nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: morendo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian morendo, gerund of morire (“to die”). 1. Fading away in volume or tempo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: morendo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian morendo, gerund of morire (“to die”). 1. A portion of music that fades away in volume or tempo.
Word: prestissimo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian prestissimo. Pronunciation: /pɹɛˈstɪsɪməʊ/ 1. Extremely fast, the fastest possible tempo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: prestissimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian prestissimo. Pronunciation: /pɹɛˈstɪsɪməʊ/ 1. Very quickly. Labels: not-comparable Example: A delegation of Norman gentry boldly requesting in 1771 the calling of the Normandy estates (which had been abolished in 1666) was despatched prestissimo to the Bastille.
Word: prestissimo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian prestissimo. Pronunciation: /pɹɛˈstɪsɪməʊ/ 1. An extremely section of music. Example: The dance starts with a slow tempo, but the more the excitement rises the quicker becomes the tempo, until finally it becomes a whirling prestissimo.
Word: moderato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian moderato. Doublet of moderate. 1. A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at a moderate tempo. 2. A passage having this mark
Word: moderato Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian moderato. Doublet of moderate. 1. played in this style
Word: moderato Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian moderato. Doublet of moderate. 1. (to be) played in this style
Word: staccato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake. Pronunciation: /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/ 1. An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead. 2. A passage having this mark. 3. Any sound resembling a musical staccato. Labels: figuratively Example: According to the syllable-timed hypothesis, Spanish syllables as staccato. Example: The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
Word: staccato Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake. Pronunciation: /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/ 1. played in this style Example: Now, play the same passage very staccato.
Word: staccato Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake. Pronunciation: /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/ 1. Describing a passage having this mark. 2. Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds. Example: The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife. Example: A kind of tense peace, like the centre of a cyclone, descended. Not for long, of course, for already stealing upon one's hearing would be the staccato bark and thrust of the banker bringing up the rear.
Word: legato Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate. Pronunciation: /ləˈɡɑ.təʊ/, /ləˈɡɑ.toʊ/ 1. Smoothly, in a connected manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: Play this passage legato, not portato.
Word: legato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate. Pronunciation: /ləˈɡɑ.təʊ/, /ləˈɡɑ.toʊ/ 1. A style of performance characterized by smoothly connected notes. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is the coördination of the finger and hand as examplified in the proportionate speed of shifting according to the speed of the musical passage, which makes for evenness, continuity, smoothness, and ultimately, a fine legato. Example: At the end of the prelude of Caprice V, there is a chromatic ascending and descending scale of forty-eight notes to be played in one bow in legato. 2. A passage that is played legato. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It schools the mind to watch for the legato all the time, as its absence at the organ is mor prominent than at the piano; but beyond this point it renders little assitance to the pianist. Example: A good pianist, however, will make his audience believe that he is as capable of performing a legato as is a singer or violinist.
Word: in altissimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in altissimo. 1. One octave higher. Labels: not-comparable
Word: portato Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian portato, past participle of portare (“to bring, carry, bear”), from Latin portō. 1. In an unconnected manner, as opposed to legato, but not as short as staccato.
Word: portato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian portato, past participle of portare (“to bring, carry, bear”), from Latin portō. 1. A mark in music notation indicating this style of playing. 2. A passage having this mark.
Word: arco Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc. 1. A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato. Labels: not-comparable
Word: arco Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc. 1. A passage to be played in this way.
Word: cantabile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”). 1. A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner 2. A passage having this mark
Word: cantabile Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”). 1. Played in this style; singingly, lyrically
Word: cantabile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”). 1. Describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical
Word: dolente Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian dolente, present participle of dolere (“to hurt, regret”). 1. Sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning. Labels: not-comparable
Word: crescendo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”). Pronunciation: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/ 1. An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin. Example: As he came into the window / It was the sound of a crescendo 2. A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax. Labels: figuratively Example: Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo. 3. The climax of a gradual increase. Labels: figuratively, nonstandard Example: Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo. Example: With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
Word: crescendo Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”). Pronunciation: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/ 1. To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo. Example: The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent. Example: And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.
Word: crescendo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”). Pronunciation: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/, /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/, /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/ 1. Gradually increasing in force or loudness. Labels: not-comparable
Word: diminuendo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diminuendo. Pronunciation: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ 1. A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly 2. A passage having this mark 3. The gradual dying away of something. Labels: figuratively Example: Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism. Example: Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.
Word: diminuendo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diminuendo. Pronunciation: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ 1. played in this style
Word: diminuendo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diminuendo. Pronunciation: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/ 1. describing a passage having this mark
Word: ostinato Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian ostinato (“stubborn”). Doublet of obstinate. Pronunciation: /ɒstɪˈnɑtoʊ/ 1. A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment. Example: The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.
Word: twelve-tone technique Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of dodecaphony.
Word: sour Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *súHros Proto-Germanic *sūraz Proto-West Germanic *sūr Old English sūr Middle English sour English sour From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sur (“sour”), French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”), Polish ser (“cheese”), Czech sýr (“cheese”), Slovak syr (“cheese”), Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”), Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”), Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊ.ə/, [ˈsɑːə], [ˈsɑː], /ˈsaʊ.ɚ/, /ˈsæɔ.ə/ 1. Tasting of acidity. Example: Lemons have a sour taste. Example: All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. 2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc. Example: Don't drink that milk; it's turned sour. 3. Tasting or smelling rancid. Example: His sour breath makes it unpleasing to talk to him. 4. Hostile or unfriendly. Example: He gave me a sour look. Example: He was a scholar […] / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. 5. Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil) Example: sour land Example: a sour marsh 6. Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum) Example: sour gas smells like rotten eggs 7. Unfortunate or unfavorable. Example: Let me embrace thee, sour adversity Example: The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity. 8. Off-pitch, out of tune. Example: Unlike what the name implies, there is nothing inherently wrong with a sour note: It is perfectly well-tuned note that would sound normal in another context (and which presumably would not sound sour to someone unfamiliar with tonal music).
Word: sour Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *súHros Proto-Germanic *sūraz Proto-West Germanic *sūr Old English sūr Middle English sour English sour From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sur (“sour”), French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”), Polish ser (“cheese”), Czech sýr (“cheese”), Slovak syr (“cheese”), Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”), Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”), Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊ.ə/, [ˈsɑːə], [ˈsɑː], /ˈsaʊ.ɚ/, /ˈsæɔ.ə/ 1. The sensation of a sour taste. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 4. A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: “You know I like them candies, especially the lemon sours.” 5. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: For many Years of Sorrow can dispense; A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour 6. The acidic solution used in souring fabric. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sour Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *súHros Proto-Germanic *sūraz Proto-West Germanic *sūr Old English sūr Middle English sour English sour From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sur (“sour”), French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”), Polish ser (“cheese”), Czech sýr (“cheese”), Slovak syr (“cheese”), Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”), Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”), Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊ.ə/, [ˈsɑːə], [ˈsɑː], /ˈsaʊ.ɚ/, /ˈsæɔ.ə/ 1. To make sour. Labels: transitive Example: Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe. 2. To become sour. Labels: intransitive Example: So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours. 3. To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. Labels: transitive Example: To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead. Example: He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet. 4. To become disenchanted. Labels: intransitive Example: We broke up after our relationship soured. 5. To make (soil) cold and unproductive. Labels: transitive Example: stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil 6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar. 7. To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime. Labels: transitive
Word: umami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”) + み (-mi, “-ness”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste. Pronunciation: /uˈmɑːmi/ 1. One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats. Labels: uncountable Example: Umami is the mysterious “fifth taste”—a flavour that has never seemed to fit into the existing categories of sweet, sour, salty and bitter. South-east Asian chefs have exploited it throughout history—it's an essential part of the taste of seaweed, among other things[…] Example: But we are, of course, sweaty, fleshy lady-animals – all fur and umami.
Word: taste Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere. The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting. Almost fully displaced native smack, from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”). Displaced English smatch, from Middle English smacchen, smecchen, from Old English smæċċan (“to taste; to smack”); displaced also Middle English buriȝen, from Old English bierġan (“to taste”). Pronunciation: /teɪst/ 1. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had a strange taste in his mouth. Example: Venison has a strong taste. 2. The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His taste was impaired by an illness. 3. A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Dr. Parker has good taste in wine. Example: That's very true indeed Sir Peter! after having married you I should never pretend to Taste again I allow. 5. Personal preference; liking; predilection. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have developed a taste for fine wine. 6. A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: Such anecdotes give one a taste of life on a trauma ward. Example: Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)? 7. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The least amount or portion of something; a jot. Labels: countable, dialectal, uncountable Example: "So he opened the door very quitely, an' didn't make a taste o' n'ise in the wurld, an' luked all about, but the niver a bit o' the little man cud he see anywhare, but he h'ard his hammerin' and whis'lin', an' so he luked and luked, till at last he seen the little fellow[.]"
Word: taste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The verb is from Middle English tasten, borrowed from Old French taster (“to taste, touch or hit”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch or feel”), from *taxitāre, an innovated iterative form of Classical Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch, to grasp”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, which is assumed to have had the same meaning as tangere. The noun came from the verb, and the two conflated after English lost its infinitive suffix -en, though tasten was most likely already used nominatively (as a gerund), similar to Modern English tasting. Almost fully displaced native smack, from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”). Displaced English smatch, from Middle English smacchen, smecchen, from Old English smæċċan (“to taste; to smack”); displaced also Middle English buriȝen, from Old English bierġan (“to taste”). Pronunciation: /teɪst/ 1. To sample the flavor of something orally. Labels: transitive Example: when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine Example: Does a bagel in New York City really taste better because of the water, or is it our desire to feel like a “real” New Yorker, even for a few minutes over breakfast, that does the trick? […] The idea that a pint of Guinness tastes best in Ireland sounds like it could be a drinker’s romantic notion – but there is science to back up the claim. […] The stats were overwhelmingly in favor of the Guinness tasting better in Ireland – suggesting that the beer doesn’t travel well or perhaps that non-Irish bartenders don’t excel at pouring it. 2. To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished. Labels: copulative, intransitive Example: The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic. 3. To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally. Labels: transitive Example: I can definitely taste the marzipan in this cake. 4. To experience. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise. Example: They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. 5. To take sparingly. Example: 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Drydenhttps://books.google.es/books?id=0fo_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Age+but+tastes+of+pleasures,+youth+devours%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihhoWhjrzqAhV9URUIHYdFCJw4ChDoATAAegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=%22Age%20but%20tastes%20of%20pleasures%2C%20youth%20devours%22&f=false Age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. 6. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. Example: I tasted a little of this honey. 7. To try by the touch; to handle. Labels: obsolete Example: to taste the bow
Word: taste Part of Speech: adj 1. Deliberate misspelling of tasty. Labels: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, not-comparable
Word: barebacking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bareback + -ing. 1. The practice of engaging in sexual intercourse, most often anal sex, without using a condom. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: bareback Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bare + back. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛəbæk/, /ˈbɛɚbæk/ 1. Without a saddle. Labels: not-comparable Example: bareback riding 2. Without a condom. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: bareback sex 3. Without a shirt; shirtless. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.
Word: bareback Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From bare + back. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛəbæk/, /ˈbɛɚbæk/ 1. Without a saddle. Labels: not-comparable Example: I can ride a horse bareback. 2. Without a condom. Labels: not-comparable, slang Example: We had sex bareback.
Word: bareback Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bare + back. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛəbæk/, /ˈbɛɚbæk/ 1. To ride without a saddle. Labels: ambitransitive 2. To have sex (with someone) without using a condom. Labels: ambitransitive, slang
Word: bareback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bare + back. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛəbæk/, /ˈbɛɚbæk/ 1. A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait. Example: Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.
Word: bug-chasing Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice of engaging in anal sex with the deliberate intention of contracting HIV. Labels: slang, uncountable 2. The practice of trying to deliberately catch sexually transmitted diseases, usually through sex but sometimes through other methods as well. Labels: broadly, uncountable
Word: barebacker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bareback + -er. 1. A person who engages in barebacking. Labels: slang
Word: bug-chaser Part of Speech: noun 1. A man who practises bug-chasing. Labels: slang
Word: batty man Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Caribbean slang batty (“buttocks”) + man (“person”). 1. A homosexual man. Labels: Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory, slang
Word: batty boy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Caribbean slang batty (“buttocks”) + boy (“person”). 1. A homosexual man. Labels: Canada, Caribbean, Jamaica, UK, derogatory, slang
Word: chi chi man Part of Speech: noun 1. A homosexual man. Labels: Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory, slang
Word: closet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures. Pronunciation: /ˈklɒzɪt/, /ˈklɑzɪt/ 1. Private. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete 2. Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet). Labels: not-comparable Example: He's a closet case. Example: I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker. 3. Denoting anything kept a secret or private. Labels: not-comparable
Word: closet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures. Pronunciation: /ˈklɒzɪt/, /ˈklɑzɪt/ 1. To shut away for private discussion. Labels: transitive Example: The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit. 2. To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation. Labels: transitive Example: He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members. Example: He had been closeted with De Quadra. 3. To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement. Labels: transitive Example: See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large; Example: […] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.
Word: closeted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From closet (“state of concealment”) + -ed. Pronunciation: /ˈklɒzɪtɪd/, /ˈklɑzɪtɪd/ 1. Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Labels: informal Example: Sally Gearhart, an ex-christian from Illinois who in the early seventies abandoned closeted lesbianism on Midwestern church college faculties for radical feminism in San Francisco, Example: 1992, Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995, Part Two: Perestroika, Act One, Scene 4, p. 156, Belize: Get out your oven mitts. Guess who just checked in with the troubles? The Killer Queen Herself. New York's number one closeted queer. 2. Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret. Labels: broadly Example: […] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic. Example: Now he feels a connection between his own closeted, esoteric sufferings and strivings and those of the poor urban working people all around him.
Word: closeted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See closet (verb) Pronunciation: /ˈklɒzɪtɪd/, /ˈklɑzɪtɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of closet Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: closeted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See closet (verb) Pronunciation: /ˈklɒzɪtɪd/, /ˈklɑzɪtɪd/ 1. Confined. Labels: not-comparable Example: He's spent all day closeted in his room. Example: After they had been closeted up with the fortune-teller for some time, I knew by their looks, upon their returning, that they had been promised something great. 2. sheltered; protected. Labels: not-comparable Example: In my salubrious constituency of Cheltenham and in the leafy lanes of Gloucestershire, we are perhaps somewhat closeted from these unpleasant and harsh realities of the urban world of London, Plymouth, Birmingham and other major cities
Word: in the closet Part of Speech: prep_phrase Pronunciation: /ɪn ðə ˈklɑzɪt/, /ɪn ðə ˈklɔzɪt/, /ɪn ðə ˈklɒzɪt/ 1. Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Labels: colloquial Example: Was he in control of that narrative? Most likely not. If he’d had the choice, he would have stayed in the closet. 2. Not open about some feature of one's life; often construed with about. Labels: broadly, colloquial Example: She's in the closet about her gambling addiction. Example: She's in the gambling-addiction closet.
Word: come out of the closet Part of Speech: verb 1. To disclose to others about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity, where previously this had been kept secret. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: He came out of the closet as gay to his friends. Example: Now, we're coming out / Out of our closets / Out on the streets / Yeah, we're coming out 2. To self-disclose about one's minority or disapproved-of identity, belief, preference, etc. Labels: humorous, idiomatic, informal, intransitive, sometimes Example: She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism. 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out, of, the, closet.
Word: bender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Hypotheses: * bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”. * In Britain, for about four centuries, a sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’. * (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛndə/, /ˈbɛndɚ/ 1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle. 3. A bout of heavy drinking or drug use. Labels: slang Example: He's been out on a bender with his mates. Example: A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat,” etc. 4. A homosexual man. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang Example: “So they're easy about having a bender in the house, are they, their lordships?” 5. A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies. 6. A suspended sentence. Labels: UK, slang Example: 'Oh and Gary, what happened in Ahmed?' 'Not guilty, sir.' 'Oh no! And Tredwell?' 'Bender.' 'Suspended sentence? So both walked. […] Example: He anticipated a prison sentence though he thought there was a slight possibility of 'getting off on a bender' (suspended sentence). 7. A sixpence. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang Example: What will you take to be paid out?’ said the butcher. ‘The regular chummage is two–and–six. Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman. ‘Well, I don’t mind that; it’s only twopence a piece more,’ said Mr. Martin. ‘What do you say, now? We’ll pay you out for three–and–sixpence a week. Come!’ 8. A spree, a frolic. Labels: US, obsolete, slang 9. Something exceptional. Labels: US, obsolete, slang
Word: bender Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Hypotheses: * bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”. * In Britain, for about four centuries, a sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’. * (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛndə/, /ˈbɛndɚ/ 1. Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard. Labels: British, obsolete, slang 2. Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. Labels: British, obsolete, slang Example: O yes, I'll do it — bender!
Word: ufo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Reading of UFO as a word in its own right. Pronunciation: /ˈju.foʊ/ 1. A UFO.
Word: bi-curious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi + curious. First appears c. 1984 in a personal ad in the newspaper The Orange County Register. Pronunciation: /bʌɪˈkjʊə.ɹɪəs/, /bʌɪˈkjɔː.ɹɪəs/, /baiˈkjɚ.i.ɪs/ 1. Interested in having relationships with both men and women, curious about one's potential bisexuality; especially, of heterosexual people, considering a first sexual experience with a member of the same sex. Example: Bi curious M/F or cpls. Example: "Does this make us bi-curious, or are some dudes just that girly?"
Word: boy band Part of Speech: noun 1. A pop group whose members are all (usually attractive) young men.
Word: girl group Part of Speech: noun 1. A pop group made up of (usually attractive) young women.
Word: unidentified flying object Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The phrase is usually attributed to US Air Force officer Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) who coined it as a replacement of the terms flying saucer and flying disk. 1. Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air. Example: The lights seen over the city last night, originally termed unidentified flying objects, turned out to be spotlights from a car dealership reflecting on low clouds. 2. Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air. Example: She said that the unidentified flying object then turned around, zoomed to a higher altitude, and loitered briefly before speeding off. Example: The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions. 3. An alien spacecraft. Labels: colloquial Example: He said that the strange beings then took him aboard their unidentified flying object and examined his body.
Word: flying saucer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From an interview given by amateur pilot Kenneth Arnold who described seeing nine flying objects that were "moving like saucers being skimmed across a lake". The description was not meant to describe the shape of the objects, only how they maneuvered, yet the misinterpretation took hold and gained popularity. 1. A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947. Labels: informal Example: Some connect the recent spate of flying saucer sightings with a rumored top-secret military aviation project. Example: An engram is NOT [...] One of the little green men Americans claim have crashed in flying saucers. 2. An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction. 3. A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.
Word: breeder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From breed + -er. Cognate with West Frisian brieder (“one who breeds, breeder”), Dutch broeier (“brooder, vagrant”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹiːdɚ/ 1. A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally). Example: Breeders have figured out that if they can take one haploid set of chromosomes from a cross and copy it (or double it creating a double haploid), they will have a pure line almost instantly. 2. Ellipsis of breeder reactor, a type of nuclear reactor that creates more fissile material than it consumes, often used for the production of atomic weapons. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 3. A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern. Example: I was wondering if anyone out there could mail me a base for MIT's 'breeder' - the one with 8? puffer trains forming glider-guns. I've seen in in^([sic]) a few books but can't seem to get it working ... Example: I later implemented an improved version of the algorithms on an Atari STe, this time the goal was to run the breeder, which it did at 2 gen/sec at the stage when the first glider gun has been assembled. 4. A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focused on the rearing of their own children. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. 5. A heterosexual person; one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding; straggot. Labels: derogatory, humorous Example: Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock. Example: When visiting gay friends but wishing to avoid any heterosexual passersby or dinner guests of said friends, one can always call ahead and inquire, "Are there breeders in your home?" 6. A 40-gallon fish tank, sometimes used to breed fish that is low in height and wide in length, typically measuring 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 16 inches high, making it and shallower than a typical 40-gallon aquarium.
Word: bubble butt Part of Speech: noun 1. Large, rounded buttocks. Labels: US, slang, vulgar Example: Tall, skinny, bubble butt, lonely. Example: But her skin was sallow, her face covered in pimples, and she never wore makeup. Then there was her bubble butt and her thunder thighs. Oh, call it what it was: fat. She was fat. 2. A fat person. Labels: US, slang, vulgar
Word: fortissimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fortissimo. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈtɪsɪməʊ/, /fɔːˈtɪsəməʊ/, /fɔɹˈtɪsɪmoʊ/, /fɔɹˈtɪsəmoʊ/ 1. Indicating that the piece is to be played very loudly. Example: (abbreviation) ff Example: He claims he was doing no more than repeating the standard nationalist account. So he was, but he was also repeating that passionate liberal critique which had resounded, often fortissimo, in British debate when Indian nationalism was still a half-formed dream.
Word: fortissimo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fortissimo. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈtɪsɪməʊ/, /fɔːˈtɪsəməʊ/, /fɔɹˈtɪsɪmoʊ/, /fɔɹˈtɪsəmoʊ/ 1. The dynamic sign indicating that the piece should be played fortissimo.
Word: pianissimo Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Italian piano Italian -issimo Italian pianissimobor. English pianissimo Borrowed from Italian pianissimo. Pronunciation: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪməʊ/, /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəməʊ/, /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪmoʊ/, /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəmoʊ/ 1. Indicating that the piece is to be played very softly.
Word: pianissimo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Italian piano Italian -issimo Italian pianissimobor. English pianissimo Borrowed from Italian pianissimo. Pronunciation: /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪməʊ/, /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəməʊ/, /ˌpi.əˈnɪsɪmoʊ/, /ˌpi.əˈnɪsəmoʊ/ 1. A dynamic sign indicating that a portion of music should be played pianissimo. 2. A portion of music that is played very softly. Example: If the Randall Thompson Alleluia lacked the otherworldly awe and mystery the composer intended, the BGMC offered a fair accounting of the work with some wonderfully hushed pianissimos and clearly delineated contrasts in mood.
Word: refold Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English fold English refold From re- + fold. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈfoʊld/ 1. To fold again. Example: 'We must leave this place directly,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he refolded the note.
Word: otiose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin ōtiōsus (“idle”), from ōtium (“ease”). Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.ʃi.əʊs/, /ˈoʊ.ʃi.oʊs/ 1. Having no effect. Example: The most eminent jurists have not even yet decided on a satisfactory definition of piracy. […] One school holds that it is any felony committed on the High Seas. But that does little except render a separate term otiose. Moreover, it is not accepted by other schools of thought. 2. Done in a careless or perfunctory manner. Example: It may seem otiose thus to have re-examined the elements of a distant controversy. I have sought only to indicate that there are several perfectly respectable reasons why British opinion should have been so utterly bewildered between 1793 and 1783. Such an examination, even if it manages not to cause offense, is bound itself to become confused and to reflect the cloudy muddle of the period. It is preferable therefore to elucidate the conflict by describing its changing effects on a single individual. 3. Reluctant to work or to exert oneself. Example: Pemulis, w/ aid of 150mg. of time-release Tenuate Dospan, almost danced a little post-transaction jig on his way up the steps of the otiose Cambridge bus. 4. Of a person, possessing a bored indolence. 5. Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose. Example: On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago; Example: Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.
Word: colonise Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɒlənaɪz/, /ˈkɔlənɑjz/, /ˈkɑlənaɪz/, /ˈkɔlənaɪz/ 1. Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize. Example: “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.
Word: colonize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English colonize From colony + -ize. Pronunciation: /ˈkɑlənaɪz/, /ˈkɒlənaɪz/, /ˈkɔlənɑjz/ 1. To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony. Labels: transitive Example: When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers. 2. To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area). Labels: transitive Example: The administration finally sent a naval vessel to return the 368 survivors to the United States in 1864. This ended official efforts to colonize blacks. 3. To begin a colony or colonies. Labels: intransitive 4. To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: What disservice would be done if issues regarding sexualities in organisations were side-lined by a heteronormative impetus to colonise queer theory?
Word: prude Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent. Pronunciation: /pɹuːd/ 1. A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. Example: He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude. Example: If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
Word: prude Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent. Pronunciation: /pɹuːd/ 1. Prudish.
Word: medallion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin mediālis Early Medieval Latin medālia Italian medagliabor. French médaille French -on French médaillonbor. English medallion Borrowed from French médaillon. Pronunciation: /məˈdæljən/ 1. A large medal, usually decorative. 2. A cut of meat resembling a large medal. Example: pork medallion 3. A usually round or oval frame (often made of stucco) containing a decoration. 4. A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab. 5. A yellowish brown.
Word: medallion Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin mediālis Early Medieval Latin medālia Italian medagliabor. French médaille French -on French médaillonbor. English medallion Borrowed from French médaillon. Pronunciation: /məˈdæljən/ 1. To mark with, or as with, a medallion or medallions. Labels: poetic, transitive Example: a sunset that medallioned the eastern sky