nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: boo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beau, from French beau. First appears c. 1988 in the Washington Post: See the cite below. Pronunciation: /buː/ 1. A close acquaintance or significant other. Labels: Canada, US, slang Example: A tall, hooded young woman, clutching a newspaper article, delivered a note to the judge. “My name is Sunkist,” she wrote, “Lionel R. Harris is my boyfriend. Lewis shot my Boo and it was not self-defense . . . . Judge and jurors please listen to me I am 17 years of {age} and a good young lady and my Boo got killed for nothing.” Example: At night I think of you / I want to be your lady, maybe / If your game is on give me a call, boo / If your lovin' strong, gonna give my all to you
Word: boo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of unknown origin, possibly from boojum, from a fancied resemblance of the plants. First appears c. 1959 in Esquire Magazine. Pronunciation: /buː/ 1. Cannabis. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: […] sexually promiscuous girl who smoked boo all day and socialized with junkies when she wasn't busy banging away in bed […] Example: Like I have smoked boo, drunk whiskey, and shot dope, and I was going through all three bags at once.
Word: boo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Likely onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /buː/ 1. To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo. Labels: Northern-England, archaic, intransitive Example: The cow's tether is put about the neck of the individual who has lost the cow, and he must go about booing like a cow till atonement is made. Example: In the north of England people very often speak about the "oxen booing" (not lowing)
Word: boo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dubious; perhaps adaptation of French beau (“beautiful”). Pronunciation: /buː/ 1. A tail feather from an ostrich. Example: Burglary.—On Monday night or early on Tuesday morning, some thieves effected an entrance into the premises of Mr. W. J. Laybourne, ostrich feather manufacturer, 60, St. John-street, West Smithfield, and carried off 1,000 prime white feathers, 500 long single black, 800 double ditto, 3,000 mixed colours, 500 spadones, 300 white plumes, 300 coloured boos, and 400 long white light feminas, which, with other property, were valued at about £4,000. Example: White Boos declined 10s. to 15s. per lb.; Femina Boos 2s. 6d. to 5s. per lb., and drab Boos about 2s. 6d. per lb.
Word: cutaway Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from cut away. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌtəweɪ/ 1. A men's coat with the front cut back away from the waist, as worn on formal occasions. Example: Besides the broad-brimmed hat, he was distinguished by a spotted tie, a pair of seedy check trousers rather baggy in the seat, and a cut-away coat, much too tight for him. 2. A diagram or model having outer layers removed so as to show the interior. Example: [...] The two assets of the book are clear explanation, and a multitude of extremely helpful diagrams, some in two colours, and cutaway photographs; these clearly unravel a difficult subject for the layman, as well as the student engineman for whom the primer is chiefly designed. 3. A brief shot that temporarily takes the viewer away from the principal action, especially to show a reaction, illustration etc.; an instance of moving to such a shot. Example: Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […] Example: [T]he director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor. 4. An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets. 5. A guitar having a cutaway. 6. Short for cutaway bog Labels: Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of Example: Thousands of hectares of cutaway are now under squares of grass and conifers, but by the 1990s it was obvious that most of the total area was suitable only for "non-productive" uses. Example: This vast land-art and sculpture park is on a former cutaway bog – “cutaway” being the term for a bog where all the commercial peat has been extracted.
Word: cutaway Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from cut away. Pronunciation: /ˈkʌtəweɪ/ 1. Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior. Labels: not-comparable Example: While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.
Word: Scouser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scouse + -er, from scouse, a common stew in Liverpool. 1. A Liverpudlian. Labels: colloquial
Word: Scouse Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scouse, a stew popular in the Liverpool area, originally a clipping of lobscouse. Pronunciation: /skaʊs/ 1. Liverpudlian. Labels: colloquial Example: When my play Windermere opened at the Clerkenwell Theatre in London, up against Russell's mighty Blood Brothers, I was proud that it boasted a majority Scouse cast.
Word: Scouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scouse, a stew popular in the Liverpool area, originally a clipping of lobscouse. Pronunciation: /skaʊs/ 1. Synonym of Scouser (“Liverpudlian”). Labels: colloquial Example: The Scouses, not known for their wit, responded with the 'Munich runway' chant. And, golly gosh, nearly the whole stadium sang back. Who knows, this chanting might really take off one day.
Word: Scouse Part of Speech: name Etymology: From scouse, a stew popular in the Liverpool area, originally a clipping of lobscouse. Pronunciation: /skaʊs/ 1. The accent and dialect of Liverpool or Merseyside. Example: The soft and friendly version of the Scouse accent has helped to turn Liverpool into Britain's favourite location for call centres.
Word: luftmensch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish לופֿטמענטש (luftmentsh), from לופֿט (luft, “air”) + מענטש (mentsh, “person”). Compare German von Luft und Liebe leben (“to disregard the practical matters of life”, literally “to live on air and love”), German Luftikus (“impractical, quixotic, or careless person”). The word first appeared in Yiddish literature in the 1860s (Nicolas Vallois, The Luftmentsh as an economic metaphor for Jewish poverty: a rhetorical analysis). 1. A person who is highly intellectual or contemplative but detached from practical affairs, especially the need to earn a living. Labels: slang Example: My wife is such a luftmensch she missed our anniversary dinner because she was too busy reading her books! Example: Chagall was a luftmensch, he says, a man of the air... 2. A beggar, a petty trader, a peddler, and various types of paupers. Labels: slang
Word: trouser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from trousers. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaʊzə/, /ˈtɹaʊzɚ/ 1. Of or relating to trousers. Labels: attributive Example: 'trouser leg 2. A pair of trousers. Example: And this is our linen trouser, sir.
Word: trouser Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from trousers. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaʊzə/, /ˈtɹaʊzɚ/ 1. To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal, transitive 2. To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal, transitive Example: Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me. Example: Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018. 3. To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket. Labels: Ireland, UK, informal, transitive Example: Politicians know how to look after themselves. Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer.
Word: trouser pocket Part of Speech: noun 1. A pocket in a pair of trousers.
Word: intersperse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin interspergō, interspersus. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈspɜːs/, /ˌɪntɚˈspɝs/ 1. To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other. Example: For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life. 2. To scatter or insert something into or among other things. Labels: transitive Example: When writing, I intersperse details. Example: Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground. 3. To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something. Labels: transitive Example: Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
Word: allision Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin allisiō (“striking or dashing against”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from allīsus (“dashed or crushed against”), past participle of allīdō (“to dash or crush against”) (whence allide), from ad- (“to, toward, against”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence al- (“assimilated form of ad-”)). Pronunciation: /əˈlɪʒən/, /æ-/ 1. The striking of a vessel against a fixed object; the act of alliding or an instance thereof. Example: Implicit in the presumption operable here is the standard to which the operator is held: prudently navigated vessels do not allide with wharfs or moored vessels or aids to navigation. Evidence of compliance with the required standard of care might take the form of evidence of inevitable accident, evidence of superior force, or even evidence negating the happening of the allision. In short, evidence that the operator was free of negligence or that the allision could reasonably have occurred because of factors other than the operator's negligent conduct is necessary. Based upon the evidence in the instant case, the argument that unforeseeable circumstances caused the allision misses the mark. Example: ...contact of a vessel with a stationary object such as an anchored vessel or a pier. In modem practice, “collision” is often used where “allision” was once the preferred term 2. The act of dashing against or striking upon. Labels: rare Example: There have not been any islands of note, or considerable extent, torn and cast off from the continent by earthquakes, or severed from it by the boisterous allision of the sea. Example: 1822 Walter Whiter: Etymologicon universale ...Ainsworth observes on the letter R, that its sound is formed in the upper part of the throat, but so vibrated by a quaver of the tongue, and allision on the teeth, that it makes a sound like the grinning of a dog, whence it is called the canine Letter; but the Romans, on the contrary, give it so soft and lisping a souhd, that in writing they sometimes omitted it...
Word: acheful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ache + -ful. 1. full of aches; aching Example: I mounted a steed in the dawning / With acheful remembrance. Example: Why recall the memory of those acheful days, when all the pleasant and restful features of the island are uncatalogued?
Word: aloofly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English aloof Middle English -ly English -ly English aloofly From aloof + -ly. 1. In an aloof manner. Example: With symphonies soft and sweet colour It courted me then, Till evasions seemed wrong, Till evasions gave in to its song, And I warmed, until living aloofly loomed duller Than life among men. Example: The girl, with eyebrows arched aloofly, continued to glance about the street[.]
Word: pila Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pilum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pila Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pīla (“mortar”). 1. A mortar.
Word: parvenu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”). See also parvenue f Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː.və.njuː/, /ˈpɑː.və.nuː/, /ˈpɑɹ.və.nju/, /ˈpɑɹ.və.nu/ 1. A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. Example: But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer.
Word: parvenu Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”). See also parvenue f Pronunciation: /ˈpɑː.və.njuː/, /ˈpɑː.və.nuː/, /ˈpɑɹ.və.nju/, /ˈpɑɹ.və.nu/ 1. Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. Labels: not-comparable Example: Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be generally found that his loss of reputation is due to breaches of parvenu conventions only, and not to violations of those older, better established canons whose authority is unquestionable. Example: The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.
Word: parvenue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenue, feminine past participle of parvenir (“to arrive”), learned borrowing from Latin parvenire, from per- (“through”) + venire (“to come”). 1. Female equivalent of parvenu. Labels: feminine, form-of Example: They have seen women of rank, and parvenues, chaste maidens and anonymas, in a confused and gaudy glare of barbarous splendour.
Word: @ Part of Speech: prep Pronunciation: /æt/, /ət/ 1. At a rate of (so much each). Example: 15 items @ $10 Example: @ 80 km/h 2. At (any sense). Labels: informal Example: @ 20°C Example: Text message: “im @ school.”
Word: @ Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /æt/, /ət/ 1. To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name) Labels: Internet, transitive Example: Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say. Example: He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
Word: @ Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /æt/, /ət/ 1. The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter. Labels: Internet Example: What your @?
Word: @ Part of Speech: symbol Etymology: The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o. Pronunciation: /æt/, /ət/ 1. Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a. Example: Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@ 2. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a. Example: Kosov@; Pin@y
Word: @ Part of Speech: symbol Etymology: Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”). Pronunciation: /æt/, /ət/ 1. Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names. Labels: Malaysia, Singapore Example: Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan
Word: cunnilingus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin cunnilingus (literally “cuntlicker”). The meaning shift, not yet complete in the early twentieth century, perhaps derives from figurative uses where the name for a person stands for the name of a practice. Pronunciation: /ˌkʌn.ɪˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/, /ˌkʌn.əˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/, /ˌkʌn.iˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/ 1. Performance of oral sex upon the vulva or vagina. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Someone who performs oral sex on the vulva. Labels: dated, rare, uncountable, usually Example: The stinking breath, hoarse voice, and snoring respiration of the cunnilingus, fellator and fellatrix, the effeminate, piping tone of the cinædus and irrumator, which excited the special scorn of the early satirical writers, were doubtless the expression of a catarrhal pharyngolaryngitis acquired in the discharge of their filthy practices.
Word: fellatio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- Latin fellō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fellātiōlbor. English fellatio Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“to suck, to fellate”). The word started to appear in medical literature in the 19th century but it was still treated as Latin. In 1919, the California Supreme Court struck down a law criminalizing fellatio because the state constitution required laws to be written in English. By the late 20th century, fellatio was treated as an English word. Pronunciation: /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.əʊ/, /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/ 1. Performance of oral sex upon the penis. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In 7 oder 8 anderen Fällen ging die geschlechtliche Beziehung selten über enge Berührung oder gegenseitige Masturbation hinaus. In 2 oder 3 anderen Fällen ist fellatio die bevorzugte Methode. Example: That the word "fellatio" has not become Anglicized is so clearly apparent that further comment seems unnecessary. […] Section 288a of the Penal Code is void for uncertainty as well as for the reason that it is not expressed in the English language.]
Word: sandy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”). Pronunciation: /ˈsændi/ 1. Covered with sand. 2. Sprinkled with sand. 3. Containing sand. Example: Some plants grow best in sandy soil. 4. Like sand, especially in texture. Example: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda. 5. Having the colour of sand.
Word: sandy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”). Pronunciation: /ˈsændi/ 1. A sandwich Labels: informal 2. Ellipsis of pecan sandy. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
Word: john Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the male given name John (q.v.), whose ubiquity led to extensive use of the name in generic contexts. Its use for toilets derives from John and Cousin John, which both probably relate to jacques and jakes, used in equivalent senses by the British and Irish. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑn/, /ˈd͡ʒɒn/ 1. A prostitute's client. Labels: US, slang Example: The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over. Example: Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire, And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire. You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake, Oh oh, he one more gone, he one more john who make the mistake. 2. A device or place for urination and defecation: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse. Labels: US, slang 3. A Western man traveling in East Asia. Labels: slang 4. A male mule.
Word: peewee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably reduplication of wee (“small”). Pronunciation: /ˈpiːwiː/ 1. A short or small person; a small object. Labels: informal 2. A kind of small marble in children's games. Example: You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees. 3. A player in a sports league for very young children. Labels: US Example: Is five too young for peewee football? Example: 1971 November, Pat Strange, Mini Judoka in Aussie Ladies Tourney, Black Belt, page 61, Each year, younger and younger girls line up for competition on the mats, and at this year′s Western Australia Women′s Judo Tournament extra peewee divisions were added to accomodate the young ladies.
Word: peewee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Imitative of the vocalisation of the birds. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːwiː/ 1. A magpie-lark or mudlark (Grallina cyanoleuca). Labels: Australia Example: A large flock of black and white peewees—magpie larks—passed over our heads from a patch of mangrove[…]. Example: The studies of A. H. Robinson in Western Australia indicate that Peewees tend to pair for life, and hold the same territory on successive seasons. 2. A pewee. Labels: US
Word: dykon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of dyke + icon. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.kɒn/, /ˈdaɪ.kən/, /ˈdaɪ.kɑn/ 1. A celebrity, especially a woman (often a lesbian), who is much admired by lesbians. Labels: informal Example: LESBIAN ICONS AND REAL LESBIAN ICONS If Madonna is the first among equals, the major female icon of the moment, she now has competition for dykon status in k. d. lang, who to many lesbians represents their very own 'real life' lesbian hera. Example: […] Singer-songwriter Hawkins has become a '90s dykon, due to her free-spirited sensuality […]
Word: gay icon Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡeɪ ˈaɪ.kɒn/, /ɡeɪ ˈaɪ.kɑn/ 1. A celebrity who is much admired by gay men and/or lesbians.
Word: hebrephrenic Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of hebephrenic. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: hebrephrenic Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of hebephrenic. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: dramaturge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge. * Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg. 1. Someone who writes or adapts theater plays; a playwright or dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company. Labels: rare 2. A literary adviser or editor in a theater, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work. Labels: rare
Word: dramaturge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge. * Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg. 1. To act as a dramaturge. Labels: ambitransitive, rare Example: It expresses concerns about programming (“We have watched you program play after play, written, directed, cast, choreographed, designed, acted, dramaturged and produced by your rosters of white theatermakers for white audiences”); […]
Word: wright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Related to wrought and work. Cognate with Dutch wrecht (“worker, builder, wright”, archaic). Pronunciation: /ɹaɪt/ 1. A builder or maker of something. Labels: dated
Word: wright Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹaɪt/ 1. Misspelling of write. Labels: alt-of, dated, misspelling
Word: surat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sura (“A chapter of the Qur'an”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: senang Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Malay senang. Pronunciation: /səˈnɑŋ/ 1. Relaxed, easy (of a job, etc.) Labels: Manglish, Singlish Example: He candidly admitted to me that his job to maintain gym equipment is very "senang" (easy).
Word: Syracusan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Syracuse + -an. 1. Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Syracusan expedition was the deathblow of the Athenian Empire. 2. Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, New York, United States. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Syracusan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Syracuse + -an. 1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Example: Dionysius...obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins. 2. A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.
Word: RMA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of return merchandise authorization /return merchandise authorisation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Shipments without a valid RMA number will not be accepted. 2. Initialism of recruit master-at-arms. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: Several of the recruits had special leadership responsibilities within the Company, the most significant being the Recruit Chief Petty Officer (RCPO) and the Recruit Master at Arms (RMA). […] The person responsible for being RCPO changed during the end of our training, but the RMA, who was responsible for maintaining good order and discipline, did not make it past the mid point. 3. Initialism of rich mobile application. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: ruddy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-der. Old English rudu Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Old English rudiġ Middle English rody English ruddy Inherited from Middle English rody, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu + -iġ. By surface analysis, rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”). The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌdi/ 1. Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky. Example: Drystone walls, farm buildings and stone cottages, roofed with ruddy tiles, line the way and blend gently into the surrounding countryside. Example: A silvery cloud drifted over the mountains that surrounded him, its edges glowing with ruddy light cast from the harvest moon cradled between two peaks. 2. Robust and vigorous, like a person with a red complexion (as compared to a pale one). Example: in ruddy health 3. A mild intensifier, expressing irritation. Labels: Australia, UK, not-comparable, slang Example: "Sister?" I inquired. "She ain't 'ere," a man's voice said. "What's more," it went on, "she ain't been 'ere for ruddy hours, neither. Can't you pull them ruddy curtains, mate, and let's 'ave some flippin' light?" Example: “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. “With a million ruddy names to choose from, these ruddy Creams call one ruddy son Wilbert and the other ruddy son Wilfred, and both these ruddy sons are known as Willie. Just going out of their way to mislead the innocent bystander. You'd think people would have more consideration.”
Word: ruddy Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-der. Old English rudu Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Old English rudiġ Middle English rody English ruddy Inherited from Middle English rody, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu + -iġ. By surface analysis, rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”). The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌdi/ 1. A mild intensifier, expressing irritation. Labels: UK, not-comparable, slang Example: “So, you made quite a splash on Question Time, my homeless pal,” he continued. “Ruddy hilarious. Ha ha ha!” Example: 'You're not ruddy going anywhere,' he said, slamming the door behind him.
Word: ruddy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-der. Old English rudu Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Old English rudiġ Middle English rody English ruddy Inherited from Middle English rody, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu + -iġ. By surface analysis, rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”). The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌdi/ 1. A ruddy duck. Labels: informal Example: In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies, greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls. 2. A ruddy ground dove. Labels: informal Example: Ground doves — two ruddies are shown here — are so called because they feed on the ground. Example: Understandably, birders in the U.S. are advised to carefully distinguish Ruddies from the usually more-expected Common Ground-Doves [...]. (Brightly-colored, pinkish adult male Common Ground-Doves have been misidentified as male Ruddies on several occasions, however.) Unless the fortunate birder happens upon a Ruddy Ground-Dove amongst a flock of sparrows, it will often be necessary to sort through innumerable Inca Doves.
Word: ruddy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-der. Old English rudu Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Old English rudiġ Middle English rody English ruddy Inherited from Middle English rody, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu + -iġ. By surface analysis, rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”). The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌdi/ 1. To make reddish in colour. Labels: transitive Example: The sunset ruddied our faces. Example: It ruddied all the copse-wood glen
Word: murmurous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English murmur Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English murmurous From murmur + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˈmɜː(ɹ).mə.ɹəs/, /ˈmɜː(ɹ)m.ɹəs/ 1. Low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur. Example: Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave Hath long bene underkept, and down supprest, With murmurous disdaine doth inly rave, And grudge, in so streight prison to be prest, Example: Throughout all the isle There was no covert, no retired cave Unhaunted by the murmurous noise of waves, Though scarcely heard in many a green recess.
Word: fruition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”). By surface analysis, fruit + -ion. Pronunciation: /fɹuˈɪʃən/ 1. The fulfillment of something worked for. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition. Example: […] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt, Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all, That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie, The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne. 2. The enjoyment derived from a possession. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fruition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Erroneously from fruit (though now standard usage) Pronunciation: /fɹuˈɪʃən/ 1. The condition of bearing fruit.
Word: desktop environment Part of Speech: noun 1. A complete graphical user interface solution to operate a computer.
Word: pilar Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pilāris, from Latin pilus (“a hair”) + -ar. 1. Relating to hair. Labels: not-comparable Example: pilar muscle; pilar cyst 2. Covered in hair; hairy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: RDO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of regular day off, an official public holiday. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: Heidi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Swiss German Heidi, a pet form of Adelheid, equivalent of English Adelaide and Alice. The name became internationally popular due to the children's book Heidi (1880). Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪdi/ 1. A female given name from the Germanic languages. Example: "Heidi?" Kurtz echoed. "Heidi? That's a damned odd name for an English elder sister, isn't it?" "Not for Heidi, it isn't," she replied buoyantly, and scored an immediate laugh from the kids beyond the lighting. Heidi because her parents went to Switzerland for their honeymoon, she explained; and Switzerland was where Heidi was conceived. "Among the edelweiss," she added, with a sigh. Example: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
Word: shuffle off this mortal coil Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil. 1. To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic Example: For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe. Example: But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered.
Word: huge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high. Pronunciation: /hjuːd͡ʒ/, [ç(j)u̟ːd͡ʒ], /hjʉwd͡ʒ/, [ç(j)ʉwd͡ʒ], /hjud͡ʒ/ 1. Very large. Example: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!” Example: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…]. 2. Very strong, powerful, or dedicated. Labels: informal Example: Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights. 3. Very interesting, significant, or popular. Labels: informal Example: The band's next album is going to be huge. Example: In our league our coach is huge!
Word: starve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sterven (“to die, perish”), from Old English steorfan (“to die, perish”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots stairve, sterve (“to die, perish, starve”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”). Pronunciation: /stɑːv/, /stɑɹv/ 1. To die because of lack of food or of not eating. Labels: intransitive Example: During the Cultural Revolution I was exiled to Xincai County in Henan Province. There, 36 percent of the people starved to death in the early 1960s. Example: "When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all." 2. To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating. Labels: intransitive Example: Ah (ſaid the Ape as ſighing vvondrous ſad) / Its an hard caſe, vvhen men of good deſeruing / Muſt either driuen be perforce to ſteruing, / Or asked for their pas by euerie ſquib: […] Example: ..., and the little half-starved, stunted girl of twelve, with her brown arms and steady, unerring aim, will hammer out half a bundle, IS. 6½d. 3. To be very hungry. Labels: intransitive Example: I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks. 4. To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food. Labels: transitive 5. To make suffer severely by depriving of food. Labels: transitive 6. To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege. Labels: transitive Example: If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out. 7. To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts. Labels: dated, transitive Example: Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population. 8. To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component. Labels: transitive Example: The uncaring parents starved the child of love. Example: The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen. 9. To deteriorate for want of any essential thing. Labels: intransitive 10. To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold. Labels: UK, transitive Example: I was half starved waiting out in that wind. Example: Wheniver he wor starved, he used to get th' seck o' coils ov his back, an' walk raand th' haase till he gat warm agean. 11. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Seuen moneths he ſo her kept in bitter ſmart, / Becauſe his ſinfull luſt ſhe would not ſerue, / Vntill ſuch time as noble Britomart / Releaſed her, that elſe was like to ſterue / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
Word: stet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“to stand”). Pronunciation: /stɛt/ 1. A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out or changed should remain as it was. Example: I believe the word "stet" is unnecessary and confusing; that it is used only on the margin when something has has been crossed off in the body of the text and is also used only with the dots (the stet marks ........) placed under the words in the body of the matter to be stetted—or to let stand as they were. Example: But a typographer in far-off Australia would instantly comprehend the carets, "stets," and "deles" of a Brooklyn proof-reader. 2. An order staying all proceedings in an action. Labels: especially Example: ("To be eligible for a stet, the defendant must waive his right to a speedy trial.") (stating that when a prosecutor "stets" a case, the state is declining to prosecute it Example: In this jurisdiction, the system has some special procedures. A stet is an inactive court docket whereby a case is held inactive for up to one year.
Word: stet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“to stand”). Pronunciation: /stɛt/ 1. To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. Labels: transitive Example: Stet that colon. Example: To stet in the fifth line these words , "Any minister of the Church of England or" 2. To stay all proceedings in an action. Example: I respectfully submit the following statement in accordance with the order of the Convention:MAY TERM, 1864. / Indictments found....18 / Convicted....12 / Acquitted....5 / Stetted....2 Example: A protest has been set up by the Maryland Board of Pharmacy against the action of the state's attorney in stetting three indictments against M. A. Potocki, of Baltimore, who was on trial on five charges of violating the medical practice act
Word: bunghole Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bung-hole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bunghole Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of bung-hole. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English laven (“to bathe, wash; to bail or draw water, drain, exhaust; to dampen, wet; to pour; of water, etc.: to flow, stream”), and then partly: * from Old French laver (“to be washed; to wash”) (modern French laver (“to wash (oneself)”)), from Latin lavāre, the present active infinitive of lavō (“to bathe, wash; to dampen, wet”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”); and * from Old English lafian (“to bathe; to make wet; to ladle out; to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *labōn (“to refresh, revitalize; to strengthen”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Latin lavō (see above) but this does not explain the change in meaning from “to wash; to wet” to “to refresh; to strengthen”. Perhaps Old English lafian is derived directly from the Latin word, and Proto-West Germanic *labōn and words in languages derived from it such as Dutch and German are coincidentally similar to the Old English word. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /leɪv/ 1. An act of bathing or washing; a bath or bathe, a wash. Example: Once more Arion and his loving nymph / Together rest within their summer cave, / In the green woodland, where the crystal lymph / Through sands and ivy pulsed with ceaseless lave. 2. The sea. Labels: also, figuratively, rare Example: When Nature, languid, seems to rest, / Nor moves a leaf, nor heaves a wave, / And Zephyrs sleep, by Sol caress'd, / And sportive swallows skim the lave; […]
Word: lave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Northern Middle English lave, Middle English love, Early Middle English lafe (“remainder, rest; legacy; relict, widow”), from Old English lāf (“remainder, rest; heirloom; legacy; relict, widow”), from Proto-West Germanic *laibu (“remainder”), from Proto-Germanic *laibō (“remainder, remnant”), from *lībaną (“to be left, to remain”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick; fat or sticky substance”). Doublet of belive (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) to remain, stay”). Cognates * Old English belīfan (“to remain”) * Old High German leiba (“to lave”) * Old Norse leif (“to lave”) Pronunciation: /leɪv/ 1. That which is left over; a remainder, a remnant, the rest. Labels: uncountable Example: Of prelates proud, a populous lave, / And abbots boldly there vvere known. / VVith Biſhop of St. Andrevv's brave, / VVho vvas King James's baſtard ſon. Example: The Mother, vvi' a vvoman's vviles, can ſpy / VVhat makes the Youth ſae baſhfu' and ſae grave; / VVeel-pleas'd to think her bairn's reſpected like the lave. 2. A relict, a widow. Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: lave Part of Speech: adj Etymology: The adjective is from Middle English lave (“of the ears: drooping, hanging down”), from Old Norse lafa, from Proto-Germanic *labēn- (“to dangle”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”). The verb is probably derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /leɪv/ 1. Chiefly in lave ears: of ears: drooping, hanging down. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: And I ſvveare by the bloud of my codpiece, / An I vvere a vvoman I vvould lug off his laue eares, / Or run him to death vvith a ſpit: […] Example: [C]omplexion here red, there tavvny, in another Country black vvins the prize: for proportion, here the tall, there the mean, here the ſlender, there the groſs, here the little Ear, there the lave Ear, here the thin Lip, there the Blubber-lip, here the ſtreight, there the die Neck are eſteemed moſt courtly.
Word: lave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The adjective is from Middle English lave (“of the ears: drooping, hanging down”), from Old Norse lafa, from Proto-Germanic *labēn- (“to dangle”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”). The verb is probably derived from the adjective. Pronunciation: /leɪv/ 1. Of ears: to droop, to hang down. Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare Example: His mouth ſhrinks ſidevvard like a ſcornfull Playſe / To take his tired Eares ingratefull place; / His Eares hang lauing like a nevv-lug'd ſvvine / To take ſome counſell of his grieued eyne, […]
Word: lather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lather, from Old English lēaþor (“a kind of nitre used for soap, soda”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauþr, from Proto-Germanic *lauþrą (“that which is used for washing, soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówh₃trom (“that which is used for washing”), from *lewh₃-, *lowh₃- (“to wash, bathe”). Cognate with Swedish lödder (“lather, foam, froth, soap”), Icelandic löður (“foam, froth, a kind of niter used for soap”), Old Irish loathar (“wash-basin”), Ancient Greek λουτρόν (loutrón, “a bath, wash-room”), Latin lavō (“to wash”), Albanian laj (“to wash”), Ancient Greek λούω (loúō). More at lye. Compare typologically Russian мы́ло (mýlo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)). Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.ðə/, /ˈlæð.ə/, /ˈlæð.ɚ/ 1. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. 2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A state of agitation. Labels: countable
Word: lather Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English letheren, from Old English līeþran, from Proto-West Germanic *lauþrijan, from Proto-Germanic *lauþrijaną (“to soap, wash”). Cognate with Old Norse leyðra (“to wash, lather”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː.ðə/, /ˈlæð.ə/, /ˈlæð.ɚ/ 1. To cover with lather. Labels: transitive Example: I lathered my body with lavender-scented soap. 2. To beat or whip. Labels: transitive 3. To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating. Labels: intransitive Example: I woke Corporal Honda to see to the horse. Heavily lathered and breathing hard, it had obviously come a long way at high speed.
Word: amity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English amite, from Old French amisté, amitie, amistiet, from Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”). Pronunciation: /ˈæmɪti/, [ˈɛəmɪɾi] 1. Friendship; friendliness. Labels: formal, literary Example: To my native place ¶ Bent upon returning, ¶ Bosom all day burning ¶ To be where my race ¶ Well were known, 'twas much with me ¶ There to dwell in amity. 2. Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations. Example: Near-synonyms: accord, concord, harmony, peace, peacefulness
Word: friendship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English frēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi. Equivalent to friend + -ship. Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ 1. The condition of being friends. Labels: uncountable Example: But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe: Example: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 2. A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends. Labels: countable Example: “They’re cuddling by the fire, they’re going on trips together, they’re introducing their friends to their family, but they’re very clear that those are friendships,” Stinson said. “It really makes me think about the definitions that we have about friendship and romance, and how those things differ, and I just like how messy it all is.” Example: In good times and bad, in sickness and health, the benefits of friendships between women are physically and psychologically undeniable. 3. Good will. Labels: uncountable
Word: friends Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /fɹɛn(d)z/ 1. plural of friend Labels: form-of, plural
Word: friends Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /fɹɛn(d)z/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of friend Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person