nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: old wives' tale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In this context, the word “wives” means “women” and not “married women,” retaining the original sense of Old English wīf, which meant “woman” as well as “wife”. The phrase could be a reformation of Old English ealdra cwēna spell or a calque of Latin anīlis fābula, both literally “old women’s story.” Pronunciation: /ɔld ˈwaɪvz teɪl/ 1. A supposed truth that has been passed down by word of mouth 2. A rumour, myth or superstition; something which is almost certainly untrue, despite acceptance by many. Example: According to the old wives' tales that are related about this race of genii who inhabit Iceland and its vicinity, they have a political form of government modelled after the same pattern as that which the inhabitants themselves are under.
Word: abecedarium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin ā Latin bē Latin cē Latin dē blend Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin abecedārius Latin abecedāriumbor. English abecedarium Borrowed from Latin abecedārium. Doublet of abecedary. Pronunciation: /ˌeɪ.bi.siˈdɛəɹ.i.əm/ 1. A book used to teach the alphabet; alphabet book; primer. 2. An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order.
Word: pencil boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pencil box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pencil cases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pencil case Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sleeping bags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sleeping bag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clothes shops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clothes shop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: worktop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From work + top. 1. A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers that can be used to work on. Usually in a kitchen. Labels: UK Example: The cupboards were oak and the worktop was granite.
Word: worksurface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From work + surface. 1. A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on. Example: The cupboards were oak and the worksurface granite.
Word: moisturizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of moisturize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: moisturizing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of making something moist; especially, of a cosmetic, making the skin or hair less dry. Labels: uncountable
Word: moisturizing Part of Speech: adj 1. That moisturizes.
Word: hydromassage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- English massage English hydromassage From hydro- + massage. 1. A therapeutic massage in which bubbles of air and jets of water are pumped through a bath in which the recipient lies. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hydromassage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der. English hydro- English massage English hydromassage From hydro- + massage. 1. To massage in this way. Labels: transitive
Word: Tasbeha Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic تَسْبِيحَة (tasbīḥa). 1. A worship service in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, consisting of praises glorifying God taken from the Psalms and other Biblical sources and often chanted with a simple musical accompaniment of cymbals and triangle.
Word: Enrico Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Enrico. 1. A surname from Italian.
Word: burnous Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of burnoose. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: burnous Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of burnou Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cake-slice Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cake slice. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cake slice Part of Speech: noun 1. A knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, slice. Example: The cake slices were toppled and mushed, mostly uneaten.
Word: calvados Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the department of Calvados. 1. An apple brandy made in Normandy, France. Labels: uncountable 2. A glass of this spirit. Labels: countable
Word: canaliculi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canaliculus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canaliculus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin canāliculus (“small channel, pipe or gutter”), diminutive of canālis (“channel; pipe, gutter”), from canna (“cane, reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”). Pronunciation: /ˌkænəˈlɪkjələs/ 1. Any of many small canals or ducts in the body, such as in the bone, or in some plants.
Word: candiru Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese candiru, from Nheengatu kandirú. Pronunciation: /ˌkændɪˈɹuː/ 1. A small parasitic catfish, Vandellia cirrhosa, native to the Amazon river, rumored to swim up male urethras.
Word: carriage clock Part of Speech: noun 1. A small clock with a carrying handle, originally designed for travelling. Example: It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three. Example: Cheshire-based Cottrills has decided to drop carriage clocks from its range. It sold 200 in 2004 but this year has only seen one order.
Word: case clock Part of Speech: noun 1. A clock with a case: one with its clockwork and clock face encased in a case.
Word: tall-case clock Part of Speech: noun 1. A longcase clock.
Word: longcase clock Part of Speech: noun 1. A freestanding weight-driven pendulum clock, having the pendulum and weights in a tall case.
Word: cess-pit Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cesspit. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: charlady Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From char (“chore”) + lady. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/ 1. A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation. Labels: archaic, historical Example: "Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below. Example: MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.
