yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Jat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi जाट (jāṭ), ultimately from Sanskrit जर्तिक (jartika), of further unknown origin. Initially the name of a low-ranking foreign Vahika tribe mentioned in some Sanskrit-language Hindu texts such as the Rigveda and the Mahabharata's Karna Parva, its descendant names, from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀚𑀝𑁆𑀝 (*jaṭṭa), were later used to refer to various different low-ranking groups of peoples living in the region now known as Punjab. Many other theories about the origin of this name exist, but are unproven and speculative; see Getae for one such example.
Inflected forms:
form: Jats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jat
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jatt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jaat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jutt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Indo-European ethnic group of people native to Northern India and Pakistan (including large populations living in the EU, US, Canada, Australia and UK), that have attributes of an ethnic group, tribe and a people.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of an Indo-European people living in Punjab, northwestern India and Pakistan.
pos: noun
gloss: An Indo-Scythian (Saka) descendant of the Scythian Massagetae and Getae tribes.
pos: noun
Translations:
proliferate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from proliferation.
Inflected forms:
form: proliferates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: proliferating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: proliferated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: proliferated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble.
Translations:
Frau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Fraubor.
English Frau
Borrowed from German Frau.
Inflected forms:
form: Frauen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Fraus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a (typically married) German-speaking woman.
pos: noun
examples: G. von Hoffmann’s Die Ochsenmenuette offered Frau von Berckel as Therese, Scherer as Istock, Lotti as Eduard, and Frauen Schmidt and Esden, and Graff, Lehmann and Kress in minor rôles.
His gifts as an impassioned speaker had brought him to the notice of some wealthy society ladies (Frauen Bechstein, Hofmann and Wagner), who lionised him and tolerated his cranky behaviour as that of a budding genius.
There was more than a little rivalry between the two ladies, Frauen Wagner and Bechstein, when it came to offering Wolf accommodation, though Winnie could see that while she was so busy with the Festival it made sense for Wolf to stay with the Bechsteins and come round to Wahnfried for visits.
We met our landlords-to-be, Frau and Herr Friedrich, themselves émigrés from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Translations:
Herr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: As a title and German and Jewish surname (also found in Hungary and France), from the noun Herr (“gentleman, sir”).
Inflected forms:
form: Herren
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a German-speaking man.
pos: noun
examples: The principal singers we now learn are to be Mdlles. Krall and Jenny Meyer, Herren Schneider and Stepan.
On a variety of drawings being lately exhibited for a new town hall in one of the German capitals, a certain design of Herren Schmidt and Stauch attracted considerable attention among the art-loving public of the Fatherland, but as it happened to become a subject of jobbery, and was not to be accepted in consequence, would have been hardly accessible to larger circles of connoisseurs, without the invention of the new art.
They stand in the poses of the two provincials—Herren Müller and Schultze—whose conversations (and portraits) were a regular column in the satirical paper.
Translations:
venerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin venerātus, perfect active participle of veneror (“to worship, venerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: venerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: venerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: venerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: venerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To treat with great respect and deference.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To revere or hold in awe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] we cannot but venerate in Johnson one of the most exercised minds that our holy religion hath ever formed.
Related words: venerable
venerant
veneration
venerative
Translations:
ringer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.
Base: ring
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: ringers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
pos: noun
examples: Pull, if ye never pull′d before;
Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
gloss: A crowbar.
pos: noun
Derived words: hogringer
ringer equivalence number
Translations:
sulk
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from sulky, of uncertain origin. Probably from Middle English *sulke, *solke (attested in solcenesse (“idleness; laziness”), from Old English āsolcennys (“idleness; slothfulness; sluggishness; laziness”), from āsolcen (“sulky, languid”), from past participle of Old English āseolcan (“be slow; be weak or slothful; languish”), from Proto-Germanic *selkaną (“to fall in drops; dribble; droop”), from Proto-Indo-European *sélǵ-o-nom, from *selǵ- (“to let go, send”). Cognate with several Indo-Iranian words deriving from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sarȷ́- (such as Sanskrit सृजति (sṛjáti), सर्जन (sárjana), सृक (sṛká)), possibly Hittite 𒊭𒀠𒀝𒍣 (ša-al-ak-zi /⁠šalkzi⁠/, “knead, mix”), although the semantic connection is weak.
Inflected forms:
form: sulks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sulking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sulked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sulked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sulks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, […]
You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s.
gloss: A state of sulking.
pos: noun
examples: Leo has been in a sulk all morning.
He thanks our miserable Liberal agent, an unbeliever called Donald Somebody, see the caption, who since the court's arrival on his territory has retired into a fuming sulk from which he has only tonight emerged.
