yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rebus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
monarchy
nobility
politics
sciences
Etymology: From French rébus (“rebus (puzzle); ambiguity; word used in an oblique sense; unintelligible remark”), or directly from its probable etymon Latin rēbus, the ablative plural of rēs (“object, stuff, thing; issue, matter, subject, topic”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“goods; wealth”). The connection between the English word and its Latin etymon is unclear.
further etymology
The following possibilities have been suggested, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary are problematic:
* According to the French scholar Gilles Ménage (1613–1692) in Les origines de la langue françoise (The Origins of the French Language, 1650), it is taken from the phrase de rebus quae geruntur (“concerning the things that are taking place”) which was used in 16th-century Picardy as the name for satirical writings on contemporary subjects containing picture-riddles that were composed for an annual carnival. However, the term rebus de Picardie is first attested later than the word rébus, and so could simply refer to rebuses popular in Picardy at the time.
* Alternatively, it could be from the phrase nōn verbīs sed rēbus meaning “not by words but by things”, but this “encounters difficulties in the chronology of the senses in French”.
Inflected forms:
form: rebuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rebusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: rebi
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement of pictures, symbols, or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.
pos: noun
examples: I back him at a Rebus or a Charade against the best Rhymer in the Kingdom—has your Ladyship heard the Epigram he wrote last week on Lady Frizzle's Feather catching Fire—
gloss: A pictographic component of a compound character (e.g. sinograph) used to hint at the pronunciation of the compound.
pos: noun
gloss: An arrangement of pictures on a coat of arms which suggests the name of the person to whom it belongs.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: The prior [Will Bolton] used to come out here to hunt in summer and recreate himself, and his rebus—a barrel or tun shot through with a crossbow bolt—is set into the garden walls.
gloss: A type of crossword puzzle in which some squares contain entire words, or symbols representing words, instead of single letters.
pos: noun
examples: Instead of spelling out card suits, for example, perhaps the constructor inserted a "rebus," or picture icon for clubs, hearts, spades, or diamonds in one answer box.
Rebuses are a vital part of cryptic crosswords and even themed standard crossword puzzles, as modernized under the leadership of Will Shortz at The New York Times, make use of rebuses.
In the cruciverse, a rebus refers to a crossword that violates the basic "one letter per box" rule, requiring the entry of multiple letters - or even a number or symbol - into a single square
Related words: visual pun
Derived words: rebuslike
rebus principle
Translations:
doss
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin dorsum (“the back”), i.e. what one lies on when sleeping; perhaps from English dialect doss (“a hassock”).
Inflected forms:
form: dosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To avoid work, shirk, etc.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
intransitive
examples: I am going to doss tomorrow when the match is on.
gloss: To sleep, especially in the open or in a makeshift bed, commonly in a derelict building because one is homeless.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
intransitive
slang
examples: I normally have to doss in shop doorways or on park benches.
"You can doss on the floor.
gloss: The avoidance of work.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I am going to have a doss tomorrow.
gloss: An easy piece of work.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no doss.
gloss: A place to sleep in; a bed.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Sleep.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
broadly
countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
not-comparable
examples: Get a hauld o yersel, ya doss cunt!
Convinced it's no bullshit, the doss cunt dismisses the session. Ah walk tae freedom; perr auld Spud gits taken doon.
gloss: Good, desirable.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
not-comparable
examples: The place is pure doss, like.
Related words: doss about
doss around
doss down
doss-house
doss off
dosser
Derived words: dosser
doss off
doss out
overdoss
dossbag
Translations:
grubber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grub
English -er
English grubber
From grub + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: grubbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who grubs.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool, implement, or machine of the nature of a grub axe, grub hook, etc; (dialectal) a cultivator.
pos: noun
gloss: An attacking short-distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve.
pos: noun
examples: England had an early opportunity with a line-out deep in French territory after a clever grubber from Foden only for Lionel Nallet to burgle back possession, and they then tore into France again as Alexis Palisson was smashed backwards after taking a garryowen and Manu Tuilagi thundered into Morgan Parra.
