nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: min Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna (“to bring to mind”), from minni (“memory”). See above. Pronunciation: /mɪn/ 1. to bring to the mind of; remind Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. to remember Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. to mention Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: min Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /mɪn/ 1. Abbreviation of minimum. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Clipping of minimum. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial Example: He's gotta be at least 60, min!
Word: min Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of minoxidil. Pronunciation: /mɪn/ 1. minoxidil Labels: informal, uncountable
Word: bucktooth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From buck + tooth. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌkˌtuθ/ 1. An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth. Labels: derogatory
Word: monkey bread Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of gourd, the fruit of a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata), eaten by monkeys. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The tree itself. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A soft, sweet, sticky pastry sprinkled with cinnamon, often served at fairs and festivals. Labels: US, countable, uncountable
Word: monkey-faced owl Part of Speech: noun 1. A barn owl, Tyto alba.
Word: monkey wrench Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Already in use, and not unfamiliar among mechanics, by 1832; see discussion and references at Monkey wrench § Etymology and history. 1. A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw. Example: Did you ever stop to think whether or not you knew how a monkey wrench should be used? Example: With a monkey wrench on the hexagonal part of the stuffing box unscrew the stuffing box from the body of the faucet. 2. An unexpected or troublesome problem, obstacle or dilemma. Labels: figuratively Example: Professor Miller's careful research has thrown a monkey-wrench into the Einstein wheel, although it has far from discouraged the enthusiastic exponents of Einsteinism. Example: Meanwhile the killer, either knowing for sure or by instinct that the police have incorrectly profiled him, throws monkey wrenches into the task force investigation by changing his modus operandi (MO) for no other reason than to trick the police.
Word: monkey wrench Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Already in use, and not unfamiliar among mechanics, by 1832; see discussion and references at Monkey wrench § Etymology and history. 1. To apply a monkey wrench, e.g. to tighten or loosen nuts. 2. To introduce problems, to create unexpected trouble, to sabotage. Labels: idiomatic Example: I think it’s possible that [US Vice President J.D.] Vance didn’t intend to monkey wrench [the meeting with US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky].
Word: decilitre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French décilitre, deci- + litre. Pronunciation: /ˈdɛsɪliːtə(ɹ)/ 1. An SI unit of fluid equal to 10⁻¹ liters. Symbol: dl. Example: When the boy was admitted, Carter said, the haemoglobin count was 8.3 grams per decilitre.
Word: professed Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛst/ 1. Openly declared or acknowledged. Example: His professed religion was Catholicism. 2. Professing to be qualified. Example: She is a professed expert in mechanics. Example: […] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists. 3. Admitted to a religious order. Example: The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.
Word: professed Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛst/ 1. simple past and past participle of profess Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: chump change Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the idea that only chumps would fall for it. The neutral sense is an extension from the sense concerning indignation. 1. An amount of remuneration, reward, or other monetary recompense considered to be insultingly small. Labels: US, idiomatic, uncountable Example: If you sell one of those cars, your commission will be chump change. Example: I don't work for chump change. I quit! 2. A sum of money considered to be insignificant. Labels: US, idiomatic, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: petty cash, pocket money, walk-around money, walking-around money; small change, pocket change, loose change, spare change; pittance Example: He spent $300,000 for his new car, but that's chump change for a billionaire like him.
Word: rekey Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Proto-West Germanic *kaiju Old English cǣġ Middle English keye English key English rekey From re- + key. 1. To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before. Example: She had to rekey the security code. 2. To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it. 3. To change the key or tenor of; to reframe.
Word: chump Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably a blend of chunk and lump or stump, or perhaps a nasalised variant of chub (“someone chubby, something thick”). Compare Icelandic kubbur (“block of wood, chip (computing)”), Old Norse kumbr for kubbr (“block of wood”), English chop. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌmp/ 1. An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. Labels: colloquial, derogatory Example: That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Example: What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”? 2. A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. Labels: colloquial, derogatory Example: It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump. Example: “Well, that's it. Let's reactivate him. Wake up!” “[Yawns] Hey, chumps and chumpettes. Did you get the bomb out? Can I go back to saying the word I love to say?” “I'm sorry, but we couldn't remove it.” “It's stuck in there with glue or something. I don't know.” “Well, this is just great. What's the point of living if I can't say ass? [Gasps] Hey! I didn't blow up! Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass! Ass! All right! I'm back in the saddle.” “We couldn't disarm the bomb, so we reset the word that triggers it.” “It's from the list of words you almost never say.” “That's using your ass. So what's the word?” “We think it's better if you don't know.” “Oh, come on. I'm not going to say it. Please? Ooh, is it "please"?” “Nope.” “Hmm. Words I never say. Oh. I know. "Thanks."” “Bender, stop trying to destroy the world.” “Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it "sorry"? No. "Funderful"? Mmm... "Non-alcoholic"?” “Quit it.” “Bender.” “Stop it, mon.” “Enough already.” “"Compassion"? "Shrimp toast"? "Antiquing"?” [Explosion] “I'm all right.” 3. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat. Example: Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something. 4. A person's head or face. Labels: UK, obsolete, slang
Word: chump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably a blend of chunk and lump or stump, or perhaps a nasalised variant of chub (“someone chubby, something thick”). Compare Icelandic kubbur (“block of wood, chip (computing)”), Old Norse kumbr for kubbr (“block of wood”), English chop. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌmp/ 1. To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone). Labels: slang, transitive
Word: chump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of chomp, itself a variant of champ (“to bite”). More at champ. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃʌmp/ 1. Dated form of chomp. Labels: alt-of, dated Example: At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.
Word: mystique Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French mystique (“a mystic”), from Latin mysticus. See also the doublet mystic. Pronunciation: /mɪˈstiːk/ 1. An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In an opening chapter entitled "Portrait", he ends by asking whether there was a mystique about the L.B. & S.C. Example: The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment.
Word: pelican crossing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Short for pedestrian light-controlled crossing. 1. A pedestrian crossing with traffic-lights operated by pedestrians Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
Word: plonker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plonk + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈplɒŋ.kə(ɹ)/ 1. A fool. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang Example: “You kept the hat! You bloody plonker!” “Fuck me.” “And now look at you, bouncing off the cars like a bouncing idiot.” “Fucking hell!” “Is he gonna be alright?” 2. A penis. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang 3. A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, dated, slang 4. Something bad or inferior. Labels: slang Example: Frank advised him, 'Stay away from cheap songs and the rest will follow.' Bennett did record some plonkers but his overall level of good to bad has to be higher than Frank's. 5. One who plonks.
Word: thwart Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”). Cognates The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, Pronunciation: /θwɔːt/, /θwɔɹt/ 1. Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse. Example: Which elſe to ſeveral Sphears thou muſt aſcribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities, / Or ſave the Sun his labour, and that ſwift / Nocturnal and Diurnal rhomb ſuppos'd, / Inviſible elſe above all Starrs, the Wheele / Of Day and Night; […] 2. Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn. Labels: dated, figuratively Example: […] harke Nature, heare deere Goddeſſe, ſuſpend thy purpoſe, if thou did'ſt intend to make this creature fruitful into her wombe, conuey ſterility, drie vp in hir the organs of increaſe, and from her derogate body neuer ſpring a babe to honour her, if ſhee muſt teeme, create her childe of ſpleene, that it may liue and bee a thourt diſuetur'd^([sic – meaning disnatured]) torment to her, […] Example: […] and it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […] 3. Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky. Labels: dated, figuratively
Word: thwart Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”). Cognates The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, Pronunciation: /θwɔːt/, /θwɔɹt/ 1. Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: With adverſe blaſt up-turns them from the South / Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds / From Serraliona; thwart of theſe as fierce / Forth ruſh the Levant and the Ponent VVindes / Eurus and Zephir with their lateral noiſe, / Sirocco, and Libecchio.
Word: thwart Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”). Cognates The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, Pronunciation: /θwɔːt/, /θwɔɹt/ 1. Across, athwart. Labels: archaic, poetic
Word: thwart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”). Cognates The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, Pronunciation: /θwɔːt/, /θwɔɹt/ 1. To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent. Labels: transitive Example: Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm. Example: The police thwarted the would-be assassin. 2. To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose. Labels: also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive 4. To move (something) across or counter to; to cross. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete Example: An arrow thwarts the air. Example: Thither came Uriel, gliding through the Eeven / On a Sun beam, ſwift as a ſhooting Starr / In Autumn thwarts the night, […]
Word: thwart Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English thwerte, from the adjective thwert (“obstinate, perverse”), from Old Norse þvert, neuter of þverr (“transverse”). Cognates The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic 𐌸𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷𐍃 (þwairhs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer; also Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, Pronunciation: /θwɔːt/, /θwɔɹt/ 1. A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit. Example: The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row. Example: When taking his seat in a boat, the learner should first observe that the thwart is firmly fixed, and that the mat upon it is securely tied to that part of it which is farthest from his rowlock. 2. A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail. Example: A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart. Example: A conſiderable number of thwarts were laid from gunwale to gunwale, to which they were ſecurely laſhed on each ſide, as a ſtrengthening to the boat [a canoe]. 3. An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle. Labels: rare
Word: prat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty. Pronunciation: /pɹat/ 1. A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. Labels: Scotland
Word: prat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty. Pronunciation: /pɹat/ 1. Cunning, astute. Labels: obsolete
Word: prat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above). Pronunciation: /pɹat/ 1. A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. Labels: slang Example: Pratt, a Buttock. Example: No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one. 2. A fool, contemptible person. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang Example: Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats. 3. The female genitals. Labels: slang Example: "She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat." Example: ...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat.
Word: pratfall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From prat + fall. 1. A fall onto the buttocks. 2. A humiliating mistake. 3. A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes. Example: The motivational speaker started with a pratfall so he could speak about the importance of getting back up.
Word: pratfall Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From prat + fall. 1. To fall on to the buttocks.
Word: pud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipped form of pudding. Pronunciation: /pʊd/, /pɵd/, /pʉd/ 1. Pudding (either sweet or savoury). Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Word: pud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps from Scots pud (“little fat man”, a term of endearment) (see podge) or from pudendum. Pronunciation: /pʊd/ 1. Penis. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Standing there, half-awake, pud in hand, he feels washed out and hungover, though he hasn't touched a drop in weeks.
Word: pud Part of Speech: noun Etymology: According to the OED, a nursery word. Perhaps from or related to Dutch poot (“hand”). Pronunciation: /pʌd/ 1. Child's hand; child's fist. Labels: colloquial, dated Example: The kangaroos — your Aborigines — do they keep their primitive simplicity un-Europe-tainted, with those little short fore puds, looking like a lesson framed by Nature to the pickpocket!
Word: pud Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /puːd/ 1. Alternative form of pood (“Russian weight”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pushchair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel- Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *-né-der. Proto-Italic *pelnōder. Latin pellō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin pulsō Old French poulser Middle French pousserbor. Middle English pushen English push Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English pushchair From push + chair. Pronunciation: /ˈpʊʃ.t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/ 1. A small carriage in which a baby or child sits and is pushed around. Labels: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK Example: He reversed the pushchair out of the shop and continued towards his errands. Example: The Key Train Requirements document, released in July by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), includes a new clause covering people travelling with pushchairs. It highlights the need for space in carriages for unfolded pushchairs or prams, separate from areas for wheelchairs and cycles. It also recommends extending seat reservations to include pram spaces.
Word: reverse the charge Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of reverse the charges. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ides of March Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin idūs Martii. 1. The 15th of March in the Ancient Roman calendar, on which day Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Word: abiyuch Part of Speech: noun 1. A tropical Asian and African flowering tree, Crateva religiosa, of the caper family. 2. The edible fruit of this plant
Word: stalking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of stalk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stalking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English stalkynge, stalkyng, from Old English stealcung, from Proto-West Germanic *stalkungu, equivalent to stalk + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/ 1. The act of going stealthily. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems. A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright. The short clip makes for a delightful watch. 2. Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The crime of following or harassing another person, causing that person to fear death or injury. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: stalking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English stalk Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English stalking From stalk (“the stem of a plant”) + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/ 1. The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: gooseberry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From goose + berry. It is possible that the first element was originally something related to the gros- of French groseille and/or the kruis- of Dutch kruisbes but has been altered by folk etymology. Pronunciation: /ˈɡusˌbɛɹi/, /ˈɡʊzb(ə)ɹi/, /ˈɡuːsb(ə)ɹi/ 1. A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant. Example: We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year. 2. Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry). 3. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 4. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 5. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 6. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 7. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 8. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 9. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 10. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 11. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 12. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 13. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar: 14. A chaperone. Labels: British, dated, slang 15. An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation. Labels: UK Example: Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry. Example: "But," said Philippa dolefully, "if I go I'll have to be gooseberry, and that will be a new experience for Philippa Gordon." 16. A fool. Labels: British, dated, slang 17. A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax. Labels: British, dated, slang 18. A testicle. Labels: British, dated, plural-normally, slang, vulgar
Word: commencer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English commence 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 commencer From commence + -er. 1. One who commences. Example: Near-synonyms: beginner, starter
Word: disregard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + regard. Compare misregard. Pronunciation: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ 1. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The government's blithe disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous. Example: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
Word: disregard Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From dis- + regard. Compare misregard. Pronunciation: /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑːd/, /dɪsɹɪˈɡɑɹd/ 1. To ignore; to pay no attention to. Labels: transitive Example: If you break the law, they will send you a letter. You disregard that they will send someone with a suit to your house. If you disregard Suit-Boy, you will be sent a subpoena. You disregard that they will send men with guns and dogs to your house. Example: Half of the mock jurors that were told he had insurance were told to disregard that information. Mock jurors who were instructed to disregard the information awarded the defendant more money than participants who did not know the defendant had insurance, or knew that he had insurance but were not told to disregard this information.
Word: outrageous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage + -ous. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/, /æɔtˈɹæɪd͡ʒəs/, /æʊtˈɹæɪd͡ʒəs/ 1. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront. Example: To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...]. Example: The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play. 2. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate. Example: "Now, the Lord have mercy upon me!" exclaimed Sir Robert, sinking back in his chair; "there is nothing in the world so unreasonable as a pretty woman. Well, let me hear what outrageous proposition is about to come from two at once!" Example: Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses. 3. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative. Example: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill. Example: "It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes." 4. Fierce, violent. Labels: archaic Example: For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...]. Example: For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]
Word: violate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English violaten (“to defile, render impure”), from violat(e) (“defiled, desecrated”, also used as the past participle of violaten) + -en, borrowed from Latin violātus, perfect passive participle of violō (“to treat with violence (whether bodily or mental)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Ultimately from vīs (“strength, power, force, violence”). Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/ 1. To break or disregard (a rule or convention). Labels: transitive Example: Drinking-and-driving violates the law. Example: Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol. 2. To rape. Labels: transitive Example: That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher! Example: Bulgarian soldiers in the meantime entered Turkish houses, violated the women and girls and stole everything they could lay their hands on. 3. To cite (a person) for a parole violation. Labels: slang, transitive Example: If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison. Example: Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.
Word: violate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English violat, from Classical Latin violātus. Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/ 1. Subject to violation. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: [I]t was declared and resolved to be an undouted ancient standing order, not to be violate, and so was entred and established upon the booke. Example: And now, O maids, behold our sanctuary / Is violate, our laws broken: […] 2. Synonym of violated. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: My Fathers blood, Agneſias languiſhing griefs, my violate marriage, and this late contempt, raiſed ſeveral paſſions, which like ſo many torrents, overthrew all obſtacles that withſtood the rapacity of their courſe, […] Example: And this Promiſe had never been accompliſhed, unleſs Jeſus, as the great promiſed Meſſiah, had taken off the Doom of the violate Law, […] 3. Morally impure. Labels: archaic, obsolete, poetic Example: The bruite of which her rare perfections ran, […] laſtly reſted in the princes eares, / Who […] / Inuades my caſtell when I was at reſt, / And bare my daughter thence with violate hands, / Vnto his pallace where ſhe doth remaine, […] Example: Naples is glad because her king has fallen / By my hand first; / Take home the lesson to thee, faithless warden, / The foremost and the worst, / Who makest of this lovely land, God’s garden, / A nation violate, corrupt, accurst.
Word: diastema Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek διάστημα (diástēma, “interval, space between”). Compare diastasis. Pronunciation: /daɪəˈstiːmə/ 1. A gap or space between two adjacent teeth, especially the upper front incisors (in humans). Example: A gormless-looking boy, thin and exhibiting diastemata in the shop-front lights, offered him English newspapers. 2. A gap between teeth of different types, e.g. incisors and molars, which is a feature of some rodents and ungulates. 3. Any abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in an organ or other part of the body. 4. The modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division.
Word: Darth Vader Part of Speech: noun Etymology: "Darth" is a blend of dark + death (the derivation from Dark Lord of the Sith is a later development). "Vader" is traditionally explained as being from Dutch vader (“father”). However, the idea of Vader's fatherhood was only developed for The Empire Strikes Back (after the character was introduced), making this improbable. It is more likely a shortening of invader or from the surname Vader. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)θ ˈveɪ.də(ɹ)/ 1. A powerful individual or force, particularly one that is seen as malevolent, dominating and threatening. Example: Irabu had hired Nomura, a man with whom he obviously had a great deal in common, and, who, as we have seen, was rapidly becoming the Darth Vader of Japanese baseball. Example: Bush's missile shield plan positions him as Darth Vader. 2. A British Rail Class 460 train. Labels: UK, informal Example: When the new GEX stock (Darth Vaders!!) are in service, and the inevitable happens and they break down, EWS will no doubt trundle along to rescue it Example: What was modified so that 73s could haul (or push) and heat air-con stock on Gatwick Express (pre Darth Vader) - the locos or the coaches?
Word: Darth Vader Part of Speech: name Etymology: "Darth" is a blend of dark + death (the derivation from Dark Lord of the Sith is a later development). "Vader" is traditionally explained as being from Dutch vader (“father”). However, the idea of Vader's fatherhood was only developed for The Empire Strikes Back (after the character was introduced), making this improbable. It is more likely a shortening of invader or from the surname Vader. Pronunciation: /ˈdɑː(ɹ)θ ˈveɪ.də(ɹ)/ 1. Darth Vader, a villain of the science-fantasy film series Star Wars. Example: What's all this? Looks like Darth Vader's bathroom.
Word: inutile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French inutile, from Latin inutilis. Philippine usage is likely from Tagalog inutil, from Spanish inútil, from the same source. By surface analysis, in- + utile. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈjuːtaɪl/ 1. useless; unprofitable. Example: wormwood, and the like, […]dissipate and digest any inutile or excrementitious moisture which lieth in the flesh Example: The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation. 2. useless (of a person); inept. Labels: Philippines Example: Is President Duterte so inutile that his Cabinet members and other appointees do not consult him on very important matters? Harry Roque said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not consult the President regarding the termination of the UP-DND Accord.
Word: facelift Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From face + lift. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪsˌlɪft/ 1. Plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging. Example: You thought face-lifts were over? Killed off by a combination of Botox, and fear of winding up looking somewhat bride-of-Wildenstein? No! On the contrary, the face-lift is enjoying a renaissance, following the introduction of newer and newer techniques involving smaller scars and shorter recuperation periods. 2. Any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something. Labels: broadly Example: The old building will get a facelift with new paint, carpet, and decoration. Example: Early in September the “gift box” that has hidden Bergdorf Goodman's Fifth Avenue entrance since March is due to come off, revealing the results of a six-month facelift.
Word: facelift Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From face + lift. Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪsˌlɪft/ 1. To perform a facelift upon. Example: With Four Years' Soot Swept Up, Face-Lifted Brooklyn Bridge Is Ready for Public [subheading] Example: It's a mere block from the junction of the Boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail, still one of the liveliest spots in town with its legendary cafe-restaurants, Le Select, Le Dome and La Coupole, the latter recently facelifted from its old seediness.
Word: face-lift Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of facelift. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: facetious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French facétieux, from Latin facētia (“jest, wit, humor”), from facētus (“witty, jocose, facetious”). Pronunciation: /fəˈsiːʃəs/, /fəˈsiːʃɪs/ 1. Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant. Example: Robbie's joke about Heather's appearance was just him being facetious. Example: Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld. 2. Pleasantly humorous; jocular. 3. humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite.
Word: facilitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis. Pronunciation: /fəˈsɪlɪteɪt/, /fəˈsɪləteɪt/ 1. To make easy or easier. Example: Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock. Example: The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs. 2. To help bring about. Example: But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business. Example: Last week, the Justice Department said it would comply with a federal judge’s order to “facilitate” the return of O.C.G., a gay man who was sent to Mexico this year despite having told American authorities that he had experienced violence there and was afraid to go back. 3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
Word: narc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of narcotics (control) officer. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːk/, /ˈnɑɹk/, /ˈnä̝ːk/ 1. A police officer or federal agent assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control. Labels: colloquial, informal
Word: narc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alternative spelling of nark, influenced by narc (“narcotics officer”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːk/, /ˈnɑɹk/, /ˈnä̝ːk/ 1. Alternative spelling of nark (“spy”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, informal
Word: narc Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alternative spelling of nark, influenced by narc (“narcotics officer”). Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːk/, /ˈnɑɹk/, /ˈnä̝ːk/ 1. Alternative spelling of nark. Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial, informal
Word: narc Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of narcosis. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːk/, /ˈnɑɹk/, /ˈnä̝ːk/ 1. To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving). Labels: slang
Word: narc Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of narcissist. Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːk/, /ˈnɑɹk/, /ˈnä̝ːk/ 1. A narcissist. Labels: colloquial, informal
Word: fallacious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French fallacieux (whence -acious), from Latin fallācia, from fallāx, from fallere. Pronunciation: /fəˈleɪ.ʃəs/ 1. Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken. Example: There is a widely diffused notion that among all specimens of animal creation man alone possesses any glimmering of reason. This notion is largely fallacious. It is one of those ideas, based upon superficial knowledge, which appeal to the sophisticated modern public. 2. Deceptive or misleading.
Word: fallible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fallible, from Medieval Latin fallibilis (“liable to err, also deceitful”), from Latin fallere (“to deceive”). Pronunciation: /ˈfal.ɪ.bəl/, [ˈfal.ɪ.bl̩], /ˈfæl.ə.bəl/, [ˈfæl.ə.bl̩] 1. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong. Example: prove fallible Example: recognize as fallible 2. Capable of failure.
Word: firefighting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + fighting. 1. The extinguishing of a fire. Labels: uncountable 2. The profession of being a firefighter. Labels: uncountable 3. Solving an urgent problem. Labels: broadly, figuratively, uncountable
Word: falsify Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/, /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/ 1. To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive. Labels: transitive Example: to falsify a record or document Example: The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. 2. To misrepresent. Labels: transitive 3. To counterfeit; to forge. Labels: transitive Example: to falsify money 4. To prove to be false. Labels: transitive Example: By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Example: Hovv much greater confirmation of his faith vvould he have received, had he ſeen our Saviour's prophecy ſtand good in the deſtruction of the temple, and the diſſolution of the Jevviſh œconomy, vvhen Jevvs and Pagans united all their endeavours under Julian the Apoſtate, to baffle and falſify the prediction? 5. To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Labels: transitive Example: It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it Example: The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done. 6. To baffle or escape. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […] 7. To violate; to break by falsehood. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: to falsify one's faith or word Example: he would not falsify his promise to Philanax
Word: fashionable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English fashion Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fashionable From fashion + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/ 1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue. Example: a fashionable dress Example: a fashionable man 2. Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time. Example: the fashionable philosophy Example: fashionable opinions 3. genteel; well-bred Labels: archaic Example: fashionable society Example: For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;
Word: fashionable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fashion Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fashionable From fashion + -able. Pronunciation: /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/ 1. A fashionable person; a fop. Example: Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […] Example: We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom.
Word: fire alarm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + alarm. 1. An electromechanical or electronic bell, klaxon, chime, horn, speaker, strobe light or other device which warns people in a building etc. of a possible fire or other condition requiring evacuation. Example: Should the automatic fire alarm sound, the gas from the [carbon dioxide] bottles may be released in the engine compartment by operating a pull handle in the driver's cab. 2. The sound or other warning made by a fire alarm. 3. An emergency response to a fire by the fire department with manpower and equipment. Example: A four fire-alarm fire ripped through a row of 2.5 story frame dwellings during the early morning hours
Word: wherein Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English wherin; equivalent to where- + in. Pronunciation: /wɛˈɹɪn/, /wɛəˈɹɪn/ 1. How, or in what way. Labels: not-comparable Example: Wherein did I misspeak myself? Example: Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
Word: wherein Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English wherin; equivalent to where- + in. Pronunciation: /wɛˈɹɪn/, /wɛəˈɹɪn/ 1. Where, or in which location. Example: Defile not therefoꝛe the lande which yee ſhall inhabite, wherein I dwell: foꝛ I the Lord dwell among the childꝛen of Iſrael. Example: As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees. 2. During which. Example: [T]here is a time wherein one man ruleth ouer another to his owne hurt. 3. How, or in what way. Example: In order to show them wherein they were wrong, Samuel was instructed to bear witness against them […]
Word: faulty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fault + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈfɒlti/, /ˈfɔːlti/, /ˈfɔlti/, /ˈfɑlti/, [ˈfɒːlti] 1. Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable. Example: They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since. Example: I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument. 2. At fault, to blame; guilty. Labels: obsolete Example: Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
Word: fire truck Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fire + truck. Pronunciation: /faɪɚ tɹʌk/ 1. A motor truck that serves as firefighting apparatus (a fire appliance). Labels: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US Example: Near-synonym: fire engine (often synonymous; sometimes precisely differentiated by equipment)
Word: backdraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From back + draft. Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌdɹæft/ 1. Sudden, dangerous recombustion that occurs when there is a rapid reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed space containing a fire. Labels: US
Word: deciliter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deci- + liter. 1. US spelling of decilitre. Labels: US, alt-of
Word: mina Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana). 1. Alternative spelling of myna. Labels: alt-of, alternative