yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
detest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle French detester (French détester), from Latin dētestor (“to imprecate evil while calling the gods to witness", "denounce", "hate intensely”), from dē- + testor (“to testify, bear witness”), from testis (“a witness”); see test, testify. Doublet of detestate.
Inflected forms:
form: detests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I detest snakes.
Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
gloss: To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The heresy of Nestorius […] was detested in the Eastern churches.
God hath detested them with his own mouth.
Related words: detestable
detestation
abhor
despise
disdain
dislike
hate
loathe
Derived words: detestability
undetesting
Translations:
loathe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lothe, from Old English lāþian, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþēn, from Proto-Germanic *laiþāną. Cognate with Old Norse leiðask ( > Danish ledes, Icelandic leiðast, all reflexive), German Leid.
Inflected forms:
form: loathes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: loath
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To detest, hate, or revile (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I loathe scrubbing toilets.
I absolutely loathe this place.
Loathing the honeyed cakes, I long for bread.
To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […]
[…] O Hypocrites! ye hope for Enjoyment of Chriſt, but be perſwaded of it, Chriſt ſhall eternally loath you, and ye ſhall eternally loath Chriſt: […]
Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe
This movie is a historical achievement: Clint Eastwood, an icon of violence, has made us loathe violence as an obscenity. “Mystic River” hurts the way sad stories always hurt, but the craft and love with which it has been made transfigure pain into a moviegoer’s rapture
She understands me like you did / She really loves me / I'm a saint living in sin / Oh, she really loathes me
gloss: To induce or inspire disgust (in a person)
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: How heartily he serves me! his face loathes one,
But look upon his care, who would not love him?
Related words: loath
loth
Derived words: loathable
loather
loathe-worthy
loathing
loathsome
self-loathing
Translations:
despise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English despisen, from Old French despis-, stem of despire, from Latin dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + speciō (“to look at”). Displaced native Old English forsēon.
Inflected forms:
form: despises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: despising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: despised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: despised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dispise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To regard with contempt or scorn.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonym: hate
James still despises his brother for the time he pushed him out of a tree during their childhood.
gloss: To disregard or ignore.
pos: verb
Synonyms: contemn
despect
disrespect
despise
disdain
disesteem
look down on
misrespect
scorn
spurn
Antonyms: admire
appreciate
cherish
esteem
respect
revere
value
treasure
to worship
Related words: despect
despection
despite
vilipend
contempt
hate
bah
Derived words: despicable
despisal
despisement
despiser
despiseworthy
despisingly
despisingness
undespising
Translations:
ouzo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Greek ούζο (oúzo), either from Turkish üzüm (“grape”) or from the Italian uso in Marsiglia (“for use in Marseille”) stamped on selected silkworm cocoons exported from Tyrnavos in the 19th century, standing for “superior quality”. Other: from the ancient Greek word ὄζω (ózō, “to smell”) - ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) because of the strong smell of the drink.
Inflected forms:
form: ouzos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An anise-flavoured aperitif, originating in Greece.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Jai went in and poured out two glasses of ouzo, throwing a splash of water. He stuck his finger into each and stirred; the liquor swirled and got foggy.
gloss: A serving of this drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In Athens he looked up from his ouzo at what he called the ugliest people in the world.
Related words: raki
Derived words: ouzo effect
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: ouzo
lang: German
word: Ouzo
lang: Greek
word: ούζο
roman: oúzo
lang: Macedonian
word: узо
roman: uzo
lang: Polish
word: uzo
lang: Turkish
word: uzo
scornful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English scorn
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
Middle English scornful
English scornful
Inherited from Middle English scornful; equivalent to scorn + -ful.
Base: scorn
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more scornful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scornful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.
pos: adj
examples: Bleſſed is that man that hath not walked in the counſaile of the vngodly: nor ſtand in the waye of ſynners, and hath not ſit in the ſeate of ſkornefull.
Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
Translations:
emolument
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English emolument, from Old French emolument, from Latin ēmolumentum.
Inflected forms:
form: emoluments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.
The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor [...] had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
Plus, the Department of Justice has argued in the past that SGEs are subject to the emoluments clause, which means they cannot take payments from foreign governments.
gloss: Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
formal
gloss: Material benefit, either direct or indirect.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: inurement
Related words: in kind
Derived words: emolumental
emolumentary
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: заплата
roman: zaplata
lang: Bulgarian
word: възнаграждение
roman: vǎznagraždenie
lang: Catalan
word: emolument
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 報酬 /报酬
roman: bàochou
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 酬金
roman: chóujīn
lang: Dutch
word: bijverdienste
lang: Finnish
word: korvaus
lang: French
word: émolument
lang: German
word: Vergütung
lang: German
word: Honorar
lang: German
word: Diät
lang: Indonesian
word: emolumen
lang: Italian
word: emolumento
lang: Malay
word: emolumen
lang: Polish
word: uposażenie
lang: Portuguese
word: emolumento
lang: Romanian
word: onorariu
lang: Romanian
word: leafă
lang: Romanian
word: salariu
lang: Romanian
word: răsplată
lang: Romanian
word: plată
lang: Russian
word: вознагражде́ние
roman: voznagraždénije
lang: Russian
word: гонора́р
roman: gonorár
lang: Russian
word: опла́та
roman: opláta
lang: Russian
word: пла́та
roman: pláta
lang: Spanish
word: emolumento
lang: Spanish
word: pie de altar
lang: Swedish
word: arvode
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اجرت
roman: ücret
cyber
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.
gloss: Cybergoth.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.
...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber, and rock.
No CyberGoth is complete without gigantic "stompy" platform boots and the optional toy ray gun. Some are even more anachronistic in that they incorporate old Renaissance and Victorian styles into their much-loved cyber wear.
gloss: Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.
2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber
The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.
gloss: Everything having to do with digital threats considered collectively: cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare, cyberweapons, and so on.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Is there an escalatory ladder in cyber, the same as with weapons of mass destruction? Fleming doesn't like the comparison with nuclear deterrence but says that Russia is indeed conscious of escalation risk.
When Jamie Dimon is asked about the greatest risk he sees to the global economy, his answer for years has been “geopolitics.” It’s been with good reason […] the drama on the world stage seems to be reaching a crescendo.   But even these facts have been equaled by a new threat the JPMorgan CEO sees on the horizon: cyber. […] This week, Dimon was asked about his top concerns during a live podcast appearance in Oslo at the Norges Bank Investment Management conference. “Cyber,” was his immediate response. He explained: “The bad guys can use cyber, and they’re going to get stronger and more powerful in terms of finding vulnerabilities. It’s been written about.” […] For all the promise AI offers to businesses, employees, and Wall Street, its very potential is also the reason it poses such a massive risk. Dimon’s cyber concerns, now with a real-world example in [Claude] Mythos, echo the worries expressed when developments in artificial intelligence first began garnering attention.
Related words: cyber-
Derived words: cyberbole
cyberly
Cyber Monday
cyberstyle
cyber transport
cybertype
cyberverse
cyberwear
cybrary
cyburban
noncyber
Translations:
cenobite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Inflected forms:
form: cenobites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coenobite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cœnobite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
pos: noun
examples: Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.
gloss: A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
pos: noun
examples: To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place.
gloss: A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.
pos: noun
Related words: monk
nun
religious
Derived words: cenobitic
cenobitical
cenobitism
Translations:
estimation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English estimacioun, estimacion, from Old French estimacion, from Latin aestimatio. Morphologically estimate + -ion.
Base: estimate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: estimations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æstimation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of making an estimate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: According to my estimations, we should get to the border in five hours, give or take.
The publisher made an estimation on the potential value of the new novel.
gloss: The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Esteem or favourable regard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With that performance last night, you've gone up in the director's estimation.
Related words: esteem
Derived words: ballpark estimation
coestimation
costimation
disestimation
estimate
estimation theory
guesstimation
misestimation
overestimation
postestimation
re-estimation
reestimation
subestimation
underestimation
Translations:
semen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English semen, from Latin sēmen (“seed”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow; plant”).
Inflected forms:
form: semens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Then add four drops of crocodile semen, and pass the mixture through a filter.
Sharp protein odor of semen fills the air.
In the Sumerian language the word for water also means semen, and since Enki is the god of water, he is therefore the god of semen. In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.
Translations:
promulgate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English promulgaten, from Latin prōmulgātus, perfect passive participle of prōmulgō (“to make known, publish”), either from provulgō (“to make known, publish”), from pro (“forth”) + vulgō (“to publish”), or from mulgeō (“to bring forth”, literally “to milk”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of promulge.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: promulgates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: promulgating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: promulgated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: promulgated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make known or make public.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ’Tis yet to know, / Which when I know, that boaſting is an Honour, / I ſhall promulgate. I fetch by life and being, / From Men of Royall Seige.
Prieſts have invented, and the world admir’d / What knaviſh prieſts promulgate as inſpir’d ; / ’Till reaſon, now no longer overaw’d, / Reſumes her pow’rs, and ſpurns the clumſy fraud ; / And, common-ſenſe diffuſing real day, / The meteor of the goſpel dies away !
gloss: To put into effect as a regulation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the Statute of Uses was delayed until 1536 and the Statute of Wills until 1540, but both statutes were promulgated in 1532, and formed part of a policy which we may compare, not favourably, with the of Edward I[…]
gloss: To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
transitive
Related words: promulge
Derived words: promogulate
promulgater
promulgation
promulgator
promulgatory
repromulgate
unpromulgated
Translations:
blitzkrieg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).
Inflected forms:
form: blitzkrieg Tanks
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: motor vehicles
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: and aircraft are essential in bringing a blitzkrieg operation into success.
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: blitzkriegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.
pos: noun
examples: I rode a tank, held a general's rank / When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank
But news that the North Vietnamese had launched an invasion more akin to the blitzkrieg of Poland than to a Maoist "people's war," and had overrun my old base camp 30 miles up Thunder Road from Saigon, turned my heart to lead.
gloss: Sudden activity; a flurry.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: President-elect Donald Trump has promised a blitzkrieg of executive actions and legislation after he takes office Jan. 20.
Many Democrats have felt hopeless during a blitzkrieg of a presidency that is testing the limits of constitutional authority, including over the deportations of migrants, halting of congressionally approved spending, and punishment of universities accused of not protecting the rights of Jews during intense spells of pro-Palestinian activism.
Related words: sitzkrieg
Derived words: blitz
clickskrieg
glitzkrieg
Translations:
larking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: larkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spirited or playful adventure.
pos: noun
examples: How was I to know that in this scapegrace's larkings about town she had twice encountered a young man who looked like a hero of romance […]
Translations:
muy
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish muy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very.
pos: adv
tags: US
informal
not-comparable
examples: Spacehog are a perfectly nice band, with pleasantly strummed guitars, a crisp pop sensibility, and muy cute vocals on this side of awkward, but after Blur, Ride, Lush, Oasis, Stone Roses, Elastica, and what have you, Resident Alien is just the proverbial straw on this overworked and overbroke camel's back.
In her rosy two-piece traveling outfit, Adela looks muy cute as she walks toward us.
But such is the case with Enrique Iglesias, the muy handsome son of Julio, who is known to his fans these days simply as Enrique.
Translations:
blitz
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
cooking
food
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).
Inflected forms:
form: blitzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blitzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blitzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blitzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So the question remains — what to do with ignorance, which I must presume is deliberate, as in this media-blitzed era it is not possible to be truly ignorant after age 12.
gloss: To perform a blitz.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Washington High defense almost always blitzes on third down.
gloss: To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.
gloss: To do something quickly or in one session.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Derived words: blitz out
Translations:
shoplift
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from shoplifter.
Inflected forms:
form: shoplifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shoplifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shoplifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shoplifted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shop-lift
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To steal something from a shop or store during business hours, usually by means of hiding merchandise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: African Americans are called “apes;” a retired officer says one of the blessings of retirement is not having to work the Puerto Rican Day parade, with its “old obese tatted up women stuffed into outfits that they purchased or shoplifted at the local Kmart store; […]
gloss: To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted, a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community, Negro Digest, 22,
Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc., etc.
In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift.
Synonyms: shop steal
Related words: droplifting
shoplifter
shoplifting
steal
Derived words: shopgrift
shoplifty
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 商店行竊 /商店行窃
roman: shāngdiàn xíngqiè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 入店行竊 /入店行窃
roman: rùdiàn xíngqiè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 店鋪盜竊 /店铺盗窃
roman: diànpù dàoqiè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 商店偷竊 /商店偷窃
roman: shāngdiàn tōuqiè
lang: Finnish
word: näpistää
lang: French
word: voler à l’étalage
lang: German
word: Ladendiebstahl begehen
lang: Hungarian
word: lop
lang: Japanese
word: 万引きする
roman: manbiki suru
lang: Polish
word: kraść w sklepie
lang: Polish
word: ukraść w sklepie
lang: Spanish
word: ladronear
lang: Spanish
word: latrocinar
lang: Swedish
word: snatta
bonsai
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), from Middle Chinese 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”) + 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”).
Inflected forms:
form: bonsai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonsais
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonsais
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bonsaiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bonsaied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bonsaied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The art of planting and growing trees or plants in such a manner.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Could I be a father who was, so to speak, bonsaiing his children, trimming urban roots, and then twisting the emerging branches?
Translations:
geisha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 芸者(げいしゃ) (geisha, “artisan”), from Middle Chinese 藝 (MC ngjiejH, “art, craft”) + 者 (MC tsyaeX, “-er”).
Inflected forms:
form: geisha
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geishas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geisya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.
pos: noun
Translations:
futon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 布団 (futon), in turn from Middle Chinese 蒲團 (MC bu dwan, “meditation cushion”) (compare Mandarin 蒲团 (pútuán)), from 蒲 (bu, “bulrush, cattail”) + 團 (dwan, “sphere, round object”) from the way the original cushion was round and made from woven bulrushes.
Inflected forms:
form: futons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: futon
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.
pos: noun
examples: The Japanese bed is the floor, with a wooden box under the neck for a pillow and a futon for a covering. To the foreigner the Japanese landlord allows five or six futons, or cotton-wadded comforters, and they make a tolerable mattress, although not springy, and rather apt to be damp and musty.
The futon are easily aired, and may be carried about readily when moving.
Normally one or two futon are laid on tatami, several inches of straw matting recessed into the floor, providing a firm but extremely comfortable night’s rest.
Some futon (cotton-filled comforters and mattresses) were piled in one corner and few clothing belonging to father hung on some nails on the wall.
gloss: A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves.
pos: noun
gloss: A specific kind of sofa-bed, with a fixed cushion that forms a mattress when folded down and a sofa when folded up.
pos: noun
examples: I was 18 years old, sleeping on a futon, cooking on a George Foreman grill and showering at a friend's house every few days.
Derived words: minifuton
Translations:
seppuku
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 切腹 (seppuku), from Middle Chinese 切 (t͡set, “to cut”) + 腹 (pjuwk, “belly”). Compare Cantonese 切腹 (cit³ fuk¹) and Mandarin 切腹 (qiēfù).
Base: 切
Inflected forms:
form: seppukus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seppuku
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of ritual suicide by disembowelment using a blade, practiced by Japanese samurai, especially to rid oneself of shame, as a means of protest, or, formerly, as a method of capital punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” […] At a panel hosted by Globis, a Japanese graduate business school, Dr. Narita told the audience that “if this can become a Japanese society where people like you all commit seppuku one after another, it wouldn’t be just a social security policy but it would be the best ‘Cool Japan’ policy.”
Translations:
fugly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of fucking + ugly.
Compound parts: fucking
ugly
Inflected forms:
form: fuglier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fugliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely ugly.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: "Fugly?" "Like extra-double ugly with cheese. It's when ugly goes off the scale. She looked like an angry handbag." Billie squawked in delight.
Man, but she's one fugly creature, horror-show fugly, I'm sorry.
This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met. Do not trust her. She is a fugly slut.
“Look at this photo I got with Maddison.” “You look so ---- hot.” “Nah, I'm fugly. But thanks.”
Translations:
beriberi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Sinhalese phrase බැරි බැරි (bæri bæri, “I cannot, I cannot”) due to weakness.
Inflected forms:
form: beriberis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beri-beri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), leading to lethargy and organ complications.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
guano
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Quechua wanubor.
Spanish guanobor.
English guano
Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.
Inflected forms:
form: guanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guanoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guanos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guanoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guanoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guanoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The guano, so extensively used for manure, is full of the most beautiful infusoria, some of them splendidly iridiscent; and there is no better method of testing the genuineness of this useful substance than by the microscope.
In the second experiment, a comparative trial was made between guano and bone-dust mixed with coal ashes.
Low-grade phosphatic guanos can be mixed with coffee hulls and pulp, which contain a small amount of potash.
The great white bat has great white guano!
gloss: Coccothrinax borhidiana, a variety of palm tree indigenous to Cuba.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A roof made of guano palm fronds will last up to 15 years, although Maya harvesters point out that the leaves must be cut when the moon is full; otherwise, the stems become susceptible to insect damage.
gloss: A variety of seabird.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The Animals of these Islands, are some Hogs, Lizards, and Guanoes; and some of those Creatures mentioned in Chap. XI. which are like, but much bigger than the Guano.
Dampier observes, that no part of the globe is so well stocked with guanoes and land-tortoises as the Gallapagos. The guanoes are fat, tame, and of an extraordinary size.
These they call Guanoes, and the dung Guano, the Indian name for excrement in general. These birds, after spending the whole day in catching their food in the sea, repair at night to rest on the islands near the coast […]
The fish consumed by the guanoes, (as the fishing birds are called) are anchovies, the shoals of which are beyond all comparison.
gloss: To fertilize (land) with guano.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: guaniferous
guanine
guanite
guanized
guanobious
guanotrophic
guanotrophy
rock guano
Translations:
dapper
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English daper (“pretty, neat”), from Middle Dutch dapper (“stalwart, nimble”), Old Dutch *dapar, from Proto-Germanic *dapraz (“stout; solid; heavy; bold”) (compare German tapfer "bold", Norwegian daper "saddened, dreary"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeb- ‘thick, heavy’ (compare Tocharian A tpär ‘high’, Latvian dàbls ‘strong’, Serbo-Croatian дебео (dèbeo) ‘fat’).
Inflected forms:
form: dapperer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dapperest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Neat, trim.
pos: adj
examples: This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
gloss: Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
pos: adj
examples: “It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.
Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
gloss: Quick; little and active.
pos: adj
Derived words: Dapper Dan
dapperling
dapperly
dapperness
undapper
Translations:
collaboration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originated 1855–60 from French collaboration, from Late Latin collaboratus + -ion, from Latin con- (“with”) + labōrō (“work”). Morphologically collaborate + -ion.
Base: collaborate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: collaborations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of collaborating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.
During the interwar period, fascists proposed class collaboration as a response to communist class struggle.
gloss: A production or creation made by collaborating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
With the recent announcement of a Cinematic Universe being created as a collaboration between Henry Cavill (Oh God Emperor of the Nerds that he is) and a small production company called Amazon, plus the general increase in hobbying over the past few years, it’s never been so popular.
gloss: Treasonous cooperation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He has been charged with collaboration.
Related words: collaborate
collaborator
collaborative
collaboratively
Derived words: adversarial collaboration
anticollaboration
collab
collaborational
collaborationism
collaborationist
noncollaboration
social collaboration
telecollaboration
Translations:
crikey
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Euphemistic substitute for Christ, perhaps a corruption of Christ King. Compare criminy, cripes, crivvens. Attested from the 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: crickey
pos: intj
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: cricky
pos: intj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of astonishment.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Crikey, mate, that ain't a knife, this is a knife!
The label is based on the word “crikey” the famous catchphrase of Steve Irwin, and “core,” meaning the essential part of anything, according to dictionary.com.
Translations:
euphemistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English euphemistic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English euphemistically
From euphemistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more euphemistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most euphemistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a euphemistic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Sex was the primary ingredient of the gatherings, which were euphemistically called "free house parties".
Today’s vast Swedish pornography industry got its start when the Vikings created what they euphemistically referred to as “Icelandic Sagas,” which were actually torrid porn carved on large rocks, or Runes.
Translations:
waldo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis.
Inflected forms:
form: waldos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waldoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of telefactor.
pos: noun
examples: Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.
Translations:
generally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English generally, generalliche, equivalent to general + -ly.
Base: general
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: most generally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Popularly or widely.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
comparative
examples: It is generally known that the Earth is round.
The action he inaugurated culminated in the law for the suppression of trampage, that has accomplished such good in the Granite State, and that has been so generally copied in other states.
After defending our argument against several objections, we conclude by considering the implications our argument has for the rest of the instrumental convergence thesis and for AI safety more generally.
gloss: As a rule; usually; typically; in most cases.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
comparative
examples: I generally have a walk in the afternoon.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
gloss: Without reference to specific details.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
comparative
examples: Generally speaking …
“There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there?” said the Chicken, generally. “This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition.”
Captain Cuttle proffered a glass of rum […]
Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.”
gloss: In the general case, without exception; in all cases.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
comparative
examples: It is generally true that the angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees.
gloss: Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
comparative
obsolete
examples: I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee.
Synonyms: basically
by and large
commonly
ordinarily
mostly
regularly
wontedly
usually
normally
collaboratively
en masse
all things considered
altogether
at large
as a whole
broadly
catholicly
in general
generally
overall
universally
Antonyms: specifically
Related words: completely
Derived words: generally speaking
Translations:
lynch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1835, from Lynch law, which appeared in 1811. There is a popular claim that it was named after William Lynch, but equally strong arguments would have it named after Charles Lynch. For the surname, see Lynch. Ultimately a possible doublet of linch.
Inflected forms:
form: lynches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lynching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lynched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lynched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Public anger erupted. Soldiers were lynched in the streets including young recruits proven to have been deceived by their generals about the true intentions of the attack.
gloss: To castigate severely.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
colloquial
transitive
examples: I telephoned Bill Brandon in Oxford and begged him to get the new refrigeration unit into production before I got lynched.
Related words: kangaroo court
show trial
Derived words: lynchable
lynchee
lynching
lynch law
lynchman
lynch mob
unlynched
Translations:
geeky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English geek
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English geeky
From geek + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: geekier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: geekiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a geek.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: Buddy Holly is a slightly more contentious inclusion, even if he did live fast, die young and leave a geeky-looking corpse.
In America, where classics like Monopoly dominate, Eurogames still have an avidly geeky following.
Translations:
geekery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English geek
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English geekery
From geek + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: geekeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Obsessive interest in or enthusiasm for a subject, typically one of specialist or minority interest.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
Translations:
possibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English possibilite, from Middle French possibilité (from Old French possibilite) and directly from Late Latin possibilitās (“possibility”), from Latin possibilis (“possible”); see possible. By surface analysis, possible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: possibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being possible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.'
gloss: A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mycelial lives are so other, their possibilities so strange.
gloss: Capability, power or capacity to act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe,
And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was,
I would lay a ſurer trumpe,
Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.
Synonyms: chance
contingency
contingent
eventuality
possibility
potentiality
Antonyms: impossibility
sure thing
Related words: impossibility
possible
potence
potency
potent
potentate
potential
potentiality
power
probability
Derived words: logical possibility
nonpossibility
possibility of reverter
possibility theory
production possibility curve
unpossibility
Translations:
excrete
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excrētum, past participle of excernō, from ex- (“out”), and cernō (“separate”).
Inflected forms:
form: excretes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: excreting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: excreted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: excreted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Your open pores excrete sweat and dirt.
Translations:
privy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English pryvy, prive, from Old French privé (“private”), from Latin prīvātus (“deprived”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“to bereave, deprive; to free, release”). Doublet of private.
Inflected forms:
form: more privy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most privy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: privie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: privies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: privie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: The king retreated to his privy chamber.
the privy purse
gloss: Secret, hidden, concealed.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Nonetheless, in the dark and privy stillness of our minds there are few of us who are not still haunted by worrisome doubts.
gloss: With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
pos: adj
examples: He was privy to the discussions.
William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them.
gloss: An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
pos: noun
gloss: A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
pos: noun
examples: To counteract these degrading effects he advised that the privy should be in every house the room nearest to heaven, […].
gloss: A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
pos: noun
examples: Arconum—I found two chairs wanting in the gentlemen's room, and the bath room attached applied to other purposes... the privies and urinaries clean...
gloss: A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
pos: noun
Related words: ignorant
Derived words: nonprivy
privily
priviness
privy council
privy councillor
privy house
privy-house
privy mark
privy member
privy parts
privy seal
Translations:
insurgent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin īnsurgentem, accusative singular of īnsurgēns, present active participle of īnsurgō (“to rise up against, revolt”), from in (“against”) + surgō (“to rise”), itself from sub (“up from below”) + regō (“to guide, direct, rule, govern, administer”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to move in a straight line, to rule, guide, lead straight, put right”).
Inflected forms:
form: insurgents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rebellious, opposing authority.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The insurgent provinces.
Afghan National Police, backed by U.S.-led coalition forces, detained an insurgent leader during a raid in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a U.S. military statement said.
Immediately following the shooting, there were multiple, coordinated information releases blaming the shooting on “Antifa,” the newest alt-right boogeyman, in what appears to be a social media blitz intended to center the conversation on the left wing. This is part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by the insurgent right wing extremists to paint radical pro-labor activists as ultraviolent “terrorists.”
gloss: Of water: surging or rushing in.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Vesuvio groans through all his echoing caves, / And Etna thunders o'er the insurgent waves.
gloss: One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
pos: noun
Translations: