nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: picaresque Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From picaro (“adventurer, rogue”) + -esque (suffix meaning ‘in the style or manner of’ forming adjectives), modelled after Spanish picaresco (“in the style or manner of a picaro; picaresque”), from pícaro (“rogue”) + -esco (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relation). Compare French picaresque (attested later than the English word), Italian picaresco, Portuguese picaresco. Pronunciation: /pɪkəˈɹɛsk/ 1. A picaresque novel. Example: Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [From the sublime to the ridiculous there is only one step]; and that step in Spain was taken by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (already dealt with in his higher walk), the originator of the Picaresque, or low rogue's march novels, of which his Lazarillo de Tormes was the type— [...] Example: [T]he word picaro, which is almost synonymous with rogue, [...] has given a name to a whole series of novels in Spain called "Picaresques," the heroes of which are adventurers.
Word: cornetto Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cornetto, a diminutive of corno (“horn”), from Latin cornū. Pronunciation: /kɔːˈnɛtəʊ/, /kɔɹˈnɛtoʊ/ 1. A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. 2. An Italian pastry, a kind of croissant. Example: Frock-coated waiters flitted in and out dispensing champagne cocktails, stripy-jumpered gondoliers were handing out cornettos and bite-size pizzas, courtesy of the high street pizza chain that was sponsoring the whole bash,[…] Example: A quick espresso, maybe a roll with a little marmalade or a cornetto at the local bar, and then it's off to work or school.
Word: speaking trumpet Part of Speech: noun 1. A megaphone (of the older, non-electric kind). Example: He passed his arm round a rope to steady himself, made a speaking-trumpet of his hands, and suddenly dropped them again without uttering a sound. Example: A short, square-built man, in a rough grey jacket, with a speaking-trumpet in hand, stood in the weather hammock nettings.
Word: hearing aid Part of Speech: noun 1. A device used to help the hard of hearing to hear sounds. Example: Sadly, the ever-eager Reverend Judith had not been able to conjure up many worshippers, even though it was Father’s Day. There was just one old dear sitting halfway back, her faulty hearing aid letting off a high-pitched whistle.
Word: hard of hearing Part of Speech: adj 1. Having difficulty hearing; somewhat deaf. Labels: idiomatic Example: Speak loudly, because Grandpa is somewhat hard of hearing.
Word: concolor Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of concolour. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: valise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French valise. Pronunciation: /vəˈliːz/ 1. A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag. Example: Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you,... Example: Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
Word: Morse code Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for its inventor, Samuel Morse. 1. A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes of light or by radio.
Word: infield Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English field English infield From in- + field. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfiːld/ 1. The area inside a racetrack or running track. Example: We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock. 2. A constrained scope or area. Example: Let’s keep this problem in the infield. 3. An area to cultivate: a field 4. The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base. Example: They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain. 5. (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield. Example: Jones ran out an infield single. 6. The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
Word: infield Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English field English infield From in- + field. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfiːld/ 1. To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of. Labels: transitive
Word: infield Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English field English infield From in- + field. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfiːld/ 1. Toward or into the infield. Example: [Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield.
Word: coffeed out Part of Speech: adj 1. Having have had enough coffee for the time being. Labels: US, slang 2. Feeling jumpy or nervous from caffeine; feeling any of the symptoms of caffeine overload. Labels: US, slang Example: I don't want another cup, thanks. I'm all coffeed out.
Word: plagiarize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin plagium Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Latin plagiārius English plagiary Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English plagiarize From plagiary + -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”). Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹaɪz/, /ˈpleɪd͡ʒi.əɹaɪz/ 1. To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism. Labels: ambitransitive Example: She was caught trying to plagiarize an article for her thesis. Example: It’s unethical to plagiarize someone else’s work for personal gain.
Word: gerrymander Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeys- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós Proto-Germanic *gaizaz Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥h₁-t- Proto-Germanic *wulþǭder.? Proto-Indo-European *welH-der. Proto-Indo-European *wélH-dʰe-tider. Proto-Indo-European *we-wólH-dʰe-ti? Proto-Germanic *waldanąder. Proto-Germanic *waldaz Proto-Germanic *Gaizawaldaz Frankish *Gaiʀawaldbor. Old French Geraldbor. English Gerald ▲ Proto-Germanic *gaizaz Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī) Frankish *Gaiʀahardbor. Old French Gerartder. Middle English Gerard English Gerard Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Gerry Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra)bor. Latin salamandra Anglo-Norman salamandrebor. Middle English salamandre English salamander blend English gerrymander Blend of Gerry + salamander, named after Elbridge Gerry, then governor of Massachusetts. Coined by the editors of the Boston Gazette in an 26 March 1812 article comparing the new electoral district boundary signed into law by Gerry to the shape of the mythological salamander. The original text was likely written by Nathan Hale and Benjamin and John Russell, accompanying a cartoon by Elkanah Tisdale. Despite Gerry's surname beginning with a hard G (/ɡ/), gerrymander is typically pronounced with a soft G (/dʒ/), as a spelling pronunciation. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændə/, /ˈɡɛɹi-/, /ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌmændəɹ/, [-mɛən-], /ˈd͡ʒeɹiˌmændə/ 1. The act of gerrymandering. Labels: derogatory 2. A voting district skewed by gerrymandering. Labels: derogatory Example: Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across four counties while carving up neighborhoods in half. Example: Courts have repeatedly struck down Republican-drawn maps on the grounds that they constitute illegal racial gerrymanders designed to dilute the electoral power of Black voters, who overwhelmingly cast Democratic ballots.
Word: palatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-? Proto-Indo-European *pel-? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder. Latin palātumder. Old French palatbor. Middle English palate English palate Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English palatable From palate + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈpæl.ə.tə.bəl/ 1. Pleasing to the taste, tasty. Example: For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal. Example: The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome. 2. Tolerable, acceptable. Labels: figuratively Example: The agreement was palatable to both of them. Example: “I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present;[…]”
Word: staunch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English staunchen, staunche (“to stop the flow of blood, diarrhoea, or other bodily fluids; to alleviate, ease; to appease, assuage, satisfy; to cure; to overcome; to put an end to; to repress, suppress; of a river or stream: to stop flowing; of waters, wind, or weather: to become calm, subside; to extinguish or put out (a fire)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman estauncher, estaunchier, estanger, Old French estancher, estanchier (verb) [and other forms]; see further at etymology 1 and at stanch. Pronunciation: /stɔːn(t)ʃ/, /stoːn(t)ʃ/, /stɔn(t)ʃ/, /stɑn(t)ʃ/ 1. Alternative spelling of stanch. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned. Example: He that has not uſurp'd the name of man, / Does all, and deems too little, all he can, / T' aſſuage the throbbings of the feſter'd part, / And ſtaunch the bleedings of a broken heart; […]
Word: staunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either: * from Middle English staunche, stanche (“something which stops the flow of blood; (figuratively) shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)”), from Old French estanche (“pond; tank”), from estanc (“pond”) (modern French étang (“pond; lagoon”)), from estanchier (verb): see further at etymology 2; and/or * derived directly from the verb. Pronunciation: /stɔːn(t)ʃ/, /stoːn(t)ʃ/, /stɔn(t)ʃ/, /stɑn(t)ʃ/ 1. That which stanches or checks a flow. Labels: obsolete 2. That which stanches or checks a flow. Labels: archaic, obsolete, specifically 3. An act of stanching or stopping. Labels: obsolete 4. Synonym of afterdamp (“suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp”).
Word: staunch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See stanch (etymology 4). Pronunciation: /stɔːn(t)ʃ/, /stoːn(t)ʃ/, /stɔn(t)ʃ/, /stɑn(t)ʃ/ 1. Alternative spelling of stanch (“a floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: garish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛəɹɪʃ/, /ˈɡɛːɹɪʃ/, /ˈɡɛɹɪʃ/, /ˈɡeːɹɪʃ/, /ˈɡeəɹɪʃ/ 1. Overly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste. Example: The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish. Example: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
Word: bordel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello. By surface analysis, Latin borda + -el (“diminutive”). 1. A brothel. Labels: archaic Example: Appropriately enough she had given him a rendezvous (for the marriage) at the old Sphinx, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, where the respectable exterior – a family café, where families up from the country came to eat an ice and wat for their train – masked a charming bordel with a high gallery and several spotless cubicles.
Word: ferule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French ferule (modern French férule), from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”). Doublet of ferula. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹuːl/, /ˈfɛɹəl/ 1. A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand. Labels: historical Example: In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, […]. Example: He [a midshipman] lords it over those below him, while lorded over himself by his superiors. It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same time received upon the other the discipline of the usher's ferule.
Word: ferule Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French ferule (modern French férule), from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”). Doublet of ferula. Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹuːl/, /ˈfɛɹəl/ 1. To punish with a ferule. Labels: transitive Example: And they were right in their assumption; I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy[…]but when it came to feruling a girl[…]my manhood rebelled[…].
Word: oubliette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”). Pronunciation: /uːbliˈɛt/ 1. A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top. Example: Le Chiffre's two cards followed them with a faint rattle which comes from the canister at the beginning of each session before the discards have made a cushion over the metal floor of their oubliette.
Word: torc Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)k/ 1. Alternative spelling of torque (“necklace”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: solecism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French solecisme, soloëcisme (French solécisme) or its etymon Latin soloecismus, from Ancient Greek σολοικισμός (soloikismós), from σόλοικος (sóloikos, “speaking incorrectly”), from Σόλοι (Sóloi), an ancient Athenian colony in Cilicia whose inhabitants spoke a dialect regarded by Athenians as a corrupted and barbarous form of Attic Greek. Compare Atticism. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒlɪsɪzəm/, /ˈsɑləsɪzəm/, /ˈsoʊlɪsɪzəm/, [ˈsoʊlɨsɪzəm] 1. An error or improper usage. Example: […]to suppose that the general concern of this Country can be directed by thirteen heads, or one head without competent powers, is a solecism, the bad effects of which every Man who has had the practical knowledge to judge from, that I have, is fully convinced of; tho' none perhaps has felt them in so forcible, and distressing a degree. Example: Why leave the non-enumerated articles, covered by the act of 1864, subject only to this lower rate of duty? Why this distinction? Such a result would, we think, be a solecism, and contrary to the spirit and purpose of the act. It cannot reasonably be supposed that such was the intent of the clause in question. 2. An error or improper usage. Example: The "simple" metaphor, such as the instance given, becomes the "continued" metaphor when the analogy or similitude is worked out in a series of phrases and expressions based on the primary metaphor; it is in such "continued metaphors" that the solecism of "mixed" metaphors is likely to occur. Example: Eliot and Gertrude Stein had a solemn conversation, mostly about split infinitives and other grammatical solecisms and why Gertrude Stein used them. 3. An error or improper usage. Example: 1778, Fanny Burney, Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Letter LXVIII: EVELINA TO THE REV. MR. VILLARS. Clifton, Sept. 28th., "Best young woman!" repeated Mr. Lovel; "'pon honour, Jack, you have made a most unfortunate speech; however, if Lady Louisa can pardon you,-and her Ladyship is all goodness,-I am sure nobody else can; for you have committed an outrageous solecism in good manners." Example: Under this plea, felons of the worst kind might claim, till this time, to be taken out of the hands of the law judges, and to be tried at the bishops’ tribunals; and at these tribunals, such a monstrous solecism had Catholicism become, the payment of money was ever welcomed as the ready expiation of crime.
Word: parr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”). For the salmon life stage, the word originates from the Middle English parren (“to enclose”), referring to the spots running along the side of the fish, resembling the bars of a fence. Pronunciation: /pɑː(ɹ)/ 1. Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: -let Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let From Middle English -let, -elet, from Old French -elet, a double diminutive from Old French -el + -et. Pronunciation: /-lət/ 1. A diminutive suffix. Labels: morpheme Example: booklet, a small book Example: applet, a small computer application 2. Piece; as in a suit of armor. Labels: morpheme Example: bracelet, the "arm piece" or "arm protector" Example: gauntlet, the "glove piece" or "glove protector"
Word: garget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English garget, gargate (“throat”), from Old French gargate. Compare gorge. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt/ 1. An inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder; synonym of mastitis. Labels: archaic Example: Chronic indurations will sometimes remain after the inflammation of garget has been subdued; they will be somewhat tender, and they will always lessen the quantity of milk. Example: Mastitis is a disease of the udder. More specifically, mastitis is an inflammation of the udder usually caused by germs which enter through the teat canal. Many dairymen and farmers refer to the disease by the terms garget, caked udder, and a variety of other names. All, however, are one and the same disease. 2. A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite. 3. Pokeweed.
Word: panegyric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós). Pronunciation: /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/, /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒaɪɹɪk/ 1. A formal speech publicly praising someone or something. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […] Example: Want of something else to say, and a very shady lane, disposed him to confidence; and he forthwith began a panegyric on himself, and on the good fortune of Miss Arundel, stating, he was now on his road to offer himself and his debts to her acceptance. 2. Someone who writes or delivers such a speech. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: panegyric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós). Pronunciation: /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/, /ˌpænəˈd͡ʒaɪɹɪk/ 1. panegyrical
Word: tache Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of m(o)ustache. Pronunciation: /tɑːʃ/, /tæʃ/ 1. Moustache, mustache. Labels: informal
Word: tache Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French tache (“a spot”). See tetchy. 1. A spot, stain, or blemish. Labels: archaic Example: the herynge or seynge of any vice or euyl tache Example: Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.
Word: tache Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See tack (“a kind of nail”). 1. Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch, loop, button. Example: And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Word: chatterbox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chatter + box. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/ 1. One who chats or talks to excess. Labels: informal Example: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible. 2. Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”). 3. Synonym of chatterbot. 4. The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
Word: crusty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌsti/ 1. Having a crust, especially a thick one. Example: No one was there. But there was a cloth spread upon the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one, with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate 2. Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature. Labels: figuratively, informal Example: However kindly a friend may otherwise be, he soon turns crusty if asked to lend money. Example: Then somebody told a story about the Swedish Majesty's last sojourn in Norway. There, at a railway station, Oscar ran against a crusty old farmer who thought himself a lot better than a mere king and kept his hat on. 3. Of very low quality; crude visuals or harsh, granular sound. Labels: informal Example: The door opened with a crusty squeak that echoed in the silent room. Example: The old vinyl record made a crusty crackling sound as the needle hit it.
Word: crusty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹʌsti/ 1. A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness. Labels: UK, informal 2. Dried eye mucus. Labels: slang Example: Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand. Example: Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella? 3. A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal Example: The Spirals are part of the crossover between the rave scene and the ‘crusty’ subculture—crusties being squat-dwelling anarcho-hippy-punk types named after their matted dreadlocks and post-apocalyptic garb. Example: Many of them, dressed in raggedy black combat gear, with haircuts that matched and mismatched punk, Rasta and Native American styles - a look which would later be codified as 'crustie' - began to join the travellers on the road. This influx from the cities changed the travelling scene, and after the Battle of the Beanfield, sections of the downcast and disillusioned travelling community began to seek oblivion through Special Brew superlager or even heroin as the dream of rural liberation turned sour. 4. Dried blood or serous fluid buildup following body piercing. Labels: slang Example: Actually, I usually don't see crusties for up to a week after a new pierce, it takes some time before a new pierce is in that stage when it's actively pushing out dead skin cells and other gunk. Example: If you rotate the ring with the crusties still on it, it'll drag the bastards through the piercing and that hurts like the dickens.
Word: souped-up Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain; the fact that the earlier senses seem to be the horse racing cant and United States Navy slang ones suggests a derivation from soup (“liquid food item”), connoting a horse or a person being filled with a liquid. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a modified clipping of supe(r), with reference to an airplane or automobile engine being supercharged: see, for example, the quotation from 1925. This sense appears to post-date the horse-racing and navy slang senses. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpt ʌp/, /ˈsupt ʌp/ 1. Of a racehorse: injected with a substance to make it run faster or to change its temperament. 2. Of an engine, a motor vehicle, etc.: modified for higher performance. Labels: slang Example: $600.00 BUYS T. M. Scout with "Souped up" OX5 motor. Snappiest commercial single seater built. H. W. Mackie, Air Service, Houston, Texas. Example: [W]ill it be possible to mount a larger engine for use in La Paz? I doubt very much if the standard 165 would get off the ground up here with a student. I wish you would take that up with the factory and see if they can put out a job with a suped-up seven-cylinder job. The R-540 I think it is. 3. Improved. Labels: broadly Example: As with the previous Omicron subvariants, it seems likely that the US will follow those regions once again, with or without the new souped-up vaccines. Example: Since its launch in November last year, ChatGPT has become an extraordinary hit. Essentially a souped-up chatbot, the AI program can churn out answers to the biggest and smallest questions in life, and draw up college essays, fictional stories, haikus, and even job application letters. 4. Intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. Labels: US, slang Example: If you have had any experience at all with the effect that it has upon these people when they are in situations of violence, you can understand that you cannot send these persons who are souped up on drugs to perform a delicate mission […] 5. Excited. Labels: New-England, US, slang
Word: souped-up Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; the fact that the earlier senses seem to be the horse racing cant and United States Navy slang ones suggests a derivation from soup (“liquid food item”), connoting a horse or a person being filled with a liquid. Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a modified clipping of supe(r), with reference to an airplane or automobile engine being supercharged: see, for example, the quotation from 1925. This sense appears to post-date the horse-racing and navy slang senses. Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpt ʌp/, /ˈsupt ʌp/ 1. simple past and past participle of soup-up Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: busty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English bust Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English busty From bust (“breast”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌsti/ 1. Having large breasts. Example: I could see a busty blonde at the end of the boardwalk.
Word: souped up Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of soup up Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: litigant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French litigant, from Middle French, from Latin litigans. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/ 1. A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.
Word: litigant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French litigant, from Middle French, from Latin litigans. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtɪɡənt/ 1. Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit. Example: the parties litigant Example: litigant Scholars
Word: tramline Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tram + line. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmlaɪn/ 1. The rails that a tram runs on. Example: Transport, motorways and tramlines / Starting and then stopping 2. Either of the two pairs of sidelines marked on a tennis court which mark the outside of the singles and doubles playing areas. Labels: UK 3. A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames. Example: The tramline is therefore much less obvious on the screen. Also, if the scratch is on the base (i.e., on the back of the film), then it will not be in sharp focus. 4. A mark or bruise having the shape of two parallel lines. Example: a tramline scar Example: The well-reported "tramlines" or parallel punctate scars on either side of the vein were seen in only four patients. 5. A pair of vertical bars (||) placed to the left of the headword in certain editions of the OED to indicate that the term is "alien or not fully naturalized" (such as a recent borrowing). Example: Those words that [James] Murray classified as denizens and aliens, as well as those casuals approaching these two prior categories, were marked by two parallel lines beside the headword (||), a symbol known by the in-house term tramline. Murray himself admitted to the inherent subjectivity of his method of classification, which unsurprisingly led to a number of inconsistencies in the use of tramlines, and may even have contributed to the patchiness of the OED's regional coverage that Weiner acknowledged many years later.
Word: tramline Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From tram + line. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæmlaɪn/ 1. Of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels. Labels: intransitive
Word: break the ice Part of Speech: verb Etymology: By application of the metaphor that strangers are socially separated by ice. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪk ði ˈaɪs/ 1. To start to get to know people to avoid social awkwardness and formality. Labels: idiomatic Example: Including a few fun details in large group introductions can be a great way to break the ice. 2. To introduce a conversation. Labels: idiomatic Example: If it be so ſir, that you are the man Muſt ſteed us all, and me amongſt the reſt: And if you breake the ice and do this ſeeke, Atchieve the elder: ſet the yonger free, For our acceſſe, whose hap ſhall be to have her, will not so graceleſſe be, to be ingrate. 3. To surmount initial difficulties; to overcome obstacles and make a beginning. Labels: idiomatic 4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, the, ice.
Word: sward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English swerd, sward (“rind, skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /swɔːd/, /swɔɹd/ 1. Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth. Labels: uncountable Example: His eyes he op'nd, and beheld a field, / Part arable and tilth, whereon were Sheaves / New reapt, the other part ſheep-walks and foulds; / Ith' midſt an Altar as the Land-mark ſtood / Ruſtic, of graſſie ſord; […] Example: There is a dale in Ida, lovelier / Than any in old Ionia, beautiful / With emerald slopes of sunny sward, that lean / Above the loud glenriver, which hath worn / A path thro' steepdown granite walls below / Mantled with flowering tendriltwine. 2. An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow. Labels: countable Example: It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by. Example: [O]f a sudden the trees began to thin and the sward to spread out onto a broad, green lawn, where five cows lay in the sunshine and droves of black swine wandered unchecked. 3. The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it. Labels: countable, obsolete Example: The roots of the Apple-tree, Olive, and Cypreſſe, lie very ebbe, and creepe hard under the ſourd of the ground. 4. The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something. Labels: countable, dialectal
Word: sward Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English swerd, sward (“rind, skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /swɔːd/, /swɔɹd/ 1. To cover (ground, etc.) with sward. Labels: transitive 2. Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward. Labels: intransitive Example: [Land...] will not sward again […] Example: […] for the ground immediately after corn is many years before it swards, and […]
Word: sward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a blend of sword + pardner. Pronunciation: /swɔːd/, /swɔɹd/ 1. A homosexual man. Labels: Philippines
Word: swarth Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/, /swɔː(ɹ)θ/ 1. Alternative form of sward. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths. Example: Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.
Word: swarth Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See swart. Pronunciation: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/, /swɔː(ɹ)θ/ 1. swarthy Labels: archaic Example: […] What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk All hope of greenness? […] Example: a swarth complexion
Word: swarth Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/, /swɔː(ɹ)θ/ 1. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
Word: water main Part of Speech: noun 1. The principal pipe, usually underground, for conveying water to residential and business properties. Example: Helpston: Removal and replacement of rails on the main line; also the erection of a gantry to carry a water main across the railway.
Word: watermark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + mark. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəmɑːk/ 1. A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light. 2. A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc. Labels: broadly 3. A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents. 4. A default hint caption displayed in a text box prior to the user inputting any text. 5. A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
Word: watermark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From water + mark. Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːtəmɑːk/ 1. To mark paper with a watermark. Labels: transitive 2. To mark a datafile with a digital watermark. Labels: transitive
Word: defloration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French desfloracion (French défloration), from Latin defloratio. 1. the act of deflowering Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: decamp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * French décamper, Old French descamper. Pronunciation: /diːˈkæmp/ 1. To break camp and move on. Labels: intransitive 2. To disappear suddenly and secretly. Labels: intransitive Example: Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she decamped in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye. Example: Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted. 3. To debark, to disembark. Example: I let the civilian members of our team decamp the bus first and then the main members of Team Seven and finally the hippie from Iceland, Oran! ACT 50 I noticed an RAF truck at the bottom. Example: It required much honking of horns (not only the bus's), several passengers decamping like rats leaving a sinking ship, and much waiting around while a large truck trying to negotiate the same alley found room to back up[…]
Word: vintage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/ 1. The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. 3. The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The year or place in which something is produced. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: vintage Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage. Labels: attributive 2. Having an enduring appeal; high-quality. Labels: attributive 3. Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.). Labels: attributive 4. Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.). Labels: attributive 5. Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.). Labels: attributive
Word: vintage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”). Pronunciation: /ˈvɪn.tɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To harvest (grapes). Labels: transitive 2. To make (wine) from grapes. Labels: transitive
Word: unnoticed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English noticed English unnoticed From un- + noticed. Pronunciation: /ʌnˈnoʊtɪst/, /ʌnˈnəʊtɪst/ 1. Not noticed. Example: In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record. Example: The announcement was slipped out almost unnoticed on the last day before Parliament was dissolved to prepare for a General Election.
Word: RBI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of run batted in. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals. […] The 22-year-old Caglianone hit .319 with nine home runs and 43 RBIs in 38 games with Triple-A Omaha after playing the first 12 games of the season with Double-A Northwest Arkansas.
Word: RBI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of risk-based inspection. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RBI Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Reserve Bank of India. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The RBI this month raised rates by 50 basis points after a 40 bps hike in May. 2. Initialism of Radio Berlin International. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of Ruđer Bošković Institute Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: smaragd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language. Pronunciation: /ˈsmæɹæɡd/, /sməˈɹæɡd/ 1. An emerald. Labels: obsolete Example: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […] Example: Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.
Word: smaragdine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smáragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smáragdos). See emerald for more. Pronunciation: /sməˈɹæɡdiːn/ 1. Emerald. Labels: uncountable Example: The smaragdine and beryl, (as they are called), which are found in the copper-mines, are said to have their colour from their mixture with sulphur: and that the chrysolite, produced by the heat of thesun, receives its tincture from a hot and fiery exhalation. Example: […]others green, as the emerald, smaragdine, and beryl; others bluish, as the sapphire and turquois; others purple-coloured, as the amethyst.
Word: smaragdine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smáragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smáragdos). See emerald for more. Pronunciation: /sməˈɹæɡdiːn/ 1. Of or pertaining to emeralds. Labels: not-comparable 2. Having the colour of emeralds. Labels: not-comparable Example: Not even inspired vision ever saw sweeter fields arrayed in living green than these spangled meads which stretch out for miles on either side, and probably lead to "rivers of delight" just beyond those massive banks of beech and oaken and maple foliage, which frame the view in smaragdine opulence. Example: Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm.
Word: greensward Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green English sward English greensward From green + sward. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːnswɔːd/ 1. A tract of land that is green with grass. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This is the prettieſt Lovv-borne Laſſe, that euer / Ran on the greene-ſord: […] Example: Ventagladia is also a Latin form of the name Vindogladia, and would, as it seems to me, be a good name for the broad reach of greensward below, above and south of Woodyates' Inn. Gwent gledd would mean the open or unenclosed land of greensward.
Word: Brenna Part of Speech: name Etymology: An American coinage used since the 1970s, possibly based on the male given name Brennan or Brendan. 1. A female given name.
Word: Brenna Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Brenna. 1. A surname from Italian.
Word: haired Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”). Pronunciation: /hɛəd/, /hɛɹd/, /heːd/, /heəd/, /hiəd/ 1. Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless. Example: It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards. Example: He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer. 2. Bearing some specific type of hair. Labels: in-compounds Example: He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis. Example: Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]
Word: haired Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”). Pronunciation: /hɛəd/, /hɛɹd/, /heːd/, /heəd/, /hiəd/ 1. simple past and past participle of hair Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plaigiarism Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of plagiarism. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: watermill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + mill. 1. A mill powered by water. Example: Near-synonym: water engine 2. A mill powered by water. Example: Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.
Word: water mill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + mill. 1. Alternative spelling of watermill. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: varietal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English variety Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English varietal From variety + -al. Pronunciation: /vəˈɹaɪətəl/ 1. Pertaining to a distinct variety of organism. Labels: not-comparable 2. Made from a single specific variety (especially of grapes in wine). Labels: not-comparable 3. Of or relating to a variety of a language. Labels: not-comparable Example: An assessment of a selection of regional, varietal, and slang dictionaries also found that little lexicographical effort has been extended to these terms.
Word: varietal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English variety Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English varietal From variety + -al. Pronunciation: /vəˈɹaɪətəl/ 1. A wine made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of grape, which carries the name of that grape. Example: The varietal Merlot has rich red color and a robust fruity taste. Cabernet Sauvignon is a varietal that descended from Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc. Example: “This debut rosé marks the beginning of As Ever’s thoughtful expansion into wine, with a Méthode Champenoise Napa Valley sparkling wine planned for the near future and additional varietals to follow,” it said. 2. A coffee made primarily from or exclusively from a single variety of coffee bean. Labels: broadly
Word: gelding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) + -ing (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/ 1. A castrated male horse. Example: Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's. 2. Any castrated male animal.
Word: gelding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From geld + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of geld Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present