nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: midway Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”). Pronunciation: /mɪdweɪ/ 1. Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points. Labels: not-comparable Example: He stopped me midway through the job and told me to put it on hold. Example: Originally scheduled to come up mid-way through the alphabetically-ordered agenda by being listed as "Lesbianism," the issue was pushed back to 23 (out of 26 resolutions) with the renaming of it as "Sexual Preference."
Word: creator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“to create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright). Pronunciation: /kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯tʰəː], /kɹiːˈæ̝ɪ̯təː/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈæ̝ɪ̯tʰəː], /kɹiːˈæ̝ɪ̯ɾəː/ 1. Something or someone which creates or makes something. Example: Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL. 2. Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Example: creator economy Example: People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country. 3. The deity that created the world. Labels: capitalized, sometimes 4. A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker. Example: Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons. Example: There have been times this season when it seemed Liverpool were trying to reinvent Salah, the scorer supreme, as a creator and this was a sudden reminder of his greatest strength.
Word: creation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English creacion, from Old French creacion (modern French création), from Latin creātiō, creātiōnis. By surface analysis, create + -ion. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiˈeɪʃən/, [ˈkʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯ʃən] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯ʃn̩] 1. Something created such as an invention or artwork. Labels: countable Example: I think the manufacturer was so ashamed of its creation that it didn't put its name on it! 2. The act of creating something. Labels: uncountable Example: The restructure resulted in the creation of a number of shared services. Example: the creation of passwords is done by a computer. 3. All which exists. Labels: uncountable Example: Let us pray to Christ, the King of all creation.
Word: creative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ. Pronunciation: /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/ 1. Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these. Example: a creative dramatist who avoids cliche Example: The future belongs to those aware enough to see the system, brave enough to reject it, and creative enough to build something better. 2. Original, expressive and imaginative. Example: a creative new solution to an old problem 3. A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic. Example: a creative set 4. Designed or executed to deceive or mislead. Example: creative accounting 5. bad, unartistic, busy. Labels: euphemistic
Word: creative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native Old English orþanclīċ. Pronunciation: /kɹiˈeɪtɪv/ 1. A person directly involved in a creative marketing process. Labels: countable Example: He is a visionary creative. 2. Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video. Labels: uncountable Example: The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign. Example: I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.
Word: creationist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-der. Latin creō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin creātiōnemlbor. Old French creacionbor. Middle English creacion English creation 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 creationist From creation + -ist. 1. A proponent or supporter of creationism.
Word: creationist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-der. Latin creō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin creātiōnemlbor. Old French creacionbor. Middle English creacion English creation 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 creationist From creation + -ist. 1. Of or relating to creationism.
Word: San Sebastián Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish San Sebastián. Pronunciation: /ˌsæn ˌsɛbəsˈtjɑːn/ 1. A coastal city and municipality, the capital of the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country, northern Spain. Official name: Donostia / San Sebastián. 2. A town and municipality of San Vicente department, El Salvador.
Word: Bilbo Part of Speech: name 1. A rare surname.
Word: Bilbao Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Bilbao, of Basque origin. Pronunciation: /bɪlˈbaʊ/ 1. The largest city in the Basque Country, in northern Spain, and capital city of the province of Biscay, Spain.
Word: Pamplona Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Roman name, Latin Pompeiopolis, named for Pompey, Roman general who founded it in 68 BC. Pronunciation: /pæmˈploʊnə/ 1. A city in Navarre, northern Spain, famous for the running of the bulls. 2. A habitational surname from Spanish. 3. Several barangays of Las Piñas, Metro Manila, Philippines. 4. A municipality of Cagayan, Philippines. 5. A barangay of General Nakar, Quezon, Philippines. 6. A barangay of Del Gallego, Camarines Sur, Philippines. 7. A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines. 8. A municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Word: eaw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From the sound. An early print use was in a 1988 instruction booklet for the video game Zelda II; probably used earlier. 1. Alternative form of hee-haw. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chunder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃandə/, /ˈtʃɐndə/, /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ 1. Vomit. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable Example: I had puke streamers hanging from both nostrils; it wasn′t as watery as my chunder usually is (from drinking). 2. An act of vomiting. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable Example: I would guess it points up the difference between the involuntary chunder where you cannot choose the time place or direction, and the self-induced chunder which facilitates further consumption of alcohol after your theoretical limit is reached. 3. Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chunder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃandə/, /ˈtʃɐndə/, /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ 1. To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang Example: I come from a land down under / Where beer does flow and men chunder / Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover Example: 2008, Isabelle Young, Tony Gherardin, Central and South America, Lonely Planet, page 70, There are plenty of winding roads, diesel fumes, crowded public transport and various less than sweet odours to get you chundering when you′re on the move in this part of the world, so take a good supply of motion sickness remedies if you know you′re susceptible to this.
Word: chunder Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps by confusion with chunter. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃandə/, /ˈtʃɐndə/, /ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/ 1. Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar. Example: The truck chundered and rattled. Example: As their rented van chunders along the highway, John′s voiceover is heard, contemplating the compulsion that drives men to continue using juvenile punk monikers into their mid-thirties. 2. To grumble, complain. Labels: New-England
Word: rat-tat-tat Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. The sound made by knocking on a door with a hard object (such as a door knocker). 2. The sound made by firing an automatic machine gun.
Word: rat-tat-tat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. Such a sound. Example: Then it grew louder and more distinct - it was a clear rat-tat-tat. Example: To the steady rat-tat-tat of machine guns and exploding bursts of smoke, amphibious tanks slice across a lake not far from the big green mountains that stand along the world’s most heavily armed border.
Word: ℅ Part of Speech: symbol 1. Alternative form of c/o (care of). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sponge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sponge, from Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Displaced native Old English swamm (“fungus, sponge”). Pronunciation: /spʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. Labels: countable 2. A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic). Labels: countable Example: She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair. 3. The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of. Labels: uncountable 4. A heavy drinker. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 5. A type of light cake. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After six hours of work I got this amazing sponge with fresh strawberries, crème fraîche, crème chantilly, custard, crumble and meringues, something quite rich and outstanding. 6. A type of steamed pudding. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 7. A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge). Labels: countable, slang, uncountable 8. A person who readily absorbs ideas. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For this reason, we need to think of our children as sponges of information and watch their sources carefully. We also need to always model appropriate behaviour, as we are a constant source of new information. 9. A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge. Labels: countable 10. Any sponge-like substance. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Any sponge-like substance. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Any sponge-like substance. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength. 14. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel. Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: sponge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sponge, from Old English spunge, taken from Latin spongia, from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos). Displaced native Old English swamm (“fungus, sponge”). Pronunciation: /spʌnd͡ʒ/ 1. To take advantage of the kindness of others. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that spunges upon other Peoples Trenchers. Example: You can’t go on spunging upon the women. 2. To get by imposition; to scrounge. Labels: transitive Example: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. Example: July 17 1735, Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Ornery I am an utter stranger to the persons and places, except when half a score come to sponge on me every Sunday evening 3. To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition. Labels: transitive Example: How came such multitudes of our nation […] to be sponged of their plate and their money? 4. To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge. Example: Before stepping into the bath the head should be wet with cold water, and in the bath the pit of the stomach should first be sponged. 5. To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge. 6. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of. Example: Lett the eyes which have looked on Idols, sponge out their unlawfull acts 7. To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven. Labels: intransitive 8. To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food. Example: Why do dolphins sponge instead of foraging in a more "normal" way? Example: Sponging is worth thinking about in some detail because it illustrates many of the challenges and sources of controversy in studying social learning and culture in wild cetaceans.
Word: foam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fom, foom, from Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin spūma (“foam”), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), Sanskrit फेन (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”). Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊ̯m/, [ˈfəʊ̯m], /ˈfɔʊ̯m/, [ˈfɔʊ̯m] 1. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests. Example: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads. 2. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: ’Tis thou that rigg’st the bark and plough’st the foam, Example: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 12, The breezes blew, the white foam flew, / The furrow follow’d free: / We were the first that ever burst / Into that silent Sea. 3. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “Again. Tell it again!” cried Fagin, tightening his grasp on Sikes, and brandishing his other hand aloft as the foam flew from his lips. Example: The horses were flecked with foam and their breathing was noisy. 4. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a quart jug with a crown of foam upon it Example: The last of the milk vanished in a swirl of foam and gurgling. 5. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] she concentrated on the foam in the sink, tempering the water. Example: Later we shared a bath with foam up to our ears, like they always discreetly have in films. 6. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A substance composed of a large collection of bubbles or their solidified remains, especially: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His specialty is a mango foam. 8. A material formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A foam mat can soften a hard seat. 9. The sea. Labels: countable, figuratively, poetic, uncountable Example: He is in Europe, across the foam. Example: How slowly does sad Time his feathers moue? / Hast thee O fayrest Planet to thy home / Within the Westerne fome: 10. Fury, rage, ire. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. Sneakers. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable
Word: foam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fom, foom, from Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)poHy-m-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with German Feim (“foam”), Latin spūma (“foam”), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), Sanskrit फेन (phéna, “foam”), possibly Northern Kurdish fê (“epilepsy”). Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊ̯m/, [ˈfəʊ̯m], /ˈfɔʊ̯m/, [ˈfɔʊ̯m] 1. To form or emit foam. Labels: intransitive Example: […] And that is it Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome Cast on my noble father. Example: When the fierce North-wind with his airy forces Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury; 2. To spew saliva as foam; to foam at the mouth. Labels: intransitive Example: […] to London will we march amain, And once again bestride our foaming steeds, And once again cry ‘Charge upon our foes!’ But never once again turn back and fly. Example: Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away. 3. To coat or cover with foam. Example: It used to be common practice to foam the runway prior to an emergency landing, in case a fuel-fed fire occurred.
Word: froth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒθ/, [ˈfɹʷɒθ], /ˈfɹɔθ/, [ˈfɹʷɔθ], /ˈfɹɑθ/ 1. Foam. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee. Example: He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red. 2. Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth? Example: The discussion at the conference was mostly froth and posturing. 3. The idle rich. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That it offers the best imaginable field for the economical employment of the least useful of our population, viz. "the froth and the dregs,” those of both extremes of the social scale who prefer adventure, excitement, action, idleness if you will, to steady plodding business ways. Example: I do not think that there were in the boxes or the lower part of the house a score of persons who were not identified, in one way or another, with this froth of New York society. 4. Highly speculative investment. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Efforts of this kind, spurred on to fever heat by tax incentives can only generate inflationary froth - not real hard investment. Example: In effect Friedman and Scwartz are not blaming the Fed for creating asset market inflation (and as we have seen, this concept should include the empowerment of irrational forces across asset markets including the giant carry trades) by its polices through 1927 and earlier; but they are admitting that there could have been some degree of US stock market "froth" in 1928 onwards (into 1929( (in any case, Friedman and Scwartz do not explicitly refer to the concept of asset price inflation).
Word: froth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɒθ/, [ˈfɹʷɒθ], /ˈfɹɔθ/, [ˈfɹʷɔθ], /ˈfɹɑθ/ 1. To create froth in (a liquid). Labels: transitive Example: I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly. Example: One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches), poured the chocolate out. 2. (of a liquid) To bubble. Labels: intransitive Example: Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Example: English beer, along with European brews, is already the subject of an EEC investigation to determine whether additives like stabilizers (used to prevent frothing during shipment) should be allowed. 3. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. Labels: transitive Example: The Mufti reddens; mark that holy cheek. He frets within, froths treason at his mouth, And churns it thro’ his teeth […] Example: […] is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more? 4. (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger. Labels: intransitive Example: The clumsy suckling struck out with her still soft claws, opened her frothing mouth until her milk teeth shone. Example: As doctors tried in vain to save April's right eye, news stories frothed at her assailant. He was “fiendish” (the Examiner), “sadistic” (the News-Call Bulletin), “probably a sexual psychopath” (the Chronicle). 5. To cover with froth. Labels: transitive Example: A horse froths his chain.
Word: doughnut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809. Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊnʌt/, /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ 1. A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream. Example: The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts. Example: One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies. 2. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: attributive, figuratively Example: He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him. 3. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: figuratively Example: In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […] 4. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, figuratively 5. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: figuratively 6. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: figuratively Example: The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions. 7. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: figuratively Example: Place the hair doughnut/ring around your ponytail 8. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: figuratively, slang, vulgar Example: When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut Example: My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said. 9. Any object in the shape of a torus. Labels: figuratively, slang, vulgar 10. A foolish or stupid person; an idiot. Labels: colloquial Example: Nice going, you doughnut! Example: You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad! 11. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients. 12. A whole note. Labels: slang
Word: doughnut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809. Pronunciation: /ˈdəʊnʌt/, /ˈdoʊ(ˌ)nʌt/ 1. To encircle something. Example: […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion. Example: My body flew like a rag doll as he relentlessly and with purpose kept doughnuting the car in wilder circles.
Word: brownie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots. For sense 7, compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally "gnome"). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaʊni/ 1. A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate. Labels: countable, usually Example: Order for the brownie was placed but it took half an hour to prepare it. Example: […]if she ever found out she was dying, she'd just eat brownies all day and night until the very end. 2. A sweet bread with brown sugar and currants. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, uncountable Example: It was an amusing sight to see the three of us, each with a huge hunch of “browny” (bread sweetened with brown sugar and currants) in one hand, and a lump of ice in the other, for there was no water within reach. Example: They rode quietly along to the stockman’s hut, gave their message, rested their horses for half-an-hour, and had some tea without milk, and a piece of cake made of flour, fat, and sugar, commonly known as [“]browny.” 3. A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Thus, offer Brownie a piece of bread, a cup of drink, or a new coat and hood, and he flouted at it, and perhaps, in his huff, quitted the place for ever ; but leave a nice bowl of cream, and some fresh honeycomb, in a snug private corner, and they soon disappeared, though Brownie, it was to be supposed, never knew any thing of them. Example: "Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a little brown-eyed beauty; "she says I shall go with her into the hayloft to-night and give the brownie his Christmas porridge." 4. A copper coin, brown in colour; a penny, halfpenny, or cent. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He rose and jingled in his pockets for change and drew out two brownies. He went and set one on each of Monroe’s eyes[.] 5. A household spirit or revered ancestor. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A brown trout (Salmo trutta). Labels: countable, informal, uncountable 8. A widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Depending upon the species, fishers may harvest along the ocean floor for many rockfish and other groundfish, while hake, pollock, and some rockfish species (i.e. greenies and brownies) are targeted with mid-water trawls. 9. Alternative letter-case form of Brownie (“a girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts)”). Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable 10. A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, countable, uncountable 11. A person with brown skin. Labels: countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable
Word: swish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound Pronunciation: /swɪʃ/ 1. sophisticated; fashionable; smooth. Labels: UK, colloquial Example: This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths. Example: All the shabby railway buildings in front of the station concourse have either been removed or transformed into a shopping complex and swish homes. 2. Attractive, stylish Example: When the boys go swish, they always score Example: The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors. 3. Effeminate.
Word: swish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound Pronunciation: /swɪʃ/ 1. A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As she trotted down the white path, each swish of her tail sent petals dancing through the air, falling where the bride would walk. 3. A sound of liquid flowing, especially inside a container. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens. There was a sound, too, of dumping kegs down on the ground, with a swish of liquor inside them, and then the noise of casks being moved. 4. A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A rapid or careless attacking stroke by the batter. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An effeminate male homosexual. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: "Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […] 8. Effeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: He got a little swish downriver. 9. An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available. Labels: Canada, slang, uncountable
Word: swish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound Pronunciation: /swɪʃ/ 1. To make a rustling sound while moving. Example: The cane swishes. Example: In the stern of the low-laden canoe his paddle swished steadily and powerfully, with thrust of straight, stiff upper arm backed by a twisting swing of the body from the waist, and with every stroke the little craft leaped as if a giant hand had shoved her forward. 2. To flourish with a swishing sound. Labels: transitive Example: to swish a cane back and forth Example: And backward and forward he swish'd his long tail / As a gentleman swishes his cane. 3. To flog; to lash. Labels: dated, slang, transitive Example: After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called "the Star and Stripes", as they were always getting swished. Example: Doctor Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned. 4. To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard. 5. To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner. Labels: slang Example: I shall not swish; I'll merely act limp-wristed. Example: Therefore, I couldn't imagine the men I would be attracted to attracted in turn to someone who was effeminate. Ergo, I'd better not swish — not if I wanted the kind of sexual partners I thought I did. 6. To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth. Labels: transitive Example: Swish the mouthwash around the mouth and between the teeth for one minute.
Word: swish Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From noun, imitative of the sound Pronunciation: /swɪʃ/ 1. A hissing or whistling sound of something travelling quickly through the air. Labels: onomatopoeic Example: "Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said. 2. The sound of a basketball going in the hoop. Labels: onomatopoeic
Word: garbage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”). Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Food waste material of any kind. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable 2. Foul, rotten or unripe vegetable matter. Labels: Australia, Canada, Cumbria, England, US, archaic, dialectal, uncountable 3. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable Example: The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste. 4. Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable Example: Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday. Example: Oh, don't put the empty milk jug in that bin—that one's for garbage. 5. A place or receptacle for waste material. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable Example: He threw the newspaper into the garbage. 6. Nonsense; gibberish. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable Example: This machine translation is garbage. 7. Something or someone worthless. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable Example: The dissenting Christian Advocate asked (5 January 1835) how a cabinet composed of the very garbage of Toryism could be expected to share the spirit of Peel’s manifesto. 8. The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, uncountable 9. An easy shot. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, attributive, slang, uncountable Example: Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket. Example: […] the aging pro, in a much-heralded "boys against the girls" tennis match, annihilated Margaret Court with an array of "garbage shots and cotton balls." 10. Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable 11. Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data. Labels: Australia, Canada, US, uncountable
Word: garbage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”). Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ 1. to eviscerate Labels: Australia, Canada, US, obsolete, transitive Example: I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.
Word: garbage Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From late Middle English garbage (“the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste”, originally “refuse, what is purged away”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French garber (“to refine, make neat or clean”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *garwijan (“to make ready”). Akin to Old High German garawan (“to prepare, make ready”), Old English ġearwian (“to make ready, adorn”). More at garb, yare, gear Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.bɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈɡɑɹ.bɪd͡ʒ/ 1. bad, crap, shitty Labels: Australia, Canada, US, informal, not-comparable Example: Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”. Example: half that shit you morons listen to with pride is totally garbage
Word: Pipola Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India that lost its source of water due to the construction of the Tehri Dam. Example: Since the dam (Tehri) was completed in 2006 the natural spring that once fed Pipola has dried up. Example: In one instance, a natural spring that fed the nearby village of Pipola dried up, forcing residents to fetch water from wells in a neighboring village, while other villagers simply fled to other neighboring villages to live.
Word: rubbish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ 1. Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. Labels: Commonwealth, uncountable, usually Example: The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham. Example: What traſh is Rome? / What Rubbiſh and what Offall? when it ſerues / For the baſe matter, to illuminate / So vile a thing as Cæsar. 2. An item, or items, of low quality. Labels: Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Much of what they sell is rubbish. Example: [W]e may add that publications of this nature always contain much rubbiſh to make up the bulk; for to produce a neat collection of true wit, requires talents and judgment that would ſcarcely ſtoop to the taſk. 3. Nonsense. Labels: Commonwealth, broadly, uncountable, usually Example: Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing? Example: I ſhall […] lay out of my way the whole bede-roll of citations and precedents which they have produced, that heterogeneous heap of rubbiſh, which is only calculated to confound your Lordſhips, and miſlead the argument. 4. Debris or ruins of buildings; rubble. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: That Antichriſt is a man exerciſing a kingdome, the head of the vniuerſall Apoſtaſie, […] the Romane monarchie being diuided and fallen downe, out of the rubbiſhes whereof, he is by litle & litle riſen & increaſed, thorow the power and forcible working of Sathan, […] Example: E'er since poor Cheapside cross in rubbage lay, […]
Word: rubbish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ 1. Exceedingly bad; awful. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: This has been a rubbish day, and it’s about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay. Example: Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.
Word: rubbish Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ 1. Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: - The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson. - Aw, rubbish! Though at least this means you have time to play football. 2. Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense! Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial Example: Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort! Example: Rubbish, sir, rubbish! Pestilent and pernicious rubbish! An honest man must consider what he owes to his name and his rank. That is the first consideration.
Word: rubbish Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English robous (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Anglo-Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around, as there are no known Old French cognates of the word). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear. Possibly derived ultimately from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", also possibly "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”). Compare Swedish rubba (“to move, displace, dislodge, upset”). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/ 1. To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, transitive Example: In my judgment, it is not Christian—I think that is the proper way to put it—to rubbish the leaders of our trade union movements, both employers' and workers'. [...] The employers are quite right in rubbishing this section. The recently retired Chief Ombudsman rubbished it. The insurance guild, not exactly known as a militant trade union until recently, has rubbished it. Twenty-nine leaders in our community have rubbished it. Example: We're messing around at work, the three of us, getting ready to go home and rubbishing each other's five best side one track ones of all time [...] 2. To litter. Labels: Australia, Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, colloquial, transitive Example: Speaking at today's (Tuesday) press conference to announce details of the show, Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mr Cheng Chun-ping urged members of the public to sustain their keep clean efforts and to let the message of the campaign slogan -- "There is never any excuse to rubbish your home" stride across the new Millennium. Example: In the 1970s there was a hugely successful campaign using the slogan: "You wouldn't rubbish your home. Australia's your home. Don't rubbish Australia." The adverts compared tossing table scraps on to the carpet with throwing food packaging from a car. It worked.
Word: Grim Reaper Part of Speech: name Etymology: From grim + reaper, first attested 1847. The word grim previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare Old English grima (“specter, apparition”), English grim (n.)). The association between grim and death dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew around 1590). The reaper element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of Cronus (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father Uranus) and Chronos (the personification of Father Time). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹiː.pə/, /ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹi.pɚ/ 1. A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife. Example: Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper. Example: "Golly, I feel like the devil!" muttered Anthony dispassionately. Relaxing, he tumbled back upon his pillow. "Bring on your grim reaper!"
Word: seventy-eight Part of Speech: num 1. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-seven and preceding seventy-nine.
Word: seventy-eight Part of Speech: noun 1. A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78
Word: septet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *septḿ̥ From Latin septem (“seven”). Pronunciation: /sɛpˈtɛt/ 1. A group of seven, particularly Example: The Lindsey Septet performs at Carnegie Hall this evening. Example: The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour. 2. A group of seven, particularly Example: [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me? 3. A group of seven, particularly