yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
carburetor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Attested from 1862, from carburet (“enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel”) + -or. The motor vehicle sense is attested since 1896
Base: carburet
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: carburetors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carburetter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: carburettor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: carbureter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A device for enhancing illuminating gas by mixing in carbon-rich fuel.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Second, the employment of a current of air between the carburettor and the tube leading to the burner, is described.
The Mechanics' Magazine, July 25, 1862.
gloss: A water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Variations on the bong included air-driven pipes, electric pipes, ice pipes (chillers), mask pipes, chamber pipes, and carburetor pipes.
Some pipes feature a “carburetor,” which is a small hole in the air chamber located past the bowl. The carburetor is held shut while the bowl is being lit and the smoke drawn.
Related words: carburetion
gasifier
vaporiser
Translations:
curio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of curiosity, 1851. Compare cabinet of curiosities and French objet de curiosité.
Inflected forms:
form: curios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
pos: noun
examples: Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.
Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?
upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.
Translations:
meek
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, probably a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr (“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz (“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery; to slip”); compare Old English smēag (“subtle, stealthy, etc.”) and smūgan.
Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk (“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk (“soft”), and Danish myg (“supple”), Dutch muik (“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch (“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche (“malanders”). Compare as well Welsh mwyth (“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk- (“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti (“to slip away from”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι (mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मु॒ञ्चति॑ (muñcáti, “to release, let loose”).
Inflected forms:
form: meeker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: meekest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: meeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meeked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
pos: adj
examples: Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
gloss: Submissive, dispirited, cowed.
pos: adj
examples: What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.
gloss: To tame; to break (a horse)
pos: verb
tags: US
Derived words: meacock
meeken
meekful
meekhead
meekish
meekless
meekly
meekness
overmeek
unmeek
Translations:
aal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Sanskrit अलाक (alāka, “crown flower; kind of dye”).
Inflected forms:
form: aals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Indian mulberry or noni (Morinda citrifolia, Morinda tinctoria), a shrub found in Southeast Asia, the East Indies and the Pacific islands as far as French Polynesia.
pos: noun
gloss: A reddish dyestuff obtained from the roots of the East Indian shrubs Morinda citrifolia and Morinda tinctoria.
pos: noun
Translations:
eerie
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English eri (“fearful”), from Old English earg (“cowardly, fearful”), from Proto-West Germanic *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz. Akin to Scots ergh, argh from the same Old English source. Doublet of argh.
Inflected forms:
form: eerier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: eeriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eery
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: eeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
pos: adj
examples: The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
An eerie feeling came over me.
Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly the eerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]
I was working in the lab late one night / When my eyes beheld an eerie sight / For my monster, from his slab, began to rise / And suddenly, to my surprise / He did the Mash / He did the Monster Mash.
The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in an eerie quiet.
gloss: Frightened, timid.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: She began to feel eerie.
'It is my business to read the hearts o' men,' said the other. 'And who may ye be?' said Heriotside, growing eerie.
gloss: An eerie creature or thing.
pos: noun
examples: Other of these terrible Eeries began now to congregate beneath the canoe, taking courage by the example of their cowardly companion, all alike curious about this charming visitant in the upper world.
I tell you it's weirdsville down there, a spaced-out botanical Twilight Zone of creepies, crawlies, eeries, and ghastlies.
Just a couple of eeries looking to get squamous, to swipe a little snatch of wholesome fun from the funktacular funerary fundament belonging to the Big Boss, a hit big enough to drop our brains out the bottoms of our various appendages and forget the essential, unalterable, sanity-shearing truth of our watery and unfleeling cosmos: R'lyeh sucks.
If circumstances were even slightly different, I would allow my eeries to descend upon you and do as they pleased. After what your two friends caused here the last time, you're lucky I'm managing to hold them back at all.
Synonyms: chilling
creepy
eldritch
freakish
frightening
grim
offputting
scary
sinister
spooky
unsettling
Related words: sus
Derived words: eerieness
eerily
eeriness
eerisome
Translations:
earthworm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English erthe-worm, erþe-worm, erþe worm (also as worm of þe erthe, worm of þe erþe), equivalent to earth + worm. Compare Saterland Frisian Äidwurm (“earthworm”), West Frisian ierdwjirm (“earthworm”), Dutch aardworm (“earthworm”), less common German Erdwurm (“earthworm”).
Base: earth
Inflected forms:
form: earthworms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worm that lives in the ground.
pos: noun
examples: It does not, however, happen that the whole spermatosphere is converted into spermatoblasts; there remains a passive portion, which in the earthworm occupies a central position; this is the "sperm-blasophore," or "blastophoral cell."
gloss: A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.
pos: noun
examples: Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae.
gloss: A contemptible person; a groveller.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: earthworm eel
giant Gippsland earthworm
Translations:
rex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin rēx (“king”), referring originally to rabbits of the Belgian "castorrex" breed, so named because their fur was similar to that of beavers. Entered English around 1920. Doublet of rajah and roy.
Inflected forms:
form: rexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reges
pos: noun
tags: error-unknown-tag
plural
rare
form: rexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A king, particularly in ancient Rome.
pos: noun
examples: And though the sturdy patrician nobility had already gained ground, though the reges attempted gradually to enlarge the scope of their functions—all this does not change the elementary and fundamental character of the constitution, and this alone is essential.
gloss: An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.
pos: noun
gloss: To breed (an animal) to have this kind of hair.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Cornish Rex
Devon Rex
German Rex
Oregon Rex
Selkirk Rex
Translations:
pater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr
Proto-Italic *patēr
Latin paterbor.
English pater
Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”). Doublet of ayr, faeder, father, padre, and père.
Inflected forms:
form: paters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Father.
pos: noun
tags: formal
humorous
examples: Burlington Bertie's the latest young jay
He rents a swell flat somewhere Kensington way
He spends the good oof that his pater has made
Along with the Brandy and Soda Brigade.
The pater is the kindest-hearted old soul, but there are times when he hates me. I'm a thing which every decent middle-class person hates, a problem, like the unemployed, you know, or the ex-soldier. We are always in such a hurry to forget uncomfortable things, and I'm an uncomfortable thing. Poor old dad; he gets me at breakfast; he gets me in the morning paper.
Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later
Translations:
mater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin māter (“mother”), partly via Late Middle English matere. Doublet of mata and mother. Ancestor of matrix.
Inflected forms:
form: maters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: matres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mother.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
humorous
slang
examples: Their maters are all pals of my mater’s, and I don’t want to get them into trouble for aiding and abetting my little show, if you understand what I mean.
“The mater will be delighted to see you again—after all those years,” he added.
And then there’s the mater! Poor old mater! She goes about on tiptoe; she’s always watching me and pretending she’s not watching me; I believe she would like to have everything padded with feather beds. All the while she has been wanting me to do the goody book thing, get down on my knees and put my head in her lap and blub.
Strangled by the wishes of pater / Hoping for the arms of mater / Get to me the sooner or later
“Mater, you look well.” / “I am well. And you,” she said in that dryly prosaic deep voice of hers, “look healed.”
gloss: A meninx; the dura mater, arachnoid mater, or pia mater of the brain.
pos: noun
Related words: alma mater
arachnoid mater
dura mater
mater dolorosa
mater lectionis
matri-
matrix
pia mater
stabat mater
Translations:
frater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Learned borrowing from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, friar, pal, and vai.
Inflected forms:
form: fraters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monk.
pos: noun
gloss: A frater house.
pos: noun
gloss: A comrade.
pos: noun
Related words: fraternal
fraternity
Derived words: frater house
fratery
fratress
Translations:
vixen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).
