yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
shack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Some scholars derive this word from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli (“adobe hut”).
Alternatively, the word may instead come from ramshackle/ramshackly (e.g., old ramshackly house) or perhaps it may be a back-formation from shackly.
Compare Tavringer Romani hak (“place, house”), Traveller Norwegian hak (“place”).
Inflected forms:
form: shacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
pos: noun
examples: The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
gloss: Any poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
pos: noun
examples: The stations are generally very poor, even for a branch line; some are mere wooden shacks, and Moniaive itself is one of the least prepossessing terminal stations I have ever seen.
gloss: The room from which a ham radio operator transmits.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To live (in or with); to shack up.
pos: verb
Derived words: clam shack
cookshack
love shack
radio shack
shackdweller
shackjob
shackland
shackless
shacklike
shack rat
shack-shack
shacktown
shacky
shotgun shack
slanshack
sugar shack
whack shack
Translations:
shaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shake
English -er
English shaker
From shake + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: shakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: cruet, caster (sometimes synonymous)
gloss: A variety of pigeon.
pos: noun
gloss: One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
pos: noun
gloss: A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
pos: noun
Derived words: boneshaker
bone-shaker
cocktail shaker
dice shaker
earthshaker
hallanshaker
handshaker
hand shaker
hand-shaker
minishaker
mover and shaker
paint shaker
peppershaker
pepper shaker
salad shaker
salt shaker
saltshaker
Shaker
shakerful
shaker-upper
shale shaker
soap shaker
stick shaker
thermoshaker
white dog shaker syndrome
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: coctelera
lang: Finnish
word: ravistin
lang: Finnish
word: sirotin
lang: Finnish
word: sekoitin
lang: German
word: Shaker
lang: Italian
word: chi agita
lang: Italian
word: shaker
lang: Italian
word: sbattighiaccio
lang: Italian
word: scuotitoio
lang: Italian
word: scuotitore
lang: Italian
word: saliera
lang: Italian
word: zuccheriera
lang: Russian
word: ше́йкер
roman: šéjker
shaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shake
English -y
English shaky
From shake + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: shakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shaking or trembling.
pos: adj
examples: a shaky spot in a marsh
a shaky hand
gloss: Nervous, anxious.
pos: adj
examples: He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.
For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?
Villa had plenty of opportunities to make the game safe after a shaky start and despite not reaching any great heights, they were resolute enough to take control of the game in the second half.
gloss: Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
pos: adj
examples: shaky timber
For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.
gloss: Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
pos: adj
examples: a shaky constitution
shaky business credit
gloss: Wavering; undecided.
pos: adj
Derived words: on shaky ground
shakily
shakiness
shakycam
Translations:
shaver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English schaver; equivalent to shave + -er.
In its meaning of a boy, lad, recorded since 1592, the word shaver has also been postulated to derive from Romani chavo (“young man”), which also gives us the modern slang chav, ultimately derived from Sanskrit छा (chā, “young animal”).
Base: shave
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shaves.
pos: noun
gloss: A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
pos: noun
gloss: An extortionate bargainer; a sharper.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: The shaver is an honest friendly man as before: he has a good deal to do to smother his Welsh fire, which, you know, he has in a greater degree than some would imagine. He posts himself a good part of the year in some warm house, wins the ladies money at ombre, and convinces them, that they are highly obliged to him.
gloss: One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
pos: noun
examples: By these shavers the Turks were stripped.
gloss: A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen," said the sergeant, "but as I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver" (which he hadn't), "I am on a chase in the name of the King, and I want the blacksmith."
Derived words: dry shaver
electric shaver
foil shaver
note shaver
pod shaver
rotary shaver
Translations:
sheen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.
Inflected forms:
form: sheens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Splendor; radiance; shininess.
pos: noun
tags: also
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: There is a greenish sheen across the shoulders of his greasy black suit, for the morning light has of a sudden begun to dance through the bay window.
Mr. Leerhsen said in an interview that he wanted to write a book without the dutiful sheen of what he called “an official Bourdain product.”
gloss: A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: oil sheen
Perhaps the simplest of sauces is the pat of butter dropped on a heap of hot vegetables, or stirred into rice or noodles, or drawn across the surface of an omelet or steak to give a sheen.
Take the floating scum or oil sheen prohibitions. A discharger or an inspector simply can look to see if scum, or an oil sheen, is coming from a particular discharge. Assume an oil sheen begins at a discharge—is the sheen caused by that […]
Derived words: jadesheen
olivesheen
sheenful
sheenless
sheen obsidian
sheeny
Translations:
shibboleth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת /שיבולת (šibbṓleṯ, “ear [of wheat] or stream, torrent”). Doublet of sebboleth and Middle English sebolech, both from Late Latin sebboleth in the Vulgate.
Inflected forms:
form: shibboleths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schiboleth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Early
Modern
obsolete
form: schibboleth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Early
Modern
obsolete
form: shiboleth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Late
Modern
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A particular pronunciation or custom that is regarded as distinguishing members of a group from non-members, especially when used as a test.
pos: noun
examples: In recent times, the correct treatment of initial h in speech has come to be regarded as a kind of shibboleth of social position.
He also declares that "th" is the veritable English shibboleth. He advises those Germans who cannot pronounce the sound correctly to pronounce it like "d," the symbol which he regularly uses for "th" in his lessons.
gloss: A common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth.
pos: noun
examples: It's about time we abandoned the bourgeois shibboleth that earning money makes you a better person.
The teacher says he must stick largely to the old methods and cling to the old shibboleths or he will naturally get bad results in the examination. Only much practice along the lines the examination is going to follow will insure a [success].
I pose the iconoclastic suggestion that even at this late stage in B.R. dieselisation, rigid standardisation might be a shibboleth.
The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.
Yet LBJ was very much a product of the Cold War, believing its shibboleths about communist conquest being irreversible and requiring worldwide containment even when a country, such as Vietnam, that might be falling to the communists did not threaten US national interests.
He’d begun the day’s broadcast by rattling off a standard opening monologue: “Folks, we’re live and alive, and I hope all the boys, girls, and enbies”—nonbinary people—“are having a fantastic one.” To anyone listening for shibboleths, this would have pigeonholed him as a progressive.
And many [younger conservatives] see reflexive solidarity with Israel as a shibboleth that belongs in the past, to be replaced by a more isolationalist foreign policy.
Related words: dog whistle
Derived words: shibbolethic
Translations:
shopkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shop + keeper.
Compound parts: shop
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: shopkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shop keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: shop-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail, in distinction from one who sells by wholesale, or sells door to door.
pos: noun
examples: The retail trade of the borough also suffered, for the shopkeepers found it difficult to attract the occupiers of the luxurious villas fast rising on Surbiton Hill, and the shops erected near the station [in Surbiton] made the competition still more keen.
Translations:
shortly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English schortly, schortliche, from Old English sċortlīċe (“shortly; before long; soon”), equivalent to short + -ly.
Base: short
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] his two ill-conditioned, canine favorites, which sat shivering before the smoky little fire, barking shortly and sharply now and then, by way of hinting for some slight refreshment.
gloss: In or after a short time; soon.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The past perfect progressive is used for actions and situations which had continued up to a past moment or shortly before it.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
The few men left alive figured that whatever the Spanish wanted to do to them, it couldn’t be any worse than that, so they surrendered quickly and shortly afterward got their heads cut off by the Spaniards, who at that time were a rather bloodthirsty lot themselves.
Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
gloss: In few words.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ideas are generally expressed more shortly in verse than in prose
We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.
gloss: In an irritable ("short") manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Stop interrupting me, will ya?" she said shortly.
'Well, I still think it was a rather off-hand way for you—for anyone—to behave,' he said shortly.
Suddenly Melody felt trapped—and annoyed. And she didn't like being spoken to like a child, either.
Translations:
shrive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English schryven, from Old English sċrīfan (“1. to decree, pass judgement, prescribe, 3. (of a priest) to prescribe penance or absolution”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrīban, from late Proto-Germanic *skrībaną, a borrowing from Latin scrībō (“write”).
Compare West Frisian skriuwe (“to write”), Low German schrieven (“to write”), Dutch schrijven (“to write”), German schreiben (“to write”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skrive (“to write”), Swedish skriva (“to write”), Icelandic skrifa (“to write”). More at scribe and scribble.
Inflected forms:
form: shrives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shriving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shrove
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shrived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shriven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrieve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.
Doubtless he shrives this woman, […] / Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.
gloss: To free from guilt, to absolve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly pride hath revell’d in— […]
My sins as scarlet are; let me go hence, / And in some cloister's school of penitence, / Across those stones, that pave the way to heaven, / Walk barefoot, till my guilty soul is shriven!
gloss: To prescribe penance or absolution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To confess, and receive absolution.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: c. 1798-1845, unknown author, The Croppy Boy
'Twas a good thought, boy, to come here and shrive.
Related words: scribe
shrift
Shrove Tuesday
Derived words: shriver
shriving-time
shrove
Shrove Monday
Shrove Sunday
Shrovetide
Shrove Tuesday
unshrived
Translations:
siesta
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.
Inflected forms:
form: siestas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: siestas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: siestaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: siestaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: siestaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A nap, especially an afternoon one taken during the hottest part of the day in some cultures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]
When it's time for siesta, you can watch them go by / Beautiful faces, no cares in this world
gloss: Laid-back attitudes to work or laziness, especially by a Hispanic person.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
offensive
sometimes
examples: Lest we think all of this is due to the proverbial inefficiency of the Latin American - 'siesta people' - we can see some of these signs, perhaps in a less dramatic way, in European societies and in the celebrated 'tigers' of South East Asia.
I had eaten a simple lunch, and in the relaxed siesta attitude that pervaded the place I settled back in my chair and looked at the mountains behind in all their austerity.
Many observers believe the subtropical environment contributes to a slow-paced, siesta culture in which nothing work-related is so important that it cannot wait until tomorrow.
gloss: to take a siesta; to nap.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: shut-eye
Translations:
silhouette
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from French silhouette, after Étienne de Silhouette (1709–1767), French Controller of Finances. De Silhouette's penny-pinching led to the French term à la Silhouette, applied to things perceived as cheap or austere, such as an outline filled only with black.
Étienne de Silhouette's surname is, in turn, gallicized Basque. It derives from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, modern Basque Zulueta, from the local plural (see -ak) stem of zulo (“hole, cave”).
Inflected forms:
form: silhouettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: silhouet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: silhouettes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: silhouetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: silhouetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: silhouetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: silhouet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
pos: noun
examples: I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.
At Stirling, we obtained a wonderful silhouette view of the Wallace Monument, and the dark line of the Ochil Hills, and the castle stood out clearly against the afterglow of the sunset.
gloss: The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.
pos: noun
examples: A-line is a classic silhouette for dresses and skirts.
gloss: To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
pos: verb
examples: Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel.
Derived words: empire silhouette
in silhouette
silhouettist
Translations:
simply
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English symply, symplely; equivalent to simple + -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.
Base: simple
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more simply
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most simply
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
pos: adv
gloss: Plainly; without art or subtlety
pos: adv
gloss: Foolishly; stupidly.
pos: adv
examples: Mrs. Thorold had told her sons that a young lady was visiting at the house, whose history she had given them in short hand, describing her as a dependent on the late Mrs. Willoughby, whom her son had very simply intended to marry at Alvestone […].
gloss: Merely; solely.
pos: adv
tags: focus
examples: I was simply asking a question.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
Rather than scanning a boarding pass or handing over a passport, you simply stare into a camera and you’re verified.
gloss: absolutely, positively.
pos: adv
examples: That was a simply wonderful dessert.
This type of comportment simply won't be tolerated.
What about the way you love me? / And the way you squeeze me? / Simply beautiful
gloss: Frankly.
pos: adv
examples: Simply, he just fired you.
It was, quite simply, the best there was in stock.
Related words: single
Derived words: nonsimply
purely and simply
simply connected
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بِكُلّ بَسَاطَة
roman: bikull basāṭa
lang: Basque
word: apalki
lang: Bulgarian
word: просто
roman: prosto
lang: Catalan
word: simplement
lang: Catalan
word: senzillament
lang: Czech
word: jednoduše
lang: Danish
word: slet og ret
lang: Esperanto
word: simple
lang: Finnish
word: yksinkertaisesti
lang: French
word: simplement
lang: Galician
word: simplemente
lang: German
word: einfach
lang: Greek
word: απλά
roman: aplá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἁπλῶς
roman: haplôs
lang: Hungarian
word: egyszerűen
lang: Icelandic
word: einfaldlega
lang: Italian
word: semplicemente
lang: Italian
word: in parole povere
lang: Japanese
word: 単に
roman: tanni
lang: Latin
word: simpliciter
lang: Lithuanian
word: tiesiog
lang: Malayalam
word: ലളിതമായി
roman: laḷitamāyi
lang: Norman
word: sîmpliément
lang: Norwegian
word: rett og slett
lang: Norwegian
word: ganske enkelt
lang: Norwegian
word: intet mindre enn
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: simpelthen
lang: Polish
word: po prostu
lang: Portuguese
word: simplesmente
lang: Russian
word: про́сто
roman: prósto
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: naprosto
lang: Slovene
word: preprosto
lang: Spanish
word: simplemente
lang: Spanish
word: sencillamente
lang: Swedish
word: helt enkelt
lang: Tamil
word: சும்மா
roman: cummā
lang: Tamil
word: வெறுமனே
roman: veṟumaṉē
lang: Turkish
word: basitçe
Sisyphean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Sisyphus + -ean, from Ancient Greek Σίσυφος (Sísuphos). Sisyphus was a Greek mythical figure who was doomed to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, only to have it roll back down again.
Base: Sisyphus
Affixes: -ean
Inflected forms:
form: Sisyphusean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sisyphean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sisyphian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sysyphean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sisyphic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sisyphic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sisiphic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Incessant or incessantly recurring, but futile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sisyphean task
Sisyphean labors
Four bucketsful of water—one for each cell—seven for the long passage, two for lavatory and w.c.'s, brasses to clean, paint to dust. It seemed a Sisyphean task, no sooner ended than a new one was exacted.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Fact is, this appliance actually contains some heaters in addition to its coolers. That apparent self-defeating contradiction is not a Sisyphean exercise in futility devised as a cruel philosophical joke by nihilistic engineers. It's actually just one of several brilliant pieces of engineering that have made these ubiquitous boxes utterly transformative forces in our lives.
But whoever does the policing, whether a supervisor or an operator, faces a Sisyphean battle against a well-documented phenomenon: something called automation complacency. When you automate any part of a task, the human overseer starts to trust that the machine has it handled and stops paying attention.
I wasn’t cursed to some joyless Sisyphean slog.
gloss: Relating to Sisyphus.
pos: adj
tags: Greek
not-comparable
Translations:
skate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).
Inflected forms:
form: skates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
pos: verb
gloss: To skateboard.
pos: verb
gloss: To use the skating technique.
pos: verb
gloss: To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To move smoothly and easily.
pos: verb
examples: Addressing a short pass from Henderson, he always felt too smart for Mykola Matviyenko, taking a step to lure him one way; dropping his shoulder and skating in the other direction, further inside.
gloss: Pertaining to the technique of skating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
skimp
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skimpijaną (“to skip, dance, gesture, mock”). Cognate with Icelandic skimpa (“to scoff at, scorn”), dialectal Swedish skimpa (“to skip, dance”), Faroese skumpa (“to shove, bump”), German schimpfen (“to grumble, scold”), Dutch schimpen (“to mock, make fun of, scold”). Possibly distantly related to change.
Inflected forms:
form: skimps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skimping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skimped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skimped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skimps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: I thought Adie was only skimpin' me.
gloss: A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
pos: noun
examples: I remembered how fierce it hurt and how it blistered. All that pain from just a skimp of flesh.
gloss: Underwear.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
in-plural
examples: While presenting a rundown of the sexiest soap stars in the world in this week's ZOO, Hollyoaks' Gemma Atkinson very kindly stripped down to her skimps herself.
Translations:
skive
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), itself from Old French eschiver, of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs, “afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). Cognate with English shy, eschew.
Inflected forms:
form: skives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door.
gloss: Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.
gloss: An act of avoiding lessons or work.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered.
Another school skive! I only realised this when my dentist's receptionist told me to expect a fair wait till I could be seen.
But at least they preserved the idea that books were important and that reading and writing were more than just a skive for people too weedy to hack at one another with swords.
Translations:
slapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From slap + -er. For senses 2 and 3, the OED tentatively quotes the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: "This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman."
Base: slap
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: slappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, slaps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
slang
examples: A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore
You've got a photo of the dead grandad, no pic of the blonde slapper?
gloss: A woman of loose morals.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
slang
gloss: A type of detonator which uses a powerful surge of electricity to vaporize a thin metal foil, propelling a larger piece of plastic film at a speed high enough to detonate an explosive upon impact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Anything monstrous; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
Derived words: ankle slapper
happy slapper
headslapper
Kappa slapper
knee slapper
tank-slapper
tank slapper
thigh-slapper
wicker slapper
Translations:
slater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sclater, equivalent to slate + -er.
Base: slate
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: slaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
pos: noun
gloss: Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a woodlouse.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Scotland
gloss: A harsh critic; one who slates or denigrates something.
pos: noun
examples: Plain speaking, now and then, is very necessary. The author will call the critic a “blackguard slater," of course, but he need not be a blackguard. Ferocity of language only hurts his effect.
Related words: butcher boy
sowbug
woodlouse
roly-poly
sai bug
saisai gnat
Derived words: sea slater
Translations:
slayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slear, sleere, sleare, slaare, dissimilated from Old English slaga (“slayer”), equivalent to slay + -er.
Base: slay
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: slayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slayor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A killer; a murderer; someone who slays.
pos: noun
gloss: A butcher.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
Derived words: brother-slayer
deerslayer
dragonslayer
father-slayer
kingslayer
kinslayer
manslayer
self-slayer
slayer rule
slayer statute
womanslayer
Translations:
sled
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Inflected forms:
form: sleds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sleds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sledding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sledded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sledded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
pos: noun
examples: The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
gloss: A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
gloss: A snowmobile.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
examples: We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section.
gloss: A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
figuratively
slang
examples: Near-synonyms: land yacht, boat
He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8.
That sled had manual drum brakes on all four corners.
gloss: To ride a sled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To convey on a sled.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: autosled
sledge
sleigh
toboggan
Derived words: aerosled
airsled
bobsled
dogsled
ice sled
kick-sled
kicksled
mudsled
NOP sled
rocket sled
sledage
sleddable
sledder
sledding
sled dog
sleddog
sledful
sled head
sled-head
sledhead
sled hockey
sledless
sledload
snow sled shovel
spoon sled
threshing sled
windsled
Translations:
sleek
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Inflected forms:
form: sleeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sleeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sleeked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make smooth or glossy; to polish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sloping brush sleeks the surface.
gloss: To calm or soothe.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
gloss: To glide.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: That which makes smooth; varnish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sleigh
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide.
Inflected forms:
form: sleighs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sleighs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleighing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sleighed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sleighed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)
pos: noun
examples: Santa travels in a sleigh.
In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
gloss: To ride or drive a sleigh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To transport (cargo, freight) via sleigh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The empty cans were returned to the farm when the next load was picked up. This required the farmer to purchase and keep extra milk cans on hand, but that was a small price to pay for convenience. Platforms were erected by the side of the main road through Pomfret so that during the winter farmers could sleigh their milk cans to them for pickup by the milk trucks, which were unable to navigate the infrequently maintained back roads where many farmers lived.
Derived words: sleigher
Translations:
sleight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sly and slöjd/sloyd.
Inflected forms:
form: sleights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cunning; craft; artful practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?
gloss: Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: sleight of hand
sleightly
sleighty
Derived words: sleightful
Translations:
slouch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“lazy fellow”). See also Swedish sloka (“to slouch, wilt”), related to Swedish slak (“slack, soft and flexible”) and Latin laxus (“loose, slack”).
Inflected forms:
form: slouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slouches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slouching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slouched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slouched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
pos: noun
examples: He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
gloss: Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
pos: noun
examples: The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
gloss: Someone who is slow to act.
pos: noun
examples: In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
gloss: An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Do not slouch when playing a flute.
gloss: To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
gloss: To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.
Disappointment slouched him into the pew.
Derived words: slouch hat
sloucher
slouchingly
slouchy
Translations:
sly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”).
Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd
Inflected forms:
form: slier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slyer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slyest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sligh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sligh
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
pos: adj
gloss: Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
pos: adj
gloss: Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
pos: adj
examples: a sly trick
gloss: Light or delicate; slight; thin.
pos: adj
gloss: Slyly.
pos: adv
Synonyms: artful
crafty
cunning
knowing
sharp
shifty
shrewd
slim
sly as a fox
wily
Derived words: by the sly
on the sly
sliness
sly as a fox
slyboots
sly dog
sly fox
sly-grog
slyish
slyness
unsly
Translations:
snap
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Dutch snappen
Dutch snappenbor.
Low German snappenbor.
English snap
From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: snap!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
pos: intj
gloss: "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
pos: intj
tags: Australia
UK
broadly
examples: Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.
gloss: Used to express agreement.
pos: intj
tags: UK
broadly
gloss: Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
pos: intj
tags: Canada
US
examples: I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!
gloss: Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: —Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!
gloss: Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
informal
not-comparable
examples: a snap judgment or decision
a snap political convention
Now I should consider it a very snap judgment or a snap diagnosis for anybody to come into a medical society
Translations:
snarl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le.
Base: snare
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: snarls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snarling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snarled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snarled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snarls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to snarl a skein of thread
And from her backe her garments she did teare, / And from her head oft rent her snarled heare[…]
gloss: To become entangled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stanford
[the] question that they would have snarled him with
gloss: To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
pos: verb
gloss: A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
pos: noun
gloss: An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
pos: noun
gloss: A slow-moving traffic jam.
pos: noun
examples: The biggest cities feel the most acute impact of the last mile – of the squads of trucks and vans, the parcel hubs and sorting centres, the parking snarls and the discarded boxes.
Derived words: asnarl
countersnarl
ensnarl
insnarl
snarler
snarling iron
snarlish
snarl up
snarl-up
snarly
unsnarl
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: обърквам
roman: obǎrkvam
lang: Greek
word: φερνω κπ σε δυσκολη θεση
roman: ferno kp se dyskoli thesi
lang: Middle English
word: snarlen
lang: Middle English
word: snaren
sneak
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.
Inflected forms:
form: sneaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sneaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sneaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sneaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snuck
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snuck
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone.
Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."
gloss: To take something stealthily without permission.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me.
gloss: To stealthily bring someone something.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: She asked me to sneak her a phone next month.
gloss: To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: [Slander] sneaks its head.
gloss: To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
with-on
examples: If you sneak on me I'll bash you!
gloss: In advance; before release to the general public.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.
gloss: In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I was able to get a sneak peek at the guest list.
I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis to mine the spice, thus replacing their enemies the Harkonnens. House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time, Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides. I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardaukar terror troops.
Synonyms: creep
hake
scunge
sneak
shug
skulk
slink
slive
steal
tiptoe
Related words: covert
move slowly
Derived words: sneak around
sneaker
sneakery
sneakflation
sneakily
sneak in
sneakiness
sneaking suspicion
sneak out
sneak past
sneaksome
sneak thief
sneak up
sneaky
sneak peek
sneak preview
sneak attack
Translations:
snide
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective).
Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb).
Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: snider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: snides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
pos: adj
examples: Don't make snide remarks to me.
You write your snide bullshit from a dark room because that's what the angry do nowadays. I was nice to you, don't torture me for it.
gloss: Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
pos: adj
examples: Have nothing to do with snide goods; let it be known throughout the world that the farmers and dairymen, yea, and those engaged in other industries in the great State of Illinois, produce only the best of everything in their lines, and we will be the last to feel the effects of over-production.
I knew without studying them that the rings and the watch were snide, and the jewel a paste one; but they were damn fine counterfeits.
gloss: An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Counterfeit money.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: snidely
snideness
snidey
snide pitcher
Translations: