nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: disloyal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial, equivalent to dis- + loyal. Pronunciation: [dɪsˈlɔɪ(j)əɫ] 1. Not loyal, without loyalty. Example: 1536, Anne Boleyn, letter addressed to Henry VIII from the Tower of London, cited in Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII, London: Thomas Whitaker, 1649, p. 383, Good your Grace, let not any light fancy, or bad Counsel of mine enemies withdraw your Princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyall heart towards your good Grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutifull Wife, and the Infant Princesse your daughter […] Example: […] Norway himself, With terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
Word: percipience Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From percipient, itself from the Latin percipiens, the past participle of percipere (“to perceive”). Pronunciation: /pəˈsɪp.i.əns/, /pɚˈsɪp.i.əns/ 1. perception Labels: uncountable, usually 2. The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches. Example: Percipience is sometimes increased, with individuals observing that they are more astute in judging people, in seeing patterns in data, or in reading “micro-expressions of people” and nonverbal interpersonal nuances (e.g., “I think everyone is a lot happier,” “I judge people’s body language more accurately”).
Word: pink snapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pink + snapper. 1. The fish Chrysophrys auratus (or Pagrus auratus). Labels: Australia, Western Example: These traps are used in southern Australia to take leatherjackets (Monocanthidae) in deeper waters of the continental shelf and pink snappers (Pagridae) and other bottom-dwelling fish in shallower waters. Example: Like the dhufish, the pink snapper is high up on the list of popular species that anglers love to catch.
Word: most significant byte Part of Speech: noun 1. The byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance: that is, the byte stored first on a big-endian system or last on a little-endian system.
Word: battlefield Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From battle + field. Pronunciation: /ˈbætəlˌfiːld/ 1. The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field. Example: The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg Example: Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place.
Word: snapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English snapper From snap + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈsnæpɚ/ 1. One who, or that which, snaps. Example: a snapper-up of bargains Example: the snapper of a whip 2. Any of approximately 100 different species of fish. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: Heigh-ho ye trawler men come on, forget the snapper and the prawn, 3. Any of approximately 100 different species of fish. Labels: US 4. Any of approximately 100 different species of fish. Labels: US 5. A (human) baby. Labels: Ireland, slang Example: I've known him since he was a little snapper. 6. The player who snaps the ball to start the play. 7. Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface. Labels: US 8. One who takes snaps; a photographer. Labels: slang Example: The police snapper was on his tiptoes, angling for a vertical shot of the body. 9. The snapping turtle. Labels: US, informal 10. The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis). 11. A snap beetle (family Elateridae). 12. A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder. Labels: historical 13. A percussive musical instrument consisting of a pair of items to be snapped together; castanet or bones. Labels: obsolete 14. A string bean. Labels: US, colloquial 15. The vulva. Labels: slang Example: At thirty-nine, her snapper was snapping at practically every man that appeared halfway decent and had a pulse. Example: Then, get this, when we finished, she grabbed what looked like one of her husband's T-shirts, wiped her snapper, threw it into the back, […] 16. A punchline. Labels: slang Example: I don't want a pause before the snapper. Example: The end should always be a “snapper.” The punchline of a monologue is extremely important. Find a good one. 17. A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892. Labels: US, historical
Word: snapper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”). 1. To stumble, to trip. 2. To fall into error; to make a mistake, and especially to stumble morally. Labels: figuratively Example: A curate in specyall To snappar and to fall Into this opyn cryme
Word: snapper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English snaperen, likely formed with the frequentative suffix -eren (Modern English -er). For the stem compare Norwegian Nynorsk snåva (“to stumble”), Swedish snäva (“to stumble”), obsolete German schnappen (“to totter, to limp”), Middle High German snaben, Middle Low German snaven (“to stumble”). 1. A stumble, a trip. Labels: Scotland 2. An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up. Labels: Scotland
Word: emancipist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English emancipate 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 emancipist From emancipate + -ist. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmænsɪpɪst/ 1. In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree. Labels: Australia, historical Example: On Governor Macquarie′s departure the emancipists were again thrown into the shade, and not one ever visited the succeeding governor at a party of any description, nor did he ever dine even in company with a single emancipist, until the very close of his administration. Example: Macquarie′s position on the emancipist issue was made abundantly clear almost from the outset by his appointment of three emancipists to the magistracy.
Word: expiree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From expire + -ee. 1. In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict whose sentence had been served. Labels: Australia, historical Example: [W]hen the year after, John Carr blossomed into an "expiree", master of a fine wife and a fine fortune, there were many about him who would have made his existence in Australia pleasant enough. Example: According to the census of 1870 the number of men still under the charge of the authorities is about four thousand, including those still in confinement; expirees being classed as free men.
Word: substitution cipher Part of Speech: noun 1. A method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the "units" may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth. The receiver deciphers the text by performing an inverse substitution.
Word: tickle someone's funny bone Part of Speech: verb 1. To amuse someone. Labels: idiomatic Example: I thought this comic book might be just the sort of thing that would tickle your funny bone. Example: ANNOUNCER (on TV): “If you're a Parrothead, try Jimmy Buffet's Key West Saloon, located downstairs in the lobby. From World-renown chef Gordon Fukayami come Roppongi, a bistro house with a South Asian flair. And if you're looking to get your funny bone tickled, don't miss Rita Rudner's hilarious live stand-up show.”
Word: hockey stick Part of Speech: noun 1. A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end. Labels: Canada, US 2. A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end. Labels: UK Example: The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol. 3. A playing card with the rank of seven. 4. A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction. Labels: informal Example: One of the pillars of the case for man-made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick. It's a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers. The stick's shaft shows temperatures oscillating slightly over the ages. Then comes the blade: The mercury swings sharply upward in the 20th century. Example: They made it the focus of their attacks, hoping that by demolishing the hockey stick graph they would destroy the credibility of climate scientists and the notion of global warming as a phenomenon caused by human activity.
Word: putti Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpʊti/ 1. plural of putto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plano-convex Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of planoconvex. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: combust Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈbʌst/ 1. To burn; to catch fire. Example: Brom swore after that he spoke only the truth, the truth that as he sat by my side praying for my soul, my body had combusted into flame, the fire rapidly engulfing my entire being. 2. To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: The audience combusts.
Word: combust Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈbʌst/ 1. Burnt. Labels: obsolete 2. In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'. Example: Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate. Example: Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning.
Word: combust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”). Pronunciation: /kəmˈbʌst/ 1. That which undergoes burning. Labels: obsolete
Word: products of conception Part of Speech: noun 1. The human fetus, placenta and other such by-products of a miscarriage or abortion. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: ectopion Part of Speech: noun 1. The condition of, or an instance of, ectopia. Labels: uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ectopion. 2. Misconstruction of ectropion. Labels: alt-of, misconstruction, uncountable Example: Vaginal discharge should be looked for, the smell noted and swabs (high vaginal or endocervical) obtained for examination by microscopy and inoculations for micro-organisms are obtained. Bleeding, products of conception in the cervical canal or cervical pathology (e.g. ectopion) should be excluded.
Word: money shot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: (moment in a pornographic film): So named because it is often considered the most important part of the film, and often an actor who is unable to provide the shot goes unpaid. 1. The shot or scene of a film that cost the most to produce, most commonly an action sequence. 2. The moment in a pornographic film where the male subject of the scene in question ejaculates. Labels: slang Example: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh? Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap. Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot. 3. The release of semen on the partner's body, especially on the face or in the eye. Labels: broadly, slang
Word: nigga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of nigger. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪɡə/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of nigger. Labels: alt-of, dated, ethnic, offensive, pronunciation-spelling, slur, vulgar 2. A close and loyal friend. Labels: offensive, often, slang, vulgar Example: I'd never betray you, 'cause you my nigga, man. 3. A black person (usually a male friend), especially an African American. Labels: offensive, often, slang, vulgar Example: As soon as I walked into the class and saw that sea of white faces, I felt alone, so I sat next to the only other nigga there. Example: "I mean, if you're not interested, it ain't nothing but a thang, baby girl. Just let a nigga know." 4. Any person, though chiefly male. Labels: offensive, often, slang, vulgar Example: White niggas do be like, this is too spicy. Example: All these freshman niggas are so annoying. 5. A male, especially an adult one, as opposed to a female. Labels: offensive, often, slang, vulgar Example: Niggas on my dick more than my bitches. Example: I read somewhere I'm homophobic. Shit, go through the hood. There's mad niggas on my dick.
Word: nigga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of Old Akkadian origin. Unrelated to Etymology 1. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪɡə/ 1. A type of acrographic lexical list included in Old Babylonian scribal curriculum. Labels: vulgar
Word: nee way Part of Speech: intj 1. Absolutely no, no way. Labels: Geordie Example: Nee way man!
Word: clacka Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of clacker (“testicle; anus”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: clackas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clacka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: iconism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn)der. Latin īcōnbor. English icon 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 iconism From icon + -ism. 1. The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fetcht Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of fetched. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic Example: And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Word: fiddly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fiddle + -y, from the verb. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪdli/ 1. Requiring dexterity to operate. Example: The buttons on the tiny mobile phone were too fiddly. Example: Today around 90 percent of people use Zawgyi instead of Unicode. Incompatible without fiddly plug-ins, it only allows people to communicate in Burmese with other Zawgyi users, excluding the nation’s minority languages. Its clunkiness also means search functions do not work, crippling data storage systems. 2. Having many small bits or embellishments. Labels: broadly Example: See, Barbados, like certain other fiddly little islands— Antigua, Saint Lucia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Great Britain, Australia— is filled with a genus of hotspurs fiercely dedicated to motoring on the wrong side of the road. Example: But the draping roses, and the double bell of dress and overskirt — fiddly, too bloody fiddly! 3. Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting. Example: I can divide my movements into two types: gross motor and fine motor (in other words, large movements and small, fiddly movements) and, as I have already described, I have far more problems with the latter than the former. 4. Pertaining to occasional under-the-table work by people who receive unemployment benefits Example: Because benefit dependence was understood to confine people to poverty ('bend the rules - you've got to in this world cause of the pittance you get off the government') and because doing fiddly work indicated a commitment to self-reliance ('at least they're working') it was widely condoned. Example: The other mjinority group has, by being members of the appropriate social networks, access to fiddly jobs.
Word: chaabi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شَعْبِيّ (šaʕbiyy, “popular, folksy”). 1. A kind of Moroccan popular music. Labels: uncountable 2. A traditional style of music of Algiers. Labels: uncountable
Word: Völuspá Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old Norse Vǫluspá, from vǫlu, genitive of vǫlva (“truth-sayer, staff-carrier, prophetess”), from vǫlr (“rounded staff”) (cognate with the Gothic walus, Old English wala, walu, Old Frisian walu), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“staff, stick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”). 1. The Prophecy of the Vǫlva; the first poem of the Poetic Edda.
Word: tight ship Part of Speech: noun 1. A well-organized and highly disciplined organization. Labels: idiomatic Example: to run a tight ship Example: You're new here, so let me lay it down for you. I run a pretty tight ship around here. That's why the students call me "the hammer".
Word: adverbial participle Part of Speech: noun 1. A participle that modifies a verb in the same sentence and is equivalent to an adverbial clause in English. Adverbial participles may denote time, condition, cause, concession, manner, means, purpose, or attendant circumstance.
Word: guanxi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 關係 /关系 (guānxì, “relation, connection”). Pronunciation: /ˈkwanʃi/, /ˈɡwanʃi/ 1. Connections; relationships; one's social or business network. Labels: China, uncountable Example: To open a new business in China you need guanxi. Example: Who would dare to drive around in a [right-hand drive] car that was so obviously stolen and smuggled into the country? The police, of course! And Communisty Party officials. And those with guanxi with the police.
Word: all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Part of Speech: proverb 1. Too much focus on one's career may lead to one being uninteresting company. 2. Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.
Word: switch horn Part of Speech: noun 1. In naval mine warfare, a switch in a mine operated by a projecting spike.
Word: sympathetic detonation Part of Speech: noun 1. Detonation of an explosive triggered by the explosion of another quantity of explosive adjacent to it. Labels: especially
Word: synchronized clock Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique of timing the delivery of fires by placing all units on a common time. The synchronized clock uses a specific hour and minute based on either local or universal time. Local time is established using the local time zone.
Word: psychos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of psycho Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synchronous orbit Part of Speech: noun 1. A satellite orbit where the orbital period is equal to, or multiples of, the Earth’s rotational period; i.e. making one, two, three, etc., orbits in a 24-hour period. Examples include geosynchronous (period equals Earth's rotation), semisynchronous (two orbits per day); and geostationary (geosynchronous orbit where satellite maintains a fixed position on the equator).
Word: litra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Sicilian, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litre, livre, and rottol. 1. A silver coin in ancient Sicily, worth one fifth of a drachm. Labels: historical
Word: interbeing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From inter- + being. 1. A state of connectedness and interdependence of all phenomena. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: oneness, unity 2. A being that is interconnected with others. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interbeing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + being. 1. Between or among beings; from one being to another. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: Turn now to the second argument against momentary welfarism for OHPs: the argument from the temporal scope of fair distribution, grounded in the "separateness of persons." The very term, "separateness of persons," suggests that this criterion is thought applicable to the ethics of interpersonal distribution only because the beings involved are persons. Imagine beings that persist over time but are merely sentient. We could determine the lifetime well-being of such beings (as the sum of momentary well-being arising from pains and pleasures). Lifetime prioritarianism applied to a population of such creatures would respect their separateness; it would distinguish between an inter-being transfer of momentary well-being, and an intra-being transfer of the same amount from one moment in a being's life to another. But is there a persuasive case that the ethics of merely sentient beings should make this distinction?
Word: gramma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of grandma. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ(m)mɑː/, /ˈɡɹæmə/ 1. A grandmother. Labels: colloquial Example: Go on, there, driver, gramma is going. Example: My gramma—all her hair is white Like snow is, but it isn't cold.
Word: gramma Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata. Labels: Australia Example: Traditionally Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata have been placed into two groups - pumpkins and grammas respectively. Example: 1941, H. Barnes, Robert Veitch, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, John Howard Simmonds, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook, Volume 1, page 238, Pumpkins and grammas are harvested when mature, usually when the vines have died or been frosted.
Word: gramma Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of grama. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Accompanying said proposal any effort was made by the government to was a bond executed by said Drachman as obtain gramma hay for use at Ft. Huachuca. Example: It is sometimes known as the "gramma grass," and is probably as valuable as any of the true gramma grasses; it is also called "mesquite grass."
Word: gramma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma). Doublet of gram. 1. Something that is written. Example: This discussion immediately before us embraces a preliminary paragraph, and three statements of moments, respectively designated by the grammata—α, β, γ. Example: “[…] The first thing that the disciple learns is to read the grammata of his teacher.” 2. The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Example: The studies were divided into three branches. First, the grammata, which included reading, writing, and arithmetic; secondly, music; and thirdly, gymnastics.
Word: internee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intern + -ee. Pronunciation: /ɪntɜːˈniː/, /ɪntɝˈniː/ 1. One who is imprisoned or otherwise confined.
Word: disty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Diminutives with -y. 1. distributor Labels: informal 2. distribution Labels: informal
Word: internees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of internee Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tatti Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tatty (“woven mat or screen”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: no comment Part of Speech: phrase 1. An official refusal to relay any further information, used for example in response to a question by a newspaper reporter or police officer. Labels: idiomatic Example: The district attorney said, "No comment," when the reporter asked if he knew the identity of the murder suspect, for fear that the culprit might be a flight risk. 2. A refusal to make the obvious impolite retort. Labels: idiomatic, sarcastic Example: Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before. Wrex: I still don't have a window like Liara does... but maybe that's because I don't kiss as well. [laughter] Shepard: No comment. Wrex: Yeah [laughter]... I missed this place.
Word: pound cake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pound (“unit of weight”) + cake. 1. A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier. Example: Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added. 2. A term of attraction or desire. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: She's a cute little pound cake. 3. A butt cheek. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: pound cakes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pound cake Labels: form-of, plural
Word: HAPO Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of high-altitude pulmonary oedema. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: HAPE Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of high-altitude pulmonary edema. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Word: HACE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of high-altitude cerebral edema. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: HACE Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: HACO Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of high-altitude cerebral oedema. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: frigidaire Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Frigidaire, proprietary name of a brand of refrigerators, from Latin frīgidārium. Doublet of frigidarium. Pronunciation: /ˌfɹɪdʒɪˈdɛə/, /ˌfɹɪd͡ʒɪˈdɛɹ/ 1. Trademark for a refrigerator. Labels: historical Example: He [...] had everything necessary to the Modern Man, / A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Example: “Have you seen Kipper?” I wouldn't say she snorted, but she certainly sniffed. “Bertie,” she said in a voice straight from the frigidaire, “will you do me a favour?” “Of course. What?” “Don't mention that rat's name in my presence,” she said, and pushed off, the eyelids still weary.
Word: sweetfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: sweet + fish 1. An amphidromous fish, the ayu of East Asia (Plecoglossus altivelis), the only member of its genus and family Plecoglossidae, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh, especially in Japan, as a game fish, and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.
Word: starched Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of starch Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: starched Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a garment: having had starch applied. Example: I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident. Example: And while his signature starched collar and fingerless gloves are yet to make an appearance, his looks are already topped off with another of his soon-to-be trademarks: a pair of dark aviator sunglasses. 2. Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper. Example: Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a stiff formal Gait, a Singularity of Manners and Habit, or any affected Modes of Speech, different from the reasonable Part of Mankind? Example: A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum—something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation.
Word: calipers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A corruption of caliber. Pronunciation: /ˈkæl.ɪ.pəz/, /ˈkæl.ɪ.pɚz/ 1. A device used to measure dimensions, especially for small or precise measurements. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: "Good, good for there," he mumbled, and then with a certain eagerness asked me whether I would let him measure my head. Rather surprised, I said Yes, when he produced a thing like calipers and got the dimensions back and front and every way, taking notes carefully. 2. A metal (orthopedic) leg support. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only Example: And simultaneously I raise my trouser cuff to reveal the leather straps and wicked steel calipers harnessing my right boot.
Word: caliper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of caliber. Pronunciation: /ˈkælɪpɚ/ 1. Alternative form of calipers, a device used to measure dimensions. Labels: alt-of, alternative, in-plural, often 2. The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
Word: caliper Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of caliber. Pronunciation: /ˈkælɪpɚ/ 1. To use calipers to measure the size of. Labels: transitive
Word: ower Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English owere, oȝere, awer, equivalent to owe + -er. 1. A person who owes something, especially money.
Word: ower Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over. Pronunciation: /aʊæ/ 1. over Labels: Geordie Example: Get ower thor noo!
Word: ower Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over. Pronunciation: /aʊæ/ 1. over Labels: Geordie, not-comparable Example: She's ower canny hor, like
Word: ower Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over. Pronunciation: /aʊæ/ 1. overly, too Labels: Geordie, not-comparable Example: Thats ower much that!
Word: hintend Part of Speech: noun 1. The posterior of a person or object. Labels: Geordie Example: "She had a canny hintend!"
Word: hippins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hippin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hippins Part of Speech: noun 1. Babies' nappies; diapers. Labels: Appalachia, Geordie, Southern-US, plural, plural-only
Word: nappies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nappy Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of nappie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nappies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of nappy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: haad Part of Speech: verb 1. To hold. Labels: Geordie Example: "Haad yeor gob, ye lippy yap!"
Word: gaup Part of Speech: verb 1. To stare, gape. Labels: Geordie Example: "Divint gaup at hor, she'll knaa ye fancy ha"
Word: hawks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hawk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hawks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of hawk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: sugared Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English sugared From sugar + -ed. 1. Of food or drink: containing sugar. Example: Since starting my diet, I’ve stopped eating sugared breakfast cereals. 2. Sweet, pleasant. Labels: figuratively Example: Thoſe Vnckles vvhich you vvant, vvere dangerous, / Your Grace attended to their ſugred vvords, / But lookt not on the poiſon of their hearts: […]
Word: sugared Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English sugared From sugar + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of sugar Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sugaring Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of applying sugar to something. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The making or processing of sugar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Maple sugaring is an important historical industry in Vermont. 3. The practice of being a sugar baby, receiving money or gifts from an older person in exchange for a romantic relationship. Labels: informal, uncountable 4. A procedure similar to waxing, in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of a sugar-based paste. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Coordinate term: waxing
Word: sugaring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sugar Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Ilonggo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango. 1. A native or inhabitant of Iloilo. 2. A member of the indigenous people of Iloilo and nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island in the Philippines.
Word: Ilonggo Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango. 1. An Austronesian language of the Visayan language family, spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines.
Word: Ilonggo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Tagalog Ilonggo, from Spanish ilongo, from ilong + -o, the root referring to Hiligaynon ilong (“nose”), from the nose-like shape of the land between the Iloilo River and Batiano River where the Spanish Fort San Pedro is located. See also Spanish pampango. 1. Relating to the culture, people, and language of Iloilo or nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island where Hiligaynon is spoken
Word: one of a kind Part of Speech: noun 1. A unique specimen. Labels: idiomatic Example: The dilemma is how to cost effectively build these one of a kinds yet provide high performance and reliability
Word: anthill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ametehul, amptehille, from Old English ǣmethyll, equivalent to ant + hill. Pronunciation: /ˈænt.hɪl/, /ˈeə̯nt.hɪl/, /ˈɛə̯nt.hɪl/ 1. A cone-shaped structure built from sediment and other available materials by ants or white ants (termites), and beneath which the colony nests. Example: On arrival at Edinburgh Waverley, I fight my way through the throngs of tourists and locals turning the place into a human anthill.
Word: antecedents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antecedent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiple allelism Part of Speech: noun 1. The state of having three or more alleles, or distinctive forms of a gene. Labels: uncountable
Word: demonology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From demono- + -logy. Pronunciation: /ˌdiːməˈnɒlədʒi/, /ˌdiːməˈnɑːləd͡ʒi/ 1. The study of demons, especially the incantations required to summon and control them. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: But it wasn't all that strange, because any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons.
Word: luderick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A borrowing into English of the Australian aboriginal name for the fish. (Reference: Australian Fish and How to Catch Them, Richard Allan, Landsdowne Publishing, 1990, →ISBN.) 1. A fish of species Girella tricuspidata.
Word: sergeant baker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably named after Governor Phillip's orderly sergeant, William Baker. https://australianmuseum.net.au/Sergeant-Baker-Hime-purpurissatus-Richardson-1843/ 1. The fish Latropiscis purpurissatus, of Australia.
Word: chambered nautilus Part of Speech: noun 1. A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers. Example: He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral. 2. A nautilus of species Nautilus pompilius.
Word: yellowtail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail 1. Having a yellow tail. Labels: not-comparable
Word: yellowtail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of yellow + tail 1. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 2. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 3. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 4. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 5. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 6. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 7. Any of various fish with yellow tails, including: 8. A European moth (Euproctis similis) 9. A yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus), a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia. 10. A yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas), a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. 11. A yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), a New World primate endemic to Peru.
Word: simulcast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From simul(taneous) + -cast, from broadcast. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.əlˌkæst/ 1. A program or event that is broadcast across more than one medium or service at the same time.
Word: simulcast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From simul(taneous) + -cast, from broadcast. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪm.əlˌkæst/ 1. To broadcast a program or event across more than one medium or service at the same time.
Word: geas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed, like English geis, from Irish geis (“injunction; taboo, prohibition, spell”). The pronunciation resembles Irish geis, though the spelling matches its synonymous but heterophonous alternative form geas. Pronunciation: /ɡɛʃ/, /ˈɡiː.əʃ/ 1. A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone to do or not do something, which typically brings harm if violated and blessings if obeyed. Example: It can send us where it will with a task laid upon us—a geas, if you like. Example: Galaad stood up again and turned to Mrs. Whitaker. 'Gracious lady, keeper of the Holy of Holies, let me now depart this place with the Blessed Chalice, that my journeyings may be ended and my geas fulfilled.' 2. A mystical compulsion. Example: The memory came upon him like a geas, overwhelming his revulsion, numbing his heart. Example: A geas is your own personal haunting by yourself! […] Kassandra, a Greek prophetess who always envisioned dreadful happenings, had a geas on her. She might have wanted to be a queen or a housewife, a warrior or a merchant, but she wasn't (even though a geas won't interfere in any of your pursuits). She became legendary for the geas that propelled her to prophesy dreadful happenings.
Word: ludicrousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English ludicrous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ludicrousness From ludicrous + -ness. 1. The state or quality of being ludicrous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud.
Word: temperately Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English temperate Middle English -ly English -ly English temperately From temperate + -ly. 1. In a thoughtfully measured or regulated manner, eschewing extremes. Example: My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
Word: advantageable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Late Latin ab ante Old French avant Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Old French avantagebor. Middle English avantage English advantage Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English advantageable From advantage + -able. 1. Providing an advantage; helpful to the advancement of a cause. Example: Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best Shall see advantageable for our dignity, Any thing in or out of our demands, And we'll consign thereto.
Word: ambuscadoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ambuscado, ambuscades, ambushes. Labels: form-of, plural Example: O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. ... Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep
Word: CFD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of Computational Fluid Dynamics. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of Contract for Difference. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of congenital femoral deficiency. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: Wagner Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Wagner (literally “wainwright”), later conflated with wheelwright. See also the English surnames Wainwright and Wheelwright. Doublet of Wagoner. As the name of a private military company, borrowed from Russian Ва́гнер (Vágner). Reportedly the call sign of Russian GRU officer and company founder Dmitry Utkin, which was ultimately named after German composer Richard Wagner. Pronunciation: /ˈwæɡnɚ/, /ˈweɪ̯ɡnɚ/, /ˈvɑɡnɚ/ 1. A surname from German. 2. Ellipsis of Richard Wagner, German composer (1813–1883). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. Ellipsis of Wagner Group, a private military group loyal to Russia. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States: 6. A place in the United States: 7. A place in the United States: 8. A place in the United States: 9. A hamlet in the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River, northern Alberta, Canada.
Word: North Africa Part of Speech: name 1. A geographic region comprising the northern part of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue. 2. Synonym of Maghreb.
Word: wordoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English word Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English wordoid From word + -oid. 1. A fabricated word coined to identify a new concept. Example: 2003, Daniel J. Stern, in rec.autos.tech http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.tech/msg/6266d1cea8dd61ba "Gage", like "flammable", is a fabricated wordoid created on the assumption, not entirely without merit, that people are too stupid to read, understand and pronounce the properly-spelled word ("inflammable", in the latter case). Example: 2003, Eirik Johnson, in A New Twist on Noise https://web.archive.org/web/20060913123513/http://linux.depaul.edu/archive/depaul-lug/2003-03/msg00309.html Meantime, virii is a perfectly good wordoid, that's right, wordoid. It isn't a word, it just resembles one closely enough that nobody cares!
Word: rock spider Part of Speech: noun 1. Caladenia petrensis, the rock spider orchid. 2. A pedophile or child molester. Labels: Australia, slang 3. A Boer or Afrikaner. Labels: South-Africa, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
Word: truck garden Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From truck (“to trade”). 1. Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale. Labels: US Example: As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted. Example: it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.
Word: koura Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Māori koura. 1. A freshwater crayfish of the genus Paranephrops, only found in New Zealand.
Word: weight weenie Part of Speech: noun 1. A cyclist who is overly concerned about the weight of their bicycle. Labels: slang
Word: fajr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَجْر (fajr, “dawn”). 1. the first of the five daily prayers recited by practicing Muslims. Labels: uncountable Example: Excuse me, brother, but would you mind regularising your fajr schedule.
Word: kade Part of Speech: noun 1. The sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus
Word: recovery CD Part of Speech: noun 1. A CD-ROM distributed with a computer and containing copies of the software originally installed on the computer's hard drive, allowing the end user to restore the system to its factory state.
Word: recovery CDs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of recovery CD Labels: form-of, plural
Word: felches Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of felch Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: arbitrageur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pseudo-Gallicism, from arbitrage + French -eur (the French term is arbitragiste). Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)bɪtɹɑˈʒɝ(ɹ)/ 1. One who engages in arbitrage, such as a financial broker or an investment bank.
Word: deconvert Part of Speech: noun 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- Latin convertōder. Old French convertirbor. Middle English converten English convert English deconvert From de- + convert. Pronunciation: /diːˈkɒnvɜːt/ 1. An apostate.