nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: sure up Part of Speech: verb 1. Eggcorn of shore up. Example: means of 'reasoned' argument) not only serves to sure up the sense of certainty which people attach to their moral judgments and to the world views from which their judgements ultimately derive, it serves to sure up their sense of Example: I would verbally walk him through each course, and its preparation, as he roamed the aisles on the other end of the phone. Then, when he got back to his place, he would call again, just to sure up all the details.
Word: verbile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Irregular formation from Latin verbum + -ile. 1. A person whose mental imagery consists of words. Labels: uncommon
Word: verbile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Irregular formation from Latin verbum + -ile. 1. Pertaining to words. Example: It would be an interesting inquiry, how far the philosophers have left in their writings traces of their mental habits, as visile, motile, etc., or only verbile, mistaking the custom of language for insight. Example: Presidents are audile types. They're ear-minded. They're not verbile—they're not readers. That's why telephones are far more important to Presidents than any publication.
Word: verbiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verbile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Italianist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian + -ist. 1. Someone who studies the Italian language, literature, and culture.
Word: visile Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone whose mental imagery consists of pictures.
Word: visiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of visile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: single combat Part of Speech: noun 1. A fight between single combatants Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A duel between single representatives of opposing armies, with the outcome accepted as the battle's outcome. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: right brain Part of Speech: noun 1. The right cerebral hemisphere; the part of the brain popularly associated with creativity. Example: And the secret to seeing—really seeing—was quieting the bossy know-it-all left brain so the mellower right brain could do its magic.
Word: quilled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quill + -ed. 1. Having quills or similar structures. Example: In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade Oppose himself against a troop of kerns, And fought so long till that his thighs with darts Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine; Example: He leaned down to inspect a white-quilled cactus, and then spotted a different kind with skinnier branches and only a few drab spines. 2. Having long, narrow petals or florets. Example: In the wild state the flowers are single—that is to say, only the outer florets are strap-shaped, and usually of a rosy-lilac tint, with yellowish disc florets; but under cultivation, all the florets have become ligulate or quilled […] 3. Created through the process of quilling. 4. Having small, rounded folds. Example: Round the throat is a ruff of white muslin, quilled in large reverse plaids; […] Example: He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale. I now fancied him changing sexes; and as my eyes began to close in slumber, I imagined my fat landlord actually converted into as fat a landlady. 5. Decorated with quillwork.
Word: quilled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From quill + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of quill Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: boltropes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boltrope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bolt-ropes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bolt-rope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: teugh Part of Speech: adj 1. tough, stubborn Labels: Northumbria, Scotland Example: Teugh, adj. (Pr. of the eu much as in Teuflt). Tough. "With cordes enewe and ropys Teugh The Jues felle my limmes out-droghe For that I was not mete enoghe Unto the bore" Example: A dialectical (Scottish) form of tough. "Unco thick in the soles, as ye may weel mind, forbye being teugh in the upper-leather."
Word: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: From German Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker, which has been variously translated, from Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols. 1. Hardship builds moral character.
Word: war dance Part of Speech: noun 1. A ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory, usually by a tribe. Example: There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn.
Word: mistaken identity Part of Speech: noun 1. A case of false belief that a certain individual is someone else. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The police arrested the wrong man; the media reported it as a case of mistaken identity. 2. A defense in criminal law based on this situation, claiming that any eyewitnesses to a crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: addictive personality Part of Speech: noun 1. A personality prone to addiction or obsession. Example: People who have addictive personalities are advised to avoid caffeine, alcohol and other drugs.
Word: war dances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of war dance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: born and bred Part of Speech: phrase 1. Showing characteristics of birth and upbringing, especially in relation to a particular location. Labels: idiomatic Example: She is a born and bred New Yorker. Example: Oh, you're from America? —Born and bred.
Word: reache Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of reach. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Extra iocum, I like your Dreames passingly well; and the rather, bicause they sauour of that singular extraordinarie veine and inuention whiche I euer fancied moste, and in a manner admired onelye in Lucian, Petrarche, Aretine, Pasquill, and all the most delicate and fine conceited Grecians and Italians, (for the Romanes to speake of are but verye ciphars in this kinde,) whose chiefest endeuour and drifte was to haue nothing vulgare, but, in some respecte or other, and especially in liuely hyperbolicall amplifications, rare, queint, and odde in euery pointe, and, as a man woulde saye, a degree or two, at the leaste, aboue the reache and compasse of a common scholars capacitie.
Word: reache Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of reach. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: I with my distaffe will reache hym one rappe, Tib. Talk.
Word: reefy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reef + -y. 1. containing reefs. Example: I sit up to see myself safe through the narrow passage between Flat Island and Round Island, and fall asleep at last to the monotonous chant of so many "fathoms and no bottom," for we take soundings every five minutes or so in this reefy region. Example: The land here is high, hilly, and reefy near the sandy beach; seeing that nothing profitable could be effected here, we returned to the yacht, which was lying-by under small sail; towards the evening we were at about 1 mile's distance from three islets, of which the southernmost was the largest; five miles by estimation farther to northward we saw a mountainous country, but the shallows rendered (or render) it impossible for us to get near it; in almost every direction in which soundings were taken, we found very shallow water, so that we sailed for a long time in 5, 4, 3, 21/2, 2, 11/2 fathom and even less, so that at last we were forced to drop anchor in 11/2 fathom, without knowing where to look for greater or less depths; after sunset we therefore sent out the pinnace to take soundings, which found deeper water a long way S.W. of the pinnace, viz. 2, 3, and 41/2 fathom; we were very glad to sail thither with the yacht, and cast anchor in 81/2 fathom, fervently thanking God Almighty for his inexpressible mercy and clemency, shown us in this emergency as in all others.
Word: reely Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of really. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: But mind you, there ain't anything ever reely lost; everything that people can't understand and don't see the reason of does good if you only hold on and give it a fair shake; Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys. Example: "'Shame,' ses most of 'em; an' I reely b'leeve they'd worked theirselves up to that pitch they'd ha' felt disappointed if the skipper had been saved.
Word: reluctancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reluct(ant) + -ancy, from Latin relū̆ctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + lū̆ctor (“to struggle”). Doublet of reluctance. 1. Resistance, opposition. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually 2. Reluctance, disinclination. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: richish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rich + -ish. 1. reasonably rich, quite rich. Labels: not-comparable
Word: poorish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From poor + -ish. 1. Somewhat poor. Labels: not-comparable Example: The bread-and-butter were good enough, but the ale poorish. Oh, for an Act of Parliament to force people to brew good ale! Example: She [Mrs. Rivers] went on to say something about still waters running deep and it was on the tip of my tongue to make a poorish pun about still Rivers running deep too […]
Word: largeish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From large + -ish. 1. Quite large, reasonably large. Labels: not-comparable Example: Among other monstrosities in this lumber room was a largeish black japanned box, excellently and ingeniously made some sixty or seventy years ago, and fitted with every imaginable object.
Word: rhomboidal Part of Speech: adj 1. rhomboid, having a rhomboid shape Example: Bisect it by a line drawn diagonally from the angles, and after this bisecting bring together the outlines of the figure so that it may present a rhomboidal design, reducing it by one sixth of its length and one fourth of its breadth at the (obtuse) angles. Example: The coupled model is global in domain and consists of GCMs of the atmosphere (spectral model with rhomboidal 30 truncation, corresponding to an approximate resolution of 3.75° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 14 vertical levels) and ocean (1.875° longitude by 2.25° latitude, with 18 vertical levels).
Word: rocketer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rocket + -er. 1. A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. Example: To see a real workman knocking down rocketer after rocketer at a height which would be considered impossible by half the men who go but shooting is to witness an exhibition of skill and correct timing which can only be attained by the most assiduous practice and the quickest of eyes.
Word: raggamuffin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ragamuffin. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: "They called her a little blue raggamuffin, father," said Harry, who ran in, looking very angry; "but I have given it to them, they won't insult my sister again.[…]" 2. Synonym of ragga. Example: International reggae takes another spin with Kulcha Connection's Plus Haut (Subsonik, Canada), a rollicking raggamuffin release with clean, crisp backing tracks and alternating singer and dj segments delivered almost entirely in French. Example: Reggae music is as old as the history of Africans suffering in the Carribean. But, as a result of the Americanization of this music to form raggamuffin, drugs are openly idolized. The singer called Bob Marley promoted the use of marijuana and among the African fans of raggamuffin, the use of marijuana is now standard.
Word: loverhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lover + -hood. 1. the state or quality of being a lover Labels: uncountable Example: In the last chapter I tried to deal with the actual problem created in this country by the disproportion of the sexes--the fact that there are, roughly, one and three-quarters to two million more women than men in this country; and I was obliged to confine myself simply to stating the problem, which, to my mind, is very greatly intensified by the fact, generally ignored, that the sex needs of a woman are just as imperative, their suppression just as hard to bear, as a man's; that woman is fully as human as man, and that parenthood and loverhood and all that the satisfaction of the sex instinct means to him, it means also to her.
Word: Nafaanra Part of Speech: name 1. a Senufo language spoken in northwest Ghana by the Nafana, along the border with Côte d'Ivoire, east of Bondouko.
Word: doom and gloom Part of Speech: noun 1. Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair. Labels: uncountable Example: The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom. Example: His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.
Word: find oneself Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfaɪnd wʌnsɛlf/ 1. To learn, or attempt to learn, the essence or nature of one's character and the aims or desires one pursues in life. Labels: idiomatic Example: When he was in his early twenties, he backpacked around Europe to find himself. Example: I don't know what was said, my baby / I thought that everything was fine / You say you got to get away, to find yourself 2. To unexpectedly or unintentionally begin to do or experience something. Labels: idiomatic Example: As you enter the cafe, you find yourself wondering why they decided to paint the entire room blue. Example: When news of his wife’s murder spread around the media, he found himself in front of a press conference explaining his actions. 3. To be in a particular state of mind. Labels: idiomatic Example: How do you find yourself this morning? 4. To find (something) for oneself. Labels: literally Example: I need to find myself a boat. Example: On entering the ſervice he finds himſelf a horſe, and when that dies he is mounted by government; when his horſe dies proper officers make out a certificate thereof, which is called a ſaketnameh, in order that his pay may be regulated accordingly, for until he has found another horſe, he ceaſes to draw any pay for one; and if he neglects to obtain the certificate, he is not allowed any thing from the time of the laſt muſter. 5. To discover oneself to be in a particular place. Labels: literally Example: I got drunk and woke to find myself in the neighbour’s garden the next morning. Example: If you found yourselves some day at the base of Mont Blanc, where that giant of mountains strikes his immovable foundations into the earth, and if you saw some little ants issuing from their hillock, labouring, scraping, picking, running, taking, one a blade of grass, another a grain of sand, would you believe that Mont Blanc was about to be annihilated?
Word: give a rat's ass Part of Speech: verb 1. US standard spelling of give a rat's arse. Labels: US, alt-of, standard Example: I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing. Example: Anderson also said he doesn't think "the NBA gives a rat's ass about Seattle," and he's upset with Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett.
Word: have on Part of Speech: verb 1. To be wearing. Example: She has on a nice red shirt and skinny jeans. 2. To have turned on (an electronic device). Example: I didn’t hear you because I had the radio on. 3. To trick or deceive deliberately; to play a prank on. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial Example: Near-synonym: have a laugh Example: Are you having me on? 4. To have (something) scheduled. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: So what do you have on this weekend? I have nothing on myself. 5. To possess at the point of arrest. Labels: colloquial Example: I had some pills on me when that cop picked me up. 6. To possess evidence of wrongdoing regarding (someone); to press charges on (someone). Labels: colloquial Example: They have two bodies on me.
Word: diminute Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English diminute, from Latin dīminūtus and Old French diminut. Pronunciation: /ˈdɪmɪnjuːt/, /ˈdɪmɪnuːt/ 1. Small; diminutive. Labels: obsolete Example: prices made diminute and lessened to such proportions and abatements as that fault should make
Word: diminute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English diminute, from Latin dīminūtus and Old French diminut. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmɪnjuːt/, /dɪˈmɪnuːt/ 1. To reduce, to lessen.
Word: have a good one Part of Speech: verb 1. To enjoy an event or occasion, especially a holiday or one's birthday. Labels: idiomatic Example: You're turning nineteen tomorrow? I hope you have a good one!
Word: have a good one Part of Speech: phrase 1. phrase used when parting.
Word: heart and soul Part of Speech: noun 1. The core of a thing; the most essential or important part. Labels: uncountable Example: The heart and soul of any democracy is its electorate. 2. Passion; true commitment. Labels: uncountable Example: She put her heart and soul into the project. Example: “I’m not going anywhere,” Mr. Biden said. “I know yesterday’s news was surprising and hard for you to hear,” he went on, “but it was the right thing to do. I know it’s hard because you poured your heart and soul into me to help us win this thing.”
Word: heart and soul Part of Speech: adv 1. With the utmost earnestness. Labels: not-comparable
Word: keep to oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To purposely avoid interaction with others; to be introverted. Labels: intransitive Example: She preferred to keep to herself after her husband died. Example: I've done no harm, I keep to myself / There's nothing wrong with my state of mental health 2. To refrain from telling or giving; to keep secret, or refuse to share. Labels: transitive Example: keep oneself to oneself Example: Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable, and which the doctor admonished them to keep to themselves.
Word: fagbutt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fag + butt. 1. The butt of a cigarette. Labels: Ireland, UK, colloquial, slang
Word: might and main Part of Speech: adv Etymology: A reduplication of two words meaning strength. 1. With all one's strength; as hard as one can. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] I found myself hanging on the skysail-yard, holding on might and main to the mast; and curling my feet round the rigging, as if they were another pair of hands. Example: c.1890s, Giovanni Boccaccio, James McMullen Rigg (translator), The Decameron, Novel 1, 6, […] he strove might and main to pass himself off as a holy man […]
Word: might and main Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reduplication of two words meaning strength. 1. All one's strength. Labels: uncountable Example: with might and main Example: Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.
Word: citybus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From city + bus. 1. Alternative form of city bus (“a bus for use in a city”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: low-cost Part of Speech: adj 1. Low in price; cheap, inexpensive. Example: For passengers, the decline in numbers using the short sea route (to 1.8 million in 2017) reflects the emergence of low-cost airlines and the expansion of flights serving Ireland from many regional airports in Britain. Example: Lower-cost B.B.L.s have created a market for similarly priced postoperative care. These are not the relaxing, spalike havens like the ones that serve wealthier clientele.
Word: lowroad Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of low road. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: on and on Part of Speech: adv 1. Continuously and tediously. Labels: not-comparable Example: The interview dragged on and on, long after I was sure I wouldn't get the job.
Word: less and less Part of Speech: det 1. increasingly less Example: Over the years, there has been less and less oil available.
Word: get one's fill Part of Speech: verb 1. to be satisfied, to have enough of something. Labels: idiomatic
Word: stay in Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, in. Example: I don't like to stay in motels. Example: I stayed in the house until it stopped raining. 2. To remain at home. Labels: intransitive Example: My friends invited me out on Saturday, but instead I stayed in and watched television.
Word: laugh out of court Part of Speech: verb 1. To dismiss as silly something presented with genuine conviction or treated seriously. Labels: idiomatic Example: The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers.
Word: staying power Part of Speech: noun 1. Endurance, the ability to continue at something for a long period of time. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: They have shown their staying power before and it would be daft to write them off but it must be disturbing, nonetheless, for Mourinho that his team are five points behind already and locked in a game of catch-up against the side that has just subjected them to a rare, old-fashioned beating. Example: Unlike other young artists who have fallen victim to too much market attention, too soon, he believes that [Avery] Singer has staying power.
Word: stay on Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, on. Example: How does your hat manage to stay on in such strong wind? Example: The light stays on even if there's a power outage. 2. to continue in a place or situation, while others leave. Labels: idiomatic Example: Some of her friends decided it was time to go home, but she wanted to stay on in there until sunrise. Example: After the trial period, she was asked to stay on and work full-time.
Word: quickdraw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quick + draw. 1. A set of two carabiners connected by a strap. 2. The ability to quickly pull a handgun from its holster and accurately fire it upon a target. Example: The Western film had a quickdraw gun duel scene.
Word: last gasp Part of Speech: noun 1. The final gasp or breath a person takes before death. Example: Now the murdered man is drawing his last gasp. 2. The point of death, or the last period of one's life. Labels: broadly Example: Such as feare God shall be strengthened to stand against all assaults of Satan; yea they shal continue and stand stedfast vnto the end, euen to the last gasp. Example: […] but so much rain fell therewith, as refreshed Aurelius his Forces, that were at the last gasp for thirst: 3. The point at which something disappears or is destroyed; a last-gasp moment, attempt, etc. Labels: figuratively Example: Me thinks, (my Lord) you are grown something solemn on the sudden; since your Monopolies and Patents, which made your purse swell like a wet spunge, have been reduc’d to th’ last gasp. Example: The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp, the stern-wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on tiptoe for the next beat of the float, for in sober truth I expected the wretched thing to give up every moment.
Word: discontinuor Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of discontinuer. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: lowcost Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of low-cost. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: discontinuer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From discontinue + -er. Pronunciation: /dɪskənˈtɪnjuə(ɹ)/ 1. One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. Example: He was no gadder abroad, or discontinuer from his convent, for a long time.
Word: make it up to Part of Speech: verb 1. To pay back; to return someone a previous good deed. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: After John gave her a lovely wooly hat for her birthday, she wanted to make it up to him so she took him out for dinner. Example: You've been so kind to me, how can I make it up to you? 2. To redeem oneself. Labels: idiomatic, transitive
Word: one and only Part of Speech: adj 1. Unique, one of a kind. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Please welcome the one and only Bruce Springsteen!
Word: one and only Part of Speech: noun 1. Only love, sole sweetheart. Labels: idiomatic Example: Will you be my one and only? 2. The most talented or famous person (within in a specific context) Example: Chesney Hawkes entertained the punters at half-time, and it was Wales' One and Only who was withdrawn ahead of the second-half as Brennan Johnson replaced Gareth Bale who had made just one successful pass in the first-half.
Word: one and onlies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of one and only Labels: form-of, plural
Word: discrimen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin discrimen. 1. A visible dividing line where two structures come together. Example: Except for the coxal socket, the most constant landmarks of the subcoxal region are the midventral discrimen, resulting from the meeting of opposite subcoxae whose contiguous margins have been infolded posteriorly to form the sternal apophyses, and the pleural suture extending from the dorsal articulation of the coxa to the pleural wing process. Example: Mid-ventrally the sternopleurites unite in a suture, the discrimen, whose inflection forms the very high transparent lamella of the discrimen. 2. A distinction, particularity, or distinguishing feature. Example: We admit Nothing to exist; Nothing is an intelligible distinction; we talk of thinking Nothing and of perceiving Nothing: in other words, Nothing is the abstraction from every discrimen or particularity. But an abstraction from every discrimen, does not involve the destruction of every or any discrimen, all discrimina still exist; in Nothing we have simply withdrawn into indefiniteness. Example: That is how human affectivity places us ever before us in this discrimen. The world then addresses us — affectively, in feelings, and at the same time in senses, impressions — in connection with this differentiation. Yet in the case of the animal and the child we also have to do with a world given in perception though there is no such discrimen present. 3. A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold. Example: But civil war creates as many boundaries as it destroys: its keynote is division, and it is itself a discrimen. Example: Indeed, as we have further suggested, this follows on also, in the eyes of the pilgrim- visitors themselves, from their own earlier moment of discrimen, at the point when the "old man'"s pilgrim-interlocutor had similarly exclaimed "O Hercules" on learning the Sphinx-like nature of the explanation being proffered to them. 4. A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements. Example: Some years ago James Gustafson advanced the thesis that any comprehensive and systematic account of theological ethics must have a central "discrimen" - an organizing perspective, principle, metaphor or analogy around which it is structured. That discrimen must relate in a coherent fashion four "base points": an understanding of God and God's purposes in relation to humans and the rest of creation; an interpretation of the significance of "the world" and human life in it; an interpretation of human moral agency and actionsl and an interpretation of how we ought to make moral choices and judgements. Example: The discrimen, or pattern, that each theologian eventually chooses is his or her own distinctive construal of the discrimen that guides his or her critical theological judgements.
Word: gaybar Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gay bar. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: one after another Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Dates back at least to Old English ān æfter ōþrum, of the same meaning. 1. In single file. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable 2. Individually, in a particular sequence or chronology. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable 3. Unrelentingly. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Once discipline broke down, problems came one after another.
Word: one way or another Part of Speech: adv 1. By any means possible. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable Example: One way or another, I'm going to find ya / I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya 2. In a way that is not stated or known; somehow. Labels: colloquial, not-comparable
Word: what's doing Part of Speech: phrase 1. An informal greeting.
Word: very good Part of Speech: phrase 1. A polite acknowledgement of orders or statements. Example: - Find out if there's any claret in the cellar, Jeeves. - Very good, sir. Example: B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world. R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it? Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
Word: dispensatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dispēnsātrīx. By surface analysis, dispensator + -trix. 1. A female dispensator. Labels: archaic Example: Rightly then is this divine mother called the treasure, the treasurer, and the dispensatrix of divine graces.
Word: life-or-death Part of Speech: adj 1. Of critical importance to the survival of a living organism. Labels: not-comparable Example: Good camoflouge is life or death for many animals in the wild. 2. Having death as a possible or even likely outcome; perilous. Labels: not-comparable Example: Ascending Mount Everest can be life or death for an inexperienced climber. 3. Of critical importance to the success of a particular endeavor. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Obtaining financing was a life-or-death matter for the research.
Word: armed robbery Part of Speech: noun 1. A theft where the thieves are armed with weapons. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: armed robberies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of armed robbery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: moment in the sun Part of Speech: noun 1. A brief instance in which an otherwise obscure, unremarkable, or humble person draws attention. Labels: idiomatic
Word: intradirective verb Part of Speech: noun 1. An intransitive verb in which the subject both actively performs and undergoes the action, as in verbs of motion such as walk, go, fly. Example: In "I walked to the store", the verb 'walk' is intradirective, as the person undergoing the action is myself; in "I walked the dog" I no longer undergo the action, and the verb is transitive.
Word: dissilient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dissiliens, dissilientis, present participle of dissilire (“to leap asunder”): dis- + salire (“to leap”). 1. Forcefully breaking apart or bursting open (or primed to do so); dehiscing explosively. Labels: archaic Example: a dissilient pericarp/joint Example: We may, however, notice Impàtiens, merely for the purpose of alluding to the dissilient property of its capsules, which, when ripe, burst with such force as to scatter the seeds to a considerable distance around.
Word: make mincemeat out of Part of Speech: verb 1. To defeat one's opponent easily and completely during a fight, contest, or debate. Labels: idiomatic Example: The invading army made mincemeat out of our troops. Example: He had the uncanny ability to demolish his opponents with ease and make mincemeat out of them. 2. To utterly destroy. Labels: idiomatic Example: He made mincemeat out of that Evelyn Walker book he took over.
Word: labile verb Part of Speech: noun 1. A transitive verb, such as break, burn, boil, open, start, change, or assimilate, which may be used intransitively with the object of the action as the subject. Example: The verb 'break' is labile because it can be used both transitively: I broke the window, and intransitively: the window broke, and in either case the object undergoing the action of breakage is the window.
Word: make someone's jaw drop Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause someone to be very surprised or alarmed. Labels: idiomatic Example: The news that I'm pregnant after so many tries made my husband's jaw drop.
Word: treat them mean, keep them keen Part of Speech: proverb 1. A woman will be more interested in a man if he is unkind to her. Labels: informal
Word: that time of the month Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of time of the month. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: quick off the mark Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sports races, where the mark in this case is the point from which the racers start. 1. fast to act or react Labels: idiomatic
Word: make matters worse Part of Speech: verb 1. To worsen an already difficult situation or unfavourable set of circumstances, typically by acting rashly, foolishly, or incompetently. Labels: idiomatic Example: His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings. Example: The mistake came about when there seemed to be little danger as Dicko swung in an innocuous cross, but the keeper somehow spilled the ball for Henry to head into an empty net. To make matters worse his error came in front of Gordon Strachan, the Scotland manager.
Word: Scudamore Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old French escut d'amor (“shield of love”). 1. A surname from Old French.
Word: no good deed goes unpunished Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: According to the website Grammarist, there is no one origin for the phrase "let no good deed go unpunished." However, it also lists several written examples from the 20th century, starting with a 1942 phrase attributed to Walter Winchell, in which he wrote (in a column) "[It] reminds me of the line diplomats use: ‘No good deed goes unpunished in Washington.” On top of that, it lists one from Dante's "The Divine Comedy" ("love is the seed in you of every virtue/and of all acts deserving punishment."). This can be found at the website https://grammarist.com/proverb/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/. Meanwhile, the website Quote Investigator gives several older examples of these phrases, including one from a 12th-century text that was translated into English in 1923, and which discussed a malevolent, though the website indicated that it wasn't written like it was a proverb. As well, two came from 1927 (one of which used the word "kindness" in place of "good deed") and another from 1938 ("Every good deed brings its own punishment"), which was the earliest match that website found which it considered to be strong. This can be found at the website https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/30/good-deed/. 1. Actions of generosity often go unappreciated or are met with outright hostility or demands for further work.
Word: no good deed ever goes unpunished Part of Speech: proverb 1. Alternative form of no good deed goes unpunished. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plumber's crack Part of Speech: noun 1. An intergluteal cleft visible due to low-riding pants, especially when one is bending over. Labels: slang Example: Very classy: visible thong and plumber's crack. Example: Marty comes on for the next number, but he spazzes out and drops his violin. The barely interested crowd gets just interested enough to yell some insults when he crouches to replug it with his plumber's crack displaying.
Word: triple threat Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who is talented in three areas. Labels: informal 2. A person who is talented in three areas. Labels: informal 3. A person who is talented in three areas. Labels: informal
Word: incage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + cage. 1. Alternative form of encage. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: incages Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of incage Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: incaging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of incage Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: incaged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of incage Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: go gaga over Part of Speech: verb 1. To receive positively or react to with enthusiasm, especially to an excessive degree. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He always goes gaga over his favourite band's newest album.
Word: go bonkers Part of Speech: verb 1. To lose one's sanity. Labels: informal Example: We all knew he'd gone bonkers after he started speaking only gibberish. 2. To have a good time, free from restraint. Labels: informal Example: Everyone should just go bonkers at my next birthday party.
Word: defæcation Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of defecation. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: In this first group of causes one of the most important is that of habit; carelessness in attending to the call to stool, with the result that the bowel becomes accustomed to the presence of fæcal accumulations, and one of the chief stimuli to regular defæcation is thus lost.
Word: paydirt Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pay dirt. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: paydirt Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of pay dirt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: defæcate Part of Speech: verb 1. Archaic spelling of defecate. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: [I]f vve defæcate the notion from materiality, […] it vvill be as hard to apprehend, as that an empty vviſh ſhould remove Mountains: a ſuppoſition vvhich if realized, vvould relieve Siſyphus. Example: The peculiar form of constipation present, inability to defæcate, was one which was usually associated with loss of power in the legs, as in this case.
Word: defæcates Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of defecates; third-person singular simple present indicative of defæcate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The patient, perhaps, has a little sense of pain on defæcation, a slight sense of fulness at the margin of the anus when he defæcates, and a lack of relief after the act of defæcation.
Word: along with Part of Speech: prep 1. In addition to; coupled with. Example: She fired all the journalists in the company, along with some of the administration workers. Example: With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
Word: defæcating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of defæcate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: A married woman, aged 51, was admitted into University College Hospital on July 4th, 1873, with a history of three weeks’ obstruction of the bowels, following upon difficulty in defæcating of some months’ duration.
Word: defæcated Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of defecated; simple past and past participle of defæcate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: It so happened that of six persons arrested on suspicion, four of them accused a particular one as the murderer, and volunteered the information that he had also defæcated in the victim’s bed.
Word: put on the map Part of Speech: verb 1. To bring someone or something into a position of prominence. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: The actress's role in the acclaimed drama finally put her on the map.
Word: untired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tired. 1. Not tired; unwearied. Example: I have waded thorow many dangerous hazards, with a more untired pace, only in consideration of the secret knowledge I had of mine owne will, and innocence of me desseignes. Example: Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er With untired gaze the immeasurable fount Ebullient with creative Deity! 2. Alternative form of untyred (“not fitted with tyres”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Do not allow untired wheels to remain on the floor of the smith-shop, unless there is a current of air passing under the floor of the shop.
Word: untired Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of untire Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: distincture Part of Speech: noun 1. distinctness Labels: archaic
Word: undelayedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From undelayed + -ly. 1. Without delay. Example: And therewith advancing himselfe to march before the people, all the assembly, and even his accuser himselfe did undelayedly follow him towards the Temple.
Word: disturbant Part of Speech: adj 1. disturbing Labels: archaic
Word: disturbant Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that disturbs. Labels: archaic
Word: pænal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: By hypercorrection of penal 1. Obsolete spelling of penal. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: dogmatizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dogmatize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dogmatizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dogmatize + -er. 1. One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter. Example: But in stead of any fuller view of these, I shall mention some few of those, which our closer, and later experience hath made most familiar to us, and given us reason to look on with a quickness of sense, and dread, but those such, as being not entred into the Confessions of any national Church, are not properly chargeable either on Papists, or Protestants, but on particular dogmatizers on both parties […] Example: If it was the case that native dogmatizers were prohibiting the use of Spanish before the huacas and the use of the name of Jesus, then the information implies a large degree of cultural and religious acculturation by 1617 in the Province of Lima.
Word: doom-and-gloom Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of doom and gloom. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: doom-and-gloom Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of doom and gloom. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: send back Part of Speech: verb 1. To return (something) to its origin. Labels: transitive Example: I sent the video back to the store, as it was damaged. Example: The 20-year-old speaks only a little Korean and has no South Korean friends. She has yet to travel alone beyond Seoul and often spends time chatting online with her friends back in China. Her mother fled their home in Dunhua city in northeastern China in early 2017 after seeing a fellow North Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea. 2. To remind (someone) of a previous time in the past. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: That song sends me back to the 1970s.
Word: Charmaine Part of Speech: name Etymology: 20th century variant of Charmian, or coinage from the noun charm with the -aine ending as in Elaine and Germaine. 1. A female given name originating as a coinage. Example: I wonder why you keep me waiting / Charmaine, my Charmaine / Rise in vain
Word: elementar Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of elementary. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: What thynge occasionyd the showris of rayne, Of fyre elementar in his supreme spere, […]
Word: embolos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “bolt; portico”). 1. An arcade or porticoed street in Constantinople. Labels: historical
Word: embole Part of Speech: noun 1. An operation for the reduction of a dislocation. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Formation of the gastrula by invagination. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Enarthrosis. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: emendanda Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of emendandum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emendandum Part of Speech: noun 1. Something to be corrected.
Word: Leire Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5290).
Word: unquæstionable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + quæstion + -able. 1. Obsolete spelling of unquestionable. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: top-priority Part of Speech: adj 1. Of the highest level of importance 2. To be done before doing anything else.
Word: contragredient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Neologism based on Latin contra and gradi. 1. Generally, denoting an object inversed and transposed (to another). Labels: not-comparable 2. Of a representation in linear algebra: being the transpose of the former representation of an inverse object. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of a matrix: being a transpose of an inverse matrix. Labels: not-comparable
Word: stipas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stipa Labels: form-of, plural
Word: put something behind one Part of Speech: verb 1. To recover from an unpleasant or traumatic experience; to overcome a negative feeling, especially anger, resentment, or grief. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: The losing candidate was just glad to put it behind him after months on the campaign trail. Example: Owen Hargreaves put his injury problems behind him with a fabulous goal on his debut as Manchester City beat holders Birmingham City to reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup.
Word: rearer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rear + -er. 1. One who rears (nurtures children or animals). 2. A horse or other animal that rears up.
Word: rearers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rearer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multi-story Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of multi-storey. Labels: Canada, US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: multi-story Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of multi-storey. Labels: Canada, US, alt-of, alternative
Word: early birds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of early bird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attention-grabbing Part of Speech: adj 1. Attracting notice and attention, or prone to doing so. Example: The attention-grabbing headline sent the crowd into a frenzy.
Word: fire-crotch Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who has red pubic hair. Labels: derogatory, slang, sometimes, vulgar Example: It's time to regain your manhood. Go out, get drunk, find a cute fire-crotch, then.... Fuck the snot out of her on your kitchen floor. Example: His wife, Ash, was no great lay—not like that nurse at the hospital, fire crotch, a hot little minkie with flaming red pubic hair and a very uninhibited appetite.
Word: fire crotch Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fire-crotch. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: put up a fight Part of Speech: verb 1. To offer some form of resistance to an attack. Example: She put up a fight when the mugger tried to steal her purse. Example: Most sharks will not put up a fight in the way that a sailfish or a tuna will when caught; sharks usually stay deep and pull hard on the line. 2. To protest or make a fuss, especially over a proposed course of action. Labels: figuratively Example: Their youngest son always put up a fight when it was bedtime. Example: I'll put up a fight, taking out my earrings Don't you know the vibe? Don't you know the feeling? You should spend the night, catch me on your ceiling That's your prize, that's your prize Well
Word: run counter Part of Speech: verb 1. To defy or oppose something, especially an expectation, custom, or social standard.
Word: un-Australian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + Australian. 1. Not Australian. 2. Not conforming to characteristic Australian standards of behaviour and ethics. Example: Did it mean if they spoke plainly to him that they were Australian too? Or, were they really invisible in anyone’s language no matter what they said, and would remain un-Australian for loving ancient beliefs of their traditional lands too much.
Word: suck a lemon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the grimace one sometimes gets from tasting the tartness of a lemon's citric acid. 1. To be in a sour or negative mood. Labels: UK, idiomatic Example: I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello. Example: Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon / Everything, Everything, Everything / In its right place
Word: erodent Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that erodes. Example: Worlds granite-spined / To thine erodents yield
Word: erodents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of erodent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: push broom Part of Speech: noun 1. A T-shaped broom that can sweep or scrub large areas.
Word: push brooms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of push broom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swim upstream Part of Speech: verb 1. To opt for a difficult course of action when a simpler or safer alternative is available; to make an unwise decision against sound advice. Labels: idiomatic Example: I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess.