yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
vie
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apheretic form of envy.
Inflected forms:
form: vies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: vied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Near-synonym: oppose
Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
It is the tradition of a trading nation[…], that the younger sons[…] may be placed in such a way of life as […] to vie with the best of their family.
The Major Stations category is keenly contested, with 24 other large city centre termini and major rail hub stations all vying for recognition. As ever, the NRA's expert panel of judges visited each as unannounced mystery shoppers.
gloss: To rival (something), etc.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.
gloss: To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.
Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.
And vying malice with my gentleness, / Pick quarrels with their only happiness.
gloss: To stake; to wager.
pos: verb
examples: Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna
Nature wants stuff
To vie strange forms with fancy
gloss: To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.
pos: verb
Translations:
vis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s
Proto-Italic *wīs
Latin vīsbor.
English vis
Borrowed from Latin vīs.
Inflected forms:
form: vires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Force; energy; might; power.
pos: noun
Translations:
volta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
music
poetry
publishing
sports
writing
Etymology: From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.
Inflected forms:
form: voltas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).
pos: noun
gloss: A dance for couples popular during the late Renaissance, associated with the galliard and done to the same kind of music.
pos: noun
gloss: A turning point or point of change in a poem, most commonly a sonnet.
pos: noun
examples: […][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.
Translations:
wadi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic وَادِي, وَادٍ (wādī, wādin)bor.
English wadi
Borrowed from Arabic وَادِي, وَادٍ (wādī, wādin, “valley, riverbed, ravine”).
Inflected forms:
form: wadis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wadies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: nahal, wash, dry wash, arroyo (synonymous other than regiolectal specificity)
Translations:
waiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman weyver, from waiver. Date: 1628. By surface analysis, waive + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: waivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
pos: noun
gloss: A legal document removing some requirement, such as waiving a right (giving it up) or a waiver of liability (agreeing to hold someone blameless).
pos: noun
examples: I had to sign a waiver when I went skydiving, agreeing not to sue even if something went wrong.
Growth Energy sent the entire report to the E.P.A., but the summary it provided with its formal waiver request — and uses in press materials — said that when using E15 and E20, “there were no significant changes in vehicle tailpipe emissions, vehicle drivability or small nonroad engine emissions as ethanol content increased.”
gloss: relating to waivers
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Regula is another waiver-eligible player who could be lost when sent to the minors.
They own first waiver priority, and if the season ended today, they’d have the best odds in the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery.
gloss: Something that releases a person from a requirement.
pos: noun
examples: I needed a waiver from the department head to take the course because I didn't technically have the prerequisite courses.
I needed a waiver from the zoning board for the house because the lot was so small, but they let me build because it was next to the park.
gloss: The process of waiving or outlawing a person.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: waivered
loan waiver
waiver wire
Translations:
waler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From (New South) Wale(s) + -er, the horse having been bred in the then colony of New South Wales in the 19th century.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: walers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
India
examples: Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.
There were Arabs of high degree, thoroughbred English horses, and very good-looking Walers among them, besides some tiny ponies, four of which, when harnessed together, drew a real Cinderella coach of solid silver.
2007, "Waler", entry in Bonnie L. Hendricks, International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds, page 434,
Some maintain that the Waler is extinct, its blood living on only in the modern Australian Stock Horse and some of the feral brumbies that roam the outback.
By the 1850s, there was a thriving trade in selling the horses to the Indian Army as 'remounts'. Between 1834 and 1937, more than 300,000 Walers were sent to India.
Translations:
wangle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of wag + dangle, first attested 1810–1820. Alternatively, from an alteration of waggle or wankle.
Compound parts: wag
dangle
Inflected forms:
form: wangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wangled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wangles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “My dear old lad,” he said, briskly, “this must be remedied! Oh, positively! This must be remedied at once! I suppose my things wouldn’t fit you? No. Well, I tell you what. We’ll wangle something from my father-in-law.
After graduation, she was hired by United Press International, which on one memorable occasion sent her to cover a show by Elvis Presley in Detroit. She wangled an invitation to the singer’s hotel room, where one thing led to another.
gloss: To falsify, as records.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It took some effort to wangle a last-minute meeting with the CEO.
"[…] Well, as regards Mr. Carrados I have already arranged, as he suggests, to 'do something.'"
"The deuce you have!" said Nickle, staring his curiosity. "How is it to be wangled?"
gloss: The act of wangling
pos: noun
Derived words: wangler
Translations:
wapiti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”).
Inflected forms:
form: wapitis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wapiti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The American elk (Cervus canadensis).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Of deer there are in North America perhaps eight species : the black-tailed deer of the Pacific coast ; the mule-deer, and the white-tailed deer, of the Upper Missouri region and westward; the common deer of the United States east of the Missouri ; the wapiti of the northern and northwestern portions of the United States; one or two species of reindeer ; and the moose of the northern portion of the continent. […] Next to the moose, the wapiti or American elk (Cervus Canadensis) is the largest deer in North America.
In connection with the work of the forest reserves I desire again to urge upon the Congress the importance of authorizing the President to set aside certain portions of these reserves or other public lands as game refuges for the preservation of the bison, the wapiti, and other large beasts once so abundant in our woods and mountains and on our great plains, and now tending toward extinction.
You see, if we could keep giraffes or reindeer or some other species of browsing animal there we could explain the general absence of vegetation by a reference to the fauna of the garden: ‘You can’t have wapiti and Darwin tulips, you know, so we didn’t put down any bulbs last year.’ As it is, we haven’t got the wapiti, and the Darwin tulips haven’t survived the fact that most of the cats of the neighbourhood hold a parliament in the centre of the tulip bed; […].
Translations:
warper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English warp
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English warper
From warp + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: warpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.
pos: noun
Translations:
washy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *wodsḱéti
Proto-Germanic *waskaną
Proto-West Germanic *waskan
Old English wascan
Middle English wasshen
English wash
English -y
English washy
From wash + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: washier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: washiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Watery; damp; soft.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble.
pos: adj
examples: washy tea
washy resolutions
gloss: Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.
pos: adj
tags: US
archaic
dialectal
examples: a washy horse
Derived words: wishy-washy
Translations:
weal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wele, from Old English wela (“wellness, welfare, prosperity, riches, well-being, wealth”), from Proto-West Germanic *welō, from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, wellness, weal”). Cognate with German Wohl, Danish vel, Swedish väl.
Inflected forms:
form: weals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wealed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wealed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Wealth, riches.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Welfare, prosperity.
pos: noun
tags: literary
uncountable
examples: Therefore for Gods loue, and as we loue the weale of our Soules and Bodies, let us ſo behaue our ſelues, as we may be at peace with God, and may finde grace in the Eyes of this People.
For whom all this was made, all this will ſoon / Follow, as to him linkt in weal or woe, [...]
"Travel shall I and woo;
Plight me shall I a flower;
Try shall I my sword so good,
To my weal or my woe in the stour."
It seemed so plain that if the workman had his master’s profit at heart, and the master were as anxious for the weal of his men, the interests of the two would be one.
gloss: Boon, benefit.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, "I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!"
gloss: Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Yet never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal, that the character of the parliament should stand high.
The austerity of my tone seemed to touch a nerve and kindle the fire that always slept in this vermilion-headed menace to the common weal [...]
Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.
gloss: To mark with stripes; to wale.
pos: verb
Related words: in weal or woe
Derived words: commonweal
for weal or woe
in weal and woe
wealful
weal-public
wealsman
wealth
Translations:
wester
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English west
English -er
English wester
From west + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: westers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: westers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: westering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: westered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: westered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strong westerly wind, a wind blowing from the west.
pos: noun
gloss: To move towards the west
pos: verb
examples: My sun is westering, and the lengthening shadows remind me to work while it is day.
The hills rose scarlet and gold to the north of the little town, and the westering sun shone ruddily and mystically on the crude new stone and plaster buildings of the dusty forum and the wooden walls of the circus some distance to the east.
The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
Translations:
whelk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.
Inflected forms:
form: whelks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: welk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whilk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wilk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
pos: noun
Derived words: whelky
Translations:
whig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Middle English wheyȝe, weyȝe, wege, variant of whey. More at whey.
Inflected forms:
form: whigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: Buttermilk.
pos: noun
gloss: To urge forward; drive briskly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To jog along; move or work briskly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To weird out or disturb someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
whop
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”).
Inflected forms:
form: whops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: whops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He angrily whopped the book onto the table.
Then I'd wake up an' screech and roar—then off to sleep again—to dream that Spanker had run away with me, or that father was whopping me, or some other plaguey thing, till mornin'.
A man & a younge maid that loued a long time / were tane in a frenzye ithe Midsommer prime; / the maid shee lay drooping, hye; / the man he lay whopping, hey, the man he lay whopping hoe.
gloss: To administer corporal punishment to.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: A blow or strike.
pos: noun
Derived words: whopper
whopping
Translations:
widget
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in 1924 in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924). The preface to the 1924 play credits an earlier German work from 1911 where there is an actor Elisabeth Wigge.
Inflected forms:
form: widgets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product, typically as an example for purposes of explaining concepts.
pos: noun
examples: Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 units per year...
Damage inflicted on the rail industry supply chain, from major contractors to widget manufacturers, would have further profound nationwide consequences on an already damaged industry and wrecked economy.
gloss: A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.
pos: noun
gloss: A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of tool, implement, device, gadget, part.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
wile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wile, wyle, from Old Northern French wile (“guile”) and Old English wīl (“wile, trick”) and wiġle (“divination”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft, deceit”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”)) and Proto-Germanic *wigulą, *wihulą (“prophecy”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to consecrate, hallow, make holy”)). Cognate with Icelandic vél, væl (“artifice, craft, device, fraud, trick”), Dutch wijle. Doublet of guile.
Inflected forms:
form: wiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: He was seduced by her wiles.
"Anything interesting among your letters, Geoffrey?" asked Miss Tilehurst, concealing a protective curiosity under this sociable wile, since she had already inspected the covers.
to frustrate all our plots and wiles
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
gloss: To entice or lure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.
Translations:
winger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wing
English -er
English winger
From wing + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: wingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.
pos: noun
examples: We hauled out a winger of grog.
gloss: An offensive player who plays on either side of the center.
pos: noun
examples: The center passed to the left winger, who shot and scored.
"The pattern of the game could have been different if Anthony Pilkington had taken one of two chances either side of United's opener.
But the Norwich winger shot wide when clean through and saw another effort hit the post on 75 minutes.
Derived words: left-winger
reich winger
right-winger
Translations:
winkle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for periwinkle.
Inflected forms:
form: winkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: winkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: winkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: winkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: winkled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
pos: noun
examples: […] because the inward Eare is intorted like a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre.
Shrimps and winkles are the staple commodities of the afternoon trade, which lasts from three to half-past five in the evening. These articles are generally bought by the working-classes for their tea.
Sometimes late at night men would come in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share them out.
Briony was on her knees, trying to put her arms round Lola and gather her to her, but the body was bony and unyielding, wrapped tight about itself like a seashell. A winkle.
gloss: Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
pos: noun
examples: There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica).
The conchs or winkles, Busycon carica (fig. 204, opp. p. 216) and B. canaliculata, ... He gave the estimate of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy a bushel of oysters in a single hour.
In Connecticut, the so-called "winkle" chowder is made from B. [Busycon] canaliculatum.
gloss: The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
pos: noun
tags: childish
slang
examples: After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.
gloss: Synonym of winkle out (“to acquire or extract with difficulty”).
pos: verb
Derived words: European sting winkle
winkle-picker
Translations:
winnow
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English wyndwen, from Old English windwian (“to winnow, fan, ventilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *windwōn, from Proto-Germanic *windwōną, *winþijaną (“to throw about, winnow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wē- (“to winnow, thresh”). Cognate with West Frisian wynje (“to winnow”), dialectal Dutch winden, winnen (“to winnow”), Middle High German winden (“to winnow”), Icelandic vinsa (“to pick out, weed”), Latin vannus (“a winnowing basket”). See fan, van.
Inflected forms:
form: winnows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: winnowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: winnowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: winnowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: winnows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [W]ind began to winnow the river delta's dried sediments.
gloss: To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: They winnowed the field to twelve.
They winnowed the winners from the losers.
They winnowed the losers from the winners.
gloss: To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
examples: The light snow lay on the narrow and winding path before them, pure as if just fresh winnowed by the wind.
Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build; the feet are larger and more ambulatorial, the wings are shorter and not so thin; the birds winnow the air in a steady course unlike the buoyant dashing flight of their relatives.
gloss: To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
literary
gloss: That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of winnowing
pos: noun
Derived words: winnower
winnow grain from chaff
winnowing basket
winnowing fan
winnowing fork
winnowing machine
winnowing shovel
winnow sheet
winnow the wheat from the chaff
winnow up
Translations:
wino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-?
Proto-Indo-European *-ō?
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō
Proto-Italic *wīnom
Latin vīnumbor.
Proto-Germanic *wīną
Proto-West Germanic *wīn
Old English wīn
Middle English wyn
English wine
English -o
English wino
From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).
Inflected forms:
form: winos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: winoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.
gloss: A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
especially
examples: Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond
I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin.
gloss: A wine enthusiast.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Related words: vinaceous
vinous
wininess
winy
Derived words: wino wine
Translations:
winy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wyny; equivalent to wine + -y.
Base: wine
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: winier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: winiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: winey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the taste or qualities of wine.
pos: adj
examples: grapes of a winy taste
1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, London: William Lee, V. Century, p. 125,
Take Cucumbers, or Pumpions, and set them (here and there) amongst Muske-Melons, and see whether the Melons will not be more Winy, and better tasted.
They are much like ſuch Grapes as grow on our Vines, both in ſhape and colour; and they are of a very pleaſant Winy taſte.
The sun had the lovely strong winey warmth, golden over the dark-blue sea.
The sleeve-buttons were topazes, winy-yellow, lightly set in crinkly gold.
gloss: Relating to the effects of drinking wine; especially, winedrunk.
pos: adj
examples: It was late on the morning following our last chapter, ere he thought he had got rid of as much of his winy headache as fitful sleep would carry off, and enveloped himself in a blue and yellow-flowered silk dressing-gown and Turkish slippers.
[…] our banquet was turned by him to a battle and our winey mirths to bloody rages.
This, however, did not altogether account for the winey intoxication of happiness that filled her body.
I thought how lucky it was I had started practising birth control during the day, because in my winey state that night I would never have bothered to perform the delicate and necessary operation.
Related words: vinaceous
vinous
wino
Derived words: port-winy
winily
wininess
Translations:
withe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English withe, withthe, from Old English wiþe, wiþþe (“cord, band, thong, fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *wiþiz, *wiþjǭ (“cord, rope”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁itis (“that which twines”), from *weyt- (“that which winds or bends, branch, switch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”). Cognate with Danish vidje (“wicker”), Swedish vidja (“withe, wicker, osier”), Icelandic við, viðja (“a withe”), Latin vītis (“vine”), Russian ветвь (vetvʹ, “branch, bough, limb”). Doublet of vice (“a type of tool, etc.”). The brickwork and chimney architecture senses may have a different etymology, see wythe.
Inflected forms:
form: withes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: withing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: withed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: withed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bind with withes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As soon as the body of Deerslayer was withed in bark sufficiently to create a lively sense of helplessness, he was literally carried to a young tree, and bound against it, in a way that effectually prevented it from moving,
These frames are usually constructed of rough trees tightly withed and wedged together.
The strips are first laid on the back and two sides of the shanty, and are kept smooth and in proper position by poles laid across them and withed down to the frame.
If it were withed by the aborigine it would have formed an effective and dangerous weapon, either in the chase of the large beasts with which he was contemporary or in war against his human enemies.
gloss: To beat with withes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Question. Did you hear of the circumstances of William Davis having been whipped on the 5th day of December, the day before the cutting took place? Answer Yes, sir; I did that evening, when he came home. Q. Did you examine where he had been withed? A. Yes, sir.
"He'll trim you up for tossing Suse that note," said Am Bayne to his own companion. / "Ye-es, and you'll get a withing, too," declared the other.
After I was on they commenced withing my horse to make him go faster, but I reined him up; ... They then commenced withing me around the shoulders, saying it would have a better effect than to whip the horse.
Translations:
withy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English wīþiġ
English withy
Inherited from Old English wīþiġ.
Inflected forms:
form: withies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow.
pos: noun
gloss: A long flexible twig of the osier; a withe.
pos: noun
examples: In the midst of the meadow was a space marked out with withies sixty paces either way for the wrastling ground.
Translations:
woe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wo, woo, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai (interjection), from Proto-Germanic *wai (“woe!”, interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; ah!; woe!; alas!”, interjection).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wae (“woe”), Cimbrian bèa (“woe!”), Dutch wee (“nauseating”), German Weh, Wehe (“misery, woe; pain”), Yiddish וויי (vey, “pain; woe”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ve (“woe”), Icelandic væl (“cry, wail”), væla (“to cry, wail; to complain”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹 (wai, “woe!”); also Cornish gew, go (“woe!”), Welsh gwae (“misery, woe”), Catalan, Italian, and Portuguese guai (“woe!”), Ladino guay, גואי (“woe”), Latin vae (“woe”), Romanian vai (“woe”), Spanish guay (“way”), Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí, “woe!”), Albanian vaj (“woe!”), Latvian vai (“oh!”), Bulgarian уви́ (uví, “alas”), Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas!”), Serbo-Croatian авај, avaj (“alas!”), Armenian վայ (vay, “sorrow, woe”), Persian وای (vây, “woe”).
Inflected forms:
form: woes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oh, woe is me!
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose / That well-known name awakens all my woes.
But if there was a competition between a ſick family and a new broach, the broach was ſure to carry the day. This would not have been the caſe, had they been habituated to viſit themſelves the abodes of penury and woe.
The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.
gloss: Calamity, trouble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
Don't let the little woes of life harm you / Let the joy in the life you lead / Let it charm you / Let it charm you now
gloss: A curse; a malediction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Synonyms: affliction
aggrievance
distress
grief
grievance
hardship
misery
ruth
sadness
sorrow
undelight
vexation
woe
wrong
Antonyms: benefit
boon
fortune
joy
laugh
treat
Related words: oppression
ordeal
wringer
woe is me
Derived words: for weal or woe
in weal and woe
tale of woe
woebegone
woe betide
woeful
woe is me
woe is I
woe to
Translations:
xylem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Xylem, from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”).
Inflected forms:
form: xylems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of water and minerals taken up by the roots; also the primary component of wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
xylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From xyl- + -ene.
Base: xyl
Inflected forms:
form: xylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of three isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons, found in coal and wood tar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on […]
Translations:
yammer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”).
Inflected forms:
form: yammers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yammering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yammered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yammered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To complain peevishly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To talk loudly and persistently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make an outcry; to clamor.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: It was a ship, but a whale to the Dark Nebula’s minnow; and on its side was the Spaceship-and-Sun of the Empire. Every alarm on the ship yammered hysterically.
gloss: to repeatedly call someone's name.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: The act or noise of yammering.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The house is just as he had imagined it would be: rubbishy furniture, a clutter of ornaments (porcelain shepherdesses, cowbells, an ostrich-feather flywhisk), the yammer of the radio, the cheeping of birds in cages, cats everywhere underfoot.
gloss: A loud noise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The ungodly scream of Jap wings in the wind, and the blood-chilling snarl and yammer of their aerial machine gun and aerial cannon fire was enough to make the very ground shake and tremble.
gloss: One who yammers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: yammer on
Translations:
yawl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently from Low German and Middle Low German jolle, or Dutch jol, possibly ultimately from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube”), see also Lithuanian aulas, Norwegian aul, Hittite [script needed] (auli-, “tube-shaped organ in the neck”), Albanian hollë, Latin alvus.
Inflected forms:
form: yawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yawled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
pos: noun
gloss: A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.
pos: noun
examples: The “Nellie,” a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
gloss: To cry out; to howl.
pos: verb
examples: Something scraped slightly against the outer wall. But the night was full of wilder sounds, and in the house the furniture and the boards creaked and sprung between the yawling of the wind among the chimneys, the rattle of the thunder and the pelting of the rain.
Translations:
yaws
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since the 1670s, perhaps from an English creole (or other language) of the Caribbean.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Other threats came from organisms co-evolving with humans, including tapeworms and such spirochaetes as Treponema, the agent of syphilis, and the similar skin infection, yaws.
Translations:
yip
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: yips
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: a sharp, high-pitched bark
pos: noun
examples: I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
gloss: to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice
pos: verb
Translations:
zag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zig.
Inflected forms:
form: zags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of a series of sharp turns or reversals.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a series of sharp turns or reversals.
pos: noun
examples: Afterward, she returns to the Dragon Pit to announce her agreement to the truce. “The darkness is coming for us all. We will face it together. And when the Great War is over, perhaps you will remember that I chose to help, with no promises or assurances from any of you. I expect not.” The self-pity and pettiness is classic Cersei, but what a zag! It was always hard to imagine what this show looks like with all the humans on all sides temporarily working together.
gloss: To move with a sharp turn or reversal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
zester
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zest
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English zester
From zest + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: zesters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.
pos: noun
Translations:
zig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zag.
Inflected forms:
form: zigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of Jewish comedy skit.
pos: noun
examples: Zigs at Kfar Hanassi were rooted firmly in the history of British comedy.
gloss: To make such a turn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
zircon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Zirkon, possibly via French zircon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn), borrowed from Middle Persian zlgwn' (/⁠zargōn⁠/). Doublet of jargoon.
Inflected forms:
form: zircons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] salamanders, mermaids, chimaeras, wild men o’ the woods, leviathans, all hewn from faultless gems, thrice the bulk of a big man’s body, velvet-dark sapphires, chrysolite, beryl, amethyst, and the yellow zircon that is like transparent gold.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
gloss: A crystal of zircon, sometimes used as a false gemstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses
Related words: jacinth
jargon
jargoon
Derived words: zircon blue
zirconite
zirconium
zircon light
zircon-syenite
Translations:
inter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).
Inflected forms:
form: inters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To bury in a grave.
pos: verb
examples: The tomb was discovered on Fenghuangshan (Phoenix Hill) in Chinancheng, Chiangling county, in China’s central Hupeh province. An inscription on a bamboo tablet found in it shows that the corpse was interred in the fifth moon of the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Wen, that is, in 167 B.C.
gloss: To confine, as in a prison.
pos: verb
Related words: donatio inter vivos
inter alia
inter alios
inter nos
inter partes
inter pocula
res inter alios acta
Derived words: cointer
interrer
reinter
Translations:
mazy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English maze
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English mazy
From maze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: mazier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: maziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mazey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mazelike; like a maze.
pos: adj
gloss: Not straight; zigzagging.
pos: adj
examples: Five miles meandering with a mazy motion,
 Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
 Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
 And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]
Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.
England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
gloss: Confused.
pos: adj
examples: I am a fool—a purblind, mazy fool,
And do not know my right hand from my left.
Derived words: mazily
maziness
Translations:
leone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.
pos: noun
Translations:
spume
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
Inflected forms:
form: spumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.
No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.
The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.
A strong sea wind lashed at his city suit, salt rain stung his eyes, balls of spume skimmed across his path.
gloss: To froth.
pos: verb
Translations:
inure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English inuren, equivalent to in- + ure (“practise, exercise”).
Base: ure
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enure
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Matcht with as valiant men, and of as cleane a might, / As skilfull to commaund, and as inur’d to fight.
To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.
Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.
As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
Young people all across the continent were inured to a level of public brutality, in words and actions, that would have shocked their nineteenth-century forebears.
This conflict produces a psychic numbing that inures us to the realities of being tracked, parsed, mined, and modified.
“Our kids have come to a place where they’re inured,” he said. “It’s almost like they accept it, which is not OK.”
gloss: To take effect, to be operative.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jim buys a beach house that includes the right to travel across the neighbor's property to get to the water. That right of way is said "to inure to the benefit of Jim".
If I understand the process correctly, cash refunds are turned into the United States Treasury, but price reductions inure to the particular department and increase its appropriations by whatever they collect.
gloss: To commit.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: He […] gan that ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured.
Derived words: disinure
inurement
Translations: