nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: delightfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English delightful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English delightfulness From delightful + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being delightful. Labels: uncountable
Word: delusiveness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English delusive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English delusiveness From delusive + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being delusive. Labels: uncountable
Word: demandingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English demanding Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English demandingness From demanding + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being demanding. Labels: uncountable Example: The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
Word: demissness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English demiss Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English demissness From demiss + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being demiss; humility, submissiveness. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Therefore name they it sacred and divine, and it concerns not them whether the violence of tyrants, or the demissnesse [tr. lascheté] of the people be against them.
Word: heat sink Part of Speech: noun 1. An object, system or environment that absorbs and dissipates heat from objects in thermal contact (either direct or radiant) with it. 2. A place toward which the heat moves in a system. 3. A material capable of absorbing heat.
Word: demonstrativeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English demonstrative Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English demonstrativeness From demonstrative + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being demonstrative. Labels: uncountable
Word: demureness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English demure Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English demureness From demure + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being demure. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She would laugh, high and loud, and the shopkeepers would laugh with her, their laughter softer than hers, a thoughtful demureness that was mindful of the fact that she was the customer […] and therefore should not be upstaged. Example: “Don’t be coy. Haven’t I sent you nice gifts? Haven’t I been sweet to you? You play at demureness, but now? Why him? Why not me?”
Word: deplorableness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English deplorable Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English deplorableness From deplorable + -ness. 1. The quality or state of being deplorable. Labels: uncountable
Word: depressingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English depressing Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English depressingness From depressing + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being depressing. Labels: uncountable
Word: derivativeness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English derivative Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English derivativeness From derivative + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being derivative. Labels: uncountable
Word: derogatoriness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English derogatory Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English derogatoriness From derogatory + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being derogatory. Labels: uncountable
Word: desertedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English deserted Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English desertedness From deserted + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being deserted. Labels: uncountable
Word: deservedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English deserved Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English deservedness From deserved + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being deserved. Labels: uncountable
Word: deservingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English deserving Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English deservingness From deserving + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being deserving. Labels: uncountable
Word: Malizai Part of Speech: name 1. Malizai Sub-branch of a Akuzai (1st son) of a Yūsufzai , a tribe that settled in district DIR (Northwest Frontier Provence, Pakistan). 2. Malizai direct 4th son/Sub-branch of a Yūsufzai , a tribe that settled in district Buner (Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan. Malak Ghazi Khan Yusufzai, 4th Ruler of Pakhtunkhwa State who was Martyred in the battle of Bajaur against Mughals was from this Malizai-Yusufzai Tribe.
Word: hyperdrive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- Proto-West Germanic *drīban Old English drīfan Middle English driven English drive English hyperdrive From hyper- + drive. 1. A spaceship engine that allows faster-than-light travel by entering hyperspace. Example: The ship's hyperdrive had failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base. 2. A state of accelerated action. Example: With enemies closing in fast, our hero's mind sprung into hyperdrive.
Word: page-turner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From page + turner. 1. A highly interesting or suspenseful written work that one is compelled to read very rapidly. Labels: idiomatic Example: Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down. Example: This is a very fat novel. The first thing you want to do with it is send it to a hospital for one of those crisis diets. Cut out 300 pages and maybe you've got a page-turner that could stand off "The Firm." 2. A person who is responsible for turning the pages of another musician’s (especially a pianist or organist’s) sheet music during a performance. Example: She's a famous soloist today, but she did her time as a page-turner, just as many others have done. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see page, turner.
Word: desidiousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English desidious Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English desidiousness From desidious + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being desidious. Labels: uncountable
Word: designedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English designed Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English designedness From designed + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being designed. Labels: uncountable
Word: designfulness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English designful Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English designfulness From designful + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being designful. Labels: uncountable
Word: haploinsufficient Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Hellenic *hə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-) Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der. English haplo- English insufficient English haploinsufficient From haplo- + insufficient. 1. Exhibiting haploinsufficiency Labels: not-comparable
Word: put back Part of Speech: verb 1. To return something to its original place. Labels: transitive Example: He carefully put the vase back on the shelf. Example: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat. 2. To turn back; to return. Labels: intransitive Example: The French […] had put back to Toulon. 3. To postpone an arranged event or appointment. Labels: transitive Example: The meeting has been put back to 5.00 pm. 4. To drink fast; to knock down alcohol. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: You'll need to put that drink back quickly; it's very nearly closing time. Example: Whisky he sipped at suspiciously, and still had not got an adult taste for; but wine he loved, and he put back champagne as if it were lager, with awful belches and chuckles after each glass. 5. To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour. Example: When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.
Word: driverside Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English driver Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English driverside From driver + -side. 1. On the side of a car corresponding to the driver's seat. Labels: not-comparable
Word: clastogenesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós) + -genesis. See clastogen. 1. The process resulting in additions, deletions, or rearrangements of parts of the chromosomes that are detectable by light microscopy.
Word: Mutsun Part of Speech: noun 1. One of eight divisions of the Ohlone Native American people of northern California. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Mutsun Part of Speech: name 1. The extinct language of this people, an Ohlone dialect in the Utian family.
Word: haploinsufficiency Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Hellenic *hə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̔- (hă-) Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos) Ancient Greek ᾰ̔πλόος (hăplóos)der. English haplo- English insufficiency English haploinsufficiency From haplo- + insufficiency. 1. The state of a diploid organism having only a single copy of a particular gene, the other copy being inactivated due to mutation Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cicerone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/, /sɪsəˈɹəʊni/ 1. A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest. Example: East, still doing the cicerone, pointed out all the remarkable characters to Tom as they passed[…] Example: he was in the act of making his evening plans with the same smelly but nice cicerone in a café-au-lait suit whom he had hired already twice at the same Genoese hotel [...].
Word: cicerone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1726, from Italian cicerone (surface analysis cicero + -one (augmentative)), from Latin Cicerōnem, form of Cicerō, agnomen of Marcus Tullius Cicero), the Roman orator, from cicer (“chickpea”) from Proto-Indo-European *ḱiker- (“pea”). Possibly humorous reference to loquaciousness of guides. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪt͡ʃəˈɹəʊni/, /sɪsəˈɹəʊni/ 1. To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide. Labels: ambitransitive, archaic Example: Accordingly, as three o'clock struck, six dashing-looking light dragoons were seen slowly sauntering up the dining-hall, escorted by Webber, who, in full academic costume, was leisurely ciceroning his friends and expatiating upon the excellences of the very remarkable portraits which graced the walls.
Word: sibship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English sib Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English sibship From sib + -ship. 1. All the siblings of a family.
Word: ladder logic Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique for describing and drawing electrical logic schematics. Labels: uncountable
Word: methamphetamines Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From methamphetamine, apparently by analogy with amphetamines. 1. Methamphetamine. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: herma Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of herm. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: infliction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin īnflīctiōnem (“imposition”), from Latin īnflīctus, from in- + flīctus, past participle of īnflīgō (“to knock or strike against”), from in- + flīgō (“strike”) (whence in-). By surface analysis, inflict + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈflɪkʃən/ 1. The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "What an awful infliction for you, Max. You were always such an impulsive, reckless sort of fellow—never quiet. You must miss such a fearful lot." Example: The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.
Word: blacksnake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From black + snake. Pronunciation: /ˈblaksneɪk/ 1. Alternative form of black snake: any of several relatively harmless North American snakes. Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. A long, tapering whip. Labels: US 3. A penis, especially a black penis. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: [He] couldn't keep from staring at my blacksnake. He'd probably never seen a dick like mine. I couldn't help but stare at his prick too. He had the smallest dick I'd ever seen on any man. […] She went over to Raft and pulled down his underwear, revealing his blacksnake. In front of Bogie, she eased down on her knees, skinned back the foreskin of Raft's penis, and insertd it into her mouth.
Word: blacksnake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From black + snake. Pronunciation: /ˈblaksneɪk/ 1. To whip with a long, tapering whip. Example: He said to Stanbrough, “George, you damned son-of-a-bitch, you blacksnaked my aunt with a blacksnake, and I am going to wear this out on you, ” and began striking him with the buggy whip. He struck the deceased several times ... Example: They were slugged and blacksnaked, run through a gauntlet, deposited on cattle cars headed away from the city, and told never to return.
Word: blameable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blameable, equivalent to blame + -able. 1. Alternative spelling of blamable. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I say, I have never much distinguished thee, not because I did not see that in thee which I might well have praised, but because I saw something blameable, which such praises might have made worse.
Word: blamable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English blamable, blameable, equivalent to blame + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪməbəl/ 1. Deserving blame
Word: blatancy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed by analogy with the way that words that end in -ant that are derived from French typically form their noun forms. This is erroneous logic in this case, however, because blatant does not derive in any way from French, but is rather a native English formation using native English word parts (bleat and -and), that only later had its ending slightly modified to fit more with other words that were more commonly used, that happened to have the French-derived -ant suffix. Some other examples of the -and suffix changing to -ant over time are flippant and blicant. 1. The state or quality of being blatant. Labels: rare, uncountable, usually
Word: blemished Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of blemish Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: blemished Part of Speech: adj 1. Having blemishes; flawed. Example: Stated sharply, today′s centers of higher learning are more blemished than superficial appearances suggest, and what often seems “democratic” is little more than contrived public displays. Example: One of them in fact singled out Rebecca, not the marmoreal Rowena, as the novel′s most blemished character. “She is,” he complained, “too near perfection.[…]”
Word: blindfolded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of blindfold Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: blindfolded Part of Speech: adj 1. Wearing a blindfold Labels: not-comparable Example: Once people learn the true facts they will no longer want to be "blindfolded donkeys."
Word: blinkers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blinker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blinkers Part of Speech: noun 1. A pair of leather or rubber eye cups attached to a horse hood in order to impede the rear vision of racehorses and harness horses. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes from glare, dust, etc. Labels: plural, plural-only 3. Spectacles. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang
Word: blinkers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blinker Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: blistered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of blister Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: blistered Part of Speech: adj 1. Having one or more blisters. Example: A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.
Word: blistery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English blister Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blistery From blister + -y. 1. Having blisters.
Word: blockader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blockade + -er. 1. A person who blockades Example: One worker ignored entreaties that she take the day off in recognition of the protest, as she waded through the blockaders to get to the door; others, who were successfully turned away by the protesters, were let into the building through another door by security guards. 2. A ship used in blockading
Word: blockbusting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From block + busting. 1. A technique used to encourage people to sell their property by giving the impression that a neighborhood is changing for the worse, especially by implying a change in its racial makeup. Labels: US, uncountable Example: Sonny W. Walker, another of the three black salesmen employed along with three whites by Concord Realty, 3524 Church Avenue, picked up the thread of Mr. Harris's bitter disclaimer that it took deliberate blockbusting—sometimes called panic redlining—to make whites move out of East Flatbush.