Word: Mrs Mop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mrs Mopp, a character played by Dorothy Summers in the wartime radio series It's That Man Again. 1. A charlady. Labels: UK, informal
Word: cheval glass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French cheval (“supporting frame”, literally “horse”) (see chevalet) + glace (“mirror”). 1. A long mirror, mounted on a swivel in a frame, allowing it to be tilted. Example: It was a large room, […] furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron. Example: Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. […]
Word: coetaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin coaetaneus (“one of the same age”). Pronunciation: /ˌkoʊ.ɪˈteɪn.i.əs/, /-iˈteɪn-/ 1. Belonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary. Example: The beginning of [Theodore] Parker's own perplexities was almost coetaneous with the establishment of Brook Farm, for his 'Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Religion,' which was preached at the ordination of Mr. Shackford in South Boston, on May 19, 1841, occasioned the division of the religious community for and against him.
Word: commissionaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French commissionaire, from Latin commissio. Doublet of commissioner. Pronunciation: /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛː/, /kəˌmɪʃəˈnɛɹ/, /kəˌmɪsjəˈnɛɹ/, /kəˌmɪsjəˈneɪɹ/ 1. One entrusted with a (small) commission, such as an errand; especially, an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, etc. 2. A uniformed doorman. Labels: UK Example: When the day came Nick turned up early at the bank and waited under a palm tree in the atrium. People hurried in, nodding to the commissionaire, who still wore a tailcoat and a top hat. 3. An undisclosed agent under European civil law.
Word: cordiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cor (“heart”) + -iform. 1. Heart-shaped. Example: The "Pawang" also inflicts death from a distance, by burning the cordiform top of a newly opened bunch of bananas on the tree.
Word: curundum Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of corundum. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: geography fair Part of Speech: noun 1. an education activity in which students create geography-related projects and present to the class using displays, posters, written and oral reports, and other methods. Labels: US Example: Spelling bees, science fairs, and geography fairs can also be organized through a support group.
Word: cyclostyled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of cyclostyle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cyclostyled Part of Speech: adj 1. copied using a cyclostyle Labels: not-comparable Example: It's just a sheet of paper, whose still visible creases attest to its having been folded in four, fixed by a paperclip to a thick cyclostyled volume -- the terms of co-ownership relating to the flat this woman is about to visit. 2. having a cyclostyle Labels: not-comparable
Word: descaling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of descale Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: descaling Part of Speech: noun 1. The removal of scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: descale Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *skend-der. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂ Proto-Italic *skand-slā Latin scālabor. Middle English scale English scale English descale From de- + scale. 1. To remove scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc. 2. To remove the scales from a fish etc.
Word: dishstand Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dish stand. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dish stand Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several devices for supporting a dish; but especially a wooden tripod used in parts of the Middle East
Word: disjunctor Part of Speech: noun 1. A small, temporary body between the conidia of some fungi. 2. A kind of electrical circuit breaker. Example: The next thing that we must turn our attention to is the disjunctor, or apparatus for breaking both the circuits simultaneously. This consists of a hinged frame, which can be given a sudden movement by means of an electro-magnet […]
Word: Djakarta Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Jakarta. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: KLM, on 12 September 1929, had inaugurated a fortnightly proving service to Djakarta from Amsterdam, a distance of 8540 miles and the longest air route in the world. Example: Many cities from Shanghai to Djakarta are badly polluted.
Word: dolman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from French doliman, dolman (sense 2), ultimately from Ottoman Turkish طولامان, دولامان (dolaman, “robe”), from طولامق (dolamak, “to wrap around”). Compare German Doliman, Dollman; Hungarian dolmány. Pronunciation: /ˈdɒlmən/, /ˈdoʊlmən/ 1. A long, loose garment with narrow sleeves and an opening in the front, generally worn by Turks. Example: Feriz Beg, on discarding his dolman, rolled up the sleeves of his fine shirt of Turkish linen to his shoulders, and drew from its sheath his fine Damascus scimitar, which was scarce two inches broad, and so flexible that you could have bent it double in every direction like a watch-spring. Example: [I]n the second half of the century the long Turkish dolman disappears completely and tight, knee-length dolmans and mentes become general. 2. A short, close-fitting, heavily braided military jacket, usually worn under a pelisse, originally by hussars. Example: Robert nodded in reply to her question and not only took off his helmet but unhooked his pelisse, threw it on a chair, and unbuttoned the top of his dolman. Example: Sitting on the chair's edge, he shrugged a shoulder until his dolman fell into place, then balanced his helmet on his knee like a pampered pet. 3. A woman's garment with wide capelike sleeves. Example: She, who never went out, found a bonnet that I had never seen before, put a dolman over her best silk dress, locked the guinea fowl safe in her kitchen and got into a hack with Henry, her smelling-bottle and her cap, in which was a new bunch of everlasting flowers. Example: She turned slowly – she was dressed in tussore and a dolman.
Word: jingo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the minced oath by jingo, which was used in a music hall song, written ca. 1878 by G. W. Hunt, that supported Britain's then belligerent attitude towards Russia. In this context, a euphemism for Jesus, influenced by the meaningless presto-jingo used by conjurors. A connection with the Basque jainko (“god”) has been suggested, but evidence is lacking. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ/, /ˈd͡ʒɪŋ.ɡoʊ/ 1. One who supports policy favouring war. Example: 1897 June 19, Carl Schurz, editorial: Armed or Unarmed Peace in Harper's Weekly, reprinted in 1913, Frederic Bancroft (editor), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo. Example: He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
Word: narwal Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of narwhal. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: domino costume Part of Speech: noun 1. A loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask, worn especially at masquerades Example: […] but there were many ladies, he remarked, in ample domino costume, whose cloak and short black mask, with its border of crape, could not conceal a stray tress or dimpled chin.
Word: econometrician Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English econometrics Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English econometrician From econometrics + -ian. 1. Someone who studies, uses or works in econometrics. Example: [Hal Varian] hired an entire team of “econometricians,” who combined neoliberal theory, mathematical ideas, and data to help Google make as much money as possible, […]
Word: econometric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From econo- + -metric. 1. Combining economics and mathematics; relating to measurement of an economy Labels: not-comparable Example: an econometric study
Word: draisienne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais. 1. dandy-horse, hobby horse Labels: historical Example: I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.
Word: dustcover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dust + cover. Pronunciation: /ˈdʌstˌkʌvɚ/ 1. Synonym of dust jacket.
Word: dust jacket Part of Speech: noun 1. The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide a blurb.
Word: redingote Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French redingote, itself from English riding-coat. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdɪŋɡəʊt/ 1. A long coat or greatcoat for men. Labels: historical Example: In the corner of certain drawing are to be seen Adam himself and his French assistant, Clérisseau, sketching away in their dashing tricornes and redingotes, very much as one might imagine the two young men in Così fan tutte. Example: I came upon a darkly looming building, from the dungeon-like basement of which there emerged a caretaker called Bartoloměj Smečka, a veteran, it seemed, of long-lost campaigns, clad in a crumpled redingote and a flowered fancy waistcoat with a gold watch-chain draped over it […] 2. A women's dress coat or long fitted coat with a flared skirt. Example: Mrs. Hobby, dressed in a brown and white silk redingote, blinked back tears as the President recalled their first meeting in London in 1942, when Oveta was commander of the WAAC (later the WAC).
Word: dwarf tossing Part of Speech: noun 1. A "sport" in which contestants compete to throw a small person the farthest. Labels: uncountable Example: Dwarf tossing is an activity that has engendered significant opposition. This "sport" originated in 1985 when bouncers at an Australian night club decided it would be entertaining for customers to compete by seeing who could throw a dwarf the farthest. Example: 2004 Richard Burchill et. al. - Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee The circular said that dwarf tossing should be banned on the basis of, among other things, article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights . . .
Word: elucubrating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of elucubrate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: frock coat Part of Speech: noun 1. A coat with long skirts, worn by men, now only on formal occasions. Example: In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler. A rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat. Example: The sole image of Henry Cavendish captured in his lifetime shows an aristocratic-looking man in a frock coat, frilled shirt-wrists, and white stockings, wearing a knocker-tailed periwig under a black three-cornered hat.
