nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: rough trade Part of Speech: noun 1. Rough or tough men who are available as casual sexual partners for other men (for example in exchange for money). Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Looked to me like one of these here sissies lookin' for rough trade, see, thought I'd roll him for some jack, what the hell, what can you do if you're sick an' can't work? Example: The tragic story of a young gay man who meets up with a piece of rough trade, gets convinced to become a drag hustler, and ultimately feels his life and relationships slipping away from him. 2. Violent or sadomasochistic sex, especially casual gay sex. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Marcus Miller, The Mother Truckers (San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1968) Truck drivers Joe, Jimmy, and Allyson cruise the nation's highways in a never-ending quest for rough trade. That's how they get their kicks and break free from the boredom of the road. When they cross paths with Gino and his biker gang, however, the truckers get more than they've bargained for. These hardcore homos are into heavy-duty sadomasochsim, and they think they've found three new slaves!
Word: straightjacket Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Due to the confusion between the spelling of strait in straitjacket and the more common word straight; more at straight-laced § Etymology. 1. Misspelling of straitjacket. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: tetrahemihexahedron Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρες (téssăres) Ancient Greek τετρᾰ- (tetră-)bor. English tetra- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-)lbor. English hemi- English hexahedron English tetrahemihexahedron From tetra- + hemi- + hexahedron. 1. A concave uniform polyhedron with four triangular faces, three square faces, twelve edges and six vertices.
Word: circlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle. Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːklət/, /ˈsɜɹklət/ 1. A small circle. 2. A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head. Example: He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before. 3. A crown without arches or a covering. Example: Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold. 4. A round body; an orb. Example: Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.
Word: aerial survey Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of collecting information by using aerial photography, or from remote sensing technology using other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared, gamma-ray, or ultraviolet.
Word: chardonnay Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Chardonnay. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: hermicity Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality that an operator has of being Hermitian. Labels: uncountable Example: Unitarity is to hermicity what orthogonality is to symmetry. (That is, conjugation by unitary matrices preserves a Hermitian matrix’s hermicity, just as conjugation by orthogonal matrices preserves a symmetric matrix’s symmetry: (OSO⁻¹)ᵀ=(OSOᵀ)ᵀ=OᵀᵀSᵀOᵀ=OSOᵀ=OSO⁻¹; (UHU⁻¹)^†=(UHU^†)^†=UH^†U^†=UHU^†=UHU⁻¹.
Word: sea horse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sehors (“walrus”), equivalent to sea + horse. Probably a calque of obsolete French cheval de mer or directly of Late Latin caballus marinus. Named so after the shape of its head being similar to horse's head. 1. Any of the small fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright. 2. Any of a series of high-value British stamps issued during the reign of King George V, featuring a depiction of Britannia on a chariot in choppy seas. 3. A hippopotamus. Labels: obsolete Example: As most authors mention the hippopotamus under the names of the sea-horse, or the sea-cow, he has sometimes been confounded with the latter, which inhabits only the northern seas. Example: The sea-horse teeth (so called) are the tusks of the hippopotamus. 4. A walrus. Labels: obsolete Example: One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses. 5. Synonym of hippocampus. Example: In the middle of each of theſe four little Gardens, there is a diſtinct Fountain, and in each of the Fountains there is placed a gilded Triton, ſitting on a gilded Sea-Horſe, or on a Sea-Goat, all upon Rockwork, like that in the middle Fountain[.] Example: Instead, it seems to be a unique case that ends in the tail of a hippocamp or seahorse, although with one fin now missing. Ultimately, the form might have been inspired by bent-leg vases produced in Greece.
Word: Hermitian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: After the French mathematician Charles Hermite (1822–1901), + -ian. Pronunciation: /hɜː(ɹ)ˈmɪʃən/ 1. Equal to its own transpose conjugate. Labels: not-comparable Example: If φ=φ^† then φ is Hermitian.
Word: Hermitian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the French mathematician Charles Hermite (1822–1901), + -ian. Pronunciation: /hɜː(ɹ)ˈmɪʃən/ 1. A Hermitian operator.
Word: Woden Part of Speech: name Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English Wōden, from Proto-Germanic *Wōdanaz. Doublet of Odin and Wotan. 1. The Germanic chief god, distributor of talents and god of wisdom and war (corresponding to Odin), especially in his Anglo-Saxon form. Example: From Woden, by which name they stiled Mercurie.
Word: tope Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off). Pronunciation: /toʊp/, /təʊp/ 1. To drink excessively; to get drunk. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: [I]f he has been toping all Night vvith his pretty Landlady Thetis; ſo has your Lordſhip vvith ſvveet little Jenny at the Thatcht-Houſe, […]
Word: tope Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /toʊp/, /təʊp/ 1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.
Word: tope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil தோப்பு (tōppu). Pronunciation: /toʊp/, /təʊp/ 1. A grove of trees. Labels: India Example: 1868?, James Grant, First Love and Last Love Concealed among the long rank grass of the mango tope the three lurkers watched the gate of the camp; but though many passcd out and in, the rider on the bay mare was not one of the number. Example: In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.
Word: tope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Pali thūpa. Doublet of stupa. Pronunciation: /toʊp/, /təʊp/ 1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
Word: tope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तोप (top), which in turn is borrowed from Classical Persian توپ (tōp). Ultimately loaned from a Turkic word, which is derived from Proto-Turkic *top. Compare Turkish top. Pronunciation: /toʊp/, /təʊp/ 1. A cannon (weapon). Labels: India, obsolete Example: They found him strongly posted near the fortress of Deeg, in the midst of bogs, tanks, and topes, and formidably defended by artillery.
Word: idiotic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English idiot Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English idiotic From idiot + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌɪdiˈɑtɪk/, [ˌɪɾiˈɑɾɪk], /ˌɪdiˈɒtɪk/ 1. Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy. 2. Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish Example: Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life.
Word: demos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”). Doublet of deme. Pronunciation: /ˈdiːmɒs/, /ˈdiˌmɑs/, /ˈdiˌmɔs/ 1. An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together. 2. The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people. Labels: plural, singular Example: When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.
Word: demos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. plural of demo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: demos Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of demo Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: elemental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English elementall, from Medieval Latin elementālis; compare Old French elementel. By surface analysis, element + -al. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ɛləˈmɛntəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound). Labels: not-comparable 2. Basic, fundamental or elementary. Labels: not-comparable Example: Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity. Example: The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York. 3. Of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water. Labels: not-comparable Example: Seth is the embodiment of mother-right, warfare, terror, human sacrifice; he is an elemental deity who deals in the fundamental reality of blood. 4. Of, or relating to a force of nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions. Labels: broadly, not-comparable
Word: elemental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English elementall, from Medieval Latin elementālis; compare Old French elementel. By surface analysis, element + -al. Pronunciation: /(ˌ)ɛləˈmɛntəl/ 1. A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. Example: Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts. Example: This time they got into print, all right. But the much-handled stories, written up with that blend of cautiously defensive frivolity which the press habitually employed to cover themselves in matters regarding sea-serpents, elementals, thought transference, and other irregular phenomena, prevented anyone from realizing that these accomplished plants at all resembled the quiet, respectable weed beside our rubbish heap.
Word: noughts and crosses Part of Speech: noun 1. A two-player game played on a three-by-three grid, in which players take it in turns to place their respective symbol (either a nought or a cross) in a cell of the grid, the objective being to form a row, column or diagonal of three of one's own symbol. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable
Word: morpion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French, from mordre (“to bite”) + Latin pedis (“louse”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)piən/ 1. A louse. Labels: obsolete Example: His Flea, his Morpion, and Punese, He 'ad gotten for his proper Ease
Word: nitrogen cycle Part of Speech: noun 1. The natural circulation of nitrogen, in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted to nitrogen oxides by lightning and deposited in the soil by rain, where it is assimilated by plants and either eaten by animals (and returned as faeces) or decomposed back to elemental nitrogen by bacteria.
Word: on-line Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of online. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: on-line Part of Speech: adv 1. Dated form of online. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: long live Part of Speech: verb 1. Used in the subjunctive mood: may he, she, they, or it live for a long time; may it prosper. Example: Long live the King!
Word: anharmonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der. English an- English harmonic English anharmonic From an- + harmonic. 1. Not harmonic. Inharmonic. 2. Exhibiting anharmonicity Example: An anharmonic oscillator is a perturbed version of a harmonic oscillator. 3. Describing the section of a line by four points, A, B, C, D, when their mutual distances are such that AB divided by CB is not equal to AD divided by CD.
Word: formalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English formal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English formalism From formal + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːməlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfɔɹml̩ˌɪzm̩/ 1. Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Heisenberg seems to have been motivated by his intense annoyance that Schrödinger's more intuitive version of quantum theory was more widely accepted than his own, even though both formalisms led to the same results. 6. A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dirac approaches quantum mechanics by means of a so-called symbolic method, the bracket formalism. Although this formalism has a mathematical flavour, in fact, it is based upon bold claims which lack mathematical foundation. Example: 1992, tuart M. Shieber, Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms, The MIT Press, page 51, It is this abstraction that justifies considering these methods as characterizing constraint-based formalisms in general, rather than an individual formalism. 7. The ontological view of mathematics as a mere collection of string manipulation rules. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: canonical formalism Part of Speech: noun 1. A formalism for a physical theory which is based upon the canonical equations of Hamiltonian dynamics.
Word: path integral formalism Part of Speech: noun 1. A formalism for a physical theory which is based upon Feynman path integrals.
Word: crumpet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First appears c. the 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. An alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”). The sense of a “desirable woman” is attested since 1936, possibly as Cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“a loose woman, a prostitute”) (itself possibly Cockney rhyming slang for heart or sweetheart). Note that muffin has a similar sense, and that, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Muffins and crumpets was a familiar street-cry in the UK. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌmpɪt/ 1. A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: T-Saint: I say we kill 'em! Donner: I say we hump 'em. Booga: I say we eat crumpets and tea. Deetee: Tasty! Crumpets and tea. All in favor of crumpets and tea, say "I." All: I! T-Saint: Shut up! Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea. 2. A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women. Labels: UK, countable, dated, slang, uncountable Example: Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet". Example: John and his mates have gone out to find themselves some crumpet. 3. The head. Labels: Australia, UK, countable, slang, uncountable Example: He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf. Example: "If I don't get down them stairs soon I'll go off my crumpet, sittin' about up here all day with the jumps on me."
Word: drowning Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/, /ˈdɹuːnɪn/ 1. present participle and gerund of drown Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: drowning Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɹaʊnɪŋ/, /ˈdɹuːnɪn/ 1. An instance of a person or animal drowning. Example: It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year. 2. An instance of a person or animal being drowned.
Word: tiger shark Part of Speech: noun 1. A large shark, of species Galeocerdo cuvier, of wide warm-water distribution, that hunts alone and has dark stripes across its back.
Word: thresher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *þreskaną Old English þrescan Middle English threschen Middle English -er Middle English thresshere English thresher From Middle English thresshere; equivalent to thresh + -er. The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹɛʃə(ɹ)/ 1. Anything or anyone that threshes. 2. A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail. Labels: historical 3. A modern farm machine for threshing grain, now a part of combine harvesters rather than a separate implement. 4. Ellipsis of thresher shark. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: liken Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English liknen (“to be comparable; to compare (often disparagingly); to make (someone) equal to another person; to regard (something) as equal to another thing; to regard (something) as likely; to resemble; to take (something) as a substitute; to apply, be adapted or suitable; to tend (to sin)”) [and other forms], from liken (“to be comparable; to compare; to be appropriate; to form”), from lik (“alike, analogous, similar; appropriate, suitable; equal; homogeneous; identical, the same; indicative; likely (to be or do something), probable; possible; simultaneous; more or most like (?)”) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs). Lik is derived from Old English ġelīċ (“like, similar”), from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar; equal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“like, similar; even, level”). The English word is analysable as like (adjective) + -en (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to make [adjective]’). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪk(ə)n/, /ˈlaɪkən/ 1. Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare. Labels: transitive Example: The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber. Example: And vvell may the preacher and plovvman be likened together: Firſt, for their labour in all ſeaſons of the year; for there is no time of the year in vvhich the ploughman hath not ſome ſpecial vvork to do. […] And then they alſo may be likened together for the diverſity of vvorks, and variety of offices that they have to do. 2. Chiefly followed by to: to make (oneself, someone, or something) resemble another person or thing. Labels: also, rare, reflexive, transitive Example: Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man, / That likeneth him to his Maker, who spake, and it was done. 3. To represent or symbolize (something). Labels: rare, transitive 4. Followed by to: to be like or resemble; also, to become like. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: angelfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From angel + fish; so called for its wing-like pectoral fins. 1. Any of the genus Pterophyllum of freshwater, tropical cichlids. 2. Any marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae, common on shallow tropical reefs. 3. Atlantic pomfret (Brama brama). Labels: South-Africa 4. Angelshark, of the family Squatinidae. 5. Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber). 6. cave angelfish, a karst-dwelling member of the family Balitoridae, found only in Thailand.
Word: chrysalis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/ 1. A butterfly pupa or the pupal stage of the butterfly lifestyle; (originally) any pupal stage of any insect wherein the pupa is largely inactive and takes no food. Example: Amongst the particular signs testifying the same thing, are also those exhibited by worms which feed on herbs, which, when they are to undergo a metamorphosis, encompass themselves as with a womb, that they may be born again, being therein changed into nymphs and chrysalisses, and presently into beautiful butterflies, when they fly into the air as into their heaven, where the female sports with her male companion, as one conjugal partner with another, and they nourish themselves from odoriferous flowers, and lay their eggs, thus providing that their species may live after them: […] Example: The herbaceous or herbiferous produce had such gummy gelatinous properties, that tiniest tiddles incorporated themselves into huge chrysalisses, from whence monster butterflies egged it, all the world over, like snowberries, during a moist September, as soon as the blossom is by! 2. The bare hanging cocoon of butterfly pupae; (originally) any cocoon. 3. Any limiting environment or situation escaped during one's growth or development in the manner of a butterfly. Labels: figuratively Example: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence. Example: No, no matter how far Ray Kurzweil gets with his artificial intelligence project at Google, we cannot simply rise from the chrysalis of matter as pure consciousness.
Word: chrysalis Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin chrysalis, variant of chrȳsallis, from Ancient Greek χρυσαλλίς (khrusallís), usually derived from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold, golden”) + -αλλ- + -ις (-is, “-id: forming feminine nouns”) but compare θρυαλλίς (thruallís) and ἀρυβαλλίς (aruballís), both believed to come from a Pre-Greek substrate on the basis of their unusual endings. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɪsəlɪs/ 1. To form a chrysalis or cocoon. Example: June 11. it chryſaliſed into a ſmall round ſilk-bag, mothed the 27th. […] The ground of the caterpillar is yellow, thick ſet with warts, and black-haired ſtars; chryſaliſed into a ſilk-bag Jan. 17. hatched the 28th into a yellow moth, ſhaded with red, as the painting repreſents it. Example: One memorable day last January a caterpillar which had chrysalised happily in a ventilator came out in the office in full glory as a butterfly, under the impression it was summer. 2. To metamorphize, to undergo metamorphosis, to transform. Example: He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas. Example: “THE PALACE OF PUCK” CHRYSALISED INTO MUSICAL COMEDY—BUTTERFLIES AT THE APOLLO
Word: lungful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lung + -ful. 1. As much as the lungs will hold. Example: The diver took in lungfuls of air as he returned to the surface. Example: For there are many kinds of freedom, not just the ones that involve surf and lungfuls of fresh air.
Word: flying fish Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flying, fish. 2. A tropical marine fish of the family Exocoetidae, having enlarged winglike pectoral fins enabling it to escape predators by taking short gliding flights through the air.
Word: frippery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪpəɹi/ 1. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter. Example: Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy. Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril. 2. Useless things; trifles. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided. Example: “At any rate you see me still unmarried. I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.” 3. Cast-off clothes. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs. 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. The place where old clothes are sold. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano. 6. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There's my pretty darling Kate; the faſhions of the times have almoſt infected her too. By living a year or two in town, ſhe is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the beſt of them. Example: […] but consider I was born in the land of talisman and spell, and my childhood lulled by tales which you can only enjoy through the gauzy frippery of a French translation.
Word: prefabricated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English fabricated English prefabricated From pre- + fabricated. 1. manufactured in advance, usually to a standard format, and then assembled on site Labels: not-comparable Example: A prefabricated home 2. invented or constructed in advance Labels: not-comparable Example: They both told the police a prefabricated version of events. Example: Some computer fonts include a prefabricated ellipsis.
Word: prefabricated Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English fabricate English prefabricate English -ed English prefabricated From prefabricate + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of prefabricate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ajaja Part of Speech: noun 1. A traditional Inuit song accompanied by dancing and drumming.
Word: ase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba àṣẹ. 1. An essential energy in West African religions. Labels: uncountable
Word: fic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin fānāticuslbor. ▲ French fanatiqueinflu. English fanatic English fancyinflu. English fan English fiction English fan fiction English fanfic English fic Clipping of fanfic, itself a clipping of fan fiction. Pronunciation: /fɪk/ 1. A fictional story set within a preexisting fandom; a fanfic. Labels: countable, slang
Word: gagging for it Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a strong desire for something; especially sex. Labels: UK, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang 2. Sexually aroused. Labels: UK, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang
Word: sugarcoat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor. Latin cotta Old French cottebor. Middle English cote English coat English sugarcoat From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill). Pronunciation: /ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt/, /ˈʃʊɡəˌkəʊt/ 1. To coat with sugar. Labels: transitive 2. To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster. Example: I went to the unheard-of trouble of re-writing the letter and saying the same harsh things softly, so as to sugarcoat the anguish and make it a little more endurable […]
Word: burlesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”). Pronunciation: /bə(ɹ)ˈlɛsk/ 1. Parodical; parodic Labels: dated Example: It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Example: Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.
Word: burlesque Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”). Pronunciation: /bə(ɹ)ˈlɛsk/ 1. A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people. Example: The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. 2. A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
Word: burlesque Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”). Pronunciation: /bə(ɹ)ˈlɛsk/ 1. To make a burlesque parody of. Example: When the venerable New York Times took my quote in which I described the neon elements as "burlesquing the myth of male dominance" and instead printed "he prefers to describe them as . . . symbols of male dominance" it became clear that dealing with journalists was going to be one long, rocky road. 2. To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. Example: They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
Word: burnish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English burnishen, burnysshen (“to polish, burnish; (figuratively) to brighten, give lustre to; to clean (something) until shiny; to decorate (with something shiny), adorn”) [and other forms], from burniss-, a stem of Old French burnir (compare, for example, the first-person present singular indicative form burnis), a variant of brunir (“to make clean and shiny, polish; to make brown”) (modern French brunir), from Frankish *brūnijan (“to polish, make resplendent”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (“to decorate; tan”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”, adjective), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”, adjective). Unrelated to burn. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnɪʃ/, /ˈbɝnɪʃ/ 1. To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine. Labels: transitive Example: In pottery, a stone is sometimes used to burnish a pot before firing, giving it a smooth, shiny look. Example: Lyke as the larke, vpon the somers day, / Whan Titan radiant burnisshith his bemis bryght, […] 2. Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet. Labels: transitive Example: His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet,[…]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head. And afterwards he Burniſheth the ſame, and then his head is ſaid to be full ſommed. Example: The Stagg or Buck burnisheth his head, by rubbing it againſt the trees, Het Hart wrijſt ſijn hooſt tegen de boomen. 3. To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: If a Lye, after it is molded, be not ſmooth enough, there is no inſtrumẽt to burniſh it, but an oath; Svvearing giues it cullor, & a bright complexion. Example: [I]f he is not burnishing thinks he all's Time does lose, / For Sir Jan, Sir Jan, &c. [i.e., no dinner gave a Muse.] 4. To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth. Labels: intransitive Example: Hovv you itch Michaell, hovv you burniſh! / VVill not this ſouldiers heat out of your bones yet, / Doe your eyes glovv novv? Example: So vvhen the VVar has rais'd a Storm, / I've ſeen a Snake in human Form, / All ſtain'd in Infamy and Vice, / Leap from the Dunghill in a trice, / Burniſh and make a gaudy ſhovv, / Become a General, Peer, and Beau, / Till Peace hath made the Sky Serene, / Then ſhrink into it's Hole again.
Word: burnish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English burnishen, burnysshen (“to polish, burnish; (figuratively) to brighten, give lustre to; to clean (something) until shiny; to decorate (with something shiny), adorn”) [and other forms], from burniss-, a stem of Old French burnir (compare, for example, the first-person present singular indicative form burnis), a variant of brunir (“to make clean and shiny, polish; to make brown”) (modern French brunir), from Frankish *brūnijan (“to polish, make resplendent”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (“to decorate; tan”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”, adjective), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”, adjective). Unrelated to burn. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnɪʃ/, /ˈbɝnɪʃ/ 1. A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining. Labels: uncountable Example: With a good burnish, the old table should fetch a higher price.
Word: burnish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English barnishen, barnish (“to grow big (with child), to become pregnant; to grow stout or strong”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from barn (“child, offspring; infant; unborn child; human being, person; male person, man (especially a young man or young warrior)”). (from Old English bearn (“child”), from Proto-West Germanic *barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)) + -ishen (suffix forming verbs). Pronunciation: /ˈbɜːnɪʃ/, /ˈbɝnɪʃ/ 1. Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out. Example: A man Grovveth in heigth and length untill he be one and tvventie yeares of age: then beginneth he to ſpread and burniſh in ſquareneſſe. Example: We must not all run up in height, like a hop-pole, but also burnish and spread in breadth: then shall we be well proportioned and complete. 2. Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell. Labels: broadly Example: [Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects] is to paſſe a running examination ouer the vvhole Edifice, according to the properties of a vvell ſhapen Man. As […] vvhether the Fabrique bee of a beautifull Stature, vvhether for the breadth it appeare vvell burniſhed, […] and ſo forth. Example: My thoughts began to burniſh, ſprout, and ſvvell, / Curling vvith metaphors a plain intention, / Decking the ſenſe, as if it vvere to ſell.
Word: shepherdess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scheperdesse, shepperdesse; equivalent to shepherd + -ess. 1. A female shepherd. Labels: dated Example: I thought it a crime to refuse nature the maintenance of a life much more grievous than death. I changed my* dress for the simple habit of a shepherdess, and embraced this state as my only refuge; since that time all my consolation has been to weep over this grave, which shall be my own. 2. A large and deep armchair with a cushion.
Word: shepherdesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shepherdess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: calzone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian calzone (literally “stocking, trouser”). Doublet of chausson. Pronunciation: /kæltˈsəʊni/, /kælˈzəʊni/, /kælˈzoʊn/, /kælˈzoʊneɪ/ 1. A baked Italian turnover made of pizza dough and stuffed with tomato, cheese and other toppings. Example: It was a much classier presentation than the oil-stained paper plate I would use to transport my calzones of yore, and it tasted better, too. […] That was the first calzone I made after my Lucali meal, and the recipe is a good template for a calzone of the cheesiest kind.
Word: sheepherder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sheep + herder. 1. A person who herds sheep; a shepherd.
Word: sheepherders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sheepherder Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lowball Part of Speech: adj Etymology: American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball. 1. Significantly below the actual cost or value. Example: In April, NASA selected SpaceX to build the lunar lander for the Artemis program, thanks in part to a lowball $2.9 billion bid. Example: At the meeting last Wednesday during which these changes were announced, the interim head of the NEH also estimated that each of the 250 statues would cost $100,000 to $200,000, bringing the total cost as high as $50 million. And this may have been a lowball figure.
Word: lowball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball. 1. The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop. 2. A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.) 3. A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser. 4. An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass. 5. Clipping of lowball glass. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: lowball Part of Speech: verb Etymology: American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball. 1. To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent. Labels: transitive Example: It may be, but it is worth noting that if the mortality rate is as low as 0.7% as some experts now hope rather than between 3 and 5% as the data suggests so far, that is still a lot of dead Americans. Californian health officials are bracing for a 56% infection rate. In New York, they are talking about a range of between 30% and 80%, so if we just lowball that, that is close to seven hundred thousand dead Americans as a result of COVID-19. Modeling based on current social and economic disruption actually puts the number at 1.2 million people dying, all the way up to 2.2 million if no measures are taken to reduce contagion and the virus is allowed to run its course. 2. To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low. Labels: transitive Example: A few other news flashes from the interview: The president of the United States thinks that the government should not pay its bills in full. It should lowball its contractors and force them to accept half payment, he said. 3. To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly. Labels: transitive
Word: shocked Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ʃɒkt/ 1. Surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback, particularly when also indignant. Example: We were shocked to see how ill she was. 2. Suffering from shock. Example: The patient is shocked. 3. Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves. Example: shocked quartz 4. Subjected to electric shock. Example: Dr. Kurt Urban, most shocked man in the world, on roof of Mt. Generoso lightningproof cabin.
Word: shocked Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ʃɒkt/ 1. simple past and past participle of shock Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: shopgirl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English shoppe English shop Proto-West Germanic *gaurā Proto-West Germanic *-ilā Proto-West Germanic *gurilā Old English *gyrele? Middle English girle English girl English shopgirl From shop + girl. 1. A girl who works in a shop; a young saleswoman. Example: 'Makes no odds,' conceded George generously. 'Shopgirl—kept company with a foreigner—known as Peter. Even without anything else there ought to be no difficulty in finding her.'
Word: shopgirls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shopgirl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shoreline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shore + line. 1. The divide between land and a body of water. Example: An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage. 2. The line on a map that illustrates this.
Word: shorelines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shoreline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hats Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hæts/ 1. plural of hat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hats Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hæts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hat Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sharecropping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From share + cropping. 1. The system where a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Slim came from sharecropping stock, his people farmed land but never owned it
Word: sharecropping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From share + cropping. 1. present participle and gerund of sharecrop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lysdexia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Humorous formation from dyslexia by metathesis, as if due to dyslexia. 1. Dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia. Labels: humorous, uncountable Example: 1990, Sharon Arthur Moore et al., Dyslexia, what's lysdexia? [title] in Reading Teacher 43 Example: 1995, Jerrold S Maxmen, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Wu8FDU9botYC&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&sig=c8XER34_hJ5450q0r14rGvApggA More complex problems such as dyslexia (or as one child once said, lysdexia) may merit a variety of special interventions.
Word: downfall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From down- + fall. In this spelling, from 16th century; spelled as two words from 13th century. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnfɔːl/ 1. A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Example: The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as [Wayne] Rooney tucked in at the back post. 2. The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Orson Scott Card It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. 3. An act of falling down. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a downfall of rain Example: [T]he prominent character of leading young lady or heroine, which Paula was to personate, was really the most satisfactory in the whole list for her. For although she was to be wooed hard, there was just as much love-making among the remaining personages; while, as Somerset had understood the play, there could occur no flingings of her person upon her lover's neck, or agonized downfalls upon the stage, in her whole performance, [...]
Word: downfall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From down- + fall. In this spelling, from 16th century; spelled as two words from 13th century. Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊnfɔːl/, /daʊnˈfɔːl/ 1. To fall down; deteriorate; decline. Labels: intransitive Example: [...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall" or "fall down." Example: Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.
Word: kingpin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From king + pin. Pronunciation: /ˈkɪŋ.pɪn/ 1. The axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place. Example: The employees brought back the apparently disappointing news that almost all components showed signs of wear. The sole exceptions were the kingpins, which remained virtually unworn. To the employees’ surprise, [Henry] Ford, instead of expressing pride in his well-made kingpins, declared that the kingpins were overbuilt, and that in the future they should be made more cheaply. 2. The pivot or connector between a tractor and trailer in the fifth-wheel coupling of semi-trailer truck. 3. The most important person in a usually evil undertaking or organization, often a druglord. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: The rare salarian females are cloistered on their worlds out of tradition and respect. Powerful female Dalatrasses are dynasts and political kingpins. They determine the political course of their respective regions through shrewd negotiation. Example: As anyone who has ever paid remote attention to global affairs might have predicted, violence has broken out across several Mexican states in the aftermath of the killing – which is generally what happens when you take out a cartel kingpin. 4. The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex. 5. The bolt holding together the truck of a roller skate or skateboard.
Word: kinesthetic Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˌkɪnɪsˈθɛtɪk/ 1. Of or relating to kinesthesia.