Word: blockbusting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From block + busting. 1. Having the characteristics of a blockbuster; hugely successful. Labels: not-comparable Example: a blockbusting movie
Word: bloodsucking Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic inh Proto-West Germanic gem-pro>*blōþą>blood Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood English sucking English bloodsucking From blood + sucking. Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdˌsʌkɪŋ/ 1. That draws off the blood of another animal, or a person. Labels: not-comparable Example: Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do. 2. parasitic, leechlike or freeloading Labels: broadly, not-comparable
Word: bloodsucking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic inh Proto-West Germanic gem-pro>*blōþą>blood Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood English sucking English bloodsucking From blood + sucking. Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdˌsʌkɪŋ/ 1. Parasitic, leechlike behavior. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Economic blood-sucking of the Indian peoples, who are forced to pay immense sums of money to sustain rich Indian Civil Servants
Word: blowup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from blow up. 1. Alternative form of blow-up. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blowy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blowy From blow + -y (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbləʊi/, /ˈbloʊi/ 1. Windy or breezy. Example: 1789, John O’Keeffe, Modern Antiques; or, The Merry Mourners, Act II, Scene 3, in The Dramatic Works of John O’Keeffe, London, 1798, Volume I, p. 351, All my doors open! this blowy night! reminds me of the Lisbon earthquake; but my storm-cap has protected me. Example: […] one blowy July afternoon, as they were going up for a potato-roast, they saw somebody moving among the trees. 2. Billowy, blowing or waving in the wind. (of fabric, hair, etc.) Example: […] I remember now. You had the sun behind you, filtering through your amazing blowy hair, red hair […] Example: A panoramic view of all the lives ruined by the financial markets, from the midlevel banker just trying to meet her monthly quota to the overly loyal gangster who doesn’t realize that loud, blowy Hawaiian shirts are the opposite of subtle. 3. Susceptible to drifting. (of soil) Example: 1929, U.S. Department of Agriculture Radio Service, Office of Information, Farm Science Snapshots, 19 October, 1929, And fall plowing except on blowy soils also will be good for the spring sown crops. Example: 1938, Angus Henry McDonald, Erosion and its Control in Oklahoma Territory, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication No. 301, p. 17, Some farmers, however, quit raising cowpeas on blowy land, because they claimed it aggravated drifting.
Word: blowy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English blowy From blow + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbləʊi/, /ˈbloʊi/ 1. Alternative spelling of blowie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blowzy Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of blowsy. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Large, red-poll’d, blowzy hard two-handed jades Example: She feels a sudden desire possessing her to make Hermine look as ugly as possible, and she knows she can do it with very little effort : she has only to bring down those heavy masses of hair further on to that alrady low forehead, and instead of Kriemhilde, Hermine will like a common-place blowzy dairymaid.
Word: blue-blood Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of blue blood. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: For several years the Nopalito had been making experiments with an English breed of cattle that looked down with aristocratic contempt upon the Texas long-horns. The experiments were found satisfactory; and a pasture had been set aside for the blue-bloods.
Word: blue-blooded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From blue blood + -ed. 1. Aristocratic; noble; patrician. Example: Fario was a withered little man, as ugly as though he were a blue-blooded grandee. Example: But, as I was saying, we listened and heard The Dowd drawl worse than ever. She drops her final g’s like a barmaid or a blue-blooded Aide-de-Camp. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, blooded. Example: The garden snail, a blue-blooded land animal, is sometimes seen as food, sometimes as pest.
Word: blue-chip Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of bluechip (“high-value”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: She is a leading figure in the stable at Gagosian, the bluest of blue-chip galleries, […].
Word: bluechip Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or pertaining to a blue chip investment; high-value. Labels: not-comparable Example: Eminent British scientist Dr. Rufus Sixsmith was found dead Tuesday morning in his room at Buenas Yerbas International Airport’s Hotel Bon Yoyage, having take his own life. Dr. Sixsmith, former head of the Global Atomic Commission, had been employed as a consultant for Seaboard Corporation at the blue-chip utility’s Swannekke Island installation outside Buenas Yerbas City for ten months.
Word: wet t-shirt competition Part of Speech: noun 1. A contest in which women wear t-shirts that are wet to make them clingy and slightly translucent, and others judge the women on appearance.
Word: blue chip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Finance and figurative senses from poker. 1. A high-value poker chip. 2. A stock or other investment that has a high price because of its perceived reliability. Example: Every so often, the practice reappears in the trading of “penny stocks”—cheap, rarely traded, shares. Years ago when volume was thinner, it was said to be common in blue chips too. 3. Synonym of blue-chipper.
Word: bluejeans Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of blue jeans. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: bluepoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Blue Point, New York 1. A small oyster, of species Crassostrea virginica, from the eastern United States seaboard.
Word: bluepoint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blue + point. 1. A colourpoint cat with blue markings.
Word: bluesy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English blues Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bluesy From blues + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbluːzi/ 1. Characteristic of, or similar to, blues music. Labels: informal Example: When he entered the kitchen, Vida was folding clothes and singing along to some bluesy country music on the radio.
Word: bluffly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English bluff Middle English -ly English -ly English bluffly From bluff + -ly. 1. In a bluff manner Example: "Sarch away, squire," said Shackle bluffly, as he placed the mugs on the floor and turned the wooden spigots.
Word: bluffness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English bluff Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English bluffness From bluff + -ness. 1. The quality of being bluff Labels: uncountable
Word: bluing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blue + -ing. 1. A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any of several processes to protect steel against rust. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bluing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blue + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of blue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blusterer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bluster + -er. 1. A person who blusters. Example: The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East. Example: If entertaining TV blusterer John McLaughlin felt any contrition after ponying up a six-figure sum to settle a sexual-harassment suit in 1989, he is evidently over it.
Word: blusterous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English bluster Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English blusterous From bluster + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈblʌst(ə)ɹəs/ 1. Tending to bluster. Example: […] wee see a strong and sturdie Oke to stande stiffe and immo∣uable against the blustrous blastes of fierce windes […] Example: These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house […]. Summer and winter the scene was the same, unless the wind were more than usually blusterous, when the stool was shifted a few feet round the corner. 2. Tending to bluster. Example: [I]t seemed entirely right and fitting that the wind sang and sobbed in the poplar tops, and in the lulls of it, sudden spirts of rain spattered the already dusty roads, on that blusterous March day when Edward and I awaited, on the station platform, the arrival of the new tutor. Example: For lo! the wind was blusterous / And flattened out his favourite tree; / And things looked bad for him and we— […] 3. Tending to bluster. Example: The antient Heroes were illustrious / For being benigne, and not blustrous, / Against a vanquisht foe: […] Example: The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit. 4. Tending to bluster. Example: Now, mild may be thy life! / For a more blustrous birth had never babe: / Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for / Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world / That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows! Example: 1906, Evelyn Beatrice Hall (as S. G. Tallentyre), The Friends of Voltaire, London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 98, Victor had already plunged into that blusterous, incontinent life which was to bring ruin to his own family […]
Word: morris dance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Thought to be from Moorish + dance. The German Moriskentanz is a cognate. 1. A traditional English folk dance performed by a team of costumed dancers, often men but also men and women together or women only, who often wield sticks or handkerchiefs.
Word: morris dance Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Thought to be from Moorish + dance. The German Moriskentanz is a cognate. 1. To perform in such a dance. Labels: intransitive
Word: steady-state Part of Speech: adj 1. Characteristic of a steady state Labels: not-comparable
Word: steady state Part of Speech: noun 1. Any state that does not change over time, or is in a dynamic equilibrium. Example: A perfect sphere rotating around its own axis at constant angular velocity is not static, but it is in a steady state.
Word: the die is cast Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Calque of Latin iacta ālea est, which is grammatically, and thereby semantically, an incorrect translation by the Roman historian Suetonius (c. 69 – p. 122 C.E.) in his work Vīta Dīvī Iūlī (On the Life of the Caesars, 121 C.E.) of the Ancient Greek ἀνερρίφθω κύβος (anerrhíphthō kúbos), which was said to have been spoken by Julius Caesar (100 – 44 B.C.E.) when he crossed the Rubicon to irreversibly begin a civil war in the Roman Republic (see cross the Rubicon). Caesar was quoting from the comedy Ἀρρηφόρῳ (Arrhēphórōi, The Bearer of Ritual Objects) by the dramatist Menander (c. 342 or 341 – c. 290 B.C.E.). The Greek phrase is more accurately translated as “let the die be cast” (meaning “let the game be played” and implying “let us proceed irreversibly”), and refers a game of chance in which the outcome is determined by the throwing of dice or a single die. Pronunciation: /ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkɑːst/, /ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkast/, /ðə ˌdaɪ ɪz ˈkæst/ 1. A conclusive action has been taken, so events will proceed in an irreversible manner; the point of no return has been passed; the future is determined; there are no more options. Labels: idiomatic Example: Is the die caſt, muſt / At this one throvv all thou haſt gaind be loſt? / The VVorlds a Lott'ry; He that dravves may vvin: / VVho nothing ventur's, looks for nothing;[…] Example: The die is cast. I cannot go back. I must get ready. Will you see me to the station?
Word: schoolfriend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From school + friend. 1. A friend from one's school. Example: I well remember one occasion when a school-friend and I travelled to Brighton on a cheap train, and rather staggered our parents on our return, when we informed them that we had spent the entire day sitting on a convenient fence on the high cliff west of the station, watching the trains.
Word: confidente Part of Speech: noun 1. A particular kind of 18th-century sofa. 2. Misspelling of confidante. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: liminary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French liminaire (“introductory”) from Latin līmināris, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Līmen is possibly derived from līmus (“askew; sideways”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns of the third declension) (from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)). 1. Introductory or preparatory. Labels: archaic Example: Closely connected to the epigrammatic form of entries in alba are poems that serve as prefatory or postfatory material of early modern prints. Harm-Jan van Dam dedicates his article to this kind of liminary poetry.
Word: blowups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blowup Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boombox Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbum.bɑks/, /ˈbuːm.bɒks/ 1. A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound. Example: Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
Word: boomboxes Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbum.bɑk.sɪz/, /ˈbuːm.bɒk.sɪz/ 1. plural of boombox. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boom boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boom box. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: batlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English bat Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English batlike From bat + -like. 1. Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal. Example: […] they cling, like creepers or women, to the nearest support, to fly from that corroding ennui and listlessness, those tumults of the mind, which flit batlike amid the golden-groined ceilings, and cannot be dispelled by the lictor guard. Example: He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a batlike soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness. 2. Similar to that of a bat. Example: His sketches show the details of batlike wings which were to spread out on the downward stroke and fold up with the upward stroke. Example: What was it? They could not tell themselves. They only knew that the black shadows at the top of the staircase had thickened, had coalesced, had taken a definite, batlike shape.
Word: Cybil Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. A 20th century spelling variant of Sybil.
Word: Cybill Part of Speech: name Etymology: A 20th-century variant of Sybil or Sibyl. 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Word: Sybil Part of Speech: noun 1. Prophetess; hag. Example: Alternative form: sybil Example: The Library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sybil—if Sybil she were, was seated snugly enough in an easy chair at the chimney-corner. 2. Ellipsis of Sybil attack. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: Sybil Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, the most popular spelling variant of Sibyl since the 19th century. Example: "I beg your pardon," said Egremont blushing; "I was reading your name. I thought I was reading it to myself. Sybil Gerard! What a beautiful name is Sybil!" "My mother's name," said Gerard; "and my grandame's name, and a name I believe that has been about our hearth as long as our race; and that's a very long time indeed," he added smiling, "for we were tall men in King John's reign, as I have heard say."
Word: boneheaded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bone + headed. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a bonehead. Labels: slang
Word: Blairism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Blair 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 Blairism From Blair + -ism. 1. The political ideology attributed to the governments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair Labels: UK, uncountable
Word: shipwrights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shipwright Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cash out Part of Speech: verb 1. To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk. Labels: US 2. To retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling. Labels: US 3. To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash. Labels: broadly Example: The real benefits accrued not to the public whose streets were flooded with unregulated taxis or workers whose livelihoods evaporated, but to Uber’s early investors who were still able to cash out when the company went public. 4. To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition. Labels: broadly Example: Hume cashed out the concept of causation into such experiential terms as spatiotemporal contiguity, temporal succession, and constant conjunction. 5. To give up on something. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: If you can't even succeed with him, you might as well cash out.
Word: psychotherapists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of psychotherapist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jug ears Part of Speech: noun 1. Ears whose plane is markedly not parallel to the plane of the head. Labels: idiomatic, plural, plural-only Example: 2007, "The Next Crusade", John Cassidy, The New Yorker, September 4 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/09/070409fa_fact_cassidy. Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right. -
Word: jug-eared Part of Speech: adj 1. Having ears that stick out from the sides of the head. Labels: derogatory
Word: Nevis Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish nieves (“snows”), in Nuestra Señora de las Nieves (“Our Lady of the Snows”), a Spanish name for the island. Pronunciation: /ˈniː.vɪs/ 1. An island of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Word: Nevisian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Nevis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Nevisian From Nevis + -ian. 1. From, or pertaining to, the Caribbean island of Nevis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Nevisian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Nevis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Nevisian From Nevis + -ian. 1. Somebody from the Caribbean island of Nevis
Word: enrolment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English enrol Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English enrolment From enrol + -ment. 1. UK standard spelling of enrollment. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: let off steam Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of blow off steam. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Brownism Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Brown 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 Brownism From Brown + -ism. 1. The political ideology of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Labels: UK 2. The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine.
Word: Brownism Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Browne 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 Brownism From Browne + -ism. 1. The beliefs of the Brownists, or followers of Robert Browne. Labels: historical
Word: fortysomething Part of Speech: num Etymology: From forty + -something. 1. An indeterminate value between 40 (inclusive) and 50 (exclusive). Labels: colloquial
Word: fortysomething Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From forty + -something. 1. A person between 40 and 49 years old. Labels: colloquial, countable Example: She was a sprightly fortysomething. Example: Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea: in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time.
Word: enrollment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French enrollement. See enroll + -ment. Pronunciation: /ənˈɹəʊl.mənt/, /ɪnˈɹəʊl.mənt/, /ənˈɹol.mənt/, /ɪnˈɹol.mənt/ 1. The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The people enrolled, considered as a group. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The number of people enrolled. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The record of such enrolling; registration. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: self-raising flour Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of flour that contains an agent, such as baking powder, which makes baked goods expand and rise when cooked. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually
Word: Brownite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Brown + -ite, from the surname of Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister 2007-2010. 1. A supporter of Gordon Brown, or his economic or political policies Labels: UK, informal
Word: Brownite Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Brown + -ite, from the surname of Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister 2007-2010. 1. Of, or relating to Brownites, or Gordon Brown's government and policies. Labels: UK
Word: raser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of razer (“one who razes”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 2. Obsolete form of razor. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: best friend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English best frend, best freond, equivalent to best + friend. Compare West Frisian bêste freon (“best friend”), Dutch beste vriend (“best friend”), German bester Freund (“best friend”). 1. An especially close and trusted friend. Example: I know you and Virginia are on best-friend terms. Example: A best friend is always there for you, even when no one else is. 2. An object or concept considered very useful or helpful to someone. Labels: informal Example: You might even say, the bigger the problem, the greater your creative potential. The problem you're facing is your best friend because it will help to bring out the best in you. Example: As an entrepreneur, a conservative financial outlook is your best friend. Live to fight another day. Running a business also involves a host of legal issues. Talk to some people you respect and trust, get some recommendations, and hire a good lawyer and accountant. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see best, friend.
Word: undercharge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Latin carrus Latin -ic- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ico Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge English undercharge From under- + charge. 1. To charge less than the correct amount. Labels: ambitransitive Example: to undercharge for goods or services Example: to undercharge a customer 2. To put too small a charge into. Labels: transitive Example: to undercharge a gun
Word: undercharge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós Proto-Celtic *karros Gaulish *karrosbor. Latin carrus Latin -ic- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ico Latin carricō Late Latin carricāre Old French chargierder. Middle English chargen English charge English undercharge From under- + charge. 1. A monetary charge that is less than the correct amount.