nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: empty nest syndrome Part of Speech: noun 1. A feeling of loneliness or depression experienced by some parents when their children have matured and left home. Labels: uncountable
Word: firestick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + stick. 1. A poker used to arrange coals, logs, etc., in a fire. 2. A stick burning, or with hot embers, at one end, taken from a fire. Example: Newton used a fire-stick a yard long to light his pipe. 3. In traditional cultures, a smouldering stick used to transport fire from one place to another. Example: If you did not stop, you ricked a firestick into the load and they were pretty good at it, believe me. 4. In traditional cultures, an implement used to start a fire by friction.
Word: transforms Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of transform Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: transforms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transform Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jacks-of-all-trades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jack-of-all-trades Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jacquard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom. 1. Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The White House has jacquard drapes in the East Room. 2. Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A Jacquard loom. Labels: countable
Word: Bassett Part of Speech: name Etymology: From bassett, basset, from French basset. Pronunciation: /ˈbæsət/ 1. An English surname transferred from the nickname derived from a nickname for a short person. 2. A northern suburb of the City of Southampton, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4216). Related term: Bassett Green. 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States:
Word: souffle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of soufflé (“dish made with eggs”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: souffle Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of soufflé. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: souffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French souffle. 1. A murmuring or blowing sound. Example: the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus
Word: jaywalking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking. 1. An act of behaving as a jaywalker. Labels: uncountable Example: […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and marble and caviare[… Example: For decades in this country, California was the national capital of jaywalking enforcement.
Word: jaywalking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jaywalk + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of jaywalk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Clarissa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse. Pronunciation: /kləˈɹɪsə/ 1. A female given name from Latin or Italian. Example: My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa— I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […] No—it was her real name, I said.
Word: Clarissa Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse. Pronunciation: /kləˈɹɪsə/ 1. Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare. Example: Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor. Example: In the protomonastero of Santa Chiara in Assisi, erected from the outset for the Clarissas, however, equally frequent changes and modifications in the location of the nuns' choir suggest that there were still uncertainties as to the best place for it.
Word: jaywalker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jay (“a stupid person”) + walker; jay walker (“a pedestrian who doesn't pay attention to the road, endangering themselves and obstructing horses, carts, and automobiles”). First use appears c. 1917 in Harper's Magazine. Coined in analogy to the older turn-of-the-20th-century term jay driver (“a driver who doesn't pay attention to the road, endangering horses, carts, bicyclists, and pedestrians”). Promoted by driving enthusiasts and automotive concerns to clear the roads of obstructive pedestrians by making it illegal to walk in the middle of roads. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɔkɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɑkɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒeɪwɔːkə/ 1. A person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or who walks on the part of the street intended for vehicles instead of the part designated for pedestrians. Labels: US
Word: Roderick Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kreH-der. Proto-Germanic *hrōþiz Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīksder. English Roderick Medieval English name from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþirīks, revived after Walter Scott used it in a poem in 1811, where it is a translation of its Spanish cognate Rodrigo. Roderick is also used to anglicize Scottish Ruairidh and Welsh Rhydderch. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒdəɹɪk/, /ˈɹɒdɹɪk/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Example: "You must not forget that eventually Roderick will have to succeed whatever title you choose. We must not select anything which would seem ridiculous in connection with Roderick. His actual name is bad enough, as it is. Roderick!" Mrs. Hammond winced. This was a painful subject with her. "How often I pleaded with poor Lucy to call him Thomas!" 2. A surname.
Word: Pembroke Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *Penn-broɣ (literally “land's head, land's end”), whence Welsh Penfro. Pronunciation: /ˈpɛmbɹʊk/ 1. A town and community with a town council in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9801). 2. A river (the Pembroke River) in Pembrokeshire, that ends in Milford Haven, and is tidal up to the town of Pembroke. Example: A striking view is obtained from the train of the ruins of the ancient castle, which stands at the western end of the town on a mass of limestone rock rising precipitously from the tidal waters of the estuary of Pembroke River, a branch of Milford Haven. 3. A town in the Northern Region, Malta. 4. A place in Canada: 5. A place in Canada: 6. A place in Canada: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A parish in Bermuda. 18. A rural settlement near Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand. 19. A surname. 20. Ellipsis of Pembroke College, Oxford. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal 21. Ellipsis of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
Word: Aladdin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic عَلَاءُ الدِّين (ʕalāʔu d-dīn, “nobility of the faith”). Pronunciation: /əˈlædɪn/ 1. Alternative form of Alauddin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, obsolete Example: Aladdin, of the former dynasty [Khilji], subdued nearly all the Deccan, about 1312; [...] 2. Alternative form of Alaeddin. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, obsolete Example: Orkhan, valuing his brother's knowledge, appointed him Grand Vizier. Aladdin was not an expert in warlike affairs, and turned his attention to the internal improvement of the dominion [...] 3. An Arabic tale about a young man named Aladdin who is recruited by a sorcerer to get a magic lamp from a cave; often adapted into comic pantomime in Britain. 4. The young man who is the protagonist and title character of the story. Example: “Nay, never mind that,” said Aladdin, “tell thy story, friend, as best thou mayst.”
Word: Whitney Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English hwītan, dative of hwīt (“white”) + īeġ (“island”), "white island". Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtni/, /ˈʍɪtni/ 1. A habitational surname from Middle English. 2. A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and 1990s due to the fame of Whitney Houston. Example: "I don't believe I've ever known a woman named 'Whitney'," I said, trying not to look too deeply into her bright blue eyes. "Or, hell, even a man for that matter." "You've never heard of Whitney Houston?" "Who's that?" I said, realizing that I had never gotten really serious about a woman with blue eyes. Example: “His research shows you can change aging to make lives younger for longer. Now he wants to change the world and make aging a disease,” said Whitney Casey, an investor who is partnering with Sinclair to create a do-it-yourself biological age test. 3. A male given name from surname. 4. A community in South Algonquin municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States:
Word: jerrybuilt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Later 1800s. From jerry (of obscure meaning) + built 1. Shoddily built; ill-constructed. Example: The whole operation was jerrybuilt from the beginning, and thus was doomed to failure.
Word: 'twixt Part of Speech: prep Etymology: The apostrophe (’) indicates omission of the first syllable of atwixt or betwixt. 1. Alternative form of twixt Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [H]e had himſelfe / The Lands and VVaters, ’twixt your Throne and his, / Meaſur’d, to looke vpon you; vvhom he loues […] Example: Thither the Knight his courſe did ſtear, / To keep the peace ’tvvixt Dog and Bear; […]
Word: Mozart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtsɑːt/, /ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/ 1. By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso. Example: One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object. Example: He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air. 2. By extension, a virtuoso in any field. Example: There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself. Example: Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.
Word: Mozart Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtsɑːt/, /ˈmoʊtsɑɹt/ 1. A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Example: How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music. Example: Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis. 2. A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Word: gipsy Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated spelling of gypsy. Labels: UK
Word: gipsy Part of Speech: verb 1. Dated spelling of gypsy. Labels: UK
Word: jimsonweed Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jimson + weed. 1. A poisonous plant of the species Datura stramonium, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: In so doing I have included a number of categories which may not generally be considered suitable for inclusion under the heading of religion. Stewart, for instance, includes shamanism, curing, special powers of shamans, miscellaneous shamanistic information, guardian spirits, destiny of the soul, ghosts or soul, and jimsonweed. Example: While the hallucinations produced by jimsonweed and other anticholinergics are frequently described as frightening or even “nightmarish,” the toxic anticholinergic syndrome caused by jimsonweed can include seizures, CNS depression, respiratory failure, and cardiac abnormalities, all of which can be life-threatening. 2. Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura. Labels: US, broadly, countable, proscribed, uncountable
Word: Juliette Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the female given name Julie, from French Juliette.
Word: mantlepiece Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of mantelpiece. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The house was handsome and handsomely fitted up, and the young ladies were immediately put in possession of a very comfortable apartment. It had formerly been Charlotte’s, and over the mantlepiece still hung a landscape in coloured silks of her performance, in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school in town to some effect.
Word: johnnycake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From johnny, alteration of journey, + cake. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.niːˌkeɪk/ 1. A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal. Labels: US Example: So he went away on his journey; and after he had travelled a far way, he met with an old woman that asked him if he would give her a bit of his johnny-cake. Example: Next mornin' I was up early and when the banker turned out I was fryin' a couple of slices of the pork and had some coffee b'ilin'. Likewise there was a pan of johnnycake in the oven.
Word: juicer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English juice 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 juicer From juice + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒusɚ/ 1. A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables. 2. A person who extracts juice for consumption. Example: A keen juicer, she has tried all kinds of fruits and vegetables. 3. A (citrus) reamer. 4. One who uses steroids. Labels: slang 5. An alcoholic. Labels: slang Example: Like the perplexed lower-middle-class juicers who populate his stories, Carver never seemed to know where he was or why he was there. 6. An electrician. Labels: slang 7. A chess piece. Labels: slang
Word: jessamine Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of jasmine. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: vines, fig-trees, and jessamine (III, vii)
Word: jackstraw Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the pieces used for the game called jackstraws or pick-up sticks. Labels: plural-normally Example: It was a cheerful reminder of one’s childhood, and another bond of sympathy between the various branches of the human race, however remotely separated from each other, to find the little shaven-pated lads playing ball in the streets of Hakodadi, or jackstraws within the domestic circle at home. Example: If I wasn’t a good Christian, it’s on my naked knees I’d be saying my prayers and paters to every jackstraw you have roofing your head, and every stony pebble is paving the laneway to your door. 2. An insignificant person. Labels: dated Example: [They] had rather be called Sons of the Earth, provided it be their own Earth, (their own Native Country) and act like Men at home, then, being deſtitute of Houſe or Land, to relieve the neceſſities of Nature in a Foreign Country, by ſelling of Smoke, as thou doſt, an inconſiderable Fellow, and a Jack-ſtraw, and who dependeſt upon the good will of thy Maſters for a poor Stipend; [...] Example: At the start of 1950, he was a jackstraw in Washington. Then he discovered Communism—almost by inadvertence, as Columbus discovered America, as James Marshall discovered California gold. By the spring of the year, he was a towering figure […]
Word: jackstraw Part of Speech: adj 1. Resembling a bundle of jackstraws that has been strewn on a surface. Labels: not-comparable Example: Along the grass-grown wharves,—silver-gray piles which crumbled at the ends into a jackstraw heap of rotting logs,—there was no human stir. Example: He threw himself down on the far side and saw a white, hellishly misshapen creature pulling itself from beneath a jackstraw tumble of atlases and travel volumes. 2. Of no substance or worth. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: […] if you are my daughter, you shall wear these for your father’s sake!—How now, madam! Refuse me! I command you on your obedience to accept of this—I will not be a Jack-straw father—
Word: jardiniere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French jardinière. 1. Alternative spelling of jardinière. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: one's bark is worse than one's bite Part of Speech: phrase 1. One acts in a threatening way but is relatively harmless. Labels: idiomatic
Word: nine lives Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Many speculations exist. 1. Durability; near immunity to damage; remarkable ability to survive. Labels: especially, plural, plural-only Example: He was badly hurt many times but seems to have nine lives.
Word: maharajah Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of maharaja. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: maharani Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hindustani مہارانی / महारानी (mahārānī), from Sanskrit महा (mahā, “great”) and राज्ञी (rājñī, “queen”). 1. The wife of a maharajah; approximately, a queen consort. Example: Nonetheless, for many years afterward, she was often referred to as maharani, though that eventually gave way to the less glamorous but more respectful title of rajmata, the equivalent of queen mother.
Word: crawfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 1620s, folk etymology from Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (French écrevisse), influenced by fish. Compare crayfish. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɔˌfɪʃ/ 1. Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish. Labels: Louisiana, Southern-US, Texas, US, Western, countable, especially, uncountable 2. Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish. Labels: South-Africa, countable, uncountable 3. An English-Canadian. Used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé). Labels: Canada, Quebec, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Word: crawfish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 1620s, folk etymology from Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (French écrevisse), influenced by fish. Compare crayfish. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɔˌfɪʃ/ 1. To fish for crawfish. Labels: intransitive Example: As a matter of fact I had to go off at a moment's notice to arrange our connection at the coast. Fellow owning the bungalow wanted to crawfish. 2. To backpedal, desert or withdraw (also used with out). Labels: Southern-US, colloquial, intransitive Example: I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.
Word: Penelope Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”). Pronunciation: /pɪˈnɛləpi/ 1. The faithful wife of Odysseus. Labels: Greek Example: You would be another Penelope; yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths. 2. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Example: "She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie." "Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young." Example: "What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow." 3. A town in Texas.
Word: fauteuil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool. Pronunciation: /fəʊˈtɜː.i/, /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/ 1. An armchair. Example: Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease. 2. The chair of a presiding officer. 3. Membership in the Académie française. Labels: broadly
Word: lonnen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from loan (“lane”) + -ing. 1. A lane or street. Labels: Geordie 2. An area of shelter where cows are milked. Labels: Geordie, obsolete
Word: malathion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From malate + -thion. Coined as a trade name. 1. An organophosphorus insecticide, Diethyl [(dimethoxyphosphinothioyl)-thio]butanedioate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation." Example: Ecoparasite control, with appropriate concentrations of carbaryl, malathion, or pyrethrin dusts, is permissible if the agent is applied externally to both test and control animals not less than seven days prior to the start of the test.
Word: Nuremberg Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Nürnberg, from Medieval Latin Norinberga. The second element is from Berg, origins of the first element unclear. Pronunciation: /ˈnjʊəɹəmbəɡ/, /ˈn(j)ʊɹəmbɚɡ/ 1. A major city in Bavaria, Germany. 2. The trial of Nazi criminals that took place there, after World War II. Labels: metonymically
Word: 'twere Part of Speech: contraction 1. Contraction of it + were. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction, literary Example: I had been glad if 'twere us but not them. Example: You drink wine as 'twere water!
Word: malamute Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Inupiaq malimiut, so called because the dogs were bred by the Malamute people of western Alaska. First attested in 1884. Pronunciation: /ˈmæ.ləˌmjuːt/, /ˈmæ.ləˌmut/ 1. A breed of dog of the husky type, originally bred for its strength to haul freight as a sled dog.
Word: enlists Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of enlist Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: enlists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enlist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steak au poivre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French, meaning "peppered steak". 1. A steak that is coated with crushed peppercorns, fried, and finished with a cream and brandy sauce.
Word: Bastille Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Pronunciation: /bæˈstiːl/, /bɑː-/, /ˈbæstɪl/, /ˈbɑː-/, [bæˈstɪəɫ] 1. A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
Word: foo lion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of foo dog reflecting that the animal depicted was intended to be a lion rather than a dog. 1. Synonym of foo dog.
Word: Olympus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Olympus, from Ancient Greek Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos), likely of Pre-Greek origin. Pronunciation: /əˈlɪmpəs/ 1. The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods. Example: Sleeping-car passengers, however, will know little of their entry into Greece until, at 6 a.m. on the third morning after leaving Paris, the short train runs over the Vardar plain, with dawn glimpses of Mount Athos to the east and of cloud-capped Olympus across the gulf to the south, past the rebuilt yard and into the new passenger station at Salonica.
Word: Susie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Various names + -ie 1. A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names. Example: Susie has yellow hair, […]. She has a little breathless voice and a startled little laugh; even her name is like a powder puff.
Word: geomancer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English geomancer, equivalent to geomancy + -er. 1. A person who practices geomancy.
Word: Suzie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutives + -ie. 1. A diminutive of Susan and of related female given names.
Word: bamp Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bæmp/ 1. An idiotic and ill-mannered person. Labels: Geordie, derogatory 2. One's grandfather. Labels: Wales Example: ‘Shut up’ hissed Gwilym. ‘Don't be so rude! He's a great old bloke. I wish he was my bamp.’ Example: Bell went back to Wales and my stayed with me. A week later Dave's brother, Ann Jane, mum and me went to lay Dave's ashes at the same spot where his mum and dad, my nan and Bamp had been laid.
Word: certes Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English certes, from Old French [Term?], from Latin certus (“certain”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː.tɪz/, /ˈsɝ.tiz/ 1. Certainly, indeed. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...] Example: This was very unpleasant, at least to myself; though, certes, it did not prey upon the minds of the others.
Word: bamps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bamp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retraite Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of retreat. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: OAP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of orthogonal array processor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of one-act play. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of old-age pensioner. Labels: Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: OAP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Office of Atoms for Peace. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: glug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid. Pronunciation: /ɡlʌɡ/, /ɡlɐɡ/, /ɡlʊɡ/ 1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. Example: The blood did not come out of him in a glug but in a steady silent gush. 2. The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. Labels: informal Example: Pour a glug of bleach into the toilet. Example: Slowly, Khoklov removed a silver flask from within his suit jacket. He had a long contemplative glug, then shuddered violently.
Word: glug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid. Pronunciation: /ɡlʌɡ/, /ɡlɐɡ/, /ɡlʊɡ/ 1. To flow in noisy bursts. Labels: intransitive Example: The water glugged down the sink. Example: We’d squat by the creek waiting for the bottle to glug full through its narrow neck and then together we would walk to the church and throw the water on the fire a quart at a time, not so much in hope of putting it out as to be able to say, if asked, that we tried. 2. To quickly swallow liquid. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He had glugged that glass of wine before she got a chance to introduce herself. Example: There is no sugary "welcome" drink to glug. Rather, Honey, an elderly, overweight Lab mix, waddles and wags my way. 3. To pour noisily. Labels: transitive Example: The bottle cap rasped as she unscrewed it and glugged some Bailey's into her mug, the spoon tinkling as she stirred.
Word: glug Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid. Pronunciation: /ɡlʌɡ/, /ɡlɐɡ/, /ɡlʊɡ/ 1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured out of a jug, bottle, etc., or when such an amount is swallowed by a person.
Word: Fortean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Fort + -ean, named after Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and investigator of anomalous phenomena. The word was coined by American journalist Ben Hecht (1894–1964) in a review of Fort’s book The Book of the Damned (1919) in the Chicago Daily News in 1920. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.tɪ.ən/, /ˈfɔɹ.ti.ən/, /-ɾi.ən/ 1. A follower or admirer of Charles Fort. Example: Stories about alligators in the sewers have been of particular interest, however, to Forteans (followers of Charles Fort). Forteans contend that many happenings derided by the official science of the Western world (falls of frogs from clear skies, the appearance of lake monsters, mystery beasts and so on) are genuine occurrences. 2. One who investigates anomalous phenomena. Example: Not long afterwards, Fortean writer Paul Harris contacted me concerning this putative sea serpent, kindly supplying me with a couple of newspaper cuttings […] that contained photos of its remains, plus various additional details that he had gathered during his own investigation of this case. Example: Morandir [Armson] is also a traveller, a food blogger, a scholar of the occult, an amateur cook, a martial artist, an enthusiastic Fortean, and a transplant recipient.
Word: Fortean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Fort + -ean, named after Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and investigator of anomalous phenomena. The word was coined by American journalist Ben Hecht (1894–1964) in a review of Fort’s book The Book of the Damned (1919) in the Chicago Daily News in 1920. Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.tɪ.ən/, /ˈfɔɹ.ti.ən/, /-ɾi.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to anomalous phenomena. Example: Ufology is a somewhat Fortean subject. Example: Charles Fort died in 1932, fifteen years before the flying-saucer craze began. It is a pity he did not live to witness this mass mania, because in many ways, it was a triumph of pure Forteanism. Mysterious objects are seen in the sky. They elude all "official" and "scientific" explanation. Wild Fortean hypotheses are invented to explain them, and discussed seriously by the man in the street as well as by seemingly intelligent authors and editors. 2. Of or pertaining to Charles Fort.
Word: investigates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of investigate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: make-believe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from make believe. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv/, /ˌmeɪk bəˈliːv/ 1. The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not. Labels: childish, sometimes, uncountable Example: Come on, come on, I go up and down / I like this curious feeling / I know, I see, it's like make believe / Cover your ears so you can hear what I'm saying 2. The condition of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are. Labels: childish, sometimes, uncountable 3. Something imaginary. Labels: childish, countable, sometimes Example: ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marjorie Lindon, to even think such nonsense. Are you all nerves and morbid imaginings,—you who have prided yourself on being so strong-minded! A pretty sort you are to do battle for anyone.—Why, they’re only make-believes!’
Word: make-believe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from make believe. Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪk bəˌliːv/, /ˌmeɪk bəˈliːv/ 1. Imaginary; not real; pretend. Labels: childish, sometimes Example: He called himself Lord So-and-So, even had his family crest on the wall, but it was all totally make-believe.
Word: mandrake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mandrake, mandroke, an alteration of mandragora with the ending -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake, from Old English mandragora, from Medieval Latin mandragorās, from Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras). Pronunciation: /ˈmændɹeɪk/ 1. Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [T]his is the true deſcription of the plant and therefore thoſe idle formes of the Mandrakes and Womandrakes, as they are fooliſhly ſo called, which have beene expoſed to publike view, both in ours and other lands and countries, are utterly deceitfull being the work of cunning knaves, onely to get mony by their forgery. Example: Pharmaceutically tested in recent times, mandrake show aphrodisiac properties. 2. A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Mandrakes were sometimes considered in the light of familiars. Witches kept both male and female specimens of the magic root in bottles[.] 3. The drug methaqualone. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 4. A kind of tiny demon immune to fire. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: marchioness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin marchionissa, feminine form of marchion, from Late Latin marca, from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“area, region, edge, rim, border”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹʃənɪs/, /mɑɹʃəˈnɛs/ 1. The wife of a marquess. Example: The first train over the bridge was driven by the Marchioness of Tweeddale, and the engine was No. 602 of the North British Railway Company. 2. A woman holding the rank of marquess in her own right. 3. An old-fashioned maid-of-all-work; female servant. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: The beauty and charm of the little marchioness and the tender hearted old colored man, with their mutual affection, forcibly remind the reader of "Uncle Tom" and "Eva."
Word: mariachi Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mariachi. The origin of the Spanish word is unclear. It has often been claimed to derive from French mariage (“marriage”), reputedly because the Europe-born Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (which France had invaded) encouraged the music to be played at weddings. However, new evidence shows the word to have been used prior to the French invasion. Most other theories suggest indigenous roots. See Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /ˌmɑɹ.iˈɑ.t͡ʃi/, /ˌmæɹiˈɑ.t͡ʃi/ 1. Of or pertaining to a traditional form of Mexican music, either sung or purely instrumental. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of or pertaining to a band playing such music, or to the singers of such songs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mariachi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mariachi. The origin of the Spanish word is unclear. It has often been claimed to derive from French mariage (“marriage”), reputedly because the Europe-born Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (which France had invaded) encouraged the music to be played at weddings. However, new evidence shows the word to have been used prior to the French invasion. Most other theories suggest indigenous roots. See Wikipedia. Pronunciation: /ˌmɑɹ.iˈɑ.t͡ʃi/, /ˌmæɹiˈɑ.t͡ʃi/ 1. A traditional form of Mexican music, either sung or purely instrumental. 2. A group that plays mariachi music. Example: At her first performance with an all-male mariachi, the oldest member said to the musical director,[…](No! I've never played with a woman; I'm not going to start now [my translation]). Example: 2004, "Mariachi," entry in Cordelia Candelaria, Peter J. García, Arturo J. Aldama (editors), Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, Volume 2, page 520, Today Plaza Garibaldi near the center of Mexico City is considered the home of mariachis, where mariachi musicians congregate in the plaza, waiting for patrons and tourists to audition them and invite them to perform. […] Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán has been considered the premier Mexican mariachi for nearly a century. 3. A member of such a group. Example: The mariachis would serenade / and they would not shut up till they were paid.
Word: obtunded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of obtund Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: obtunded Part of Speech: adj 1. Far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibiting other signs of being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.
Word: meatloaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of meat + loaf. Pronunciation: /ˈmiːt.ləʊf/, /ˈmit.loʊf/ 1. A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For his meatloaf, he mixed the meat, eggs, chopped onion, breadcrumbs, tomato sauce and a can of beer according to the instructions, then diced in an apple he had lying around. Example: Meat Loaf.—Chop fine whatever cold meat you have, fat and lean together, add pepper, salt and finely chopped onion, two slices of bread which have been soaked in milk, and one egg mix well together and bake in form. This makes an admirable tea or breakfast dish.
Word: medaled Part of Speech: adj 1. Having received a medal. Labels: not-comparable Example: a medaled hero
Word: medaled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of medal Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: She medaled three times in the last Olympics.
Word: medalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English medal 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 medalist From medal + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdəlɪst/ 1. An engraver, designer or maker of medals. Labels: US Example: [A] skilled medalist and keen student of geography, Theophilus Lewis Barbauld had friends among the European intelligentsia and liberal nobility as well as potential patrons at the British court. 2. Someone who has received a medal. Labels: US Example: Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold medalist.
Word: bola Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Spanish bola. 1. A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
Word: sodomise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sodomy + -ise. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/ 1. To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent). Labels: transitive Example: Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh, For ever tortured and for ever fresh; Cut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens, Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans; Example: Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment. 2. To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality. Labels: transitive Example: The donkey was bellowing because the Two-Time Kid […] was in the process of sodomizing it, and even for a docile donkey, there are limits. 3. To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex. Labels: intransitive Example: Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit, More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet, Contrary to course, taking a male fiend To Sodomize with him, such was the mind Of this Lord Bishop, Example: Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together. 4. To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind). Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed to avoid sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap into the centre lane. Example: 1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18, ‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. […] ’ 5. To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: 1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,” For if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne, It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein. Example: The depravity of manners, the scandalous indecency and obscenity of Lincoln’s own daily conversation [i.e. lifestyle], seems to have fallen like a fatal epidemic upon the people. He has Sodomized the nation. 6. To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: 1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170, […] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron; Example: 1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142, […] daring impudence! Enough to make Heaven blush at the offence, And pour down thunder-bolts of indignation, To root for ever hence our Name and Nation, To puff us off like th’atoms of a feather, And Sodomize us into Hell together.
Word: meetinghouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English meeting Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.? Proto-Germanic *hūsą Proto-West Germanic *hūs Old English hūs Middle English hous English house English meetinghouse From meeting + house. Pronunciation: /ˈmitɪŋˌhaʊs/ 1. A building where people meet for a purpose. 2. A building where a Quaker congregation assembles for worship.
Word: megalopolis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From megalo- (“great”) + -polis (“city”). Pronunciation: /mɛ.ɡəˈlɒ.pə.lɪs/ 1. A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a normal metropolis. Example: The Eastern Seaboard megalopolis extends from New Hampshire to Alexandria, VA.
Word: marabaraba Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shangaan: marabaraba 1. An African board game, still played regularly. Labels: uncountable Example: We rest at the viewpoint after an easy hour of walking, and our guide teaches us some finer points of Marabaraba, a board game hastily drawn on a sandstone rock, with little stones for “cows”. https://web.archive.org/web/20060710035511/http://www.seelesotho.com/travel/cities/towns_menu.htm Example: The murals, themselves subject to the cycle of nature and life, are an impermanent art, requiring annual renewal because they are washed off by the rain. Some mural designs depict objects such as women's coiffure, initiation masks or the board for marabaraba, a popular game like checkers, van Wyk said. https://web.archive.org/web/20100627234800/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss6/record2006.17.html
Word: medicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin medicō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English medicate From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + English -ate (verb-forming suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/ 1. To prescribe or administer medication to. Labels: transitive 2. To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on. Labels: transitive Example: I started to think of food as my friend instead of my foe. It medicates my body. Every bite of food I intake I think of how it is going to make me stronger and help all my organs function. Example: I would just buy Claritin, or its generic equivalent Loratadine. It's non-drowsy, it's cheap, and it works. Yes, it medicates your whole system, but I don't know of any significant ill effects from that.
Word: glowing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡloʊɪŋ/, /ˈɡləʊɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of glow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: glowing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡloʊɪŋ/, /ˈɡləʊɪŋ/ 1. The action of glowing. Example: The coldness having now arrived at its acme, or highest point of intensity, glowings of heat were perceived in the intervals between the rigors or successions. These glowings grew gradually stronger […]
Word: glowing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈɡloʊɪŋ/, /ˈɡləʊɪŋ/ 1. That glows or glow. Example: glowing embers 2. Full of praise. Labels: figuratively Example: He received glowing references from his previous employers. Example: I was told that they had no more work for me due to cutbacks. They'd hired me only two weeks before because they were understaffed. I found out from another publisher that they are looking for a new typesetter. They told him I was too slow. I typed 70 wpm and they were nothing but glowing about my work.
Word: Leonard Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old French Leonard, name of a 6th century Frankish saint, from Old High German leo (“lion”) or Old High German liut (“person”) and hart (“hard”). As a surname, also used as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Leannáin (Lennon). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛnɚd/ 1. A male given name from the Germanic languages. Example: - - - save the delight of being called "Leo" by those whom the newspapers call "the leading fashionables", whereas, had he stuck to the city, he might still have been called only Leonard, like his father before him. Example: "You want names, I'll give you names. My name is Leonard Alfred Schneider. What was I doing when I took the name Lenny Bruce? I was moving towards the invisible middle. 2. A surname transferred from the given name. 3. A surname from Irish. 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States:
Word: he-man Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From he- + man. Pronunciation: /ˈhiː.mæn/ 1. A strong or virile man. Example: What's the matter with his talking so polite? Hell's bells, Harry, no harm in being polite. There's some regular he-men that are just as polite as women, prett' near. Example: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure A lotta draggy party-type people there...girls all decked out & guys with he-man cologne on.
Word: Románico Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Latin Latin romanice (“in the manner of the Romans”). Pronunciation: /ɹoʊˌmɑnɪt͡soʊ/ 1. An artificial language composed of regularized source words common to the major Romance languages, created in 1991. It is closely related to Esperanto and Ido.
Word: self-interest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English interest English self-interest From self- + interest. 1. One's personal interest or advantage, especially when pursued without regard for others. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I cannot abandon my husband for the sake of self-interest and personal gain. Example: And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.