Word: emerised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of emerise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: encephalum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See encephalo-. 1. The brain of an insect
Word: entrains Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of entrain Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ex-libris Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of ex libris. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ferrocerium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor. Old Latin *fersom Latin ferrum English ferro- English cerium English ferrocerium From ferro- + cerium. Pronunciation: /ˌfɛɹoʊˈsɪəɹiəm/ 1. A pyrophoric alloy of iron and cerium that is used with a striker (a steel) to make the spark of a lighter or firestarter. Labels: uncountable Example: Near-synonym: flint (loose sense)
Word: flatlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *flataz Old Norse flatrbor. Middle English flat English flat Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English flatlet From flat + -let. 1. A very small flat (apartment). Labels: UK Example: The flat, which he was ushered into by Terry, was no more than a flatlet, with kitchenette, bathroomette, and a bed-sitting-room with hideaway bed.
Word: floortile Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of floor tile. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fluidic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin fluidusder. Middle English fluid English fluid Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English fluidic From fluid + -ic. Pronunciation: /fluˈɪ.dɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to a fluid. 2. Of or pertaining to fluidics.
Word: fluidics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti? Latin fluō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin fluidusder. Middle English fluid English fluid Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English fluidic English -s English fluidics From fluidic + -s. Pronunciation: /fluˈɪ.dɪks/ 1. The branch of engineering and technology that is concerned with the construction of devices that use the flow and pressure of a fluid in circuits analogous to electronic ones Labels: uncountable
Word: fly-box Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of fly box. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fly box Part of Speech: noun 1. A box in which a fly fisherman keeps his flies
Word: flyleaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flyleaf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foot-slog Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of footslog. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fruitarianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fruitarian 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 fruitarianism From fruitarian + -ism. 1. The practice of being a fruitarian Labels: uncountable
Word: Galalith Part of Speech: name Etymology: Trade name, from Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”) + -lith. 1. A product, resembling celluloid and made from casein, that was an early substitute for ivory.
Word: glam band Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glam + band. 1. A glam rock band. Labels: informal
Word: glory-hole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of glory hole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: glory-hole Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of glory hole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: glomerulus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the diminutive of the Latin glomus (gen. glomeris) meaning "ball of yarn" or "ball-shaped mass". Pronunciation: /ɡləˈmɛɹ.jəl.əs/ 1. A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine 2. A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type. 3. Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
Word: groschen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Groschen, from Middle High German grosse, from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus (“thick (penny)”). 1. Any of several obsolete European silver coins. Example: […]old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers,[…]
Word: gunflint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gun + flint. 1. The piece of flint or other suitable natural stone that is used in a flintlock weapon to generate a spark
Word: gunflints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gunflint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: groschens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of groschen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glomeruli Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glomerulus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fly boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fly box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attention deficit disorder Part of Speech: noun 1. A syndrome formerly thought to affect children only, but now known also to affect adults, that is characterized by frequent, chronic distractibility, and either inattentiveness or hyperactivity (fidgeting), now merged with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: naughtier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of naughty: more naughty Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: buck for Part of Speech: verb 1. To strive for persistently; to try hard to obtain (a promotion, raise, etc.). Labels: US, colloquial, idiomatic
Word: rôles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rôle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: broasted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of broast Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: broasted Part of Speech: adj 1. Cooked by broasting; fried under pressure. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pacer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pace + -er. 1. One who paces. 2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. 3. A horse whose natural gait is a pace (where the legs of the same side are lifted together). Labels: archaic Example: And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain. Time with me goes slow. — "Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain," But that grief is heavy I know. 4. A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race). 5. A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.
Word: pacer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the brand name Pacer. 1. A mechanical pencil. Labels: Australia
Word: pacers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pacer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lamb's bread Part of Speech: noun 1. A strain of Jamaican cannabis. Labels: uncountable Example: We don't want no hash, we don't want no dope, we just want the Lamb's bread collie Example: This one maybe grow to be the Lamb's Bread. Dat be strong weed.
