nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: facepalm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From face + palm. Attested since at least 2001. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪsˌpɑː(l)m/, /ˈfeɪsˌpɑ(l)m/ 1. A gesture of bringing one or both palms to the face, with various interpretations including exasperation, chagrin, frustration, embarrassment (one's own or vicarious), etc. Example: [Cue: William Tell Overture] [sound of Frank Zappa's “San Ber'dino” being played on Japanese instruments] [Kevin (the Muse): “Wargh! It SAID _William Tell!”] [Cantata11 (walking up with a koto): “Oof. Sorry. It's just that the girls had gotten warmed up to the other thingy...”] [Kevin: “William _Tell_, 11.” (facepalm)] Example: “Do you think Carl Sagan might be available?” There was a mass-facepalm. “No.” they chorused.
Word: facepalm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From face + palm. Attested since at least 2001. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪsˌpɑː(l)m/, /ˈfeɪsˌpɑ(l)m/ 1. To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief, disgust or shame; for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun. Example: Christie blinked, then *looked* at Steven. “Do you have any idea what might be different?” “Um... No? Christie facepalmed. “Well, her hair was red this morning, right? It's blonde now. You figure it out.” Example: “Yay! I know you! You're Nicholas Lee, the detective who got fired 'cos of us!” Nina exclaimed happily. Lee facepalmed. “Arrgh...” “Nina...” Tris muttered. “Let's quit while we're ahead, okay?” 2. To bring one’s face down to one’s cupped hand or hands.
Word: tapers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of taper; thin candles used for lighting other candles. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gouging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gouge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: gouging Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who gouges. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A mark produced by gouging. Labels: countable Example: The damage consists in general of more or less deep cuts or gougings on the flesh side of the hide, often penetrating through the hide to the grain side.
Word: mangu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mangú. 1. Mashed plantain. Labels: uncountable
Word: gouger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English gouge Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English gouger From gouge + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɡaʊdʒ.ə/, /ˈɡaʊd͡ʒ.ɚ/ 1. Someone who gouges. 2. A thug or lout. Labels: Ireland, slang
Word: Kowalski Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kowalski. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: summed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of sum Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: trammel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”). Pronunciation: /ˈtræməl/ 1. Whatever impedes activity, progress, or freedom, such as a net or shackle. Example: [They] disclaim the trammels of any sordid contract. Example: The men who came here were able to throw off all the trammels of tradition and established doctrine. 2. A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle 3. A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. Example: 1633, The tuck carrieth a like fashion , save that it is narrower meshed , and ( therefore scarce lawful ) with a long bunt in the midst : the trammel differeth not much from the shape of this bunt, and serveth to such use as the wear and haking. 4. A vertical bar with several notches or chain of rings suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots by a hook which has an easily adjustable height. 5. Braids or plaits of hair. Example: Her golden lockes she roundly did uptye In breaded tramels, that no looser heares Did out of order stray about her daintie eares. 6. A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble. 7. An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil. 8. A beam compass.
Word: trammel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”). Pronunciation: /ˈtræməl/ 1. To entangle, as in a net. Example: the scarce-snatched hours Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers: — Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars. 2. To confine; to hamper; to shackle. Labels: transitive Example: In their vote, you would get something of some value, at least, however small; but in the other case, only the trammelled judgment of an individual, of no significance, be it which way it might. Example: Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.
Word: sum up Part of Speech: verb 1. To produce a total by adding. Labels: ambitransitive Example: We summed up the donations and found that we had just enough to pay the bills. 2. To summarize. Labels: ambitransitive Example: So, to sum up your argument, what you are saying is that it is impossible. Example: To sum up, the Furka-Oberalp Railway is a good example of the adaptation of the rack-and-pinion system to a main line over mountainous terrain.
Word: tree lawn Part of Speech: noun 1. A strip of unpaved land, especially if planted with trees, running alongside a street, usually between the sidewalk and street. Example: Detached sidewalks generally occur in residential areas and are normally separated from the curb by a tree lawn.
Word: hopped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hopped Part of Speech: adj 1. Impregnated with hops.
Word: popped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: roped Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: roped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rope Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: raped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹeɪ̯pt/, /ɹæɪ̯pt/, /ɹept/, /ɾeːpʈ/ 1. simple past and past participle of rape Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tweedle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle Pronunciation: /ˈtwiːdəl/ 1. A sound of the kind made by a fiddle. 2. A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine. Labels: UK, slang Example: Reggie had a way with him. People trusted him, and he could always pick up a few pounds when he needed them from the jargoons and the tweedle.
Word: taped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tape Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tapped Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tæpt/ 1. simple past and past participle of tap Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tapped Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /tæpt/ 1. Having a tap or taps. Example: a tapped keg; a tapped maple tree 2. Of a card or playing piece: used up for the current turn. 3. Crazy, eccentric. Labels: slang Example: This is one weird tribe, who get their kicks from electrocution, poisoning and causing car crashes (and that's when they're in a good mood!). They consider a holiday in the Bermuda Triangle the ultimate and anyone who keeps floating hands as pets has to be a bit tapped. Example: His eyes danced with delight, and he laughed and told me I was tapped in the head as he mussed up my hair, provoking me to kick him in the butt. 4. Unfocused, inattentive; dozy. Labels: Multicultural-London-English
Word: topped Part of Speech: adj 1. Having or consisting of a top; covered with a top layer.
Word: topped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of top Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: trashed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /tɹæʃt/ 1. simple past and past participle of trash Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: trashed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /tɹæʃt/ 1. drunk. Labels: slang Example: I thought, let's go out and get trashed. Example: Gotta go, my love. Todd's buying pink panty droppers. Oh my, oh me, I'm trashed.
Word: junked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of junk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: junk yard Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of junkyard. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: junkyard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From junk + yard. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkˌjɑɹd/ 1. A place where rubbish is discarded. 2. A business that sells used metal or items.
Word: bonded Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbɒndɪd/, /ˈbɑndɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of bond Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bonded Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbɒndɪd/, /ˈbɑndɪd/ 1. Secured by bond. Labels: not-comparable Example: bonded duties 2. Joined securely, either with adhesive, heat process or pressure. Labels: not-comparable Example: To save weight, good use is made of resin-bonded glass fibre. 3. Synonym of bottled in bond. Labels: not-comparable Example: Harry Meadows ... was in his late forties, ate too much, chain-smoked cheap cigars, drank bonded Bourbon, and was, in the words of his doctor, the Western world's leading candidate for a huge coronary infarction.
Word: inglorious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin inglōriōsus. By surface analysis, in- + glorious. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡlɔɹi.əs/, /ɪnˈɡloʊɹi.əs/ 1. Ignominious; disgraceful. Example: Oh inglorious league: / Shall we vpon the footing of our land, / Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimiſe, / Inſinuation, parley, and baſe truce / To Armes Inuaſiue? Example: Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise. 2. Not famous; obscure. Labels: archaic Example: Great Julius [Caesar], whom now all the world admires / The more he grew in years, the more inflam’d / With glory, wept that he had liv’d ſo long / Inglorious: but thou yet art not too late.
Word: disgraceful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From disgrace + -ful. Pronunciation: [dɪsˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ], [dɪzˈɡɹeɪsfəɫ] 1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful. Example: Fourthly, in the disgracefullest defeat at Hiftaniola that ever this Kingdom suffered in any age or time. Example: Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ; 2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation. Example: I dono' where she 's raised, but she do go on de most disgracefullest since she been here. Example: To a good golfer a shank is disgracefuller than being dead drunk or in jail.
Word: goop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1930s, perhaps a variant of goo; compare gloop, and glob. Pronunciation: /ɡuːp/ 1. A thick, slimy substance; goo. Labels: informal, uncountable, usually Example: The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew. 2. A silly, stupid, or boorish person. Labels: countable, dated, derogatory, informal, usually Example: I pointed out that Stiffy, who is pure padded cell from the foundation up, was planning to marry the Rev. H.P. Pinker, himself as pronounced a goop as ever preached the Hivites and Hittites
Word: goop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1930s, perhaps a variant of goo; compare gloop, and glob. Pronunciation: /ɡuːp/ 1. To apply a thick, slimy, or goo-like substance. Labels: informal Example: Airstream, 1977. He showed her ones on eBay that looked like blunt rifle slugs, went for crazy money in any condition at all. The uncle had gooped this one over with white expansion foam, gone gray and dirty now, to stop it leaking and for insulation. 2. To stare; gawk. Labels: dated, informal Example: Young John blushed at being found “gooping” at himself in the glass. Example: He always said vegetables are grown to be eaten, not gooped at. Even a donkey doesn't want a carrot a foot long. I've always remembered. Of course he never won a thing at the Show.
Word: duologue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Italic *duō Latin duo English duo- English -logue English duologue From duo- + -logue. 1. A conversation between two persons; dialogue. Example: It was extraordinary to hear the third voice. The hour's ritual had only demanded a duologue against the horrible noise of the torture. Example: This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters [myself]. 2. A dramatic performance or piece in the form of a dialogue limited to two speakers.
Word: debates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of debate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: debates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of debate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: dissension Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissencioun, from Middle French dissention, discention, from Old French dissension, from Latin dissensio. Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɛnʃən/ 1. An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde[…] Example: The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension, of the supporters of each region.
Word: chit-chat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc. 1. Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He speaks rapidly, with clarity and with obvious enthusiasm. No time is wasted on idle chit-chat. Example: “What are you doing down here, father?” “Just having a bit of chitchat with your curious creation.” “Right.” 2. Gossip. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chit-chat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Reduplication of chat. Compare tittle-tattle, flim-flam, pitter-patter, etc. 1. To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters. Labels: colloquial, intransitive
Word: double talk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ. 1. Doublespeak. Labels: uncountable Example: "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.] 2. Lies, especially in a formal political statement. Labels: uncountable 3. Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect. Labels: uncountable Example: [Sid] Caesar's vaudeville format included burlesques—in the nineteenth-century meaning of parody—featuring silent-film and film noir send-ups; Italian opera produced in Caesar's ad-libbed, faux-Italian double-talk;[…] 4. A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible. Labels: uncountable 5. A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals. Labels: uncountable
Word: bicker Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bikjaną Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan Old Dutch *bikken Middle Dutch bickenbor. Proto-Germanic *-urōną Proto-West Germanic *-urōn Old English -erian Middle English -eren Middle English bikeren English bicker From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪkɚ/, /ˈbɪkə/ 1. To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner. Example: They bickered about dinner every evening. Example: petty things about which men cark and bicker 2. To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.) Example: Mean time unnumber'd glittering Streamlets play'd, / And hurled every-where their Waters ſheen; / That, as they bicker'd through the ſunny Glade, / Though reſtleſs ſtill themſelves, a lulling Murmur made. Example: I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley. 3. To patter. 4. To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. Example: And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.
Word: bicker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bikjaną Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan Old Dutch *bikken Middle Dutch bickenbor. Proto-Germanic *-urōną Proto-West Germanic *-urōn Old English -erian Middle English -eren Middle English bikeren English bicker From Middle English bikeren (“to attack”), from Middle Dutch bicken (“to stab, thrust, attack”) + -er (frequentative suffix), from Old Dutch *bikken, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash, break”). See also Old English becca (“pickax”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), German picken (“to peck, pick at”), Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”); compare also German Low German bickern (“to nibble, gnaw”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪkɚ/, /ˈbɪkə/ 1. A skirmish; an encounter. Labels: countable 2. A fight with stones between two parties of boys. Labels: Scotland, countable, obsolete Example: Even if he did not take part in the fighting himself, he was no doubt familiar with those who had been taught, ass Darsie Latimer was by Alan Fairford, to "smoke a cobbler, spin a lozen, head a bicker, and hold the bannets" - in other words, to break a window, head a skirmish with stones, and hold the bonnet[…] 3. A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Bicker process varies by club, and there are often concerns of the rights of female students during bicker […]
Word: bicker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scots bicker, from Middle English biker. Doublet of beaker. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪkɚ/, /ˈbɪkə/ 1. A wooden drinking-cup or other dish. Labels: Scotland Example: …the liquors were handed around in great fulness, the ale in large wooden bickers, and the brandy in capacious horns of oxen.
Word: thickness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɪknəs/ 1. The property of being thick (in dimension). Labels: uncountable 2. A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres. Example: Guitar picks come in different thicknesses. 3. A layer. Labels: countable Example: We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on. 4. The quality of being thick (in consistency). Labels: uncountable Example: Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness. 5. The property of being thick (slow to understand). Labels: informal, uncountable 6. The minimum number of planar subgraphs which a given graph can decompose into. Labels: countable
Word: thickness Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwīnassī (“thickness”), equivalent to thick + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian tsjokkens (“thickness”), Old High German dickinessī, dikkinissi, diknissi (“thickness, density”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassitūdō (“thickness”). Pronunciation: /ˈθɪknəs/ 1. To trim (wood) to a consistent thickness using a thickness planer. Labels: transitive Example: Even if the parts are thicknessed by machine, check for and plane out any cup with a bench plane.
Word: announcements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of announcement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vulturine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vulturinus (“vulture-like”). 1. Pertaining to or having characteristics of vultures. Example: Somewhat below the middle height, he was lean of body and vulturine of face. Example: Taking the cooked bird in her gnarled hands she stripped off the flesh with the few teeth she still had left in her head, gnawing on it with a vulturine concentration until it was just grey bones. 2. Predaceous. Example: A species of crow in vast numbers is generally found to attend the larger kind of birds of prey. It is uncommonly bold and ravenous, and all its habits are vulturine […]
Word: breads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bread Labels: form-of, plural
Word: breads Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bread Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: predaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin praedor + -aceous. 1. Surviving by preying on other animals.
Word: cliches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cliche Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cliches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cliche Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gaudy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y. Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld. A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔː.di/, /ˈɡɔ.di/, /ˈɡɑ.di/ 1. Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner. Example: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Example: Though, I confeſs, Paris has its Charms; but to me they are like thoſe of a Coquette, gay and gavvdy; they ſerve to amuſe vvith, but a Man vvould not chuſe to be marry'd to them. 2. Fun; merry; festive. Labels: obsolete Example: Let's have one other gaudy night. Example: And for my strange petition I will make Amends hereafter by some gaudy day
Word: gaudy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y. Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld. A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔː.di/, /ˈɡɔ.di/, /ˈɡɑ.di/ 1. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. Labels: archaic Example: In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace. Example: The circling year was to him like the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set at regular intervals along the string, […]
Word: gaudy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gaudium (“joy”). Doublet of joy and jo. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔː.di/, /ˈɡɔ.di/, /ˈɡɑ.di/ 1. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation. Example: And since then, Mary had married and scarcely been heard of; except that she had haunted the College with a sick persistence, never missing an Old Students’ Meeting or a Gaudy.
Word: ASTMS Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, a trade union. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Word: MSF Part of Speech: name Etymology: Initialisms. 1. Initialism of Manufacturing, Science and Finance, a British trade union (now part of Unite). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. initialism of Médecins Sans Frontières Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MSF Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialisms. 1. Initialism of main support frame. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: MSF Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Initialisms. 1. Initialism of male seeking female or masc seeking femme. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Near-synonym: M4F
Word: MSF Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Rugby transmitter’s call sign, MSF, where M is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to the United Kingdom, and the letters SF were allocated for no documented reason. 1. The MSF radio time signal, formerly the Rugby clock, a time signal by the UK NPL.
Word: AScW Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Association of Scientific Workers. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of
Word: UNISON Part of Speech: name Etymology: Since 1993. Created as a play on unison, as the united workers act in unison. Pronunciation: /ˈjunɪsən/, /ˈjunɪzən/ 1. A public-sector trade union in the United Kingdom. Labels: UK
Word: surgeons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surgeon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nieces Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnisɪz/ 1. plural of niece Labels: form-of, plural
Word: santoku Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Japanese 三徳 santoku, the three virtues, from 三 san: three + 徳 -toku: virtue. 1. A Japanese knife for general culinary usage.
Word: hayseed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hay + seed. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪˌsid/ 1. Seeds from grass that has become hay. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I lay and lay, and was doctored and doctored,; until at last I drove the physicians from me, and called in an apothecary from Nicolai who had cured an old woman of a malady similar to my own—cured her merely with a little hayseed. 2. Cruft from bits of hay that sticks to clothing, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A rustic person; a yokel or bumpkin. Labels: countable
Word: hayseed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hay + seed. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪˌsid/ 1. Characteristic of or befitting a hayseed (person); rustic, uncultivated, backwater. Example: The Corporation of Western Reserve University, with entire unanimity and ombliferous enthusiasm, made you to-day an LL. D. It is no small shakes of a hayseed College, I would have you know. Example: And when he got his first demand, he shook his head and put a pained expression on his face, and in his most hayseed manner allowed as how things were kind of different now.
Word: salami technique Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the idea of cutting a salami one small slice at a time. 1. The reaching of a goal by using small, consistent steps. Example: The salami technique was developed by the Communists in response to the need for fooling the majority of the people in any given country during the critical period of the Red takeover. Example: Bliss recommends using a salami technique to overcome procrastination. Whether dealing with salami or a task, cut the subject into as many small manageable slices as possible and both become more appetizing.
Word: tactique Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of tactic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes, when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony.
Word: liverwurst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Partial calque of German Leberwurst, equivalent to liver + wurst. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvəwɜːst/, /ˈlɪvɚwɝst/ 1. Spreadable sausage made with liver. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: liver sausage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of German Leberwurst. 1. Spreadable sausage made with liver.
Word: knackwurst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Knackwurst. 1. A highly seasoned scalded sausage made from beef, pork, and fatty tissue similar to a frankfurter, but shorter and thicker.
Word: knockwurst Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of knackwurst. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: geezer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From guiser. Compare also German Low German Kieser (“an obstinate person; brute; savage”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡizɚ/, /ˈɡiːzə/ 1. A male person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dated, informal Example: You are a silly young geezer. Example: See the hoverboard-riding geezer? This close to payin' a G for a shot of my cousin Calvin's molars. 2. Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy. Labels: Cockney, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: Geezers need excitement / If their lives don't provide 'em this, they incite violence / Common sense, simple common sense Example: He turned out to be a proper geezer who was willing to listen to my proposition that if he took the door at the Ministry, I would pay him £400 a month to mark my cards. 3. Term of address for a male. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: Hi, geezer, you alright? 4. An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man. Labels: Canada, US, derogatory, informal, mildly, sometimes Example: In the right-hand division lay the two old geezers, as Sandy styled the landlord and his wife. Example: The technical term for a female geezer is "old broad," but this is irrelevant, as nobody in Hollywood makes films about women over 55. 5. Wife; old woman. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, archaic, slang Example: He'd flirt and boat, but never wrote / A note to his old geezer. Example: This frizzle-headed old geezer had a chin on her as rough well, as rough as her family, and they're rough 'uns.
Word: geezer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See geyser. Pronunciation: /ˈɡizɚ/, /ˈɡiːzə/ 1. Alternative form of geyser (“domestic water boiler”). Labels: South-Africa, alt-of, alternative
Word: guiser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From guise + -er. 1. A person in disguise, as for a parade or festival.
Word: wurst Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in 1890. Borrowed from German Wurst (“sausage, wurst”), from Middle High German wurst, from Old High German wurst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti (“something turned or twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-, *werd- (“to turn”). Akin to Old Saxon worst (“wurst”), Old English weorþan (“to turn, become”). Doublet of wors. Unrelated to worsted (“type of yarn”). More at worth (“to be, become, betide”). Pronunciation: /wɝst/, /vɝst/, /vʊɹst/, /wɜːst/, /vɜːst/ 1. A German- or Austrian-style sausage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If you pick up a package of liverwurst (German wurst, sausage), you may find that it contains, in addition to liver, nonfat dry milk, salt, corn syrup, flavorings (unspecified), sodium erythrobate, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, gelatin, and dextrose. The list reads like a list of chemicals for a laboratory experiment! If you wish to avoid “chemicals” in your food, wurst is one of the worst things you can buy. Example: We had a long walk ahead to Stuttgart. We stopped to eat at a little meat market just outside Augsburg. I bought a loaf of bread and chose a couple of packages of wurst. It really was good.
Word: slave-girl Part of Speech: noun 1. A female slave. 2. A young female slave (submissive partner) in a BDSM relationship.
Word: bushwhack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bush + whack. 1. To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress. 2. To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country. 3. To ambush.
Word: GQ Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of general quarters. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GQ Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Gentleman's Quarterly, a magazine. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GQ Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of genderqueer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. well-dressed and good-looking.
Word: mateship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mate + -ship. Cognate with Dutch maatschap (“partnership”). 1. The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate. Labels: countable, uncountable, usually Example: Paul Jones profited by his brother′s position and counsel to improve himself in navigation and other professional studies, and was so successful in the endeavour, that he was deemed worthy of being appointed, on his return to Whitehaven, to a third mateship in a vessel in the slave-trade. 2. A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition. Labels: countable, obsolete, usually Example: […]as, for instance, the contract termed mateship, by which one whaling-ship meeting another forms a partnership in the proceeds of the expedition. 3. Fellowship; companionship. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: “Don′t mind if I do,” I answered, and thus begun a mateship that in the course of the next few months was to yield to each of us a fairly big experience of adventure, and, what was more acceptable to me, a good round sum in cash. 4. Friendship, particularly between men, such as develops in shared adversity; solidarity. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, uncountable, usually Example: In traditional Australian culture, “mateship” was expected to bind people not only with their “best mates” or their “great mates” but also with their fellow-miners, fellow-shearers, fellow-“diggers”, fellow-soldiers, or fellow-footballers, and this expectation is one of this culture′s most enduring and characteristic features.¹⁹ Example: While the camaraderie of war is usually an unspoken assumption, it seems peculiar that mateship, usually considered to be the core of the digger ethos and the ‘spirit of the Anzac’, barely appears in the diggers′ own expressions at this time. 5. A relationship based on mating. Labels: countable, usually Example: The mateships of the three last-named animals are solitary, though in the case of wolves, the separated members of various mateships gather in packs during the winter months. Example: Further, in most cultures without systems of codified laws, long-term mateships are ritually sanctioned by the community. If we are not to have too provincial a conception of marriage, these mateships should also count as marriages.
Word: RFT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of request for tender. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of relational frame theory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: RFT Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Riverfront Times. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: G.I. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of GI. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: psychiatric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/ 1. Of, or relating to, psychiatry. Labels: not-comparable Example: Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.
Word: psychiatric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From psychiatry + -ic or psych- + -iatric. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪ.kiˈæt.ɹɪk/ 1. A person who has a psychiatric disorder. Labels: dated Example: They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.
Word: Immaculate Conception Part of Speech: name 1. The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived biologically but free from original sin. 2. December 8th (The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary). 3. The conception or incarnation of Jesus as viewed by those who believe that he was conceived without sin. Labels: proscribed 4. A title of Mary, in particular reference to her unique status with regard to the aforementioned doctrine.
Word: Immaculate Conception Part of Speech: noun 1. Any virgin birth or an event likened to one. Labels: informal, lowercase, often, proscribed, uncountable Example: I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.
Word: yashmak Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Turkish yaşmak. Pronunciation: /ˈjæʃ.mæk/ 1. A veil worn by Muslim women to cover parts of the face when they are in public. Example: Through her gauzy yashmak I could see that she was smiling. Example: Mungo cannot make out her face, which is concealed behind a yashmak – the double horsehair veil worn by Muslim women in public – but he is immediately struck by her feet and hands.
Word: façade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French façade. 1. Alternative form of facade. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity. Example: I wandered across to the window and looked out. Quite consciously I began saying good-bye to it all. The sun was low. Towers, spires, and façades of Portland stone were white or pink against the dimming sky.
Word: conceptional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō ▲ Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq. Latin concipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin conceptiōlbor. Old French conceptionbor. Middle English concepcioun English conception English -al English conceptional From conception + -al. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛpʃənəl/ 1. Of or relating to conception. 2. Relating to a concept, idea, or thought. (More often, conceptual.)
Word: unrequited Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English requited English unrequited From un- + requited. Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.tɪd/, [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈkwaɪ.ɾɪd], /ˌʌnɹəˈkwaɪtɪd/ 1. Not returned; not reciprocated; not repaid. Example: His expressions of love went unrequited. Example: Enough for me that I stand on the privilege of a free Scottish-man, and will brook no insult unreturned, and no injury unrequited.
Word: highlander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English highland Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English highlander From highland + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪləndəɹ/, /ˈhaɪləndə/ 1. A person who inhabits the Scottish Highlands. Labels: Scotland 2. Any person who lives in mountainous or hilly terrain. Example: He gave credence to the long-standing impression that southern highlanders were as a whole 'a hardy race of European dissenters' of very different stock from other southern colonists…. As backwoodsmen and highlanders, they opposed slavery formally, through abolitionist organizations, newspapers, or institutions of higher education…. Example: Other essayists, however, detect significant distinctions between highlander and lowlander—differences in racial attitudes (abolitionist or rabid racist), in the types of work that African Americans performed, and in the extent to which perceptions of whiteness shaped how outsiders understood the region and acted toward it. 3. The Igorot people, referring to them originating from the Cordillera Mountain Range. Labels: Philippines
Word: highlander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the tagline "There can be only one" of the film Highlander (1986). 1. A game format in which players are allowed no more than one of any card (except basic resource cards) in their decks. Labels: capitalized, often, uncountable Example: I have a blue/white highlander deck (every card is unique, including the lands) and I would like some help tuning it. Example: As an example, the "Highlander" tournaments (only one of any particular card) that have been springing up have proven to be a good way to re-energize the tournament scene for some games.
Word: adown Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way). Pronunciation: /əˈdaʊn/ 1. Down, downward; to or in a lower place. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: Thrice did she sink adown. Example: [S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope. / Methinks, I see them group'd in seemly show, / The straiten'd arms upraised, the palms aslope, / And robes that touching as adown they flow, / Distinctly blend, like snow emboss'd in snow.
Word: adown Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way). Pronunciation: /əˈdaʊn/ 1. Down. Labels: archaic Example: I fell from one dream into another; found myself wandering through impossible places; […] peering out into the darkness, to catch a sight of a vague figure standing somewhere in the shadow, and looking, with the sun streaming into my eyes and blinding me, adown long white roads filled with a multitude of people […] Example: Before yon field of trembling gold Is garnered into dusty sheaves, Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves Flutter as birds adown the wold, […]
Word: scabies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scabies, scabiez, from Latin scabiēs (“scurf; scab, mange, itch”), from scabō (“scratch, scrape”, verb). Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪ.biz/ 1. An infestation of parasitic mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, causing intense itching caused by the mites burrowing into the skin of humans and other animals. It is easily transmissible from human to human; secondary skin infection may occur. Labels: uncountable Example: Further, just as the discovery of the cause of scabies proved the absurdity of many of the old prescriptions for the prevention and treatment of that disease; so the discovery of the cause of splenic fever, and other such maladies, has given a new direction to prophylactic and curative measures against the worst scourges of humanity.
Word: scarlet fever Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (attraction to soldiers): In allusion to the red coats they used to wear. 1. A streptococcal infection, mainly occurring among children, and characterized by a red skin rash, sore throat and fever. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "I am sure," replied Mrs. Palmer, "if it were not wicked, I should be glad that you had the scarlet fever; I am so much happier since I knew you... 2. Romantic attraction to soldiers in preference to other people. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable Example: Soldiers are notorious for hunting up these women, especially nurse-maids and those that in the execution of their duty walk in the Parks, when they may easily be accosted. Nurse-maids feel flattered by the attention that is lavished upon them, and are always ready to succumb to the “scarlet fever.” A red coat is all powerful with this class, who prefer a soldier to a servant, or any other description of man they come in contact with. Example: According to Henry Mayhew, it was here that housemaids and nursemaids walking in the park to and from their place of work often first encountered “the all powerful red coat” and “succumbed to Scarlet Fever.” Soldiers were by no means unaware of the impact their dashing uniforms and well-groomed military air could have on young women, and deployed these features to their advantage.
Word: dropsy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔́δρωψ (hŭ́drōps)bor. Latin hydrōps Late Latin hydropisiader. Old French ydropisiebor. Middle English idropesie English dropsy From Middle English dropesie, idropesie, from Old French idropsie, ydropisie, from Latin hydrōps, from Ancient Greek ὕδρωψ (húdrōps), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Doublet of hydropsy and hydrops. Pronunciation: /ˈdrɒp.si/, /ˈdɹɑp.si/ 1. Edema, swelling. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually Example: Caliban: The dropſie drowne this foole,[…] Example: Your sacred Majesty, he has the dropsy;— We shall find pints of hydatids in’s liver, He has not half an inch of wholesome fat Upon his carious ribs—
Word: rubella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin rubellus (“reddish”), diminutive of ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-. Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈbɛlə/ 1. A mild disease caused by the Rubella virus infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes. Labels: uncountable Example: At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out. Example: They have congenital rubella syndrome, which they acquired during an outbreak of the rubella virus, or German measles.