Inflected forms:
form: vixens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fixen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: vixon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A female fox.
pos: noun
gloss: A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
pos: noun
examples: He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
[…] and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dripping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.
(Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'
gloss: A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.
Related words: bull
cuckold
cuckquean
stag
Derived words: silver vixen
video vixen
Translations:
harmonia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̔ρμονῐ́ᾱ (hărmonĭ́ā). Doublet of harmony.
Inflected forms:
form: harmonias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harmoniai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A harmonic mode in ancient Greek music, characterized by a particular set of chords and rhythmic patterns.
pos: noun
examples: […]concerning the ancient Greek harmoniai, or modes, in the diatonic genus.[…]degree signify the harmonia in which it appears and what degree it represents; for instance, “D-2” means that this ratio—11/10—is the second degree (ascending) in the Dorian harmonia.
In the case of Mixolydian harmonia, the framework chord is ¹⁄₁, ¹⁴⁄₁₁, ¹⁴⁄₁₀, and ²⁄₁.[…]while the various diatonic harmoniai are modes of each other, this is not true of the other two genera, which are uniquely derived from their corresponding diatonic forms.
In 1935, Hamilton trained a chamber orchestra in Stuttgart to perform in the harmoniai.
While Pollux attributed to Diodorus of Thebes the expansion of the aulos beyond four trupemata, Athenaeus and Pausanias refer to Pronomus of Thebes as the one who developed an aulos that was capable of playing aulema in Dorian, Phrygian, or Lydian harmoniai. In his description of a statue of Pronomus in Boeotia, Pausanias observes: For a time, auletes had three types of auloi. They played Dorian aulema on one, different auloi were made for pieces in the Phrygian harmonia, and the so-called Lydian aulema was played on other auloi.
That rhythm was somehow implicated in the identity of the harmoniai is suggested in Aristotle’s anecdote about the composer Philoxenus, who attempted to compose a dithyramb, The Mysians, in the Dorian harmonia, but was unable to do so.
gloss: The soul regarded as a harmonious blend of the parts of the physical body.
pos: noun
examples: Socrates argued against the idea of the soul being a harmonia.
Translations:
navicula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin nāviculalbor.
English navicula
Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.
Inflected forms:
form: naviculae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thurible in the shape of a boat.
pos: noun
Translations:
nix
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
Inflected forms:
form: nixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nixed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Nothing.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: "That's a clean lift from Kipling—or is it Conan Doyle? Anyway, I've read something just like it before. Say, kid, guess what these magazine guys get for a full page ad.? Nix. That's just like a woman. Three thousand straight. Fact."
"I can take you down, Miss Conover, but I cannot take Mr. Hawksley. When the boss gives me an order I obey it—if I possibly can. On the day the boss tells me you can go strolling, I'll give you the key to the city. Until then, nix! No use arguing, Mr. Hawksley."
gloss: To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
pos: verb
examples: Nix the last order – the customer walked out.
Sticks Nix Hick Pix [headline]
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he "wanted to share the bed" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now.
The move came less than six months after Jobs had nixed the spin-off of Newton Inc. as an independent company and brought it back inside Apple (see “The Fallen Apple,” page 143).
At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”
gloss: To destroy or eradicate.
pos: verb
gloss: No! Not at all!
pos: intj
examples: "Ugh! An inventor, eh?" "Nix! He's not an inventor himself, but he antes-up for 'em."
gloss: A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.
pos: intj
tags: obsolete
Related words: 86
eighty-six
ixnay
mox nix
Translations:
fewer
Part of speech: det
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fewere, equivalent to few + -er.
Base: few
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fewest
pos: det
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as an integer
pos: det
tags: hypercorrect
examples: Leaving from my home in Alameda, the heavily BART-assisted journey took fewer than five hours round trip.
Related words: less
Derived words: could care fewer
the fewer the better fare
Translations:
manic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From mania + -ic; Ancient Greek μανικός (manikós). Compare maniac.
Base: mania
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more manic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most manic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: manics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by mania or craziness; wicked.
pos: adj
examples: Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC's misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But [Danny] Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.
gloss: Suffering from mania (the state of an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels).
pos: adj
gloss: A person exhibiting mania.
pos: noun
Derived words: antimanic
hypomanic
manically
manic-depressant
manic-depression
manic depression
manic-depressive
manic depressive
manic-depressiveness
manicky
manic pixie dream girl
nonmanic
plutomanic
pseudomanic
Translations:
coyote
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyoo-tl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.
Inflected forms:
form: coyotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cayeute
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cayota
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cayote
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: coyoto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: coyotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coyoteing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coyoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coyoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coyoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cayeute
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cayota
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cayote
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: coyoto
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
pos: noun
examples: Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes. The hand-raised coyotes, however, were ostracized by the wild coyotes […]
gloss: A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.
gloss: To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.
pos: verb
Related words: coyotillo
Derived words: anticoyote
coydog
coyote brush
coyote bush
coyote gourd
coyoteite
coyotelike
coyote melon
Coyote State
coyote time
coyote tobacco
coyote ugly
coywolf
dogote
hyote
quiet coyote
quiet coyote gesture
Wile E. Coyote
woyote
Translations:
fawn
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fawne, fowne, foun, from Old French faon, foon, feon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, young”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”). Displaced native Old English hindċealf (literally “deer calf”). Doublet of fetus.
Inflected forms:
form: fawns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fawns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fawning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fawned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fawned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A young deer.
pos: noun
examples: The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
gloss: A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
pos: noun
gloss: The young of an animal; a whelp.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: she [the tigress] rageth upon the shore and the sands, for the losse of her fawnes
gloss: Of the fawn colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To give birth to a fawn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: fawn antechinus
fawnish
fawnlike
fawnling
Fawnlock
fawn response
fawnskin
in fawn
Translations:
jackrabbit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of jackass + rabbit.
Compound parts: jackass
rabbit
Inflected forms:
form: jackrabbits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jack-rabbit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jackrabbits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jackrabbiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jackrabbited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jackrabbited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jack-rabbit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several large North American hares of the genus Lepus.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a sudden, rapid movement
pos: verb
tags: US
Translations:
rowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, row + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to row.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The action of propelling a boat with oars.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The rowing of boats as a competitive sport.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: sculling
Derived words: indoor rowing
pararowing
rowing boat
rowing club
rowing machine
Translations:
ska
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably imitative of the crisp guitar sound; other suggestions include a contraction of “skavoovie” (a word invented and used by musician Cluett Johnson), or of “speed polka”.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Musical Hairsplitting: The act of classifying music and musicians into pathologically picayune categories: “The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.”
Everyone who loves ska has their own story to tell—the first time they heard the Specials back in the '70s, the first time they danced onstage at a Toasters show in the '80s, the first time they saw the Skatalites perform in the '90s.
Translations:
thief
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English thef, theef, þef, from Old English þēof, from Proto-West Germanic *þeub, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.
Inflected forms:
form: thieves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: theef
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who carries out a theft.
pos: noun
examples: water-thieves and land-thieves
gloss: One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
pos: noun
examples: Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.
gloss: A waster in the snuff of a candle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But hear you, my Worthy Brethren: do not you, where you see a thief in the candle, call presently for an extinguisher[…]
Synonyms: abstractor
appropriator
bagger
booster
borrower
cribber
faker
filcher
flogger
heister
larcener
larcenist
liberator
lifter
misappropriator
nicker
pincher
purloiner
snitch
stealer
tea leaf
thief
thiever
Related words: thieve
deceiver
steal
theft
Derived words: a fair booty makes many a thief
comparison is the thief of joy
cricket thief spider
cyberthief
horse thief
horsethief
joke thief
joule thief
liquor thief
opportunity makes a thief
opportunity makes the thief
outfangthief
oxygen thief
palm thief
panel thief
police and thief
procrastination is the thief of time
sampling thief
set a thief to catch a thief
sneak thief
spellthief
stop thief
thick as thieves
thief ant
thiefcraft
thiefdom
thiefess
thiefhood
thief in law
thief in the night
thief knot
thiefless
thieflike
thiefly
thiefness
thief palm
thiefproof
thiefship
thief-taker
thief tube
thiefwise
thiefy
thievish
time thief
Unithieves
wage thief
water-thief
wheat thief
wine thief
Translations:
blad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently from a dialectal variant of blade. Compare Danish blad (“leaf”), Swedish blad (“leaf”).
Inflected forms:
form: blads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blaud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A portfolio.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A blotting book or blotting pad.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A fragment or lump.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A single sheet for use in a display book, illustrating a particular product (usually confectionery or soft drink) available from a wholesaler.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
row
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.
Inflected forms:
form: rows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to row the captain ashore in his barge
gloss: To be moved by oars.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The boat rows easily.
Related words: get in the boat and row
get in the boat and start rowing
outrow
rerow
rowable
row back
rowbarge
rowboat
row in the same boat
rowport
Derived words: rower
rown
Translations:
muck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From Middle English mok, muk, from Old Norse myki, mykr (“dung”) or less likely Old English *moc, *moce (in hlōsmoc (“pigsty dung”) and lustmoce (“lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis)”)) (compare Icelandic mykja and Danish møg ("dung")), from Proto-Germanic *mukį̄ (“dung; manure”), from Proto-Germanic *muk-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewg-, *mewk- (“slick, slippery”) (compare Welsh mign (“swamp”), Latin mūcus (“snot”), mucere (“to be moldy or musty”), Latvian mukls (“swampy”), Albanian myk (“mould”), Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, “mucus, lamp wick”), Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs, “mushroom”), German Mauke (“mud fever”)), from *(s)mewg, mewk 'to slip'. More at meek.
Inflected forms:
form: mucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Slimy mud, sludge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
gloss: Soft (or slimy) manure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: What's that green muck on the floor?
gloss: Grub, slop, swill
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: the fatal muck we quarrell'd for
gloss: The pile of discarded cards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Heroin.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: Pornography.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: Semen.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Ah blurt oot ma muck n pull oot.
gloss: Food, especially that eaten quickly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Does I need fur t' mek som muck fur yis two?
gloss: To shovel muck from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
gloss: To manure with muck.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To do a dirty job.
pos: verb
gloss: To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
informal
intransitive
examples: Move out of the way: I think I'm gonna muck.
gloss: To eat; to devour or guzzle.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
slang
Derived words: cinemuck
common as muck
de-muck
foreign muck
guck
muck about
muck and bullets
muck around
mucker
muck fly
muckheap
muckhill
muck in
muckite
muckland
muckmidden
muckology
muck out
muckrake
muckraker
muck-snipe
muck spreader
muck sweat
muck tube
muck-up
muck up
muckworm
mucky
where there's muck there's brass
Translations:
Assamese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Assam
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Assamese
From Assam + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: more Assamese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Assamese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Assameses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Assamese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named.
pos: adj
gloss: In or relating to its majority people's Indo-Aryan language.
pos: adj
examples: Only three in five Assamese (citizens of Assam) are linguistic Assamese.
gloss: A member of the people of Assam.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Translations:
bavarian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bavarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.
pos: noun
examples: peach bavarian
Translations:
timbre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From French timbre, ultimately from Ancient Greek τύμπανον (túmpanon, “drum”). Doublet of tympanum, timpani, timbal, and tymbal.
Inflected forms:
form: timbres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was a hard whisper to catch at first, since the grey moustache concealed all movements of the lips, and something in its timbre disturbed me greatly; but by concentrating my attention I could soon make out its purport surprisingly well.
gloss: The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When someone speaks after inhaling helium, his voice has a higher timbre. With sulfur hexafluoride, the result is a lower timbre.
gloss: The crest on a (helmet atop a) coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
examples: Quarterly the First quarter Siluer …, The second Siluer a Cheueron gules betweene three Castles Sables And to his timbre vpon his healme, an Elephants head in his proper Colours […]
The basilican pavilion [...] has frequently appeared on banners since the 13th century, but the pope has used it only rarely, as a timbre or crest above his coat of ARMS (a few examples exist from the time of MARTIN V).
Derived words: timbral
timbred
timbreless
timbric
timbrical
Translations:
Bengali
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).
Base: Bengal
Affixes: -i
Inflected forms:
form: Bangalee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Bengalee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Bangali
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: Bengalis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bangalee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Bengalee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Bangali
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ethnologue, the web-based publication, estimates that there are around 41 languages in Bangladesh and all of them are living. However, 8 of them are in danger of extinction. These include Khiang, Murong, Bawm, Pangkhua among others. It is ironic to think that a nation that fought for the right to speak a language, the first recorded instance of this in history, is the same nation that internally follows an agenda of Bengali supremacy.
gloss: A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Cebuano
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Spanish cebuano, from Cebú (“Cebu”) + -ano (“-an”).
Base: Cebú
Affixes: -ano
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Cebuano language or to its speakers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lumbar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin lumbāris, from lumbus (“loin”) + -āris. See loin.
Inflected forms:
form: more lumbar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lumbar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lumbars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.
pos: adj
examples: The lumbar spine supports the upper body and transmits the weight of the upper body to the pelvis and lower limbs.
gloss: The lumbar region.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A lumbar vertebra.
pos: noun
examples: The first lumbar moved between the erect position and extreme flexion 8.2 cm.
Translations:
Chickasaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Chickasaw Chikashshabor.
English Chickasaw
Borrowed from Chickasaw Chikashsha.
Inflected forms:
form: Chickasaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chickasaw
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chicksaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American nation, now concentrated in southeastern Oklahoma.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gujarati
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Gujarati ગુજરાતી (gujrātī)bor.
English Gujarati
Borrowed from Gujarati ગુજરાતી (gujrātī).
Inflected forms:
form: Gujaratis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gujerati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Gujrati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Goojratee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Gujratee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Guzarati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Guzerati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Gujerati
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Gujrati
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Goojratee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Gujratee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Guzarati
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Guzerati
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person from Gujarat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Gujarat, or the Gujarati people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Kash Patel, born to Gujarati parents in New York in 1980, was sworn in as the ninth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday, in the presence of his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins and his family.
Translations:
Hopi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hopi hopi (“Hopi, good in every respect, be wise or knowing”) (as in Hopituu sinom "Hopi people"). Popularized by J. Walter Fewkes as a replacement for the previously used and offensive name Moqui which sounds like Hopi mooki dies, be dead.
Inflected forms:
form: Hopis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hopi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a particular tribe of North American natives.
pos: noun
Translations:
Luo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Luo, as an ethnic self-designation.
Inflected forms:
form: Luo
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Luos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group in southern Sudan, Kenya, and neighboring countries.
pos: noun
Translations:
Marathi
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Marathi मराठी (marāṭhī). Doublet of Maharashtri.
Inflected forms:
form: Marathi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Marathis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of a Marathi-speaking people from the state of Maharashtra; a person of or from Maharashtra.
pos: noun
examples: 1882, R. V. Modak, History of the Native Churches Associated with the American Marathi Mission..., in Memorial Papers of the American Marathi Mission, 1813-1881, American Marathi Mission, page 11,
In March 1831, Moroba, a Marathi, was received to the church.
'These people want places reserved for Marathis in railways jobs, so they’re attacking candidates across the city … Bhai, this'll turn ugly before you know it.'
gloss: Pertaining to the state of Maharashtra, to the Marathi-speaking people from the state, or to the Marathi language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2022, Hrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle, Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality, Oxford University Press, unnumbered page,
In formulating the idea of a vernacular performative, the intention has been to situate Marathi filmmaking of the 1950s within a post-studio scenario.
For years now, local parties in Mumbai had campaigned for Marathi people to get preferential treatment – land, housing, jobs.
Translations:
Mohawk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch Mohawk.
An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”. The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).
Inflected forms:
form: Mohawks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mohawk
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: "Mohawks" in all other senses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
pos: noun
gloss: A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Punjabi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian پنجابی (panjābī), from پنجاب (panjāb) + ـی (-ī, adjectival suffix). Equivalent to Punjab + -i.
Base: Punjab
Affixes: -i
Inflected forms:
form: Panjabi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Panjabee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Panjaubee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Punjabee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Punjaubee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Punjabis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Panjabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Panjabee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Panjaubee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Punjabee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Punjaubee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, descended from the people or culture of the Punjab, or written in the Punjabi language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The main language spoken in the Punjab region, in eastern Pakistan and Northern India.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Resident or descendant of or immigrant from the Punjab.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: “Here are our Punjabis growling because you've monopolized the nicest woman in Simla. They'll tear you to pieces on the Mall, some day, Mr. Yeere.”
gloss: A speaker of the Punjabi language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Quechua
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Spanish, from Quechua qhichwa (literally “temperate valley”).
Inflected forms:
form: Quechuas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Quechua
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of several South American ethnic groups that spans Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, and in Ecuador and southern Colombia.
pos: noun
examples: The Quechuas, a tribe of the Inca people, were Indians of the red race and with an appearance and trait which is distinctly American. “They are”, says Victor W. Von Hagen in his book, Realm of the Incas, “of medium height, and inclined to be thickset, with large hands, small wrists, a disproportionately large chest (developed for breathing at high altitudes), well-developed legs, and wide-spreading feet. They are broad-headed, with high cheekbones, prominent aquiline noses, and small, almond-shaped eyes.” There are still five million of them in the Andes.
Translations:
Shona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Shonas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shona
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Bantu tribes who speak Shona.
pos: noun
examples: It's not relevant for the purpose of my discussion who got to Zimbabwe first between the Shonas and the Ndebeles.
Translations:
Sinhalese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sinhala
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Sinhalese
From Sinhala + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: more Sinhalese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Sinhalese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Singalese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Singhalese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Cinghalese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Cingalese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sinhalese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Singalese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Singhalese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Cinghalese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Cingalese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.
pos: adj
gloss: A Sinhalese person: a member of the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The Indo-Aryan language of the Sinhalese people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: Sinhala
Translations:
Tamil
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil தமிழ் (tamiḻ, “Tamil”); see that entry for theories.
Inflected forms:
form: Tamils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When I returned to the movie Ghilli, a Kollywood classic (Kollywood being the informal name for Tamil cinema) that I loved as a kid, I couldn’t help but question why the story continues romantically, without question, after the heroine is slapped by the supposed love of her life.
gloss: Of the Tamil script.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person who originates from Tamil Nadu, India or Sri Lanka or has Tamil origins.
pos: noun
Translations:
Urdu
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (see Urdu اُرْدُو (urdū) and Hindi उर्दू (urdū)), from Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”) ( > Azerbaijani ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen oorda). Doublet of horde and orda.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Urdu language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Zazi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Pashtun tribe.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Sinhala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese සිංහල (siṁhala), itself borrowed from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) + -ल (-la), recorded as the name of the island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from about the 10th to 12th century, but presumably older, as it is also the source of the name Ceylon in western geographic tradition.
The name is sometimes glossed as "abode of lions", referring to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island ( The Asiatic Journal 20 (1836), p. 30). Doublet of Ceylon and Elu.
Base: सिंह
Affixes: -ल
Inflected forms:
form: Cinghal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Sinhalese (“language”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: