nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cold reading Part of Speech: noun 1. The technique, or an instance, of using likely guesses and assumptions, then narrowing in on any positive responses, in order to give the impression of having information about a person or event. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The self-described psychic was merely using cold reading. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, reading. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Acting auditions often include cold reading.
Word: remote sensing Part of Speech: noun 1. The capability to gain information about an object without coming in direct contact with it, for example via satellite imaging or thermal imaging. Labels: uncountable 2. Remote viewing. Labels: uncountable
Word: rummage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English ronage, from Old French arrumage (compare French arrimage), from arrumer (“to arrange the cargo in the hold”) (compare French arrimer and Spanish arrumar). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌm.ɪd͡ʒ/ 1. To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods. Labels: transitive 2. To search a vessel for smuggled goods. Labels: transitive Example: After the long voyage, the customs officers rummaged the ship. 3. To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged. Labels: transitive Example: She rummaged her purse in search of the keys. Example: The burglars rummaged the entire house for cash and jewellery. 4. To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside; dig through carelessly. Labels: intransitive Example: She rummaged in the drawers trying to find the missing sock. Example: Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
Word: rummage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ronage, from Old French arrumage (compare French arrimage), from arrumer (“to arrange the cargo in the hold”) (compare French arrimer and Spanish arrumar). Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌm.ɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Have a rummage through the attic and see if you can find anything worth selling. Example: He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. 2. Commotion; disturbance. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 3. A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: indiscriminate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1598; from in- + discriminate. Pronunciation: /ɪn.dɪsˈkɹɪm.ɪn.ət/ 1. Not marked by discrimination or discernment; (by extension) confused, promiscuous. Example: Otanes […] commanded an indiscriminate slaughter, without regard to age or to place. Example: The UK's fishing industry has complained that Ocean is “indiscriminate” (arguably an ironic adjective for anyone involved in trawling). 2. Without care in making distinctions, thoughtless. Example: How can anyone be so indiscriminate in making friends as he is? Example: An animal so indiscriminate in its eating habits that it eats coal, boat cushions, and tomtoms, would be only too eager to taste a swimmer or a diver—which must look more edible than an unopened can of salmon.
Word: genetic gap Part of Speech: noun 1. A flaw in the DNA.
Word: glass water Part of Speech: noun 1. A solution of sodium silicate in water. Labels: uncountable
Word: glottometrics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From glotto- + -metrics. 1. The quantitative research of words and text. Labels: uncountable
Word: gongoozle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly arose from Lincolnshire dialect, in which gawn and gooze both mean stare or gape. Popularised by L. T. C. Rolt in Narrow Boat (1944), a book on canal life. 1. To leisurely watch the passage of boats, from the bank of a canal, lock or bridge. Labels: intransitive 2. To observe things idly. Labels: intransitive
Word: gooseneck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goose + neck. Pronunciation: /ˈɡusˌnɛk/ 1. Anything with a slender curved shape, resembling the neck of a goose, such as the shaft of some lamps. Labels: attributive, often Example: A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces. Example: The gooseneck microphone. Mounted to the desk or to the side wall of the booth, the gooseneck offers a limited degree of flexibility for height and depth adjustment of the microphone. 2. The swivel connection on a sailboat located near the bottom of the mast that the boom attaches to. When a sailboat performs a tack or a jibe the gooseneck swings the boom from one side of the boat to the other. Example: The port-brace, and immediately afterwards the starboard-brace, of the crojack-yard--carried away. This was the big, lowest spar on the mizzen, and as the huge thing of steel swung wildly back and forth the gangster and his followers turned and crouched as they looked up to see. Next, the gooseneck of the truss, on which it pivoted, smashed away. Immediately the lifts and lower-topsail sheets parted, and with a fore-and-aft pitch of the ship the spar up-ended and crashed to the deck upon Number Three hatch, destroying that section of the bridge in its fall. 3. Ellipsis of gooseneck barnacle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. Ellipsis of gooseneck loosestrife. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: gooseneck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From goose + neck. Pronunciation: /ˈɡusˌnɛk/ 1. To seal (a bag) securely by twisting, folding, and cinching or taping. Labels: transitive
Word: dandruff Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare dander. The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian Middle English hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3). Pronunciation: /ˈdændɹʌf/, /ˈdændɹʊf/, /ˈdændɹəf/, [ˈdɛəndɹəf] 1. scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Dandruff is on my collar again.
Word: dandruff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare dander. The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian Middle English hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3). Pronunciation: /ˈdændɹʌf/, /ˈdændɹʊf/, /ˈdændɹəf/, [ˈdɛəndɹəf] 1. To fall or cover with white flakes, like dandruff. Example: The toaster is broken and salt is dandruffing my wool sweater.
Word: grabass Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grab + ass. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæbˌæs/ 1. Sexual groping; erotic horseplay. Labels: informal, often, uncountable Example: [T]hey wouldn't do any work then, just hang around and drink and play grabass with her and she didn't want that. Example: Bobby was bear-hugging Sammy Vaughn and then playing grab-ass with Sammy's ex-wife Alice. 2. Rowdy behavior; general horseplay or foolery. Labels: informal, often, uncountable Example: There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. Example: "Anything else? Yes, Lieutenant Lemmon?" "Yes, sir," Lemmon drawled. "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?" "Knock off the grabass, Glen. Okay, listen up. When you brief your people, make it clear that our mission is defensive only."
Word: grabass Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From grab + ass. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæbˌæs/ 1. To fool around. Labels: informal Example: The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of ‘Adeste Fideles’: […] grabassing around, trying to push each other over the side.
Word: gray hat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil. 1. A morally ambiguous character; an antihero. Labels: idiomatic 2. A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does sometimes commit crimes. Labels: slang
Word: habitué Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French habitué, past participle of habituer (“to frequent”), from Late Latin habituare (“to habituate”), from habitus. Pronunciation: /həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/ 1. One who frequents a place. Example: A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat. Example: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. 2. A devotee.
Word: ha'nt Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /hænt/ 1. Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”) Labels: Southern-US, US, alt-of, alternative, especially Example: Joe-Bob and Nelly swore up and down that the thing that pushed their pick-up into the ditch wasn't a big brown bear, but a spectral ha'nt, most likely Joe-Bob's deceased ex-wife.
Word: ha'nt Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /hænt/ 1. Alternative form of haunt, haint Labels: Southern-US, US, alt-of, alternative, especially Example: “[…] Injun Joe’s ghost is round about there, certain.” “No it ain’t, Huck, no it ain’t. It would ha’nt the place where he died—away out at the mouth of the cave—five mile from here.” Example: Riley and one of the others were so much afraid of the ghost that “ha’nted” the old house, that they set out straightway for Greenbank, leaving their boats.
Word: head-butting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of head-butt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: head-butting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of giving a headbutt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: escalator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary. Pronunciation: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/, /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/ 1. Anything that escalates. Example: Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation. 2. A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another. Example: There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator. Example: It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations. 3. An upward or progressive course. Example: Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream 4. An escalator clause. Example: They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
Word: escalator Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary. Pronunciation: /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/, /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/ 1. To move by escalator. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: We escalatored to the second floor.
Word: hondel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yiddish האַנדלען (handlen, “to trade”), from German handeln. Doublet of handle. Pronunciation: /ˈhɒndəl/ 1. To bargain; to haggle. Labels: intransitive Example: It's the clanging of cash registers, the banging of beads, hawking, hondelling and the hooting of horns. Example: Some might call it religious hondeling, but Rabbi Rosenbaum finds himself doing just that, and more often than he cares to admit.
Word: Ian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic Eòin. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.ən/, /ˈaɪ.ən/ 1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic Eòin, equivalent to English John. Example: “If you want a Scotch name why don’t you call him Jock?” Macgregor looked disgusted. “Because Jock is not a name, but a diminutive, as everybody knows well. It is the diminutive of John. And John is not a Scots name. The Scots form of that name is Ian. If you want to call him Ian Fetch, I shall say no more”. Example: After an inquest's ruling yesterday, it is now official that the newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, was unlawfully killed amid the policing of the G20 protests in 2009. Many who saw the footage the Guardian obtained, which showed PC Simon Harwood striking Mr Tomlinson just before his death, will regard the verdict as a statement of the blindingly obvious.
Word: iceteroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of ice + asteroid. 1. An asteroid made of ice.
Word: whistle walk Part of Speech: noun 1. The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food. Labels: US, idiomatic
Word: rag-chewing Part of Speech: noun 1. Among Morse code operators, a longer-than-usual conversation. Labels: slang
Word: ramrod Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ram + rod. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæmɹɒd/, /ˈɹæmɹɑd/ 1. Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant. 2. Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done. 3. An erect penis. Labels: slang Example: Half a second after that, she had him totally pinned while he thrust at her crotch with his ramrod, going thud thud thud like a blind dog in a maze. Hitting everything but the entrance she craved.
Word: ramrod Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From ram + rod. Pronunciation: /ˈɹæmɹɒd/, /ˈɹæmɹɑd/ 1. To force; to coerce. Labels: transitive Example: That new project manager is just the one to ramrod this through to completion. 2. To force to remain upright. Labels: broadly Example: He bristled and sat there, motionless, as if ramrodded.
Word: ryot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: 17th century. From Hindi रैयत (raiyat, “peasant”), from Urdu رعیت (ra'iyat, “peasant”), from Classical Persian رَعِیَّت (ra'iyyat, “population, peasants”), from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya, “flock, herd”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪ.ɪt/, /ˈɹaɪ.ət/ 1. A farmer or tiller of the soil. Labels: India Example: We have seen, however, how the condition arose, namely, that the Government at first half-intended to make a permanent settlement direct with the ryots, but subsequently altered its intention and devolved this duty upon the zemindars. Example: Scattered about the grazing and arable country are now small towers of refuge, loop-holed for defense, to which ryots working in the fields, or shepherds tending their flocks, fled for safety in case of a sudden appearance of Turcoman marauders.
Word: image consultant Part of Speech: noun 1. A person whose occupation is to advise others on visual appearance, and verbal and non-verbal communication.
Word: damsel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English dameisele, from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, a diminutive from Classical Latin domina (“mistress, lady”), from dominus, from *demh₂-. Doublet of demoiselle, doncella, and donzella. Pronunciation: /ˈdæm.zəl/, [ˈdɛəm.zɫ̩], [ˈdɛːm.zɫ̩] 1. A young woman (of noble birth). 2. A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience). 3. A young woman who is not married. 4. An unmarried lady-in-waiting. 5. A young, attractive woman. Example: And here I might (if I followed the example of most travellers) launch out into a glowing description of the charms of these damsels, the elegant costumes they wore, and the gold and silver ornaments with which they were adorned. The jacket or body of purple gauze would figure well in such a description, allowing the heaving bosom to be seen beneath it, while "sparkling eyes," and "jetty tresses," and "tiny feet" might be thrown in profusely. But, alas! 6. A chattering damsel (component of a mill). Example: The spout that conveys the grain from the hopper to the eye or centre of the upper millstone rests against the spindle, just at the damsel, and thus receives an alternate back and forward motion, […]
Word: impersonator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English im- Latin persōna Anglo-Norman persouneder. Middle English persoun English person Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English impersonate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English impersonator From impersonate + -or. 1. One who fraudulently impersonates another person. 2. An entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others.
Word: impulsivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English impulsive Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English impulsivity From impulsive + -ity. 1. The quality of being impulsive, impulsiveness; inclination to act on impulse rather than thought. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial. However, in environments in which rewards are uncertain, such as when experimenters are unreliable, eating the single marshmallow right away may be beneficial. Thus, impulsivity can be understood as an adaptive response to the contingencies present in an unstable environment rather than a moral failure in which animalistic drives overwhelm human rationality.
Word: infratentorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin īnfrābor. English infra- English tentorial English infratentorial From infra- + tentorial. 1. Below the tentorium cerebelli. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon; strength, force”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/, /ˌɪn.əˈtɹɒp.ɪk/, /ˌiː.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/, /ˌaɪ.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/, /ˌiː.nəˈtɹɑp.ɪk/ 1. Increasing or decreasing the force of muscular contractions. Labels: not-comparable
Word: inotropic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon; strength, force”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/, /ˌɪn.əˈtɹɒp.ɪk/, /ˌiː.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/, /ˌaɪ.nəˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/, /ˌiː.nəˈtɹɑp.ɪk/ 1. An inotropic heart drug.
Word: long pork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reportedly coined because cannibals attest that human meat tastes like pork. 1. Human flesh. Labels: euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable Example: […] the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork. Example: Cannibals do not eat "long pork" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.
Word: intrapreneurship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of intra- + entrepreneurship. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː.ʃɪp/, /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/, /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ.ʃɪp/ 1. The practice of applying entrepreneurial skills and approaches within an established company. Labels: uncountable 2. Being creative with ideas and procedures Labels: uncountable
Word: monotransitive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- English transitive English monotransitive From mono- + transitive. 1. pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: monkey jacket Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of close-fitting jacket worn by sailors. Labels: dated Example: You bully boys of Liverpool, I'll have you to beware, When you sail on them packet ships, no dungaree jumpers wear; But have a big monkey jacket all ready to your hand, For there blows some cold nor'westers on the Banks of Newfoundland. Example: We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers. 2. A semiformal lightweight jacket, usually made of nylon, with striped cuffs and neck, similar to an MA-1 flight jacket. 3. A hospital gown. Labels: US, slang
Word: Irusha Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name from Hebrew, a form of Jerusha. 2. A male given name, a common Sri Lankan name that dates back to 2000 B.C.E.
Word: Joe Schmo Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Joe Schmoe. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative, informal
Word: dudette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dude + -ette. Pronunciation: /d(j)uːˈdɛt/ 1. A girl or woman, especially a masculine one. Labels: humorous, often, slang Example: It's an album [by George Strait] with ballads and toe-tappers for those "dudes and dudettes" reminiscing about high school football games, family and life over a cold beer. Example: As my (metal) knees set off all the security thingies, I am subjected to touchy, feely sessions—usually by a dudette with fat, sweaty hands—before being allowed to wait at the gate for hour after hour. The Joy Of Watching Hockey It is a lovely fall. 2. A cowgirl, especially a tenderfoot. Labels: slang Example: Most memorable thing about the first branding work a dude or a dudette witnesses is likely to be the heart-rending " BAWR- R-R-R-R!" of the calf or other animal under the hot iron. Example: "Dudettes" in cowgirl outfits combed the business district of Phoenix 3. A cowboy's wife, or a woman who moves out west with the intention of marrying a cowboy. Labels: slang Example: I'll be cow—hooked if she ain't the best looking thing that's come over the mountains since I married my own dudette! Example: Saturday evening, March 11, the Dudettes (wives and sweethearts of the Jaycees ) will give their annual all- Western dance at Bud Brown's Barn. 4. A girl or woman who is noted for being tough or capable. Example: Maddy was a dainty and feminine tomboy with a disposition both loving and tough as nails. She was a “dudette” and a debutant. What could have been clashing opposites were perfectly blended in her.
Word: junior bridesmaid Part of Speech: noun 1. A young woman who is too young to be a full bridesmaid, but too old to be a flower girl. The junior bridesmaid usually walks down the aisle unaccompanied by a groomsman, but can be accompanied if the wedding party has an uneven number of people.
Word: darkly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English derkely, equivalent to dark + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːkli/, /ˈdɑɹkli/ 1. Relating to darkness or obscurity. Labels: poetic Example: A Scanner Darkly Example: Earth's noblest sons are schooled in hut and cell, As purest gems in darkliest caverns dwell.
Word: kanoodle Part of Speech: verb 1. Rare spelling of canoodle. Labels: alt-of, rare Example: He was a truly good man, and did not believe there were any bad men in the world, who would kanoodle him with a stone crusher. Example: And above all things, do not let her kanoodle you with soft words and looks of love, because she is full of 'em. If she can't scare you, with her indignation at the outrage of arresting and searching her, she will try to capture you and make you love her. You must be as firm as adamant.
Word: Kees Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: kicking ass Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of kick ass Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: manstress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of man + mistress, not attested before 1980. 1. A male equivalent of "mistress"; a male object of one's affections who lies outside of one's primary relationship. Labels: slang Example: Tom and Nicole had been married for several years, but it was well known that she was keeping a manstress on the side. Example: 4. Thou shalt commit adultery, or preadultery: If it feeleth good, do it. Particularly if you're French, and keeping a mistress or manstress is expected.
Word: kourotrophos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Presumably from Kourotrophos, itself from Ancient Greek κουροτρόφος (kourotróphos). Assigned by Elizabeth B. French, c. 1970 1. Any of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
Word: mammologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English mammology Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logiebor. English -logy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English -logist English -ologist English mammologist From mammology + -ologist. 1. Alternative spelling of mammalogist. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: flauta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish flauta, with same meaning, because of its shape, resembling a flute. Doublet of flute and fluyt. Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊ̯tə/, [ˈflaʊ̯tʰə], [ˈflaʊ̯ɾə] 1. A type of fried cylindrical tortilla or taco.
Word: swole Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain. Pronunciation: /swəʊl/, /swoʊl/ 1. Swollen, enlarged. Labels: dialectal Example: Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the evenin' and now a lump on his head the size of a hen's egg where the potato masher's hit him. Example: Hell fahr, I bet my head is so swole with law I oughta be jedge and make them lawyers yore-honor me all day long, till cows drop coon-hounds stid of calves and bulls grow tits. 2. Swollen, enlarged. Labels: dialectal, slang Example: I ain't swole enough, brah. I gotta work out in the gym more. Example: I will find something to slit my throat or hang some sheets from the ceiling or make one of these big, swole niggaz in here so mad at me that they break my neck. 3. Swollen, enlarged. Labels: dialectal, slang Example: her titties got me swole. Example: You'd like him a lot. Big and all swole up thinking about you. What kind of panties you got on, Olive? 4. Full (of something); bursting with. Labels: figuratively Example: Sourdough went on to explain the occasion for the festivity. "The Popplewells are so swole with pride now they got the upstairs house finished that they got to give a house-warmin'." Example: Honey, I'm all swole up with pride. Here's the horrible part. You're going to have to stay here and meet Norman. 5. Extremely proud or arrogant. Labels: figuratively Example: Strangers weren't sure she was drunk, but I knew. Granny got braggish when drunk. She got swole up about herself. When she took to bragging on her thoughts and notions it was time to jump from the station wagon and walk or brace for a crash. Example: Just shut your hole and listen, swole-headed prick. 6. Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion. Labels: figuratively, usually Example: Every once in a while, maybe twice a year, Bessie gets all galled under the britchin' about something [...] Usually over some triflin' little thing that don't amount to a hill of beans, like I won't wash my feet or something, but she gets all swole up like a snakebit pup and says she's leavin' me for good this time. Example: She could pitch drunks out in the street like horseshoes and before then I'd never thought of her in a lovely way, she being big and thick, but now I saw her in Pugh's office peeling off her Wranglers and showing her dimpled thighs and I just got all swole up with lonesome.
Word: swole Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain. Pronunciation: /swəʊl/, /swoʊl/ 1. simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen. Labels: Southern-US, also, form-of, participle, past Example: His arm just swole up. Example: I ate until my belly had swole.
Word: lifting gas Part of Speech: noun 1. A gas, such as helium or hydrogen, that is used to produce buoyancy for e.g. balloons or airships. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lantzman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish לאַנדסמאַן (landsman). Doublet of landsman. 1. A fellow Jew who grew up in the same Eastern European shtetl as the speaker. 2. A countryman, cohort or sympathizer. 3. A man respected in the community for his wisdom or knowledge of Torah and Jewish teachings.
Word: letter carrier Part of Speech: noun 1. An employee of the post office who delivers mail (post) to, and collects it from, a residence or business, or from public mailboxes.
Word: Lowri Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Welsh Lowri. Pronunciation: /ləʊ̯.ɹi/, /loʊ̯.ɹi/ 1. A female given name from Welsh.
Word: minatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius. Compare menace. Pronunciation: /ˈmɪn.ə.tɔːɹ.iː/, /ˈmɪn.ə.toɹ.i/, /ˈmɪn.ʌ.toɹ.i/, /ˈmɪn.ə.toːɹ.iː/, /ˈmən.ə.toːɹ.iː/ 1. Threatening, menacing. Example: […]the Place de Grève, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel;[…] Example: Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
Word: malparry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English parry English malparry From mal- (“bad”) + parry. 1. A parry that insufficiently removes the incoming blade from the target area.
Word: final cut Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the fact that in the days of physical film for cinema, the strips of film on which various scenes and takes were recorded had to be cut into pieces and spliced together into a resultant composite strip. 1. In the movie industry, the final released version of a film. Labels: idiomatic 2. The group that remains when a selection process has eliminated other candidates. Labels: broadly, idiomatic
Word: swivel gun Part of Speech: noun 1. A small cannon attached to a swivel or pivot. It was usually located on a ship's rail so it could have a large range of fire, and could fire anything ranging from small round balls of lead to cannon balls. Example: On this roof a heavy swivel-gun was to be placed to command shipping, while howitzers on each side were to form a flanking defense in connection with the neighboring towers. Example: The captain came to the break of the quarter-deck and, perceiving the fun afoot, leaned on the swivel-gun.
Word: supernumerary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin supernumerarius (“extra soldier added to a legion; supernumerary”), from super (“above; beyond”) + numerus (“number; collection, quantity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals). The word is analysable as super- + numeral + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˌsuːpəˈnjuːm(ə)ɹ(ə)ɹi/, /ˌsupɚˈn(j)uməˌɹɛɹi/ 1. A person who works in a group, association, or public office without forming part of the regular staff (the numerary). Example: The judge was a supernumerary, helping the regular judges whenever there was a surplus amount of work. Example: The Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Bombardiers, Fifers, Gunners, Private Men, and Boys of the Royal Marines belonging to Her Majesty's Ships or Vessels, whether entered on the Ship's Books as part of the complement, or borne as supernumeraries, except when borne for a passage for service on shore, shall be considered entitled to the same advantages as the rest of the Ship's Company. 2. An extra or walk-on, often non-speaking, in a film or play; a spear carrier. Example: [A] minor actor or supernumerary often has a better opportunity to watch great actors than the great actors themselves. Example: Though little is known about Noble Luke Usher before his first recorded performance in Washington, D.C., in 1800, it is certain that he made the rounds of the eastern theatres as a supernumerary before as well as after that year. 3. Something which is beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number. Example: On each side the glass hung one of the large engravings; another over the secretary, facing the window, and the fourth, which for some time seemed a supernumerary, over the door. Example: Ideally, the surgery is timed so that removal of the supernumerary tooth does not interfere with permanent tooth development. The earlier the supernumerary can be removed, however, the more likely it is that the permanent teeth will erupt normally. Surgery to remove a supernumerary is often complicated, especially if there are multiple supernumerary teeth or if access to the supernumerary tooth is limited. These patients are appropriately referred to a specialist. 4. An animal which has not formed a pair bond and is therefore single. Example: The best evidence so far that social supernumeraries are physically capable of bettering their lot concerns not rodents but birds. Example: There are differences in the composition of the social group [of certain birds] such as whether one or more sex provides help, and the stability of the associations between supernumeraries and the dominant breeders. 5. A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution. Example: “Supernumeraries”, the bulk of Opus Dei members, can marry and live in their own homes, with slightly fewer spiritual obligations.
Word: supernumerary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin supernumerarius (“extra soldier added to a legion; supernumerary”), from super (“above; beyond”) + numerus (“number; collection, quantity”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns or numerals). The word is analysable as super- + numeral + -ary. Pronunciation: /ˌsuːpəˈnjuːm(ə)ɹ(ə)ɹi/, /ˌsupɚˈn(j)uməˌɹɛɹi/ 1. Greater in number than. Labels: not-comparable Example: This method applies to the observation of angles, usually obtained by repetitions; and instead of equating directions, as in the first method, its object is to furnish the most probable values for the several observed angles from a supernumerary number of angles. 2. Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra. Labels: not-comparable Example: I believe a hive, or swarm, has but one queen, at least I have never found more than one in a swarm, or in an old hive in the winter; and probably this is what constitutes a hive; for when there are two queens, it is likely that a division may begin to take place. Supernumerary queens are mentioned by Riem, who asserts he has seen them killed by the labourers, as well as the males. Example: [T]he same agreeable and mild flavour can be imparted, as far as human experience has yet gone, by rennet, of which the basis is the coagulated milk in the stomachs of calves and lambs. The number of stomachs prepared must of course depend upon the number of cheeses to be made in a season, but prudence suggests the expedience of always having a supernumerary number. 3. Beyond the prescribed or standard amount or number; excess, extra. Labels: not-comparable, specifically Example: a supernumerary nipple; a supernumerary tooth Example: It [the term disk] means a supernumerary organ, different from the stamens or petals, and originating at the base of one or other of them. Nothing can well be more variable in its nature than this disk; in the Mignonette it is, as you see, a one-sided, hairy lobe; […] 4. Beyond what is necessary; redundant. Labels: not-comparable Example: Resolved, that the Curators be authorized to exchange with other societies or individuals, such duplicate or supernumerary specimens of coins, medals, minerals and other articles as they may deem unnecessary to be retained in the Cabinet of the Society, for such other specimens, of equal value, as they may consider desirable to be added to the Society's present collection; […]
Word: swillking Part of Speech: noun 1. A drunkard; said of someone who drinks until the alcohol can be heard swillking about in their stomach. Labels: slang
Word: tambou Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Haitian Creole, variant of tanbou. 1. A type of drum in the French Caribbean, made of a hollowed-out tree trunk covered in animal skin.
Word: telesis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέλεσις (télesis, “accomplishment”). 1. Directed social advancement via education and the scientific method. Labels: uncountable
Word: toodeloo Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative spelling of toodle-oo. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: RAF Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Royal Air Force, the British RAF. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was responding to a report last week about an item in the 2024 US air force budget for building a dormitory at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for personnel on a “potential surety mission” – military jargon for nuclear safety and security. 2. Initialism of Russian Armed Forces (To avoid confusing with the preceding sense, the Russian Armed Forces are more often abbreviated in other ways, like RuAF.) Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, rare Example: This paper discusses ongoing military reforms in the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and tries to determine[…] Example: Russia's military intervention in the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Crimea and the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) display of military might[…] 3. The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). 4. Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 5. Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.
Word: poodle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From German Pudel, a shortened form of Pudelhund, a compound of Hund (“dog”) and the German Low German term Pudel, Pūdel (“puddle”), from the onomatopoeic term pudeln (“to splash about”). First attested in 1773 in the noun sense 1. The verb sense references the appearance a poodle with shaved legs, displaying its skin. Pronunciation: /ˈpuː.dəl/, /ˈpu.dəl/ 1. A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy. Example: Unnamed Vato 1: Maybe I do have more issues than a magazine stand, but all those magazines are puro fancy. I never wanted to be a vato. I just want to groom and train poodles. Mocho: I secretly groom and train poodles. Chalaza: Are you guys messing with me? Whenever you turn your back, I secretly groom and train poodles. Watch. Turn your back. I'm doing it. I'm doing it! Unnamed Vato 1: I can't see. My back is turned. 2. A person servile towards someone whom they consider their superior. Labels: figuratively
Word: poodle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From German Pudel, a shortened form of Pudelhund, a compound of Hund (“dog”) and the German Low German term Pudel, Pūdel (“puddle”), from the onomatopoeic term pudeln (“to splash about”). First attested in 1773 in the noun sense 1. The verb sense references the appearance a poodle with shaved legs, displaying its skin. Pronunciation: /ˈpuː.dəl/, /ˈpu.dəl/ 1. To wear a partial fursuit, typically the head and hands, while showing one's skin. Labels: slang
Word: wingless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English wing Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English wingless From wing + -less. 1. Having no, or only rudimentary, wings. Labels: not-comparable Example: Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs. Example: I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
Word: winged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge. Pronunciation: /wɪŋɪd/, /wɪŋd/ 1. Having wings. Labels: not-comparable Example: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo. 2. Having wings. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: weak-winged 3. Having wings. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable Example: The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God. 4. Flying or soaring as if on wings. Labels: not-comparable 5. Swift. Labels: not-comparable Example: Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes, That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne, And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.
Word: winged Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See wing (verb). Pronunciation: /wɪŋd/ 1. simple past and past participle of wing Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: winged Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See winge (verb). Pronunciation: /wɪnd͡ʒd/ 1. simple past and past participle of winge Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: optimism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French optimisme, equivalent to Latin optimus + -ism. Pronunciation: /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/, /ˈɒptɪmɪzəm/ 1. a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome Labels: uncountable, usually Example: I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine. Example: Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people. 2. the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds Labels: uncountable, usually 3. the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: optimist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos ? Latin optimus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French optim(isme) ▲ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French optimistebor. English optimist Borrowed from French optimiste. Pronunciation: /ˈɑptɪmɪst/, /ˈɒptɪmɪst/ 1. A person who expects a favourable outcome. Example: We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future. Example: People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.; 2. A believer in optimism.
Word: determined Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnd/, /dɪˈtɝmɪnd/ 1. Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged. Example: I'm determined to get a good grade on my exam. Example: Shortly after midnight a determined attempt was made to wreck a portion of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, by means of an explosive bomb.
Word: determined Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnd/, /dɪˈtɝmɪnd/ 1. simple past and past participle of determine Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: determining Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɝmɪnɪŋ/, /dɪˈtɝmənɪŋ/ 1. Determinative; causal. Example: This is suggestive that financial clout is a more determining factor in trade policy outcomes than voting power. Example: The discourse of the community economy thus questions the practice of singling out certain activities as necessarily or invariably more important, more independent, more determining of economic “health” and distinguishing them from those that are more expendable, dependent, and less determining or potentially destructive within the economy.
Word: determining Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɝmɪnɪŋ/, /dɪˈtɝmənɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of determine Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: optional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From option + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈɒp.ʃə.nəl/, /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/ 1. Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective. Labels: not-comparable Example: On that beach clothing is entirely optional. Example: Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.