nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: dang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in c. 1797, a minced oath of damn. Pronunciation: /ˈdæŋ/, [ˈdæŋ], /ˈdeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈdeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈdɛ̃ŋ/ 1. A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration. Labels: euphemistic Example: I don't give a dang. 2. A dam (structure placed around a body of water), used because of the homophony between dam and damn. Labels: humorous, rare Example: I don't often yell at my players or officials--I've never once thrown a chair, the best I ever did was a clipboard--and I never curse. People like to joke that I once went on vacation to the Hoover Dang. Example: “Momma, Keisha says we have to call it the 'Hoover Dang'.” Monique laughed, and it felt good. “No, honey. You don't have to call it that.[…]
Word: dang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Pronunciation: /ˈdæŋ/, [ˈdæŋ], /ˈdeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈdeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈdɛ̃ŋ/ 1. simple past of ding Labels: form-of, obsolete, past
Word: dang Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈdæŋ/, [ˈdæŋ], /ˈdeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈdeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈdɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To dash. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Till she, o'ercome with anguish, shame, and rage, Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.
Word: nowt Part of Speech: pron Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”). Pronunciation: /naʊt/, [naʊʔ], [nɔʊʔ], [nɒʊʔ], /nəʊt/ 1. Naught, nothing. Labels: Northern-England Example: Today I have achieved absolutely nowt / In just being out of the house, I've lost out
Word: nowt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”). Pronunciation: /naʊt/, [naʊʔ], [nɔʊʔ], [nɒʊʔ], /nəʊt/ 1. Naught, nothing. Labels: Northern-England, uncountable 2. A person of no importance; a worthless person; a ne'er-do-well. Labels: Yorkshire, uncountable Example: Bud yah're a nowt, and it's no use talking - yah'll niver mend o'yer ill ways, but goa raight to t' divil, like yer mother afore ye! Example: ... and great hectoring nowts like yond' Irish Peter, Helstone's curate.
Word: nowt Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Dialectal pronunciation of naught. Akin to West Frisian neat (“nothing”), German nichts (“nothing”). Pronunciation: /naʊt/, [naʊʔ], [nɔʊʔ], [nɒʊʔ], /nəʊt/ 1. Naught, nothing. Labels: Northern-England, not-comparable
Word: nowt Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English nowte, noute, nawte, naute, borrowed from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą. Cognate with Old English nēat, English neat. Pronunciation: /naʊt/, [naʊʔ], [nɔʊʔ], [nɒʊʔ], /nəʊt/ 1. An ox. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 2. A herd of cattle. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland 3. A dumb, crass, or clumsy person, or a person who is difficult or stubborn. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, figuratively Example: A hunner guineas for the heid o' that nowt Renwick, and him no' sae very far awa' frae your very nose at this meenit.
Word: chase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”) , see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”). Doublet of catch and related to capture. Displaced native Old English ōht, ēhtnes, and wāþ. Broadly overtook Old English huntaþ. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪs/ 1. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He was a good shot and passionately fond of the chase, and used to spend many hours in the neighbouring woods after the harts and the wild sows. Example: By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side. 3. A children's game where one player chases another. Labels: uncountable Example: Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not. Example: So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport. 4. A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable Example: Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness. 5. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A wild animal that is hunted. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer, Example: Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death. 7. Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: chase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Vulgar Latin *captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”) , see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”). Doublet of catch and related to capture. Displaced native Old English ōht, ēhtnes, and wāþ. Broadly overtook Old English huntaþ. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪs/ 1. To pursue. Labels: transitive 2. To pursue. Labels: transitive 3. To pursue. Labels: transitive Example: The team are chasing their first home win this season. 4. To pursue. Labels: transitive Example: He spends all his free time chasing girls. Example: She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy… so to speak. 5. To pursue. Labels: transitive 6. To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser. Labels: transitive Example: I need something to chase this shot with. Example: [He] chases his bedtime Valium with Johnny Walker Red. 7. To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings. Labels: transitive Example: Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day. 8. To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch. Labels: transitive Example: Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two. 9. To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed. Labels: transitive Example: The rally chased the starter.
Word: chase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from French châsse (“case”, “reliquary”), from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪs/ 1. A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making. Example: The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.
Word: chase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa (“box”). Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪs/ 1. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow. 2. A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing. 3. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions. 4. The cavity of a mold. 5. A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
Word: chase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Possibly from obsolete French chas (“groove”, “enclosure”), from Old French, from Latin capsa (“box”). Or perhaps a shortening or derivative of enchase. Doublet of case, cash, and chasse. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃeɪs/ 1. To groove; indent. Labels: transitive 2. To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall. Labels: transitive Example: chase the pipe 3. To cut (the thread of a screw). Labels: transitive 4. To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing. Labels: transitive
Word: whack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwæk/, /ˈʍæk/, [ˈw̥æk] 1. The sound of a heavy strike. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The strike itself. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks. 3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable Example: C'mon. Take a whack at it. Example: 40 bucks a whack. 5. A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: I don’t care about much wine afterwards—I take my whack at dinner—I mean my share, you know; and when I have had as much as I want I toddle up to tea. Example: “It’s damned tame, whatever it is, comin’ in here at feedin’ time an’ gettin’ its whack of fish.” 6. A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 7. A deal, an agreement. Labels: US, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: "I'll stay if you will." "Good—that's a whack." Example: It's a whack! 8. A harmful outcome or repercussion. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: But I rely on you to give me the nod in time to get Cora clear off whatever happens. I can take my own whack as it comes—as I always have done. 9. PCP, phencyclidine (also wack). Labels: dated, uncountable 10. The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: del c:\docs\readme.txt Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.
Word: whack Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwæk/, /ˈʍæk/, [ˈw̥æk] 1. To hit, slap or strike. Labels: transitive Example: The bat whacked the baseball. Example: Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades. 2. To assassinate, bump off. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with... Example: Ken Barrett, a loyalist gunman who eventually confessed to killing Mr. Finucane on orders from the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association, told a BBC investigative reporter, John Ware, that when he’d expressed reluctance about “whacking” a solicitor[…] 3. To share or parcel out (often with up). Labels: slang, transitive Example: to whack the spoils of a robbery Example: When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands. 4. To beat convincingly; to thrash. Example: The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series. 5. To surpass; to better. Labels: UK Example: Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it! 6. To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning. Labels: Singapore, Singlish Example: Miss Loi always tells her students not to anyhow whack, stay calm and know thy approach before attempting each question. 7. To eat something hurriedly. Labels: Singapore, Singlish
Word: whack Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”). Pronunciation: /ˈwæk/, /ˈʍæk/, [ˈw̥æk] 1. Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: That's whack, yo! Example: As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]
Word: sassy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A modification of saucy, equivalent to sass + -y, originally used in American English. First attested in 1799, but in common usage only as of the mid-19th century. Pronunciation: /ˈsasi/, /ˈsæsi/ 1. Bold and spirited, often towards someone in authority; cheeky; impudent; saucy. Example: Yes, gemmen, we mus stan on our zarve rights. Wat! shall de sassy wite man Nullifly the Guberment? and shall not we, de color men, Nullifly de wite one? Example: When the red skins seed that the British and Americans war going to clapper clawing, they thought it war time for them to raze up thar brissls, and look out for plunder. They begun to be a leetle too sassy for cumfirt. 2. Smart, fashionable; stylish; chic. Example: The top isn't really slutty. Just a little sassier, more revealing than I'd usually go for. Example: There was only so much packing one could do that was appropriate for army training and I was pretty sure my sassiest outfit and latest face enhancers were not required. 3. Lively, vigorous. Example: Olives and preserved lemons add sassy tartness to salads, chicken tagines, and fish dishes […]
Word: résumé Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French résumé, past participle of résumer (“to summarize”), from Latin resūmere (“to take back”); compare resume. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛz.(j)ʊˌmeɪ/, /ɹɪˈzjuː.meɪ/, /ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/ 1. Alternative spelling of resume (“a summary, especially of employment history”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: On one occasion Mrs. Val Gwepton, who was not blessed with the most reposeful of temperaments, fairly let herself go, and gave Mrs. Pentherby a vivid and truthful résumé of her opinion of her. Example: 1978, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volumes 102-103, page 79, A résumé of diagnostic characters of the five families represented in Australia is also given, and a list of the 19 genera described from Australia is included
Word: batty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bat + -y. In sense “insane”, attested 1903, from expression have bats in one's belfry, from tendency of bats to fly around erratically. Compare also batshit (“insane”) and squirrelly (“jumpy, eccentric”). Pronunciation: /ˈbæti/, [ˈbæɾi] 1. Mad, crazy, silly. Labels: slang Example: He had left too fast. He must have seen the girl. He couldn't be sure she was too batty to see him. Example: On Sunday’s David Frost Show, Baroness Thatcher looked quite batty to me, eyes rolling. 2. Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal). Labels: obsolete Example: And from each other look thou lead them thus Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep.
Word: batty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bottom, possibly influenced by botty or butt. 1. The buttocks or anus. Labels: Multicultural-London-English Example: He kick the boy down and beat the boy back and batty and leg. 2. A homosexual man. Labels: Canada, Jamaica, UK, derogatory Example: For example, recent Jamaican 'raga' lyrics by Buju Banton and Brand Nubian attach the affirmation of black identity to crude animosity towards homosexuality and contain offensive language against the 'batties' as icons of non-blackness.
Word: batty Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of paddy (“rice”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The rice, or batty, is sown in June, at the commencement of the periodical rains; […]
Word: chatty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der. Middle English chateren English chatterclip. English chat Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English chatty From chat (“informal conversation”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæti/, [ˈt͡ʃæɾi] 1. Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting. Labels: informal Example: When a typically chatty employee who often participates in meetings and is engaged and enthusiastic suddenly becomes unmotivated and quieter, that person could be at risk for burnout. Example: Our ticket is checked after departure by a chatty guard. 2. Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style. Labels: informal 3. Supplying more information than necessary; verbose. Example: Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.
Word: chatty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English chat Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English chatty From chat (“louse”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæti/, [ˈt͡ʃæɾi] 1. Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, dated, dialectal Example: Now there are plans to put up a cheap and chatty wooden fence which will not provide anything like the security the old wall did and it will not have the same character.
Word: chatty Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæti/, [ˈt͡ʃæɾi] 1. Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fatty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæt.i/ 1. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. Example: fatty tissues Example: fatty meats 2. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. Example: fatty liver Example: fatty pancreas 3. Like fat; greasy. 4. Of or related to fat. Example: fatty acid Example: fatty alcohol 5. Literally or figuratively large. Labels: slang Example: Be careful of the taxi drivers out there though, I've heard they sell you drugs, drop you off at your hotel and then dob you in to the Thai Police to get a fatty reward! Example: Instead of going my normal route (ordering the book through the store, checking it out in person, and then ordering it online so I could get a fatty discount) I impulsively bought the book.
Word: fatty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English fat Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fatty From fat + -y (diminutive suffix). 1. An obese person. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty! 2. A large marijuana cigar; a blunt. Labels: slang Example: We went to Plaster Creek, smoked a fattie, and emerged doing somersaults and cartwheels and laughing. 3. A type of game played with marbles.
Word: catty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cat + -y. Compare Dutch kattig, which also means “subtly hostile” and is formed the same way (kat + -ig); see also catfight. Pronunciation: /ˈkæti/, [ˈkʰæɾi] 1. Resembling or characteristic of a cat. Labels: informal, literally Example: catty eyes Example: I heard a catty shriek. 2. With subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy, or upset (particularly in interactions between women). Labels: broadly, informal Example: The fact is, Mr Carrados, Gertrude is a misfire. It was the surprise of her life (if I said "disappointment" you'd think me catty) when Mark married me, and she didn't set out to be pleasant to the interloper. Example: “So leave your umbrellas at home 'cause we're gonna be drier than my favorite varietal of white wine, pinot gris.” “Hmm. Interesting. According to my research, precipitation is a-coming.” “So Harry's wrong?” “I don't want to be a catty bitch, but kind of, yeah.” “Meow, Ham.”
Word: catty Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay kati, from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi). 1. A (unit of) weight used in China which is metricated in Mainland China as exactly 0.5 kg, and approximately 0.6 kg for other places. Labels: informal Example: 16 Mess, make a Tale, which here is 20 s. English, 5 Tale make a Bancal, a weight so called, and 20 Bancal make a Catty, another weight. Example: Transparent yellow pieces are the best; the price is from eight to fourteen dollars per catty, according to size and quality.
Word: catty Part of Speech: noun 1. A catapult. Labels: informal, slang Example: “Give me your slingshot, and I'll let you have it back after school this afternoon,” she said firmly. […] I stuck the 'catty' into my back pocket and ran outside to meet the others. Example: You could also keep a tennis ball and a frog, or a catapult and a frog, but not all three together. I know because I tried it. The frog got a bit squashed between the ball and the handle of the catty.
Word: clone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s. Pronunciation: /kloʊn/, /kləʊn/ 1. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. Example: This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant. 2. A group of identical cells derived from a single cell. Example: […] each identified blastomere, and the clone of its descendant cells, plays a specific role in later development 3. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it. Example: The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s. 4. A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior. Labels: informal Example: Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.” 5. A Castro clone. Labels: slang Example: Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco. Example: By mid-1983, I had grown weary of reading literature by white gay men who fell, quite easily, into three camps: the incestuous literati of Manhattan and Fire Island, the San Francisco cropped-mustache-clones, and the Boston-to-Cambridge politically correct radical faggots.
Word: clone Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Coined (in botany) in 1903, based on Ancient Greek κλών (klṓn, “twig”). Figurative use from the 1970s. Pronunciation: /kloʊn/, /kləʊn/ 1. To create a clone of. Labels: transitive Example: The scientists were able to clone a sheep. Example: We cloned the database to perform some testing.
Word: Arab Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic. Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəb/, /ˈaɹəb/, /ˈɛɹəb/, /ˈaɾəb/, /ˈeɪɹæb/ 1. Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations. Labels: not-comparable Example: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Word: Arab Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic. Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəb/, /ˈaɹəb/, /ˈɛɹəb/, /ˈaɾəb/, /ˈeɪɹæb/ 1. A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula. 2. A person from the Middle East and North Africa, whose mother tongue is Arabic. Labels: broadly Example: This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze. 3. An Arabian horse. Labels: uncommon Example: Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […] 4. A street Arab. Labels: archaic Example: a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon You Christian people often see the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel much pity for them, as well you may. Example: The other day I heard you complaining of the nuisance that small ragged street-boys are to you whenever you go out. […] You wished that some one would do something to clear away these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call them, so that a fine old English gentleman—as you are pleased to think yourself—might take his exercise in peace.
Word: Arab Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic. Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəb/, /ˈaɹəb/, /ˈɛɹəb/, /ˈaɾəb/, /ˈeɪɹæb/ 1. A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States. 2. The Arabic language. Labels: dated, rare Example: Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.
Word: scuttle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel. Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt.l̩/ 1. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal). Example: All through dinner—which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin—Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition. Example: On the way, with superior precaution, we got out our saucepan. The kitchen fire was red, but low; the coal-cellar was locked, and there was nothing in the scuttle but a little coal-dust and the piece of brown paper that is put in to keep the coals from tumbling out through the bottom where the hole is. 2. A broad, shallow basket. 3. A dish, platter or a trencher. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
Word: scuttle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English sċēat. More at sheet. Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt.l̩/ 1. A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck. Example: My knife was at my hip. I returned to my hut for the shotgun, made sure it was loaded, and went down to the Ghost. With some difficulty, and at the expense of a wetting to the waist, I climbed aboard. The forecastle scuttle was open. I paused to listen for the breathing of the men, but there was no breathing. Example: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them. 2. A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor. 3. A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor. 4. A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
Word: scuttle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English sċēat. More at sheet. Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt.l̩/ 1. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose. Labels: transitive 2. To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner. Labels: transitive Example: The Vichy French fleet in Toulon in 1942 scuttled itself as a final "fuck you" to the invading Germans. Example: "My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew." 3. To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort). Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The third and equally important fact is that at the time of gear retraction more than ample runway remained to brake to a successful stop and even had there been a fire in the left engine no necessity existed for scuttling the aircraft. 4. To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately. Labels: broadly, transitive Example: The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst. Example: The proposed merger of the Morgan Stanley Group and the S. G. Warburg Group collapsed today, scuttling plans by the companies to create one of the world's most powerful investment banks.
Word: scuttle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See scuddle. Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt.l̩/ 1. To move hastily, to scurry. Labels: intransitive Example: With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron. Example: there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
Word: scuttle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See scuddle. Pronunciation: /ˈskʌt.l̩/ 1. A quick pace; a short run. Example: She scarce gave me time to return her salute, before she quitted the shop with an easy scuttle, and stepped again into her coach
Word: sack Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earlier (wyne) seck from Middle French (vin (“wine”)) sec (“dry”), from Latin siccus (“dry”). Pronunciation: /sæk/, /sak/, /sɛk/ 1. A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: Wilt pleaſe your Lord drink a cup of ſacke? […] I am Christophero Sly, call not mee Honour nor Lordship: I ne're drank ſacke in my life: […] Example: Giue me a Cup of Sacke, Rogue. Is there no Vertue extant?
Word: sack Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sæk/, /sak/, /sɛk/ 1. Dated form of sac (“pouch in a plant or animal”). Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Sometimes fishes are born that have rudimentary yolk sacks. Such young are born prematurely.
Word: sack Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /sæk/, /sak/, /sɛk/ 1. Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sack Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /sæk/, /sak/, /sɛk/ 1. Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: infamy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From late Middle English infamie, from Old French infamie, from Latin īnfāmia (“infamy”), from īnfāmis (“infamous”), from in- (“not”) + fāma (“fame, renown”). Displaced native Old English unhlīsa (literally “bad fame”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfəmi/ 1. The state of being infamous. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: December 7, 1941; November 22, 1963; and September 11, 2001. The three dates which will live in infamy. Example: ... but the cars of chaste women have either coverings thrown over them, or white sheets hung over; for instance, on the cars of the female part of the family of the deceased Nawabs Khanduran and Muzaffar Khan, there used generally to be fastened thick dirty white cloths, and in like manner also on their palanquins—although one brother was the chief treasurer, and the other a commander of seven thousand men. And most assuredly this is a requirement of modesty; for one whose palanquin or cart is turned out with much splendour, verily the idea comes to the minds of the sight-seers and common people, that in it there must be some lovely one, bright as the morning, the envy of the fairies. Hence, for the cars or palanquins for women to ride in to be greatly embroidered is, in the opinion of certain men of standing, who are worthy to be trusted, of great infamy. 2. A reprehensible occurrence or situation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair. It is an infamy that he did not. 3. A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: in perpetuity Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. For an indefinitely long time. Example: bequeathed to the nation in perpetuity Example: The interest payments on consols were in perpetuity. 2. For life. Example: desire happiness in perpetuity Example: the annuity was in perpetuity
Word: banns Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An alteration of bans. Pronunciation: /bænz/ 1. The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage). Labels: plural, plural-only Example: VVhy the banns have been publiſhed, and nobody has forbidden them, 'tis true—but you know either of the parties may change their minds even after they enter the church. 2. Any public announcement of an upcoming event. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only Example: The Banes which are reade beefore the beginninge of the playes of Chester, 4 June, 1600.
Word: wallop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.əp/, /ˈwɑ.ləp/ 1. A heavy blow, a punch. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: he gave him a mighty wallop Example: An' in the twentieth we stood in the middle of the ring an' exchanged wallops even. 2. A person's ability to throw such punches. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: this guy's got some wallop 3. An emotional impact, a psychological force. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: that film has some serious wallop 4. A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: "You're a gent," said the other, straightening his shoulders again. He appeared not to have noticed Winston's blue overalls. "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman. "Pint of wallop." 6. A thick piece of fat. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 7. A quick rolling movement; a gallop. Labels: Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Word: wallop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English wallopen (“gallop”), from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old Northern French walop (“gallop”, noun) and waloper (“to gallop”, verb) (compare Old French galoper, whence modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”) from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (“dead, victim, slain”) from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). Compare the doublet gallop. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.əp/, /ˈwɑ.ləp/ 1. To rush hastily. Labels: intransitive 2. To flounder, wallow. Labels: intransitive 3. To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise. Example: Oure affections boyle within vs, & wallop, frothing as a seething potte. 4. To strike heavily, thrash soundly. Labels: transitive Example: Tony got walloped round the face by Mike. Example: “It’s just like old times. Nearly walloped the life out of me to stop me going away, and now I come back he throws a confounded shovel at my head to keep me out. It grazed my shoulder.” 5. To trounce, beat by a wide margin. Labels: transitive Example: The other side are bringing out their B-team, so we have to aim to completely wallop them. 6. To wrap up temporarily. Labels: transitive 7. To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle. Example: Saluting the far loin of his mare[…]with an energy that made all his accoutrements wallop. Example: The second act commenced, and the old-fashioned sixpenny waves of Drury did their best, and wallopped about, under a canvas blanket representing the sea, and dashed against the rocks and tall cliffs of the scene to admiration. 8. To eat or drink with gusto. Example: St. Peter will befriend me then, Because my name is Peter too; I know him for the best of men That ever wallopped barley brew. Example: A greasy spoon café was found, big brekkies ordered and soon walloped down.
Word: wallop Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clipping of write to all operators. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒl.əp/, /ˈwɑ.ləp/ 1. To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server. Labels: Internet
Word: fang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clipping of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below. Pronunciation: /ˈfæŋ/, [ˈfæŋ], /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/ 1. A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh. Example: The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh. 2. Synonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates. Labels: obsolete 3. A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom. 4. A pointed extension of the chelicera in spiders, used for injecting venom. 5. Synonym of tooth, particularly in humans. Labels: colloquial 6. Either of the two factors that make a number a vampire number.
Word: fang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From clipping of fangtooth, from Middle English *fangtooth, *fengtooth, from Old English fengtōþ (“molar tooth”), from feng, preterite of fōn (“to catch, take, seize”). Cognate with German Fangzahn (“fang”, literally “catch-tooth”) and Dutch vangtand. See also related senses of Etymology 3 below. Pronunciation: /ˈfæŋ/, [ˈfæŋ], /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To strike or attack with the fangs. Labels: rare 2. To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs. Example: chariots fang'd with scythes
Word: fang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fangen, fongen, from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”). Cognate with North Frisian fo, fu, füünj (“to get, obtain, receive”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen, fahen (“to catch”), Low German fangen (“to catch”), Luxembourgish fänken (“to catch”), Faroese fá, fáa (“to get; to catch”), Icelandic fá (“to get, receive”), Danish, Norwegian, Swedish få (“to get, receive”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæŋ/, [ˈfæŋ], /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To catch, capture; seize. Labels: archaic, dialectal, transitive Example: Gentlemen, break not the head of the peace: it's to no purpose, for he's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged. Example: Destruction fang mankind. 2. To take; receive with assent; accept. Labels: dialectal, obsolete, transitive 3. To receive with hospitality. Labels: obsolete, transitive 4. To receive. Labels: obsolete, transitive 5. To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to. Labels: dialectal, transitive
Word: fang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”). Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæŋ/, [ˈfæŋ], /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/ 1. A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. Labels: Scotland, dialectal 2. That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods. Labels: Scotland, dialectal 3. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly Labels: obsolete 4. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly 5. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly Labels: obsolete Example: Now take out your Indian Tuberoſes, parting the Off-ſets (but with care, leſt you break their fangs) then pot them in natural (not forc'd) Earth; [...] the protuberant fangs of the Yuca are to be treated like the Tuberoſes. 6. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly Labels: obsolete 7. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly 8. Any item, body part, or projection used for or capable of catching or seizing, particularly 9. Synonym of vang, a line extended from the end of a gaff to control its position. Labels: archaic 10. The valve of a pump-box. 11. A channel cut or pipe set for the purpose of carrying fresh air to working miners. Labels: Derbyshire, dialectal 12. Catches on which a coalmining cage rests while cars are being moved on and off. Labels: in-plural, rare
Word: fang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fang, possibly from Old English fang, feng (“grasp, catch”); alternatively borrowed from Old Norse fang (“catch”) or formed anew from the verb fangen, all from Proto-Germanic *fangą (“catch, catching, seizure”), from the verb *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to attach”). Compare Scots fang (“catch”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”). Pronunciation: /ˈfæŋ/, [ˈfæŋ], /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate. Labels: Scotland, transitive
Word: fang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The Macquarie Dictionary and the Australian National Dictionary Centre derive it from the name of Juan Fangio, Argentinian racing driver. Pronunciation: /ˈfæŋ/, [ˈfæŋ], /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ/, [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ], /ˈfɛ̃ŋ/ 1. To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly. Labels: Australia, intransitive, slang, transitive Example: Soph was probably out drag-racing with Draz, or fanging down some brightly lit street somewhere hanging out Draz's brother's sunroof and waving at passers-by and screaming. Example: The question of whether rail might be a better long-term option than road is passed over with the speed of a merchant banker fanging up the toll road to Mount Buller for the weekend[…]
Word: mucker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By surface analysis, muck + -er. Compare Swedish mokare/mockare (“one who cleans dung”, agent noun) → rörmokare/rörmockare (“plumber”, literally “pipe mucker”). Compare the military sense to Finnish mokkeri (“private”, colloquial), to Swedish mocka (“to clean muck”); and Swedish mecka/meka (“to repair or improve (mechanical) equipment”), to meckaniker (“mechanic”); also Swedish mucka (“to complete military service”), from Tavringer Romani mucka (“to be released”). The military sense might also derive from a slur, a common practice in military lingo. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌkə(ɹ)/ 1. A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. 2. A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable. Labels: archaic, derogatory 3. A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation. Labels: British-Army, slang Example: Go and talk to your mucker! Example: Too fucking late, son. I didn't want my mucker blown into tiny bits. 4. Friend, acquaintance. Labels: Northern-Ireland, Southern-England, UK, slang Example: Fancy a pint, me old mucker?