes of agate, cryſtal, lapis, or the like, they make uſe of a kind of lathe like that us'd by pewterers, excepting that as the pewterers lathe holds the veſſels, which are to be wrought with proper tools; that of the Engraver generally holds the tools which are turn'd by a wheel, and the veſſels held to them to be cut and engraven either in relievo or otherwiſe; [...] Example: French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.
Word: kiki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːkiː/ 1. A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat. Labels: US, slang Example: Let's have a kiki / I wanna have a kiki / Lock the doors tight / Let's have a kiki Example: Get on my knees and have a kiki with Jesus 2. A lesbian who is neither butch nor femme. Labels: US, dated, derogatory, historical Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiki.
Word: kiki Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːkiː/ 1. To meet with friends without any agenda or goals. Labels: US, slang Example: We spent a whole lot of time kiki'ing around—fooling around. Example: Went home, changed for my show, kikied with Bruce and walked over to the apartment for my weekly meeting and Sally was just walking into the building from Sirius.
Word: stunner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English stun Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English stunner From stun + -er. 1. Anything that is stunning. Labels: colloquial 2. Anything that is stunning. Labels: colloquial Example: She's a runner, rebel and a stunner / On her merry way sayin', "Baby, what you gonna—?" 3. A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder. 4. A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy. Example: March holstered his pistol, reached into his coat, and drew out his own neural stunner, shifting the weapon to his right hand. 5. A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.
Word: stunna Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of stunner (“a woman of stunning beauty”). Labels: alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling Example: The stress over what went down with Gatz caused her to drop twenty pounds but the weight loss was in all the right places. She was a stunna before but now she's a downright bad chick. Example: She was the "bikini-babe", "Sarkozette" stunna who never was. Paris was baffled this week when some of the British media began drooling over an old beach photograph of a former newsreader, Christine Kelly, whom they announced as Sarkozy's latest cabinet appointment—or rather "knockout lovely" or "oh yes, minister!".
Word: tabloid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from tabl(et) + -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’), originally coined by the United Kingdom firm Burroughs, Wellcome & Company as a brand name for their medicines and other products such as tea in tablet form and registered as a trademark on 14 March 1884. Noun sense 2 (“compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature”) is influenced by noun sense 2.2 (“newspaper characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news”). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈtæblɔɪd/, /ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/ 1. A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet. Labels: archaic Example: One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide. Example: A large number of tabloids are contained in a very small bottle, and only require crushing and dissolving in the stated quantity of water to produce a large volume of solution. 2. A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature. Labels: figuratively Example: This boat Mayfay has been admirable as a tabloid cruiser and while Sure Mike is about her same size, Sure Mike is far more nicely modeled; she will not have Mayfay's 17-mile-an-hour homespun plainness. 3. A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature. Labels: figuratively Example: […] Lyle Stuart, […] is known—notorious would be the proper word—for his publishing and writing in the fields of obscenity and extreme leftism: he puts out a sort of tabloid called "The Independent". Example: A public school in Moperville, where the local newspaper is sold in neighboring towns with all the regard of a tabloid. / We've got a reputation to protect! We can only report on confirmed monsters, like mega hogs, or Bigfoot! 4. A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature. Labels: Canada, US, figuratively
Word: tabloid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The noun is derived from tabl(et) + -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’), originally coined by the United Kingdom firm Burroughs, Wellcome & Company as a brand name for their medicines and other products such as tea in tablet form and registered as a trademark on 14 March 1884. Noun sense 2 (“compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature”) is influenced by noun sense 2.2 (“newspaper characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news”). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈtæblɔɪd/, /ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/ 1. In the form of a tabloid (noun senses 2 and 2.2): compressed or compact in size. Labels: not-comparable Example: Travellers, explorers and missionaries are enabled to carry the most effective medicines in the smallest possible space by using ‘Tabloid’ Medicine cases as supplied to [Henry Morton] Stanley and to all leading expeditions. ‘Tabloid’ medicines contain absolutely accurate doses of the purest drugs, require neither weighing nor measuring, and retain their activity after exposure to the most trying climates. Example: [T]he flints of the plateau drifts are neither 'slabs' nor 'tablets,' they are of all shapes from rounded Eocene to hardly worn and sub-angular pebbles, differing but little from the mean of a score of Palaeolithic gravels. This presumed tabloid condition is bought about by a presumed 'Extreme Cold'; which, of course, is warmed into sunshine by the light of actual fact. 2. Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper: appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc. Labels: figuratively, not-comparable Example: tabloid journalism Example: I watched your 6 o'clock news today; it's straight tabloid. You had a minute and a half of that lady riding a bike naked in Central Park; on the other hand, you had less than a minute of hard national and international news.