yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
potager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English potager, from Middle French potager, from potage. The pronunciation is sometimes altered to imitate the pronunciation of French potager.
Inflected forms:
form: potagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kitchen garden; sometimes used attributively.
pos: noun
examples: while he could not get into it until he obtained the keys from Bechet the notary, he had a picnic or two in the dilapidated garden and the herb potager, now run hopelessly to seed and weed.
gloss: A porringer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: An INDIAN DISH or Potager. Made alſo of the Barque of a Tree, with the Sides and Rim ſewed together after the manner of Twiggen-Work.
Translations:
McLeod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic MacLeòid (“son of Leòd”), from Old Norse Liótr (“the Ugly (one)”), from Old Norse ljótr (“ugly, scary”).
The combination tool was created in 1905 by Malcolm McLeod, a US Forest Service ranger.
Inflected forms:
form: McLeods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: McCleod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mcleod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: McLoud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of rakehoe.
pos: noun
Translations:
apatite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Apatit (“apatite”). Apatit was coined by the German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), as follows: Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη (ăpắtē, “deceit, fraud”) (as it is often mistaken for other minerals) + German -it (suffix forming nouns denoting minerals or rocks; cognate with English -ite); the German word was first used in a 1786 book. Regarding minerals that were named for being deceptive and thus confused with others, compare also fool's gold.
Inflected forms:
form: apatites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer, as a gemstone, and (in powdered form) as a pigment, and also produced biologically in bones and teeth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We had prepared, by precipitation methods, finely divided crystalline apatites that were similar in crystal size and x-ray diffraction profile to bone apatite.
Translations:
aromatherapist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From aroma + therapist.
Compound parts: aroma
therapist
Inflected forms:
form: aromatherapists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practitioner of aromatherapy.
pos: noun
Translations:
inadequacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inadequate + -cy or in- + adequacy.
Base: inadequate
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: inadequacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being inadequate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He struggled with feelings of inadequacy.
The report exposed the inadequacy of existing regulations.
sense of inadequacy
gloss: A shortage of required material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lack of competence or ability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
recommence
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier.
Inflected forms:
form: recommences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recommencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recommenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recommenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To begin again.
pos: verb
examples: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
Translations:
dogfight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: From dog + fight.
Compound parts: dog
fight
Inflected forms:
form: dogfights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dogfights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dogfighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dogfought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dogfought
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
pos: noun
examples: The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight.
gloss: A fight between dogs, especially as part of the blood sport of dogfighting.
pos: noun
gloss: To engage in a battle between fighter planes.
pos: verb
examples: Missiles exhausted, the pilot was forced to close and dogfight with his opponent.
Derived words: dogfighter
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: ilmataistelu
lang: Finnish
word: hävittäjätaistelu
lang: Finnish
word: kaartotaistelu
lang: French
word: combat aérien
lang: German
word: Luftkampf
lang: Italian
word: combattimento aereo
lang: Norwegian
word: nærkamp
professionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English professional
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English professionally
From professional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more professionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most professionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As a professional; for one's paid career.
pos: adv
examples: Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
gloss: In a professional manner.
pos: adv
examples: You handled that customer's complaint very professionally.
There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.
He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.
Antonyms: unprofessionally
Derived words: interprofessionally
nonprofessionally
proshot
Translations:
dutiful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From duty + -ful.
Base: duty
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more dutiful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dutiful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dutifull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Accepting of one's legal or moral obligations and willing to do them well, and without complaint.
pos: adj
examples: Ralph was a dutiful child, and took the trash out without being told.
And when blondes and beautiful are multiple / They become so dull and dutiful
gloss: Pertaining to one's duty; demonstrative of one's sense of duty.
pos: adj
Derived words: dutifully
dutifulness
undutiful
Translations:
faubourg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French faubourgbor.
English faubourg
Borrowed from French faubourg.
Inflected forms:
form: faubourgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City.
pos: noun
examples: At last a great shout went up ... and that was sign sufficient that the faubourgs were ours.
[…]in the course of his walk (which led him out toward the faubourgs of Flatbush) he passed long vistas of signboards[…]
By the time that I was quite clear of the city's unlovely faubourgs and purlieus I needed petrol: the Silver Ghost is a lovely car but its best friend would have to admit that its m.'s per g. are few.
Translations:
grimly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grymly, grimliche, from Old English grimlīċe, equivalent to grim + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic grimmliga.
Base: grim
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more grimly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grimly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grim manner.
pos: adv
examples: He looked round and shouted grimly, "As soon as the gate is opened, you go out there - running."
I looked out my window / The cloud was grimly forming / Waiting for the rain I saw / The one dark cloud forming
Translations:
ashlar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English assheler, acheler, etc., from forms of Old French esselier (“wooden support, traverse beam”), from Medieval Latin ascelāris and assellāris (equivalent to a diminutive of early forms of ais (“plank”)), variant of *axillāris (attested only after the Renaissance), from Latin axilla (“little plank”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”), from axis (“axle, plank”) + -illa (“-ella: forming diminutives”).
Inflected forms:
form: ashlars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ashler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Masonry employing flat and well-squared stone or brick, creating an appearance similar to wooden flooring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The four main spans across the waterway are carried on ashlar piers founded on Memel timber piles.
Even as I babbled, Jock's massy frame filled the doorway, his ill-hewn ashlar head weaving from side to side, eyes blinking at the light.
By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.
The building, in a plain Tudor Gothic style, has a central door in chamfered ashlar surround.
gloss: Stone hewn and finished to create such masonry, either completely or as a facade over an earthen or rubble core.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And from the choir itself, where the big hoist was working, came the shouts of the men sweating at the great wheel that swung the cut stones skyward, and the men high overhead on the hurdle-walks, waiting to receive the swinging ashlars and guide them into place.
gloss: A stone intended for hurling by means of a catapult or similar device.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Derived words: ashlared
ashlaring
bastard ashlar
Translations:
cush
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
Etymology: From cushty, from Romani kushto, kushti (“good”).
Inflected forms:
form: more cush
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cush
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excellent, very good.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
slang
examples: That car owwer there is propa cush!
gloss: The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
kiddy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kid
English -y
English kiddy
From kid + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: kiddier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: kiddiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Childish.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The concept is really old, the graphics look very kiddy, and the creators are making millions off it.
Translations:
parching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parch
English -ing
English parching
From parch + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more parching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: parchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing something or someone to parch; extremely drying.
pos: adj
examples: Who can unpitying see the flowery race, / Shed by the morn, their new-flush'd bloom resign, / Before the parching beam?
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
The series of these great events began in the year 1333, fifteen years before the plague broke out in Europe: they first appeared in China. Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in the tract of country watered by the rivers Kiang and Hoai.
I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
gloss: Very thirsty; parched.
pos: adj
examples: Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores. March! Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are […] parching.
gloss: The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
pos: noun
examples: I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.
gloss: The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
pos: noun
examples: Squalid youths with ghastly grin,
In hollow bitter roots shall bring,
Urine of the unsav'ry goat,
To quell the parchings of thy throat.
Derived words: parchingly
Translations:
kvetching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kvetchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Persistent complaining.
pos: noun
Translations:
hadaway
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Begone, be off, go away.
pos: intj
tags: Geordie
Mackem
examples: Hadaway wi ye!
Translations:
poppers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Amyl nitrites were originally sold in small glass ampoules wrapped in cloth. Recreational users would crush or "pop" these vials between their fingers to release their vapours, which is thought to be the origin of the slang term.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Drugs of the alkyl nitrate class used recreationally as a sexual stimulant, especially among gay men.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Have I been doing too much poppers?
Amyl nitrate, colloquially called “poppers” has been implicated in the epidemic among gay men.
Amyl nitrate, or “poppers,” has been popular as a sexual stimulant in male homosexual communities.
When compared with crystal and its devastating effects, poppers was a relatively mild threat. In fact, many only saw its benefits. “Amyl nitrate is the only drug gay people can claim to know better than straight people"
People were convinced that 'poppers' was being pumped through the air conditioning units. That the glasses were being rinsed in morphine! They were desperately trying to find some explanation for their excessiveness.
Poppers is a solvent which is inhaled, for instance directly from a small bottle.
He was a regular at Thursdays, our weekend hangout, and I had fucked his head up one night by encouraging him to sniff way too much poppers […].
This rhyming lark's not as hard as it seems Just like fucking on too much poppers.
Translations:
spoons
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A child's card game.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: A pair of spoons used as a musical instrument by tapping them on parts of the body.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Related words: bones
Translations:
mesoblast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From meso- + -blast.
Base: meso
Inflected forms:
form: mesoblasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the middle, germinal layer of undifferentiated cells of an early embryo; it becomes the mesoderm
pos: noun
Translations:
messmate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From mess + mate.
Compound parts: mess
mate
Inflected forms:
form: messmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship.
pos: noun
examples: Messmates, ahoy! Come here! Come here!
The cap’n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.
gloss: Any of various eucalypts with rough bark, specifically Eucalyptus obliqua.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
metafiction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass
Base: fiction
Affixes: meta-
Inflected forms:
form: metafictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]
In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.
Translations:
Sumerian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sumer
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Sumerian
From Sumer + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Sumerians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or pertaining to Sumer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Could be. Anyway, Sumerian culture—the society based on me—was another manifestation of the metavirus. Expect that in this case, it was in a linguistic form rather than DNA."
gloss: Of, from or pertaining to lower Babylonia, which was anciently called Šumer in Akkadian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person of Sumer.
pos: noun
gloss: A native of lower Babylonia, called Šumer in Akkadian.
pos: noun
Derived words: Neo-Sumerian
Sumerianism
Translations:
pediment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the earlier form peremint, perhaps a dialectal alteration of pyramid, under the influence of -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: pediments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
pos: noun
examples: Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]
gloss: A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.
pos: noun
Related words: frontispiece
tympanum
Derived words: gooseneck pediment
pedimental
pedimented
Translations:
metaplastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more metaplastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metaplastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or produced by metaplasia.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to metaplasticity.
pos: adj
Derived words: metaplastic carcinoma
nonmetaplastic
Translations:
metaplasia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: metaplasias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of one type of tissue into another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
midshipman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: midshipmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An officer of the lowest rank in several navies; especially, a trainee officer.
pos: noun
gloss: A midshipman fish.
pos: noun
Related words: shipmaster
shipman
Derived words: middie
midshipman fish
midshipmanship
midshipman's hitch
midshipmite
plainfin midshipman
Translations:
mid-morning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
English morning
English mid-morning
From mid- + morning.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or occurring in the midmorning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
midmorning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mid- + morning. Compare Middle English midmorwen, midmorwe (“midmorning”).
Base: morning
Affixes: mid-
Inflected forms:
form: midmornings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mid-morning
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The middle of the morning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
scurfy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scurf
English -y
English scurfy
From scurf + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: scurfier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scurfiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scurvy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by scurf; covered with scurf.
pos: adj
examples: Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.
"[A]nd who do you think were sittting there? Why, my mother and your father of course, both mending boots; and all of a sudden my mother gave your father such a blow with an old boot, that the scurf flew out of his hair!" "There you tell a lie," shouted the princess; "my father never was scurfy!"
Translations:
snooty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having their nose in the air (that is, acting disdainfully towards others). Snoot is a dialectal variant of snout.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Base: snoot
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: snootier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snootiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
I didn't like the way you looked at May Arnold, or the snooty way you talked.
ever since she landed the National gig she's got very snooty about struggling theatre mates, as if she alone has discovered the secret to being successful
gloss: Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
informal
examples: Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.
The Mercury for 1959 firmly establishes itself as Ford Motor's flashy centerpiece in the middle-price field. […] It's snootier than the Edsel—and snootier than it was, itself, in 1958.
I grew up a privileged princess in Nob Hill, the snootiest neighborhood in San Francisco. My father's family had so much money they didn't know what to do with it.
gloss: Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
informal
uncommon
Derived words: snoot
snootily
snootiness
Translations:
skort
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of skirt + shorts. First attested in the 1950s.
Compound parts: skirt
shorts
Inflected forms:
form: skorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pair of shorts designed to look like a skirt via the addition of a panel of fabric.
pos: noun
examples: Fashion has given the English language a new word to contend with: “skort,” a hybrid garment consisting of a mid-thigh-length pleated skirt with a matching pair of short bloomers attached underneath.
All the major athletic apparel companies now offer skirts, or skorts. (What's the difference between a skort and a running skirt? Nothing, really, but I like the latter term better.)
Trina: I'm holding a pair of skorts.
Jen: (gasp) Trina, listen very carefully to me. Put the skorts down and back away slowly. BACK AWAY! Look for the nearest exit!
Often erroneously confused with culottes (see also: culottes), the skort appears to be a skirt in the front (due to a clever little fabric flap) but reveals its essential shorts-ness from behind. The skort is typically short (often very short) and is designed for sporty activities such as tennis and hiking.
Skorts—a hybrid garment that traditionally blends culotte-style shorts with a wrapover fabric at the front that resembles a skirt—have soared in popularity lately thanks to the rise of “tenniscore” fashion.
Translations:
boggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bog
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English boggy
From bog + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: boggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: boggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.
pos: adj
examples: The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.
Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.
But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.
As well as being a magnet for wildlife, Flow Country is also special for its valuable role in mitigating climate change, as the boggy ground provides a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.
Translations:
filetype
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From file + type.
Compound parts: file
type
Inflected forms:
form: filetypes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: filetypes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: filetyping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: filetyped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: filetyped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.
pos: noun
gloss: To assign a type to a file.
pos: verb
examples: This software searches the directory and attempts to filetype all the files in it.
Translations:
trucked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Transported by a truck.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
parure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Old French pareure, parure. See French parure.
Inflected forms:
form: parures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of jewellery to be worn together.
pos: noun
examples: “… among the objects stolen was the famous parure of Black Diamonds, for which a bid of half a million sterling had just been made and accepted.[…]”
Why, then, was she not in Bond Street, as advertised, scribbling her signature on Travellers' Cheques and scooping up emerald parures and things?
Translations:
excursus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin excursus (“excursion”). Doublet of excurse.
Inflected forms:
form: excursuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: excursus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrative digression, especially to discuss a particular issue.
pos: noun
examples: Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.
Part III (Chapters 12 to 16) includes an excursus which leads us to the use of Esperanto outside the community of its speakers.
The authors devote a fascinating excursus to the Western imagination’s preoccupation with serpents—from Eden to esoterica—and how this primed the ground for Kuṇḍalinī’s reception.
Related words: excursion
Translations:
troppo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tropical + -o (diminutive suffix). First used by Australian troops in tropical regions during WWII, in the sense “affected by war service in the tropics.”
Base: tropical
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Crazy, mad, strangely behaving; especially as attributed to hot weather.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
slang
examples: Barry′s gone troppo and married that sheila he′s only known for two weeks.
After three months by himself on his ‘dream’ tropical island he went troppo and smashed all the equipment.
‘[…]She calls these rehearsals my singing lessons - but at least I don′t have people rushing in thinking I′ve gone troppo . . .’
‘Except me.’ Violet′s smile lingered as she gazed at him.
For a lone Digger gone troppo, as Joe is deemed to have done, it is a realistic scenario.
"[The Northern Territory has] got the same sort of flavour to it, probably a bit more frontier. Overall, it's the tropics and they go troppo. The beer's cold and the weather's hot and they drink too much.
Translations:
soda-acid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soda acid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used attributively to describe a fire extinguisher that generates a stream of water powered by carbon dioxide generated by reacting sulfuric acid with sodium bicarbonate
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
superannuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From superannuate + -ion, from superannuated.
Base: superannuate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: superannuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A retirement benefit fund, an accumulation of regular deductions from one′s wage or salary while employed and similar regular contributions from the employer, usually administered by an independent entity; a pension.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
uncountable
usually
examples: One of the principal objections to it was, that the period of service, after which superannuations were granted, was too limited,[…].
I think it would be harsh to deprive them of their superannuations without a knowledge of the circumstances under which they are proposed.
A person must not discriminate by failing to supply superannuation or insurance, or in the terms on which, or in the way in which superannuation or insurance is supplied.
If an entity employs temporary residents who are eligible for the superannuation guarantee, then the entity is required to make superannuation contributions for them.
gloss: The condition or of being superannuated; old age or obsolescence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.
Derived words: superfund
Translations:
gamekeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From game + keeper.
Compound parts: game
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: gamekeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects.
pos: noun
examples: The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or to put an end to their operations by force."
Translations:
gatepost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gate
Latin postisbor.
Old English post
Latin postisder.
Old French postbor.
Middle English post
English post
English gatepost
From gate + post.
Inflected forms:
form: gateposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a vertical post from which a gate is hung/attached.
pos: noun
examples: A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]
Translations:
crone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English crone, from Anglo-Norman carogne (compare central Old French charogne (a term of abuse, literally “carrion, carcass, old sheep, hag”), whence modern French charogne). Doublet of carrion.
Inflected forms:
form: crones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old woman.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: But still the crone was constant to her note.
gloss: An archetypal figure, a wise woman.
pos: noun
examples: “And what is your name, crispy, old, wizened crone?” “Oh, my name's Helen.” “Hel-- Oh, just Helen. That's it. Just Helen?” “Helen the Magic Woman.” “And you can help me rid myself of this disgusting hex?” “Yes.”
gloss: An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
pos: noun
examples: With black unseeing eyes the old woman, the crone, stares at him and through him. Over and over she mutters a word that he cannot quite catch, something like Toomderoom.
“Let's welcome the most beautiful girl I know and I've ever met. My good lady wife Nadja. Come on.” “Oh, she's right here. I've got her.” “I'm here.” “Quiet, crone! Hello, everyone. Thank you all so much for coming.”
gloss: An old ewe.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones
gloss: An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel, in the midst of a small patch of potatoes and Indian corn, which his master had given him on setting him free.
A few old battered crones of office.
Derived words: cronehood
cronelike
croning
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: вещица
roman: veštica
lang: Czech
word: babizna
lang: Czech
word: baba
lang: Czech
word: babice
lang: Dutch
word: heks
lang: Finnish
word: noita
lang: French
word: sorcière
lang: French
word: mégère
lang: Galician
word: coirón
lang: Galician
word: bruxa
lang: Hungarian
word: banya
lang: Hungarian
word: szipirtyó
lang: Irish
word: seanchailleach
lang: Italian
word: strega
lang: Japanese
word: 鬼女
roman: kijo
lang: Latin
word: anus
lang: Macedonian
word: ве́штерка
roman: véšterka
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Hakjs
lang: Polish
word: baba
lang: Portuguese
word: bruxa
lang: Romanian
word: cotoroanță
lang: Romanian
word: baborniță
lang: Romanian
word: hoașcă
lang: Russian
word: карга́
roman: kargá
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cailleach
lang: Spanish
word: bruja
lang: Swedish
word: hagga
texta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By trademark erosion from Texta, a registered trademark of Australian stationery company Jasco Pty Ltd. Presumably from text. Usage of the word began from the 1970s, when primary school children in Australia used the brand of felt-tip markers with bright, colourful packaging, prominently displaying the name "TEXTA".
Inflected forms:
form: textas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coloured felt-tip pen, usually wide-tipped for use by children.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Here is what a wombat burrow may look like. Using coloured pencils or textas, colour in the wombat burrows.
He pencilled a map of India onto a piece of chipboard, and then went over the outline with a texta. He went over the texta outline with a razorblade and then, with a knife, he cut away the excess chipboard.
2009, Colin McLaren, Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia, Melbourne University Press, page 53,
Minute weighing scales sat on top of desks, glass syringe kits lay idle, mug shots were pinned here and there, some with a dart in the forehead, or ′caught′ written in texta.
Translations:
saltine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.
Base: salt
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: saltines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker; a soda cracker; a soda biscuit.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A euphemism for cracker ("white person").
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
ethnic
slur
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: voileipäkeksi
lang: French
word: craquelin
lang: French
word: biscuit soda
lang: German
word: Cracker
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kreker
lang: Spanish
word: galleta de soda
lang: Spanish
word: galleta de agua
lang: Spanish
word: saltina
lang: Swedish
word: salt kex
sanger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -er (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1960s.
Inflected forms:
form: sangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sandwich.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
informal
examples: […]I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat′s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
[…]Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.
Eat Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘sangers’ and Tim Tam shooters
Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers, veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.
Translations:
conjurer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English conjurer, from Anglo-Norman conjurour (“conjurer, conspirator”). Equivalent to conjure + -er.
Base: conjure
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: conjurers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conjuror
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: conjurour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who conjures, a magician.
pos: noun
examples: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.
gloss: One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
pos: noun
examples: 1893 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
gloss: One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
pos: noun
gloss: One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
pos: noun
tags: ironic
obsolete
often
examples: Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick[…] is composed of Men only, and not of Horses
gloss: A cooking appliance comprising a pot (large or small) with a gridiron wielded beneath it, like a brazier, used for cooking methods such as broiling.
pos: noun
Translations:
jammed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Stuck.
pos: adj
examples: The window is jammed shut.
How to treat a jammed finger or toe.
The printer is still jammed. Make sure that all the jammed paper is removed.
The ship was jammed between two rocks.
gloss: Overcrowded; congested.
pos: adj
examples: Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.
These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.
A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.
gloss: Rendered unusable by intentional interference.
pos: adj
examples: All their broadcasts are jammed.
The jammed programming is being distributed on USB sticks instead.
Related words: jammed up
Derived words: unjammed
Translations:
thinner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thin
English -er
English thinner
From thin + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: thinners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A liquid substance used to thin the consistency of another liquid.
pos: noun
examples: Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.
gloss: Something that thins or thins out (another thing).
pos: noun
examples: Pomegranate juice and exercise are great natural blood thinners.
The new type of mechanical thinner allowed thinning of peach blossoms to be completed earlier.
A solid mane thinner is indispensable in finishing the looks of your horse.
Derived words: blood thinner
paint thinner
Translations:
lila
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit लीला (līlā).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The play of god’s spirit manifested in the universe; divine play, creative spiritual energy.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
uncountable
examples: His face shone with joy when he read good books, thought new thoughts, heard news about the country's welfare, or when God's lila filled his mind.
Translations:
nudibranch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Circa 19th century, borrowed from translingual Nudibranchia, from Latin nudus (“naked”) + branchia (“gills”).
Inflected forms:
form: nudibranchs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sea slug belonging to the order Nudibranchia.
pos: noun
Translations:
preeclampsia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English eclampsia
English preeclampsia
From pre- + eclampsia.
Inflected forms:
form: preeclampsias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-eclampsia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preëclampsia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A complication of pregnancy, affecting about 2-20% of women, depending on location, characterized by hypertension and damage to the linings of the blood vessels of the brain, liver, lungs and kidneys, which can lead to multiple organ failure, convulsions, coma and death. The only cure is delivery of the child.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
rectory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French rectorie, from Medieval Latin rectoria. See rector.
Inflected forms:
form: rectories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of certain residences for clergy members.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of certain residences for clergy members.
pos: noun
examples: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
Related words: rectorate
benefice
curacy
Translations:
remonstrance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French remonstrance (French remontrance).
Inflected forms:
form: remonstrances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, objection or protest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Moreover, you must remember, even as children, Marie was ever more resolute than myself; and now, how little would she heed remonstrance of mine!
I have heard again and again, remonstrances have been addressed to me more than once, because of the condemnation which Democratic speakers so continually utter about the unnationality as well as the unconstitutionality of the Republican party.
Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance, [...]
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
In the past, emperors based their right to rule mostly on heredity and so could listen to remonstrance from below without necessarily feeling that legitimacy was at stake.
Translations:
remonstrant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: remonstrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more remonstrant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most remonstrant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who remonstrates, or issues (usually formal and written) protestations.
pos: noun
gloss: Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
pos: adj
Translations:
homicidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English homicide
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 homicidal
From homicide + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more homicidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homicidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to homicide.
pos: adj
examples: The current editor-in-chief, Stagyar-zil-Doggo, was a dangerously unbalanced man who took a homicidal view of contributing staff turning up in his office without pages of fresh, proofed copy, […]
An apparent deterioration in productivity during the twentieth century [in the northern Horn] has undoubtedly been linked with the enormous increase in human population brought about by a combination of improved medical facilities and the discouragement of homicidal activities.
gloss: Having an inclination to commit homicide.
pos: adj
Derived words: homicidally
homicidal necrophiliac
nonhomicidal
Translations:
murid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: An appellativization from Murid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names); by surface analysis, ending in suffix -id.
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: murids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or belonging to the family Muridae.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The theory of faunal dominance holds that while evolution occurs everywhere, certain land masses generate disproportionately more terrestrial and aquatic groups, such as the familiar murid rodents and ranid frogs, which are able to colonize and dominate other land masses.
Calhoun, an endlessly inventive designer of experiments, built an enclosure outfitted with rat apartments and partitioned the pen into connected “neighborhoods,” creating a murid arcadia that he could observe at his leisure.
Given how hard it is to study urban rats, we know remarkably little about them; we know more about moose in the Yukon than we do about my murid neighbors in New York.
gloss: Any rodent in the family Muridae.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: mouse, rat
Translations:
slowpoke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From slow + poke.
Compound parts: slow
poke
Inflected forms:
form: slowpokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who moves slowly or takes a long time to do something.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
informal
mildly
examples: Hey, you slowpokes in the back! Get a move on!
"Yas'm," said Prissy and, turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait. "Hurry, you slow poke!"
Some cooks are diddlers and slowpokes. Some are efficient speed demons.
Translations:
furtively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English furtyvely; equivalent to furtive + -ly.
Base: furtive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more furtively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most furtively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a furtive manner.
pos: adv
examples: And furtively Time looked him in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of his nimble sword.
The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!
Translations: