nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: condoned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of condone Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: allod Part of Speech: noun 1. Allodium. Labels: historical
Word: allodium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin allodium, from Frankish *allaaud (“allodium, patrimony”, literally “entire property”), from Frankish *all (“all”) + *aud (“owndom, possessions”). Cognate with Old High German ōt (“property”), Old Saxon ōd (“estate, wealth”), Old English ēad (“possessions”). 1. Freehold land or property; land held in allodial tenure, or one's title to such land. Labels: dated, historical
Word: expositional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English exposition Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English expositional From exposition + -al. 1. Explained in clear terms, as in writing. 2. Declared information openly.
Word: dapples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dapple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dapples Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dapple Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: chlorinate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English chlorine Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English chlorinate From chlorine + -ate. Pronunciation: /ˈklɒ.ɹɪ.neɪt/ 1. To add chlorine to (something, especially water, to purify it; or an auriferous substance, to extract gold from it). Labels: transitive
Word: chlorinated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of chlorinate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chlorinated Part of Speech: adj 1. that has had chlorine added to it to purify it. Example: The warehouse that caught fire contained 99% trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA) – used to make chlorinated tablets to control bacteria and algae – and 99% dichloroisocyanuric acid (DCCA), which is used to make swimming pool shock – a treatment used to help break down contaminants.
Word: chlorite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek χλωρῖτις (khlōrîtis). Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːˌɹʌɪt/, /ˈklɔːˌɹaɪt/, /ˈklɔɹˌaɪt/ 1. A dark green mineral resembling serpentine, being a mixed silicate of magnesium, iron and aluminium. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They have been heated enough to impart a delicate blue-green hue, which is because of the abundance of the ‘low-grade’ metamorphic mineral, chlorite. 2. Any salt of chlorous acid. Labels: countable
Word: chloral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English chlorine Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor. Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor. Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl) Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor. Medieval Latin alcoholder. Middle English alcofol English alcohol blend English chloral Blend of chlorine + alcohol. Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːɹæl/ 1. A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: ‘They say there is a skeleton in every cupboard,’ Rossetti said quietly, ‘and that's mine; it's chloral.’ Caine was shocked but forbore to comment.
Word: bijou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bijou. Pronunciation: /biˈʒuː/ 1. A jewel. 2. A piece of jewelry; a trinket. 3. A small intricate piece of metalwork. Example: […]a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
Word: bijou Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Sabir bijou, ultimately from Occitan pichon (“small, little”), influenced by English bijou (“jewel”). Pronunciation: /biˈʒuː/ 1. Small; little. Labels: Polari Example: You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface. Example: We, the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and the Gathered Faithful, do hereby invoke the spirit of our beloved Muffin the Mule, to recognize the bona work of Mr. Derek Jarman in promulgating Universal Joy […] in his bijou masterpiecettes[.] 2. Small and elegant. Example: I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Example: In small towns like Soldau a small area accommodates the town hall, the church, several miniature squares, a monument to somebody or other, perhaps more than one, all sorts of shops, beerhouses, a post office, a bank, and there may be a bijou park behind wrought-iron railings, then the streets and the town end just as abruptly, and you have scarcely passed the last house when you find a highroad lined with trees stretching before you with a neat grid of precisely demarcated fields on either side. 3. Intricate; finely made.
Word: biffin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from beef, because of the red colour. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪfɪn/ 1. A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain. 2. Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk. Example: […] there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, […]
Word: prospicience Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɹəˈspɪʃəns/, /pɹəˈspɪʃi.əns/ 1. foresight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Things had appeared usual for him that morning, as they had been for those twenty-one days, because man is without the powers of prospicience.
Word: chiaroscurist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English chiaroscuro Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English chiaroscurist From chiaroscuro + -ist. Pronunciation: /kiˌɑːɹəʊˈskʊəɹɪst/ 1. A painter who uses light and shade rather than color to create the illusion of volume.
Word: nonet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian nonetto, from nono (“ninth”). Pronunciation: /nɒˈnɛt/ 1. A composition for nine instruments or nine voices. Example: The small-group sides are the best, with the nonet in particular coming through as a sparkling unit that deserves an LP to itself. 2. A group of nine nuclear or subatomic particles. 3. A byte of nine bits. Example: The 9-bit nonet is a much more sensible representation.
Word: monaural Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mon- + aural. First use appears c. 1888 Pronunciation: /ˌmɒˈnɔːɹəl/, /ˌmɑˈnɔɹəl/ 1. Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with one ear. Example: monaural deafness 2. Monophonic.
Word: nether Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður. Pronunciation: /nɛð.ə/, /nɛð.ɚ/, /neð.ə/ 1. Lower; under. Example: The disappointed child’s nether lip quivered. Example: And yet another marvel, the nether side of the canopy over the high seats was encrusted with lapis lazuli, and in that feigned dome of heaven burned the twelve signs of the zodiac, every star a diamond that shone with its own light. 2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface. Example: the nether regions Example: When one thinks of the tremendous forces of the upper and the nether world which play for the mastery of the soul of a woman during the few years in which she passes from plastic girlhood to the ripe maturity of womanhood,
Word: nether Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður. Pronunciation: /nɛð.ə/, /nɛð.ɚ/, /neð.ə/ 1. Down; downward. 2. Low; low down.
Word: nether Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður. Pronunciation: /nɛð.ə/, /nɛð.ɚ/, /neð.ə/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of the Nether. Labels: alt-of
Word: nether Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above. Pronunciation: /nɛð.ə/, /nɛð.ɚ/, /neð.ə/ 1. To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive 2. To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive 3. To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive 4. To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive 5. To depreciate; disparage; undervalue. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: nether Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above. Pronunciation: /nɛð.ə/, /nɛð.ɚ/, /neð.ə/ 1. Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal 2. A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.
Word: trichinosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin trichinōsis. By surface analysis, trichina + -osis. Pronunciation: /tɹɪkəˈnoʊsɪs/ 1. A disease characterized by headache, chills, fever, and soreness of muscles, caused by the presence of nematodes of genus Trichinella in the intestines and muscular tissues. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: allogeneic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From allo- + -gene- + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌæləd͡ʒəˈniɪk/ 1. Genetically different because of being derived from separate individuals of the same species. 2. Of a reaction that occurs when cells are transplanted into a genetically different recipient.
Word: myrmecophile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From myrmeco- + -phile. 1. An organism, especially an insect, that lives in close association with or shares a nest with a species of ant. Example: Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.
Word: Dunedin Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Dùn Èideann (“Edinburgh”), from Old Welsh Din Eidyn. Pronunciation: /dʌˈniːdɪn/, /-ən/, /dʌˈnidɪn/, /dɐˈniːdɘn/ 1. An anglicisation of the Gaelic name for Edinburgh. 2. A city in Otago, South Island, New Zealand. 3. A city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
Word: zaza Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reduplication of za, from an apheretic pronunciation of exotic. Compare za (“exotic marijuana”). Pronunciation: /ˈzɑː.zɑː/, /ˈzɑ.zɑ/, /ˈzɐː.zɐː/ 1. Exotic marijuana. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Having grabbed the torch from the first wave of Brooklyn drill's innovators, Fivio Foreign is all about the genre's future. The gravelly-voiced rapper took over the second half of 2020 with his viral hit "Big Drip," whose video has a whole Hennessy-brandishing squad smoking zaza in front of a Shake Shack, of all places — bringing big roll-up-a-Backwoods-on-the-last-car-of-the-subway energy to a part of Brooklyn where the average overpaying tenant probably rides a unicycle to work. Example: Top shelf zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm. I have seen the Magna Carta, I've seen the Eye of Horus. I was flippin' bricks for Mansa Musa before y'all even became a type-1 civilization.
