nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: wizard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance. However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún). The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme in which virgins who are typically friendless, shy outcasts and loners who don't fit in anywhere legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces. Compare typologically specialist (<< Latin speciō). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪzəd/, /ˈwəzəd/, /ˈwɪzɚd/, [ˈwɪzɚd] ~ [ˈwɪzɹ̩d], /ˈwɪzəɾd/ 1. To practice wizardry. Labels: intransitive 2. To conjure. Labels: transitive
Word: lubricant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lubricate Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English lubricant From lubricate + -ant. Pronunciation: /ˈlubɹəkənt/, /ˈluːbɹɪkənt/, /ˈljuːbɹɪkənt/ 1. A substance used to reduce friction between objects or surfaces. Example: Before you apply the lubricant, be sure the chain gets a good cleaning with a stiff bristle brush and a good rub down in clean rags or shop towels. Example: She'd come back from the hangar with Clint and some shop towels for Bendix's wound. 2. A personal lubricant.
Word: balloon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1591, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball. Pronunciation: /bəˈluːn/, /bəˈlun/ 1. An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible. 2. Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration. 3. Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air. Example: We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea. 4. A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty. 5. A speech bubble. 6. A wide rounded glass with a stem and foot, used for wine, brandy, etc. 7. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc. Example: the balloon of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London 8. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. 9. A bomb or shell. 10. A game played with a large inflated ball. Labels: obsolete 11. The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. 12. A woman's breast. Labels: slang 13. A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc. Labels: slang Example: And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants. 14. Synonym of balloon payment. Example: The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.
Word: balloon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First use appears c. 1591, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball. Pronunciation: /bəˈluːn/, /bəˈlun/ 1. To increase or expand rapidly. Labels: intransitive Example: His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal. Example: Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly. 2. To go up or voyage in a balloon. Labels: intransitive 3. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. Labels: transitive 4. To inflate like a balloon. Labels: transitive Example: A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom. 5. To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air. Labels: transitive Example: After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out. 6. Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down. Example: The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.
Word: rishathra Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Generalized from the term coined by American writer Larry Niven in his Ringworld novels. 1. Sex between any two (or more) humanoids of different species. Labels: uncountable
Word: Europa Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐρώπη (Eurṓpē), a character name in Greek mythology. Doublet of Europe. Pronunciation: /jʊˈɹoʊpə/ 1. Several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus. Labels: Greek 2. A moon in Jupiter. 3. 52 Europa, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon.
Word: armed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English arm Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English armed From arm (“to equip with a weapon”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ɑɹmd/, /ɑːmd/, /ˈɑːɹmɪd/ 1. Equipped, especially with a weapon. Labels: in-compounds, sometimes Example: nuclear-armed 2. Equipped, especially with a weapon. Labels: in-compounds, sometimes, specifically Example: The violence began when Serbian troops went into Croatia ostensibly to aid armed ethnic Serbians trying to create their own autonomous states there. 3. Prepared for use; loaded. 4. Furnished with something that serves to add strength, force, or efficiency. Labels: obsolete Example: a distemper eminently armed from heaven Example: The naked eye then will immediately direct us, by means of the two stars just mentioned, towards the place where, in the finder, the armed eye will perceive the double star in question about ¾ degree from the 44th Lyncis. 5. Having prickles or thorns.
Word: armed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English arm Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English armed From arm (“to equip with a weapon”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ɑɹmd/, /ɑːmd/, /ˈɑːɹmɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of arm Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: armed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English arm Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English armed From arm (“the upper limb of the body”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ɑɹmd/, /ɑːmd/, /ˈɑːɹmɪd/ 1. Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type. Labels: in-compounds, not-comparable 2. Possessing arms of a specified number or type. Labels: not-comparable Example: the four-armed creature Example: the strong-armed man 3. Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole. Labels: not-comparable
Word: 'm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Contraction of am. Pronunciation: /əm/, /m̩/ 1. Am, used especially in I'm. Labels: clitic Example: What'm I gon' do? Example: “So how'm I not good?” 2. Various forms of be. Labels: clitic, dialectal Example: You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end. Example: "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."
Word: 'm Part of Speech: pron Pronunciation: /əm/, /m̩/ 1. Alternative form of 'em. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I picked up two stones and threw ’m in the air, heard ’m drop
Word: 'm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of madam/ma'am. Typologically compare Russian -с (-s). Pronunciation: /əm/, /m̩/ 1. Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.
Word: 'll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: * Contraction of will. * Contraction of shall. Pronunciation: /əl/, [əl], [l̩], [ɫ̩], [ʊ] 1. Will, shall (marking the future tense or other modal sense). Labels: clitic, informal Example: A little dab’ll do ya! Example: I’ll kill anybody who touches my little sis.
Word: Kashubian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Kashub Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Kashubian From Kashub + -ian. Pronunciation: /kəˈʃuːbɪən/ 1. Of or relating to the Kashubian people and their language. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Kashubian Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree English Kashub Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Kashubian From Kashub + -ian. Pronunciation: /kəˈʃuːbɪən/ 1. A Slavic language spoken in the Pomeranian region of Poland.
Word: Kashubian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Kashub Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Kashubian From Kashub + -ian. Pronunciation: /kəˈʃuːbɪən/ 1. A member of the Kashubian people; a person from Kashubia.
Word: dorm Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɔːm/, /doːm/, /doɹm/, /dɔɾm/, /dɒːm/ 1. Clipping of dormitory. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: dorm Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /dɔːm/, /doːm/, /doɹm/, /dɔɾm/, /dɒːm/ 1. To reside in a dorm. Labels: informal, intransitive Example: I haven't seen Emily since I dormed with her in our student days. Example: He spent a year at Wayne State University before transferring to Stanford to be with Chase. They dormed together at Crothers Hall, studied together at William Gould Hall and came home on vacations together.
Word: carb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping. Pronunciation: /kɑːb/, /kɑɹb/ 1. Clipping of carbohydrate Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, plural-normally Example: I'm cutting down on carbs to try and lose weight. Example: I'm looking into low-carb and no-carb options as part of my healthy eating plan. 2. Clipping of carburetor or carburettor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal Example: This is what controls the flow of fuel into the carb. Example: This engine came with dual four-barrel carbs straight from the factory. (The 1960s were a different time indeed.) 3. The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air. Example: She lifted her thumb off the carb and breathed in the thick smoke.
Word: gorge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English gorgen (“to eat greedily; to gorge”), a borrowing from Old French gorger, gorgier (modern French gorger (“to eat greedily; to gorge”)), from gorge (“throat”); see further at etymology 1. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɡɔːdʒ/, /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/ 1. To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. Labels: intransitive, reflexive Example: They gorged themselves on chocolate and cake. Example: [I]f the preceding night prove dark and cloudy, the ſucceeding day, will be no good day to angle in, unleſs it be for ſmall fiſh; for at ſuch time the larger prey abroad for the leſſer; who by inſtinct knowing the danger, hide themſelves till the morning; and having faſted all night, become then very hungry while the larger having gorged themſelves, lie abſconded all the day. 2. To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. Labels: transitive Example: Seiz'd by his [a lion's] stalwart teeth, at once | his victim's [a cow's] neck is broken: Thereafter, swilleth he the blood, | and all her entrails gorgeth. Example: If you use live bait, be exceedingly careful in determining when the fish has gorged it. You should give him several minutes after he has seized it, for this purpose. On seeing the bait, a pickerel will generally run off with it, and will then stop to gorge it, but does not always do so. […] But if he has gorged the bait, he will soon start off a second time, and sometimes will stop and start off the third time. In these cases, you should never be in a hurry. when you are convinced that he has taken down the bait, draw a tight line, and strike for your fish. 3. To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate. Labels: transitive Example: If in thy doting and decrepit age, Thy ſoul, a ſtranger in thy youth to rage, Begins in cruel deeds to take delight, Gorge with my blood thy barb'rous appetite; […] Example: The giant, gorg'd with flesh, and wine, and blood, Lay stretch'd at length and snoring in his den, Belching raw gobbets from his maw, o'ercharged With purple wine and curdled gore confus'd. 4. To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction. Labels: transitive Example: At the mouth of the river there is shoal water, in which the ice grounds, and in severe weather, it forms a point of support for successive floating masses, until it sometimes gorges up for many miles above the ferry of the railway line. Example: The morbid appearances left in the body after poisoning with carbonic acid gas have been chiefly observed in persons killed by charcoal vapour. […] the heart and great veins are gorged with black fluid blood; the eyes are generally glistening and prominent, the face red, and the tongue protruding and black. Gorging of the cerebral vessels seems to be very common.
Word: gorge Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English gorgen (“to eat greedily; to gorge”), a borrowing from Old French gorger, gorgier (modern French gorger (“to eat greedily; to gorge”)), from gorge (“throat”); see further at etymology 1. The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɡɔːdʒ/, /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/ 1. An act of gorging. Example: To condition a hawk, feed it once in three days with as much meat as it can possibly stow away—which you will find a vast quantity, and more than necessary for a meal. This feast is known technically as a gorge. […] Between the gorges give only regular meals, and not by any means plentiful ones. Two gorges a week ought to be sufficient, with two meals a day, morning and evening. After a gorge, hood your hawks, to keep them in a torpid state till digestion is accomplished. Example: He would arm his mind with laughter, laughter is not quite the word but it will have to serve, at every point, then he would admit the idea and blow it to pieces. Smears, as after a gorge of blackberries, of hilarity, which is not quite the word either, would be adhering to his lips as he stepped smartly, ohne Hast aber ohne Rast, into the torture-chamber.
Word: gorge Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of gorge(ous); originally British slang. Pronunciation: /ɡɔːdʒ/, /ɡɔɹd͡ʒ/ 1. Gorgeous. Labels: slang Example: Oh, look at him: isn’t he gorge? Example: "Um, Hadley? Don't tell me that's another new outfit. It's totally gorge!” Sofia stopped me in the middle of the hallway to admire the clothes I'd meticulously picked out that morning.
Word: disgorge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle French desgorger. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡɔːdʒ/ 1. To vomit or spew, to discharge. Example: 1598-1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation This mountain when it rageth […] casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Example: They loudly laughed / To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. 2. To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly. 3. To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.
Word: engorge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French engorger, from Old French engorgier. Archaic spellings from Webster’s dictionary 1913 include ingorge and ingorg, both now considered misspellings. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɡɔːdʒ/ 1. To devour something greedily, gorge, glut. Labels: transitive Example: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually. 2. To feed ravenously. Labels: intransitive Example: Greedily she engorged without restraint 3. To gorge. Labels: reflexive 4. To fill excessively with a bodily liquid, especially blood.
Word: kloof Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kloof (“ravine”) (South Africa). Doublet of clove (“deep or narrow valley”). Pronunciation: /kluf/ 1. A deep glen or ravine. Labels: South-Africa Example: Forming the south boundary of the valley is a range of disrupted bushy hills, with intervening deep and rugged kloofs and ravines, which constituted the retreat of Jan Pockbaas and his rebel banditti. Example: The grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. It holds the rain and the mist, and they seep into the ground, feeding the streams in every kloof.
Word: gorger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gorge + -er. 1. One who gorges.
Word: gorger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare gadje. 1. Someone who is not a Romani, Sinti, Gypsy, or Traveller. Labels: UK Example: "The majority of these young people were interrelated and a number were of 'mixed' Gypsy/gorger (non-Gypsy) ancestry."
Word: gorger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from gorgeous, or of Romani origin like the previous word. 1. A well-dressed man; a swell; sometimes an employer, or principal, as the manager of a theatre. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang
Word: gola Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of golah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: property rights Part of Speech: noun 1. Rights pertaining to the ownership and possession of a given piece of property.
Word: Sprachgefühl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Sprachgefühl. 1. The instinctive or intuitive grasp of the natural idiom of a language. Labels: uncountable Example: Not everyone has sprachgefühl, and you don't know if you are possessed of it until you are knee-deep in the English language, trying your best to navigate the murky swamp of it.
Word: IIRC Part of Speech: phrase 1. Initialism of if I recall/remember correctly. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: pic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of picture. Pronunciation: /pɪk/ 1. A picture, especially a photographic image. Labels: informal Example: I could give my all out on that stage 'til I'm numb / We could take a serious pic and one that's dumb 2. A movie. Labels: informal Example: Decidedly for adult auds, the pic has definite specialized appeal outside France and should broaden the director's commercial rep and prestige.
Word: pic Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /pɪk/ 1. A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
Word: natlang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of natural language, by analogy with conlang. By surface analysis, nat (clipping of natural) + -lang. 1. A natural language, one that arose without intentional design. Labels: informal Example: Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages. Example: Regionalism is not a characteristic feature of natlangs, at least not in modern societies. People move around so much nowadays, that the effort is to conserve the differences rather than to conserve the similarities between different people's speech.
Word: comp Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /kɒmp/ 1. Clipping of complimentary. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: It will instead be Liverpool in Madrid on the first day of June for another shot at the ultimate. Presumably, Sergio Ramos, season long since over, will receive a comp ticket. These gestures all count. 2. Clipping of comparative. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: comp lit[erature] 3. Clipping of compensatory or compensating. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable Example: comp time Example: comp pay 4. Clipping of competitive. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable
Word: comp Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /kɒmp/ 1. To accompany, in music. Labels: US, intransitive Example: He comped lightly and then played a short phrase to begin his solo. 2. To compose (a visual design); to make a composite. Labels: transitive 3. To provide (someone) with a complimentary item, such as a ticket; to provide (someone) with something for free. Labels: transitive Example: to comp him his meals Example: “(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat Pack.” “Chips ahoy!” 4. To provide (a complimentary item, such as a ticket) for free (either up front or sometimes by refunding the cost of it). Labels: transitive Example: The bartender decided to comp their drinks to make up for the earlier incident. Example: There’s a small bar serving the suites, where all the drinks are comped. 5. Clipping of compile. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Word: ǃXóõ Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from ǃXóõ ǃxóõ. Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊ/ 1. A Khoisan language, known for its large phonemic inventory including complex click consonants. Example: The ǃXóõ language is spoken by widely scattered groups of San living in southwestern Botswana and a small area of eastern Namibia. Example: […] which studied category formation of ǃXóõ clicks by speakers of a language that has no clicks (American English) and two other unrelated African languages that have clicks, but fewer of them […]
Word: whirligig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English whyrlegygge; equivalent to whirl (noun or verb) + gig (“a top”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɜː.lɪ.ɡɪɡ/, /ˈwɝ.lɪ.ɡɪɡ/ 1. Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round. 2. A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch. 3. Ellipsis of whirligig beetle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 4. A device for punishing prisoners, comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around to induce nausea. Labels: historical
Word: whirligig beetle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called due to its behavior of spinning rapidly in place when alarmed, in a manner similar to a whirligig or spinning top. 1. Any of various water beetles of the family Gyrinidae that swim rapidly in circles when alarmed.
Word: tomahawk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/, /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/, /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/ 1. An axe used by Native American warriors, originally made of stone, bone, or antler. Example: yeerely bring into our store house, at the beginning of their haruest two bushels of corne a man […] for which they should receiue so many Iron Tomahawkes or small hatchets. Example: At first, her presence was not observed; but, no sooner did the stranger catch a glimpse of her person, than he stopped, raised his hands in surprise, laid his rifle against a tree, and sprang forward; the girl closing her eyes, and sinking on the seat, with bowed head, expecting the blow of the deadly tomahawk. 2. A dunk performed with one's arm behind one's head. 3. A geometric construction consisting of a semicircle and two line segments that serves as a tool for trisecting an angle; so called from its resemblance to the American Indian axe. 4. A field hockey shot style that involves a player turning their hockey stick upside-down and swinging it so that its inside edge will come into contact with the ball.
Word: tomahawk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From an Eastern Algonquian word, most likely Powhatan tumahák; compare also Malecite-Passamaquoddy tomhikon (“axe”), Abenaki temahigan, demahigan (“axe”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɑ.mə.hɔk/, /ˈtɑ.mə.hɑk/, /ˈtɒm.ə.hɔːk/ 1. To strike or cut up with a tomahawk. Labels: transitive Example: In a moment the savage wretches dashed at him, and "tomahawked" the unfortunate man, who fell backwards into his cabin. Example: Not satisfied with tomahawking our colleagues in the country, they ask the scanty remnant in the House to join in the scalp dance. 2. To girdle or incise the trees around (an area of land) so as to claim ownership of it. Labels: historical, transitive Example: He was the owner of 1,300 acres of land bought from the government and located where the city of Lexington, Ky., now stands. After his marriage he tomahawked an area of 600 acres near Carmichaelstown, […] Example: Meantime, Silas Zane passed on and came to the forks, and admiring the locality, he tomahawked his right to it, securing one thousand acres. 3. To perform a tomahawk dunk. Labels: transitive Example: When the league held its first slam-dunk contest in 1984 in Denver, Nance, then a Phoenix Sun, soared into the rafters with a basketball in each hand and tomahawked each one through the net before floating back to earth […]
Word: chu-ko-nu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 諸葛弩 /诸葛弩 (Zhūgě nǔ, literally “Zhuge crossbow”) Wade–Giles romanization: chu¹-ko³-nu³. Pronunciation: /ˌtʃuːkəʊˈnuː/ 1. An early Chinese repeating crossbow. Example: The chu-ko-nu, equipped with a magazine to hold bolts or, as in this case, pellets, was used in China well into the twentieth century (Needham et al. 1994: 157-64; Selby 2003: 62-63). Example: While traditional bows were all about placing carefully selected shots, the chu-ko-nu could rattle off about one shot every two seconds, raining down a shitstorm of indiscriminate crossbow fire that would scare the Fu Manchu right off the enemy.
Word: dirk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk. First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755. Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word. A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”). Pronunciation: /dɜːk/, /dɝk/ 1. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. Example: The Claymore is worn on the left side, the dirk on the right, and the Skean Dhu in the stocking […] 2. A ceremonial dagger worn by naval or air force officers in some nations' militaries; formerly, a fighting dagger used by sailors as a boarding weapon. Example: In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood. Example: In this kit was the ‘Officer of the Watch’ telescope from Dolland and Sons, presented to me by my godmother, Inman's Nautical Tables, a parallel ruler, and, of course, a dirk.
Word: dirk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology unknown, apparently from Scots dirk. First attested in 1602 as dork, in the later 17th century as durk. The spelling dirk is due to Johnson's Dictionary of 1755. Early quotations as well as Johnson 1755 suggest that the word is of Scottish Gaelic origin, but no such Gaelic word is known. The Gaelic name for the weapon is biodag. Gaelic duirc is merely an 18th-century adoption of the English word. A possible derivation is from the North Germanic/Scandinavian personal name Dirk (short for Diederik), which is used of lock-picking tools (but not of knives or daggers). Alternatively a corruption of Low German Dulk, Dolk (“dagger”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dalk, from Proto-Germanic *dulkaz, *dalkaz (“knife, dagger”), related to Saterland Frisian Dolk (“dagger”), West Frisian dolk (“dagger”), Dutch dolk (“dagger”), German Dolch (“dagger”). Pronunciation: /dɜːk/, /dɝk/ 1. To stab with a dirk. Example: Roland Graeme has dirked Adam Woodstock — that is all.” ¶ “Good Heaven!” said the Lady, turning pale as ashes, “is the man slain?” Example: For these offenses, I was informed privately, by a worthy English settler, who had been like me seduced by Mr. Birkbeck, they had hired a man to dirk me for ten dollars, the usual price of blood in this country, as Mr. Chichester says.
Word: dirk Part of Speech: verb 1. To darken. Labels: obsolete Example: Thy wast bignes but combers the grownd, / And dirks the beauty of my blossomes rownd.
Word: dirk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unlikely not to have come from the same murky origins as dork, despite sound variation among dick-dirk-dork. Influence from der seems plausibly intermixed. 1. A penis. Labels: Midwestern-US, dated, slang Example: The word dick itself serves as model for two variants which are probably Midwestern, dirk and dork, also meaning "penis"... 2. A socially unacceptable person; an oddball. Labels: Midwestern-US, dated, slang Example: Near-synonym: dork Example: ...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an "oddball" student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.
Word: kris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580. 1. A traditional Indonesian, Malaysian, or Filipino sword or dagger having a tapering, usually serpentine blade. Example: Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
Word: kris Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Malay keris. Doublet of kalis. Recognized as part of English ca. 1580. 1. To stab or cut with a kris; to kill with a kris. Labels: transitive Example: This was reported to the Rajah (to some of whose wives the girl was related), and he immediately sent to the Englishman's house ordering him to give the woman up as she must be "krissed." In vain he begged and prayed, and offered to pay any fine the Rajah might impose, and finally refused to give her up unless he was forced to do so. Example: [...] when I was a boy, but Rajah Sul and Sultan Abdel krissed and speared all the poor people and burned the campongs.
Word: mustachioed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English mustachio Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English mustachioed From mustachio + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of mustachio Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mustachioed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English mustachio Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English mustachioed From mustachio + -ed. 1. Alternative form of moustachioed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: The Greek stocks and fever were at their highest, when a cargo from Missolonghi of turbaned and mustachioed gentry arrived, and cast anchor in the river. Example: One of the intruders, a mustachioed bug-eyed man with unkempt long hair, looked over the woman and asked for money and jewelry.
Word: parentals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of parental Labels: form-of, plural
Word: javelin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chafeveleyn, gavelong, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæv.(ə.)lɪn/ 1. A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon. Example: And when Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron the Priest saw it, hee rose vp from amongst the Congregation, and tooke a iauelin in his hand. And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them thorow, the man of Israel, and the woman, thorow her belly: So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. Example: Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm? 2. A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event. Example: I managed to medal in the javelin throw. 3. A javelinfish (Coelorinchus australis).
Word: javelin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chafeveleyn, gavelong, from Old French javelline, diminutive of javelot, diminutive of *javel, from Vulgar Latin *gabalus, from Gaulish gabulum (compare Old Irish gabul (“fork”), Welsh gafl), from Proto-Celtic *gablā (“fork, forked branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-. The Old French term was also borrowed into Middle Low German as gaveline, and into Middle High German as gabilot. Cognate with gavelock, gaffle. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæv.(ə.)lɪn/ 1. To pierce with a javelin. Labels: transitive Example: Furrowing a giant oak, and javelining / With darted spikes and splinters of the wood Example: Eventually ostriches arrived and with arrows I shot them in the burning arena with arrows tipped with small bronze crescents Saw flies buzz at the array of javelinned lions Saw the looks on faces crookedly aghast when before them I hoisted a hacked off ostrich head and wagged my own and grinned 2. To throw like a javelin. Labels: transitive Example: He will have questions of all sorts javelined at him from the benches on both sides, from above the gangway and from below it. Example: There is a thing no man may name; / It comes like beauty, goes like flame. / It haunts dim labyrinths of time / And enters every poet’s rhyme. / Its cry is heard upon the wind / When it is high and javelinned, / And on still nights its steps are heard, / Soft as the footfalls of a bird. 3. To fall like a javelin. Labels: intransitive Example: For answer the ship righted as she rolled upon another great swell, leaned as far the other side, and crashed, bows first, into a cleft rock under water which held her as in a vise while her jib boom flew up in splinters, and her foretopgallant and royal mast, with yards and gear and sails, tore loose aloft and javelined down until brought up short by the involved rigging. Example: The ants broke loose and attacked. In an attempt to beat them off, Ejeka lost grip of his whip which javelinned earthward.
Word: pilum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pilum. Doublet of pile. Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪləm/ 1. A Roman military javelin. Labels: historical Example: Besides a lighter spear, the Roman legionary grasped in his right hand the formidable pilum, a ponderous javelin whose utmost length was about six feet and which was terminated by a massy triangular point of steel of about eighteen inches. Example: Verica plucked a pilum from the hands of the nearest legionary – the soldier didn't react – and handed it to me. 2. The columella on the surface of a pollen grain.
Word: operose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin operōsus. Pronunciation: /ˈɒpəɹəʊs/ 1. Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking. Labels: archaic Example: When this operose and hard-working student descended from his closet, and gained a sort of tacit leave from his tutor to join in the circle of us gay and high-spirited fellows, the part he played was no more advantageous to him, than his former exhibition had been among the learned. 2. Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious. Labels: archaic Example: Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operoſe machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body […] 3. Tedious, wearisome. Labels: archaic Example: when there was so great reason to make it common, since the square letters are less operose, more expedite and facile, then the Samaritan, which is, when time serves, used as a plea for their great Antiquity.
Word: opertaneous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin opertāneus, from operiō (“cover, envelop”). Pronunciation: /ɑ.pɚˈteɪ.ni.əs/ 1. Concealed; private. Labels: obsolete
Word: gullet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/, /ˈɡʌl.ət/ 1. The throat or esophagus. Example: Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself. 2. The cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested. 3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade. 4. A channel for water. 5. A preparatory cut or channel in excavations, of sufficient width for the passage of earth wagons. 6. The wide space under the pommel of a saddle; the hollow over the withers of a saddled animal.
Word: gullet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌl.ɪt/, /ˈɡʌl.ət/ 1. To make grooves or indentations. Example: The better way is to gullet or "gum" out the teeth on a grinder. Thin, rubber bonded wheels known as Elastic wheels may be obtained in any desired thickness, and it is reasonably easy to get a wheel to suit the size of teeth to be gulleted.
Word: windpipe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wind + pipe. First attested in the 1520s. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndpaɪp/ 1. The trachea. 2. Any duct for air or other gas. 3. A section of road or bridleway which has a reputation for having strong crosswinds or localized wind swirls. Labels: rare 4. The anus. Labels: UK, rare, slang
Word: ophelimity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian ofelimità, from Ancient Greek ὠφέλιμος (ōphélimos, “helpful”). Pronunciation: /ɒf.əˈlɪm.ə.tiː/ 1. Economic satisfaction. Labels: uncountable 2. The ability to please another. Labels: uncountable
Word: trachea Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₂gʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰréh₂gʰ-us Proto-Hellenic *tʰrākʰús Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîă)bor. Late Latin trāchīa Medieval Latin trāchēader. Middle English English trachea From late Middle English, from Medieval Latin trāchēa (“the windpipe”) (also borrowed as Late Latin trāchīa), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîă ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe, trachea”). Pronunciation: /tɹəˈkiː.ə/, /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/ 1. A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi. 2. The xylem vessel. Labels: dated 3. One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body.
Word: lysis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der. Ancient Greek λύω (lúō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der. Latin lysisbor. English lysis From Latin lysis, from Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”). Compare -lysis. Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪsɪs/ 1. A plinth or step above the cornice of the podium in an ancient temple. 2. The breakdown of molecules into constituent molecules. 3. The disintegration or destruction of cells. 4. A gradual recovery from disease. Example: The older medicine used to speak of two ways, lysis and crisis, one gradual, the other abrupt, in which one might recover from a bodily disease.
Word: facinorous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin facinorōsus, from facinus (“deed, bad deed”), from faciō (“to make, to do”). Pronunciation: /fəˈsɪnəɹəs/ 1. Extremely wicked. Labels: archaic, formal Example: Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had. Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
Word: cocktail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a stimulant (gingering), hence a stimulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.teɪl/, /ˈkɑk.teɪl/, /ˈkɔk.tæɪl/ 1. A mixed alcoholic beverage. Example: They visited a bar noted for its wide range of cocktails. Example: [...] a certain candidate has placed in his account of Loss and Gain, the following items:-- LOSS [...] 411 glasses bitters[,] 25 do. cock-tail 2. A mixture of other substances or things. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream from the chemical factory. Example: a cocktail of illegal drugs 3. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins. Example: A “cock-tail” is a horse not purely bred, but with only one-eighth or one-sixteenth impure blood in his veins 4. A mean, half-hearted fellow. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail. 5. A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Word: cocktail Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a stimulant (gingering), hence a stimulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.teɪl/, /ˈkɑk.teɪl/, /ˈkɔk.tæɪl/ 1. Ostentatiously lacking in manners. Labels: obsolete Example: It looks very cocktail to be seen riding through the streets of London in a scarlet coat ; Example: The Prince had nothing particular about him but a monstrous smart whip with a gold stag for a handle, which was pronounced a very cocktail looking instrument by the Leicestershire farmers, with whom His Serene Highness is no favorite
Word: cocktail Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Early 17th century, from cock (“male bird”) + tail, in the sense “(a horse with its) tail standing up, like a cock’s”. The origin of the extension to “an alcoholic mixed drink” is unknown. One theory is that it refers to a stimulant (gingering), hence a stimulating drink; compare pick-me-up. Another attested use is for non-thoroughbred racehorses: these were considered "cock-tailed" due to their docked tails. This may have led to the term "cocktail" (sense 1) being used for an adulterated spirit. Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.teɪl/, /ˈkɑk.teɪl/, /ˈkɔk.tæɪl/ 1. To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances. Labels: transitive 2. To treat (a person) to cocktails. Labels: transitive Example: He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.
Word: cacuminal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al. Pronunciation: /kəˈkjuːmənəl/ 1. Pertaining to a point, top, or crown. 2. Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally. Labels: dated Example: 1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position. Example: The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;
Word: cacuminal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al. Pronunciation: /kəˈkjuːmənəl/ 1. A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue. Labels: dated
Word: demesne Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English demayne, from Anglo-Norman demeyne, demene et al., Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”) (whence French domaine (“domain”)), a noun use of an adjective, from Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame. Doublet of domain. The spelling with non-etymological s is partly due to influence from mesne and partly for the purpose of indicating a long vowel, as the s quiesced before a consonant; compare aisle, isle, Carlisle. Pronunciation: /dɪˈmeɪn/, /dəˈmeɪn/, /dɪˈmiːn/ 1. A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. Example: And whanne he sawe that he lete charce her oute of this land and bytoke hit me and alle this land in my demenys And when he saw that, he let chase her out of this land, and betook it me, and all this land in my demesnes. Example: The Duke of Argyle led the way in silence to the small postern by which they had been admitted into Richmond Park, so long the favourite residence of Queen Caroline. It was opened by the same half-seen janitor, and they found themselves beyond the precincts of the royal demesne. 2. A region or area; a domain. Example: Oft of one wide expanse had I been told / That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; […]
Word: demersed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. Botanical sense coined by botanist Thomas Martyn in the 1790s. 1. simple past and past participle of demerse. Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: demersed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. Botanical sense coined by botanist Thomas Martyn in the 1790s. 1. Situated or growing or constantly under water. Labels: not-comparable
Word: fute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeia. Pronunciation: /fjuːt/ 1. To whistle. Labels: obsolete