nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: limey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y. In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“a British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪmi/ 1. An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, US, ethnic, slang, slur Example: Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking. 2. An English or British ship. Labels: dated, derogatory, slang
Word: mommy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English mom Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mommy From mom + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɒm.i/, /ˈmɔ.mi/ 1. Mother. Labels: Canada, US, childish, usually Example: The only bad-karma-reducing sposie on the market is a new line of biodegradable (meaning here "useless") sposie that won't last through the lightest of baby pees and will force you to change baby approximately once every thirty seconds, thereby completely undoing any so-called karma reduction. Only bad mommies use sposies. Example: They will never part even though in mommy's heart she wishes daddy would leave forever. One grief-some January 25 mommy rested never to return for her and daddy went on a walk. “Where is mommy”, said baby but daddy couldn't talk. 2. A sexually attractive mother. Labels: vulgar 3. Any sexually attractive woman. Labels: broadly, slang 4. A dominant female partner, often used as a term of address. Example: My girlfriend loves it when I call her mommy.
Word: mommy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English mom Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mommy From mom + -y (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɒm.i/, /ˈmɔ.mi/ 1. To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone. Labels: Canada, US, informal, rare
Word: mommy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mom Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English mommy From mom + -y (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈmɒm.i/, /ˈmɔ.mi/ 1. Characteristic of a mother; motherly. Labels: Canada, US, informal, rare Example: She is the mommiest of mommies. Example: I am smack-dab in the middle of the mommiest years of my life. There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.
Word: Kabyle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”), perhaps via French kabyle. Pronunciation: /kəˈbaɪl/ 1. A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria, speaking the Kabyle language.
Word: Kabyle Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”), perhaps via French kabyle. Pronunciation: /kəˈbaɪl/ 1. Pertaining to these people or their language. Example: Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin.
Word: Kabyle Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”), perhaps via French kabyle. Pronunciation: /kəˈbaɪl/ 1. A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.
Word: debtor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dettour, from Old French detour, from Latin debitor, equivalent to debt + -or. Doublet of debitor. Displaced native Old English *sċola. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛt.ə/, /ˈdɛt.ɚ/, /ˈdet.ə/ 1. A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt. Example: The debtor agreed to repay the loan within six months. Example: The law protects both the debtor and the creditor. 2. One who owes another anything, or is under obligation, arising from express agreement, implication of law, or principles of natural justice, to pay money or to fulfill some other obligation; in bankruptcy or similar proceedings, the person who is the subject of the proceeding. Example: As a debtor, he faced constant letters from the bank. Example: O! to Grace how great a Debtor, Daily I'm conſtrain'd to be;
Word: pongy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pong + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒŋi/, /ˈpɔŋi/ 1. Having a bad smell. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal Example: 2001, Ken Campbell, Home, in John O′Connor, Scripts and Sketches, Heinemann Educational, UK, page 79, Look, they′ve even put a pair of old pongy socks exactly like mine in the corner by the door, exactly like I bunged them last Sunday. Mind you, they are a bit pongier than I remembered. But mind you, they would get pongier over the week. Example: Moments later, a small, sobbing figure would emerge—dirty as a rat and smelling pongier than the rottenest egg.
Word: hongi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori hongi. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒŋi/ 1. The Maori greeting of touching noses. Labels: New-Zealand
Word: hongi Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Māori hongi. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒŋi/ 1. To perform the Maori greeting of touching noses. Labels: New-Zealand Example: [I]f I knew you better , or I was a warmer person, I would hongi, but…
Word: songy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *singwaną Proto-Germanic *sangwaz Proto-West Germanic *sangu Old English sang Middle English song English song English -y English songy From song + -y. Pronunciation: /sɔŋi/, /sɑŋi/, /sɒŋi/ 1. Song-like. Labels: informal Example: 'Polyethylene' is in turn followed by 'Pearly', a songy song: minor key, big vocals, and a nice bridge section.
Word: thongy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thong + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈθɒŋi/ 1. stringy; ropy
Word: whare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Māori whare (“house, hut”). Pronunciation: /ˈfʌre/, /ˈfʌri/, /ˈfɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈʍɑːɹeɪ/, /ˈwɑːɹeɪ/ 1. A Maori house or other building. Labels: New-Zealand Example: The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings. Example: We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron. 2. A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack. Labels: New-Zealand, historical Example: Many New Zealanders will know that a whare is a house. But in this context, the whare were being built for a summer hunting and gathering expedition. It was the 1880s, so timber houses also featured, but here the whānau were travelling to tribal lands and building makeshift whare to camp in.
Word: wari Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of oware. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: prosty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from prostitute. 1. A prostitute. Labels: US, slang Example: “Okay, so he is in a relationship with a woman of the night.” “More like a woman of the afternoon. But that's fine. Jesus didn't judge prosties.”
Word: boot loader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From boot + loader. 1. A small program that initiates the bootstrap process by loading the operating system proper. Example: In the case of a PC that runs nothing but Windows, the boot loader in the MBR is hard-coded to check for a secondary boot loader in the active primary partition. This secondary boot loader directly loads the Windows kernel. Example: It was a thought that returned to me days later while reading an article about Elon Musk, one of the loudest voices calling to reopen the economy–a man who once referred to humanity as the “biological bootloaders” for AI.
Word: hostie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French hostie, from Latin hostia. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊsti/ 1. the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host. Labels: Scotland, obsolete Example: 1694 August 9, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Letter XII, in 1845, William Jerdan (editor), Letters from James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c, to His Sister, Countess of Erroll, and Other Members of His Family, page 40, This Hostie* is carryed about the streets in procession : and really it is very fine to see the solemnity. Example: But he went to another Prieſt, that lived in the Court, who gave him the pix with an hoſtie in it.
Word: hostie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hostess + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). 1. An air hostess. Labels: Australia, informal Example: A lovely hostie approached my seat, `Mr. Vautin, just looking at you makes me think we might need a forklift to get you off the plane.' Example: If the alarm goes off, the hostie stops and looks for the likely suspect or asks all the people in the nearest seats who has an electronic device and tells whoever it is to turn the device off. The hostie doesn't have to decide if some smartarse who wants to listen on a scanner is trying to convince her that it only an MP3 player or whether device A is OK and device B isn't OK. If her instruction is that the device is to be turned off, then it's turned off!
Word: B2B Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of back-to-back. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable 2. Initialism of business-to-business. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable Example: The warehouses that first occupied the triangle hosted shipments in transit from one business to another: B2B. Example: Let’s take B2B salespeople as an example. Today, most salespeople rely upon email communications, a CRM platform and conference calls to connect with prospects and engage leads.
Word: kakistocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, “worst”), superlative of κακός (kakós, “bad”) + -κρατία (-kratía, “power, rule, government”) (corresponding to -cracy). The word was used, perhaps re-coined, by the English author Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) in his 1829 novella The Misfortunes of Elphin as the opposite of aristocracy (see second quotation). Pronunciation: /kakɪsˈtɒkɹəsɪ/, /kakɪˈstɒ-/, /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsi/, /kækɪˈstɑ-/ 1. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens. Example: Therefore we need not make any scruple of praying against […] those restlesse spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and medling; who are stung with a perpetuall itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old Hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this againe into a newer Independency; and our well-temperd Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy. Example: The people lived in darkness and vassalage. […] they were utterly destitute of the blessing of those "schools for all," the house of correction, and the treadmill, wherein the autochthonal justice of our agrestic kakistocracy now castigates the heinous sins which were then committed with impunity, […]
Word: sybaritic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīticus (“of or pertaining to Sybaris or its inhabitants”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns). Sybarīticus is derived from Ancient Greek Συβαρῑτικός (Subarītikós), from Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”) (from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)) + -κός (-kós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as Sybarite (“inhabitant of Sybaris”) + -ic. Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants. Pronunciation: /ˌsɪbəˈɹɪtɪk/, [-ɾɪk] 1. Of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent. Example: His belly is a Ceſterne of receit, / A grand Confounder of demulcing Meate. / A Sabariticke Sea, a depthleſſe Gulfe, / A ſenceleſſe Vulture, a corroding VVolfe. Example: [S]he, for whom attendant maidens had smoothed the Sybaritic sheet of finest texture, […]
Word: prodigal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French prodigal, from Late Latin prōdigālis (“wasteful”), from Latin prōdigus (“wasteful, lavish, prodigal”), from prōdigō (“to consume, squander, drive forth”), from prōd- [from prō (“before, forward”)] + agō (“to drive”). Also see unrelated prodigy. The senses of "abandoning a person or cause" and "returning after abandonment" are by allusion to the New Testament story commonly called "The Parable of the Prodigal Son", Luke 15:11–32. See prodigal son. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒdɪɡəl/, /ˈpɹɑdɪɡəl/, [ˈpʰɹɑɾɪɡɫ̩] 1. Wastefully extravagant. Example: He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays. Example: The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute. 2. Yielding profusely, lavish. Labels: often Example: She was a merry person, glad and prodigal of smiles. Example: How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget? 3. Profuse, lavishly abundant. Example: Goe binde thou vp vond dangling Apricocks, / Which like vnruly Children, make their Syre / Stoupe with oppreſſion of their prodigall weight: Example: And one, the reapers at their sultry toil. / In front they bound the sheaves. Behind / Were realms of upland, prodigal in oil, / And hoary to the wind. 4. Behaving as a prodigal son: 5. Behaving as a prodigal son: Example: Simon Hart of the Daily Telegraph has tweeted that the prodigal triple-jumper has come home, in preparation for tomorrow's qualification round. Example: I went away to come back / Like a prodigal Christian
Word: prodigal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French prodigal, from Late Latin prōdigālis (“wasteful”), from Latin prōdigus (“wasteful, lavish, prodigal”), from prōdigō (“to consume, squander, drive forth”), from prōd- [from prō (“before, forward”)] + agō (“to drive”). Also see unrelated prodigy. The senses of "abandoning a person or cause" and "returning after abandonment" are by allusion to the New Testament story commonly called "The Parable of the Prodigal Son", Luke 15:11–32. See prodigal son. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒdɪɡəl/, /ˈpɹɑdɪɡəl/, [ˈpʰɹɑɾɪɡɫ̩] 1. A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel. Example: Now thinkes he that her husbands ſhallow tongue, / The niggard prodigall that praiſde her ſo: / In that high task hath done her Beauty wrong. Example: Change into extremity is very frequent and easy. As when a beggar suddenly grows rich, he commonly becomes a prodigal; for, to obscure his former obscurity, he puts on riot and excess.
Word: Ojibwe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”). Other, less credible theories: Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation. Pronunciation: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/, /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ 1. Of or pertaining to this people, culture or language. Example: Then for 50 years its story lay dormant — although the Dream Dance remained a component of Ojibwe life both north and south of the Canada-U.S. border until its rediscovery by a Winnipeg historian and her colleagues.
Word: Ojibwe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”). Other, less credible theories: Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation. Pronunciation: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/, /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ 1. A member of a native Algonquin people of central Canada. Example: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.
Word: Ojibwe Part of Speech: name Etymology: First attested in English around 1700 (and attested in early French as Outchibouec), from the Ojibwe name of an individual band of Ojibwe, of unclear origin. The most widely accepted theory connects it to Ojibwe ojibwaakide (“it shrivels, it puckers in the fire”), in reference to the puckering or tightening of moccasins at their seams or near fire. Alternatively, Helen Tanner and Edmund Danzinger connect it to the Ojibwe practice of writing on birch bark or making pictographs, respectively; compare ozhibii' (“write (someone's name) down”). Other, less credible theories: Other, less likely suggestions include: Henry Schoolcraft derived it from a word *bwe "pertaining to voice" ((compare bedowe (“have a soft voice”)), and like George Belcourt, believed it referred to a peculiarity of the tribe's (language's) pronunciation. Some other works connect it to the word for puckering the lips, which however is bajiishkidooneni (“she or he puckers the lips”), or assert that it refers to roasting captives until their flesh puckered, but this was not a common practice and is improbable as a self-designation. Pronunciation: /əˈdʒɪbweɪ/, /oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ 1. The language spoken by the native Algonquin people of central Canada, one of a closely related group of languages and dialects of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family. Example: On a Tuesday in April 2017, Janet Macbeth composed an all-office email. “My story,” read the subject line in Nishnaabemwin, the Ojibwe language. “Hello everyone,” the email continued in Nishnaabemwin. “My name is Janet.” Example: Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe.
Word: gee Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A shortening of Jesus, perhaps as in the oath by Jesus. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiː/ 1. A general exclamation of surprise or frustration. Labels: dated Example: Gee, I didn't know that! Example: Gee, you didn't have to kick me!
Word: gee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː/ 1. Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. Labels: intransitive Example: This horse won’t gee when I tell him to. 2. To cause an animal to move in this way. Labels: transitive Example: You may need to walk up to the front of the pack and physically gee the lead dog. 3. To agree; to harmonize. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete Example: It didn't gee with what he had been trained to preach and think about about his religion, you know. Example: I did use a few of the items, in Elinor's handwriting, to check the writing on the letter that was in the box with the money. It geed.
Word: gee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː/ 1. A gee-gee, a horse. Example: You'll say a better major-general has never sat a gee
Word: gee Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː/ 1. A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”. Example: Mush, huskies. Now, gee! Gee!
Word: gee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English ge, from Latin ge (the name of the letter G). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiː/ 1. The name of the Latin script letter G/g. Example: One branch of English society drops its initial aitches, and another branch ignores its terminal gees. Example: The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch. 2. Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, slang Example: ten gees 3. Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of Example: I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth. Example: So if you fire the Phoenix inside that radius, he just can't evade it. The missile can pull more gees than any pilot can. 4. A guy. Labels: US, slang Example: Just off the highway there's a small garage and paint-shop run by a gee named Art Huck.
Word: gee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from gowl (“vagina, vulva”), a slang term in Ireland. Compare Irish gabhal (“fork, crotch”). Pronunciation: /ɡiː/ 1. Vagina, vulva. Labels: Ireland, slang Example: The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why? Example: But he'd had to keep feeling them up and down from her knees up to her gee after she'd said that....
Word: gee Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiː/ 1. To suit or fit. Example: That will just "gee".
Word: gee Part of Speech: verb 1. To give. Labels: dialectal, obsolete Example: And good old Holmes delivered his soul on the walk home of many wise sayings, and, as the song says, "Gee'd 'em a sight of good advice;" […]
Word: gee haw whimmy diddle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdʒi hɑ ˈwɪmi dɪdəl/ 1. A wooden toy consisting of a notched stick with a smaller stick attached on the end. Rubbing the notched stick with another stick causes the smaller stick to spin; with practice the spin can be made to change from rightward (gee) to leftward (haw) and vice versa. Example: …some of the Blue Ridge Mountain folk toys. Each of the following runs about $2: spinning wooden top, fox and geese game, gee-haw whimmy diddle, bull roarer, corn cob pipe. Example: Here you can pick up mountain toys such as the ‘gee-haw whimmy diddle,' a stick with a propeller that turns when you rub the notches on the stick.
Word: gee haw whammy diddle Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gee haw whimmy diddle. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: There we shared countless treasured hours together, and for me they were precious whether we were fishing; piddling around making slingshots or gee haw whammy diddles; or hard at work performing mundane tasks such as hoeing corn, slopping hogs, or feeding chickens.
Word: haw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection). Pronunciation: /hɔː/ 1. An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw). Example: You think that song was good? Haw! Example: The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so. 2. An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made. Example: Hums or haws.
Word: haw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection). Pronunciation: /hɔː/ 1. To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.
Word: haw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”), Norwegian Bokmål hage (“garden”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (compare Welsh cae (“field”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian кош (koš, “tent”), коша́ра (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “curtain wall”)), from *kagʰ- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”). Pronunciation: /hɔː/ 1. Fruit of the hawthorn. Example: The kanary-nut may be considered equal to a hazel-nut, but I have met with nothing else superior to our crabs, our haws, beech-nuts, wild plums, and acorns; fruits which would be highly esteemed by the natives of these islands, and would form an important part of their sustenance. 2. A hedge. Labels: historical 3. Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot. Labels: obsolete Example: wele not leaue a man of lawe, Nor a paper worth a hawe, And make him worſe than a dawe, That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe.
Word: haw Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”) Pronunciation: /hɔː/ 1. An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.
Word: haw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”) Pronunciation: /hɔː/ 1. To turn towards the driver, typically to the left. Example: This horse won't haw when I tell him to. 2. To cause (an animal) to turn left. Example: You may have to go to the front of the pack and physically haw the lead dog.
Word: haw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry. Pronunciation: /hɔː/ 1. The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. Labels: countable 2. A disease of the nictitating membrane. Labels: uncountable
Word: cull Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil. Pronunciation: /kʌl/, /kʊl/ 1. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). Example: 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album Example: Likewise, performances culled mostly from the night's winning acts - with no special guests or even much in the way of mashups, a longtime AMA specialty - provided a much-needed shot in the arm for a reeling local populace. 2. To gather, collect. Example: [T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […] Example: Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee […] is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities. 3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. 4. To kill (animals, etc). Labels: broadly 5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of. 6. To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons. Example: back-face culling Example: "Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera."
Word: cull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil. Pronunciation: /kʌl/, /kʊl/ 1. A selection. 2. An organized killing of selected animals. Example: It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather. 3. An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded. 4. A lobster having only one claw. 5. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
Word: cull Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of cully. Pronunciation: /kʌl/, /kʊl/ 1. A fool, gullible person; a dupe. Labels: dialectal, slang Example: Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat. 2. A man or boy. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see.
Word: decay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English decaien (“to decrease, diminish”) and decai (“deterioration, decline in value”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, etymologically restored form of Latin dēcidere (“to fall down, to fail, sink or perish”), from de- (“of, from, away, down”) + cadere (“to fall”). Compare decadent and decadence. Pronunciation: /dɪˈkeɪ/, /diˈkeɪ/ 1. Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: tooth decay/dental decay—wood-decay fungi—bacterial decay—photochemical decay Example: I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years. 2. Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: civic and moral decay—systemic decay—fall into decay—urban decay—arrested decay—memory decay Example: Although the best room of the inn, it had the melancholy aspect of grandeur in decay, and was much too vast for comfort. 3. Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: alpha decay—gamma decay—fission decay—decay chain 4. Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle. Labels: uncountable, usually 5. Continuous decrease of a quantity. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: exponential decay—decay rate—orbital decay—decay time—decay constant—time decay 6. Overthrow, destruction, ruin, death. Labels: obsolete, uncountable, usually Example: Let’s cheere our ſouldiers to incounter him, That grieuous image of ingratitude: That fiery thirſter after Soueraigntie: […] Reſolue my Lords and louing ſouldiers now, To ſaue your king and country from decay: 7. Array decay. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: decay Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English decaien (“to decrease, diminish”) and decai (“deterioration, decline in value”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, etymologically restored form of Latin dēcidere (“to fall down, to fail, sink or perish”), from de- (“of, from, away, down”) + cadere (“to fall”). Compare decadent and decadence. Pronunciation: /dɪˈkeɪ/, /diˈkeɪ/ 1. To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. Labels: intransitive Example: The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street. Example: "The signalling at Salisbury has be replaced for safety reasons in the next handful of years. It's worn out. Last week, there was a signal cable issue near Tisbury that stopped proper running for four whole days. The system is decaying. 2. To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. Labels: intransitive 3. To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. Labels: intransitive 4. To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. Labels: intransitive Example: Damaged on lift-off, Skylab was left in orbit until its orbit decayed. 5. To rot, to go bad. Labels: intransitive Example: The cat's body decayed rapidly. Example: The largest tree known to us is at Syon (Plate 124), which in 1904 was no less than 60 feet in height by 7 feet in girth and still a fine tree, though its trunk is decaying inside. 6. To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Uranium decays to radium through a long series of steps with a cumulative half-life of 4.4 billion years. 7. To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon. Labels: intransitive, transitive 8. Loss of airspeed due to drag. Labels: intransitive 9. To cause to rot or deteriorate. Labels: transitive Example: The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years. Example: Infirmity, that decays the wise. 10. Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function. Labels: intransitive
Word: dawg Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɔːɡ/, /dɔɡ/, /dɑɡ/, /doːɡ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of dog. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: That dawg won't hunt. 2. Term of address for a close, usually male, friend. Labels: US, slang Example: Sup, dawg? Example: “Wow. What do you know? Huh. That was easy.” “Totes malotes, dawg.” “Just kind of hard to believe, you know?” “Believe it, Morty. And once again, I'm flying away with everything I can carry, and the Zigerions got nothing of mine.”
Word: autodidact Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοδίδακτος (autodídaktos), from αὐτός (autós, “self”) + διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach”). By surface analysis, auto- + didact. Pronunciation: /ˌɔːtoʊˈdaɪdækt/ 1. A self-taught person. Example: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest autodidacts. Example: For an autodidact, for somebody who plays by ear like me, the ukulele is ideal.
Word: quahaug Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of quahog (“edible hard-shell clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, used in chowders”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: quahaug Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of quahog. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated
Word: spaug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Irish spág (“the paw, limb or claw of an animal”), transferred to humans as pejorative or for club-foot. Pronunciation: /spɔːɡ/ 1. A foot. Labels: derogatory Example: Taking off his flat spaugs and the walk.
Word: chillin' Part of Speech: verb 1. Pronunciation spelling of chilling. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: CORBA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Common Object Request Broker Architecture. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: bodark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bois d'arc. Pronunciation: /ˈboʊˌdɑɹk/ 1. The Osage orange tree or its wood. Labels: Canada, US Example: It was a bo’dark sapling I had found in my travels.
Word: cumball Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cum + ball. 1. A ball or wad of semen or vaginal fluid. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: Let him pump you good, and shoot a fucking hot cumball in your guts. You fucking pieces of shit. Example: 17:15 supper and short time of newspaper reading (cumball blast down the throat and read the weekly […] 2. Fuckwad, a term of contempt. Labels: broadly, derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: >Go away, cumball, your presence is not needed here. Cumball? What's next? Cuntball? Fuckball? Seriously, your *ball insults are getting boring. Example: Believe what you want to cumball, the fact is you know jack shit about me, >but i know more then enuff about you, so […]
Word: hedge tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Referring to its use as barrier vegetation on the Great Plains of the US. 1. The Osage orange tree.
Word: hedgeapple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hedge + apple. 1. The fruit of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera), also known as the hedge tree.
Word: hedge apple Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hedgeapple. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Osage orange Part of Speech: noun 1. The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States. 2. The fruit of this tree.
Word: Great Plains Part of Speech: name 1. The relatively flat region of United States and Canada consisting of grasslands east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi, from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in the north, to Texas in the south.
Word: fisking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after journalist Robert Fisk (for the surname, see Fisk). Originated in the blogosphere. 1. A rebuttal to an article or blog made by quoting its content in sections and refuting each section individually. Example: By 2004 the word fisking had broken its tether from the topic of war and was being used to mean any detailed analysis of another's speech and writing. Example: As Linda Seebach put it, fisking is "line by line exegesis of idiocy," named after "journalist Robert Fisk, who often deserves it." Fisking is now a widely practiced technique.
Word: puro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish puro, shortened from cigarro puro. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊəɹəʊ/ 1. A cigar, especially one made with tobacco from a single country.
Word: nautical mile Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of length corresponding approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. By international agreement it is exactly 1,852 metres (approximately 6,076 feet or 1.151 statute mile). Example: Near-synonym: geographical mile (very close to the same distance) Example: Personnel trenches have been constructed or improved in Tantung (40-05-50N 124-21-30E) and along roads 13 nautical miles (nm) south-southwest of Tantung and 1.5 nm west of the border (Figures 2 and 3). 2. Synonym of sea mile, a historical Scandinavian unit of distance equal to about 4 nmi. Labels: historical
Word: orthogonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French orthogonal, in turn from Medieval Latin orthogōnālis and Latin orthogōnius (“right-angled”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios, “rectangular”). By surface analysis, ortho- + -gon + -al. Pronunciation: /ɔːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/, /ɔɹˈθɑ.ɡə.nəl/, /ɔɹˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/, /oːˈθɔɡ.ə.nəl/, /oːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/ 1. Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other. Labels: not-comparable Example: A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal. 2. Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular. Labels: not-comparable Example: The normal vector and tangent vector at a given point are orthogonal. 3. Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse. Labels: not-comparable 4. Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles. Labels: not-comparable 5. Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal. Labels: not-comparable 6. Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other. Labels: not-comparable 7. Statistically independent, with reference to variates. Labels: not-comparable 8. Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability. Labels: not-comparable Example: The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery. Example: An orthogonal approach also promotes reuse. If components have specific, well-defined responsibilities, they can be combined with new components in ways that were not envisioned by their original implementors. 9. Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other. Labels: not-comparable Example: Even in a geostate, some people are willing to fight and die for their views, but the institutional change to a polystate seems somewhat orthogonal to such issues.
Word: orthogonal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French orthogonal, in turn from Medieval Latin orthogōnālis and Latin orthogōnius (“right-angled”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios, “rectangular”). By surface analysis, ortho- + -gon + -al. Pronunciation: /ɔːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/, /ɔɹˈθɑ.ɡə.nəl/, /ɔɹˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/, /oːˈθɔɡ.ə.nəl/, /oːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl/ 1. An orthogonal line. Example: All of the orthogonals in this painting display an understanding of linear perspective.
Word: emo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of emotional. Compound emocore first attested in 1986. Word emo first attested in 1988. Generally used as an umbrella term. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.moʊ/ 1. Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 3. Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional; a broadly encompassing genre of rock music characterized by expressive, often confessional lyrics. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise. Labels: countable 6. An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise. Labels: countable 8. An individual presenting as such, intentionally or otherwise. Labels: broadly, countable, derogatory
Word: emo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of emotional. Compound emocore first attested in 1986. Word emo first attested in 1988. Generally used as an umbrella term. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.moʊ/ 1. Associated with youth subcultures which are associated with the above-mentioned musical genre(s) and with emotional sensitivity. Example: The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo. Example: Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time. 2. Emotional, sensitive, or contemplative; regardless of musical preference or subcultural affiliation. Labels: broadly, derogatory, informal, often 3. Depressed. Labels: broadly, informal Example: Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it. 4. Exhibiting a fashion or visual aesthetic associated with the subculture; a presentation deliberately or unintentionally incorporating dark clothing, asymmetrical haircuts covering one eye, studded accessories, and often borrowing elements from gothic fashion, Burtonesque macabre, or brightly colored scene or geek aesthetics. Example: Hot Topic is historically recognized as the go-to mall emo store, particularly during the 2000s, serving as a primary hub for alternative, scene, and punk fashion, music merch, and accessories like studded belts.
Word: pleasaunce Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈplɛz(ə)ns/ 1. Alternative form of pleasance. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Example: No maid will talk / Of sitting on my tomb, until the leaves, / Grown big upon the bushes of the walk, / East of the Palace-pleasaunce, make it hard / To see the minster therefrom […] Example: And he looked in the mirror, and, seeing his own face, he gave a great cry and woke, and the bright sunlight was streaming into the room, and from the trees of the garden and pleasaunce the birds were singing.
Word: theocracy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From theo- + -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek θεοκρατία (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the ancient Israelite polity under the Mosaic covenant. Attested in English from the 1620s, first by John Donne in A Sermon upon the fifth of November 1622. being the Anniversary celebration of our Deliverance from the Powder Treason: "The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God..." Pronunciation: /θiːˈɒkɹəsi/ 1. Government under the control of a state religion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: clericocracy Example: Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama prior to Chinese annexation. 2. Rule by a god. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.
Word: niggardly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English niggard Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English niggardly From niggard + -ly (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈnɪɡədli/, /ˈnɪɡɚdli/ 1. Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly. Example: [W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Example: They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest. 2. Conceding few runs (of a bowler).
Word: niggardly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English niggard Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English niggardly From niggard + -ly (adverbial suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈnɪɡədli/, /ˈnɪɡɚdli/ 1. In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily. Labels: archaic Example: because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little […].