yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
snood
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English snod, from Old English snōd (“headdress, fillet, snood”), from Proto-West Germanic *snōdu, from Proto-Germanic *snōdō (“rope, string”), from Proto-Indo-European *snoh₁téh₂ (“yarn, thread”), from *sneh₁(i)- (“to twist, wind, weave, plait”).
Cognate with Scots snuid (“snood”), Swedish snod, snodd (“twist, twine”). Compare also Old Saxon snōva (“necklace”), Old Norse snúa (“to turn, twist”), snúðr (“a twist, twirl”), English needle.
Inflected forms:
form: snoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sneed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: snoods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snooding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snooded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snooded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snod
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sneed
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
pos: noun
examples: “Frida [...] tied her hair in the Grecian snood which her lover used to admire so.”
gloss: A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
pos: noun
examples: And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks […]
gloss: The flap of erectile red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
pos: noun
examples: A fingerlike projection called a snood hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.
gloss: A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.
pos: noun
gloss: To keep the hair in place with a snood.
pos: verb
examples: Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee,
And she has snooded her yellow hair
Translations:
whittle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whittel (“large knife”), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (“to whittle”), from Old English þwītan (“to strike down, whittle”), from Proto-Germanic *þwītaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *twey- (“to shake, hurl, toss”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”), Ancient Greek σείω (seíō, “I shake”). Related to thwite and thwaite.
Inflected forms:
form: whittles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whittles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whittling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whittled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whittled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A knife; especially, a clasp-knife, pocket knife, or sheath knife.
pos: noun
examples: Novv if any man can be ſo unkind to his ovvn Body, for I meddle not vvith your Souls, as to ſtand ſtill like a good Chriſtian, and offer his VVeeſon to a Butcher's VVhittle, I ſay no more but that he may be ſav'd, and that's the beſt can come on him.
Rude whittles.
The Sheffield whittle was the common knife of the country, which every one carried for general purposes, who was not entitled by rank to wear a sword.
gloss: To cut or shape wood with a knife.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his; peering hard into its face, and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose, meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way.
gloss: To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: When men are well whitled, their toungs run at randome
Derived words: whittle away
whittle down
whittle the whalebone
whittling
Translations:
utilitarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From utility + -arian. Coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham as early as 1781, and popularized by his student John Stuart Mill, who mistakenly attributed the term to John Galt.
Base: utility
Affixes: -arian
Inflected forms:
form: more utilitarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most utilitarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: utilitarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to utility.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to utilitarianism.
pos: adj
gloss: Practical and functional, present for use, not just for show.
pos: adj
examples: The semi-streamlined contour of the earlier G.W.R. railcars has been given up in favour of a more utilitarian blunt-nose end, and effective floor space gained thereby.
These have helped develop a recognition in the industry that bland utilitarian stations do not provide an attractive welcome to the railway, that passengers value stations of character as well as convenience, and that these qualities encourage greater use of trains.
gloss: Someone who practices or advocates utilitarianism.
pos: noun
examples: Before his companies collapsed, Mr. Bankman-Fried often described himself as a utilitarian — meaning that he made decisions designed to advance the greater good.
Translations:
ancilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).
Inflected forms:
form: ancillae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A maid.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]
gloss: An auxiliary or accessory
pos: noun
examples: The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states.
gloss: An ancilla bit
pos: noun
examples: The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator.
Related words: ancillary
ancillula
Translations:
boding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bode
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English boding
From bode + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more boding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: foreboding, ominous, portending.
pos: adj
examples: [E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […]
Translations:
besmirch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English besmorchen (attested in besmorchid). Compare Middle English bismotered (“bespattered, soiled”). By surface analysis, be- + smirch.
Inflected forms:
form: besmirches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: besmirching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: besmirched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: besmirched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make dirty.
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
gloss: To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The newspaper was on a campaign to besmirch the actor.
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field
"It may be," he replied, "because I will not encounter the dishonor that besmirches the husband of a faithless woman.[…]"
Sir Guy might still have slain him without besmirching his knightly honor
Derived words: besmircher
besmirchment
unbesmirch
unbesmirchable
unbesmirched
Translations:
resonant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.
Inflected forms:
form: more resonant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resonant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: resonants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resounding, echoing.
pos: adj
examples: From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
strike a resonant note
“Cheops gave us this resonant configuration that allowed us to predict all the other periods. Without that detection from Cheops, it would have been impossible,” Luque said.
gloss: Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
pos: adj
gloss: A sonorant vowel or consonant.
pos: noun
gloss: A sonorant vowel or consonant.
pos: noun
tags: Indo-European-studies
Synonyms: remugient
Derived words: antiresonant
gyroresonant
microwave resonant cavity thruster
multiresonant
nonresonant
pseudoresonant
resonantly
unresonant
Translations:
zar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic زَار (zār).
Inflected forms:
form: zaar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
benedict
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin benedictus, past participle of benedicere (“to bless”). See benison. Doublet of bennet.
Inflected forms:
form: benedicts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: benedicting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: benedicted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: benedicted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to bless.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: Now, dis explanation o' de rose dance ain't on my own account, for I des' now tol' yer dat, so far as I'm concerned, it wouldn't make no diff'ence to me if I'd 'a' been requi'ed to go to hell for her — I'd 'a' went — in joy — for de fulfilment o' de love which Gord A'mighty done benedicted my heart wid.
Rukmini, the goddess of fortune, was already personally obliged to stay as a guest in the brahmana's house in order to benedict him with great fortune.
As a result of this act he was benedicted with more honours by the Mughal court.
George Washington benedicted the Hebrew congregation in Savannah using the example of Israel as a paradigm for America: May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors, planted them in a promised land, whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people, whose God is Jehovah.
At the beginning of the nineties, especially during the Peterle government, it seemed as if ecclesiastic figues would start appearing and benedicting public events. After certain protests were made, especially after the opening of a motorway was benedicted, this practice seems to be fading away.
The spiritually mature person interacts with others for the purpose of benedicting them spiritually, not for his own social or psychological needs.
Fancy Penney was then called upon to benedict them all home in blessing and safety.
gloss: To poach and serve on an English muffin with ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
pos: verb
examples: His pancakes were never just ordinary pancakes: they were airy creations mushroomed in sauce, or they were crepes suzette. Eggs were shirred, mornayed or benedicted.
I love thee raw, baked, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, poached, scrambled, sauteed, fried, shirred, deviled, creamed, curried, coddled, glazed, pickled, Benedicted, or Scotched . . . in omelets and souffle/s and quiches of infinite variety ...in mayonnaise and hollandaise and be/arnaise. . .
I can scramble them, poach them, Benedict them, and make them into omelets.
Translations:
Amish
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Pennsylvania German Amisch or German Amische, after the name of the Swiss preacher Jakob Amman (1645-1730). The surname is a contraction of Old High German ambahtman.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Relating to this sect.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
inscription
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin inscrībō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin īnscrīptiōbor.
English inscription
Borrowed from Latin īnscrīptiō.
Inflected forms:
form: inscriptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inscribing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;
gloss: Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]
gloss: The text on a coin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The coin bears an inscription in Latin.
gloss: Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: epigraphy
Related words: epigraph
Derived words: inscriptional
inscriptioned
inscriptionist
inscriptionless
reinscription
Translations:
residential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more residential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most residential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: residentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.
pos: adj
examples: They live in a residential neighborhood.
gloss: Used as a residence or by residents.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to residency.
pos: adj
examples: There is a residential requirement for obtaining a marriage license here.
gloss: A trip during which people temporarily live together.
pos: noun
examples: The youth group organises annual residentials.
Derived words: coresidential
multiresidential
nonresidential
residential college
residentially
residential school
residential treatment
resimercial
Translations:
zelkova
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin (genus name) from Russian дзе́льква (dzélʹkva, “tree, wood”), from Georgian ძელქვა (ʒelkva), from Old Georgian ძელქვაჲ (ʒelkvay), from ძელი (ʒeli, “beam”) + ქვაჲ (kvay, “stone”).
Inflected forms:
form: zelkovas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zelcova
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zelcoua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova).
pos: noun
examples: While she waits for the doctor to come down from the consultation room, she turns to look at the zelkova tree which stands in the hospital's front garden.
Translations:
jumper
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jump
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 jumper
From jump + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: jumpers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jumpering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jumpered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jumpered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To connect with an electrical jumper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
syllabic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Inflected forms:
form: more syllabic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most syllabic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: syllabics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
pos: adj
examples: Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure..
gloss: Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
pos: adj
gloss: Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
pos: adj
gloss: A syllabic sound.
pos: noun
Derived words: accentual-syllabic
alphasyllabic
ambisyllabic
anisosyllabic
anisosyllabism
asyllabic
bisyllabic
brachysyllabic
decasyllabic
dissyllabic
disyllabic
dodecasyllabic
duodecasyllabic
duosyllabic
endecasyllabic
extrasyllabic
graphosyllabic
hendecasyllabic
heptasyllabic
heterosyllabic
hexasyllabic
imparisyllabic
infrasyllabic
intersyllabic
intrasyllabic
isosyllabic
isosyllabicity
isosyllabism
logosyllabic
monosyllabic
monosyllabicity
morphosyllabic
multisyllabic
nonasyllabic
nonpolysyllabic
nonsyllabic
non-syllabic
octasyllabic
octosyllabic
oligosyllabic
parasyllabic
parisyllabic
pentasyllabic
plurisyllabic
polysyllabic
presyllabic
protosyllabic
quadrisyllabic
quindecasyllabic
quinquesyllabic
semantosyllabic
semisyllabic
septasyllabic
sesquisyllabic
sexasyllabic
sexisyllabic
subsyllabic
suprasyllabic
syllabic abbreviation
syllabical
syllabically
syllabication
syllabic break
syllabic consonant
syllabicity
syllabicness
syllabic rhyme
tautosyllabic
tetradecasyllabic
tetrasyllabic
tridecasyllabic
trisyllabic
undecasyllabic
unsyllabic
varisyllabic
Translations:
cornfield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From corn + field.
Compound parts: corn
field
Inflected forms:
form: cornfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.
pos: noun
gloss: A field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.
pos: noun
examples: "Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert," replied Glinda. "If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country."
"But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!" cried the Scarecrow. "I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield."
Related words: corncob
cornhusk
cornhusker
cornhusking
cornrow
cornstalk
Derived words: cornfield meet
Translations:
paloma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish paloma (“dove”).
Inflected forms:
form: palomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.
pos: noun
examples: Martini, Bellini, Negroni, Baileys, Kahlúa, sambuca
Soju, paloma, mojito, gimlet, Frangelico, Guinness
Tequila, Manhattan, a margarita, old-fashioned
Dry vermouth and something I can't taste 'cause I'm so trashed
Translations:
vaquero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish vaquero (“cowherd”), from vaca (“cow”). Doublet of buckaroo.
Inflected forms:
form: vaqueros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vaqueroes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cowboy; a herdsman.
pos: noun
tags: Southwestern
US
examples: A day or two before a number of vaqueroes set out for the Santa Cruz Mountains and lassoed a very big grizzly.
Voices from the Wild Horse Desert is the story of vaquero families who have lived and worked on the prominent King and Kenedy Ranches of South Texas for six generations. Vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) are the highly skilled work force that cares for and works the cattle day by day.
Of course the vaqueros do not help: because of his weight and his high voice they call him Don Castrado behind his back.
Cattle drives became common between Mexico and California and Mexico and Texas. Vaqueros were the drivers. In time, as vaqueros worked for a particular ranch or within the confines of a particular territory, regional styles evolved. In essence, two types were prominent: that of the California vaquero and that of the vaquero from Texas.
The Texas vaquero was identified as a free spirit, lived out in the open range, and went from ranch to ranch as work opportunities surfaced. The Californian vaquero remained loyal to a ranch or ranching family.
Translations:
yola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Northern California slang, said to be from a blend of Spanish yo and hola.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cocaine
pos: noun
tags: California
Multicultural-London-English
US
slang
uncountable
examples: From servin' yola and mobbin' in drop tops to gangsta tales and flat-out Westside anthems, it doesn't take much thought as to whom the target audience is […]
We yayo experts, we been whippin' the yola / Since the crackas decided to take the coke from Coca-Cola.
Ooh I throw the yola in the pot, let it simmer and bake / Add a li'l bakin' soda, make it foam like aftershave.
Translations:
yuca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Spanish yuca (also historically juca), frequently said to be of Taíno origin. While the word is almost certainly from an indigenous American language, the source is not known. Perhaps from Kari'na yuca (“cassava”) , but this appears to be a ghost word. Doublet of yucca.
Inflected forms:
form: yucas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yuka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: cassava
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: cassava root
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the equatorial regions of South America, starch is abundantly prepared from the Yuca (Jatropha manihot), and from several species of palm.
She spooned out yuca into what I assume was my plate, and chorizo from a red frying pan.
Derived words: yucca
Translations:
yute
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From youth.
Inflected forms:
form: yutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A youth, a young person, often a young black person.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
Multicultural-London-English
derogatory
slang
examples: you know I got something for a paigon yute (skang)
Hmm, I'm very important
So I never beg endorsement
2024, Ceechynaa, Peggy
I got an Asian yute from West tryna pick me up in a Lambo truck
Translations:
ranch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Recorded since 1808, farm sense since 1831. From American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together." Cognate with English rank.
Inflected forms:
form: ranches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ranches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ranching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ranched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ranched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
gloss: A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ranch dressing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.
gloss: To work on a ranch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.
Derived words: bet the ranch
bunny ranch
cattle ranch
dude ranch
guest ranch
raised ranch
ranchboy
ranchburger
ranch dressing
rancher
ranchette
ranchgirl
ranchhand
ranch house
ranchhouse
ranchland
ranchlike
ranchman
ranch-sieve
ranch slider
ranchslider
ranchstead
ranch-style
ranchwoman
ranchy
splanch
Translations:
cowgirl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From cow + girl.
Compound parts: cow
girl
Inflected forms:
form: cowgirls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat.
pos: noun
gloss: A playing card of queen rank.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A sex position where the receptive partner is on top; the cowgirl position.
pos: noun
gloss: The receptive partner in the cowgirl position.
pos: noun
Synonyms: woman-on-top
Derived words: cowgirl boot
cowgirl hat
cowgirl position
reverse cowgirl
reverse cowgirl position
Translations:
victrola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the brand name Victrola.
Inflected forms:
form: victrolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.
pos: noun
Translations:
baile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese baile (“dance”). Compare ball (“dance”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A specific genre of dance music originating in Rio de Janeiro, also known as Funk Carioca
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The irreverent banger "Hey You" repos Balkan brass and sets it to pure Chicago juke step, which bleeds into a colossal baile beat and, for good measure, some trashy Eurotrance.
He has been borrowing from Brazilian baile funk for years, and the first release on his new record label, Mad Descent, is by the Brazilian group Bonde do Role.
Translations:
mural
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).
Inflected forms:
form: murals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: murals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: muraling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: muralling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: muraled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: muraled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: muralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: muralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
pos: noun
examples: "There was an underpass beside the station which was a difficult area for anti-social behaviour. Again, we got artists involved, and schools and the community to put murals in it, and now the community feels like it's theirs. For a small urban station, it has a really nice modern feel about it."
gloss: Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a mural quadrant
Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.
[Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]
gloss: Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a mural precipice
Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]
gloss: To create a mural.
pos: verb
examples: Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.
Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.
Derived words: epimural
intermural
mural circle
mural crown
muralism
muralist
muralistic
murally
paramural
photomural
transmural
Translations:
beatitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English beatitude, beatytude, from Middle French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”).
Inflected forms:
form: beatitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face.
gloss: Any of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
preterite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English preterit, from Old French preterit (13th century), from Latin praeteritum (as in tempus praeteritum (“time past”)), the past participle of praetereō (“to go by, go past”), itself from praeter (“beyond, before, above, more than”) (comparative of prae (“before”)) + itum (the past participle of eō (“to go”)).
Inflected forms:
form: preterit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: praeterite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: præterite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pret.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preterites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preterit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: praeterite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: præterite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pret.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Showing an action at a determined moment in the past.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Dravidian preterite tense is ordinarily formed, like the present, by annexing the pronominal signs to the preterite verbal participle.
gloss: Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Without leaving your elbow-chair, you shall go back with me thirty years, which will bring you among things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa.
Boas, Benedict, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Murdock, Evans-Pritchard, Griaule, Levi-Strauss, to keep the list short, preterite, and variegated, […]
gloss: A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.
pos: noun
examples: When simple verbs redouble the preterite, the compounds drop the first syllable, as: Pello, pĕpŭli, to drive away, to beat back; Repello, rĕpŭli, and not rĕpĕpŭli, to drive back, to repel.
Nevertheless, a small amount of variation still exists in one area of standard English verbal morphology: the preterite and past participle forms of certain irregular verbs.
Synonyms: past
foregone
Derived words: preteriteness
Translations:
G-man
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably abbreviated from government man.
Inflected forms:
form: G-men
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A US government agent fighting organized crime in the interwar years.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
slang
gloss: Any person working for the US government, especially in undercover work.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
slang
Translations:
lurch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”).
Inflected forms:
form: lurches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lurches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lurching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lurched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lurched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden or unsteady movement.
pos: noun
examples: the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
The ship was driving rapidly towards the rocky coast, against which she must have been dashed to pieces had she kept afloat a few minutes longer, but she gave a lurch and went down, rose again for an instant, and with another lurch sank, and all was over,—and there were nearly two hundred and fifty human beings struggling with the waves.
Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
gloss: To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
pos: verb
examples: It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin.
The incident made it think, apparently, that the neighborhood was dangerous, for it slowly lurched off through the wood, followed by its mate and its three enormous infants.
Number One lurched forward, his arms outstretched toward the horror stricken girl.
He was looking for trouble. He lurched against a table at which three soldiers were sitting and knocked over a glass of beer.
Translations:
peroneal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From perona or peroneus + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more peroneal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peroneal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the fibula or to the part of the leg containing it, the outside (lateral aspect) of the lower leg (that is, what anatomical terminology calls the leg, from knee to foot).
pos: adj
examples: Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.
Translations:
pestilent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis.
Inflected forms:
form: more pestilent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pestilent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
pos: adj
gloss: Annoying.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Harmful to morals or public order.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Related words: pest
pestiferous
pestilential
Derived words: pestilence
pestilently
Translations:
fossil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
history
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“to dig up”).
Inflected forms:
form: fossils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
pos: noun
examples: With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions.
Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters.
gloss: Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
pos: noun
examples: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
You know what, we’ve got a limited number of heartbeats in this world so if you’re only truly happy researching fossils and can make it work for you, you go for it.
gloss: A fossil word.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: An extremely old or outdated person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently.
All at once there was a tapping at the window pane. Atherton was staring at us from without. He shouted through the glass, ‘Come out of that, you fossils! — I’ve news for you!’
“[…] What have you done with your old fossil?” “M. Poirot has gone to Paris,” I replied coldly. “And I can tell you, M. Giraud, that he is anything but an old fossil. He has solved many cases that have completely baffled the English police.”
Related words: coprolite
Fossil
Derived words: body fossil
cast fossil
chemofossil
fossilate
fossil car
fossil damascus
fossildom
fossiled
fossil fool
fossil fuel
fossil gas
fossilhood
fossiliferous
fossilification
fossilify
fossilisation
fossilization
fossilise
fossilize
fossilism
fossilist
fossility
fossillike
fossilogy
fossil oil
fossilology
fossil record
fossil resin
fossil twister
fossil water
ichnofossil
index fossil
living fossil
macrofossil
magnetofossil
megafossil
mesofossil
microfossil
mold fossil
nanofossil
non-fossil
nonfossil
palynofossil
pseudofossil
semifossil
subfossil
technofossil
trace fossil
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: fòssil
lang: Finnish
word: fossiili
lang: Italian
word: fossile
lang: Portuguese
word: fóssil
lang: Romanian
word: fosilă
swamped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: very busy; having too much to do
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: They have been swamped ever since they started advertising.
He can’t talk to you right now; he’s swamped.
Translations:
heckle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Related to hackle.
Inflected forms:
form: heckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heckled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Promise that you won't heckle me after my performance.
As late as 1854, the antichoir members of an Ohio Methodist congregation heckled the choir whenever it tried to sing, hoping to "bring discredit on the singers by creating discord."
[…] Internet postings, speeches, heckling, cartoons, faxes, composites, noises, threats, incitements, videos, ads, prayers, classes, live and filmed nudity (frontal, sideal, backal), defamation, blasphemy, and digital communication […]
It is the large brown bonxies that heckle me as I pass across the high moor and approach the sheep gate.
The student section of Blue Devils fans, called “Cameron Crazies” for the energy and antics they bring to that cramped arena at Duke, heckles opponents with the help of “cheer sheets” that include biographical details and biting comments about opposing players.
gloss: To prepare (flax) for spinning, using special combs called hackles.
pos: verb
Synonyms: badger
barrack
gird
heckle
jeer
roast
taunt
tease
Antonyms: cheer
incite
Related words: heckler
heckling
abash
Translations:
ticklish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tickle
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English ticklish
From tickle + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more ticklish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ticklish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
pos: adj
examples: She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet.
gloss: Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.
pos: adj
examples: That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice.
Opening round three, Enderby moved the ticklish issue of whether to advise the Hong Kong government of the intelligence regarding Ko.
The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one that pleased his master as it omitted the dead nephew's reign altogether.
Derived words: ticklishly
ticklishness
unticklish
Translations:
doublespeak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From double + -speak. Coined in the 1950s in the vein of George Orwell's Newspeak as used in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublespeak does not appear in the book, although newspeak, oldspeak, and doublethink do.
Base: double
Affixes: -speak
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The report was riddled with so much corporate doublespeak that it was impossible to interpret.
The popular and convergent use of information seems to represent something beyond the mere cosmetics of doublespeak, of a "garbage collector" turned "sanitary engineer" or a "strike" turned "work stoppage."
Translations:
diachronic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ic; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: more diachronic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diachronic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring over or changing with time.
pos: adj
examples: […] one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture.
gloss: Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
pos: adj
examples: It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before.
I also take a more diachronic perspective and relate the growth of empire to changes in the regional market system as they occurred in the transition from the Early Aztec to the Late Aztec periods.
In short, it's usual for the syuzhet to appear more diachronic at the beginning and more synchronic at the end.
Rethinking the revolution issue is therefore the key to any novel interpretation, but it needs to be addressed in a more diachronic and synchronic fashion, comparing the Wende to earlier German upheavals and to the concurrent transformation of East Central Europe.
2012, Paolo Ramat, Sturtevant's paradox revisited, Thomas Stolz, Hitomi Otsuka, Aina Urdze, Johan van der Auwera (editors), Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond), [page 61],
Consequently, the perspective will be more diachronic than synchronic.
However, his interpretation and conclusion receive their rationale almost as often from the subjective horizon as the more diachronic oriented commentaries do.
Synonyms: diachronical
Related words: diachrony
Derived words: diachronically
diachronic linguistics
nondiachronic
Translations:
jock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English Jackin
Middle English Jankyn
English Jack
English Jock
English jock
From Jock, a Scottish hypocoristic form of John (compare Jack).
Inflected forms:
form: jocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A common man.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: A Scotsman.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: To masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To humiliate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Translations:
unruly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unruly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + rule + -ly (compare Middle English ruly, reuli (“subject to a religious rule, regular”)), but also representing a modified continuation of earlier Middle English unrouly, unroly (“unquiet, restless”), equivalent to un- + roolie. The latter is perhaps from or influenced by Old Norse *úróligr, related to Danish urolig (“restless”), Swedish orolig (“restless”), Icelandic órólegur (“agitated”). Compare also Middle English unroo, unro (“unrest”). More at roo.
Base: rule
Affixes: un-
-ly
Inflected forms:
form: unrulier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unruliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wild; uncontrolled.
pos: adj
examples: The police gathered to contain the unruly mob.
Unruly boys who will not grow up / Must be taken in hand / Unruly girls who will not settle down / They must be taken in hand
Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel?
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste.
The bar had two entrances, one on Barrow and another via Bedford, and “86” referred to the address of the door from which intoxicated or unruly guests would be ejected.
Translations:
flabbergasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Past tense of flabbergast.
Inflected forms:
form: more flabbergasted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flabbergasted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flabergasted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: flabagasted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: flambergasted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.
pos: adj
examples: He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
‘Hush-h-h-h-h!’ said Mr Nearthewinde, absolutely flabergasted by such imprudence on the part of one of his client's friends.
This candid interpretation of his words knocked the defendant stupid. He made no reply, but looked utterly flabbergasted.
Much the same. Rather flabbergasted at seeing me, I think.
Begob he was what you might call flabbergasted.
Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
On his first encounter with tailgating in 2006, he was flabbergasted at the way rival fans mixed peaceably together at the parties. A Chicago Bears fan, he was warmly welcomed into a group of Arizona Cardinals fans and fed. "I was shocked and slightly worried. I thought they were going to poison me. It was just so odd."
“I have to say I am flabbergasted that a doctor that has flu-like symptoms has presented to work,” [Jenny] Mikakos said.
gloss: Damned.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
rare
Derived words: flabbergastedly
flabbergastedness
one's flabber is gasted
unflabbergasted
Translations: