nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: whit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wiȝt, wight, from Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtą (“thing, creature”) or *wihtiz (“essence, object”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Old High German wiht (“creature, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. Doublet of wight. Pronunciation: /wɪt/, /ʍɪt/ 1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota. Labels: dated Example: Star. I beleeue we muſt leaue the killing out, when all is done. Bot. Not a whit: I haue a deuice to make all well. Example: Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.
Word: whit Part of Speech: prep 1. Pronunciation spelling of with. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: whop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”). Pronunciation: /wɒp/, /ʍɒp/, /wɑp/, /ʍɑp/ 1. To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He angrily whopped the book onto the table. Example: Then I'd wake up an' screech and roar—then off to sleep again—to dream that Spanker had run away with me, or that father was whopping me, or some other plaguey thing, till mornin'. 2. To administer corporal punishment to. Labels: slang, transitive
Word: whop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”). Pronunciation: /wɒp/, /ʍɒp/, /wɑp/, /ʍɑp/ 1. A blow or strike.
Word: widget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in 1924 in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924). The preface to the 1924 play credits an earlier German work from 1911 where there is an actor Elisabeth Wigge. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/ 1. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product, typically as an example for purposes of explaining concepts. Example: Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 units per year... Example: Damage inflicted on the rail industry supply chain, from major contractors to widget manufacturers, would have further profound nationwide consequences on an already damaged industry and wrecked economy. 2. A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened. 3. A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces. 4. Synonym of tool, implement, device, gadget, part. Labels: informal
Word: widget Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of window + gadget. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/ 1. Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with. 2. A small applet that can be placed on the desktop or in a sidebar, etc. Example: This weather widget shows the current temperature.
Word: wile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile. Pronunciation: /waɪl/ 1. A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice Labels: plural-normally Example: He was seduced by her wiles. Example: "Anything interesting among your letters, Geoffrey?" asked Miss Tilehurst, concealing a protective curiosity under this sociable wile, since she had already inspected the covers.
Word: wile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile. Pronunciation: /waɪl/ 1. To entice or lure. Labels: transitive Example: He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.
Word: wile Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hwīlen, "passing, transitory". It is also seen in whilend, "temporary, transitory". But since wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries. Pronunciation: /waɪl/ 1. Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”). Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours. Example: “A fear of what?” asked the gentleman, who seemed to pity her. “I scarcely know of what,” replied the girl. “I wish I did. Horrible thoughts of death, and shrouds with blood upon them, and a fear that has made me burn as if I was on fire, have been upon me all day. I was reading a book to-night, to wile the time away, and the same things came into the print.”
Word: winger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wing + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈwɪŋ.ɚ/ 1. One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. Example: We hauled out a winger of grog. 2. An offensive player who plays on either side of the center. Example: The center passed to the left winger, who shot and scored. Example: "The pattern of the game could have been different if Anthony Pilkington had taken one of two chances either side of United's opener. But the Norwich winger shot wide when clean through and saw another effort hit the post on 75 minutes.
Word: winker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of tiddlywinker. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋkə/, /ˈwɪŋkəɹ/ 1. Clipping of tiddlywinker (“a player of the game of tiddlywinks”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: winkle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for periwinkle. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋkəl/ 1. A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae. Example: […] because the inward Eare is intorted like a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre. Example: Shrimps and winkles are the staple commodities of the afternoon trade, which lasts from three to half-past five in the evening. These articles are generally bought by the working-classes for their tea. 2. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica. Example: There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica). Example: The conchs or winkles, Busycon carica (fig. 204, opp. p. 216) and B. canaliculata, ... He gave the estimate of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy a bushel of oysters in a single hour. 3. The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult. Labels: childish, slang Example: After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.
Word: winkle Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈwɪŋkəl/ 1. Synonym of winkle out (“to acquire or extract with difficulty”).
Word: winnow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wyndwen, from Old English windwian (“to winnow, fan, ventilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *windwōn, from Proto-Germanic *windwōną, *winþijaną (“to throw about, winnow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wē- (“to winnow, thresh”). Cognate with West Frisian wynje (“to winnow”), dialectal Dutch winden, winnen (“to winnow”), Middle High German winden (“to winnow”), Icelandic vinsa (“to pick out, weed”), Latin vannus (“a winnowing basket”). See fan, van. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnoʊ/, /ˈwɪnəʊ/ 1. To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff. Labels: transitive Example: By Jacob Behel, of Mifflintown, Pa.,—Improvement in winnowing Machines, Patented August 21, 1847. Example: [W]ind began to winnow the river delta's dried sediments. 2. To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: They winnowed the field to twelve. Example: They winnowed the winners from the losers. 3. To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings. Labels: literary, transitive Example: The light snow lay on the narrow and winding path before them, pure as if just fresh winnowed by the wind. Example: Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build; the feet are larger and more ambulatorial, the wings are shorter and not so thin; the birds winnow the air in a steady course unlike the buoyant dashing flight of their relatives. 4. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter. Labels: dated, intransitive, literary
Word: winnow Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wyndwen, from Old English windwian (“to winnow, fan, ventilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *windwōn, from Proto-Germanic *windwōną, *winþijaną (“to throw about, winnow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wē- (“to winnow, thresh”). Cognate with West Frisian wynje (“to winnow”), dialectal Dutch winden, winnen (“to winnow”), Middle High German winden (“to winnow”), Icelandic vinsa (“to pick out, weed”), Latin vannus (“a winnowing basket”). See fan, van. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnoʊ/, /ˈwɪnəʊ/ 1. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain. 2. The act of winnowing
Word: wino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnumbor. Proto-Germanic *wīną Proto-West Germanic *wīn Old English wīn Middle English wyn English wine English -o English wino From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”). Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪnəʊ/ 1. A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard. Labels: derogatory Example: My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long. 2. A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard. Labels: derogatory, especially Example: Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond Example: I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin. 3. A wine enthusiast. Labels: informal
Word: wino Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From W-boson + -ino. Pronunciation: /ˈwiːnəʊ/ 1. A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.
Word: winy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wyny; equivalent to wine + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪni/ 1. Having the taste or qualities of wine. Example: grapes of a winy taste Example: 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125, Take Cucumbers, or Pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted. 2. Relating to the effects of drinking wine; especially, winedrunk. Example: It was late on the morning following our last chapter, ere he thought he had got rid of as much of his winy headache as fitful sleep would carry off, and enveloped himself in a blue and yellow-flowered silk dressing-gown and Turkish slippers. Example: […] our banquet was turned by him to a battle and our winey mirths to bloody rages.
Word: wisp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”). Pronunciation: /wɪsp/ 1. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind. Example: a wisp of a child 2. A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out. Example: Across the country a wisp of smoke showed, then gunyahs, and in a moment more we were right in the bush camp. 3. A whisk, or small broom. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread 5. An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “She would get nothing from him, she saw, resentfully. Then some angel of grace lent her a few wisps, which she grasped. Example: Apparently it had been too much; for his sleep, though deep as death itself, was not dreamless this time, but threaded with ghostly wisps of dreams. 6. A flock of snipe. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: They shift their quarters in the early part of the season very suddenly, and if a man hears of a wisp of snipe in any particular place, he must be off at once. Example: A flock of snipe is given the collective name of a "wisp", perhaps due to its rapid twisting and turning before the birds drop down again. 7. A disease affecting the feet of cattle. Labels: uncountable
Word: wisp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”). Pronunciation: /wɪsp/ 1. To brush or dress, as with a wisp. Labels: transitive Example: The very same head of hair, wisp'd, and matted together, would make the most disagreeable figure. 2. To rumple. Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete 3. To produce a wisp, as of smoke. Labels: intransitive Example: To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corn-cobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down the scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across his shoulders as he leaned out the door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg. 4. To emit in wisps. Labels: transitive Example: It looked warm and rosy-bright inside, with a little chimney wisping smoke, little windows glowing.
Word: withe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English withe, withthe, from Old English wiþe, wiþþe (“cord, band, thong, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþiz, *wiþjǭ (“cord, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines”), from *weyt- (“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”). Cognate with Danish vidje (“wicker”), Swedish vidja (“withe, wicker, osier”), Icelandic við, viðja (“a withe”), Latin vītis (“vine”), Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch, bough, limb”). Doublet of vice (“a type of tool, etc.”). The brickwork and chimney architecture senses may have a different etymology, see wythe. Pronunciation: /wɪθ/, /wɪð/, /waɪð/ 1. A flexible, slender shoot or twig, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy. Example: It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window-shutters;[…] 2. A band of twisted twigs. Example: They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him. 3. An elastic handle to a tool to save the hand from the shock of blows. 4. An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured. Example: Some short topgallant masts are rigged with a withe on the after part of the mast-head, through which a sliding-gunter royal-mast is run up, with its heel resting in a step on the topmast cap. 5. Alternative spelling of wythe (“single section of bricks one unit thick”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] single withe of brick laid flat in common bond reinforced vertically by 8" piers Example: […] brick (single withe), one brick (two withes) or a brick-and-a-half thick. At the University of Virginia, Charlottesville , Thomas Jefferson demonstrated beautifully that a single withe of brick was adequate for[…] 6. Alternative spelling of wythe (“partition between flues in a chimney”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: ... chimney space, and the joints of any two adjoining sets of flue linings shall be offset at least 7 inches. When there are more than two flues in a chimney, each third flue shall be separated from the others by a withe or division[…] Example: ... flue intended for a heating furnace or boiler connection, or for a fireplace, shall be separated from other flues by such a withe. In hollow tile chimneys the withe may be of tile.
Word: withe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English withe, withthe, from Old English wiþe, wiþþe (“cord, band, thong, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþiz, *wiþjǭ (“cord, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines”), from *weyt- (“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”). Cognate with Danish vidje (“wicker”), Swedish vidja (“withe, wicker, osier”), Icelandic við, viðja (“a withe”), Latin vītis (“vine”), Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch, bough, limb”). Doublet of vice (“a type of tool, etc.”). The brickwork and chimney architecture senses may have a different etymology, see wythe. Pronunciation: /wɪθ/, /wɪð/, /waɪð/ 1. To bind with withes. Labels: transitive Example: As soon as the body of Deerslayer was withed in bark sufficiently to create a lively sense of helplessness, he was literally carried to a young tree, and bound against it, in a way that effectually prevented it from moving, Example: These frames are usually constructed of rough trees tightly withed and wedged together. 2. To beat with withes. Labels: transitive Example: Question. Did you hear of the circumstances of William Davis having been whipped on the 5th day of December, the day before the cutting took place? Answer Yes, sir; I did that evening, when he came home. Q. Did you examine where he had been withed? A. Yes, sir. Example: "He'll trim you up for tossing Suse that note," said Am Bayne to his own companion. / "Ye-es, and you'll get a withing, too," declared the other.
Word: withy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Old English wīþiġ. 1. An osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow. 2. A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe. Example: In the midst of the meadow was a space marked out with withies sixty paces either way for the wrastling ground.
Word: withy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From withe + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪð.i/, /ˈwɪθ.i/ 1. Flexible, like a withe. Labels: archaic Example: The Merlons, to the end that they may be good, ought to be made of Earth, the most eaſie to be tempered that may be: And this Earth ought alſo to be mixed with Withy Twigs, or Brambles, provided they take Root, after which they are to be lined with good Turff. Example: I would work at my spells from dawn until dusk, dig up roots and forget to eat, harvest the withy stems and weave baskets till they piled to the ceiling.
Word: witing Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of witting. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: witing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wite Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wiver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wyver. 1. Obsolete form of wyvern. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: woe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection). Cognates Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“woe”), Romanian vai (“woe”), Spanish guay (“way”), Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí, “woe!”), Albanian vaj (“woe!”), Latvian vai (“oh!”), Bulgarian уви́ (uví, “alas”), Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas!”), Serbo-Croatian авај, avaj (“alas!”), Armenian վայ (vay, “sorrow, woe”), Persian وای (vây, “woe”). Pronunciation: /wəʊ/, /woʊ/ 1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Oh, woe is me! Example: Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. 2. Calamity, trouble. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! Example: Don't let the little woes of life harm you / Let the joy in the life you lead / Let it charm you / Let it charm you now 3. A curse; a malediction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Word: woe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection). Cognates Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“woe”), Romanian vai (“woe”), Spanish guay (“way”), Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí, “woe!”), Albanian vaj (“woe!”), Latvian vai (“oh!”), Bulgarian уви́ (uví, “alas”), Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas!”), Serbo-Croatian авај, avaj (“alas!”), Armenian վայ (vay, “sorrow, woe”), Persian وای (vây, “woe”). Pronunciation: /wəʊ/, /woʊ/ 1. Woeful; sorrowful Labels: obsolete Example: hys clerk was wo to do þat dede Example: And looking vp, when as his shield he lakt, / And sword saw not, he wexed wondrous woe
Word: woe Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection). Cognates Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“woe”), Romanian vai (“woe”), Spanish guay (“way”), Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí, “woe!”), Albanian vaj (“woe!”), Latvian vai (“oh!”), Bulgarian уви́ (uví, “alas”), Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas!”), Serbo-Croatian авај, avaj (“alas!”), Armenian վայ (vay, “sorrow, woe”), Persian وای (vây, “woe”). Pronunciation: /wəʊ/, /woʊ/ 1. An exclamation of grief. Labels: archaic Example: Miranda: O woe, the day.
Word: woe Part of Speech: noun 1. A close friend; a nigga, homie or bro. Labels: slang
Word: wold Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wald, walde, weld, welde, wold, wolde, woolde, wæld, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”). Largely displaced by forest. Cognates Compare North Frisian wald, walt (“forest”), Saterland Frisian Woold (“forest”), West Frisian wâld (“forest”), Alemannic German and German Wald (“forest, woods”), Bavarian Woid (“forest, woods”), Cimbrian balt (“forest, woods”), Dutch woud (“forest, woods”), Low German Woold, Woolt (“forest”), Luxembourgish Wal (“forest”), Mòcheno bòlt (“wood, woodland”), Yiddish וואַלד (vald, “forest”), Danish val (“plain”), vold (“field, meadow”), Faroese vøllur (“lawn; field”), Icelandic völlur (“lawn; field”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk voll (“meadow”), Swedish vall (“field, pasture”); also Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (ú-e-el-lu-uš, “meadow, pasture”). See also wald, weald, ultimately of the same origin. Pronunciation: /wəʊld/, [wɒʊɫd], /wɒld/, /wəwld/, [wɔwɫd] 1. An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor. Labels: archaic, regional Example: Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold; Example: […]—I came with my cousin, Frank Osbaldistone, there, and I must shew him the way back again to the Hall, or he’ll lose himself in the wolds. 2. A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland. Labels: obsolete
Word: wold Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wolde. Pronunciation: /wəʊld/ 1. Old. Labels: Devon, West-Country, archaic, dialectal Example: "[A] girt wind had a-blowed the wold tree auver, so that his head were in the water." Example: "I've got a wold silver spoon, and a wold graven seal at home, too; but, Lord, what's a graven seal?"
Word: wrest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/ 1. To pull or twist violently. Labels: transitive 2. To obtain by pulling or violent force. Labels: transitive Example: He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel. Example: [D]id not ſhe / Of Timna [Delilah] firſt betray me, and reveal / The ſecret wreſted from me in her highth / Of Nuptial Love proteſt, carrying it ſtrait / To them who had corrupted her, my Spies, / And Rivals? 3. To seize. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; [...] Example: But the arrival of the new members of council from England, naturally had the effect of uniting the old servants of the [East India] Company. [John] Clavering, [George Henry] Monson, and [Philip] Francis formed the majority. They instantly wrested the government out of the hands of [Warren] Hastings; [...] 4. To distort, to pervert, to twist. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: And I beſeech you / Wreſt once the Law to your authority, / To do a great right, do a little wrong, / And curbe this cruell deuill of his will. Example: Thou ſhalt not wreſt the iudgement of thy poore in his cauſe. 5. To tune with a wrest, or key. Labels: transitive Example: The Harpe. A harpe geueth ſounde as it is ſette / The harper may wreſt it vntunablye
Word: wrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/ 1. The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. Example: Whereas therefore it is concluded out of theſe ſo weak Premiſſes, that the retaining of divers things in the Church of England, which other Reformed Churches have caſt out, muſt needs argue that we do not well, unleſs we can ſhew that they have done ill; what needed this wreſt to draw out from on an accuſation of forein Churches? 2. A key to tune a stringed instrument. Example: The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge Example: The Minstrel […] wore round his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. 3. Active or motive power. Labels: obsolete Example: Adowne he keſt it with ſo puiſſant wreſt, / That backe againe it did alofte rebowned, / And gaue againſt his mother earth a gronefull ſownd. 4. Ellipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete, rare
Word: wrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly a variant of wrist: see the quotation. Wrist is also derived from *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/ 1. A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. Example: Fig. 6 is the outline of a wheel having 40 buckets. […] The partitions, which determine the form of the buckets, conſiſt of three different planes or boards AB, BC, CD, which are variouſly named by different artiſts. We have heard them named the Start or Shoulder, the Arm, and the Wrest (probably for wriſt, on account of a reſemblance of the whole line to a human arm); […]
Word: wrest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A misspelling of rest, probably influenced by wrest (etymology 1, verb and noun). Pronunciation: /ɹɛst/ 1. A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself. Labels: dated, dialectal Example: [W]hen giving ley or stubble land a single furrow for a corn crop, the sock should never be so broad as the slice, but an inch or two within it; except, like the bent-sock it comes a good way back on the wrest: because this breadth of feather materially augments the draught; and, by cutting the slice clean out, before being embraced by the wrest, frequently causes it to be shot aside, in place of being turned over. Example: They [turn-wrest ploughs] are now so constructed that the ploughman can readily shift his coulter by means of a lever, which reaches the bottom of the handles, and also his wrests or mould-boards from side to side, without leaving his station between the handles of his plough, they being so arranged that by withdrawing a small pin and pressing the projecting wrest towards the body of the plough, the mould-boards on either side become alternately the land side when not in work.
Word: xylem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Xylem, from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”). Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪ.ləm/ 1. A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: xylene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From xyl- + -ene. Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪliːn/ 1. Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on […]
Word: yammer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”). Pronunciation: /ˈjæm.ə/, /ˈjæm.ɚ/ 1. To complain peevishly. Labels: intransitive 2. To talk loudly and persistently. Labels: intransitive 3. To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint. Labels: transitive 4. To make an outcry; to clamor. Labels: intransitive, rare Example: It was a ship, but a whale to the Dark Nebula’s minnow; and on its side was the Spaceship-and-Sun of the Empire. Every alarm on the ship yammered hysterically. 5. to repeatedly call someone's name. Labels: intransitive
Word: yammer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”). Pronunciation: /ˈjæm.ə/, /ˈjæm.ɚ/ 1. The act or noise of yammering. Labels: uncountable Example: The house is just as he had imagined it would be: rubbishy furniture, a clutter of ornaments (porcelain shepherdesses, cowbells, an ostrich-feather flywhisk), the yammer of the radio, the cheeping of birds in cages, cats everywhere underfoot. 2. A loud noise. Labels: uncountable Example: The ungodly scream of Jap wings in the wind, and the blood-chilling snarl and yammer of their aerial machine gun and aerial cannon fire was enough to make the very ground shake and tremble. 3. One who yammers. Labels: uncountable
Word: yawl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus. Pronunciation: /jɔːl/, /jɔl/, /jɑl/ 1. A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. 2. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post. Example: The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Word: yawl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Imitative. Pronunciation: /jɔːl/, /jɔl/, /jɑl/ 1. To cry out; to howl. Example: Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.
Word: yaws Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since the 1670s, perhaps from an English creole (or other language) of the Caribbean. Pronunciation: /ˈjɔːz/ 1. A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries. Labels: uncountable Example: Other threats came from organisms co-evolving with humans, including tapeworms and such spirochaetes as Treponema, the agent of syphilis, and the similar skin infection, yaws.
Word: yaws Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inflected forms. Pronunciation: /ˈjɔːz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of yaw Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: yaws Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inflected forms. Pronunciation: /ˈjɔːz/ 1. plural of yaw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative. Pronunciation: /jɪp/ 1. a sharp, high-pitched bark Example: I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
Word: yip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative. Pronunciation: /jɪp/ 1. to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
Word: yoke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See yolk. Pronunciation: /jəʊk/, /joʊk/ 1. Misspelling of yolk. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: yond Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English yond, from Old English ġeond. Pronunciation: /jɒnd/ 1. Further; more distant. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 2. Yonder. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Nightly she sings on yond Pomgranet tree, Example: Last night of all, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven.
Word: yond Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English yond, from Old English ġeond. Pronunciation: /jɒnd/ 1. Yonder. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.
Word: yond Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English onde (“malice, ill-will”), from Old English onda, anda (“envy, jealousy; hatred, anger”). Pronunciation: /jɒnd/ 1. Furious; mad; angry; fierce. Labels: obsolete Example: Emongst the shepheard swaynes, then wexeth wood & yond
Word: yucca Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava. Pronunciation: /ˈjʌkə/, /ˈjuːkə/ 1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. Example: YUCCA: The Indian Yucca; vulgô. / The Characters are; / It hath the Appearance of an Aloe, the Leaves ending in a ſharp Point, but will grow in the Habit of a Tree; […] The Species are; / 1. Yucca; foliis Aloes. C. B. P. The common Yucca. / 2. Yucca; foliis filamentoſis. Moriſs. Yucca with Threads growing from the Leaves.[…] Example: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns. 2. The yuca (cassava). Labels: obsolete, proscribed Example: Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made. Example: [A] second kind of bread is made of the root, called Yucca, which is bruised, and the juice, which is poisonous, expressed; it is then spread into broad thin cakes, and dried for use. In this shape it is called cassava, and though much esteemed by the natives, to a European palate (except perhaps a Scotch one) seems harsh, insipid, and little nutritious.
Word: zag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zig. Pronunciation: /zæɡ/ 1. One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. 2. One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. Example: Afterward, she returns to the Dragon Pit to announce her agreement to the truce. “The darkness is coming for us all. We will face it together. And when the Great War is over, perhaps you will remember that I chose to help, with no promises or assurances from any of you. I expect not.” The self-pity and pettiness is classic Cersei, but what a zag! It was always hard to imagine what this show looks like with all the humans on all sides temporarily working together.
Word: zag Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zig. Pronunciation: /zæɡ/ 1. To move with a sharp turn or reversal. Labels: intransitive
Word: Zaire Part of Speech: name Etymology: Truncation of Kongo nzadi o nzere (“river swallowing rivers”) which refers to the Congo river; adopted in accordance with the Authenticity Movement. Pronunciation: /zaɪˈɪə/, /zɑːˈɪəɹ/, /ˈzɑːɪɹ/, /zaɪˈeː/ 1. Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997. Labels: historical 2. Synonym of Congo (major river in Central Africa) Labels: historical 3. A province of Angola, named after the river
Word: zazen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 坐(ざ)禅(ぜん) (zazen), from 坐(ざ) (za, “sitting”) + 禅(ぜん) (zen, “meditation”). Pronunciation: /zɑːˈzɛn/ 1. A form of seated meditation in Zen Buddhism. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: If Professor Jaynes had extended his studies of introspection into zazen or yogic forms of meditation, he would understand that the ego is just such a construction that is extended over the gaps in time from moment to moment. Example: They had sent out scouts to try and locate the original cave where the practice of Zazen was first initiated.
Word: zester Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zest + -er. 1. A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.
Word: zig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zag. Pronunciation: /zɪɡ/ 1. A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction. 2. A kind of Jewish comedy skit. Example: Zigs at Kfar Hanassi were rooted firmly in the history of British comedy.
Word: zig Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zag. Pronunciation: /zɪɡ/ 1. To make such a turn. Labels: intransitive
Word: zig Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /zɪɡ/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of ZiG. Labels: alt-of
Word: zircon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Zirkon, possibly via French zircon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn), borrowed from Middle Persian zlgwn' (/⁠zargōn⁠/). Doublet of jargoon. Pronunciation: /ˈzɜː(ɹ)kən/ 1. A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia. Labels: uncountable Example: […] salamanders, mermaids, chimaeras, wild men o’ the woods, leviathans, all hewn from faultless gems, thrice the bulk of a big man’s body, velvet-dark sapphires, chrysolite, beryl, amethyst, and the yellow zircon that is like transparent gold. Example: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.) 2. A crystal of zircon, sometimes used as a false gemstone. Labels: countable Example: A zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses
Word: hocus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Shortened from hocus-pocus. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊkəs/ 1. To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat. Example: 1677, Poor Robin’s Visions, London: Arthur Boldero, Eighth Vision, p. 117, […] to contemplate the miseries of a poor Poetick life, or study some well laid plot to Hocus his Landlady into a further credence or belief […] Example: HOCUS. To cheat. Hence the more modern term hoax. 2. To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them). Labels: obsolete Example: […] but him they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing, i. e., clandestinely drugging the liquor of the victim with laudanum […] Example: The last of the criminal cases are the thieves, who admit of being classified as follows: […] (2.) Those who hocus or plunder persons by stupefying […] 3. To drug (liquor). Labels: obsolete Example: […] I think the wine of them two Governors was—I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind. Example: [He] served them out three fingers of rum apiece, which the bo’sun took upon himself to hocus. By latest accounts, they’re sleeping it off […] 4. To adulterate (food). Labels: obsolete Example: I had a healthy appetite, but the tradition was that all the food was unutterably bad, adulterated, hocussed. Example: “Those rotten Huns have been hocussing our grub.”
Word: hocus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from hocus-pocus. The verb is from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊkəs/ 1. A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand. Labels: obsolete Example: Certainly he was the bravest Ambodexter of his time, and this blinded age, or that ever was among us dull Northern people; and among the multitude of his Tricks, I shall commend to the Hocusses of Bartholomew Fair, for their information and edification, this Legerdemain (for it is supposed it will hardly be practicable any more in the Pulpit;) Example: I called freely for what was in the house, which was readily brought me; but when the servants beheld with what cele[r]ity, (Hocus like) and cleanly conveyance, I had disposed of what was before me, they verily believed in one week, I would cause a dearth in the house […] 2. One who cheats or deceives. Labels: obsolete Example: 1685, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Christ-Church, Oxon, Before the University, May 3. 1685” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 523, […] when thy Brother has lost all that ever he had, and lies languishing, and even gasping under the utmost extremities of poverty and distress, dost thou think thus to lick him whole again, only with thy Tongue? just like that old formal Hocus, who denyed a Beggar a farthing, and put him off with his Blessing. Example: I have the Originals at This Present in my Hand, and there is the Paw of Tong and Otes so manifestly in the very Writing of them; as if they had not thought it worth the while to Disguise the Cheat. It was an Imposture, that their very Souls, Heads, Hearts, and Hands were All at Work upon; And the Forgery Vndeniable; only Tong Himself was the Master-Hocus. 3. Trick; trickery. Example: As in almost every Chapter of his Book, so in this Seventh, he has a new Hocus to carry on his old design […] Example: The Jugler and the Judge, too, may complain, For both now strive to cheat the World in vain; In slight and shift and Trick they both agree, But a quick Eye may all their Hocus see: 4. Drugged liquor. Labels: obsolete
Word: hutted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of hut Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hutted Part of Speech: adj 1. Containing or composed of huts. Labels: not-comparable Example: The main, hutted section of Brockenhurst consisted of two 10-ward wings, each with 36 beds; there was also a central administration block, an operating theatre, an X-ray room, a dental surgery and a dispensary.