Word: aerogel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + gel. First attested in the early 1920s as a coinage credited to British-Irish chemist Frederick G. Donnan, originally in reference to coagulated aerosols. Pronunciation: /ˈɛɹ.oʊ.d͡ʒɛl/ 1. A porous, ultralight solid-state substance, similar to gel, in which the liquid component is replaced with gas. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɛɹ.i/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Mary (“male homosexual”). Labels: alt-of
Word: mary Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Mary (“female name”). Compare nan and nancy. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɚ.i/, /ˈmɛɹ.i/ 1. Alternative form of marry (“indeed, in truth”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes? Example: And I pray thee (ſayde Pas,) gentle Nico, tell mee what miſchaunce yt was that broughte thee to taſte ſo fyne a Meate? Mary goodman Blockhead (ſayde Nico) bycauſe hee ſpeakes ageanſt Jeloſy, the filthy Treytor to true affection, and yet diſguyſing yt ſelf in the rayment of Love.
Word: stardust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From star + dust. Pronunciation: /ˈstɑːdʌst/, /ˈstɑɹˌdʌst/ 1. Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed. Labels: literally, uncountable, usually Example: We are all made of stardust. Example: Presolar grains were isolated in primitive meteorites only 15 years ago. These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta. 2. A distant cluster of stars resembling a cloud of dust, especially if the individual stars of which cannot be resolved with a telescope. Labels: dated, informal, literally, uncountable, usually 3. Small fragments in the Earth's atmosphere or on its surface originating from meteorites; meteor dust. Labels: archaic, literally, uncountable, usually 4. Something imaginary or lacking substance. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: His [Sickert's] paint has a tangible quality; it is made not of air and star-dust but of oil and earth. 5. An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: My sister’s eyes were full of stardust – she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies. 6. An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: Why would experienced deal makers want rock stars and actors to advise them? Why would entrepreneurs seek their money? There is a certain cachet with all that stardust, of course, and perhaps some free publicity.
Word: cometary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English comet Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English cometary From comet + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.ɪ.t(ə).ri/, /ˈkɑ.məˌtɛ.ri/ 1. relating to comets Labels: not-comparable
Word: scoot over Part of Speech: verb 1. To move one's sitting self or seat aside, so the other person has more space. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Please scoot over a little so I can sit down. Example: You look like who you say you are / So scoot over, let me drive your car. 2. To slide (something) across or aside. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Scoot that ottoman over for me, would you?
Word: budge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil. Pronunciation: /bʌd͡ʒ/ 1. To move; to be shifted from a fixed position. Labels: intransitive Example: I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch. Example: Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and kindly. 2. To move; to shift from a fixed position. Labels: transitive Example: I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it. 3. To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. Example: The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules. Example: If only I could get Ambrose to take me away somewhere! But he won't budge. 4. To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue. Labels: Canada, Western Example: Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line! 5. To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
Word: budge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge. Pronunciation: /bʌd͡ʒ/ 1. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits. Labels: uncountable Example: They are become so liberal, as to part freely with their own budge-gowns from off their backs. Example: One hundred pieces of green silk for the Knights; fourteen budge furs for surcoats; thirteen hoods of budge for clerks, and seventy furs of lamb for liveries in summer.
Word: budge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge. Pronunciation: /bʌd͡ʒ/ 1. austere or stiff, like scholastics Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Example: The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge, He says but little and that little said, 'Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.
Word: budge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps related to booze. Pronunciation: /bʌd͡ʒ/ 1. Alcoholic drink. Labels: obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: finif Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish פֿינף (finf, “five”). Doublet of five. 1. A five-dollar bill (note). Labels: US, dated, slang Example: “Kid, I got a finif [a five-dollar bill],” Orlando said. “I'll split it with you.”
Word: Shelta Part of Speech: name Etymology: Uncertain. Some theories include words derived from the Irish word Irish siúl (walk), or a corruption of the word Celt. 1. A language spoken by some Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland, but also in Britain, which has been heavily influenced by English and Irish and is now effectively a cant or creole, though some scholars think it may have originated as and may retain elements of a non-Irish, non-English language. Labels: Ireland
Word: carte blanche Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French carte blanche, referring to a blank or white card. Pronunciation: /(ˈ)kɑɹt ˈblɑn(t)ʃ/, /(ˈ)kɑːt ˈblɑːnʃ/ 1. Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “[…] But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]Does your carte blanche run so far as that also ?” Example: We have given technology carte blanche, much in the way Congress has always, in the past, given automatic approval to defense budgets, resulting in the most gigantic graft in history. 2. A blank paper that is signed by some authority and given to a person to fill as they please. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15, Indeed, I later learned that when they had bought the place, in 1930, they had given my father's older sister Lina their checkbook, carte blanche, saying, "Do what you want, get what you want." 3. A hand with no court cards. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A chargecard issued by Diners Club International. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable
Word: carte blanche Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from French carte blanche, referring to a blank or white card. Pronunciation: /(ˈ)kɑɹt ˈblɑn(t)ʃ/, /(ˈ)kɑːt ˈblɑːnʃ/ 1. As an undifferentiated mass, without regard to distinctions; willy-nilly. (Possibly from confusion with another French phrase, en masse.) Example: Can gay and lesbian people in justice be excluded carte blanche from the sacrament of sexual love sharing, let alone from church membership or leadership? Example: The mass production of tennis equipment made it more affordable, such that blue-collar workers were no longer excluded carte blanche as before the war (Birley 1995b).
Word: baiting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bait Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: baiting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪtɪŋ/ 1. A bloodsport involving the act of worrying or tormenting a chained or confined animal by setting dogs upon it. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of luring, as into a trap. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fare thee well Part of Speech: phrase Pronunciation: /ˌfɛː(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/, /ˌfɛə(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/, [ˌfɛɚ ðiˑ ˈwɛl], [ˌfɛɹ ðiˑ ˈwɛl] 1. Goodbye, farewell. Labels: archaic Example: I muſt not heare thee, fare thee wel kind maide,[…].
Word: fare thee well Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌfɛː(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/, /ˌfɛə(ɹ)ðiː ˈwɛl/, [ˌfɛɚ ðiˑ ˈwɛl], [ˌfɛɹ ðiˑ ˈwɛl] 1. The greatest extent; completion; a state of refinement or perfection. Labels: idiomatic
Word: see ya Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From see + you. Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.jə/ 1. Alternative form of see you, see you soon, see you later or see you again soon. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial
Word: galumphing Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; perhaps a blend of galloping + triumph. 1. Galloping in a heavy and inelegant manner. Labels: nonce-word 2. present participle and gerund of galumph Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: phossy jaw Part of Speech: noun 1. A disease resulting from exposure to white phosphorus causing degeneration of the teeth and jaw. Labels: uncountable Example: “We thought she would escape phossy jaw. But it got her, yes, it got her, and she died a terrible death.”
Word: icy noctiluca Part of Speech: noun 1. white phosphorus. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Buy I having returned to the Author both his own Papers, and my Version of them, in one Roll, it unfortunately hapned, that before the Icy Noctiluca was printed off, there broke out in the Night a great Fire […]
Word: rip-off Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from rip off. 1. A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate. Labels: countable Example: In those days, a hamburger was fifteen cents, and if someone was charging a quarter for a bowl of soup, it was regarded as a rip-off. Example: Eighty-seven bucks for a three-ounce piece of fish? What a rip-off! Haute cuisine or not! 2. A theft or robbery. Example: He noticed that the window was ajar, and right away he knew in his gut that a rip-off had probably occurred. 3. A scam. Example: He promised to mail me a refund, but it was just a rip-off. 4. A copy, especially one that is illegal or inferior. Example: Are you sure that's a real Rolex and not just a cheap rip-off?
Word: Paget's disease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Both diseases named after British pathologist James Paget (1814–1899). 1. Paget's disease of bone. Labels: uncountable 2. Mammary Paget's disease. Labels: uncountable
Word: -sol Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From Latin solum (“floor, ground”). 1. Forming the names of different kinds of soil. Labels: morpheme
Word: solacement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English solace Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English solacement From solace + -ment. 1. solace; consolation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [I]n such way [the formation of political clubs], most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhibit itself; find solacement, and also nutriment.
Word: solaceful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From solace + -ful. 1. Offering solace.
Word: asswage Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of assuage. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; Example: 5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. 6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Word: assuager Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From assuage + -er. 1. Someone who or something which assuages.
Word: assuagement Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English assuage Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English assuagement From assuage + -ment. Pronunciation: /əˈsweɪd͡ʒmənt/ 1. The action of assuaging; appeasement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He many woordes of comfort ſpake her feare away too chace. / But nought hee could perſwade therein too make her like the cace. / This laſt aſſwagement of her greef he added in the end, / Which was the onely thing that made her loving hart too bend. Example: [T]he aſſwagement of his [a wise man's] diſcontent conſiſts in two things, formerly preſcribed as remedies againſt corporeall pain; viz. Diverſion of his thoughts from his loſſe, or the cause of it; and an application of them to thoſe things, which he knowes to be gratefull and pleaſant to his mind. 2. The condition of being assuaged. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: So all that night they paſt in great diſeaſe, / Till that the morning, bringing earely light / To guide mens labours, brought them alſo eaſe, / And ſome aſſwagement of their painefull plight. Example: This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings. 3. An assuaging medicine or application. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Far down below the Christian captives pine / In dungeon depths, and whoso dares to bring / Assuagements for their wounds, or food, or wine, / Must brave the fiercest vengeance of the king.
Word: sarin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the initials of its creators, Gerhard Schrader (1903–1990), Ambros, Rüdiger and Van der Linde. Pronunciation: /ˈsɑːɹɪn/, /ˈsɑːɹən/ 1. The nerve gas O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate, used as a chemical weapon. Labels: uncountable Example: The health minister in Turkey, which treated many of the attack's victims and conducted autopsies on others, said test results conducted on victims confirmed sarin gas was used. Example: Because Syria was not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention, there was no international mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the attack, although UN inspectors did conclude that sarin had been deployed.
Word: gahnite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) in 1807. 1. A rare mineral ZnAl₂O₄ in the spinel group. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Eddie would go Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Named after Hawaiian waterman Eddie Aikau (1946–1978). 1. Said of challenging surfing conditions, often as an encouragement. Labels: Hawaii Example: Just imagine what it must feel like to make it out of one of those Teahupoo tubes? ¶ *THAT'S* why we continue our quest and challenge. ¶ Eddie would go. ¶ (and we're right behind you Eddie) Example: We'd bodysurf Pounders, north shore areas, Pupukea... I remember dolphins ( or would that be porpoises?) alongside us in most every wave, which would many times drop us onto the sand with a thud, knocking the wind outa us! Then, like the hardy keiki o ka aina buggahs we were, go right back in for more punishment! Eddie would go, and so, to an extent would us keiki!
Word: waterman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English waterman, equivalent to water + -man. 1. A seaman, a sailor. Labels: obsolete 2. A man who lives or works on the water; a boatman. 3. Someone who distributes or supplies water for a living; a water-carrier. Example: An elderly sheik shared this little ceremony with us, and afterwards benignly gave the waterman a coin and made him spurt scented water on his face and beard. 4. Specifically, an attendant on cab stands who supplies water to the horses. Labels: dated Example: ‘Here you are, sir,’ shouted a strange specimen of the human race, in a sackcloth coat, and apron of the same, who, with a brass label and number round his neck, looked as if he were catalogued in some collection of rarities. This was the waterman. 5. A man skilled in multiple aquatic sports disciplines, such as surfing, bodysurfing, undersea diving, canoe paddling, fishing, etc.
Word: phosphorus sesquisulphide Part of Speech: noun 1. tetraphosphorus trisulphide Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: cowboy caviar Part of Speech: noun 1. Baked beans (of various different recipes). Labels: US, informal, uncountable 2. Bean salad (of various different recipes). Labels: US, informal, uncountable
Word: fark Part of Speech: intj Etymology: An alteration of fuck, using a non‐rhotic ⟨ar⟩ to signify an elongated /ɐ/ or /ʌ/. The spelling has been used in works by Australian satirists since at least 1970. Pronunciation: /fɐːk/, /fɑːk/, /fɑɹk/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of fuck, used to express surprise, anger, or emphasis. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, vulgar
Word: fark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the name of the popular website Fark, because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure. 1. To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding. Labels: Internet, US, transitive
Word: teleheating Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- English heating English teleheating From tele- + heating. 1. The supply of heat, either in the form of steam or hot water, from a central source (such as a nuclear power plant) to a group of buildings (such as a city). Labels: uncountable
Word: speech disfluency Part of Speech: noun 1. A part of speech usually expressed as a pause or hesitation; such as err, um, hmm. Example: To the long list of everyday afflictions that includes dry, itchy skin and restless leg syndrome, add another: speech disfluency.
Word: mosaic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek -εῖον (-eîon) Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon) Ancient Greek μουσεῖον (mouseîon)der. Late Latin mūsīvum Medieval Latin musaicumbor. Italian mosaicoder. Middle French mosaïqueder. English mosaic From Middle French mosaïque, from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, from Late Latin musivum (opus), from Latin museum, musaeum, probably from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of museum. Pronunciation: /məʊˈzeɪk/, /məʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪk/ 1. A piece of artwork created by placing colored pieces (usually tiles, either regular or irregular in shape) in a pattern so as to create a picture. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Pixelization. (a method of censorship) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Using censorship's ability to enhance laughter, modern comedy uses a full array of censorship tools: strategically placed censors' black bars ... digitalized mosaic blurs or pixilations^([sic]) that obscure body parts, crude gestures, and the like ... 3. An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A composite picture made from overlapping photographs. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any composite structure made from diverse elements. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: mosaic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek -εῖον (-eîon) Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon) Ancient Greek μουσεῖον (mouseîon)der. Late Latin mūsīvum Medieval Latin musaicumbor. Italian mosaicoder. Middle French mosaïqueder. English mosaic From Middle French mosaïque, from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, from Late Latin musivum (opus), from Latin museum, musaeum, probably from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of museum. Pronunciation: /məʊˈzeɪk/, /məʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪk/ 1. Containing cells of varying genetic constitution. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mosaic Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek -εῖον (-eîon) Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon) Ancient Greek μουσεῖον (mouseîon)der. Late Latin mūsīvum Medieval Latin musaicumbor. Italian mosaicoder. Middle French mosaïqueder. English mosaic From Middle French mosaïque, from Italian mosaico, from Medieval Latin musaicum, from Late Latin musivum (opus), from Latin museum, musaeum, probably from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of museum. Pronunciation: /məʊˈzeɪk/, /məʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/, /moʊˈzeɪk/ 1. To arrange in a mosaic. Labels: transitive Example: Featheredging is a process in preparing the photographs for mosaicking and involves cutting, tearing, and sandpapering the back of the print along its edges in such a way that the edge of the print is thin and will make a smooth match with adjoining prints.
Word: boonies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of boondocks + -ies, as if a singular *boony (“remote place (singular)”). It was shortened as such by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon. Pronunciation: /ˈbuːniz/ 1. Boondocks. Labels: US, informal, plural, plural-only, slang
Word: Hittorf's phosphorus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824-1914) who first produced it in 1865. (Reference: John Emsley, The Shocking History of Phosphorus, 2000, →ISBN, page 304.) 1. A purple crystalline allotrope of phosphorus. Labels: uncountable
Word: Cloughoge Part of Speech: name 1. a village near Newry in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Word: adulterer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From adulter (“to commit adultery”) + -er. Pronunciation: /əˈdʌltəɹə/, /əˈdʌltəɹɚ/ 1. One who commits adultery. Labels: broadly Example: Under the canon-law rule, a married participant is an adulterer and an umarried one is a fornicator. 2. One who commits adultery. Labels: broadly Example: Ashley Madison, so-called for the two most popular girls names, billed itself as the premier destination for adulterers – no judgment, no risks, no strings attached other than the payments required to secure enough “credits” to talk to other users. 3. One who commits adultery. Labels: broadly Example: I become an adulterer and remain an adulterer when, by choice, I freely adopt the proposal to have sex with someone other than my wife. Example: The Word of God says that you, my reader, should be sure that no fornicator or adulterer or adulteress has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.
Word: psychoanalytic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ) Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der. English psycho- English analytic English psychoanalytic From psycho- + analytic. 1. Of or relating to psychoanalysis. Labels: not-comparable Example: Despite the accuracy of his observations, Rechy's political analysis of S&M, although it includes some good insights, is limited, moralistic, and tainted with psychoanalytic bias, and makes the leather scene into a place of warped madness and sickness. Example: For example, psychoanalytic patients often resist remembering their childhood because they fear they will end up blaming their parents for their problems and feel guilty for betraying them.
Word: unattainable 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 attain Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English unattainable From un- + attain + -able. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈteɪnəbəl/, /ˌɐnəˈtæɪnəbəl/ 1. Impossible to attain or reach; unable to accomplish Example: Efficiency for the sake of efficiency, unchallenged authority conferred upon those who know well a few things and ignore everything else, disdain for the ordinary and humble elements that introduce happiness in our lives, worship of unattainable utopiae, are some of the features of the scheme which leads inevitably to the suppression of the eternal gifts bestowed by God upon every human person and to the frightful prospect of being ruled by what he vividly names “the Empire of the Insect.”
Word: unattainable Part of Speech: noun 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 attain Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English unattainable From un- + attain + -able. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈteɪnəbəl/, /ˌɐnəˈtæɪnəbəl/ 1. Anything that cannot be attained.
Word: be left holding the baby Part of Speech: verb 1. To be left with the responsibility of resolving a problem. Labels: idiomatic
Word: galumph Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from galumphing in Lewis Carroll's “Jabberwocky”. Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlʌmf/ 1. To move heavily and clumsily, or with a sense of prancing and triumph. Labels: intransitive Example: He instructed the taxi to wait and galumphed happily up. Example: The Wild Things are a triumph of stagecraft, and they galumph away with the show. 2. (of a seal) To move across land by undulating the body. Labels: intransitive
Word: yaffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative of the bird's cry. Pronunciation: /ˈjafl̩/ 1. The European green woodpecker, Picus viridis. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: I remember the cry of the wood-peckers, or yaffils, as we call them in that country, going to roost in a pale autumnal evening […]. Example: “‘Punched that rotton strap,’ he goes on saying, ‘like a gret ol' yaffle punchin' a 'ollow log!’”
Word: yaffle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative of the bird's cry. Pronunciation: /ˈjafl̩/ 1. Of the green woodpecker: to make its distinctive cry. Labels: intransitive Example: Green woodpecker is not without options. Each year the builder comes to fix the house of the wooden roof. Green woodpecker watches then flies away, yaffling.
Word: yaffle Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈjafl̩/ 1. To eat. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: At the mention of yaffling—the cant for eating—Ewan felt a pang of hunger in his belly. Example: You're growing squab yaffling our food and then lazing in the hallway.
Word: Caesarian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Caesar Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānus Latin Caesariānusbor. English Caesarian Borrowed from Latin Caesariānus, from Caesar + -iānus. By surface analysis, Caesar + -ian. Piecewise doublet of tsarian. For the sense “Caesarean section”, see also "Caesarean section § Etymology" on Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/, /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar. Labels: not-comparable 2. Alternative form of Caesarean. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Caesarian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Caesar Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānus Latin Caesariānusbor. English Caesarian Borrowed from Latin Caesariānus, from Caesar + -iānus. By surface analysis, Caesar + -ian. Piecewise doublet of tsarian. For the sense “Caesarean section”, see also "Caesarean section § Etymology" on Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/, /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A follower of Julius Caesar. 2. A member of the populares faction of Julius Caesar. 3. A Caesarean section.
Word: Lebor Gabála Érenn Part of Speech: name Etymology: The title translates as The Book of the Taking of Ireland. 1. A loose collection of poems and prose narratives recounting the mythical origins and history of an Irish race from the creation of the world down to the Middle Ages. Labels: Irish
Word: loth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See loath. 1. Alternative form of loath. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative Example: I was loth to return to the office without the Henderson file. Example: If there bee never a Servant-monster i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he sayes ; nor a nest of Antiques ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries, […]
Word: loth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Loth (obsolete), Lot, later also from Dutch lood, both specific usages of the word for ‘lead’. Doublet of lead. Pronunciation: /ləʊt/ 1. A measure of weight formerly used in Germany, the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe, equivalent to half of the local ounce. Labels: historical Example: It is not a matter of body but of virtues, which is why the fifth essence was invented, of which one loth is superior to the twenty pounds of the body from which it was extracted.
Word: graphical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From graphic + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæfɪkəl/ 1. Of, related to, or shown on a graph. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of, related to, or using graphics. Labels: not-comparable 3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. Labels: not-comparable Example: The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters.
Word: odd lot Part of Speech: noun 1. A block of shares of stock that is not a multiple of some number, usually 100. 2. A set of leftover goods, of a quantity less than an evenly divisible shippable unit, often sold at reduced price. Example: Everard liked to shop at the stores specializing in odd lots down by the docks, as he was a cheapskate. 3. An incomplete set or collection or assorted mix of items. Labels: broadly, figuratively
Word: picador Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish picador (“stinger”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkədɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador. Example: I saw the picador lance the bull. Example: The bull roars with pain, and the banderillas toss about in the lacerated flesh, from which the blood pours in crimson streams. "Poor beast! what a shame," we think, and even then the order is given for the picador to attack the bull.
Word: round lot Part of Speech: noun 1. A block of shares of stock that is a multiple of some number, usually 100.
Word: abackward Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English abakward. Equivalent to aback (“rear”) + -ward (“toward”). Pronunciation: /əˈbæk.wəd/ 1. Backward. Labels: archaic, not-comparable
Word: yare Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”). Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, ger (“perfect”). Pronunciation: /jɛː/, /jɛɹ/, /jeːɹ/, /jeː/, /ˈjeə/ 1. Ready; prepared. Labels: archaic 2. Ready, alert, prepared, prompt. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: […]Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skillful and deadly. 3. Eager, keen, lively, handy; agile, nimble. 4. Easily manageable and responsive to the helm; yar. Example: c. 1587-1612 (undated), Sir Walter Raleigh, letter to Prince Henry The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and is yare; whereas the greater is slow.
Word: yare Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English yare, ȝare, from Old English ġearu (“prepared, ready, prompt, equipped, complete, finished, yare”), from Proto-West Germanic *garu, from Proto-Germanic *garwaz (“ready”). Cognate with Dutch gaar (“done, well-cooked”), German gar (“done, well-cooked; wholly, at all”), Icelandic görr, ger (“perfect”). Pronunciation: /jɛː/, /jɛɹ/, /jeːɹ/, /jeː/, /ˈjeə/ 1. Yarely. Labels: archaic Example: Hey, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th'Master's whistle.[…]
Word: yare Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of yair. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pari Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian پری (pari). 1. Alternative form of peri. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Pari, in Persian mythology, is a description of fairy beings but malevolent.
Word: pari Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of purree (“Indian land measure”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Cesarian Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of Caesarian. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Cesarian Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Caesarian. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: -graphical Part of Speech: suffix 1. Used to form adjectives meaning of or relating to corresponding nouns ending in -graphy or -graph. Labels: morpheme
Word: predestine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French prédestiner, from Medieval Latin praedestinare. By surface analysis, pre- + destine. Displaced native Old English foreteohhian. Pronunciation: /pɹeˈdɛstɪn/, /pɹiˈdɛstɪn/ 1. To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain. Labels: transitive 2. To foreordain by divine will. Labels: transitive
Word: nimaigeri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 二枚蹴り. 1. A kimarite in which the attacker kicks away the opponent's ankle while throwing or twisting him onto his side.