nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: caddy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”). Pronunciation: /ˈkædi/, [-ɾi] 1. A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea. Labels: also, attributive Example: The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America. 2. A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in. Labels: broadly Example: A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies. 3. A small lidded bin for food waste. Labels: broadly 4. A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component. Labels: broadly Example: Place the disc in the DVD caddy. 5. A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop. Labels: broadly
Word: caddy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of caddie (etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ˈkædi/, [-ɾi] 1. Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”). Labels: also, alt-of, alternative, attributive Example: Caddy, pass me my five iron. Example: As caddy I had to carry the clubs, for there are four varieties almost everyone used, and some used more. Besides doing this, the caddy has to keep score of the number of strokes used, and watch and find each ball.
Word: caddy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of caddie (etymology 1). Pronunciation: /ˈkædi/, [-ɾi] 1. Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”) Labels: intransitive Example: I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game. Example: We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.
Word: cadent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin cadens (“falling”), present active participle of cado (“to fall”). 1. Falling. Example: The 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses in Astrology are considered cadent houses.
Word: cager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cage + -er. 1. A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage. 2. A basketball player, from the time when games were played in a wire mesh enclosure. Labels: dated, informal Example: In 1946, Athletic Director Chandler reliquished his position as head basketball coach at the school to one of his most proficient former players, Julius Rubin. Despite the fact that Rubin had never coached a cager squad before, he became a well-liked leader for the players assembled to start the 1946-1947 season. 3. A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting. Labels: derogatory Example: Motorcycles can go where cars can’t. Obscure places, remote singletrack trails, off-road tracks too narrow for four wheels – on a bike, you can literally go anywhere and access places no car ever would feeling like an explorer and discovering wild spots off-limits for cagers.
Word: cagey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Initially US colloquial, of unknown origin. A connection with the behavior of caged prisoners (wary and closed-lipped) and caged animals (wary) has been speculated. If so, by surface analysis, cage + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪd͡ʒi/ 1. Wary, careful, shrewd. Example: We move like cagey tigers / Oh, we couldn't get closer than this Example: Samara: I will be in the shadows watching, Shepard. You will never be alone -- this I swear. But you cannot barge in with guns and allies. Samara: Morinth is far too cagey -- she'd simply disappear. This is a subtle, delicate act. Trust me. 2. Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information. Example: John F Kennedy’s secret talks with Soviet intelligence, surreptitious tape recordings and “girlfriend system” create a new portrait of a cunning and cagey JFK, according to a historian who has researched a treasure trove of recently released recordings and papers of the late president. Example: During a long interview about the startup, Bader and his co-founder Sean Dadashi were cagey about exactly how Ikaria works, as it’s still in development.
Word: cahoot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /kəˈhuːt/, /kəˈhut/ 1. A company or partnership. Labels: uncommon 2. Chiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion. Labels: uncommon Example: Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia. Example: Nay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspected, have already "suffered in the flesh;"—[…] 3. An accomplice, a partner. Labels: uncommon Example: Fisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine. Example: This particular day he set the scene by arranging with his cahoots to clean up the local operators.
Word: cahoot Part of Speech: verb Etymology: For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /kəˈhuːt/, /kəˈhut/ 1. To act in partnership. Labels: intransitive, uncommon Example: […] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?
Word: calla Part of Speech: noun 1. A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe. 2. A calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica).
Word: cam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *ǵómbʰos Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵembʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos Proto-Germanic *kambaz Proto-West Germanic ᚲᚨᛒᚨ Proto-West Germanic *kamb Old Dutch *kamb Middle Dutch kamp Dutch kamder. English cam Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb. Pronunciation: /ˈkæm/, [ˈkʰæm], /ˈkeə̯m/, [ˈkʰeə̯m], /ˈkɛə̯m/ 1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. 2. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. 3. A ridge or mound of earth. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Cum doun t' cam' soid 4. A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
Word: cam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of camera. Pronunciation: /ˈkæm/, [ˈkʰæm], /ˈkeə̯m/, [ˈkʰeə̯m], /ˈkɛə̯m/ 1. Camera. Labels: informal 2. A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
Word: cam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of camera. Pronunciation: /ˈkæm/, [ˈkʰæm], /ˈkeə̯m/, [ˈkʰeə̯m], /ˈkɛə̯m/ 1. To go on webcam with someone.
Word: cam Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈkæm/, [ˈkʰæm], /ˈkeə̯m/, [ˈkʰeə̯m], /ˈkɛə̯m/ 1. Alternative form of kam. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: camber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.bə/, /ˈkæm.bɚ/ 1. A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides. Labels: uncountable Example: From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through. Example: The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle. 2. The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force. Labels: uncountable Example: Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop. Example: Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly. 3. An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. Labels: uncountable 4. The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top. Labels: uncountable 5. The curvature of an airfoil. Labels: uncountable 6. A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather. Labels: uncountable
Word: camber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæm.bə/, /ˈkæm.bɚ/ 1. To curve upwards in the middle. 2. To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle. Example: Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.
Word: canna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Canna, from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew קָנֶה (qané), Aramaic קַנְיָא (qanyā), Classical Syriac ܩܢܝܐ (qanya), and English canon, cannon, canal, and channel. Doublet of cane and kaneh. Pronunciation: /ˈkænə/ 1. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers. Example: A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation. Example: Still, some of Mr. Cooper’s tender salvias are wintering over, and he plans to leave a few clumps of cannas in the ground next fall.
Word: canna Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Borrowed from Scots cannae, can + -nae. Pronunciation: /ˈkænə/ 1. Contraction of can + not: cannot. Labels: Cumbria, Jamaica, Scotland, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction Example: I canna' change the laws of physics.
Word: canna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian canna. Doublet of cane and kaneh. Pronunciation: /ˈkænə/ 1. A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. Labels: historical
Word: canna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of cannabis. Pronunciation: /ˈkænə/ 1. Clipping of cannabis. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, in-compounds, slang, uncountable Example: No high holiday is complete without an appropriate spread of canna-accessories—and we’re talking about more than just a glasstastic collection of pipes and bowls.
Word: cannel Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkænəl/ 1. A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cannel is dull black in colour while boghead is dull brownish.
Word: canto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant. Pronunciation: /ˈkæntəʊ/, /ˈkæntoʊ/ 1. One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book. 2. The treble or leading melody. 3. The designated division of a song.
Word: capo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of capotasto, from Italian. Pronunciation: /ˈkæpəʊ/, /ˈkeɪpoʊ/, /ˈkɑpəʊ/ 1. A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar and used to raise the pitch of all strings.
Word: capo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Vulgar Latin capus Italian capobor. English capo Borrowed from Italian capo (“head, chief”). Doublet of cape, caput, chef, chief, head, and Howth. Pronunciation: /ˈkæpəʊ/, /ˈkɑːpəʊ/, /ˈkæpoʊ/, /ˈkɑpəʊ/ 1. A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime. 2. A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
Word: capo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of kapo. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] the capo in a sub-camp in 1940. As a foreman and capo in the quarry he earned the reputation of treating Jewish[…]
Word: carboy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/, /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/ 1. A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids. Example: A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel. Example: He ran to his right and another shot came at his legs. It hit the floor and zoomed into a huge carboy of clams that split in half and emptied a hundred shell-fish over the floor.
Word: carboy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/, /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/ 1. To bottle in a carboy. Labels: transitive Example: Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.
Word: careen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin carīna Italian carenabor. French carènebor. English careen First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹiːn/ 1. To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. Labels: transitive Example: However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth. 2. To tilt on one side. Labels: intransitive 3. To lurch or sway violently from side to side. Labels: intransitive Example: They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening. 4. To tilt or lean while in motion. Labels: intransitive 5. To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. Labels: US, intransitive 6. To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. Labels: US, intransitive Example: The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames... Example: He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.
Word: careen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin carīna Italian carenabor. French carènebor. English careen First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹiːn/ 1. The position of a ship laid on one side.
Word: caret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō (“to lack”). Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ 1. A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point. 2. An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩. 3. An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. 4. A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩. Labels: nonstandard 5. A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩. Labels: nonstandard Example: […] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively. Example: The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (ˇ) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).
Word: caret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French caret. Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛt/, /ˈkæɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ɪt/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/ 1. A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata). Labels: archaic
Word: carl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English carl, from Old English carl, a borrowing from Old Norse karl (“man, husband”), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of ceorl, churl, and karl. Pronunciation: /kɑːl/, /kɑɹl̩/, /kɑrəl/ 1. A rude, rustic man; a churl. Example: In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves. 2. A stingy person; a niggard. Labels: Scotland, obsolete
Word: carl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. 1. To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: […] full of ache, sorrow, and grief, children again, dizzards, they carle many times as they sit, and talk to themselves, they are angry, waspish, displeased with everything […]
Word: carlin Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/ 1. Alternative form of carline (“old woman”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […] Example: The bedrid carlins, too, and orphan brats, / Come all on me, through his petitioning; […] 2. Alternative form of carling. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: carney Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of carnival + -ey (“diminutive, hypocoristic suffix”). 1. Alternative spelling of carny. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: carney Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of carnival + -ey (“diminutive, hypocoristic suffix”). 1. Alternative spelling of carny. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: casbah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba). Pronunciation: /ˈkaz.bɑː/, /ˈkæz.bɑ/ 1. The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East. 2. The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East. Example: The king called up his jet fighters / He said, "You better earn your pay / Drop your bombs between the minarets / Down the casbah way" 3. A person's house or flat/apartment. Labels: slang Example: He gave me an earth-shattering kiss and whispered, “Come to my casbah and let me ply you with cupcakes.” […] We made good time getting to his apartment.
Word: casein Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French caséine, formed from Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ine. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ.siːn/, /ˈkeɪ.siː.ɪn/, /ˈkeɪ.sin/, /keɪˈsin/, /ˈkeɪ.si.ɪn/ 1. A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since writing this report, we found that the intravenous injection of nucleoprotein, casein, and probably also other albuminous substances may produce small necroses of liver tissue in the guinea pig. This observation points to a possible danger in the use of casein solutions." Example: It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese. The whey proteins play a more minor role; they influence the texture of casein curds, and stabilize the milk foams on specialty coffees.
Word: catkin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle Dutch katteken (“catkin”, literally “little cat”). So named due to the resemblance of lengthier kinds to a kitten's tail, or, perhaps more probably, the fine fur found on some catkins (compare the pictures). Cognate with German Kätzchen, modern Dutch katje; compare French chaton (“kitten”; “catkin”). By surface analysis, cat + -kin. 1. A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.
Word: cavils Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cavil Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cavils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cavil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cedes Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /siːdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cede Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ceil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”). Pronunciation: /siːl/ 1. To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar. Labels: transitive Example: It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
Word: ceil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel Pronunciation: /siːl/ 1. A ceiling. Labels: poetic Example: […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […] 2. Abbreviation of ceiling. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: ceil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel Pronunciation: /siːl/ 1. To set a higher bound.
Word: ceils Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ceil Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: cereus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cereus. Doublet of serge. 1. Any of the genus Cereus, either as currently or formerly defined, of plants of the cactus family, natives to the Americas, from California to Chile.
Word: cerise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch. Pronunciation: /səˈɹiːz/, /səˈɹiːs/ 1. A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise. Example: His bold patterns in vivid colours predated the arrival in Paris of the Ballets Russes, though his later designs reflect the canary yellows, bright blues, jades, cerises […]
Word: cerise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch. Pronunciation: /səˈɹiːz/, /səˈɹiːs/ 1. Cherry-colored; a light bright red.
Word: cervix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cervīx (“neck”), see below. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.vɪks/, /ˈsɝ.vɪks/ 1. The neck. Example: I put my hands on Madeleine's hot cheeks, making a prize cup of my hands and her cervix, and tilted her head to one side. 2. The necklike portion of an organ or part of the body. 3. The cervix uteri, or lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina. Labels: specifically Example: Screening involves taking a small sample of cells from the cervix and looking for high-risk HPV that could develop into cancer if left untreated.
Word: chard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier card (remodelled after chardoon, obsolete form of cardoon), from Middle French carde, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of cardoon. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑːd/, /t͡ʃɑɹd/ 1. An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste. Labels: uncountable 2. Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chaws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chaw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chaws Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of chaw Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: chert Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɜːt/, /t͡ʃɝt/ 1. Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral. Labels: uncountable 2. A flint-like tool made from chert. Labels: countable
Word: chevy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛvi/ 1. A hunt or pursuit; a chase. Labels: countable Example: The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the swiftest. Howe enjoyed these chivies. He frequently omitted to report us if we gave him a good breathing. 2. A cry used in hunting. Labels: countable 3. The game of prisoners' bars. Labels: uncountable
Word: chevy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛvi/ 1. To chase or hunt. Labels: transitive Example: […] John, before taking his departure, had left the stable door and the front gate open, and that Tartar [a horse], having no halter on, had quietly walked out into the high road, and had been chevied up and down by the boys for the last quarter of an hour. Example: Hostler Jack chevies the Pardoner, who drops his pan, […] 2. To vex or harass with petty attacks. Labels: transitive Example: St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […] Example: So when I was done, and the fishing was as good as the start, I cut a long "staddle," with a bush at the top, and I just went for that school of trout. I chevied, harried and scattered them, up stream and down, until I could not see a fish. 3. To maneuver or secure gradually. Labels: transitive 4. Alternative spelling of chivvy. Labels: alt-of, alternative, transitive Example: He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres. Example: Odd's wouns! it was a proper hunt. Away went my gentlemen, whooping like madmen, with their coat skirts flapping in the breeze, chivying on the dogs and having a rare morning's sport. 5. To scurry. Labels: intransitive
Word: chic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably borrowed from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). The word is akin to Dutch schielijk (“hasty”), schikken (“to arrange”) and Old English sċēon (“to happen”). Pronunciation: /ʃiːk/, /ʃik/ 1. Elegant, stylish. Example: Mrs. Hominy, sir, is the lady of Major Hominy, one of our chicest spirits; and belongs Toe^([sic]) one of our most aristocratic families. Example: As he wisht to micks with the very chicest sosaity, and git the best of infmation about this country, Munseer Jools of coarse went and lodgd in Lester Square— […]
Word: chic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably borrowed from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). The word is akin to Dutch schielijk (“hasty”), schikken (“to arrange”) and Old English sċēon (“to happen”). Pronunciation: /ʃiːk/, /ʃik/ 1. Good form; style. Labels: uncountable Example: A little pear-grey glove, dropped and abandoned on the floor, may give its owner's sex and chic to the whole room; whilst an entire house-full of so-called womanly trifles will have only a neuter flavour about them, if chic be not there. Example: You can be assured that whatever article of wearable chic you pick-up at this Newbury St. shop, you will not see it walking up and down the streets a hundred times. 2. A person with (a particular type of) chic. Labels: countable Example: It was probably fortunate for him [Bernard Lazare] that the police, who started keeping a fairly regular watch on his activities in April 1893, also inclined towards thinking that he was merely following the fashion of other young ‘bourgeois chics’ (though at times they evidently had second thoughts). Example: Striving for admission in those exclusive circles so as to gain higher social recognition and acceptance by the chics, anthropologists who were already subservient to other philosophical musings such as hermeneutics and phenomenology, started to upgrade their language and to treat cultures as "texts".
Word: chic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chiʼik (“coati; buffoon”). 1. A kind of ritual buffoon or clown in Yucatec Maya culture. Example: the chics of Dzitas, Yucatán, if they caught a small boy, removed his clothes and rubbed gunpowder in his anus. In the Yucatec barrio of “Santiago,” the chics amuse crowds by lassoing men and fining them Example: Along with them came a man of the village known for his humorous antics; he was called the chic. Riding atop the cut tree, the chic danced and performed for the people as the procession made its way back to the village.
Word: chinch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish chinche (“bedbug”) or Portuguese chinche, from Latin cimex (“bedbug”). Doublet of cimex. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪnt͡ʃ/ 1. The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
Word: chinch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Related to chink. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪnt͡ʃ/ 1. To fill up. Labels: Newfoundland, transitive
Word: chit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-West Germanic *kittīn, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”). Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. Example: Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two. Example: “These are returns,” I said, “quite fit To me, who nursed you when a chit. For shame, lay by this envious art; Is this to act a sister's part?” 2. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman. Example: Hilda drove in silence for some time after this piece of unheard-of insolence from that chit Connie.
Word: chit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *chit, *chitte, from Old English ċīþ (“germ, seed, sprout, shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵī-, *ǵey(H)- (“to divide, part, split open, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kiede (“sprout”), dialectal German Keid (“sprout”). Doublet of chive (etymology 2) and scion. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. The embryonic growing bud of a plant. Example: Near-synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling Example: the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes 2. An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple. Labels: obsolete
Word: chit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *chit, *chitte, from Old English ċīþ (“germ, seed, sprout, shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵī-, *ǵey(H)- (“to divide, part, split open, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch kiede (“sprout”), dialectal German Keid (“sprout”). Doublet of chive (etymology 2) and scion. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant. Labels: UK, dialectal, intransitive Example: I have known it chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth of the Cistern and within three days come enough; the Maltster being forced to stir it six, seven or eight times a day, 2. To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 3. To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive Example: Gardeners argue among themselves about how necessary chitting is, but I stick with tradition and do chit my seed potatoes.
Word: chit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message. Labels: UK, dated, dialectal 2. A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system. Labels: UK, dialectal, historical 3. A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip. Labels: UK, dialectal 4. A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: 1.4.3 Also on the board, but turned face down at the beginning of the game, are chits representing treasure sites and sounds and warnings of monsters that may arrive on the map. When characters end a turn in the hex, these chits are revealed. As characters move around the board, more and more of these chits will be revealed, letting the players know where monsters and treasures are to be found. 5. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. Labels: China, India, Philippines, UK, dialectal Example: 1901, Falk, by Joseph Conrad He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer. Example: The "chit system" needs special explanation. Throughout the Far East, the practice prevails of not paying for an article upon purchase. Where the soldier asks for "jawbone," the civilian usually asks to sign a "chit." In a restaurant you sign the check the waiter brings you instead of paying. You buy cigars the same way, and drinks as well. All the clubs use the system and so do the stores. At the end of each month the chits are sorted and a boy is sent out to collect their value. 6. A restaurant bill or check Labels: Philippines, UK, dialectal Example: When asking for the bill or chit in a Philippine restaurant, you can make use of hand signals if the waiter is quite far off. 7. A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor. Labels: UK, US, dialectal, slang Example: Harry would call in a chit with some desk manager who owed him a favor. Example: Bill Clinton’s connections, and his endless supply of chits, only begin to capture his singular role in his wife’s presidential candidacy, advisers and friends of the couple say. […] And he is cashing in chits for her that Mr. Gore, post-impeachment, never asked him to do.
Word: chit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from specialized technical use of Etymology 2, above, “a bud; an excrescence” (Hunter 1882). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: Then lastly (with their Chit) they cleave their Laths into their thicknesses, by the Quarter Grain, which is that Grain which is seen to run in strait Lines towards the Pith. Example: This should be specially selected, cut into lengths, and split by wedges into bolts, with a dowel axe into fittings, and with a chit split into laths.
Word: chit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Euphemistic variation of shit. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. Shit. Labels: UK, US, dialectal, euphemistic, slang, uncountable
Word: chit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Euphemistic variation of shit. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt/ 1. Shit. Labels: UK, US, dialectal, euphemistic, slang
Word: chive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chive~cyve, from Old French chive~cive, from Latin cēpa (“onion”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪv/ 1. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion. 2. The leaves of this plant used as a herb. Labels: attributive, in-plural Example: Chive herb. (attributive use) Example: What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie / Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy / Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives 3. The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion. Labels: Trinidad-and-Tobago, dialectal
Word: chive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chive, chyve, variant of chith, chyth, from Old English ċīþ (“shoot, scion, sprout”). Doublet of chit and scion. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪv/ 1. A piece cut off; sliver. 2. The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen, especially of saffron. Labels: obsolete Example: 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,” […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name. Example: […] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]
Word: chive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪv/ 1. A knife. Example: For when that he hath nubbed as, / And our friends tip him no cole, / He takes his chive and cuts us down, / And tips us into a hole. Example: None of us know'd then—though the grabbing at Nan Turner's came off that very night—as Polly was the cause o' that 'ere, till it vos blown here at the Gate by some of the coves. Vell, she nammused, as you may guess, but fust poor old Madge Rhodes got a chive in her breather from Black Gil. 2. A file. 3. A saw.
Word: chive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”). Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪv/ 1. To stab. Example: Adieu to Haul-Cly, adieu to stopping Coaches, and adieu to all the hurry-scurry of Foot-Scampering, filing, chiving, milling, and sneaking[…] Example: He was as good a man as Jacky at any weapon that could be named, and if Jacky were game for a chiving (stabbing) match, he (Kavanagh) was ready for him. 2. To cut.
Word: chock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock. Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling. Example: On April 28, 1927, on Dutch Flats, below San Diego, Charles Lindbergh signaled chocks-away to those on the ground below him. A young mechanic named Douglas Corrigan nipped under the wing and pulled them away. Lindbergh gunned the plane and rolled it over the baked clay surface of the field, then gave it full throttle. Example: Artificial anchor points are those constructed from equipment carried by the team. These are usually the chocks or pitons placed in cracks or bolts drilled in the rock. 2. Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
Word: chock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock. Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch. Labels: transitive Example: Gondolas with drop or hopper doors not boarded over should have lading cleated and chocked so as to prevent shifting over doors. Example: Alejandro jumped out and set the emergency brake (chocking the left rear wheel with a wood block he kept behind the cabina). 2. To fill up, as a cavity. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: When the bells ring, the wood-work thereof shaketh and grapeth (no defect, but perfect of structure), and exactly chocketh into the joynts again; so that it may pass for the lively embleme of the sincere Christian, who, though he hath motum trepidationis, of fear and trembling, stands firmly fixt on the basis of a true faith. 3. To insert a line in a chock.
Word: chock Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *chokke (possibly attested in Middle English chokkefull), from Anglo-Norman choque (compare modern Norman chouque), from an Old Northern French variant of Old French çouche, çouche (“block, log”), of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *tsukka (compare Breton soc’h (“thick”), Old Irish tócht (“part, piece”), itself borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Doublet of stock. Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. Entirely; quite. Labels: not-comparable Example: Tom Hickey, our good-humored, blundering cabin-boy, decorated since poor Schubert's death with the dignities of cook, is in that little dirty cot on the starboard side; the rest are bedded in rows, Mr. Brooks and myself chock aft. Example: Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up.
Word: chock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb). Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. An encounter. Labels: obsolete
Word: chock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: French choquer. Compare shock (transitive verb). Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. To encounter. Labels: obsolete
Word: chock Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. Representing a dull sound. Example: This chair, which had been purchased by a certain man as a birthday present for his wife, developed an annoying “chock, chock” noise after it had been used a few days. Example: With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it. Didn’t he deserve a really big horse?
Word: chock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. To make a dull sound. Example: After some delay an apparently new chair was returned to the purchaser, and the incident seemed closed. Within forty-eight hours, however, it began to “chock” like the first chair, which it really was. The dealer had merely glued it up again and returned it. Example: She saw him hurry to the door, heard the bolt chock. He tried the latch.
Word: chock Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tʃɒk/, /t͡ʃɑk/ 1. An illicit, fermented alcoholic beverage brewed on-site. Labels: US, historical, uncountable
Word: chub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), from Middle English chubbe (“chub (the river fish)”), recorded since c.1450, probably an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), see kobbi. Cognate with Icelandic kubbur (“block, cube”), Norwegian kubb, kubbe (“block, stump, log”), Swedish kubb (“block, log”), and perhaps to Icelandic kubba (“to hew, chop, lop”) and Russian кубышка (kubyška). More at cob, kibble. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌb/, /t͡ʃʊb/ 1. One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: 2. One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially: 3. Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. Labels: broadly 4. Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes. Labels: broadly
Word: chub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from chubby. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌb/, /t͡ʃʊb/ 1. A chubby, plump, or overweight person. Labels: countable, slang 2. An overweight gay man who is part of the chubby subculture. Labels: countable, slang, specifically Example: It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy. 3. An erection of the penis. Labels: countable, slang Example: I shift in my seat trying to get comfortable refusing to believe that my dick is in full chub mode right now because of the girl whose pigtails I used to pull to try to drive her crazy when she was younger. Example: The DA was a hot young woman who gave me a chub when she finally showed up in a business skirt with a slit in the side, after I had sat around waiting for her for three hours. 4. A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat. Labels: countable Example: One thing that makes recovering product harder is grocery stores' and restaurants' practice of regrinding one company's lot, or "chub," of meat with those from other companies, thus making trace-back harder. Example: Chub packaging is versatile. Package sizes can range from miniature tubes up to 150-mm diameter and 1220 mm in length (6-in. diameter and 48 in. long). Virtually any pumpable paste can be filled into a chub pack 5. Excess body fat. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: so all this chub and lack of fitness will be something I embrace in two days when I quit my new diet and exercise plan.
Word: chub Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌb/, /t͡ʃʊb/ 1. To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays. Labels: Texas, US Example: The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death. Example: Did You Know? in 2009, House Democrats chubbed to death a bill to require voters to present valid ID at the polls because they feared that it would keep low-income and elderly citizens from voting.