Take that brilliant backline move off a scrum when Kolbe came off his left wing to put in a neat grubber for Arendse on the right wing to almost round the defense in the corner.
gloss: A ball that bounces unusually low such that it is difficult for the batsman to hit properly.
pos: noun
gloss: A sweetshop.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: He could, moreover, no longer be tempted to the Grubber, for all chocolate and sweets were taboo.
I remember the grubber which smelt of potato chips and chocolate and the steam-heated library with books about monasteries that no one else seemed to look at, and I remember the fresh weedless lawns between the school buildings […]
Derived words: bone-grubber
grade grubber
moneygrubber
money-grubber
Translations:
gully
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill. Compare Dutch geul.
Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: gullies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gulley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gullies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gullying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gullied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gullied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
pos: noun
gloss: A small valley.
pos: noun
gloss: A drop kerb.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A road drain.
pos: noun
examples: A new drainage run and rainwater gullies are to be installed between the station and Oxford Road, with completion planned for December 1.
gloss: A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
pos: noun
gloss: A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To flow noisily.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To wear away into a gully or gullies.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: gullet
Derived words: California Gully
Carey Gully
Charlton Gully
Cherry Gully
Coopers Gully
Fern Gully
Ferntree Gully
Flowery Gully
Geegully Creek
Golden Gully
Green Gully
gullick
gulligut
gully bean
gully eductor
gully emptier
gully gut
gully hole
gully-hole
gully-raker
gully sucker
gully trap
gully wash
gullywasher
Hacketts Gully
Horsnell Gully
Jones Gully
Kangaroo Gully
Long Gully
Maiden Gully
Northern Gully
Pile Gully
Red Gully
Rocky Gully
Rudds Gully
Sailors Gully
Sandy Gully
Sawyers Gully
Sheedys Gully
Smiths Gully
Spring Gully
State Mine Gully
Tea Tree Gully
Upper Ferntree Gully
Waterfall Gully
Translations:
hawk-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hawk-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hawk-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having very good eyesight.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
eyesight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English eiȝesiht, ieȝesihte, ehsihthe, eihsihthe, eȝhesihthe, equivalent to eye + sight.
Compound parts: eye
sight
Inflected forms:
form: eyesights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Vision or the faculty of sight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: good eyesight
poor eyesight
restore eyesight
She has excellent eyesight.
His eyesight began to fail with age.
gloss: View or the range of vision.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
barrister
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bar (a collective term for lawyers or the legal profession) and the suffix -ster.
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: barristers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lawyer with the right to speak and argue as an advocate in higher lawcourts.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Postmen, binmen, dock workers, even barristers are now on strike. Where will all this end?
Translations:
wharf
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
Old English hweorfan
Middle English wharf
English wharf
From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Inflected forms:
form: wharves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wharfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wharfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wharfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wharfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wharfed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
pos: noun
examples: Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.
Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame, / And round the prow they read her name, / The Lady of Shalott.
gloss: Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf
gloss: To secure by a wharf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place on a wharf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Cams Wharf
Canary Wharf
government wharf
marginal wharf
Nords Wharf
Red Wharf Bay
wharfage
wharf borer
wharf crab
wharfie
wharfinger
wharfless
wharf rat
wharf roach
Translations:
roughen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rough
English -en
English roughen
From rough + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: roughens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roughening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roughened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roughened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make rough.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The wind began to roughen the surface of the sea.
They roughened the edges of the stone to give it a rustic look.
gloss: To become rough.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: microroughened
nonroughened
roughener
roughen up
unroughened
Translations:
toughen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tough
English -en
English toughen
From tough + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: toughens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toughening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toughened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toughened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make tough.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The new training program is designed to toughen the athletes.
A cold shower every morning will toughen your skin.
Although the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) had toughened its stance on new third rail electrification, gaining approval for short sections of third rail to charge the batteries could be more straightforward.
gloss: To become tough.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: retoughen
toughenable
toughener
toughen up
untoughened
Translations:
unbuckle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unbokelen, onbokelen, equivalent to un- + buckle.
