nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: haiku Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku), from Middle Chinese 俳 (beaj, “paralleled [writing]”) + 句 (kɨoᴴ, “line”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪkuː/, /haɪˈku/, /ˈhaɪku/ 1. A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. Example: Some of the results resemble haikus. 2. A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme. Example: Haiku, a poem Example: five beats, then seven, then five
Word: halide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hal(ogen) Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idusder. English -ide English halide From hal(ogen) + -ide. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪ.laɪd/, /ˈhæl.aɪd/ 1. Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid). Example: sulfur halides such as disulfur dichloride 2. Any salt of any halogen acid (such as hydrochloric acid, hydrofluoric acid, or hydroiodic acid). Labels: especially Example: Potassium iodide is a halide. 3. The anionic form of a halogen atom (a group 17 element). Example: Iodide is a halide. 4. A metal halide lamp. Labels: informal Example: One word on halides; They may be more expensive to set up, but they are far brighter than tubes, illuminate a larger growing area, and are much cheaper to run in the long run in terms of the light ouput you get/ unit of electricity consumed.. also an advantage for taller trees, or anything over 10 " tall.. Example: Yes, heating is a problem with basically any reef set-up in the summer in a non-ACed house, and halides make it worse.
Word: halite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”), + -ite. Pronunciation: /ˈhæl.aɪt/, /ˈheɪ.laɪt/ 1. Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The surface of halite was always sort of trippy, he thought, like a hallucinogen. 2. An oxyanion containing a halogen in the +3 oxidation state. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: halmas Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hallowmas. 1. The feast of All Saints' Day.
Word: hamal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَمَّال (ḥammāl, “porter”). Pronunciation: /həˈmɒl/, /həˈmɔːl/ 1. A porter in Turkey and nearby countries.
Word: hansel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of handsel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hansel Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of handsel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”). The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”). Pronunciation: /hæp/ 1. A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate. Labels: archaic, uncountable 2. A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event. Labels: archaic, countable Example: Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps, and do not make despair / For all these certain blows the surest shield. Example: And whether art it were, or heedless hap, / As through the flowring forest rash she fled, / In her rude hairs sweet flowres themselves did lap / And flourishing fresh leaves and blossoms did enwrap.
Word: hap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”). The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”). Pronunciation: /hæp/ 1. To happen; to befall; to chance. Labels: archaic, intransitive, literary Example: "But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,.... Example: "We must go there to retrieve it before the Krikkit robots find it, or who knows what may hap." 2. To happen to. Labels: archaic, literary, transitive Example: What meaneth June, to hap us every year.
Word: hap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of happening. Pronunciation: /hæp/ 1. Happenings; events; goings-on. Labels: archaic, in-plural, slang Example: Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?" Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"
Word: hap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Old English hap. Pronunciation: /hæp/ 1. A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm. Labels: Pennsylvania, Scotland, UK, Western, archaic
Word: hap Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Old English hap. Pronunciation: /hæp/ 1. To wrap, clothe. Labels: archaic, dialectal Example: Bless thy pretty heart! The bairn’s sick. Come wi’ me, and I’ll hap thee up somewhere. If thou wert a bit cleaner I’d put thee in my own bed, for the Lord’s sake. Example: The surgeon happed her up carefully.
Word: hap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis Pronunciation: /hæp/ 1. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini. Labels: archaic
Word: happed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hæpt/ 1. simple past and past participle of hap Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: happed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /hæpt/ 1. Wrapped; covered; cloaked. Labels: Scotland Example: All happed with flowers in the green wood were.
Word: harpy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie. Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹpi/, /ˈhɑːpi/ 1. A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds. Example: Both table and provisions vanish'd quite, With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. 2. A shrewish woman. Labels: derogatory Example: But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer[…] Example: […] Ed Miliband has yet to come up with a definition of “the squeezed middle” that excludes anyone, but you can bet your bottom dollar he has these laptop-wielding harpies in mind. 3. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner. Example: c. 1772, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury The harpies about me all pocket the pool. 4. Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja. 5. The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
Word: hasp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”). Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”). Pronunciation: /hɑːsp/, /hæsp/ 1. A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door. 2. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on. 3. Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 4. An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.
Word: hasp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English haspe, hespe, from Old English hæsp, hæpse (“hasp; clasp; fastening”), from Proto-West Germanic *haspijā, from Proto-Germanic *haspijǭ, *hapsijǭ (“hasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kamb- (“to bend; crook”). Cognate with Middle Dutch haspe, Middle Low German haspe, hespe, German Low German Haspel (“spindle of yarn”), German Häspe, Danish haspe, Swedish hasp, Icelandic hespa (“clamp; hasp; skein of yarn”). Pronunciation: /hɑːsp/, /hæsp/ 1. To shut or fasten with a hasp, or as with a hasp. Labels: transitive Example: He is hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain, limping and looped in it.
Word: heaver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Germanic *habjaną Proto-West Germanic *habbjan Old English hebban Middle English heven English heave Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English heaver From heave + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈhiːvə(ɹ)/ 1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight. Example: a coal heaver 2. A bar used as a lever. Example: The spar snapping under them in the slings, as they sought, with heavers, to beat down the icy sail.
Word: hedger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hegger, equivalent to hedge + -er. 1. One who makes or mends hedges. Example: But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers? 2. One who hedges, for example in betting.
Word: heeler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English hele English heel English -er English heeler From heel + -er. 1. A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs. 2. A quick runner. Example: That a crowd of Sydney stealers, Jockeys, pugilists and spielers Brought some horses, real heelers, Came and put us through. 3. A dog that readily comes to heel. Example: If your dog is a good heeler, you'll find some competition in the obedience ring. 4. A dog used for cattle droving. Labels: Australia Example: [A] blue roan, a kind of dog that Jennifer had never seen before. She asked Tim what it was, and he said it was a "heeler", but when she pressed him to say if that was a breed or not, he could not tell her. It was a heeler because it went for the heels of the cattle and not their heads, apparently. 5. A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. Labels: US, dated, slang Example: The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. 6. The rodeo performer who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the header has turned it. 7. A student journalist at Yale University. Labels: US
Word: hetman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from Old High German houbitman, from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann. Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-. Doublet of head man. 1. A Cossack headman or general. 2. Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).
Word: hex Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛks/, [ˈhɛks] 1. To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. Labels: transitive
Word: hex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛks/, [ˈhɛks] 1. An evil spell or curse. 2. A witch. 3. A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). Labels: rare
Word: hex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for hexadecimal. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛks/, [ˈhɛks] 1. Clipping of hexadecimal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
Word: hex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for hexagon. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛks/, [ˈhɛks] 1. A hexagonal space on a game board. 2. a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
Word: hex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for hexafluoride. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛks/, [ˈhɛks] 1. Clipping of uranium hexafluoride. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: hexane Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs Proto-Hellenic *hwéks Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx) Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-)der. Latin hexa-der. English hexa- English hex- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānusder. English -ane English hexane From hex- + -ane. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛkseɪn/ 1. Any of five isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons, C₆H₁₄. They are colorless, volatile liquids. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: hexed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /hɛkst/ 1. Cursed; afflicted with bad luck.
Word: hexed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hɛkst/ 1. simple past and past participle of hex Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hilted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hilt + -ed. 1. Having a hilt. Labels: not-comparable Example: It was with a hilted knife maybe? I’m told, in the big world it’s bloody knives they use. Example: Then he became aware of a princely figure in a caftan of green sarcenet clasped about his loins by a long tongued belt from which hung a scimitar hilted in ivory and gold. 2. Having a hilt of a specified type. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: A steel-hilted sword, inlaid with gold, and decked with a knot of ribbon which fell down in a rich tassel, equipped his side […] Example: The grim-visaged pirate captain, in his laced cap, rich jacket, and short white knee-trunks, with heavy gold chains round his neck, and jewel-hilted dagger in belt, was a striking and characteristic feature of New York life at the close of the seventeenth century.
Word: hilted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hilt + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of hilt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hilum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hīlum (“a trifle; a spot on a seed”). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.ləm/ 1. The eye of a bean or other seed, or the center of that eye; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support. Example: The hilum is very prominent in some species and nearly flat in others. Example: On the tip of each corn kernel is a hilum, collectively known as the "black layer," where it is attached to the cob. While corn is growing, nutrients are being transferred from the rest of the cob to the kernels through the hilum. 2. The nucleus of a starch grain. Example: In central hilum starch grains the grain is laid down around the hilum in the form of concentric layers. 3. A depression or fissure through which ducts, nerves, or blood vessels enter and leave a gland or organ. Example: [The pancreas] is a hook-shaped gland, about 15 cm long, that lies transversely across the upper abdomen, with the head in the C-shaped curve of the duodenum[…], extending to the left as the body behind the stomach and ending as the tail lying against the hilum of the spleen. Example: The shadows of the hila on chest X-ray are mainly formed by the pulmonary arteries (PAs) and some of their main branches and the upper pulmonary veins (PVs).
Word: hoagie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Often suggested to derive from hog, either in reference to Hog Island, a site of shipyards that employed Italian immigrants (who were supposedly called hoggies and who supposedly packed these sandwiches for lunch), or in reference to pork as an ingredient. Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊ.ɡi/ 1. A sandwich made on a long Italian bread or Italian roll. Labels: Mid-Atlantic, Pennsylvania, US Example: I'm going to Wawa to get a hoagie for lunch. Do any of yuhz want anything?
Word: hoagie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. 1. A tortilla or chapati wrap filled with meat (usually doner kebab meat; seasoned lamb or mutton), chips and cheese. Labels: Scotland Example: Known as a "hoagie", the combination of chips, doner kebab meat and cheese - which contains 136g of fat and 1224 calories - has been identified as the unhealthiest fastfood meal served to pupils in a recent survey. Example: Many of my early paychecks from waitressing at 15 were spent on hoagies; fat and sauce dripping down my chin as the beige delights in the wrap merged together to create a wrong-but-right finished product.
Word: hoagy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hoagie. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: hob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Related to hub, but the ultimate origin of both words is obscure. Pronunciation: /hɑb/, /hɒb/ 1. A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear. 2. The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. Labels: historical Example: They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons. 3. The top cooking surface on a cooker. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), usually called rings. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob, finally boil. 4. A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits. 5. A male ferret. 6. The hub of a wheel. Example: August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress the wheels of the carriages sinking up to the hobs rendered it impossible for our whole force to drag them.
Word: hob Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Related to hub, but the ultimate origin of both words is obscure. Pronunciation: /hɑb/, /hɒb/ 1. To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob. Labels: transitive 2. To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob. Labels: intransitive
Word: hob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Hob (a diminutive of Robin, an Old French [Term?] diminutive of Robert), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare hobgoblin; see robin. Pronunciation: /hɑb/, /hɒb/ 1. A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey. Labels: obsolete Example: From elves, hobs, and fairies, […] Defend us, good Heaven! 2. A countryman; a rustic or yokel. Labels: obsolete Example: More fitter for the Country Hobs.
Word: hock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of hockamore, from German. Pronunciation: /hɒk/, /hɑk/ 1. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer. Example: The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand for it in a beer-drinking community.
Word: hock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-. See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”). 1. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog. Labels: countable Example: Anyway, you only have one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks. 2. Meat from that part of a food animal. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The hollow behind the knee. Labels: countable
Word: hock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-. See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”). 1. To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. Labels: transitive
Word: hock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the phrase in hock, circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). Compare also Middle English hukken (“to sell; peddle; sell at auction”), see huck. 1. To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Agent Beeman (Noah Emmerich): I think we got him. / Special Agent Gaad (Richard Thomas): Who? / Agent Beeman: I-I-I don't know. The guy who killed Chris, the--the Russians, the whole damn thing maybe. / Special Agent Gaad: You want to sit down? / Agent Beeman: The guy from the salvage yard who hocked the ring, and he does business with some riffraff from the projects.
Word: hock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the phrase in hock, circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). Compare also Middle English hukken (“to sell; peddle; sell at auction”), see huck. 1. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop. Example: But Ford Motor Co. needs another agency, either Standard & Poor's or Moody's, to make the same upgrade before it can get its blue oval logo, factories and other assets out of hock. 2. Debt. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: They were in hock to the bank for $35 million. 3. Installment purchase. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed. 4. Prison. Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: hock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yiddish האַק (hak), imperative singular form of האַקן (hakn, “to knock”), from the idiomatic expression האַק מיר נישט קיין טשײַניק (hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik, “don't knock a teakettle at me”). 1. To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly. Labels: US, informal
Word: hock Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably imitative (a variant form of hawk (“cough”)), like hack (“cough”), although see that entry for more. 1. Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal
Word: hock Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably imitative (a variant form of hawk (“cough”)), like hack (“cough”), although see that entry for more. 1. Alternative form of hawk (“cough”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal Example: One or two coughs signified 1 or 2. Clearing a throat meant 3. A loud hock was 4 and a loud sneeze or spit indicated 5. The new system gained favor. Jerry figured the guards must have thought the POWs were near death given the volume of bodily noise coming from Alcatraz. Example: […] said with another cough and a loud hock.
Word: hock Part of Speech: noun 1. The last card turned up in the game of faro. Labels: informal
Word: hod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Scots hod (“to jog along on horseback”), probably related to hotch (“(verb) to move up and down jerkily, bob; to jog along on horseback; to hop like a frog; to fidget; to shrug; to heave with laughter; to cause to move jerkily; to shift in a sitting position to make room for others; to be overrun with; to swarm; (figuratively) to be angry; (noun) a jerk, jolt; a shrug; a fidget, twitch; a swarm of vermin; large, ungainly woman; untidy woman (figuratively) a hostile encounter, clash; state of disorder and filth, mess”) (whence English hotch (“to move irregularly up and down; to swarm”) (chiefly Scotland)), from Late Middle English hotchen (“to move jerkily, jolt; to attack (someone) (?)”), from Anglo-Norman hocher (“to shake (something) to and fro, jostle; to attack”) and Middle French hocher, Middle French, Old French hochier (“to shake (something) to and fro, jostle; to be unstable or wobbly, shake”) (modern French hocher (“to nod the head”)), from Frankish *hotsōn, *hottisōn, from *hottōn (“to shake; to toss”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hud- (“to shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ket- or *kwēt- (“to rock back and forth; to shake”), probably originally onomatopoeic. Compare Scots hotter (“(verb) to move in a jerky, uneven manner; to jolt; to shake; to walk unsteadily, totter; to shiver, shudder; to shake (with laughter); of liquid, etc.: to boil, bubble, seethe, sputter; to crowd, swarm; (noun) jolting or shaking; rattling sound; bubbling of boiling liquid; a shake, shiver; crowd, seething mass; motion or noise of such a crowd; jumbled heap”)). Cognates * Middle Dutch hutsen (modern Dutch hutsen (“to jog, jolt; to shake”)), Middle Dutch hotsen (modern Dutch hotsen, hossen (“to shake or swing to and fro; to run quickly”)) * German hotzen (“to shake or swing to and fro; to run quickly”) (Southern Germany) * Low German hūdern (“to shake; to shudder”) * Middle High German hozzen (“act of swinging someone to and fro to punish them (?)”) * Old English hūdenian (“to rock back and forth, shake, sway”) Pronunciation: /hɒd/, /hɑd/ 1. To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog. Labels: Scotland, intransitive, obsolete Example: To have caught young wild ducks—a dozen— / So we "hodded" them in a hat to town, / To get them "pot-luck"—at least a "shake down," / With some tame, domestic cousin. Example: They hodded off the furniture, moth-eaten, cracked, and old, / For iron old the swords and helms and dish-covers they sold; […]
Word: hod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably an alteration of hot (“(Northern England, Scotland) large basket for carrying earth, etc.”), from Middle English hott, hote, hotte (“large basket or pannier for carrying earth, etc.; unit of measure for grain; hut or shed (perhaps originally of wattlework); lump of dirt (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Old French hote, hotte (“large basket carried on the back”) (modern French hotte (“carrying basket”)), from Frankish *hotta (“basket”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *hud- (“to shake”) (see further at etymology 1), ultimately an onomatopoeia of the swaying movement of such a basket (compare Middle Dutch hotten (“to jolt; shake”)). Cognates German Hotte (“wooden basket carried on the back; (specifically) basket for collecting grapes from a vineyard”) (Rhineland, Swabia), Hutte (“basket for collecting grapes from a vineyard”) (Alsace, Switzerland) Late Latin hotta, hottus (“hod”) Pronunciation: /hɒd/, /hɑd/ 1. A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder. Example: Oiſeau: […] a Hodd; the Tray vvherein Maſons, &c, carrie their Mortar. Example: And then Arthur and I, we soon drew our hods / And we scarce gave them time for to draw their own blades / When a trusty shillelagh came over their heads / And bade them take that as fair warning. 2. The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful. Example: [T]he women do the hardest work—carry hods of mortar, unload vessels, drive oxen, &c. … 3. A blowpipe used by a pewterer. Example: The pewterers employ a very peculiar modification of the blowpipe, which may be called the hot-air blast, and the names for which apparatus are no less peculiar; a fig. 313, being called the hod, and b, the gentleman. The first is a common cast-iron pot with a close cover, containing ignited charcoal; two nozzles lead into and from it, to allow the passage of a stream of air, through the pipe c, from bellows worked by the foot. 4. A bookmaker's bag. Example: 'Clerking' is perhaps the most difficult and most admired job on a racecourse. The next time you see a bookmaker at his hod, waving his ticket-filled hands, shouting the odds, look to his left, just back a bit—out of the limelight. The bloke sitting there with his head buried deep in a ledger is the clerk. 5. A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox. Labels: US, dialectal Example: […] Fanny, forgetful of her young-ladyism and her sixteen years, had boxed Tom's ears, and Tom, resenting the insult, had forcibly seated her in the coal-hod, where he held her with one hand while he returned the compliment with the other. Example: My friend comes home and finds his dressing-gown and slippers in front of the fire. He is tired and cross, and doesn't want to sling ashes nor bang a coal-hod. But the sight of the fire makes him feel better at once, and if there be no fire, there are no ashes.
Word: hogan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Navajo hooghan (“dwelling, house”). Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊ.ɡən/ 1. A one-room Native American (especially Navajo) dwelling or lodge, constructed of wood and earth and covered with mud. Example: The wives of warriors were under strict instructions not to leave their hogans until the men had returned, hopefully successful, from their martial adventures abroad […].
Word: hogger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hog + -er. 1. One who, or that which, hogs. Example: Against these heroes are the puritans, the hoggers of profit, the shysters, the obfuscators, the do-nothings. 2. A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work. 3. A marijuana cigarette. Labels: slang 4. A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play. 5. The engineer of a locomotive. Labels: slang Example: Twenty- five demerit marks would make most hoggers sit up and take notice ; but not Jones. Example: What had happened was this : A yardgoat crew had gone into this lead and left the gate wide open, and neither the hogger nor the fire boy on the passenger saw this open switch right in broad daylight.
Word: holm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English holm, holme, from Old English holm (“wave, ocean, water, sea, islet”) and Old Norse holmr, holmi (“islet”), both from the Proto-Germanic *hulmaz (“rising ground, hill, island”), from Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill”). Cognate with Old Saxon holm, Middle Low German holm, German Holm, Middle Dutch holm, Danish holm, Swedish holme, Norwegian Bokmål holme, Icelandic hólmur. Pronunciation: /həʊm/, /həʊlm/, /hoʊm/, /hoʊlm/ 1. Small island, islet. 2. An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. 3. Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet, often in Norse-influenced place-names. Labels: Orkney, Scotland, dialectal 4. Rich flat land near a river, prone to flooding. Example: A Brownie once lived with Maxwell, Laird of Dalswinton, and was particularly attached to the Laird's daughter, the comeliest lass in all the holms of Nithsdale.
Word: holm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English holm, holme, alteration of Middle English holin (“holly”). Doublet of hollin and holly. Pronunciation: /həʊm/, /həʊlm/, /hoʊm/, /hoʊlm/ 1. Common holly (Ilex aquifolium). Example: The fruitfull Oliue, and the Platane round, / The caruer Holme, the Maple, ſeeldom inward ſound. 2. A holm oak (Quercus ilex), a common evergreen oak of Europe.
Word: holt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), perhaps corresponding to a root noun *kél(h₂)d ~ *kól(h₂)d ~ *kl̥(h₂)d- (literally “chopped (wood)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-, *kleh₂- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol (“stake”), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout. See also clade and cladus, possible doublets via Proto-Indo-European. Pronunciation: /hɒlt/, /həʊlt/, /hoʊlt/ 1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse. Example: As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; Example: [the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger. 2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter. Example: Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.
Word: hone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)). Pronunciation: /hoʊn/, /həʊn/ 1. A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. 2. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
Word: hone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)). Pronunciation: /hoʊn/, /həʊn/ 1. To sharpen with a hone; to whet. Labels: transitive 2. To use a hone to produce a precision bore. Labels: transitive 3. To refine (a skill especially) by learning. Labels: transitive Example: He also honed the procedure known as cut and fill - whereby the spoil from railway cuttings was used to build up embankments. Example: Huh? Training in your room under the torchlight / Hone that form to get you ready for the big fight 4. To make more acute, intense, or effective.
Word: hone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot. Pronunciation: /hoʊn/, /həʊn/ 1. A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Word: hone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”). Pronunciation: /hoʊn/, /həʊn/ 1. To grumble. Labels: Southern-US, UK, US, dialectal, intransitive Example: Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes, 2. To pine, lament, or long. Labels: Southern-US, UK, US, dialectal Example: He lies pitying himself, honing and moaning to himself
Word: hone Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /hoʊn/, /həʊn/ 1. Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief Example: Oh, hone! oh, hone! miserable wretch that I am! Do ye mak confession for me, Sir, and I'll say 't after you, as weel as I dow. Oh, hone! oh, hone!
Word: hooper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hoop Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English hooper From hoop (“to whoop, cry out”) + -er. Pronunciation: /huːpəɹ/, /huːpɚ/, /hʊpɚ/ 1. The European whistling, or wild, swan (Cygnus cygnus).
Word: hooper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hoper, hoopere, hopere, perhaps from Old English *hōpere (“hooper”), equivalent to hoop + -er. Pronunciation: /huːpəɹ/, /huːpɚ/, /hʊpɚ/ 1. One who applies hoops to casks or tubs. 2. One who hula hoops. 3. A basketball player. Labels: informal
Word: hopple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hop; compare hobble. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒpəl/ 1. A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze. Labels: in-plural
Word: hopple Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hop; compare hobble. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒpəl/ 1. To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. Labels: transitive 2. To entangle; to hamper. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: consider how we have such Faculties in us, as the Soul finds hoppled and fettered, clouded and obscured by her fatal residence in this prison of the Body
Word: hosier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hosiere; equivalent to hose + -ier. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈhəʊ.ʒɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈhəʊ.zə(ɹ)/, /ˈhəʊ.zɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈhoʊ.ʒɚ/ 1. One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose. Example: William Blake's father was a hosier. Example: Haberdasher and hosier. Each of those trades merge in the other, occasionally;..our Hosiers seldom confine their dealings to the wares which clothe our legs.
Word: hove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from Proto-Germanic *hufōną (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”). Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel. Pronunciation: /həʊv/, /hoʊv/ 1. To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before[…]. 2. To wait, linger. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes 3. To move on or by. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 4. To remain; delay. Labels: dialectal, intransitive 5. To remain stationary (usually on horseback). Labels: dialectal, intransitive
Word: hove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven (“to heave”)). More at heave. Pronunciation: /həʊv/, /hoʊv/ 1. To raise; lift; hold up. Labels: dialectal, transitive 2. To rise. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue. Example: There was nothing else to do, and he was doing it to the best of his ability - having, in fact, fallen into a trance of admiration before a large meerschaum - when MacQuibble hove in sight on his way to the Life Class at the Gallery.
Word: hove Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /həʊv/, /hoʊv/ 1. simple past and past participle of heave Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past and past participle of heave Labels: dialectal, form-of, obsolete, participle, past Example: Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him. Example: ‘An’ th’ dumblasted rascal hed to go an’ git gay wi’ June. Dick turned to an’ hammered seven hells out o’ his mug an’ hove him out on deck—’
Word: hoy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from German Heu or Dutch gooi. Pronunciation: /hɔɪ/ 1. A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Example: He sent to Germanie, straunge aid to reare, From whence eftsoones arriued here three hoyes Of Saxons, whom he for his safetie imployes. Example: Per packet per Hoy.
Word: hoy Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy. Pronunciation: /hɔɪ/ 1. Hey! ho!, hallo!, stop!
Word: hoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch hoi, compare ahoy. Pronunciation: /hɔɪ/ 1. To incite; to drive onward. Labels: transitive
Word: hoy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps related to hoick and hoist. Pronunciation: /hɔɪ/ 1. To throw. Labels: Australia, Northumbria Example: They grab his duds and his picks as well. They hoy him down to the pit of hell. Down you go and fare ye well. You dirty blackleg miner.
Word: hub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop. Pronunciation: /hʌb/, /hʊb/ 1. The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. Example: If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool. 2. A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted. Example: Hong Kong International Airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia. Example: From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka's capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India's southern tip. 3. A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub. 4. A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch. 5. A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point. 6. A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack. 7. A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction. Labels: US Example: a hub in the road 8. An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed. Example: In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area. 9. A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown. 10. A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc. 11. A screw hob. 12. A block for scotching a wheel.
Word: hub Part of Speech: name Etymology: From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop. Pronunciation: /hʌb/, /hʊb/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Hub. Labels: alt-of
Word: hubris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”). Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːbɹɪs/, /ˈhjubɹɪs/, /ˈhjʉːbɹɪs/, /ˈhjʉːbɹəs/ 1. Excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally (Greek mythology) toward the gods; a feeling of overwhelming and all-encompassing pride. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Antitrust prosecutors target big companies that exude hubris. Example: One would have thought that even Trump, despite all his hubris and egotism, would know better than to jump feet first into America’s most sensitive issue: racial division.
Word: huck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick. Pronunciation: /hʌk/, /hʊk/ 1. To throw or chuck. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face. Example: So I came up with this plan for Blooey to hit that weak spot! All you, man,!" I said. I waited for a pause in the statue's movements and hucked Blooey up there! And bull's-eye! 2. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop. 3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill. 4. To throw a frisbee a long distance. Labels: transitive 5. To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw. Labels: intransitive 6. To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly. Example: A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff. Example: If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet. 7. To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way. 8. To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop. Labels: transitive Example: I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.
Word: huck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick. Pronunciation: /hʌk/, /hʊk/ 1. A long throw, generally at least half a field in length. 2. A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
Word: huck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”). Pronunciation: /hʌk/, /hʊk/ 1. A person's hip. Labels: dialectal
Word: huck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”). Pronunciation: /hʌk/, /hʊk/ 1. To haggle in trading. Labels: dated
Word: huck Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hʌk/, /hʊk/ 1. Alternative form of huq. Labels: alt-of, alternative