nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: gob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortened from gobby or gobshite. Pronunciation: /ɡɒb/, /ɡɑb/ 1. A sailor. Labels: US, slang Example: Well I have taken the oath of allegiance for 4 years service anywhere in the world and am now a real 'gob' in the U. S. Navy. Example: If it weren't for the Fleet I should scarcely be able to endure it. Gobs are always amusing, as you know.
Word: gob Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɡɒb/, /ɡɑb/ Labels: empty-gloss, no-gloss Example: To save having to enter the locks at a crawl — not seamanlike in the strong cross-winds we often experienced ― I rigged a quarter-rope as described for stopping her, in addition to a gob-rope that I could immediately haul on to convert the quarter rope into a conventional stern line to hold her alongside after we had stopped. Example: The towing point can be a bullnose up forward, a tow bitt aft, a staple, a towing hook, or a gob line.
Word: billy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Of obscure origin. Perhaps a variant of bully (“companion, mate, comrade”). Compare Scots billie (“a comrade; companion”). Compare also Middle Low German billig (“equitable, reasonable, lawful, fitting, according to natural law, just”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪli/ 1. A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother. 2. A good friend. Labels: Geordie Example: Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea! 3. A billy goat. Example: 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62, Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies. Example: In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing. 4. A silk handkerchief. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]
Word: billy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”), perhaps originally from the name Billy, a diminutive of William. The condom sense from the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy, referring in turn to Billy Boy, a German brand of condoms. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪli/ 1. A highwayman's club, billy club. 2. A slubbing or roving machine. Example: […]at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.” Example: On the second floor there were 2 billies, 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine. 3. A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: Let's get the billy and cook some beans. Example: We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms? 4. A bong for smoking marijuana. Labels: Australia, slang 5. A condom. Labels: slang
Word: willy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English willy, willi, equivalent to will + -y. Cognate with Dutch willig (“obedient, hearsome”), German willig (“willing”), Swedish villig (“willing, agreeable”). Pronunciation: /ˈwɪli/ 1. Willing; favourable; ready; eager. Labels: obsolete 2. Self-willed; willful. Labels: Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: willy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wilȝe, from Old English wiliġ (“willow”). More at willow. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪli/ 1. Alternative form of willow. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: willy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wilȝe, from Old English wiliġ (“willow”). More at willow. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪli/ 1. To cleanse wool or cotton, etc. with a willy, or willow.
Word: willy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wilie, from Old English wiliġe, wileġe (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *wiligō (“wicker basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *weliko- (“willow-tree”). More at weel, willow. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪli/ 1. A willow basket. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A fish basket. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: willy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally northern British usage, from the 1960s. Probably the simple use of a proper name as a pet name; compare dick, fanny and peter. Unlikely to be a contraction of Latin membrum virile, male member (that is, the penis), a Latin term used in English in the 19th century. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪli/ 1. The penis. Labels: Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, childish, dialectal, slang Example: Little Johnny got his willy stuck in his zipper. Example: Everybody knows your mum is a whore / Getting 'round Piccadilly looking for willy / Punters pull up and say "don't be silly" 2. A term of abuse. Labels: UK, childish, dialectal Example: You're a big fat willy! So shut up!!
Word: willy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a shortening of willy-nilly, an old way of saying “whether one wants to or not”, here referring to the person being used as an agent without their knowledge, i.e. regardless of their will. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪli/ 1. A person who is manipulated into serving as a useful agent without knowing it. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: Frodo Part of Speech: name 1. A Latin form of Fróði, the name of a number of Danish kings.
Word: Gollum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol but was later named Gollum after his habit of making “a horrible swallowing noise in his throat”. The name Sméagol comes from Old English smeagan (“to question, scrutinize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑləm/ 1. A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Word: Gollum Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol but was later named Gollum after his habit of making “a horrible swallowing noise in his throat”. The name Sméagol comes from Old English smeagan (“to question, scrutinize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑləm/ 1. To act like Gollum, the fictional character. Example: Mike Biggins Gollumed... "After a few years it still amazes me that there are so many egocentric 'facilitators' trying to pass 'enlightenment' to the uneducated via Apz... but... APZ is MINE, it's MY PRECIOUS!" And it came to pass that he spent his life festering in the cayons and caves of his own poisoned min(es)d!
Word: slinky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slink + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈslɪŋki/ 1. Furtive, stealthy or catlike. Example: “But of all the awful, second-rate girls I ever met, she’s the worst! […] She’s a sly, creepy, slinky, made-up, insincere vampire! She’s common! She’s awful! She’s a cat!” Example: The concert touched on all this. You could sense history in the various dances of the pianists’ left hands: the slinky syncopations of habanera; the manic but metronomic bounce, in swing, as if between two trampolines. 2. Thin; lank; lean. Labels: Northumbria, dated Example: Do you see that are tall, limber-timbered, slinky-lookin' man with the blue cloak and two long black cords a-hangin' from it with almighty big tassels a-danglin' to the eend^([sic]) of it like the lamp-rope there, a-carryin' part of the cloak folded on one arm like a Roman senator, and t'other arm kimber, with his hat cockaded military like?--well, that is General Conrad Corncob. Example: "Oh—that," said Mrs. Savaker, jerking her head in the direction of the defunct exciseman; "that war my husband, and war thow't a gude likeness. But it's not. It's not half red enough, an' a deal too slinky in the shouls for him." 3. Of a garment: close-fitting; clingy. Example: The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
Word: Middle-earth Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle Earth, q.v. 1. The main setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other works. 2. Alternative form of Middle Earth: the Earth. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Morpheus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things). Pronunciation: /ˈmɔː.fɪ.əs/, /ˈmɔː.fjuːs/, /ˈmɔɹ.fɪ.əs/, /ˈmɔɹˌfjus/ 1. The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep. Labels: Greek
Word: Mediterranean Sea Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Late Latin Mare Mediterraneum. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛ.dɪ.təˈɹeɪ.nɪ.ən ˈsiː/, /ˌmɛ.də.təˈɹeɪ.ni.ən ˈsi/, /ˌmɛ.də.təˈɹeɪ.njən ˈsi/ 1. The sea between Europe and Africa.
Word: Tolkien Part of Speech: name Etymology: Likely from Middle Low German Tolkin (literally “son of Tolk”), which is probably also related to Polish Tołkiny and German Tolksdorf, names for a Prussian town; the nickname Tolk is connected to Middle Low German tolk (“interpreter”), from Proto-Slavic *tъlkъ. J. R. R. Tolkien subscribed to a folk etymology that connected the name with German tollkühn (“foolhardy”). Pronunciation: /ˈtɒlkiːn/ 1. A surname. Labels: countable 2. A surname. Labels: countable Example: A curious feature of cinema in 2001 was the sudden clutch of movies made from books which had attained the status of sacred texts for their readers: Harry Potter, Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Bridget Jones's Diary, as well as the Tolkien saga.
Word: Indy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Independent + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈɪndi/, [ˈɪndɪi̯] 1. Indianapolis. Labels: informal 2. The fictional archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones. Labels: informal Example: But while Dial may have all the right pieces on the board to make for another classic entry in the saga, Indy’s latest adventure is a lackluster attempt at reconciling the old with the new. 3. The Independent, a British newspaper. Labels: UK, informal
Word: clippie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clip + -ie, in reference to clipping tickets of passengers. 1. A bus conductor. Labels: UK, slang Example: And yet, in the last decade, women in trousers have ceased to be […] functionally invisible. (I can’t remember if clippies wear trousers or skirts, these days; that’s what I mean by invisible.)
Word: nippy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English nip Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English nippy From nip + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪpi/ 1. Fast; speedy. Labels: UK, informal Example: The jaunty 1969 crime caper about the cockney casanova of crime who pulls off a bullion heist in Turin during an England versus Italy football match using three nippy Mini Coopers—red, white and blue—speaks of a forgotten age in England[…]. Example: A Rolls Royce will not do if you need an economical, nippy car that is easy to park. 2. Rather cold. Labels: informal Example: Gosh, it's a bit nippy today: I'd better wear my gloves. Example: Raj took a deep breath, and reached out to give Armitage the gentlest little stroke. “It’s nippy out. Let’s take him inside.” 3. Inclined to nip; bitey. Example: Spoiling may create a pushy, nippy dog that lacks confidence. 4. Annoying; irritating. Labels: Scotland, informal 5. Sharp in taste. Labels: Scotland 6. Spicy tasting. Labels: Scotland 7. Curt. Labels: Scotland 8. Parsimonious. Labels: Scotland
Word: nippy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English nip Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English nippy From nip + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪpi/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of Nippy. Labels: UK, alt-of, historical Example: Lyon's Corner House¶ A postwar survivor of a prewar original, when the name Lyon's was a guarantee of quality eating. The Pret A Manger, Starbucks and Maison Blanc of its day, complete with black-uniformed, white-pinnied waitresses known as nippies.
Word: logomachy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin logomachia, from Ancient Greek λογομαχία (logomakhía). Pronunciation: /ləʊˈɡɒ.mə.kɪ/, /loʊˈɡɑ.mə.ki/ 1. Dispute over the meaning of words 2. A conflict waged only as a battle of words Example: He was left over the coffee with Brayne, the hoary Yankee who believed in all religions, and Valentin, the grizzled Frenchman who believed in none. They could argue with each other, but neither could appeal to him. After a time this “progressive” logomachy had reached a crisis of tedium; Lord Galloway got up also and sought the drawing-room.
Word: Aphrodite Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) (see it for more). Pronunciation: /æfɹəˈdaɪti/, /æfɹoʊˈdaɪti/ 1. The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea. Labels: Greek Example: In the "Iliad", Aphrodite is represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the goddess of moisture, who, as the wife of the god of heaven, was held in high esteem among the old Pelasgians. 2. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Example: Aphrodite Jones is an American author and TV producer.
Word: Aphrodite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) (see it for more). Pronunciation: /æfɹəˈdaɪti/, /æfɹoʊˈdaɪti/ 1. Synonym of Aphrodite Giant (“breed of cat”).
Word: adumbrate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adumbrātus (“represented in outline”), from adumbrāre (“cast a shadow on”), from umbra (“shadow”). Pronunciation: /ˈædʌmˌbɹeɪt/ 1. To foreshadow vaguely. Labels: transitive Example: From track level, its operating floor looks particularly capacious, but there is a vacant space at one end which was designed to accommodate the control panel for the Perth-Inverness C.T.C. scheme; this was adumbrated as long ago as the 1955 Modernisation Plan, but now seems to be regarded as an unjustifiable luxury. Example: This piece will perform a micro-excavation of these toplayers of the literary soil to suggest anxiogenic literature has the potential not only to adumbrate the post-apocalypse, a common theme in contemporary literature, but also to anticipate the post-Anthropocene. 2. To give a vague outline. Labels: transitive Example: Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on. 3. To obscure or overshadow. Labels: transitive
Word: GUUAM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, a US-backed regional agreement having those five member nations. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
Word: Alex Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros) 'he who wards off men', i.e. protector, possibly of Hittite origin. Also from Alexius, from the same Ancient Greek first element, "helping, defending". These two origins of Alex are indistinguishable in most languages. The female name has the same root, a clipping of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, in some cases also a spelling variant of Alix. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɪks/ 1. A unisex given name from Ancient Greek. Example: Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say. Example: 'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.' 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'
Word: Alex Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Alexandria. Pronunciation: /ˈæ.lɪks/ 1. Nickname for Alexandria: a major city in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.
Word: fumarole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fumarola. Likely a doublet of femerell. By surface analysis, fume + -ar + -ola. 1. An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity. Example: Masaya did not offer an opportunity to sample high-temperature fumaroles, but its neighbors, Momotombo and Cerro Negro volcanoes, are noted for their fumarolic activity
Word: guardian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/, /ˈɡɑɹ.di.ən/, /ˈɡɑɹ.din/, /ˈɡɐː.dɪ.ən/ 1. Someone who guards, watches over, or protects. Example: Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…] Example: I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage. 2. A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis). 3. A person legally responsible for an incompetent person. 4. A superior in a Franciscan monastery. 5. A major or final enemy; boss. Example: Secret weak points of bosses/guardians. Example: 'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian' 6. A servicemember of the United States Space Force. Labels: US
Word: rampant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English rampand, rampend, present participle of rampen (“to rise by climbing, shoot up, sprout, sty, ascend”), from Old French ramper (“to creep, climb”) (see below), equivalent to ramp + -and or ramp + -ant. Recorded since 1382, "standing on the hind legs" (as in heraldry), later, "fierce, ravenous" (1387). Compare Scots rampand (“rampant”). Alternatively from Middle English *rampant, from Old French rampant, the present participle of ramper (“to creep, climb”), equivalent to ramp + -ant. Old French ramper derives from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to hook, grapple, climb”), from *rampa, *hrampa (“hook, claw, talon”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną (“to curve, shrivel, shrink, wrinkle”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæm.pənt/ 1. Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended. Example: The Vienna riding school displays splendid rampant movement. 2. Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile. Example: ‘I forget your coat of arms.’ ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’ Example: little pieces of moustache on his upper lip, like a pair of minnows rampant 3. Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane. 4. Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner. Example: Weeds are rampant in any neglected garden. Example: Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat. 5. Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly. Example: There was rampant corruption in the city.
Word: rampant Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English rampand, rampend, present participle of rampen (“to rise by climbing, shoot up, sprout, sty, ascend”), from Old French ramper (“to creep, climb”) (see below), equivalent to ramp + -and or ramp + -ant. Recorded since 1382, "standing on the hind legs" (as in heraldry), later, "fierce, ravenous" (1387). Compare Scots rampand (“rampant”). Alternatively from Middle English *rampant, from Old French rampant, the present participle of ramper (“to creep, climb”), equivalent to ramp + -ant. Old French ramper derives from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to hook, grapple, climb”), from *rampa, *hrampa (“hook, claw, talon”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną (“to curve, shrivel, shrink, wrinkle”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæm.pənt/ 1. Rampantly. Labels: informal, nonstandard Example: Things seem to be running rampant around here lately.
Word: castration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English castrate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English castration From castrate + -ion. Pronunciation: /kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of removing the testicles. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture. Example: The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages Probed and beaten A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness 2. Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: unrestrained Part of Speech: adj 1. immoderate; not restrained or held in check; inordinate (literary). Example: The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery. 2. spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained Example: Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy. 3. Not subject to physical restraint. Example: Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated. Example: In an accident there will often be injuries, as people are unrestrained. But in the case of Sandilands, I don't think anyone would have foreseen the seven deaths and 62 injuries that occurred when the tram overturned [...].
Word: unrestrained Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unrestrain Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: obligation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”). Pronunciation: /ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌɑ.blɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌɑ.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɔb.lɪˈɡæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I feel I'm under obligation to attend my sister's wedding, even though we have a very frosty relationship. Example: The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast. The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise. How the Vice President discharges this constitutional obligation is not a question of his loyalty to the President any more than it would be a test of a President’s loyalty to his Vice President whether the President assented to the impeachment and prosecution of his Vice President for the commission of high crimes while in office. No President and no Vice President would—or should—consider either event as a test of political loyalty of one to the other. And if either did, he would have to accept that political loyalty must yield to constitutional obligation. Neither the President nor the Vice President has any higher loyalty than to the Constitution. 3. A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt. 5. Reason for being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something. Labels: countable Example: I am indebted to several friends for notes, observations, and correspondence on this subject, more especially to one, referred to as "Z.," and to another as "Q.," who have obtained a considerable number of reliable histories for me, and have also supplied many valuable notes [...]. Other obligations are mentioned in the text.
Word: Xanadu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū, “Upper Capital”). The first Romanized form comes from Marco Polo's writings in Italian as Shan-Du. In 1617, Purchas his Pilgrimage […] by Samuel Purchas was published in London, containing the phrase “In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace” on page 472. This was the inspiration for Coleridge's poem which uses the spelling Xanadu. Pronunciation: /ˈzænəduː/ 1. The summer capital of the Yuan dynasty, now an archaeological site in Zhenglan, Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, China. Labels: historical Example: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
Word: Xanadu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū, “Upper Capital”). The first Romanized form comes from Marco Polo's writings in Italian as Shan-Du. In 1617, Purchas his Pilgrimage […] by Samuel Purchas was published in London, containing the phrase “In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace” on page 472. This was the inspiration for Coleridge's poem which uses the spelling Xanadu. Pronunciation: /ˈzænəduː/ 1. A place full of beauty, happiness and wonder. Labels: figuratively Example: A place where nobody dared to go The love that we came to know They call it Xanadu And now, open your eyes and see What we have made is real We are in Xanadu Example: That's from the poem of the legend of Kubla Kahn's palace in the lost valley of Xanadu! Alph was the river in the legend! Unca Scrooge, this is the road to Xanadu! You've hit the jackpot! The most wondrous valley on earth! The land of milk and honey! 2. An opulent building or resort that provides entertainment or luxurious living. Example: “The United States in the twenties was dotted with a thousand Xanadus,” wrote movie-theater historian Ben Hall." Example: The postmodern Xanadus that support this hallucination in the desert offer a particularly attractive paradise of the popular.
Word: ur Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /ɝ/ 1. Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.
Word: ur Part of Speech: det Pronunciation: /jɝ/ 1. Abbreviation of your. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Example: “He wrote, ‘Hey, Laurbell! What’s up? How r u & ur roomie? Mom & I miss u x a zillion! We decided 2 turn ur room into storage 4 the antiques we r going 2 buy. Hope u r finding time 2 chillax. Give Wisp a hug. G2G. Write me back! Luv, Dad.’”
Word: ur Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /jɝ/ 1. Abbreviation of you're (you are). Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
Word: nite Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪ̯t/, [ˈnaɪ̯t], /ˈnɐɪ̯t/, [ˈnɐɪ̯t], /ˈnɜɪ̯t/ 1. Informal spelling of night. Labels: alt-of, informal
Word: coz Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /kʌz/ 1. cousin (usually as a term of address) Labels: informal Example: Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone. Example: 1844, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "The Love Quarrel", in The Columbian Magazine Vol 1. Issue 1. page 6, col. 2, New York, Israel Post, ed John Inman "I do not expect that, coz; nor do I desire it."
Word: coz Part of Speech: conj Pronunciation: /kɒz/, /kʌz/, /kəz/ 1. Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”). Labels: alt-of, informal
Word: childs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of child Labels: form-of, nonstandard, plural, rare Example: You have been… searching! For… a child. No, no, no – two childs! A fine big boy… and a strange little boy. No, no, no… ahhh… a girl! A girl. A boy and a girl. Example: I remember one amusing episode: in a conversation with an engineer when responding to the usual Japanese enquiry in making social talk, "How many childs have you?"
Word: childs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of child Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: with child Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: Replaced the earlier Middle English mid childe. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn. 1. Pregnant. Labels: euphemistic Example: I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting. Example: [N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]
Word: gubernatorial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“govern”), + -ial. Pronunciation: /ˌɡ(j)uː.bə.nəˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/, /ˌɡ(j)ubə(r)nəˈtɔriəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to a governor or the office of governor. Labels: not-comparable Example: The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.
Word: hentai Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変(へん)態(たい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変(へん)態(たい)性(せい)欲(よく)者(しゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɛntaɪ/ 1. A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art. Labels: Japanese, countable, uncountable Example: There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love Example: X defines adult content as […] This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".
Word: conversate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from conversation. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːn.vɚˌseɪt/, /ˈkɒn.vəˌseɪt/ 1. To converse, to have conversation. Labels: nonstandard Example: Conversate for a few, 'cause in a few we gon' do / What we came to do, ain't that right, boo? (True) Example: We don't just want to go to class and not conversate with the teachers.
Word: charset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipped compound of character set. By surface analysis, char + set. 1. A character set.
Word: counterpoise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French contrepois, contrepeser, later assimilated to poise. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪz/ 1. A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight. 2. An effect of equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force or influence Example: This necessary counterpoise, the affectionate and simple-minded will readily conceive, would arise to Louisa from the absence of those "dear familiar faces" which had hitherto constituted her world. 3. The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium
Word: counterpoise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French contrepois, contrepeser, later assimilated to poise. Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪz/ 1. To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Example: Weights, counterpoising one another. 2. To act against with equal power; to balance. Example: So many freeholders of English […]will be able to beard, and to counterpoise the rest.
Word: character set Part of Speech: noun 1. The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding. Example: In conventional mathematics terminology then, a "character set" is not just a set of characters, but a function whose domain is a set of integers, and whose range is a set of characters. 2. A set of characters together with a character encoding.
Word: fumarolic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fumarole Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English fumarolic From fumarole + -ic. 1. Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles. Labels: not-comparable Example: 2003: Masaya did not offer an opportunity to sample high-temperature fumaroles, but its neighbors, Momotombo and Cerro Negro volcanoes, are noted for their fumarolic activity — L.J. Wardell, P. Delmelle, T. Fischer, J.L. Lewicki, E. Malavassi, J. Stix, W. Strauch, Volcanic gas workshop features state-of-the-art measurement techniques.
Word: collusion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dated from the 14th century C.E. as Middle English collusioun, collusion; from Old French collusion, from Latin collusio (“act of colluding”). Pronunciation: /kəˈluːʒən/ 1. A private, cooperative agreement or arrangement between groups that otherwise maintain the pretense of competition, contention or non-cooperation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Furthermore, there is good reason for firms to try to collude without express communication, and thus find themselves dealing with less than full mutual understanding. 2. A private agreement for a fraudulent or illegal purpose; conspiracy. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Such tunges unhappy hath made great diviſion In realmes, in cities, by ſuche fals abuſion; Of fals fickil tunges ſuche cloked colluſion Example: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Word: MIE Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of minimally invasive education. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: imam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader”). Pronunciation: /ˈiːmɑːm/, /ɪˈmɑːm/ 1. One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque. Example: Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was an Imam. (footnote: The person specially appointed to lead the prayers of the congregation and paid out of the endowed revenues of the mosque to which he is attached) Example: But then there's a Christian cleric and an imam on each of the country's three regional censorship boards, in Kaduna, Lagos and Onitsha, although more than one producer told me that the brown envelope worked the same magic here as in any other Nigerian Government department. 2. A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor. Labels: capitalized, usually 3. A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor. Labels: capitalized, usually
Word: SUSY Part of Speech: noun 1. Syllabic abbreviation of supersymmetry. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 2004: SUSY is a symmetry between particles of half-integer spin (fermions such as quarks and leptons) and those of whole-integer spin (bosons such as photons, gluons and other force carriers). — Scientific American, Sept 2004, p.58
Word: YTD Part of Speech: adj 1. Initialism of year-to-date. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Word: YTD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of year to date. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: offshore Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From off- + shore. Pronunciation: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Moving away from the shore. Labels: not-comparable 2. Located in the sea away from the coast. Labels: not-comparable Example: an offshore oil rig Example: Since 1949, Taiwan has remained under Nationalist (Kuomintang) control along with the off-shore islands of Chin-men (Kinmen) and Ma-tsu (Lien-chiang County) in Fujian Province. Chin-men and Lien-chiang County are to end their period of direct military rule and to elect their first country magistrates in 1993. 3. Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs. Labels: not-comparable Example: American companies use offshore services for one reason, said Herbert F. Schantz, a consultant in Sterling, Va.: cheap labor. Example: With pressure building in Europe and the United States for a systemwide crackdown on offshore tax havens the Caymans prefer to call themselves a tax-neutral portal Britain appears determined to make an example of a place that has become a symbol of secrecy and intrigue.
Word: offshore Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From off- + shore. Pronunciation: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ 1. Away from the shore. Labels: not-comparable 2. At some distance from the shore. Labels: not-comparable
Word: offshore Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From off- + shore. Pronunciation: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ 1. To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor. Labels: transitive Example: The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million. Example: India has become the leading destination for offshored services.
Word: offshore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From off- + shore. Pronunciation: /ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/ 1. An area of or portion of sea away from the shore. Example: This problem, so far as the offshores of the United States is concerned, is one that is eminently worthy of the attention of the United States Fish Commission and the support of Congress in its attempt to solve it. 2. An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore. Example: The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases. 3. Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country. Example: If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive. Example: Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.
Word: jibber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jib + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/ 1. A horse that jibs, i.e. refuses, stops short.
Word: jibber Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From jib + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/ 1. Alternative form of gibber. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from Old English ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) 1. man (not used for children). Labels: Norfolk
Word: Ferguson Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Fergus + -son, translation of Gaelic MacFhearguis, "son of Fergus". Pronunciation: /ˈfɜːɡəsən/, /ˈfɝɡəsən/ 1. A surname transferred from the given name originating in Scotland from Clan Fergusson and now widespread in the English-speaking world. Labels: countable 2. A place in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A place in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A place in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A place in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action? 6. A place in the United States: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A community in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A rural locality in the Shire of Dardanup, Western Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A locality in the Shire of Colac Otway, south western Victoria, Australia Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: oi Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Variant of the interjection hoy with h-dropping in working class and Cockney speech; first recorded in the 1930s. Compare also unrelated Portuguese oi and Japanese おい (oi). Pronunciation: /ɔɪ/ 1. Said to get someone's attention; hey. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, impolite, usually Example: Oi, you with the red hat – what do you think you're doing? Example: Oi! Stop that! 2. An expression of surprise. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, impolite, usually Example: Oi! This is new! 3. An informal greeting, similar to hi. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, impolite, usually Example: Oi! How's it going?
Word: oi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Variant of the interjection hoy with h-dropping in working class and Cockney speech; first recorded in the 1930s. Compare also unrelated Portuguese oi and Japanese おい (oi). Pronunciation: /ɔɪ/ 1. An exclamation of 'oi'. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, countable, impolite, usually Example: Such is the vocal power of water bailiffs and farmers that their ‘Ois!’ can be projected at small boys from anything up to five miles away and still induce heart-failure. 2. A working-class punk rock subgenre of the 1970s, sometimes associated with racism. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, capitalized, impolite, sometimes, uncountable, usually Example: A way for Oi musicians to avoid responsibility for acts of violence that were preceded by listening to Oi is the claim that what people do with their music is out of the control of the musicians themselves. Example: Oi! is characterized by cleaner guitars and slower tempos than most punk music, and many Oi! songs feature sing-along, "soccer chant" choruses.
Word: oi Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Variant of oy, from Yiddish. Pronunciation: /ɔɪ/ 1. Alternative spelling of oy. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, impolite, usually
Word: oi Part of Speech: pron Pronunciation: /ɔɪ/ 1. Eye dialect of I Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, impolite, usually Example: Why, where be oi, and what be oi a doin’, / A sleepin’ out, just when the dews du rise?
Word: oi Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Borrowed from oyez, 2nd person plural imperative of the verb oir (“to listen”), as used as an interjection in duplicated form “Oyez, oyez” by public speakers of medieval times to draw attention before a public address; see oi oi. Pronunciation: /ɔɪ/ 1. Alternative spelling of oy. Labels: Commonwealth, Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, impolite, usually
Word: wizard Part of Speech: noun 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. Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices. Example: The wizard conjured up a large fireball. Example: The wily wizard must be caught. 2. One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field. Example: He was a financial wizard, capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets. 3. A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user. Example: Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps. Example: Figure 10-10 shows a typical wizard. The user enters data in New Employee on each tab and then moves on to the next one. This wizard asks […] 4. An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode. Labels: Internet Example: Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…] Example: It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress […] 5. A wise man; a sage. Labels: obsolete Example: See how from far upon the eastern road / The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odours sweet! 6. A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner. Labels: humorous, sometimes Example: “I see this image of the basement-dwelling wizard who rejects societal conventions to such an extreme degree as one of the tragic heroes of our times.” Example: The incels’ folk hero is the 30-year-old virgin wizard – if you can make it to 30 without having sex, you will be endowed with magical powers. And the threads are so pathetic that it is hard to feel anything but ambient pity (on the site Wiz Chan – subtitle “disregard females, acquire magic” – one thread titled How do I live in my sedan? is like a short story).
Word: wizard Part of Speech: adj 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. Fine, superb (originally RAF slang). Labels: UK, dated, not-comparable, slang Example: "We had a wizard show," the young leader of an Australian squadron said, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice. Example: But he was a wizard flyer, that boy.