Word: miz Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /mɪz/ 1. Clipping of miserable. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang Example: But when I finally left the pub, it must have been about five minutes later, beginning to feel a bit miz, there he was outside, leaning against the pillar at the corner, one foot raised behind him - very rent-looking, actually, which should have made me wonder, but I found I was talking to him.
Word: Aarush Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi आरुष (āruṣ). 1. A male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.
Word: beauty school Part of Speech: noun 1. A trade school which offers training in cosmetology.
Word: Keelin Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Caoilfhionn, from caol (“thin, slender”) + fionn (“light, fair”). 1. A female given name from Irish.
Word: Keelin Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Keeling. 1. A surname.
Word: Prerna Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रेरणा (preraṇā). 1. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Word: Trenewan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From trenew- (new town or dwelling), plus eyn (cold), or newyn (famine). 1. A Cornish place name, that means either "the cold dwelling" or "famine".
Word: squinny Part of Speech: verb 1. To squint. Labels: intransitive Example: Those who had equipped themselves with a price list were forced into the crude necessity of asking the drinkers to move so as to get some distance on the martyrs or to squinny at the numbered labels.
Word: squinny Part of Speech: noun 1. A chipmunk. Labels: slang
Word: longanimity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin longanimitās, from longanimis, translating Ancient Greek μακροθυμία (makrothumía). Pronunciation: /lɒŋɡəˈnɪmɪti/ 1. Patience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: It had overcome the patience of Job, as it did the meekness of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God [...].
Word: Joe's Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possessive -’s as though owned or run by Joe. 1. Any local eatery. Example: You sit round in the evening talking, or you study, or you go to Joe's for a beer. Example: You go to Joe's grill or Doc's for cokes not because those places are charming, or the food good—but because the crowd goes.
Word: fiercer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of fierce: more fierce Labels: comparative, form-of Example: George comes over to work the doors while you swing well-broken coal into flame fiercer than ever, at pure white heat that drives you back scorched and blind from each quick shot.
Word: loftier Part of Speech: adj 1. Comparative form of lofty: more lofty. Labels: comparative, form-of Example: Brunel took a site-specific approach - for example, using stone piers for many of the longer and loftier spans, but timber piles for muddier environs that called for lighter-weight structures.
Word: couch grass Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/, /ˈkuːt͡ʃɡɹɑːs/ 1. A grass of species Elymus repens, usually considered a weed. Labels: uncountable Example: The roots of plants, disengaged from the soil in the process of tilling and cleaning it, are also employed as a vegetable manure. Some of these, however, as the couch grass, being very vivacious, would readily spring again: and therefore it is necessary that their vegetative powers be destroyed, which may be done by mixing them with lime, and forming in this way a compost. Many farmers, however, to save time, or to prevent the risk of the plants springing again, burn them in little heaps upon the ground at the time of their being collected, and spread the ashes upon the surface. This may be sometimes convenient, but the effect is, that the principal nutritive part of the plant is dissipated, and nothing left but the carbonaceous, earthy, and other insoluble matter. —Low's Elements of Practical Agriculture. Example: But the trouble was pervasive and deep-rooted as couch-grass.
Word: dasyure Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). By surface analysis, dasy- + -ure (“tail”). Pronunciation: /ˈdæsiˌjʊə(ɹ)/ 1. Any of various Australasian carnivorous marsupials, of the family Dasyuridae, which include the marsupial equivalent to cats
Word: fingerwork Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of finger work. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: finger work Part of Speech: noun 1. The movement or play of the fingers in executing something, especially in playing a musical instrument. Labels: uncountable
Word: masterstroke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From master + stroke. 1. An action which demonstrates great skill or artistry. Example: The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist. Example: Paddington dates to 1838, although much of today's main line station is from 1854. And it is, of course, a Brunellian masterstroke.