Base: buckle
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unbuckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unbuckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unbuckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unbuckled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to unfasten (the buckle of (a belt, shoe, etc))
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
bagpipe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: bagpipes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bagpiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bagpiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bagpiped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To play the bagpipes.
pos: verb
gloss: To lay (the mizzen) aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging.
pos: verb
gloss: To masturbate a person's penis in one's armpit.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Until he met Sebastian, Tom had never even heard of bagpiping, and is generally too ticklish to be really good at it.
Translations:
chancer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chance
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English chancer
From chance + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: chancers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scheming opportunist.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Actually, that's exactly what O'Dowd is doing in Get Shorty, presenting a taciturn thug with chewed up charm, a chancer pitching a movie in Hollywood.
From then on, Emin became fixed in many minds as the drunken chancer who boasted about her promiscuity and called it art.
Translations:
coving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cove
English -ing
English coving
From cove + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: covings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
pos: noun
examples: Aluminium treadplate is used for the corridor, kitchen, and pantry floor, with aluminium covings.
The gilt lantern burned palely in the stairwell, but in the dining room the ordinary shadows deepened in the corners and hung like smoke in the coving of the ceiling.
gloss: The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace.
pos: noun
gloss: A method of urban planning used in subdivision and redevelopment of cities characterized by non-uniform lot shapes.
pos: noun
Related words: crown molding
Translations:
dodgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dodge (verb) + -y. First used in mid-19th century England.
Base: dodge
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dodgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dodgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Evasive and shifty.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
colloquial
examples: Asked why, a spokesman gave a dodgy answer about legal ramifications.
gloss: Unsound and unreliable.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
colloquial
examples: Never listen to dodgy advice.
The dodgy old machine kept breaking down.
gloss: Dishonest.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The more money the better, because there is always that dodgy politician or corrupt official to bribe.
I am sure you wouldn't want to be seen buying dodgy gear, would you? (stolen goods).
No doubt you’re tired of reading about his colourful escapades – about his glamorous home, his allegedly dodgy tenderpreneur deals, his gushing praise of malevolent dictators, or his soundly articulated international economic policy.
gloss: Risky.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: This is a slightly dodgy plan, because there is a lot that is being changed for this fix.
“The market is getting edgier and edgier, and what is accepted in the marketplace gets dodgier and dodgier,” said Martin E. Abrams, the executive director of the Center for Information Policy Leadership at the law firm Hunton & Williams, a research organization financed by companies like Google, Microsoft and Best Buy.
gloss: Deviant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He's a dodgy Peeping Tom.
gloss: Uncomfortable and weird.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The situation was right dodgy.
I'm feeling dodgy today, probably got the flu.
Churchill's own forefathers were among the dodgiest of the lot -- one a spendthrift, another a child molester, a third so reclusive that he went three years without saying a word.
Synonyms: dodge
Derived words: dodgily
dodginess
dodgy box
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: mærkelig
lang: Esperanto
word: stranga
lang: French
word: louche
lang: German
word: komisch
lang: German
word: seltsam
lang: German
word: ungemütlich
lang: German
word: unwohl
lang: Hungarian
word: fura
lang: Italian
word: strano
lang: Italian
word: peculiare
lang: Macedonian
word: чу́ден
roman: čúden
lang: Macedonian
word: неу́добен
roman: neúdoben
lang: Macedonian
word: непри́јатен
roman: nepríjaten
lang: Spanish
word: extraño
lang: Spanish
word: raro
dustbin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dust + bin, as used for disposing of dust (originally ash from domestic fires) and other rubbish.
Compound parts: dust
bin
Inflected forms:
form: dustbins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dust bin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dust-bin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
examples: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
Translations:
ex-directory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ex (“out of”) + directory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a telephone number or its owner: not in the directory; unlisted.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
not-comparable
Translations:
helter-skelter
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In form a reduplication (similar to hurry-scurry and harum-scarum, both with initial /h-/ and /sk-/); perhaps based on Middle English skelten ("to hasten; to raise an alarm"), or maybe related to Old High German skeltan (“scold”) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“make noise, yell”), employed as a fossil word.
Inflected forms:
form: more helter-skelter
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most helter-skelter
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more helter-skelter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most helter-skelter
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: helter-skelters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In confused, disorderly haste.
pos: adv
examples: The winds knocked huge trees helter-skelter all over my garden.
But the butterflies were dead. A whiff of rotten eggs had vanquished the pale clouded yellows which came pelting across the orchard and up Dods Hill and away on to the moor, now lost behind a furze bush, then off again helter-skelter in a broiling sun.
Pellets, once released from the funnel, would bounce helter-skelter, left or right, against the pins […] to ultimately gather in the lower compartments in a pile which resembles a normal curve.
gloss: Carelessly hurried and confused.
pos: adj
examples: After World War II, from 1945 until the early 1960s, the helter-skelter growth of the reprint industry went largely unheeded by the general publishing industry, then under its own mounting pressures to publish new works for a growing reading public and ever-larger numbers of educational institutions.
Although his existential thoughts seem to have been tossed onto the page in helter-skelter fashion, what Gilboa does here is to open his mind and heart to the reader through verbal jaggedness and poetic unneatness.
gloss: Confusion or turmoil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘I hardly know, — I imagine that it was with some dim idea of Marjorie’s being able to get in if she returned while I was absent, — but the truth is I was in such a condition of helter skelter that I am not prepared to swear that I had any reasonable reason.’
(Oh, oh, oh) / I'm looking for some shelter / (Oh, oh, oh) / From the helter-skelter / (Oh, oh, oh) / Just keep me away from / All who conspire / (Enemy fire...)
gloss: An amusement ride consisting of a slide that spirals down around the exterior of a tapering central tower.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: He is finishing, this week, a remarkable thing called a helter skelter: This is a circular building 50 feet high which people climb, by means of an interior winding stair. At the top they each take a seat in a semicircular wooden trough which curls around the outside of the house, gradually leading towards the ground with a terrific rush, they slide down this and are rapidly delivered on to the grass below.
For gentler sliding fun, you can take a ride on the helter-skelter.
Translations:
hosepipe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From hose + pipe.
Compound parts: hose
pipe
Inflected forms:
form: hosepipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hosepipes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hosepiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hosepiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hosepiped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Southern-US
UK
examples: In a hot three-week drought that had begin in July he could have saved it, despite the hosepipe ban. But he had been too busy to haul full buckets the garden's length.
Specifically, [Roger] Bailey [the chief technical officer of the Thames Tideway Tunnel] is hoping for “storm test three”, a downpour so heavy that it fills the 16 mile-long tunnel to 90 per cent of its capacity. That’s because London has been so dry since the sewer was connected in February that engineers haven’t been able to fully test whether it works as intended. Despite Southern Water lifting its hosepipe ban last week, more than 7 million people in England are still under a ban. England had its driest spring in more than a century, while the Environment Agency recently warned that drought is likely to continue into next year. According to the Met Office, the City of London has had just 61 per cent of average rainfall since February. “We don’t really want to wish lots and lots of rain and storms on people, but we do want to test our tunnel,” Bailey said. The £4.6 billion Thames Tideway is one of the city’s deepest tunnels and measures seven metres in diameter, much bigger than Tube lines.
gloss: To film with erratic panning movements of the camera.
pos: verb
Translations:
contravention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French contravention.
Inflected forms:
form: contraventions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of contravening (a rule, regulation, law, or order) or of not fulfilling (an obligation, promise, or agreement).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their contravention of the treaty increased international tensions.
[…]and the Royal Navy's officers, sometimes in direct contravention of their orders, decided that they would board and capture any slaver they came across, regardless of whatever flag they flew[…]
Translations:
invigilator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From invigilate + -or, from Latin invigilatus, past participle of invigilo.
Base: invigilate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: invigilators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who supervises students during an examination; a proctor
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
gloss: A person who supervises a gallery at a museum.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
archaic
Translations:
loudhailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From loud + hailer.
Compound parts: loud
hailer
Inflected forms:
form: loudhailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A megaphone or bullhorn.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: It's a grotesque, misleading smear on a diverse group of individuals – a bit like claiming all Muslims are terrorists (which, coincidentally, the guy beside them is currently doing through a loudhailer).
As Ukrainian forces struggled to hold the flattened city, it was claimed that civilians in captured territory were being deceived into leaving shelters to be bussed out to Russian camps by soldiers wielding loudhailers. […] Russian soldiers with loudhailers were instead said to be driving around parts of the city claiming that the city of Odesa has fallen and that other havens for refugees were now rejecting fleeing people.
Translations:
minder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mynder, mendowre (“one who has a good memory; bears in mind; watches over; a keeper”); equivalent to mind + -er.
Base: mind
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: minders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
pos: noun
examples: With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.
gloss: A personal bodyguard.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
pos: noun
examples: The twenty-eight journalists who sailed with the task force were accompanied by seven censors or 'minders' from the MoD, as well as by military press officers attached to each unit.
Once again the employers, now closely gripped by Central Government minders, offered 4 % now and 7 % in one year's time, and all tied to modernisation. This was not what the FBU had bargained for. So the strike started.
Pieter Tans, a 20-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) employee, was told not to use the phrase 'climate change' in paper titles and abstracts for the Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference. When an official flew in from Washington to be present for an interview Tans gave to the BBC, Mr. Tans wondered why a U.S. government “minder”, reminiscent of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, was required.
Rear Admiral John Woodward, the operational commander, summarized the instructions to the six MoD minders as “co-operation, yes; information, no.”
Throughout Greene's writing he repeatedly refers to dodging government control in Liberia, first by entering the country incognito and then by completing his journey without government minders.
[…] some other journalists were becoming "embedded" with the military as one way of reporting from the front: living with the military, […] and reporting under military restrictions. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, embedded reporters tended to adopt the perspective of their hosts and minders, as US journalist Gordon Dillow later admitted […]
Was she really ill? Was she really a patient? We will never know. Suddenly, it was time to go and our minders were herding us back onto the bus.
gloss: One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: protector
guardian
Derived words: baby-minder
child minder
childminder
goalminder
houseminder
minute minder
netminder
net minder
Translations:
nark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Angloromani nok (“nose”), from Romani nakh, from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀓𑁆𑀓 (ṇakka), ultimately a doublet of nose.
Inflected forms:
form: narks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: narking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: narked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: narked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: narc
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A police spy or informer.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: So I went and laid down on the grass. While laying there I piped a reeler whom I knew. He had a nark (a policeman's spy) with him. So I went and looked about for my two pals, and told them to look out for F. and his nark.
the bystander. […] She thought you was a copper's nark, sir. / the note taker [with quick interest] Whats a copper's nark? / the bystander [inapt at definition] It's a—well, it's a copper's nark, as you might say. What else would you call it? A sort of informer.
When we got to the Chief of Police's office a crowd of the most dreadful-looking scoundrels, obviously police narks, informers, and spies of every kind, were hanging about outside the door.
gloss: An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: To serve or behave as a spy or informer; to tattle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: “If you nark on me, I’ll rip your arms off,” said Tim to his brother, as he passed him a joint.
I don’t trust that guy; he’s gonna nark us out.
gloss: To annoy or irritate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.
gloss: To complain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.
gloss: To stop.
pos: verb
tags: imperative
often
slang
transitive
examples: Nark it! I hear someone coming!
Derived words: nark it
Translations:
nookie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Dutch neuken (“to fuck”). Compare cognate and synonymous German Low German nöken, nucken.
Inflected forms:
form: nooky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: I came home early and caught them on the couch having a bit of nookie.
Yeah. Maybe we/ll^([sic]) make the rounds of the bars. I could use a little nookie. Thats^([sic]) what I need, a good piece of ass.
I told you you’d get more nookie than you can shake a stick at if you tell the girls that your wife died. It’s the sympathy vote.
Some men only put up with them because their male ego has convinced them that sooner or later, you'll give in to your natural attraction to them and they'll get some nookie.
“All the guys I'd want to date live in Coeur d'Alene.” She slipped into the sweater, looking far better in it than Holly had. “I don't have time to drive hours for my nookie.”
If you want Cookie's nookie, then ditch the bitch.
gloss: An attractive woman, when considered as a sex object.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: I’m smelling like dope and I’m shooting for more / Eyes glued to the nookie moving slow on the floor
Derived words: nookie-bookie
you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
Translations:
orientate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From orient + -ate or a back-formation from orientation. Compare French orienter and Italian orientare.
Base: orient
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: orientates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: orientating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: orientated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: orientated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To face a given direction.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
intransitive
gloss: To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
reflexive
examples: He[…]stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.
He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.
gloss: To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
pos: verb
examples: The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.
gloss: To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
transitive
examples: Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.
gloss: To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
Synonyms: orient
Derived words: disorientate
misorientate
orientating response
orientative
orientator
reorientate
Translations:
transgression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English transgressioun, from Old French transgression, from Late Latin trānsgressiō, from Latin trānsgressus (perfect active participle of trānsgredior (“to step across”)) + -iō.
Inflected forms:
form: transgressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And Ioshua said vnto the people, Ye cannot serue the Lord: for hee is an holy God: he is a ielous God, he will not forgiue your transgressions nor your sinnes.
gloss: An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: nontransgression
transgressional
Translations:
rai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Yapese raaybor.
English rai
Borrowed from Yapese raay.
Inflected forms:
form: rai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: stone money
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
minaret
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra)bor.
Ottoman Turkish منارهbor.
French minaretbor.
English minaret
First attested in 1682. Borrowed from French minaret, from Ottoman Turkish مناره (Turkish minare), from Arabic مَنَارَة (manāra, “lighthouse”). See note on pronunciations and borrowing of words with ـَة (-a). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as menorah.
Inflected forms:
form: minarets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tall slender tower of an Islamic mosque, from which the muezzin recites the adhan (call to prayer).
pos: noun
examples: And in the background of the picture, just out of focus behind the man, was a soaring minaret outlined against a shockingly blue sky.
Translations:
djellaba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French djellaba, from Algerian Arabic جلابة (jallāba).
Inflected forms:
form: djellabas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: djellabah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabeah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabeya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabiah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabieh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galabiyah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabeah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabiah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabieh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabiyah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gallabiyeh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jalabiah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jalabiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jalabiyah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jellabiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jilaabah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jellaba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jelab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa.
pos: noun
examples: Dignified gentlemen in sober djellabas, of excellent cut and material, their wives in equally sober djellabas, sat in the tea shops with their children and servants, sipping mint tea.
Translations:
parky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English park
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English parky
From park + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: parkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: parkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or related to a park or parks generally, especially parklike.
pos: adj
examples: We went to a beautiful parky place over by the river.
gloss: Having parks or parklike areas.
pos: adj
examples: Yellowstone has always been parky country.
Translations:
hamartia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
medicine
pathology
sciences
television
theater
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).
Inflected forms:
form: hamartias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
uncountable
usually
examples: Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.
Understanding hamartia as “ignorance of the injurious act,” Lacan distinguishes Greek tragedy from the Renaissance version on the basis that the latter supplants hamartia with the hero's privileged knowledge.
The plot and the tragic figure at its center, destroyed through an act of hamartia, should be tailored to the production of pity and fear. Oedipus is not so much a person as he is a hamartia delivery system, a moving, empty center within the motions of the play, who through his vulnerability to hamartia and its disastrous consequences reveals the pitiable and the fearful to the audience.
But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
gloss: Sin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, they have all inherited the catastrophic and tragic hamartia, as it were, of original sin, the engrained powerlessness of the soul to will the good, much less to do it, along with the deep disorientation of the soul's root desire.
gloss: A focal malformation consisting of disorganized arrangement of tissue types.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: hubris
peripeteia
Derived words: hamartiological
hamartiology
hamartoma
Translations:
break-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English break indeverb.
English break-in
Deverbal from break in.
Inflected forms:
form: break-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of entering a place with the intent to steal or commit some other offense; an instance of breaking and entering.
pos: noun
examples: There was a break-in at the shop; everything was taken.
Translations:
bucktooth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From buck + tooth.
Compound parts: buck
tooth
Inflected forms:
form: buckteeth
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Translations:
professed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more professed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most professed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: profest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Openly declared or acknowledged.
pos: adj
examples: His professed religion was Catholicism.
gloss: Professing to be qualified.
pos: adj
examples: She is a professed expert in mechanics.
[…] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists.
gloss: Admitted to a religious order.
pos: adj
examples: The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns.
Derived words: nonprofessed
professedly
self-professed
unprofessed
Translations:
rekey
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-West Germanic *kaiju
Old English cǣġ
Middle English keye
English key
English rekey
From re- + key.
Inflected forms:
form: rekeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rekeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rekeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rekeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before.
pos: verb
examples: She had to rekey the security code.
gloss: To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it.
pos: verb
gloss: To change the key or tenor of; to reframe.
pos: verb
Translations:
mystique
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French mystiquebor.
English mystique
Borrowed from French mystique (“a mystic”), from Latin mysticus. See also the doublet mystic.
Inflected forms:
form: mystiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In an opening chapter entitled "Portrait", he ends by asking whether there was a mystique about the L.B. & S.C.
The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment.
Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what later military leaders would call command isolation.
Translations:
plonker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plonk
English -er
English plonker
From plonk + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: plonkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fool.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: “You kept the hat! You bloody plonker!” “Fuck me.” “And now look at you, bouncing off the cars like a bouncing idiot.” “Fucking hell!” “Is he gonna be alright?”
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
gloss: A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
dated
slang
gloss: Something bad or inferior.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Frank advised him, 'Stay away from cheap songs and the rest will follow.' Bennett did record some plonkers but his overall level of good to bad has to be higher than Frank's.
gloss: One who plonks.
pos: noun
Synonyms: idiot
Derived words: pull someone's plonker
twonk
Translations:
prat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty.
Inflected forms:
form: prats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pratt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
pratfall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From prat + fall.
Compound parts: prat
fall
Inflected forms:
form: pratfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prat-fall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pratt-fall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pratfalls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pratfalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pratfell
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pratfallen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prat-fall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pratt-fall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fall onto the buttocks.
pos: noun
gloss: A humiliating mistake.
pos: noun
gloss: A staged trip or fall, often for comedic purposes.
pos: noun
examples: The motivational speaker started with a pratfall so he could speak about the importance of getting back up.
gloss: To fall on to the buttocks.
pos: verb
Derived words: pratfall effect
Translations:
pud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipped form of pudding.
Inflected forms:
form: puds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pudding (either sweet or savoury).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
Translations:
pushchair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-né-der.
Proto-Italic *pelnōder.
Latin pellō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
Latin pulsō
Old French poulser
Middle French pousserbor.
Middle English pushen
English push
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.?
Proto-Hellenic *kətá
Ancient Greek κατά (katá)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂
Proto-Hellenic *hédrā
Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra)
Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor.
Latin cathedrader.
Old French chaierebor.
Middle English chayere
English chair
English pushchair
From push + chair.
Inflected forms:
form: pushchairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small carriage in which a baby or child sits and is pushed around.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: He reversed the pushchair out of the shop and continued towards his errands.
The Key Train Requirements document, released in July by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), includes a new clause covering people travelling with pushchairs. It highlights the need for space in carriages for unfolded pushchairs or prams, separate from areas for wheelchairs and cycles. It also recommends extending seat reservations to include pram spaces.
Translations: