yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bacchanal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.
Inflected forms:
form: more bacchanal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bacchanal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Bacchanal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bacchanals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bacchanal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
pos: adj
examples: Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes / In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, / Purple and gushing […]
gloss: Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
pos: adj
gloss: A devotee of Bacchus.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
pos: noun
examples: The riot of the tipsie Bachanals
gloss: The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Drunken revelry; an orgy.
pos: noun
gloss: A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
pos: noun
gloss: drama, ruckus, fiasco
pos: noun
tags: Trinidad-and-Tobago
informal
Derived words: bacchanalize
Translations:
Bacchanalian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Bacchanalia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Bacchanalian
From Bacchanalia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: bacchanalian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bacchanalians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bacchanalian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus, relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
pos: adj
tags: Greek
Roman
not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: bacchic, bacchian; Dionysiac, Dionysian; dionysiac, dionysian
Even Bacchanalian madness has its charms.
gloss: Of or resembling wild or unrestrained revelry.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: The dancing and shouting of the children around the fire had become even more bacchanalian.
gloss: A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
pos: noun
examples: With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
Translations:
unlimited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unlimit + -ed or un- + limited.
Base: unlimit
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more unlimited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unlimited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Limitless or without bounds; unrestricted.
pos: adj
examples: The Scottish Region is issuing a Day Rail-Rover Ticket, available at 12 hours' notice, permitting unlimited travel in an area bounded by Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Dundee, Perth, Comrie, Callander, Stirling and Falkirk for 25s. (children, 12s. 6d.). . . .
Antonyms: limited
finite
Translations:
periwinkle
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Diminutive of Middle English perwinke, from Old English perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca).
Inflected forms:
form: periwinkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more periwinkle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most periwinkle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
pos: noun
examples: The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose if some of the leaves be chewed.
He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.
gloss: Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
pos: noun
gloss: A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
pos: noun
examples: And although we’ve certainly seen a variety of blue shades — from periwinkle to cobalt and even Dean Cain’s indigo-washed costume from the 1990’s TV show “Lois & Clark” — Superman’s uniform is still instantly recognizable across generations. In fact, there is only one film — Zack Snyder’s 2013 “Man of Steel” — in which Superman does not wear his iconic red belted trunks.
gloss: Of pale bluish purple colour.
pos: adj
Derived words: bigleaf periwinkle
blue periwinkle
common periwinkle
greater periwinkle
herbaceous periwinkle
large periwinkle
Madagascar periwinkle
periwinkled
periwinkler
periwinkling
rose periwinkle
rosy periwinkle
Translations:
lang: French
word: pervenche
lang: Hungarian
word: babakék
lang: Italian
word: pervinca
lang: Polish
word: kolor barwinkowy
adduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English adducen, from Latin addūcere, adductum (“to lead or bring to”), from ad- + dūcere (“to lead”). See duke, and compare adduct.
Inflected forms:
form: adduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adduced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Reasons […] were adduced on both sides.
Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, […]
But he adduces many recent facts, such as the overhead wiring in 1959 for electric working of the ex-S.E.R. Angerstein's Wharf branch.
Both the rise and fall of the Stalinist regimes can be adduced against the Manifesto: the former, because what came into being was so inimical to human liberation, the latter because whether one supported or opposed it, it failed.
gloss: To produce in proof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: advance
allege
assign
cite
mention
name
plead
point out
present
quote
urge
Derived words: adduceable
adducement
adducer
adducible
readduce
Translations:
miniskirt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin miniumder.
Italian minio
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Italian -are
Italian miniare
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Italian -tura
Italian miniaturabor.
English miniature
English mini-
Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ
Old Norse skyrtabor.
Middle English skyrte
English skirt
English miniskirt
From mini- + skirt.
Inflected forms:
form: miniskirts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mini-skirt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mini skirt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level.
pos: noun
examples: People who are “switched-on” and can twitch to prove it. And now–the latest—the chest toupee and the mini-skirt. […] For the benefit of those who are neither switched-on nor gear, the mini-skirt is actually a semi-skirt.
Translations:
minicomputer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin miniumder.
Italian minio
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Italian -are
Italian miniare
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Italian -tura
Italian miniaturabor.
English miniature
English mini-
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English compute
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 computer
English minicomputer
From mini- + computer.
Inflected forms:
form: minicomputers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A computer smaller than a mainframe, but larger than a microcomputer.
pos: noun
Translations:
adenoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Late 19th century borrowing from French adénoïde, from New Latin adenoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓δενοειδής (ădenoeidḗs, “glandular”), from ᾰ̓δήν (ădḗn, “gland”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-oid, -like”); equivalent to aden- + -oid. The noun is derived from ellipsis of tumeur adénoïde (“glandular tumor”).
Base: ᾰ̓δήν
Affixes: -ο-
-ειδής
Inflected forms:
form: adenoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to lymphatic glands or lymphoid tissue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Relating to, affected with, or associated with abnormally enlarged adenoids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: an abnormally enlarged mass of lymphatic tissue at the back of the pharynx, often obstructing the nasal and ear passages and hindering speaking and breathing in young children.
pos: noun
gloss: Such a mass when not abnormally enlarged, covered by ciliated epithelium and located in the roof and posterior wall of the nasopharynx at the back of the throat behind the uvula.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
Synonyms: pharyngeal tonsil
Derived words: adenoidal
adenoid cystic carcinoma
adenoidectomy
adenoidism
adenoiditis
adenoid organ
nonadenoid
Translations:
mammoth
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From obsolete Russian ма́мант (mámant), modern ма́монт (mámont), probably from a Uralic word, such as Proto-Mansi *mān-oŋt (“earth horn”). Possibly influenced by behemoth.
Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.
Inflected forms:
form: mammoths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more mammoth
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mammoth
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
pos: noun
examples: Maimanto, as they say a sea elephant which is never seene, but accordinge to the Samuites he workes himselfe under grownde and so they finde his teeth or homes or bones in Pechore and Nova Zemla of which they […]
The Mammotovoy, which is dug out of the Earth in Siberia.
The old Siberian Russians affirm that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant.
gloss: A mastodon.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth, now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale.
gloss: Something very large of its kind.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The last load, as we Yankees say, was a "Mammoth": […] producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords.
That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.
gloss: A kind of large donkey.
pos: noun
examples: Mammoths are taller than 54 inches. Each can carry up to 25% of its weight in combined tack, supplies, and rider.
gloss: Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
pos: adj
examples: I recieved [sic] from the persons to whom the inclosed is directed, a present of a quarter of a Mammoth-veal which at 115. days old weighed 438. lb.
A baker in this city offers Mammoth bread for sale. We suppose that his gigantic loaves were baked at a Salt Lick, and perhaps […]
“Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”
“[…] The task is mammoth but not hopeless and slowly we keep things going until this transition period is past.”
The governor of the region said that all of the 13 missing were safe after a mammoth search and rescue operation.
Network Rail doesn't expect the line through Carmont to open for around a month, as it faces the mammoth task of recovering the two power cars and four coaches from ScotRail's wrecked train, repairing bridge 325, stabilising earthworks around the landslip, and replacing the track.
Derived words: Columbian mammoth
mammophant
mammothlike
mammothly
steppe mammoth
weremammoth
woolly mammoth
wooly mammoth
mammoth steppe
Translations:
recidivist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: recidivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more recidivist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most recidivist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
pos: noun
examples: This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.
Persistent recidivists are "accidentally" left on the next habitable world. This practice of abandoning criminals on other people's planets is a point of friction between the quarians and the systems they pass through. Captains rarely have another choice; with space and resources at a premium, supporting a non-productive prison population is not an option.
gloss: Tending to fall back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
pos: adj
examples: To return to Macbeth, I should like to note another psychological intuition of [William] Shakespeare’s, which is that women commit fewer crimes than men; but when they commit them they are more cruel and more obstinately recidivist than men. Lady Macbeth, for example, is more inhumanly ferocious than her husband.
Court programs, a comparatively recent innovation in the rehabilitation of drunkenness offenders, originally stemmed from the interest of individual judges and magistrates concerned about the treadmill of waste among recidivist alcoholics.
Although there is no single factor underlying aggressive behavior in children, my own 30-plus years looking into the relationship between excessive parental discipline and delinquency has convinced me that the violent, recidivist, male juvenile delinquent who was not raised on the belt, board, cord, or fist is nonexistent.
Translations:
aspirate
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin aspīrātuslbor.
English aspirate
Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.
Inflected forms:
form: aspirates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aspirates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aspirating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aspirated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aspirated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more aspirate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aspirate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
pos: noun
gloss: A sound produced by such a puff of air.
pos: noun
examples: We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
gloss: A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
pos: noun
examples: a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. Mead
But we must correct then twenty authors who have it in the compound ἀπηθεῖν and ἀπήθημα ; and not (as the aspirate would require it) ἀφηθεῖν and αφήθημα
gloss: A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
pos: noun
gloss: To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.
gloss: To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The autopsy found that the casualty had aspirated in her sleep.
gloss: To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: There is no doubt that the uncertainty about the letter H, which much defaces English in some classes of the community, is due entirely to Norman influence, for Frenchmen could not aspirate. Three words—hour, honor, heir, with compounds of them such as hourly, honourable, heirship, and the like, are quite enough to puzzle people who find H sometimes sounded, sometimes not.
gloss: Synonym of aspirated.
pos: adj
examples: […]and there was in Late Middle Bengali a tendency to drop aspiration of non-initial aspirate stops.
Derived words: bronchoaspirate
deaspirate
lipoaspirate
microaspirate
reaspirate
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 送氣 /送气
roman: sòngqì
lang: Dutch
word: aspiratie
lang: Finnish
word: aspiraatio
lang: Finnish
word: henkäisy
lang: French
word: aspiration
lang: German
word: Aspiration
lang: German
word: Behauchung
lang: Polish
word: aspiracja
lang: Russian
word: придыха́ние
roman: pridyxánije
lang: Russian
word: аспира́ция
roman: aspirácija
lang: Slovak
word: aspirácia
lang: Spanish
word: aspiración
sexton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.
Inflected forms:
form: sextons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
pos: noun
examples: The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.
on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell
We stopped in the road and watched the sexton shovelling in the new earth. A peasant with a black beard and high leather boots stood beside the grave. The sexton stopped shovelling and straightened his back. The peasant in the high boots took the spade from the sexton and went on filling in the grave
gloss: A sexton beetle.
pos: noun
Related words: sacrament
sacredness
sacristanry
sacristry
sacristy
churchwarden
Derived words: Sexton
sextoncy
sextoness
sextonry
sextonship
Sleeping Sexton
undersexton
Translations:
bookie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of bookmaker + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: bookies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: ‘You won’t believe it,’ he [Fitz McGee] said. ‘Those dummies won’t let me scratch! The horse is gonna be odds‐on and I’ve got a chunk bet on him out of town. Never get the bookie call it off this late.’
Translations:
cookie
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kōkô
Old Dutch *kuoko
Middle Dutch coeke
Dutch koek
Proto-Germanic *-ukaz
Proto-West Germanic *-uk
Proto-Germanic *-īną
Proto-West Germanic *-īn
?
Proto-West Germanic *-ukīn
Old Dutch -kīn
Middle Dutch -kijn
Dutch -tjen
Dutch -je
Dutch koekiebor.
English cookie
Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.
Inflected forms:
form: cookies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cookieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cookied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cookied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cookey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: cooky
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We have already discussed the benefits — even the necessity — of cookieing visitors so that we can track their return visits to our Website.
At Oracle, they cookie you before and after you register.
Translations:
Wookiee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Wookiees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wookies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a fictional race of tall, hairy bipeds in the universe of the Star Wars motion pictures.
pos: noun
examples: What's this guy tryinna [sic] disappear behind you, a Wookie? [sic]
I backed it out to the dirt road, and the door to the double-wide opened and a big guy, more Wookiee than human being, filled the doorway.
Kevin whined, his Wookiee face showing hurt somewhere beneath the dark glasses.
Translations:
gyratory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gyratory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gyratory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gyratories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.
pos: adj
examples: In the late eighties and early nineties several new types of movable spans were advocated , including the pull-back draw, the jackknife span, the bob-tail swing, the horizontal-folding draw, the shearpole draw, the gyratory lift, the transbordeur, the double-cantilever swing, several types of bascule, and the vertical lift.
gloss: A large traffic roundabout with non-standard lane markings or priorities, or with buildings on the central island.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
hyperkeratosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English keratosis
English hyperkeratosis
From hyper- + keratosis.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperkeratoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excess keratin formation on the skin surface, as can be seen in a number of dermatologic conditions.
pos: noun
Translations:
acanthosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From acanth- + -osis (“diseased condition”).
Affixes: acanth-
-osis
Inflected forms:
form: acanthoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign abnormal thickening of the stratum spinosum, or prickle cell, layer of the epidermis.
pos: noun
Translations:
retractable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English retract
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English retractable
From retract + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: retractables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being retracted; retractile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Retractable steps and handrails are provided on each side of the cars. The steps, which are under the control of the guard, are operated by hand levers in the entrance vestibule.
Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
He says the company's FLIRT design, in particular its retractable steps, provides greater accessibility, while the technology is highly innovative and reliable.
gloss: A retractable pen.
pos: noun
examples: Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, […] there was also a planet entirely given over to Biro life forms. […] Veet Voogajig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables […]
Translations:
nitty-gritty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of uncertain origin; said to have been first used by black jazz musicians from the United States, the word is perhaps a reduplication of gritty (“resembling grit”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-) with alteration of the first syllable.
An urban legend links the origin of the word to the debris remaining in the holds of slave ships after the slaves had been disembarked, but there is no evidence for this. The word is not attested early enough to have been associated with slavery.
Inflected forms:
form: knitty-gritty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nitty gritty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more nitty-gritty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nitty-gritty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: knitty-gritty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nitty gritty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The core or essence of something; the gist.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
colloquial
uncountable
examples: He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem.
gloss: Dealing with something in great depth.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: 1976, United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases, Arthritis - Out of the Maze
We deal with them at a very, very nitty gritty level, and we deal with the results of years and years of problems that they've had in the past.
Translations:
ejective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eject
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English ejective
From eject + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: ejectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to eject, or characterised by ejection.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A nonpulmonic consonant formed by squeezing air trapped between the glottis and an articulator further forward, and releasing it suddenly.
pos: noun
Translations:
seducer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seduce
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 seducer
From seduce + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: seducers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman.
pos: noun
examples: But Ted Farrell couldn't stop; that armful of active girl was too much for the wise precautions of a seducer. He kept panting, "Don't be a nark, Cora," while struggling to hold her down.
Knox takes us through the lives of memorable seducers and their critics, in sometimes academic and sometimes rococo prose dappled with doges, coups de foudre, rakes, bawds, coquettes, coxcombs and procuresses — with guest appearances by members of the Frankfurt School sunning themselves in La Jolla.
Translations:
chav
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably of Angloromani origin. Compare Romani chavi (“male child”) or ćhavo, shavo (“female child”), chal (“boy”), chavvy (“mate, friend”), compare Swedish tjej; possibly cognate with Portuguese chavalo, Spanish chaval, German Chabo, Russian чувак (čuvak), Hungarian csávó. See also charva.
Derivations from council-housed and violent, Cheltenham average (and similar) are folk-etymological backronyms.
Inflected forms:
form: chavs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
offensive
examples: Lyrical staff / Never could they ever take me for a chav / Scholar in the English, scholar in the Math / Dizzee ain't no riff raff
His book concerns ‘chavs’, a supposed underclass of ill-educated, fast-breeding, violent and amoral poor people currently plaguing Britain.
Translations:
procreate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1525; inherited from Middle English procreat(e) (“(construed as past participle) begotten, procreated”), borrowed from Latin prōcreātus, perfect passive participle of prōcreō (“to beget”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3); by surface analysis, pro- + create. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Inflected forms:
form: procreates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: procreating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: procreated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: procreated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To beget or conceive (offsprings).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To originate, create or produce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reproduce.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: beget
breed
procreate
Derived words: nonprocreating
procreater
unprocreated
Translations:
diacritic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *krey-
Proto-Indo-European *krinyétider.
Proto-Hellenic *kríňňō
Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō)
Ancient Greek κρῐ- (krĭ-)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek κρῐτής (krĭtḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰκρῐτῐκός (dĭăkrĭtĭkós)lbor.
English diacritic
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing, separative”), from διακρῑ́νω (diakrī́nō, “to distinguish, separate”), from δια- (dia-, “between”) + κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I separate, distinguish”).
Inflected forms:
form: more diacritic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diacritic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: diacritics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Distinguishing.
pos: adj
gloss: Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
pos: noun
gloss: A letter added to another letter serving a similar indicative function.
pos: noun
examples: A notable feature in N is the frequent oa spellings […] The a is here a diacritic which is meant to distinguish /ɔ̄/ from /ō/ on the model of the distinction ea /ǣ/—e /ē/ in the AB texts.
Synonyms: diacritical
Derived words: diacritical
diacritically
diacriticked
diacriticless
Translations:
unleavened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder.
▲
Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.?
Proto-Italic *leɣʷis
Latin levis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin levō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Italic *-mn̥
Latin -men
Vulgar Latin *levāmender.
Old French levainbor.
Middle English levayn
English leaven
English leavened
English unleavened
From un- + leavened (adjective).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without any yeast or other raising agent.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
examples: They were eating unleavened bread.
Translations:
diacritical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *krey-
Proto-Indo-European *krinyétider.
Proto-Hellenic *kríňňō
Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō)
Ancient Greek κρῐ- (krĭ-)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek κρῐτής (krĭtḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰκρῐτῐκός (dĭăkrĭtĭkós)lbor.
English diacritic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English diacritical
From diacritic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more diacritical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diacritical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: diacriticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of distinguishing or of making a distinction.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic.
pos: adj
examples: The reduplicated forms and the fineness of the diacritical strokes, render his book troublesome to the reader
California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
gloss: Synonym of diacritical mark (adnoun equivalent).
pos: noun
examples: This is often the case when diacriticals are written at the end of the word - the last character ends, but there is still some ink in the original writing order that should have been used up in the course of processing the various t's, i's, and apostrophes in the body of the word.
Derived words: diacritical hook
diacritically
diacritical mark
Translations:
addax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French addax, from Arabic أبو عدس (ʔabū ʕadas, literally “father of the lentil”).
Inflected forms:
form: addaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: addax
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.
pos: noun
examples: In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.
Translations:
addict
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin addictus, past participle of addīcō (“deliver; devote; surrender”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + dīcō (“say; declare”)
Inflected forms:
form: addicts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: addicts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: addicting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: addicted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: addicted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.
pos: noun
examples: a heroin addict
He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active).
A stressful environment in which there is ready access to drugs can trump a low genetic risk of addiction in these animals. The same may be true for humans, too. And that’s a notion many find hard to believe: Just about anyone, regardless of baseline genetic risk, can become an addict under the right circumstances.
gloss: An adherent or fan (of something).
pos: noun
gloss: To deliver (someone or something) following a judicial decision.
pos: verb
tags: Ancient-Rome
transitive
gloss: To devote (oneself) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
reflexive
examples: They addict themselves to the civil law.
Having resided some time in this place, we returned to the other country-house which we had left, where lord B— addicted himself so much to hunting, and other male diversions, that I began to think he neglected me […].
gloss: To bind (a person or thing) to the service of something.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To devote or pledge (oneself) to a given person, cause etc.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
reflexive
gloss: To devote (one's mind, talent etc.) to a given activity, occupation, thing etc.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
gloss: To make (someone) become devoted to a given thing or activity; to cause to be addicted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
Synonyms: addict
abuser
fiend
wastoid
consecrate
dedicate
devote
adapt
fit
Antonyms: abstainer
mainstreamer
nonaddict
Related words: addiction
addictive
dictate
libertine
fan
Derived words: addictlike
addictology
addictovigilance
cinemaddict
coaddict
cocaine addict
cyberaddict
dope addict
drug addict
nonaddict
pseudoaddict
sex addict
addicting
addictive
readdict
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пристрастявам се
roman: pristrastjavam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: навиквам
roman: navikvam
lang: Finnish
word: omistautua
lang: Finnish
word: tulla riippuvaiseksi
lang: Finnish
word: jäädä koukkuun
lang: Finnish
word: addiktoitua
lang: Portuguese
word: viciar-se
lang: Russian
word: пристрастить
roman: pristrastitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: viciarse
lang: Spanish
word: volverse adicto
additionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English additional
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English additionally
From additional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: By way of addition; in addition to; also.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is nonobtuse if none its dihedral angles is obtuse, and acute if additionally none of them is right.
Additionally, the more subgingival the restorative margin, the more tooth is reduced.
Translations:
addle-brain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: addle-brains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A foolish or dull-witted person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: That addle-brain poured salt into the batter instead of sugar!
Translations:
git
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.
Inflected forms:
form: gits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: get
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: get
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette / And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git
Bit of a flash git, don't you think?
Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer.
Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.
Eventually God gives the donkey a voice and it says, "why're you beating me you great stupid git? It's the angel with the sword that you gotta be careful of," or words to that effect.
Here we see the common domestic goose, Anser cygnoides domesticus. Found across the British countryside, it is known for its distinctive call; proud, majestic stature; and for being an all-round inconsiderate little git!
I'm not being a miserable old git here. I like a laugh as much as anyone, [...].
gloss: shoo! go away! (used to usher something away, chiefly towards an animal)
pos: intj
tags: Appalachia
Southern-US
informal
Synonyms: arsehole
ass
assface
asshat
asshole
asswipe
bastard
bitch
blackguard
blaggard
buttlicker
buttmunch
carrion
cockhead
cocklicker
cocksucker
cowson
crud
cunt
dick
dickhead
dickwad
dickweed
dipshit
douche
douchebag
douchecanoe
douchewagon
earthworm
fribble
fucker
fuckface
fuckhead
fuckstain
fucktard
git
heel
hilding
insect
jackass
jerk
loser
louse
mahfugga
mongrel
motherfucker
paskudnyak
pigwidgeon
pigfucker
prick
queef
raasclaat
ratfink
schmuck
scrub
scut
sewer rat
sheep-biter
shit
shitbird
shitehawk
shitface
shithead
skate
slag
son of a bitch
son of a gun
son of a whore
stinker
swine
turdball
twattock
wankpuffin
whoreson
worm
yutz
Related words: anus
penis
Translations:
atheling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English atheling, from Old English æþeling, from Proto-West Germanic *aþuling, from Proto-Germanic *aþulingaz. Doublet of edling. By surface analysis, athel + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: athelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adeling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: aetheling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ætheling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: etheling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
pos: noun
examples: […]to substitute as the Confessor′s heir, the Atheling Edward (son of Edmund Ironside), who was then an exile in Hungary. After the atheling′s return from exile, and his very suspicious death in England in 1057, the Norman duke must surely have realized that his chief opponent in England was likely to be Harold Godwineson[…].
Antonyms: hlæfdige
hlæfdige
Translations:
syncretistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English syncret(ism)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English syncretistic
From syncret(ism) + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more syncretistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most syncretistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the merging of two ideals, organizations or languages into one.
pos: adj
examples: One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.
gloss: Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
pos: adj
Related words: syncretism
Derived words: syncretistically
Translations:
spork
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of spoon + fork; originally a trademark. Doublet of fpoon.
Compound parts: spoon
fork
Inflected forms:
form: sporks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sporks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sporking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sporked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sporked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.
pos: noun
gloss: To move or impale (food etc.) with a spork.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She was sporking up her food with the kind of relish Jennifer had rarely seen at three star restaurants.
Now, obviously, most of this sporking is facetious, done purely for humorous intent (none of the eyeballs being sporked were in news reports), but the phenomenon of the weaponized spork is one that passed lexicographers and language researchers by until we saw the corpus evidence.
Translations:
uncork
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + cork.
Base: cork
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncorks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uncorking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uncorked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uncorked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To open (a bottle or other container sealed with a cork or stopper) by removing the cork or stopper from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: uncork a bottle of wine
After Compiègne, André uncorked a bottle of his Vin Rosé which went down uncommonly well and we reached Aulnoye without further incident.
gloss: To release.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The 11 September attacks uncorked a whirlwind of outlandish conspiracy theories.
In Chile in 2017, for example, historic rains uncorked a gargantuan landslide near a receding glacier.
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: riuhtaista
procure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English procuren, from Old French procurer, from Late Latin prōcūrāre (“to manage, administer”), from prō (“on behalf of”) + cūrō (“to care for”).
Inflected forms:
form: procures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: procuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: procure
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: procure
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: procure
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: procurest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: procuredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: procures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: procureth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: procure
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: procure
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: procure
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: procuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: procured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To acquire or obtain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: if we procure not to ourselves more woe
Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.
Folkestone: Network Rail and the White Cliffs Countryside Project have procured a herd of goats to keep vegetation on the slopes of Folkestone Warren under control, and to encourage rare species.
gloss: To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To induce or persuade someone to do something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.
Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.
gloss: To solicit; to entreat.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The famous Briton prince and faery knight, […] / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there lenger soiourne and abode.
gloss: To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?
Related words: procurement
procurer
procuress
proxy
Derived words: misprocure
procurable
procuracy
procurator
procure to pay
reprocure
unprocured
Translations:
re-search
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Late Latin circus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Late Latin -ō
Late Latin circō
Anglo-Norman sercherbor.
Middle English serchen
English search
English re-search
From re- + search.
Inflected forms:
form: re-searches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-searching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-searched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-searched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To search again; to re-examine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The river has been searched and re-searched.
Translations: