nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: within ames ace Part of Speech: prep_phrase Etymology: See ambsace. 1. Nearly, very near. Labels: UK, idiomatic, obsolete Example: […]The possibility that he might prefer the excitement of such an adventure to an expedition into Yorkshire did occur to the Major, but he discarded it: Richmond had been within ames-ace of jumping at the chance offered him,[…].
Word: amuser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Medieval Latin musumder.? Old French muser Old French amuserbor. Middle English *amusen English amuse Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English amuser From amuse + -er. 1. Someone who amuses. 2. One who diverts attention, usually to distract or bewilder, often for fraudulent purposes; hence a cheat, deceiver or thief. Labels: obsolete 3. One of a class of rogues who carry snuff or dust in their pockets, which they throw into the eyes of people so as to enable their accomplices to rob them while pretending to help them. Labels: historical Example: He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser, then? Example: BOSS TWEED — No one important, necessarily. Average men will do. Back alley amusers with no affiliations.
Word: hunter-gatherer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hunter + gatherer. 1. A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land. Example: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. Example: […] Wengrow and Graeber argue that the life of hunter-gatherers before widespread farming was nothing like “the drab abstractions of evolutionary theory,” which hold that early humans lived in small bands in which they acted almost entirely on instinct, either brutish (as in Hobbes) or egalitarian and innocent (as in Rousseau).
Word: bring one's arse to an anchor Part of Speech: verb 1. To sit down. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic, rare, vulgar Example: The young Fleming went in search of Smyllie in the Palace Bar, where he and his group were discussing the arguments for and against the Resurrection. "Bring your arse to an anchor, boy," Smyllie instructed Fleming, before ordering him to come for a formal[…]. Example: ‘Well, in that case,’ said Kelly, ‘bring your arse to an anchor,’ inviting him to sit down.
Word: windward of the law Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Within the letter of the law but not the spirit of the law. Example: "[…] drop my anchor to the windward of the law." Adams estimated the distance between them even as he spoke. Ryker gripped his stomach again and more sweat dripped from his unnaturally white face onto his filthy shirt, but he was well enough that any attempt at rushing him would be suicidal. Example: His code was the end justified the means with men who operated windward of the law. Since thieves followed no rules, he played the game accordingly, with a slight variation. He wrote his own rules as he went along.
Word: angler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English angler, angleer, angeler, equivalent to angle + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡlə(ɹ)/, /ˈæŋ.ɡlɚ/ 1. A person who fishes with a hook and line. Example: A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season. 2. An anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius. Example: The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head. 3. Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive. Example: Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year. 4. A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc. Labels: UK, archaic Example: They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people. Example: Rogue or rascal, frater, maunderer, / Irish Toyle, or other wanderer; / No dimber damber, angler, dancer, / Prig of cackler, prig of prancer
Word: angle for farthings Part of Speech: verb 1. To beg out of a prison window with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long string. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete
Word: huntress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A variant of hunteress, from Middle English hunteras, hunteres, hunteresse, equivalent to hunter + -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress. Pronunciation: /ˈhʌntɹɪs/ 1. A female hunter. Labels: literary Example: In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...]. Example: Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.
Word: huntsman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English hunt English -s- Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English huntsman From hunt + -s- + -man. 1. A hunter. Example: The huntsman spoke Davey’s lingo. 2. A fox hunter. Labels: UK 3. One who manages the hounds during a hunt. 4. Any of the many species of large spiders of the family Sparassidae. Example: Although they do not make webs, female huntsmans at least have not lost the ability to produce silk. Example: The majority of desert-dwelling spiders are large burrowing spiders; the Barking Spiders Selenoeosmia stirlingi, mouse spiders, wolf spiders (Fig. 5.47), huntsmen and trapdoor spiders (Fig. 5.48).
Word: huntsmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of huntsman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tantony pig Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Contraction of Saint Anthony's pig in honour of St Anthony, patron saint of swineherds, frequently shown with a little pig by his side. For the phonetic evolution, compare tawdry. 1. The favourite or smallest pig in the litter. Labels: obsolete, slang Example: And to follow the delicious breeze like a tantony pig . Example: I'm not going to tankety-tankety after his tail, like a Tantony pig any more.
Word: hunt saboteur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: hunt + saboteur 1. A person who does not approve of hunting and tries to sabotage it; used especially in reference to fox hunting. Labels: UK
Word: ape leader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An old maid's punishment after death, for neglecting to increase and multiply, was said to be the leading of apes in Hell. 1. An old maid. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete
Word: manoeuvre the apostles Part of Speech: verb 1. To rob Peter to pay Paul; that is, to borrow money from one person to pay another. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, slang
Word: witch-hunt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From witch + hunt. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtʃhʌnt/ 1. A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them. Labels: historical Example: To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain. Example: Simpkins told us that before the days of English witch hunts, the coven organised public and popular festivities such as on the great days of May Eve, Hallowe'en, Candlemas and Lammas. These were called Witches' Sabbats or Frolics. 2. An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds. Labels: broadly Example: Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'. 3. A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group. Labels: broadly Example: Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mails because they were on the university's system. Example: I defended myself vigorously on that complaint as well; also mentioning that Julie Ann Wilks had always disliked me and had been conducting “a witch hunt” against me. As soon as I said the words “witch hunt” Katy interrupted and wouldn't let me continue […]
Word: witch-hunt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From witch + hunt. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtʃhʌnt/ 1. To perform a witch-hunt. Labels: informal
Word: tracklog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From track + log. 1. An ordered sequence of GPS coordinate measurements stored by a satellite navigation system.
Word: talk like an apothecary Part of Speech: verb 1. To prattle. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, intransitive, slang Example: As to Clement of Alexandria, I shall pass him by, as he knew nothing about the matter. He talks like an apothecary on the subject; and when did ever an apothecary talk to any purpose? Example: "And you have so little of the former left," said the old woman, as she presented him with a plate of the aliment and a glass of the menstruum, "that without we have a fresh supply, I foresee that you will be reduced to live upon your own medicines." "You do not talk like an apothecary," said Nadir, "if you expect that I could exist upon them in the way you suggest."
Word: consumed Part of Speech: adj 1. Full of, exuding (also figuratively). Labels: not-comparable Example: She was consumed with hatred.
Word: consumed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of consume Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bounty hunter Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward. Example: Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
Word: apothecary's Latin Part of Speech: noun 1. barbarous Latin; badly-spoken Latin. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete, uncountable Example: As this bit of apothecary's Latin was quoted to the town-clerk at a corporation dinner, and was by him translated to the mayor to mean that the municipal body had not a leg to stand upon, it gave very serious offence indeed.
Word: follows Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfɒl.əʊz/, /ˈfɒl.əz/, /ˈfɑ.loʊz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of follow Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: follows Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɒl.əʊz/, /ˈfɒl.əz/, /ˈfɑ.loʊz/ 1. plural of follow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: law Latin Part of Speech: noun 1. The Latin language as used in law and legal documents, being a mixture of Latin with Old French and Latinized English words. Labels: uncountable 2. Barbarous Latin. Labels: humorous, obsolete, uncountable
Word: apple dumpling shop Part of Speech: noun 1. The bosom of a woman, especially a fat or large-breasted woman. Labels: archaic, slang, vulgar Example: Instinctively Nell glanced to her bosom to make sure it was adequately exposed before she remembered he couldn't see her. He couldn't appreciate the sight of her apple dumplin' shop because, to him, she was invisible. Example: You're neither of you exactly what you'd call short in the apple-dumpling shop.
Word: jocular Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin iocularis, from ioculus (“a little jest”), diminutive of iocus (“a jest”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɒkjʊlə/, /ˈd͡ʒɑkjəlɚ/ 1. Humorous, amusing or joking. Example: He was in a jocular mood all day. Example: All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
Word: apron-string hold Part of Speech: noun 1. An estate held by a man during his wife's life. Labels: idiomatic, informal, obsolete Example: He resided at Staleck and the fief made was converted into an "apron-string hold" and hereditary fief, for the benefit of his wife and daughter; for that in opposition to the Emperor himself, he had remained firm to the Archbishop in a Diet held at Mainz.
Word: aqua pumpaginis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The term mimics the Latin terms for other everyday things that apothecaries used. 1. Pump water. Labels: obsolete, slang, uncountable
Word: arbor vitae Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of arborvitae. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Next spring the owner of the hedge will be very much surprised to find a number of his arbor vitae deceased, and he will straightway blame himself and his horse? Not he! The nurseyman, sir, must have delivered him some poor stock!
Word: at arm's length Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. At a distance, away from one's body. Example: Iceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch. 2. Avoiding a close relationship. Labels: idiomatic Example: She's been keeping me at arm's length all the time. She doesn't want to get involved.
Word: arch rogue Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of archrogue. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: rapt Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpt/ 1. Snatched, taken away; abducted. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot. Example: From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove. 2. Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven. Labels: not-comparable 3. Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed. Labels: comparable Example: The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat. Example: 1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind. 4. Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy. Labels: comparable Example: He was rapt with his exam results. Example: I […]am rapt to see my Marcia's tears.
Word: rapt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpt/ 1. To transport or ravish. Labels: obsolete Example: The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among, Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song 2. To carry away by force. Labels: obsolete Example: 1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256, His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren. Example: Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away
Word: rapt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹæpt/ 1. An ecstasy; a trance. Labels: obsolete Example: the soul then is in rapt 2. Rapidity. Labels: obsolete Example: […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.
Word: arch dell Part of Speech: noun 1. The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies. Labels: obsolete
Word: arch doxy Part of Speech: noun 1. The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies. Labels: archaic, idiomatic
Word: Anabaptist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From New Latin anabaptista, from the Ancient Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), itself from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) and βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”), equivalent to ana- + Baptist. Pronunciation: /ænəˈbæptɪst/ 1. A member of a radical wing of Christians during the Protestant Reformation, with a tenet of adult baptism. Example: Were the Anabaptists right? Was happiness Satan’s allure, his tantalizing deceit? 2. A member of any of several present-day churches descended from that origin.
Word: Anabaptist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From New Latin anabaptista, from the Ancient Greek ἀναβαπτισμός (anabaptismós), itself from ἀνα- (ana-, “re-”) and βαπτισμός (baptismós, “baptism”), equivalent to ana- + Baptist. Pronunciation: /ænəˈbæptɪst/ 1. Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists during the Protestant Reformation. 2. Relating to Anabaptism or the Anabaptists of the present-day.
Word: guzzle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌzəl/ 1. To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. Labels: informal, transitive Example: No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Example: They had a delightful meal, eating as much as possible, for whenever they stopped eating the Puddin" sang out-- "Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle, Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle." 2. To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually. Labels: dated, informal, intransitive Example: A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Example: Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. 3. To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles. Labels: broadly, informal, transitive Example: This car just guzzles petrol. Example: 2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, https://web.archive.org/web/20160313225853/http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted. 4. To flow copiously; to spray out. Labels: informal, intransitive, rare Example: Blood guzzled from the wound. Example: The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
Word: guzzle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576. Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌzəl/ 1. Drink; intoxicating liquor. Labels: dated, uncountable Example: Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown 2. A drinking bout; a debauch. Labels: dated 3. An insatiable thing or person. Labels: dated 4. A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure? Example: This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch. 5. The throat.
Word: cundum Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of condom. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: TATP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of triacetone triperoxide. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, was the explosive used in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack, the 2015 attacks in Paris and the 2016 Brussels attack carried out by Islamic State extremists.
Word: heyday Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪdeɪ/ 1. A period of success, popularity, or power; prime. Example: The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive. Example: Must your hot ytch and plurisie of lust, The heyday of your luxury, be fedd Up to a surfeite, and could none but I Be pickt out to be cloake to your close tricks, Your belly-sports? 2. An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic. Labels: archaic
Word: heyday Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun. Pronunciation: /ˈheɪdeɪ/ 1. A lively greeting. Example: "Heyday, Miss Morland!" said he. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together." 2. An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder. Labels: obsolete Example: "Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c." Example: Bass. Heydey! good words, good words, I must beleeue'em And be a Coxcombe for my labor.
Word: arrah Part of Speech: intj 1. An expletive. Labels: archaic, slang Example: "Whisht! whisht! Of what are ye thinking, ye silly gossoons? Will ye bring down the peace officers upon ye, and take out the bit o' the night in the prison, instead o' drinking me health, as ye may, and me helping to do that same? Arrah! Why should ye glower and snarl at each other, like a kennel o' mad puppies, when it's the brave frolic ye may have together? Example: "Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see? "Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"
Word: triacetone triperoxide Part of Speech: noun 1. The relatively stable, trimeric form of the high explosive acetone peroxide Labels: uncountable
Word: hang an arse Part of Speech: verb 1. to hang back, to be afraid to advance. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, slang Example: For though in her he settles well his tarse, Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse.
Word: padding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈpædɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of pad Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: padding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English pad Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English padding From pad + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈpædɪŋ/ 1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Anything of little value used to fill up space. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding. Example: But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers. 5. The process of mordanting a fabric. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A diaper. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. Robbing on a highway. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: arse about Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of arse around. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, intransitive, slang, vulgar 2. To turn round. Labels: obsolete, slang
Word: arse about Part of Speech: adj 1. The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, not-comparable, slang, vulgar Example: You've got this arse-about! Example: For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse.
Word: King Arthur Part of Speech: name Etymology: Inherited from Middle English kyng Arthure. 1. A legendary king of Britain, said to have led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.
Word: pulp Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa. Pronunciation: /pʌlp/, /pʊlp/ 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: These sources do not, however, state why the drink is called lambswool. The name comes from the way the apples are roasted until they split open, and their pulp froths over the skin; this is used to float on top of the bowl of drink. 5. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually 6. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually 7. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. Labels: uncountable, usually 8. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell. Example: The fledgling comics business was a sweatshop trade for creative hopefuls too inexperienced, too socially ill-equipped, or, more often, too minimally talented for the established avenues of hackdom, the pulps and commercial art.
Word: pulp Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa. Pronunciation: /pʌlp/, /pʊlp/ 1. To make or be made into pulp. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To beat to a pulp. Labels: slang, transitive 3. To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. Labels: transitive
Word: pulp Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa. Pronunciation: /pʌlp/, /pʊlp/ 1. Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication. Example: The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a^([sic]) incredible Doc Savage tribute cover. Example: Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp" than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).
Word: ask my arse Part of Speech: phrase 1. A common reply to any question; once common at court and among sailors, under the name of "selling bargains". Labels: idiomatic, obsolete, slang, vulgar
Word: assig Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of assignation or assignee. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, possibly
Word: Athanasian wench Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The first words of the Athanasian Creed are, in Latin, "Quicunque vult (salvus esse...)", "whoever wants to (be saved...)". 1. A sexually promiscuous or loose woman, willing to have sexual intercourse with anybody. Labels: archaic, slang Example: Of course I couldn't stop myself — for I was an Athanasian wench who said Quicunque vult and Amen to everything — stop myself from thinking What an ugly cock this Fridolin must have, some primitive weapon, an iguana-headed […] crude killing thing, a bulldog's kisser at the end of a pick handle. Example: Villon gently cooled her impatience. "Hush, hush, my girl! There are many kinds of love, as you ought to know well enough. I am a rogue and a vagabond, no less, and so sometimes I love you and other such Athanasian wenches; Isabeau there and Jehanneton."
Word: Quicunque vult Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin quīcunque vult (salvus esse …) (“whoever will (be saved …)”), the opening words of the creed. 1. The Athanasian Creed. Example: Robertus Paululus, Presbyter of Amiens, in the Diocess of Rheims, speaking of the Offices recited at the Prime, observes that the Piety of good Christians had thereunto added the Quicunque vult, that the Articles necessary to salvation might never be forgotten any hour of the Day. Example: Nobody can deny that Creed to have been published under the name of Charlemagne: nor, till an earlier work of undoubted authenticity can be produced where the ‘Quicunque vult’ is designated ‘the Faith’ or ‘Creed of S. Athanasius,’ can anybody deny Charlemagne to have been the first in whose writings, or the writing of persons acting under him, it is ascribed—and ascribed falsely—to S. Athanasius, and paraded as a Creed possessing all the authority that would attach justly to his name.
Word: autem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: UK 16th century. Possibly borrowed from Yiddish אַ (a, “indefinite article”) + טומאה (tume, “church (derogatory); forbidden; impure”). 1. A church. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: THESE Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their language is a Church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe: I haue yt gooeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not. Example: As ſoone as euer the pꝛoclamation was ended, Loꝛd, what a Companie of petitioners pꝛeſſed to the barre to pꝛeferre their papers of iniuries, that were offred and done among themſelues, here one complaines that hee could not trauell ſafely, noꝛ cary any money without danger of the vpꝛight man and Tinker, but that they would robbe and ſpoyle them of all that was ought about them, here another that they could not quietly take their reſt in the night, noꝛ keepe his Autem, oꝛ doxie ſole vnto himſelfe: but that the Ruffler, padder, oꝛ any vpright man, would take them away perfoꝛce, and others that they could not conuerſe, and keepe company with thoſe that they met, but that in the night they are ſure to be Clyd in the night, by the Angler, oꝛ hooker, oꝛ ſuch like pilferers that liue vpon the ſpoyle of other pooꝛe people.
Word: autem Part of Speech: adj Etymology: UK 16th century. Possibly borrowed from Yiddish אַ (a, “indefinite article”) + טומאה (tume, “church (derogatory); forbidden; impure”). 1. Married. Labels: UK, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: autem bawler Part of Speech: noun 1. A parson. Labels: archaic, rare, slang Example: At last Job explained the cause of my appearance; viz. his wish to pacify Dawson's conscience by dressing up one of the pals, whom the sinner could not recognise, as an "autem bawler," and so obtaining him the benefit of the clergy without endangering the gang by his confession.
Word: autem cackler Part of Speech: noun 1. A Dissenter; a Protestant who is not a follower of the Established Church (i.e. Church of England, Church of Scotland, etc). Labels: UK, idiomatic, obsolete Example: On one occasion a Jew was selling cocoa-nut when the "autem cackler," i.e., dissenting minister, came and wanted to impart to the Israelite the sin he committed in carrying on his vocation on such a day. Example: 'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher. 2. A married woman. Labels: UK, obsolete Example: Oh! where will be the culls of the bing / A hundred stretches hence? / The bene morts, who sweetly sing, / A hundred stretches hence? / The autum-cacklers, autum-coves, / The jolly blade who wildly roves; / And where the buffer, bruiser, blowen, / And all the cops and beaks so knowin', / A hundred stretches hence?
Word: autem diver Part of Speech: noun 1. Pickpockets who practice in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor. Labels: archaic, idiomatic Example: “You are up to a thing or two,” said he, “and it is a pity to see a fine lad like you nailed to a stall, like a clodpole.” “But how am I to get hold of money otherwise?” “In the same way as I got this,” showing a handful of silver, “by turning autem diver..."
Word: make a pig's ear of Part of Speech: verb 1. To do badly; to make a mess of. Labels: UK, idiomatic, transitive Example: England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck and, on the balance of play, deserved the victory. Yet there were long spells when they threatened to make a pig's ear of it. Example: Instead, he had lain awake for hours, knowing he'd made a pig's ear of everything, and trying to think of a way to sort things out.
Word: pig's ear Part of Speech: noun 1. The cooked ear of a pig, as used in a number of cuisines around the world. Labels: countable 2. Beer. Labels: Cockney, slang Example: While the Cockney landlord was putting the question: “Now, gentlemen, what is it—pig's ear, a needle an' pin, or a pimple an' blotch?” (beer, a drop of gin or a thimble of Scotch) one of the larky friends released the monkey from its chain. Example: The Indian breweries were producing rather more than 6 million gallons of beer annually: 3 million gallons of it was drunk by the British soldiery, who called it 'neck-oil', 'purge', or 'pig's ear', […] 3. A succulent of the genus Cotyledon.
Word: bar graph Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of bar chart.
Word: autem mort Part of Speech: noun 1. A married woman. Labels: obsolete Example: These Autem Mortes be maried wemen, as there be but a fewe: For Autem in their Language is a church, so shee is a wyfe maried at the church, and they be as chaste as a cowe I have, that goeth to bull euery moone, with what bull she careth not. Example: The Autum-Mort finds better sport / In bowsing then in nigling. 2. A female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete
Word: flow chart Part of Speech: noun 1. A schematic representation of how the different stages in a process are interconnected.
Word: flow diagram Part of Speech: noun 1. A diagram representing a flow or set of dynamic relationships in a system. 2. A flow chart.
Word: flowchart Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of flow chart. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: They created a flowchart language as the learning vehicle for computerless programming. Example: This flowchart suggested by the neuroanatomy corresponds fairly well with what psychologists see in the clinic and lab.
Word: back biter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of backbiter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Comintern Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Russian Коминте́рн (Komintérn), contracted abbreviation of Коммуни́сти́ческий Интернациона́л (Kommunístíčeskij Intɛrnacionál, “Communist International”), from коммунисти́ческий (kommunistíčeskij) + Интернациона́л (Intɛrnacionál). Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɪntəːn/ 1. An international association of Communist parties, established in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin and dissolved in 1943. Labels: historical
Word: one's back is up Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From the way a cat, when angry, raises or arches its back. 1. One is offended or angry. Labels: idiomatic Example: My back is up, and I cannot hear the thought of wooing him any farther, nor would do it, though he were as pig a gentleman (look you) as Lucifer himself. Example: And I want you to be nice to Patty. For some reason her back is up.
Word: backbite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back- + bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”). 1. To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone. Example: They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way. Example: Gumshoe: You're not gonna get me to backbite a woman with a whip. No way. 2. To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks. Labels: informal 3. To speak badly of an absent individual.
Word: backbite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back- + bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”). 1. One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.
Word: genetic fingerprinting Part of Speech: noun 1. The forensic analysis of genetic information from a biological sample in order to aid identification. Labels: uncountable
Word: gesture politics Part of Speech: noun 1. Actions by a politician for the purpose of publicity or to influence public opinion. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: get a life Part of Speech: verb 1. To begin having a more interesting, eventful, or worthwhile existence. Labels: derogatory, idiomatic, intransitive Example: "He's really broken. Hopefully he'll be able to find work somewhere and get a life." Example: "Harriet, please get a life," someone begged her on a message board, "and leave us poor Amazon customers alone."
Word: gobsmacked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: As if smacked (“hit”) in the gob (“mouth (Irish / Scottish gaelic)”). Attested since 1959, from Northern English dialect, particularly Liverpool, popularized via television. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒb.smækt/ 1. Flabbergasted, astounded, speechless, overawed. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: That wad mack im about yam sick, so ower Ilkla' moor bar-tat wish un best of luck at Ilkley Station, and when he landed back Martha wad be fare gob smacked at the yarns he wad tell 'er about Yorkshire clod-hoppers. Example: We were as appalled and stunned and confused and gobsmacked (punched on the mouth) as anyone else.
Word: golden goal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: In soccer, chosen by FIFA to avoid the negative connotations of sudden death. 1. The first goal scored during extra time, giving immediate victory to the scoring side if the rule is in effect.
Word: extra time Part of Speech: noun 1. An additional period played at the end of a game if the score is tied after the standard allocation of time. Labels: UK, uncountable
Word: DBA Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of database analyst. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of database administrator. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of daily benefit amount. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 4. Initialism of dibenzylideneacetone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 5. Initialism of doctorate of business administration. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: DBA Part of Speech: phrase 1. Alternative form of dba (“doing business as”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk + fog. Pronunciation: /fʌɡ/, /fɐɡ/, /fʊɡ/ 1. A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'. Example: On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts. 2. A state of lethargy and confusion; daze. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive. Example: Somewhere in the fug of her mind she remembered how to close it and fetched the pole, slotting it into the mechanism above and beginning to turn the handles. 3. A state of chaos or confusion. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: There was a fug of fear in the room. Example: Viewed from this perspective, the Victorian era reeks of a suffocating and bigoted complacency, and, no doubt, many white imperialists existed in a fug of self-righteous superiority.
Word: fug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Compare British slang fogo (“stench”) and English fog, or possibly a blend of funk + fog. Pronunciation: /fʌɡ/, /fɐɡ/, /fʊɡ/ 1. To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere). Example: Inside, the Golden Lion was fugged with the smoke of too many cigarettes and the unhappy sound of a darts team practising. Example: I'd walked down, for maybe the last time, from my lodgings behind New Fish Street, through air already fugged with smoke from the morning fires. 2. To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere). Example: "Well, I like it a jolly sight better than fugging up in those carriages with all that gassing crowd of Garden Home fussers." Example: The air was warm and close and the late afternoon sun was fugging through grey clouds and making them light - still grey, but light, really light. 3. To put into a fug (daze). Example: The adrenalin, though diminished, was still running through my veins; the red mist was lifting but my mind was fugged by this unfamiliar combination of hormones, slowly intermingling with indignity and contrition and the dawning of familiar, ignominious defeat. 4. To remain indoors, usually in a tightly closed room. Example: Come out and try it. After a few days with us you'll be just longing to get back and fug it in your submarine.
Word: fug Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Sound shift from fuck. Pronunciation: /fʌɡ/, /fɐɡ/, /fʊɡ/ 1. Euphemistic form of fuck. Labels: euphemistic, form-of Example: It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now. Example: Oh fug. Whad a mess.
Word: fug Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Sound shift from fuck. Pronunciation: /fʌɡ/, /fɐɡ/, /fʊɡ/ 1. Euphemistic form of fuck. Example: He knew he would never eat them; they were merely an added load in his pack. Aaah, fug this. Example: Scornfully the driver answered, "Fug you muthafug, you ain't gon drive this muthafuggin cah." 2. Euphemistic form of fuck. Example: Zit my fault the rotary fugged up and the new one's buggered? Example: You mean like in Zola–because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents. 3. Euphemistic form of fuck. Example: All went well until girls started writing things like, 'I want to win a date with Tuli because I want him to fug me.' Example: Married, two children, doesn't let him fug her any more.
Word: fug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Sound shift from fuck. Pronunciation: /fʌɡ/, /fɐɡ/, /fʊɡ/ 1. Euphemistic form of fuck. Labels: singular, singular-only Example: I don't know jes where the fug he think he is at. Example: How the fug does a thug like you know about any preacher? 2. Euphemistic form of fuck. Example: I didn't know what any of it meant and didn't give a fug either. Example: After a short pause, Jay proclaimed, “I don't give a fug what you wave in fronna me. I'm sticking to my story.” 3. Euphemistic form of fuck. Example: Look at those fugs! Example: 'You bein' there an' him bein' there an' you such a fug of a loser an' him such a fug of a winner . . .'
Word: fug Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From UK fag (a cigarette). Pronunciation: /fʌɡ/, /fɐɡ/, /fʊɡ/ 1. A cigarette. Labels: slang
Word: in front of one's nose Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Plain; clearly apparent; obvious. Labels: idiomatic Example: All that time we've been searching for the answer, and it was right in front of our noses.
Word: triplet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From triple + -et. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪplət/, /ˈtɹɪ.pə.lɛt/ 1. A set of three, particularly 2. A set of three, particularly 3. A set of three, particularly 4. A set of three, particularly 5. One of a group of three, particularly 6. One of a group of three, particularly
Word: babies Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbiz/ 1. plural of baby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: babies Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbiz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of baby Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: coincide Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French coïncider, from Medieval Latin coincidere, from con- + incidere, from in- (“into, to”) + cadere (“to fall, fall down, drop”). Pronunciation: /ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/ 1. To occupy exactly the same space. Labels: intransitive Example: The two squares coincide nicely. 2. To occur at the same time. Labels: intransitive Example: The conference will coincide with his vacation. Example: The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event. 3. To correspond, concur, or agree. Labels: intransitive Example: Our ideas coincide, except in certain areas.
Word: save someone's bacon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From an archaic sense of bacon, as a slang term referring to the human body. 1. Synonym of save someone's life (in all senses). Example: [A]n anxious eye had been kept on the pinnace and the vessel she was chasing. "She's up to her," cried Desmond, who was looking through his glass; "she struck without a blow, and there go our fellows tumbling on board. Little doubt, however, about her being a slaver, though, as they must have seen the way in which we got hold of this craft, they thought it as well to save their bacon, and make the best of a bad job." Example: [T]he tide being fortunately in our favour, we reached the Saint Vincent in good time, going up the accommodation ladder on the port side, which, as you know, is devoted to the use of the lower deck portion of the crew, just as Eight Bells struck. "Ha, my lads," cried the Jaunty, who stood by the entry-port, "you've just saved your bacon!"
Word: unroll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English un- Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂-der. Proto-Italic *rotā Latin rota Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin rotulader. Latin rotulāre Old French roelerbor. Middle English rollen English roll English unroll From un- + roll. 1. To straighten something that has been rolled, twisted or curled. Labels: transitive Example: Unroll your sleeping bag and spread it on the floor of the tent. 2. To emerge, be revealed or become apparent; to unfold. Labels: intransitive Example: We will have to see how the events unroll. 3. To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as an optimization. Labels: transitive
Word: good voice to beg bacon Part of Speech: noun 1. An unpleasant-sounding voice. Labels: idiomatic, obsolete
Word: bacon-faced Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a fat, sleek face. Labels: archaic, idiomatic, vulgar
Word: engrossed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɛnˈɡɹoʊst/ 1. simple past and past participle of engross Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: engrossed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ɛnˈɡɹoʊst/ 1. Preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else. Example: The children were engrossed by the story. Example: The large, soft dark eyes were raised, but seemed rather engrossed by their own feelings—(thoughts are scarcely tender enough for such a look)—than fixed upon any surrounding object. 2. Finalized, written in large letters. (of a document)
Word: flim flam Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of flim-flam. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: flim-flam Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Ultimately a sound-symbolic reduplication, 1538 as noun, 1660 as verb. Perhaps from a dialectal word or North Germanic/Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”). Pronunciation: /ˈflɪmflæm/ 1. Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Most reports of supernatural occurrences turn out to be flim-flam when carefully investigated. 2. Confidence game, con game. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t. 3. Table tennis. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: testicles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of testicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: GFI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of ground fault interrupt. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: GFCI Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of ground fault circuit interrupt/interruptor. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism