yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
deterrence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the stem of deterrent + -ence.
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: deterrences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The policy relies on nuclear deterrence.
Strict penalties act as a deterrence against theft.
effective deterrence
gloss: An action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: policy of deterrence
gloss: The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
gloss: The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: intimidation
dissuasion
Derived words: finite deterrence
focused deterrence
nuclear deterrence
overdeterrence
phagodeterrence
underdeterrence
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رَدْع
roman: radʕ
lang: Dutch
word: afschrikking
lang: Finnish
word: pelottelu
lang: French
word: dissuasion
lang: German
word: Abschreckung
lang: Portuguese
word: deterrência
lang: Portuguese
word: intimidação
lang: Russian
word: устраше́ние
roman: ustrašénije
lang: Russian
word: сде́рживание
roman: sdérživanije
lang: Swedish
word: avskräckning
snark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic.
Base: snore
Affixes: -k
Inflected forms:
form: snarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm. Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack. Its subtle insult comprises a tone that acts as a weapon to cut its target down to size.
Snark will get you any way it can, fore and aft, and to hell with consistency. In a media society, snark is an easy way of seeming smart. […] Snark doesn't create a new image, a new idea. It's parasitic, referential, insinuating.
She liked his smile. There was neither snark nor megalomania in it, as characterized so many smiles these days.
gloss: To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
pos: verb
examples: Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”
Ah! That was "snark". You snark when your blood sugar is low. I know how to help you. Pizza. Humans seem to find calm in the consumption of food.
gloss: To snort.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Derived words: snarkasm
snarker
Translations:
fearfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fearful
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 fearfully
From fearful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fearfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fearfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fearful manner; characterized by fear.
pos: adv
examples: I stepped fearfully into the pitch-dark cave.
gloss: very; very much.
pos: adv
tags: UK
dated
examples: He's a fearfully good striker.
Remember, when a horse is on its side the kicking-strap is useless, and the breechen nearly so, to prevent the swing of its hind legs; your aim is to get it away from the steps or wheel-plate of the trap, which, in its struggles, may cut its legs fearfully.
Derived words: unfearfully
Translations:
medley
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
swimming
Etymology: From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee.
Inflected forms:
form: medleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medleys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: medleying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: medleyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: medleyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Combat, fighting; a battle.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
For greater shields they have, than that they can either doe or see ought, and being raunged by hundreds no doubt they will hinder one another in the medley, except some very few
gloss: A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
pos: noun
examples: a fruit medley
this medley of philosophy and war
Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
gloss: A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
pos: noun
examples: They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
gloss: A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
pos: noun
gloss: A cloth of mixed colours.
pos: noun
examples: Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent was made the wors
gloss: To combine, to form a medley.
pos: verb
Synonyms: mashup
Related words: meddle
melee
Derived words: chance-medley
chaud-medley
Dutch medley
individual medley
Translations:
logjam
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From log + jam.
Compound parts: log
jam
Inflected forms:
form: logjams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: logjams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: logjamming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: logjammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: logjammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
pos: noun
gloss: A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.
Mr. Clinton can break the logjam by first convincing the public that he is willing to start with small but meaningful victories.
It is in the interest of all NATO and E.U. members to break political logjams. Our personnel operating in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and the Gulf of Aden have already learned that lesson.
gloss: To deliberately impede or delay the progress of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
crummy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of crumby, mid 19th c.
Inflected forms:
form: crummier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crummiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crummies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bad; poor.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Does it look like I care? No, seriously, stare real hard and long at the picture at the top of this column. That’s about as much reaction as you’re gonna get out of me as far as your crummy problems go.
Whether it's a crummy hometown, a crummy job, or a crummy family, Bruce punctuates his songs with some oppressive tension. Early on in his work, oppression is nothing an open window, a fast car, a willing female, or a tank of gas couldn't fix.
gloss: Full of crumb or crumbs.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.
pos: noun
tags: British-Columbia
Northwestern
US
informal
gloss: A cow with a crumpled horn.
pos: noun
Derived words: crummily
crumminess
Translations:
lickspittle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A compounding: lick (“pass one’s tongue over”) + spittle (“saliva”); the verb may derive by back-formation from the nominal derivation lickspittling (see below).
Inflected forms:
form: lickspittles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lick-spittle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lickspittles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lickspittling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lickspittled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lickspittled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lick-spittle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fawning toady; a base sycophant.
pos: noun
examples: "I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!"
"You're a suck, a suck and a lickspittle, that's what you are," said the pale man, his voice trembling with passion.
His preposterous insults were legendary, and there are accounts of his small-hour attacks on petty moralists and literary lickspittles in obscure Madrid dives where he chain-smoked and drank gallons of gin.
In Ottawa, Senator Marjory LeBreton claimed in a speech on Wednesday that allegations of spending abuses by her colleagues were “hyped-up media stories” that were inevitable in a “town populated by Liberal elites and their media lickspittles.”
“I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo. I mean, he's just kind of this fluttering lickspittle that is always bouncing about, always behind Nandor. But Nandor likes him.” “Oh, shut up, Colin Robinson. You're giving me the pip.”
Like a moustachioed pantomime villain relishing boos and hisses from the audience, Trump is oblivious to warnings and protestations from the sane world and simply contemptuous of the lickspittle mob desperately hoping to go unnoticed.
gloss: The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To play the toady; take the role of a lickspittle to please (someone).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: "[Y]ou take his side, and that is wrong! ...If some young school teacher, or some young lad, lickspittles to him, it's bad enough."
Derived words: lickspittling
lickspittlery
Translations:
toady
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a shortening of toadeater + -y.
Base: toadeater
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: toadies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toadies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toadying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toadied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toadied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more toady
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toady
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: "But who is she, can you tell me?" / "Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose, that she has got either to toady herself, or take in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible you have never heard of old Mother Montreville?"
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and a humbug.
[T]he appearance of only three coaches, each drawn by four horses, was rather trying for poor Lady Scott. They contained Mrs Coutts – her future lord the Duke of St Albans – one of his Grace's sisters – a dame de compagnie (vulgarly styled a Toady)
"Go on, Hiram, show 'em what you can do," urged Luke Fodick, who was a sort of toady to Hiram Shell, the school bully, if ever there was one.
But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.
Come 20 January, [Donald] Trump and his toadies – including billionaires such as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – will have total control over the executive branch of the United States government.
Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman turned Democrat, said: “He’s absolutely risen to the occasion: he’s a thoroughly despicable, dishonest toady for Donald Trump, and he’s doing it wonderfully.
gloss: A coarse, rustic woman.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To behave like a toady (toward someone).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: But bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so.
He had toadied to the late Mr William Morris: he had toadied to various members of the Fabian Society, he had toadied at first to the great Bransdon himself.
I dared not do anything to spoil the image of me she had set up to adore. I had toadied to her when she was the awesome duenna of my darling, and a groveling something still persisted in my attitude toward her.
gloss: toadlike
pos: adj
examples: The bath is of greatest advantage in these chronic cases, with an earthy complexion and toady skin, if I am allowed thus to express its appearance.
Derived words: toadyish
toadyism
toadyship
Translations:
errant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English erraunt [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman erraunt, from Old French errant, the present participle of errer (“to walk (to); to wander (to); (figuratively) to travel, voyage”), and then:
* from Vulgar Latin iterāre (compare Late Latin itinerāre, itinerāri (“to travel, voyage”)), from Latin iter (“a route (including a journey, trip; a course; a path; a road)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”); and
* from Latin errantem, the accusative feminine or masculine singular of errāns (“straying, errant; wandering”), the present active participle of errō (“to rove, wander; to get lost, go astray; to err, wander from the truth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to flow”).
Doublet of arrant.
Inflected forms:
form: errants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A knight-errant.
pos: noun
Translations:
seasoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.
Proto-Italic *serō
Latin serō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin satiōnem
Old French saison
French saison
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French assaisonnerbor.
English season
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English seasoning
From season + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: seasonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To distinctify the seasoning, add grated fresh ginger, finely minced green chili (serrano or jalapeno), or chopped fresh herbs: cilantro, mint, thyme.
“We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”
gloss: Anything added to increase enjoyment.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An alcoholic intoxication.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
gloss: In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The air drying of wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: seasoning
Related words: :Category:Seasonings
Derived words: beau monde seasoning
hunger is the best seasoning
Montreal seasoning
Montreal steak seasoning
Translations:
tryptophan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Tryptophanbor.
English tryptophan
From German Tryptophan, from Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to appear”).
Inflected forms:
form: tryptophans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An essential amino acid with an indole side chain; present in many foods, especially chocolate, oats, banana and milk; it is essential for normal growth and development and is the precursor of serotonin and niacin; any specific form of this compound, or any derivative of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The quickest way to raise serotonin levels again is to send more tryptophan into the brain, because serotonin is made from tryptophan.
Tryptophan is an amino acid found in many foods, including dairy and turkey, which is one of the reasons commonly given for why so many of us feel so sleepy after our Thanksgiving feasts.
Translations:
indole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From indigo + Latin oleum (“oil”); see -ole.
Base: indigo
Inflected forms:
form: indoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organic compound, C₈H₇N, found in coal tar, and produced in the gut by the bacterial decomposition of tryptophan; it is an aromatic bicyclic heterocycle having a benzene ring fused with a pyrrole ring; indole and its derivatives occur widely in nature and have many industrial applications.
pos: noun
examples: The Aspidosperma alkaloids are the largest group of indole alkaloids.
Intakes of indoles or their parental glucosinolates, may have beneficial health effects as well as toxicological effects.
gloss: Any of the derivatives of indole.
pos: noun
Derived words: azaindole
bisindole
bromoindole
diindole
fendosal
Fischer indole synthesis
indisetron
indolamine
indolate
indoleacetic
indoleacetic acid
indole alkaloid
indoleamine
indolebutyric acid
indolic
indolyl
indoyl
isoindole
methylindole
naphthoylindole
nitroindole
phenylindole
phytoindole
pyrroloindole
ropinirole
spiroindole
tetraindole
triindole
Translations:
shoddy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * Unknown, but possibly from shoad (“loose stone and rubble; fragments”), equivalent to shoad + -y; or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building.
* The modern adjectival sense was apparently derived from inexpensive shoddy (“fabric from wool-processing byproduct”), which was not really suitable for (but was sometimes still used for) things such as military uniforms at the beginning of the US Civil War.
Base: shoad
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: shoddier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shoddiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shoddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of poor quality or construction.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: spotty
Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
gloss: Poor; low.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: spotty
Do not settle for shoddy quality in your kitchen knives.
gloss: Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Formerly, shoddy cloth was “used only for padding, and such like purposes, but now blankets, flushings, druggets, carpets, and table covers, cloth for pilot and Petersham great” coats, &c., are either wholly or partly made of shoddy, which, in fact, is “occasionally worn by everybody. The beautiful woollen table covers are made wholly of shoddy, being printed by aqua-fortis from designs drawn in London and Manchester, and cut on holly and other blocks, on the spot.”
Shoddy is a cloth made from worn woollen things, old stockings, druggets, etc., which were formerly only used for the production of inferior paper, wallpaper, etc., but which were more often thrown on the waste-heap. These odds and ends are now raw materials for inexpensive clothing fabrics. The woollen things are torn to pieces by a machine having spiked rollers (termed a devil), cleansed, and the fibre spun with a certain proportion of new wool, the yarn being afterwards woven into the full-bodied but flimsy fabric termed shoddy.
To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy”.
gloss: Worthless goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Vulgar pretence or sham.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
dated
uncountable
Derived words: shoddily
shoddiness
shoddydom
shoddyism
shoddyite
unshoddy
shoddy fever
Translations:
slipshod
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From slip + shod (“wearing shoes”), originally wearing slippers. The meaning slovenly is from the early 19th century.
Compound parts: slip
shod
Inflected forms:
form: more slipshod
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slipshod
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slip-shod
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
pos: adj
examples: Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
gloss: Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.
That glossy, well-brushed individual, who lets himself in with a latch-key at the front door at night, is a very different being from the slipshod wretch who growls of mornings for hot water at the door of the kitchen.
Derived words: slipshodly
slipshodness
Translations:
raincheck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rainchecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rainchecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rainchecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rainchecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take a rain check on; to postpone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Jana planted her hands on her hips, rainchecked the promise of allegiance, and continued the challenging stare.
Golden Gate Park—check. Line too long for cable car so rainchecking that.
But you can't yet, yeah / Sorry, had to raincheck / Had to freeze the time, read your mind
Translations:
vouchsafe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From vouch + safe, written as two words in Middle English and early Modern English.
Compound parts: vouch
safe
Inflected forms:
form: vouchsafes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vouchsafing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vouchsafed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vouchsafed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If Brutus will vouchſafe that Antony / May ſafely come to him ...
Wilt thou, whoſe will is large and ſpacious, / Not once vouchſafe to hide my will in thine?
Needless to say, we have been vouchsafed no idea of what this might cost the innocent victims, the ratepayers.
The fundamentalist is concerned with what accords with some ultimate, sacred truth, as vouchsafed to an ancestral scribe or prophet, and not with traditions of human errancy.
gloss: To receive or accept in condescension.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nancy's lips parted abruptly, as if there were angry words all ready to come; but her eyes, resting on Pollyanna's jubilantly trustful face, saw something that prevented the words being spoken.
"Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."
gloss: To disclose or divulge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She vouchsafed to me that she regretted ever marrying him.
What have the gods told you?
What have you foreseen?
The gods have vouchsafed me nothing, told me nothing.
His predictions were at first to be guided by direct intimations vouchsafed to him by the god; […]
Synonyms: deign
Derived words: vouchsafement
vouchsafing
Translations:
satrap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English satrape, from Latin satrapēs (“governor”), from Ancient Greek σατράπης (satrápēs), from Old Median *xšaθrapāvan (literally “kingdom-protector”), which is cognate with Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠 (xšaçapāvā); see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: satraps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A governor of a Persian province.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Eunuchs were chiefly employed in the harems of the king, and his satraps.
gloss: A subordinate ruler.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: Hey, sir? Sir, excuse me?” The blonde was calling out to him, in imperious tones that insisted on a reply. Her satraps became watchful, like a Praetorian guard.
Backed by an expansive and brutal security system, Mr. Lukashenko shows no sign of losing his grip at home, if at the cost of becoming Mr. Putin’s enfeebled satrap.
Related words: kshatriya
Derived words: satrapal
satrapess
satrapian
satrapic
satrapy
Translations:
dolt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.
Inflected forms:
form: dolts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dolts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dolting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dolted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dolted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: O Gull, oh dolt, / As ignorant as durt:[…]
Moſt Monſter-like, be ſhewne / For poor'ſt Diminutiues, for Dolts, […]
This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.
Those who loathe “Jackass” — which brought the world beer enemas and urine snow cones and thrust its merry band of dolts into reptile lairs and shark-infested waters — have called it disgusting and irresponsible: an incitement to copycat idiocy, if not a sign of the end of Western civilization.
gloss: To behave foolishly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To fool; to trick
pos: verb
examples: Some by frequent Practice will never be dolted
Translations:
lager
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”). Cognate with native English lair.
Inflected forms:
form: lagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lagers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lagering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lagered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lagered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
pos: noun
examples: The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
gloss: To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.
pos: verb
Translations:
rosy
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rosy; equivalent to rose + -y.
Base: rose
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rosier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rosiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rosies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rosying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rosied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rosied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Rose-coloured.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: rosish, rubicund
gloss: Of any reddish hue from bright pink to the color of ruddy cheeks in a light-skinned person.
pos: adj
examples: If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
gloss: Otherwise resembling a rose, as for example in scent of perfume.
pos: adj
gloss: Optimistic.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: To make pinkish in colour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Two flags of color rosied the jut of his cheekbones, giving him an unexpectedly boyish look.
gloss: To present in a deceptively optimistic or positive light.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In suburban Kent, the owners of the Chislehurst Caves recognised their potential as communal shelters. Nottingham people used the caves under the castle. Retrospect has rosied the accounts of shelter life.
Related words: rose red
rosish
Derived words: everything in the garden is rosy
everything is rosy in the garden
overrosy
paint a rosy picture
rosily
rosiness
rosy barb
rosybells
rosybill
rosy boa
rosy-cheeked
rosy drop
rosy-eyed
rosy feather star
rosy finch
rosy garlic
rosy-lipped batfish
rosy marsh moth
rosy minivet
rosy pastor
rosy periwinkle
rosy-red
rosy-red minnow
rosy rustic
rosy starling
rosy tern
rosy thrush-tanager
rosy wave
Translations:
churchward
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cherche ward, chercheward, chircheward, churchewarde, chyrche-ward, chyrcheward, kirkeward, kurk-ward, kurkward, kyrkward; equivalent to church + -ward.
Base: church
Affixes: -ward
Inflected forms:
form: churchwards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Towards a church.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
homeward
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home + -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).
Base: home
Affixes: -ward
Inflected forms:
form: homewards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: homewards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Towards home.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I am homeward bound.
There Enoch spoke no word to anyone, / But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? / His home, he walk'd.
gloss: oriented towards home
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I caught a homeward bus.
Translations:
farinaceous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin farinaceus (“relating to, or made from, flour”), derived from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”). By surface analysis, farin(a) + -aceous.
Inflected forms:
form: more farinaceous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most farinaceous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farinacious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Made from, or rich in, starch or flour.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be.
The very fact that the secretion of saliva in the young child does not become established until the third month after birth, seems to indicate that before that age farinaceous articles of diet are unsuited to the infant, as saliva is one of the most potent agents in the digestion of starchy foods.
As Mr. Giffen has pointed out, a rise in the price of bread makes so large a drain on the resources of the poorer labouring families and raises so much the marginal utility of money to them, that they are forced to curtail their consumption of meat and the more expensive farinaceous foods: and, bread being still the cheapest food which they can get and will take, they consume more, and not less of it […]
gloss: Having a floury texture or flavor; grainy; bready; breadlike.
pos: adj
examples: In the Great Pavilion, the nurserymen and women have been employing their dark arts, too; coaxing agapanthus into bloom two months early, cosseting iris with wads of strategically placed cotton wool or touching up the farinaceous, fan-shaped fronds of a Bismarck palm with face powder.
Related words: farina
Derived words: farinaceously
Translations:
sluggard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slogarde, probably ultimately of Old Norse origin. Equivalent to slug + -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”).
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: sluggards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is lazy, stupid, or idle by habit.
pos: noun
gloss: A person slow to begin necessary work, a slothful person.
pos: noun
examples: But while these sluggards slept on, on dry land, snoring peacefully beside their owners, the oldest boat was up at the crack as old folk often are, and was therefore the first craft to move across the unfrozen lake.
gloss: A fearful or cowardly person, a poltroon.
pos: noun
Related words: lug
slug
sluggish
Derived words: sluggardise
sluggardize
sluggardly
sluggardness
Translations:
sonorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sonōrus, from sonor (“sound”), early 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: more sonorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sonorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sonourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
pos: adj
examples: The highlight of the hike was the sonorous cave, which produced a ringing echo from the hiker’s shouts.
The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it.
gloss: Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
pos: adj
examples: He was selected to give the opening speech thanks to his imposing, sonorous voice.
For this reason the Italian opera seldom sinks into a poorness of language, but, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
gloss: Wordy or grandiloquent.
pos: adj
gloss: Produced with a relatively open vocal tract and relatively little obstruction of airflow.
pos: adj
examples: Vowels are more sonorous (acoustically powerful) than consonants, and so we perceive them as louder and lasting longer.
Synonyms: sonoral
canorous
sesquipedalian
boom-boom
orotund
remugient
resonant
resounding
reverberant
rotund
sonorous
tympanic
vibrant
Antonyms: high-pitched
nonsonorous
piping
reedy
tinny
unsonorous
whistling
Related words: sonorant
sonority
sonorously
sonorousness
sepulchral
Derived words: insonorous
nonsonorous
sonorosity
unsonorous
Translations:
sunder
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundrōną (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.
Inflected forms:
form: sunders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sundering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sundered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sundered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sunders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Notwithstanding its terrifically wide sweep, (some thirty feet or more,) and the hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish.
In Taran's hand the sundered bone had turned into gray dust, which he cast aside.
gloss: To part, separate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
Such are we now.
… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders into things; he saw Knowledge before it sunders into knowing; he saw Integrity before it sunders in integrals; he saw Unity before it sunders into units.
gloss: To expose to the sun and wind.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dated
dialectal
transitive
examples: Where a fair opportunity offers, and the grass is perfectly dry, the hipples are sundered; that is, broken out into beds in the usual manner, turned, and again got up into cocklets, of such size as the state of dryness requires.
Except under abnormal conditions, protection can be afforded to a field by cutting a strip half a chain in width all round the field, with a reaper and binder for preference, when the crop is in the best condition for hay, and then ploughing or sunder-cutting the stubble.
The trees and shrubs all around us began to show the signs of death; dried branches, leafless gray and molding wood. The ground here was as hard as stone, the dirt and dust dry as bone sundered in the desert scorch.
The world, a good deal of it, sundered, scorched.
gloss: a separation into parts; a division or severance
pos: noun
examples: He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
And went with half my life about my ways.
Related words: sundry
Derived words: asunder
dissunder
in sunder
sunderable
sunderance
sunderer
Sunderland
sunderment
sunder out
tosunder
unsundered
Translations:
sporadic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sporadicus (whence also French sporadique, Italian sporadico, Spanish esporádico), from Ancient Greek σποραδικός (sporadikós), from σποράς (sporás, “scattered, dispersed”), from σπορά (sporá), σπόρος (spóros, “a sowing [of seed]”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sporadic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sporadic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: (of diseases) occurring in isolated instances; not epidemic.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Rare and scattered in occurrence.
pos: adj
examples: It was a stodgy, weary display from Mourinho’s team with only sporadic moments when they threatened Salvatore Sirigu’s goal and their manager seemed bewildered afterwards when he tried to explain what had gone wrong.
gloss: Exhibiting random behavior; patternless.
pos: adj
gloss: Not belonging to any infinite family; an exception to an otherwise orderly classification.
pos: adj
Related words: sporadical
sporadically
sporadicalness
Derived words: nonsporadic
sporadic E
sporadic group
sporadicity
Translations:
prevaricate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praevāricātus, perfect active participle of praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; to play a false or double part”), from prae- + vāricō (“to stand with feet apart, straddle”), from vāricus (“with feet spread apart”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: prevaricates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prevaricating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prevaricated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prevaricated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prævaricate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
transitive
gloss: To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
gloss: To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Synonyms: beat about the bush
beat around the bush
equivocate
fabricate
fib
lie
tergiversate
Related words: lie
Derived words: prevaricatest
prevaricatingly
prevarication
prevaricator
unprevaricating
Translations:
pyrophoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πυροφόρος (purophóros, “fire-bearing”) + -ic. Analyzable as pyro- + -phore + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spontaneously igniting in air, especially when in a finely divided state.
pos: adj
gloss: Producing sparks, especially by friction.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to oxidize with exposure to atmospheric oxygen at normal temperatures.
pos: adj
Related words: pyro-
spontaneous combustion
fire
pyrolysis
pyrophoric alloy
Derived words: nonpyrophoric
pyrophoric iron
pyrophoricity
Translations:
marshmallow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Old English mersċmealwe, corresponding to marsh + mallow.
Compound parts: marsh
mallow
Inflected forms:
form: marshmallows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marsh mallow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: marsh-mallow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: marshmallows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marshmallowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marshmallowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marshmallowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: marsh mallow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: marsh-mallow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Marsh mallow, a species of mallow, Althaea officinalis, that grows in marshy terrain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our common Marsh Mallows have diverse soft, hoary white stalks rising to be three or four foot high, spreading forth many branches.
gloss: A type of confectionery, originally (since Ancient Egyptian times) made from this plant, but now generally made of sugar or corn syrup, gelatin that has been presoftened in water, gum arabic, flavorings, and sometimes beaten egg whites, all whipped to a spongy consistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Disagreeable Girl is a female of the genus homo persuasion, built around a digestive apparatus that possesses marked marshmallow proclivities.
It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect. I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.
gloss: Someone who is soft and benign.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: He acts like a total badass, but he's really just a marshmallow once you get to know him.
You're a marshmallow, Glenn.
gloss: To soften (literally or figuratively).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: For i could still feel her small face in my hands, her lips marshmallowing under the brushing knuckle of my index, the hard press of her capable contoured body.
He didn't know if touching me meant that I would marshmallow up or if he would have to brace himself for a blow.
Various dishes heaped with food were tucked haphazardly all over: mounds of whipped potatoes, medleys of buttered vegetables, marshmallowed sweet potatoes, oyster stuffing, cranberry sauce (fresh from the can) and even more dishes
Derived words: marbit
marshmallow creme
marshmallow fluff
marshmallowy
Translations:
combinations
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A one-piece form of underwear, being a combination of a vest or chemise and underpants.
pos: noun
examples: “Put these on,” said Carrot firmly, anticipating resistance. “What is it?” said Catweazle in horror. “Coms. Combinations. A vest and long pants all in one,” explained Carrot. “They're jolly warm.”
Translations:
exciting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exciting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exciting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: excitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Creating or producing excitement.
pos: adj
examples: Some of the most exciting games ever played have ended in draws.
gloss: Sexually stimulating.
pos: adj
examples: Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.
gloss: The process of something becoming excited; excitation.
pos: noun
examples: But parents and masters should make haste in this, as to a great purchase for their children and servants; which while they defer, both sides suffer; the one, in wanting many excitings of grace, the other, in being worse served and obeyed.
Synonyms: absorbing
alacrifying
awesome
banging
bracing
compelling
distracting
dramatic
edge-of-the-seat
engrossing
electric
electrifying
enlivening
enthralling
exciteful
exciting
exhilarating
exhilarative
explosive
fascinating
hair-curling
hair-raising
heady
heart-pounding
heartstopping
heartswelling
intoxicating
gripping
impressive
inspiring
invigorating
jiggy
kicky
mind-blowing
moving
off the chain
pulse-pounding
pulsating
rip-roaring
riveting
rousing
sensational
shocking
sizzling
slam-bang
spine-tingling
startling
stimulating
stirring
stonking
thrilling
thrilly
warm
Antonyms: boring
calming
nonexciting
restful
relaxing
unexciting
wearisome
Related words: enthusiastic
thrill
Derived words: eggciting
excitingly
excitingness
hyperexciting
nonexciting
unexciting
Translations:
routing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English route
English -ing
English routing
From route + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: routings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: routeing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The assignment of a route to anything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the optimal routing of delivery vehicles
gloss: A method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the Internet, along which information can be passed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: hot-potato routing
onion routing
routing leak
routing number
routing slip
source routing
Translations:
exiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: exitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who exits; a departure.
pos: noun
Translations: