yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
peril
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
insurance
Etymology: From Middle English peril, from Old French peril, from Latin perīculum. Doublet of periculum.
Inflected forms:
form: perils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: periling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: perilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: periled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: periled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: perilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: perilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A situation of serious and immediate danger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your life is in peril.
gloss: Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc.)
gloss: An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And are we, Mr. President, who stood by our country then, who threw open our coffers, who bared our bosoms, who freely perilled all in that conflict, to be reproached with want of attachment to the Union?
Remember how much she had perilled for a fine house and gorgeous furniture, for carriages and horses, jewels and laces; and do not wonder if she clings with a desperate tenacity to gauds and gew-gaws, in the hour of her despair.
"I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"
Synonyms: danger
hazard
jeopardy
risk
threat
Related words: imperil
perilous
Derived words: at one's peril
green peril
imperil
multiperil
perilless
peril point
perilsome
yellow peril
Translations:
compulsive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French compulsif, formed from Latin compulsus, past participle of compellere (“to compel”), from com- (“together”) + pellere (“to drive”).
Inflected forms:
form: more compulsive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most compulsive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: compulsives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Uncontrolled or reactive and irresistible.
pos: adj
examples: Jenny is a compulsive liar—don't believe a thing she says.
Under this Act, the term "disability" shall not include—...(2) compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania; or[…]
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane / But when I'm surrounded I just can't stop
gloss: Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
pos: adj
examples: Religion is […] inconsistent with all compulsive Motives.
gloss: One who exhibits compulsive behaviours.
pos: noun
Related words: compel
compulsion
compulsory
Derived words: anticompulsive
clothing compulsive
compulsive behaviour
compulsive decluttering
compulsive hoarder
compulsive hoarding
compulsively
compulsiveness
compulsive streak
compulsivity
noncompulsive
obsessive-compulsive
uncompulsive
Translations:
cavil
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French caviller (“mock, jest, rail”), from Latin cavillor (“jeer, mock, satirise, reason captiously”), from cavilla (“jeering, raillery, scoffing”); cognate with Italian cavillare, Portuguese cavillar, and Spanish cavilar; nominal usage developed within English from the original verbal usage.
Inflected forms:
form: cavils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caviling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: cavilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: caviled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: caviled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: cavilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: cavilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: cavel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cavell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cavils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cavel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cavell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 'Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love.
The provision, then, which we have here made is no other than Human Nature. Nor do I fear that my sensible reader, though most luxurious in his taste, will start, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one article.
Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York. A man finds little trouble in obtaining what he wants, if he never cavils at the price asked, and is willing to pay in advance.
I wish you wouldn't cavil, Hilda.
At the Centenary Banquet of the G.W.R. [Great Western Railway] in 1935, the then Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VIII) honoured that railway with the title "The Royal Road," at which few will cavil in view of the long record of Royal Specials.
But their first supporting quotation, which is from The Selfish Gene, includes selfish genes that do have phenotypic effects. Far it be from me, however, to cavil at the honour of being quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary!
gloss: A petty or trivial objection or criticism.
pos: noun
examples: It is not worth while to spend your time in arguing against a cavil, but make him feel he is committing a sin to plead it, and thus enlist his conscience on your side.
Translations:
heterosexism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heterosex(ual) + -ism; modelled on sexism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: heterosexisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The assumption made when relating to others that everyone is heterosexual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.
gloss: Discrimination or prejudice in favor of heterosexuals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: heterosexist
heteronormative
Translations:
deflower
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English deflouren, from Old French desflorer (modern French déflorer), from Late Latin deflōrāre. By surface analysis, de- + flower.
Inflected forms:
form: deflowers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deflowering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deflowered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deflowered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But when you deflower a girl, that's it. You did it. You were the one. No one else can ever do it.
I have to admit this outfit's doing it for me; I may or may not have been deflowered by a junior rodeo champion.
gloss: To deprive of flowers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deprive of grace and beauty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: defloration
deflowerment
deflowerer
undeflowered
Translations:
empower
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Italic *potis
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *som
Proto-Italic *possom
Latin posseder.
Vulgar Latin potēre
Old French pooir
Anglo-Norman poerbor.
Middle English power
English power
English empower
From em + power.
Inflected forms:
form: empowers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: empowering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: empowered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: empowered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: empowre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: impower
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: impowre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.
Once on site, inspectors are empowered to exercise wide-ranging legal powers - including the right to enter railway property or land adjoining it; to make written, electronic or photographic records; to seize equipment, remove or retain samples; and to be given access to records and recording equipment.
gloss: To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.
This side of the training is effective in empowering employees to make better decisions on site, and helps to improve employee retention.
Derived words: empowered
empoweree
empowerer
empowering
empowerment
misempower
Translations:
disempower
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English empower
English disempower
From dis- + empower.
Inflected forms:
form: disempowers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disempowering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disempowered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disempowered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strip power from (someone or some group), as:
pos: verb
examples: A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia.
gloss: To strip power from (someone or some group), as:
pos: verb
examples: The reformation disempowered the established church and thus roiled the aristocracy.
Related words: deenergize
disenergize
depower
power down
power off
Derived words: disempowerment
Translations:
hombre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.
Inflected forms:
form: hombres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!
That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!
Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen.
The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it.
There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that.
Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America. The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andrés Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres in our midst.
Translations:
dregs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See dreg.
Inflected forms:
form: dreg
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he powreth out of the same: but the dregges thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drinke them.
And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth / Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged / The black tartareous cold infernal dregs
Yet even now I had not drunk the bitter potion to the dregs; I was not yet persuaded of my loss; I did not yet feel in every pulsation, in every nerve, in every thought, that I remained alone of my race - that I was The Last Man.
The fire is out, and spent the warmth thereof, / This is the end of every song man sings! / The golden wine is drunk, the dregs remain, / Bitter as wormwood and as salt as pain
gloss: The worst and lowest part of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural
plural-normally
examples: the dregs of society
I sat through the dregs of a long hectic evening.
If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was during the first six months of my stay with Mr. Covey.
[…] he said to himself that in the last hour he had sounded the depths of his humiliation and that the lowest dregs of it, the very bottom-slime, was the hateful necessity of having always, as long as the two men lived, to be civil to Barton Flamel.
Synonyms: debris
deposit
draff
dross
exuviate
feculence
grounds
grouts
lees
loser
orts
outcast
rabble
refuse
residue
residuum
riffraff
rubbish
scum
sediment
settling
trash
trub
Derived words: tofu dregs
Translations:
newfound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English newe founde, equivalent to new + found.
Compound parts: new
found
Inflected forms:
form: new-found
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
especially
Senses:
gloss: Recently found; newly discovered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Kerry spoke with confidence and a newfound crispness.
Translations:
erasure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Latin ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra, equivalent to erase + -ure.
Base: erase
Affixes: -ure
Inflected forms:
form: erasures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
gloss: The state of having been erased; total blankness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.
gloss: The place where something has been erased.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There were several erasures on the paper.
gloss: A tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: bisexual erasure
Derived words: bi-erasure
erasure code
erasure poem
erasure poetry
mechanical erasure
nonerasure
trans-erasure
under erasure
unerasure
Translations:
boo
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).
Inflected forms:
form: boos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: booing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: booed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: booed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has been hidden from the target, and then appears unexpectedly.
pos: intj
gloss: An exclamation used by a member of an audience, as at a stage play or sporting event, to indicate derision or disapproval.
pos: intj
examples: I ask them to record their votes in my favour, and I ask, is there any man who will dare to call me a stranger (hear, hear, and booing)?
gloss: A derisive shout of the word 'boo' made to indicate disapproval.
pos: noun
examples: ...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...
Like a moustachioed pantomime villain relishing boos and hisses from the audience, Trump is oblivious to warnings and protestations from the sane world and simply contemptuous of the lickspittle mob desperately hoping to go unnoticed.
gloss: To shout extended boos derisively.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When he took the podium, the crowd booed.
Nobody booed and nobody clapped
Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.
gloss: To shout extended boos at, as a form of disapproval or derision.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.
Antonyms: cheer
Derived words: boo daddy
bug-a-boo
peekaboo
say boo
booable
booer
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 㗾
lang: Finnish
word: buuata
lang: Galician
word: apupar
lang: German
word: ausbuhen
lang: Hebrew
word: בָּז
roman: baz
lang: Hungarian
word: kifütyül
lang: Hungarian
word: lehurrog
lang: Icelandic
word: púa út
lang: Irish
word: bí ag faíreach faoi
lang: Macedonian
word: исвиркува
roman: isvirkuva
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bue ut
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bue på
lang: Polish
word: wygwizdywać
lang: Polish
word: wygwizdać
lang: Russian
word: осви́стывать
roman: osvístyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: освиста́ть
roman: osvistátʹ
lang: Swedish
word: bua ut
cutaway
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cut awaydeverb.
English cutaway
Deverbal from cut away.
Inflected forms:
form: cut-away
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object.
Translations:
Scouser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scouse + -er, from scouse, a common stew in Liverpool.
Base: scouse
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Scousers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scouser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Liverpudlian.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
Scouse
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From scouse, a stew popular in the Liverpool area, originally a clipping of lobscouse.
Inflected forms:
form: more Scouse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Scouse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Scouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Liverpudlian.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: When my play Windermere opened at the Clerkenwell Theatre in London, up against Russell's mighty Blood Brothers, I was proud that it boasted a majority Scouse cast.
gloss: Synonym of Scouser (“Liverpudlian”).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The Scouses, not known for their wit, responded with the 'Munich runway' chant. And, golly gosh, nearly the whole stadium sang back. Who knows, this chanting might really take off one day.
Translations:
trouser
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from trousers.
Inflected forms:
form: trousers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trousers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trousering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trousered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trousered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to trousers.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: 'trouser leg
gloss: A pair of trousers.
pos: noun
examples: And this is our linen trouser, sir.
gloss: To put (money) into one's trouser pocket; to pocket.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
transitive
gloss: To secretively steal (an item or money) for personal use.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
transitive
examples: Your aunt told him to pack Upjohn's bags, and the first thing he saw when he smacked into it was the speech. He trousered it and brought it along to me.
Barr, 34, trousered the money from the pub in Lugton, Ayrshire, between January 2016 and February 2018.
gloss: To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own); to pocket.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
transitive
examples: Politicians know how to look after themselves. Derry Irvine, Blair’s old boss, trousered a pension fund worth £2.3 million after just five years as Lord Chancellor - all courtesy of the tax payer.
Andy Prendergast, national secretary of the GMB union, said: “To see the boss of Shell trouser more than £6million while bills are crippling families and countries scrabble around trying to ditch Russian gas is abhorrent.
The founder and boss of CMC Markets is set to trouser £20million via the company’s dividend payments, even as the group’s profits and revenue fall.
Worse still, the driving motivation for all too many of the bosses of water companies appears to be not to improve the environment or to secure London’s water supply but rather to trouser obscene salaries and bonuses
The whopping sum will now be up for grabs on Tuesday when punters will have another chance to trouser the lifechanging amount.
A small piece of the Stone of Destiny broke off during the operation at Westminster Abbey — and Ian's son, Jamie Hamilton, still has it. / "My father had the presence of mind to trouser it and got it set in a brooch, and gave the brooch to my mother," Jamie says.
As an example, in the final three months of 2022 (usually a fallow period for airlines), Ryanair trousered a comfortable £222 million in profits - essentially £2m per day.
Derived words: betrousered
detrouser
in the trouser department
one-eyed trouser snake
trouser cough
trouser department
trouserdom
trousered
trousered class
trouserette
trouserettes
trouserian
trousering
trouser leg
trouserless
trouserlessness
trouserlike
trouser monkey
trouser pants
trouser pocket
trouser press
trouser role
trouser snake
trouser suit
trouser tent
untrousered
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pistää taskuihinsa
lang: Polish
word: kraść
lang: Polish
word: ukraść
intersperse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin interspergō, interspersus.
Inflected forms:
form: intersperses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interspersing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interspersed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interspersed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other.
pos: verb
examples: For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
gloss: To scatter or insert something into or among other things.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When writing, I intersperse details.
Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.
Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.
gloss: To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
Related words: interspersed
interspersion
Derived words: interspersal
intersperser
Translations:
parvenu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French parvenu, past participle of parvenir, from Latin perveniō (“arrive, reach”).
See also parvenue f
Inflected forms:
form: parvenus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
pos: noun
examples: But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps even a sorcerer.
Translations:
cunnilingus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin cunnilingus (literally “cuntlicker”). The meaning shift, not yet complete in the early twentieth century, perhaps derives from figurative uses where the name for a person stands for the name of a practice.
Inflected forms:
form: cunnilinguses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cunnilinctus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Performance of oral sex upon the vulva or vagina.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Someone who performs oral sex on the vulva.
pos: noun
tags: dated
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: The stinking breath, hoarse voice, and snoring respiration of the cunnilingus, fellator and fellatrix, the effeminate, piping tone of the cinædus and irrumator, which excited the special scorn of the early satirical writers, were doubtless the expression of a catarrhal pharyngolaryngitis acquired in the discharge of their filthy practices.
Related words: cunnilingue
cunnilinguist
cunnilinguistic
cunnilingual
sixty-nine
cunt
cunny
Derived words: autocunnilingus
cunnilingate
cunnilinguate
cunnilinguize
Translations:
fellatio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-
Latin fellō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin fellātiōlbor.
English fellatio
Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“to suck, to fellate”). The word started to appear in medical literature in the 19th century but it was still treated as Latin. In 1919, the California Supreme Court struck down a law criminalizing fellatio because the state constitution required laws to be written in English. By the late 20th century, fellatio was treated as an English word.
Inflected forms:
form: fellatios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fellation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Performance of oral sex upon the penis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In 7 oder 8 anderen Fällen ging die geschlechtliche Beziehung selten über enge Berührung oder gegenseitige Masturbation hinaus. In 2 oder 3 anderen Fällen ist fellatio die bevorzugte Methode.
That the word "fellatio" has not become Anglicized is so clearly apparent that further comment seems unnecessary. […] Section 288a of the Penal Code is void for uncertainty as well as for the reason that it is not expressed in the English language.]
Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi): What was the name of the... that woman who gave evidence against the doctors? / Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor): Timashuk? / Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell Beale): Yes. She's got everything we require for this situation: the location of all the remaining doctors in the Moscow area, a proven desire to survive, and a talent for fellatio.
Translations:
sandy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).
Base: sand
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: sandier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sandiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with sand.
pos: adj
gloss: Sprinkled with sand.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing sand.
pos: adj
examples: Some plants grow best in sandy soil.
gloss: Like sand, especially in texture.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
gloss: Having the colour of sand.
pos: adj
Derived words: Great Sandy Desert
pecan sandy
sandily
sandiness
Sandy Bay
sandy blight
sandy blind mole-rat
sandy blind mole rat
sandy carpet
Sandy Cay
Sandy Crossing
Sandy Flat
Sandy Gully
Sandy Hill
Sandy Hollow
Sandy Hook
sandyish
Sandy Lane
sandy laverock
Sandy Point
sandy pot
sandy soil
Translations:
john
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the male given name John (q.v.), whose ubiquity led to extensive use of the name in generic contexts. Its use for toilets derives from John and Cousin John, which both probably relate to jacques and jakes, used in equivalent senses by the British and Irish.
Inflected forms:
form: johns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: John
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A prostitute's client.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.
Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire,
And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire.
You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake,
Oh oh, he one more gone, he one more john who make the mistake.
In the first part of the video, Thad sucks the john's cock and takes a load in his mouth.
In-calls, where the john comes to the prostitute’s residence, are prohibited.
gloss: A device or place for urination and defecation: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A Western man traveling in East Asia.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A male mule.
pos: noun
Related words: roti john
Derived words: johnny house
john school
long john
long johns
poor-john
portajohn
port-o-john
rent-a-john
square john
whisky john
Translations:
peewee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Probably reduplication of wee (“small”).
Inflected forms:
form: peewees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short or small person; a small object.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A kind of small marble in children's games.
pos: noun
examples: You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.
gloss: A player in a sports league for very young children.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Is five too young for peewee football?
1971 November, Pat Strange, Mini Judoka in Aussie Ladies Tourney, Black Belt, page 61,
Each year, younger and younger girls line up for competition on the mats, and at this year′s Western Australia Women′s Judo Tournament extra peewee divisions were added to accomodate the young ladies.
Derived words: peewee golf
Translations:
Syracusan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Syracuse + -an.
Base: Syracuse
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Syracusans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Syracusan expedition was the deathblow of the Athenian Empire.
gloss: Of, from or relating to the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.
pos: noun
examples: Dionysius...obliged the Syracusans to accept his tokens in place of silver coins.
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Syracuse, New York, United States.
pos: noun
Translations:
fruition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”). By surface analysis, fruit + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: fruitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fulfillment of something worked for.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition.
[…] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt,
Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all,
That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie,
The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne.
Perhaps,—for the Divine purpose runs through every aim of our being,—the disappointment and the endurance are but sent to raise those hopes above, which else might cling too fondly to their fruition below.
The myths possess us: through our agony / They work to new fruition.
Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.
That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
gloss: The enjoyment derived from a possession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: come to fruition
nonfruition
Translations:
pilar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pilāris, from Latin pilus (“a hair”) + -ar.
Base: pilus
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to hair.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: pilar muscle; pilar cyst
gloss: Covered in hair; hairy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
huge
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin.
One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.
Inflected forms:
form: huger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more huge
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hugest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most huge
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hudge
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very large.
pos: adj
examples: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
gloss: Very interesting, significant, or popular.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The band's next album is going to be huge.
In our league our coach is huge!
Antonyms: tiny
small
minuscule
midget
dwarf
Derived words: hugantic
hugely
hugemongous
hugen
hugeness
hugeous
huge page
hugesome
huge tegu
hugy
humongous
hunormous
overhuge
superhuge
Translations:
lather
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lather, from Old English lēaþor (“a kind of nitre used for soap, soda”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauþr, from Proto-Germanic *lauþrą (“that which is used for washing, soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówh₃trom (“that which is used for washing”), from *lewh₃-, *lowh₃- (“to wash, bathe”). Cognate with Swedish lödder (“lather, foam, froth, soap”), Icelandic löður (“foam, froth, a kind of niter used for soap”), Old Irish loathar (“wash-basin”), Ancient Greek λουτρόν (loutrón, “a bath, wash-room”), Latin lavō (“to wash”), Albanian laj (“to wash”), Ancient Greek λούω (loúō). More at lye.
Compare typologically Russian мы́ло (mýlo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: lathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lathered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
gloss: Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of agitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To cover with lather.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I lathered my body with lavender-scented soap.
gloss: To beat or whip.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I woke Corporal Honda to see to the horse. Heavily lathered and breathing hard, it had obviously come a long way at high speed.
Derived words: in a lather
latherin
latherless
latherwort
lathery
latherable
latherer
lather, rinse, repeat
lather up
nonlathering
Translations:
amity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English amite, from Old French amisté, amitie, amistiet, from Vulgar Latin *amīcitātem, derived from Latin amīcus (“friend”), from amō (“love”).
Inflected forms:
form: amities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Friendship; friendliness.
pos: noun
tags: formal
literary
examples: To my native place ¶ Bent upon returning, ¶ Bosom all day burning ¶ To be where my race ¶ Well were known, 'twas much with me ¶ There to dwell in amity.
gloss: Mutual understanding and a peaceful relationship, especially between nations.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: accord, concord, harmony, peace, peacefulness
Related words: amiable
amicable
amorous
Translations:
friendship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English frēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi. Equivalent to friend + -ship.
Base: friend
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: friendships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being friends.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe:
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
“They’re cuddling by the fire, they’re going on trips together, they’re introducing their friends to their family, but they’re very clear that those are friendships,” Stinson said. “It really makes me think about the definitions that we have about friendship and romance, and how those things differ, and I just like how messy it all is.”
gloss: A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: “They’re cuddling by the fire, they’re going on trips together, they’re introducing their friends to their family, but they’re very clear that those are friendships,” Stinson said. “It really makes me think about the definitions that we have about friendship and romance, and how those things differ, and I just like how messy it all is.”
In good times and bad, in sickness and health, the benefits of friendships between women are physically and psychologically undeniable.
gloss: Good will.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: amity
closeness
fellowship
friendhood
friendship
mateship
Antonyms: enemyship
foeship
enmity
unfriendship
Related words: friending
mateship
Derived words: affectionate friendship
Amish friendship bread
cyberfriendship
friendship bench
friendship book
friendship bracelet
friendship centre
friendshipful
friendshipless
friendshiplike
friendshiply
friendshipped
friendshipper
friendshipping
friendshippish
friendshipish
friendship plant
friendshippy
friendshipy
friendship store
Friendship Village Resources
guest-friendship
guestfriendship
romantic friendship
unfriendship
Translations:
Oriya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā)bor.
English Oriya
Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā). Which in turn is derived from Prakrit 𑀑𑀟𑁆𑀟𑀺𑀅 (ŏḍḍia), from Sanskrit औड्रिक (auḍrika, “relating to the Odras”), an adjective suffixed from the vriddhi of ओड्र (oḍra, “Odra”).
Inflected forms:
form: Oriyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Odia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Oorya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Ooriya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant of Odisha.
pos: noun
examples: Full of human kindness and sick to his soul with the atrocities the Marathas were committing on the innocent masses of Orissa, he was, under the guise of doing his pfficial duties, secretly helping the Oriyas.
Thus the Oriyas, as a distinct society has been able to exist in spite of all dangers to its existence.
Translations:
starfish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
Etymology: From star + fish.
Compound parts: star
fish
Inflected forms:
form: starfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: starfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: star-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: starfishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: starfishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: starfished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: starfished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: star-fish
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: Asteroidea
gloss: Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.
gloss: A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.
gloss: To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up.
The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water.
gloss: To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands.
Related words: Starfish site
Derived words: chocolate starfish
crown-of-thorns starfish
royal starfish
starfish-associated densovirus
starfish flower
starfishlike
starfish wasting disease
Translations:
pathos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
literature
media
philosophy
publishing
religion
sciences
theology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Inflected forms:
form: pathoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak.
20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in
Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.
gloss: A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer.
gloss: An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: antipathy
apathy
empathy
pathetic
pathic
pathogen
pathology
psychopathy
sympathy
Derived words: hathos
pathotic
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 感染力
roman: gǎnrǎnlì
lang: Danish
word: patos
lang: Finnish
word: tunteisiin vetoaminen
lang: Finnish
word: paatos
lang: Greek
word: πάθος
roman: páthos
lang: Russian
word: па́фос
roman: páfos
lang: Swedish
word: patos
blather
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”).
Inflected forms:
form: blathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blathered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blether
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: blether
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To talk rapidly without making much sense.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
examples: “There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.
It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows.
On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.
gloss: To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
transitive
examples: Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!
[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.
gloss: Foolish or nonsensical talk.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
examples: That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;
Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.
Derived words: blatherer
blatherskate
blatherskite
blathersome
blatherstorm
blathery
Translations: