nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: marmoreal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin marmoreus (“of, pertaining to, consisting of or made of marble; resembling marble; adorned with statues”) + English -al (suffix forming adjectives). Marmoreus is derived from marmor (“block or piece of marble; marble building or statue”) (from Ancient Greek μάρμᾰρος (mármăros, “marble”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). By surface analysis, Latin marmor + -eal. Pronunciation: /mɑːˈmɔː.ɹɪ.əl/, /mɑɹˈmo.ɹi.əl/ 1. Resembling marble or a marble statue; cold, smooth, white, etc.; marblelike. Labels: literary Example: How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those vvarm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over vvhich Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round vvith golden hair. Example: [T]he green / And glancing shadows of the sea did play / O'er its marmoreal depth: […] 2. Made out of marble. Labels: literary, obsolete Example: But each night as he stood on that high marble terrace with the curious urns and carven rail and looked off over that hushed sunset of beauty and unearthly immanance he felt the bondage of dream's tyrannous gods; for in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend the wide marmoreal flights flung endlessly down to where those streets of elder witchery lay outspread and beckoning.
Word: martel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English martel, from Old French martel m (modern French marteau m), from Late Latin martellus m, from Latin martulus m, a variant of marculus m (“small hammer”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːtəl/ 1. A hammer, especially a war hammer.
Word: martel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English martel, from Old French martel m (modern French marteau m), from Late Latin martellus m, from Latin martulus m, a variant of marculus m (“small hammer”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːtəl/ 1. To strike a blow with, or as with, a hammer. Labels: obsolete Example: Her dreadfull weapon she to him addrest, Which on his helmet martelled so hard That made him low incline his lofty crest, And bowd his battred visour to his brest
Word: revers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse. 1. A lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side.
Word: revers Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse. 1. plural of rever Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mastupration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alternate form of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”). Some theorists disagree, saying that this is the original word and that masturbate is the derivative. Pronunciation: /mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Masturbation. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars. Example: She had caught him at the age of twelve in the act of mastupration. Unseemly, unroman, Greekish, Jewish. Well, in a sense he had done nothing but mastuprate since taking the purple.
Word: mathesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mathesis, Middle French mathesie, and their source, Late Latin mathesis (“astrology, liberal arts, science”), from Ancient Greek μάθησις (máthēsis, “learning”), from the same base as μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”). Pronunciation: /məˈθiːsɪs/, /ˈmaθəsɪs/ 1. Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides. 2. The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]
Word: refrigeration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin refrigero. Morphologically refrigerate + -ion. 1. The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The process of preserving something by cooling. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mavourneen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Hiberno-English, from Irish mo mhuirnín (“my darling”) (diminutive of muirn (“affection”)). Pronunciation: /məˈvʊəniːn/, /məˈvɔːniːn/, /məˈvʊɹniːn/, /məˈvɝniːn/, /məˈvuːɹniːn/ 1. darling, sweetheart Labels: Ireland Example: 1850 (approx.), Anonymous, Finnegan's Wake Biddy O'Brien began to cry "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see? "Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?" "Ah, shut your gob," said Paddy McGee!
Word: mavrodaphne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Greek μαυροδάφνη (mavrodáfni), from Medieval Greek μαῦρος (maûros, “dark”) + δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”) (see also Daphne). Pronunciation: /mævɹəˈdæfni/ 1. A dark sweet Greek red wine. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: SALTSA MAVRODAPHNI [Sweet mavrodaphne wine sauce] A wonderful use of the superb mavrodaphne wine, very new, very Athenian. Example: Silently, in the widow's position of honor at the head of the table, she picked at her whitefish and drank her glass of Mavrodaphne, but her thoughts were as obscured to me as her face behind her black veil. 2. A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: He^([Gustav Clauss]) established vineyards in the area, using local grapes, especially the “black grape of Dafne,” mavrodaphne. He created the sweet style of mavrodaphne known today.
Word: mavrone Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Anglo-Irish, from Irish mo bhrón, from mo (“my”) + brón (“grief”). Pronunciation: /məˈvɹəʊn/ 1. An expression of sorrow; alas. Labels: Ireland Example: ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’ Example: And we to be there, mavrone, and you to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way we to have our tongues out a yard long like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a pussfull.
Word: cognomen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cognōmen, from con- (“with”) + nōmen (“name; family name”). Pronunciation: /kɒɡˈnoʊ.mən/ 1. A personal epithet or clan name added to the given name and family name of Ancient Romans. Labels: historical Example: Julius Caesar's actual name was Gaius Iulius Caesar. Gaius was his praenomen or forename, Iulius his nomen or surname, and Caesar his cognomen, denoting which part of the Iulius family he belonged to. Example: "Five hundred years or more afterwards, the family migrated to Rome under circumstances of which no trace remains, and here, probably with the idea of preserving the idea of vengeance which we find set out in the name of Tisisthenes, they appear to have pretty regularly assumed the cognomen of Vindex, or Avenger." 2. Synonym of nickname, any epithet used similar to the Roman cognomina. Labels: humorous, literary Example: In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow[…]. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. Example: Her husband was evidently a sensible man, and he might have given his wife a little more sense than she could have derived from her downright father and her silly mother-in-law, who were really as great a pair of noodles as ever were exhibited in the pages of a modern novel, under the cognomen of "amiable rustics." 3. Synonym of surname, a family name. Labels: humorous, literary, uncommon Example: What's in a name? Well, to the Dragons, it would seem rather a lot, as they've tonight committed their cash to personalised products and to the man with the most famous cognomen in confectionery. I'll leave you to look that one up.
Word: medulla Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”). Pronunciation: /məˈdʌlə/, /mɛˈdʌlə/, /məˈdulə/ 1. The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit. 2. The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones. 3. The medulla oblongata. 4. The internal tissue of a plant.
Word: megillah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hebrew מגילה / מְגִלָּה (m'gilá, “scroll”). Doublet of magilla. Pronunciation: /məˈɡɪlə/ 1. Any of the Five Scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther) Labels: Judaism Example: Song of Songs, one of the five Megillot ("Scrolls") of Ketuvim ("Writings") recited either before or after Minhah on the eve of every Sabbath, after the Seder on Passover, and publicly in the synagogue in the Ashkenazic tradition. 2. The Book of Esther. Labels: Judaism, specifically
Word: megillah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See the entry at magilla. Pronunciation: /məˈɡɪlə/ 1. Alternative spelling of magilla. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Actually, a monetary policy maker would probably be okay with the whole “improved credibility” megillah, since it flatters their self-image.
Word: mehmandar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Persian مهماندار (mehmândâr); compound of مهمان (mehmân, “guest”) and ـدار (-dâr, “keeper, holder, one who has”). Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪməndɑː/ 1. An official courier appointed to escort an important traveller in Persian-speaking countries and the Indian subcontinent. Example: His mehmandar stood by, fresh as a clover from their walk, his arms crossed on his Aiantian chest.
Word: melleous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin melleus (“of, pertaining to or resembling honey”), from mel (“honey”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɛlɪəs/ 1. Pertaining to honey. Example: It was the left eye that had gone. She wore over the hollow a pad that matched her suit and also a melleous wig with a tress flowing down to her cheek.
Word: menhir Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *méǵh₂s Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂sder.? Proto-Celtic *maginos Proto-Brythonic *maɣɨnder. Breton maen Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ró-s Proto-Celtic *sīros Proto-Brythonic *hirder. Breton hir Breton maen-hirbor. French menhirbor. English menhir Either borrowed from French menhir, or from its etymon Breton maen-hir, compound of maen (“stone”) + hir (“long”). Compare with Welsh maen hir, and Cornish men hir. Pronunciation: /ˈmɛnhɪə/, /ˈmɛnˌ(h)ɪ(ə)ɹ/ 1. A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times. Example: Near-synonym: orthostat Example: [N]o time has passed since we lived in caves, grappled with fish at the reedy shore, buried our dead with a song, with red-ochre and pulled up our dolmens, temples and menhirs and standing stones to the glory of some indeterminate god or gods, […]
Word: gished Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Rhyming slang for pished, employing the name of the actress Lillian Gish. 1. drunk Labels: UK, slang
Word: menorah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מְנוֹרָה (m'norá). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as minaret. Pronunciation: /mɪˈnɔːɹə/ 1. A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem. Example: ‘Heathen muck,’ Liberalis said, as the pillaging began. The veil of the Temple was rent. The great menorah was taken away. 2. A candelabrum with nine branches, used in Jewish worship on Hanukkah. Example: My father brings home a big brass antique menorah, shaped like an archway, heavy, on a pedestal, on a round base. Example: In America every December my mother had decorated our home with metal Stars of David she hung on strings in the doorways and lit the menorah as we gathered at the table.
Word: TLPA Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Taiwanese-Language Phonetic Alphabet. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: mentula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mentula. 1. A penis. Example: He, watchman of gardens, keeps evil away with his mentula up, warding off blight and thieves, garlanded with figs and grapes.
Word: undergarment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + garment. Pronunciation: /ˈʌndəˌɡɑːmənt/, /ˈʌndɚˌɡɑɹmənt/ 1. Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear. Example: Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel? Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste. Example: In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts. 2. Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Labels: in-plural
Word: dishwasherable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English dishwasher Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English dishwasherable From dishwasher + -able. Pronunciation: /dɪʃˈwɒʃ(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/ 1. dishwasher safe; able to be placed safely in a dishwasher for cleaning Example: All the parts of the deep fryer are dishwasherable. Example: 1998, Vicky Larmour, in alt.newlywed http://groups.google.com/group/alt.newlywed/msg/7def73268c9f3338?dmode=source&hl=en I always assumed they weren't dishwasherable.
Word: messuage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English mesuage, messuage (“dwelling house, residence; farmstead; household”), from Anglo-Norman mesuage, messuage (“residence; holding”), probably from Late Latin mesuagium, messuagium, probably ultimately from Latin mānsiō (“abode, dwelling, habitation, home”) or its etymon mānsus (“having remained or stayed”), the perfect passive participle of maneō (“to abide; to remain, stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to remain, stay”). Cognates * Late Latin mansuagium * Old French masuage (“property rented on an annual basis”) Pronunciation: /ˈmɛswɪd͡ʒ/ 1. Originally, a plot of land as the site for a dwelling house and its appurtenant interests; now, a dwelling house or residential building together with its outbuildings and assigned land. Example: Dying intestate, Juan was sole heir / To a chancery suit, and messuages, and lands, / Which, with a long minority and care, / Promised to turn out well in proper hands: […] Example: And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Right and Title of the said Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, in and to all and singular the said Fiefs and Seigniories of the Island of Montreal, of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and of Saint Sulpice, and their several Dependencies, and in and to all Seigniorial and Feudal Rights, Privileges, Dues, and Duties arising out of and from the same, and in and to all and every the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, […] shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law; […]
Word: metastasis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis (“(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”), and from its etymons Koine Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”) and Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “change; removal; (medicine) movement of disease, pain, etc., from one part of the body to another”), from μετᾰ- (metă-, prefix denoting change in condition or position) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂) + στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs, “condition, state; position”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)), modelled after μεθιστάναι (methistánai, “to change; to remove”). By surface analysis, meta- + stasis. In reference to the spread of cancer, a semantic loan from French métastase, whose use to refer to it was coined in 1829 by the French gynecologist Joseph Récamier (1774–1852). The plural form metastases is a learned borrowing from Late Latin metastases. Pronunciation: /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/, /mɪˈtastəsɪs/, /məˈtæstəsəs/, /mɪˈtæstəsiːs/, /mɪˈtastəsɪjs/ 1. A change in nature, form, or quality. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her. 2. The spread of something harmful to another location, such as the metastasis of a cancer. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable 3. A sudden or rapid transition from one point, topic or argument to another, often to evade an uncomfortable subject or to redirect the discussion. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable 4. The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Among the hypothesized diagnoses was metastatic carcinoma. In metastatic cancer, metastases are most frequent in the axial skeleton and are rare in the distal parts of the appendicular skeleton[…].
Word: and counting Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to show that the number previously mentioned is continuously changing, i.e. increasing or decreasing. Labels: idiomatic Example: This online dictionary has 100,000 articles — and counting. Example: Hurry up: the train leaves in three minutes. No, two minutes and counting!
Word: prata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tamil பரோட்டா (parōṭṭā), related to Hindi पराठा (parāṭhā). Doublet of parotta and paratha. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɑːtɑː/ 1. Synonym of roti prata (a type fried flatbread that is cooked over a flat grill) Labels: Singapore, uncountable Example: The fact that these guys were cocky enough to not merely name this snack a perfectly acceptable prata and curry, but egg prata with fish curry, made us quite certain[…]. Example: A trio upset with a cook who had denied them free prata slashed him with a knife and left him with a deep wound.
Word: prata Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Tamil பரோட்டா (parōṭṭā), related to Hindi पराठा (parāṭhā). Doublet of parotta and paratha. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɑːtɑː/ 1. To change one's position repeatedly, vacillate, flip-flop (following the repeated flipping when making prata). Labels: Singapore, intransitive, slang, transitive Example: With all this roti-prataing still can trust not? Example: I have no issue with them flip-flopping, or in local parlance, roti-prataing. It's a fluid situation, which demands fluid solutions.
Word: counting number Part of Speech: noun 1. A number used when counting, which is usually a positive integer, but sometimes zero.
Word: countinghouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counting + house. 1. An office used by a business to house its accounts department. Labels: dated Example: […]they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.
Word: thoroughbred Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thorough + bred. 1. Bred from pure stock. 2. Well-bred and properly educated.
Word: thoroughbred Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thorough + bred. 1. Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”). Labels: alt-of Example: A CNN analysis of disciplinary records found that the top earning trainers in the sport – whose thoroughbreds win them millions of dollars – have all broken rules meant to keep their horses safe. Trainers slapped with violations have continued racing, pocketing winnings while paying minimal fines. […] During the 2018-2019 season, a staggering 56 horses died at one of the most glamorous racetracks in the country, Santa Anita Park, once home to the famous 1940s thoroughbred Seabiscuit. 2. Any purebred horse. Labels: broadly 3. A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse). Example: That athlete is a real thoroughbred. 4. A well-bred person.
Word: narcissistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English narcissist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English narcissistic From narcissist + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/, /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism. 2. Having an inflated idea of one's own importance. 3. Obsessed with one's own self image and ego. Example: Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling. Example: “When left to their own devices, people who are extremely narcissistic in this unhealthy way are not going to change,” said Dr. Malkin, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the research.
Word: narcissistic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English narcissist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English narcissistic From narcissist + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/, /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/ 1. A narcissist. Example: Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility.
Word: Thoroughbred Part of Speech: noun 1. A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book. Example: He wanted to be at the white-hot center of equine sport, to become a jockey, to be able to feel the thrust and power of a Thoroughbred in its ultimate competition: racing flat out, surging to the head of the herd.
Word: prefixed Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a (specified) prefix. 2. Added as a prefix.
Word: prefixed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of prefix Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: delicatessen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), at the time also spelt Delicatesse(n), from French délicatesse, from délicat (“fine”), from Latin delicatus (“alluring”). The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in delicatessen shop, delicatessen store, etc. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/ 1. A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
Word: delicatessen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), at the time also spelt Delicatesse(n), from French délicatesse, from délicat (“fine”), from Latin delicatus (“alluring”). The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in delicatessen shop, delicatessen store, etc. Pronunciation: /ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/ 1. Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: I shall have Royal Climax sausages every Tuesday and Saturday. Leave your orders early as there is a demand for these delicious delicatessen. J. W. Galloway. Example: A taxi, after mounting the sidewalk, had finished up with its radiator buried in a pile of delicatessen.
Word: throughway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From through + way. Compare thoroughway. 1. (Normally and officially spelled thruway) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare. Labels: US 2. An continuous, open passage, corridor, or pathway that allows people to walk or move directly from one point to another without obstruction. Labels: broadly, figuratively
Word: metheglin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann). Pronunciation: /mɪˈθɛɡlɪn/, /ˈmɛθəɡlɪn/, /mɛˈθɛɡlɪn/ 1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions. Example: But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.’ Reg admired the pure long high front vowel. Sack mead and sack metheglin. A scholarly man, tall and in leggings, his face a map of purple rivery veins, said: ‘Well, it’s the Welsh national drink, or was. Should properly be meddyglyn, liquor being llyn and meddyg from medicus, the healer'.
Word: deli Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛli/ 1. A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving. Labels: informal Example: Delis usually offer a broader, fresher menu than fast food chains. Example: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. 2. Food sold at a delicatessen. Labels: informal
Word: militates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of militate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Example: The fact that it is purple militates against it being a trout.
Word: throw down the gauntlet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the late medieval custom symbolizing a challenge, in French jeter le gant which nowadays usually means to give up after having tried hard (leaving the challenge to any takers). The English phrase dates to the 1540s (figurative use by the 18th century). 1. To issue a challenge. Labels: idiomatic Example: We might as well dispute with Dimock on a Coronation Day, as argue with these Writers. They strut, vapour, throw down the Gauntlet, and defy us to take it up.
Word: take up the gauntlet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See throw down the gauntlet. (Cf. French relever le gant) 1. To accept a challenge. Labels: idiomatic Example: He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway. Example: It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.
Word: throw away Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From throw + away. First attested in the late 14c. 1. To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash. Labels: transitive Example: He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn't find a trash can. Example: Don't throw the newspaper away, it goes in the recycle bin! 2. To waste, to squander. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away. Example: The team threw away its chance at the semifinals. 3. To intentionally throw an incomplete pass. Labels: slang 4. To give lightly, in an offhand manner. Labels: idiomatic Example: As Gilly plays sitcom wife, reading aloud from a book while Sam tries to read his own across the table, she throws away a line about someone named Maynard once having annulled the marriage of someone named Prince Raggar and remarrying him in the same ceremony in Dorne.
Word: mezuzah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From post-Biblical Hebrew מְזוּזָה (m'zuzá, məzûzâ, “doorpost”), with reference to Deuteronomy 6:9, a mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) ordering to “write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house”. Pronunciation: /məˈzʊzə/, /mɛ-/, /məˈzuːzə/, /məˈzuːzɔː/ 1. A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house. Example: On the other hand, one may feel profoundly moved with the spirit of true piety, love of God and loyalty to his commandments in the performance of a so-called "traditional commandment," like the fastening of a "mezuzah" to the door-post. Example: Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere . . . a spell against Marvy tonight, against Tchitcherine. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night. . . . 2. An object of similar function in the Samaritan tradition.
Word: throw-away Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from throw away. 1. Alternative form of throwaway. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: throw-away Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from throw away. 1. Alternative form of throwaway. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: throw back Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /θɹəʊ ˈbæk/, /θɹoʊ ˈbæk/ 1. To hinder the development of something. Labels: transitive 2. To revert to an earlier stage of development. Labels: intransitive Example: The Century A large proportion of the steerage passengers throw back to their Darwinian ancestry. 3. To retort. Labels: transitive Example: She jumped to her feet and began stalking away. “Going to cost me fifteen dollars to clean this outfit,” she threw back over her shoulder. 4. To drink quickly, especially alcoholic beverages. Labels: transitive Example: We threw back drinks until the next morning. Example: “He and I used to throw back beers every now and then when I was with the Bureau.” Shaw grinned arrogantly. 5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, back. Example: I threw back my head and laughed uproariously. Example: We caught several fish in the river but threw them back.
Word: throwback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from throw back. Pronunciation: /ˈθɹəʊ.bæk/, /ˈθɹoʊ.bæk/ 1. A reversion to an earlier stage of development. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You see, the House of Representatives recently passed a military budget that is wholly inadequate, a throwback to the seventies, a budget that is a breach of faith with our Armed Forces and our allies and would send exactly the wrong signal to the Soviets and their satellites. Example: The man from the future where technology makes all things possible is a throwback to our glorious industrial past, before America stagnated and stopped producing anything but rules, restrictions, limits, obstacles and Facebook. 2. A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. Labels: countable, derogatory, uncountable 3. An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An atavism. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "But this is marvellous. It might be his portrait." "Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throw-back, which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a Baskerville—that is evident." 6. A person or thing that evokes memories. Labels: attributive, countable, often, slang, uncountable Example: Céline Dion belted her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack. Example: It’s tempting to dismiss the 15-person outfit as out of touch. But Mayer may be onto something with Sunshine, and that’s nostalgia. Throwback tech is all the rage these days. 7. A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Under the throwback rule, sales into a state where the taxpayer is not taxable are “thrown back” from the destination state to the origin state by adding the nontaxable sales to the numerator in the apportionment factor. Example: The effect of the throwback rule is to distribute income according to sales in the origin state. The effect of the throwout rule is to distribute income according to the taxpayer’s overall activities as measured by the other apportionment factors.
Word: thumb a lift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: In reference to the thumb gesture used to request a ride. 1. To hitchhike. Labels: UK, intransitive
Word: thumping Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/ 1. Exceptional in some degree. Labels: informal
Word: thumping Part of Speech: adv Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/ 1. Exceptionally. Very. Labels: informal Example: A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.
Word: thumping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/ 1. A dull, heavy sound. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.] Example: There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house. 2. A beating. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He received a thumping from the school bully. Example: And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews. 3. A heavy defeat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.
Word: thumping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of thump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mistral Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral. Pronunciation: /mɪˈstɹɑːl/ 1. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean. Example: I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul. Example: The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue
Word: Czechs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɛks/ 1. plural of Czech Labels: form-of, plural
Word: thunder and lightning Part of Speech: noun 1. A thunderstorm. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: kick the habit Part of Speech: verb 1. To recover from or quit an addiction or habit. Labels: idiomatic Example: I get it right / I kicked the habit / Shed my skin / This is the new stuff
Word: Mixolydian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek μιξο-Λυδιος (mixo-Ludios, “half-Lydian”), from μιξο- (mixo-) (from base of μιγνυναι (mignunai, “to mix”)) + Λυδιος (Ludios, “Lydia (an ancient country in Asia Minor)”); named in reference to Lydian (another Greek mode). Pronunciation: /ˌmɪk.səˈlɪ.di.jən/ 1. Designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant. Labels: not-comparable Example: Johann Jakob Froberger's piece Canzona V in G is in the mixolydian mode. Example: It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres' altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightiness of his almightiness.
Word: thundercloud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thunder + cloud. 1. A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning. 2. Something menacing and brooding. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: the ominous thunderclouds of war
Word: mobled Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From moble. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəld/ 1. simple past and past participle of moble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mobled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From moble. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəld/ 1. With the head wrapped up or muffled. Example: But who, O who, had ſeen the inobled Queen. […]: A clout about that head, […] Example: She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen
Word: moble Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Frequentative mob + -le. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəl/ 1. To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up). Labels: transitive Example: But who, O who, had ſeen the inobled Queen. Example: She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity.
Word: moliminous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin mōlīmen (“effort”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /mə(ʊ)ˈlɪmɪnəs/, /moʊˈlɪmɪnəs/ 1. Momentous, weighty. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: those great moliminous Bodies of Parlaments are but slow in motion, and attendance will quickly exhaust a good puzzle and patience, before any thing can be done […]. Example: some Prophecies are not conditional but absolute, as certainly all those are that are of so vast and moliminous Concernment to the World as the appearing of the Messias is. 2. Laborious, involving or exerting great effort; arduous. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious and distractious thing. Example: All natural logick of expression in the elements is made thereby interrupted and most obscure, howe’er so skilled and moliminous the adeptist.
Word: thunderstruck Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thunder + struck. Compare synonymous and cognate Latin attonitus. Also compare typologically Ancient Greek ἐμβρόντητος (embróntētos) (< βροντή (brontḗ)) (whence Greek εμβρόντητος (emvróntitos)); Czech ohromený (< ohromit), Bulgarian като ударен от гръм (kato udaren ot grǎm), Russian как гро́мом поражённый (kak grómom poražónnyj) (akin to гром (grom)). See also German wie vom Donner gerührt. Pronunciation: /ˈθʌn.də.stɹʌk/, /ˈθʌn.dɚ.stɹʌk/ 1. Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak. Example: The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Heard Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd Drove them before him Thunder-struck, Example: Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.
Word: thymic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English thyme Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English thymic From thyme + -ic. Pronunciation: /ˈθaɪmɪk/ 1. Of or relating to the thymus gland Labels: not-comparable Example: Zinc deficiency may contribute to immune suppression suppression in people who have AIDS and ARC, report researchers who have found thymic hormone failure and zinc deficiency in seven people with AIDS and seven with ARC. 2. Derived from thymol Labels: not-comparable
Word: thunder cloud Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of thundercloud. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: monteith Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Scottish surname Monteith. Pronunciation: /mɒnˈtiːθ/ 1. A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped. Example: In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room—a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls—the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough. Example: The Punch is a secret Receipt of the Landlord, including but not limited to peach brandy, locally distill’d Whiskey, and milk. A raft of long Icicles broken from the Eaves floats upon the pale contents of the great rustick Monteith. 2. A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background. Labels: obsolete
Word: astraphobia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, “lightning”) + -phobia. 1. An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning. Labels: uncountable
Word: morphew Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin morphea, perhaps from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Doublet of morphea. Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːrfjuː/ 1. A blemish or mark on the skin, especially a blister caused by scurvy.
Word: motrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A post-classical Latin female form of classical Latin motor (“motor”). It is used as the feminine form of motor (“(he) that moves”) in neo-Latin, as in the original of Newton's Laws of Motion: proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae ‘is proportional to the motive force applied’ formed on the agentive suffix: -tor (masculine) / -trix (feminine). Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtɹɪks/ 1. A female instigator or cause of something. Labels: no-plural, rare Example: So Dixon for the second time in two minutes finds himself laughing without the Motrix of honest Mirth
Word: mozo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mozo. Pronunciation: /ˈməʊzəʊ/, /ˈmoθo/ 1. A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter. Example: I found, by advice, that single mozos weren't apt to be much good. Example: When he rode up to the gerente’s house that morning he was accompanied by four friends and by a retinue of mozos and two packanimals saddled with hardwood kiacks, one empty, the other carrying their noon provisions. 2. A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. 3. An unmarried man, a boy.
Word: mucopus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk-der. Proto-Italic *moukos Latin mūcus New Latinder. English muco- English pus English mucopus From muco- + pus. Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːkəʊpʌs/ 1. a mixture of mucus and pus Labels: uncountable Example: A Saturday afternoon and a ‘misfire’ books in my hands. Everything swimming in a divine mucopus.
Word: orthologs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ortholog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ortholog Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of two or more homologous gene sequences found in different species related by linear descent.
Word: mycterism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυκτηρισμός (muktērismós), from μυκτηρίζω (muktērízō, “I sneer”), from μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nostril”). Pronunciation: /ˈmɪktəɹɪzəm/ 1. A subtle or scornful jibe. Labels: rare, rhetoric Example: But he recovers himself soon, if only by the dry fashion in which he observes that, if anybody does not know it, the Greeks call certain kinds of allegory sarcasm, asteism, antiphasis, and parœmia, to which it may be well to at mycterism, a kind of derision which is dissembled, but not altogether concealed―as very neatly by M. Fabius Quintillianus in the passage before us. Example: As he makes clear, he has quite a few such “nauseatingly gross figures of clay” in mind, turning the irony or sarcasm of a specific instant into widespread mycterism—broad disdain pronounced with a sneer.
Word: verbs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of verb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: verbs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of verb Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Tiber Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Tiberis. Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪbə/, /ˈtaɪbəɹ/ 1. The river that flows through Rome in Italy. Example: They traversed the Tiber without remarking it; they arrived at Rome by the gate of the people, which conducts immediately to the Corso, to the largest street of the modern city; […]
Word: myronic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek μύρον (múron, “unguent, perfume”), + -ic. Pronunciation: /maɪˈɹɒnɪk/ 1. fragrant, perfumed Example: He wore only a thin-bretelled blue undershirt that rucked under his pectoral mass but stretched ceaseless across his myronic flanks.
Word: abets Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈbɛts/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of abet Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: abets Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /əˈbɛts/ 1. plural of abet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tiberias Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Tiberias, from Ancient Greek Τιβεριάς (Tiberiás), after the Emperor Tiberius. Pronunciation: /taɪˈbɪəɹi.æs/ 1. A town in the Northern District, on the Sea of Galilee in Israel. 2. A locality in Southern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Word: tic-tac-toe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative; from tick-tack, used earlier to denote games in which the pieces made clicking sounds. 1. A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line. Labels: uncountable
Word: conversationalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English conversation English -al English conversational Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English conversationalist From conversational + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃənəlɪst/, /ˌkɑːnvɚˈseɪʃənəlɪst/ 1. A person who participates in a conversation. Example: If you can just ask questions about a person and nod sagely then they will leave thinking you are a brilliant conversationalist. 2. A person skilled in general conversation. Example: But Shulgin, while a nimble conversationalist, can have trouble with names — of people and places, never chemicals.
Word: ticket-collector Part of Speech: noun 1. a person who collects the tickets of patrons entering a cinema, theatre etc so that they cannot be used again
Word: ticket inspector Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who checks that passengers on public transport (such as trains or buses) have valid tickets for their journey and, in some systems, to mark or scan those tickets so they cannot be reused. Example: This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped (in those days it didn't go through to Cleethorpes).
Word: primordial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”). Compare primordium and -al. Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/, /pɹaɪˈmɔɹ.di.əl/, /pɹɑɪˈmoː.di.əl/ 1. First, earliest or original. Labels: not-comparable Example: the primordial facts of our intelligent nature Example: As an archetypal image of primordial unity, the cosmic egg suggests that there is unity and fragmentation, eternity and time. 2. Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium. Labels: not-comparable Example: a primordial leaf; a primordial cell 3. Primeval. Labels: not-comparable 4. Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰). Labels: not-comparable