Word: hand-over Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of handover. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: handover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from hand over. Pronunciation: /ˈhændˌoʊvɚ/ 1. The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another. Example: The emergency regulations ordinance, created by British authorities to break up port strikes in 1922, had not been used for over half a century, and never since the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997. Example: I will remain in post as Prime Minister until the contest is complete. And I will do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power. 2. The information passed on in such a case. Example: The daytime team got an urgent handover from the afterhours department. 3. the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel. 4. the process of transferring satellite control responsibility from one earth station to another without loss or interruption of service. 5. The transfer of goods from the dealer to the purchaser, often of illegal goods. Example: Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
Word: Harkis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Harki Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Harki Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French Harki, from Algerian Arabic حركي (ḥarkī), from حركة (ḥarka, “military operation”) (standard Arabic حركة (ḥaraka, “movement”)). 1. An Algerian Muslim who fought with the French during Algeria’s war of independence from 1954-1962; loosely, an Algerian Muslim who supported the French presence in Algeria. Example: On top of this there is the residual bitterness and strife between the ‘new’ immigrants and the Harkis, the Algerians loyal to the French Army who took root in France in 1962 and have assiduously resisted integration.
Word: hemihedral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hemi- + -hedral. 1. Having only half the plane faces needed for the highest degree of symmetry in its system Labels: not-comparable
Word: hereinafter Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From herein + after. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪɹɪnˈæftɚ/, /ˈhɪəɹɪnˈɑːftə/ 1. In the parts of this document, statement, or book that follow; after this Labels: not-comparable Example: […] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […] Example: ... modes to the exclusion of either radial arms or any specific curve, my invention not referring to these modes, but to neutralising the endwise pressure on the axis, as more particularly stated hereinafter in my claim of invention.
Word: hide-out Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hideout. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Hitlerian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Hitler Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Hitlerian From Hitler + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌhɪtˈlɜː.ɹi.ən/, /ˌhɪtˈlɪ.ɹi.ən/ 1. Of, relating to, or resembling Hitler (the German chancellor) or his actions. Example: of Hitlerian proportions Example: [He had] an almost Hitlerian cowlick on his pale brow.
Word: Hitlerian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Hitler Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Hitlerian From Hitler + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˌhɪtˈlɜː.ɹi.ən/, /ˌhɪtˈlɪ.ɹi.ən/ 1. A supporter of Hitler or his policies. Example: Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germsans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians.
Word: hodja Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خواجه (modern Turkish hoca), from Classical Persian خْوَاجَه (xwāja), ultimately from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Doublet of howadji, Khoja, Hoxha, and Osho. 1. A Muslim schoolmaster. Example: 1916, unnamed narrator, quoted in 2008, Viscount Bryce (editor), The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Viscount Bryce, page 315, The next night I heard two hodjas talking, under my window, of a terrible massacre of the Armenians that had just taken place in the mountains; they seemed to be very sorry about it and spoke of it with horror; they did not know, of course, that I was listening. Example: A young boy chanted the Koran while our hodja sat by the low table swaying himself to its rhythm.
Word: hold-all Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of holdall. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: holdall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Univerbation of hold + all. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊldɔːl/, /ˈhoʊldɔːl/ 1. A large bag for carrying belongings while travelling. Example: She could see something pointy—a high-heeled shoe, probably—pressing against the leather of her Gola holdall. 2. A book or similar printed work containing a wide variety of information. Labels: figuratively
Word: carcinology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From carcino- + -logy. 1. The study of crustaceans. Labels: uncountable
Word: holohedral Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From holo- + Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). 1. Having as many plane faces as needed for the highest degree of symmetry in its system Labels: not-comparable
Word: home inspection Part of Speech: noun 1. An official inspection of a dwelling by a home inspector prior to its sale.
Word: home inspector Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who performs the home inspection of a dwelling before it is sold.
Word: honkie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of honky. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: horsecloth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From horse + cloth. 1. A rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.
Word: houselights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of houselight Labels: form-of, plural
Word: houselights Part of Speech: noun 1. The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium, theatre, or other entertainment venue. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: hymnology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hymn + -ology. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪm.nɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ 1. The study of hymns; hymnody. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: hypnotisability Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hypnotizability. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: incrusted Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of encrusted. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It gathers into a vaporous envelope, constituting a true atmosphere or nephelosphere. This precipitates an aqueous rain, the homologue of the molten rain of earlier times, which ultimately finds a resting-place upon the incrusted nucleus. Example: It was roofed in with gold and silver beams, incrusted with pearls and jade.
Word: innervated Part of Speech: adj 1. Supplied with nerves; having fibers distributed to a part of the body.
Word: innervated Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of innervate Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: innervate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English nerve Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English innervate From in- + nerve + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.ə.veɪt/, /ɪˈnɜː.veɪt/, /ɪˈnɝˌveɪt/, /ˈɪn.ɚˌveɪt/ 1. To supply (an organ or part of the body) with nerves. 2. Synonym of innerve (“to supply with nervous energy”).
Word: intagliated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intaglio + -ated. 1. engraved in the form of an intaglio
Word: ithyphallic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin ithyphallicus, from Ancient Greek ἰθυφαλλικός (ithuphallikós), from ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος (īthŭ́phallos, “phallus carried in festivals of Bacchus; ode sung in honour of the phallus; dance accompanying such an ode; dancer performing such a dance”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος is derived from ἰθῠ́ς (ithŭ́s) (variant of εὐθῠ́ς (euthŭ́s, “straight”)) + φαλλός (phallós, “penis; image of a penis, phallus”). The English word can be analysed as ithyphallus + -ic. As regards the noun, compare Latin ithyphallicum (“poem with the same metre as the hymns to Priapus”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/, /-θə-/ 1. A poem or song in an ithyphallic metre. Example: And vvanton Catullus, comparing a heauie fellovv, vnvvorthily bleſt vvith a Delicacie in the marriage bed, to a log, hath this Ithyphallique: Talis iſte meus Stupor nil videt, nihil audit. [Such a dolt as this one of mine sees nothing, hears nothing.] Example: We may, therefore, assume two epochs for the Saturnian verse. In the first epoch, until Livius and Saevius, its measure is yet very unsettled; the rhythm is, however, evidently trochaic. It usually corresponds to two ithyphallics, sometimes with, sometimes without an anacrusis before the first ithyphallic. 2. A lascivious or obscene poem or song. Example: I omit noticing some edifying Ithyphallics of Savagius, wishing to keep the proper veil over them, if his grave but somewhat indiscreet worshipper will suffer it; but certainly these teachers of "great moral lessons" are apt to be found in strange company.
Word: Jack o' the clock Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the mechanical figures that emerge regularly to strike the bell of a clock.
Word: jardinière Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French jardinière. Doublet of giardiniera. Pronunciation: /ˌʒɑːdɪnˈjɛə/, /ˌʒɑɹ.dɪnˈjɛɚ/, /ˌʒɑɹ.dɪnˈɛɚ/, /ˌdʒɑɹ.dɪnˈɛɚ/, /ˌʒɑɹ.dɪnˈɪɹ/ 1. An ornamental pot for the display of live or cut flowers; a planter; a plantstand or flowerpot, especially one made of decorated pottery or porcelain. 2. A vegetable soup or sauce. 3. Diced, cooked vegetables served as a garnish. 4. A lappet forming part of an old headdress. Labels: historical
Word: jelly bracelet Part of Speech: noun 1. A gel bracelet
Word: gel bracelet Part of Speech: noun 1. A clear, plastic bracelet worn as a wristband; often embossed with a message of support for a cause
Word: surer Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of sure: more sure Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: Patriot missile Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a cluster of missiles used in the MIM-104 Patriot missile system
Word: rumdum Part of Speech: noun 1. A habitual drunkard; a stupid person. Labels: slang Example: When a fellow comes into the kitchen to freshen his drink and finds the rumdum from up the road with one hand on his wife's behind and the other down the front of her 2. A cocktail made from rum, applejack and lime juice.
Word: rumdum Part of Speech: adj 1. Dulled or incapacitated by alcohol; unconscious; stupid. Labels: slang Example: He was rumdum from beer and pills.
Word: kompot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian компо́т (kompót) and Polish kompot. Doublet of composite, compost, and compote. Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊmpɑt/ 1. In Central and Eastern Europe, boiled fruits (typically fresh or dried) served either as a drink or a dessert depending on the region. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: You can get kompot there too, an apricot-prune dessert served, Russian-style, in a glass. Example: One item on the juice list, kompot, caught our eye, and we learned it was a homemade fruit punch, of which regrettably they had no more that day.
Word: kompot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Polish kompot. Doublet of composite, compost, and compote. Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊmpɑt/ 1. A crude Polish preparation of heroin made from poppy straw. Labels: uncountable Example: [Thomas] O’Grady described the kompot as “kind of a distilled home brew” made from the straw of the poppy plant. Example: Although kompot, a locally produced poppy straw derivative, is the most prevalent drug in Poland, amphetamine use is becoming increasingly widespread.
Word: bondieuserie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French bondieuserie. Pronunciation: /bɒnˈdɪəzəɹi/ 1. Any devotional ornament or church object, especially one having little artistic value; a religious knick-knack. Example: It is about eleven hundred years old, and though it is defaced by hideous bondieuseries of the modern Roman Catholic Church, it remains infinitely touching […].
Word: lookit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Nonstandard reanalysis of look at (that) as look + it. Pronunciation: /ˈlʊkɪt/ 1. look, listen; see here, pay attention; the thing is, to be honest Labels: Canada, Ireland, US, colloquial Example: Ah lookit deputy, with all due respect to you, if you come in here and act like an ass that's exactly the label that you'll gain Example: Lookit! I'm old enough now, I'll wear what I want! 2. behold!; look at that; look here or there; look! Labels: Canada, US, colloquial Example: He went right on cackling, "Lookit lookit lookit. Oh Jesus, lookit. Lookit lookit." The blast had shattered all the windows, and flames were shooting out of all of them.
Word: lookit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Nonstandard reanalysis of look at (that) as look + it. Pronunciation: /ˈlʊkɪt/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of look at. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Hey, lookit the sissy who didn't sign up for recess baseball!
Word: cunctatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”). 1. delaying; procrastinating Example: Indeed, for several weeks the time rushed by, and it was really only in the final month, when freedom grew palpably close, that every minute took on a crabwise, cunctatory manner, came near to stalling altogether.
Word: cunctation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cūnctātiō (“a delaying, tarrying”), from cūnctor (“linger, hesitate”). Pronunciation: /kʌŋkˈteɪʃən/ 1. Delay, hesitation, procrastination. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector. Example: The swiftest animal conjoined with a heavy body implies that common moral, festina lente; and that celerity should always be contempered with cunctation.
Word: endura Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin endūra, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”). Pronunciation: /ɛnˈdjʊɹə/ 1. A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death. Example: There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’. Example: Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.
Word: necrophily Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From necro- + -phily. Compare the earlier necrophilia. Pronunciation: /nɪˈkɹɒfəli/, /nɛˈkɹɒfəli/ 1. Necrophilia. Labels: uncountable Example: 1942: By this necrophily, and a pervasive nastiness about sex …, millions were raised to a state of rapture. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 173)
Word: crosshair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross + hair. 1. Reticle. Example: I'm just a crosshair / I'm just a shot away from you
Word: crosshair Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cross + hair. 1. To focus on within a reticle. Example: Watching hopefully for a buck to come along behind the does, I eyed them through the scope of the borrowed .243. From time to time, I crosshaired the vital areas . Example: The next moment it was crosshaired by the electronic sights . 2. To target. Labels: broadly Example: She fired a smile at him, the likes of which he hadn't seen in years—since Meg, in fact, had crosshaired him at the junior prom with one of those flirtations that he never would've believed the president of the Methodist Girls' Youth Group was capable of. Example: My kinfolks had crosshaired in on the truth of the world.
Word: unmannered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + mannered. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmænəɹd/ 1. Having poor manners or social skills; ill-mannered; rude.
Word: unwashed masses Part of Speech: noun 1. The collective group of people who are considered to be uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles. Labels: derogatory, plural, plural-only