"[…] home during the holidays," said the Doctor with a good-humoured laugh, "but a fit of the sulks is no very uncommon thing for him;" and then he added,[…]
gloss: A fit of sulking; a sulking mood.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: The Puddin', who had got the sulks over Sam's remark that fifteen goes of steak and kidney were enough for any self-respecting man, protested against the singing, which, he said, disturbed his gravy.
gloss: A person who sulks
pos: noun
examples: Don't be such a sulk, Leo!
Translations:
threshing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thresshyng; equivalent to thresh + -ing.
Base: thresh
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: threshings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is threshed.
pos: noun
Translations:
practitioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-k-yé-ti
Proto-Hellenic *prā́ťťō
Ancient Greek πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós)der.
Latin prācticusder.
Middle French practique
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānus
Old French -ien
Middle French -ien
Middle French practicienbor.
English practician
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English practitioner
Formerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).
Base: practician
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: practitioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
pos: noun
examples: The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
gloss: One who does anything customarily or habitually.
pos: noun
examples: On January 31, 2023, four Falun Gong practitioners in Songbu Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province were arrested. Two of the arrested are still detained as of February 25, 2023.
gloss: A sly or artful person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: […] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.
Related words: practic
practicable
practical
practice
practise
Derived words: archpractitioner
arch-practitioner
copractitioner
cultural practitioner
general practitioner
healthcare practitioner
malpractitioner
medical practitioner
nonpractitioner
nurse practitioner
nurse-practitioner
pracademic
practitionership
quacktitioner
respiratory practitioner
telepractitioner
Translations:
milkman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English milk
English -man
English milkman
From milk + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: milkmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.
pos: noun
examples: Our milkman is a jovial character, but not one given to yodelling at the customers on his round. Only the resounding "clonk" of bottles advises us that a couple of pints have been left on the doorstep.
gloss: A black man who prefers dating white women.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Synonyms: dairyman
milkie
milko
milkwoman
Derived words: glint in the milkman's eye
Translations:
bettor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bet
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English bettor
From bet + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: bettors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: better
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event.
pos: noun
examples: In fact, as Ambrose Hammer places the cage on our table and then sits down beside me, Mindy approaches us, and says to Ambrose: "Horse players, yes," Mindy says. "Wrong bettors, yes. Dogs and song writers and actors, yes. But parrots," Mindy says, "no. Take it away," he says.
Still others, chasing the mirage of vast riches bettors think are there for the taking, seek information or tips from any and all, despite all omens, silent writing on the wall and dire predictions about their fates, like the title of Damon Runyon's book All Horse Players Die Broke.
Translations:
hooding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The expansion of the neck of an elapid called hood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
proactive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + active; originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense. Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by neuropsychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive.
Base: active
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more proactive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most proactive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: We can deal with each problem as it pops up, or we can take a proactive stance and try to prevent future problems.
Staff are also proactive in approaching any passengers looking as though they need assistance, rather than waiting to be approached.
Antonyms: reactive
Translations:
personalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English personal
English personal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English personalism
From personal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: personalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The character of being personal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A doctrine of subjective idealism that regards personality as the means of interpreting reality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: personalist
personalistic
Translations:
perspectivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perspective
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English perspectivism
From perspective + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: perspectivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wedgie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wedge
English -ie
English wedgie
From wedge + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: wedgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wedgies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wedgying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wedgied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wedgied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wedge-heeled shoe.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk.
gloss: A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: If the strippers learn that there is a bachelor party, they will often call the groom onstage and publicly embarrass him. They may tie him up, whip him, tease him, give him a wedgie, cover him in whipped cream, beat his ass with a belt, put a dog collar on him, walk him around the stage like a dog, and/or humiliate him with whatever objects are at their disposal.
When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.
gloss: A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I thought, maybe she had an uncomfortable wedgie or something and was trying to work that out. I looked away thinking how embarrassing it must be especially with people staring.
gloss: A basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A wedge-tailed eagle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.
Well over a century later the ‘wedgie’ continues to be persecuted, with some rural Tasmanians taking a gun to it when they can.
gloss: To play the wedgie prank on.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.
Related words: melvin
Derived words: atomic wedgie
frontal wedgie
Translations:
stalling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of a person or thing that stalls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: repeated stallings of the car engine
gloss: Stabling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But hire us some fair chamber for the night, / And stalling for the horses, and return / With victual for these men, and let us know.
Derived words: antistalling
shock stalling
Translations:
partay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of party.
Inflected forms:
form: partays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: partays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: partaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: partayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: partayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A party (organised gathering of people for dancing and having fun).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To party (have a party, enjoy oneself).
pos: verb
tags: slang
Translations:
brimstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage.
Compound parts: burn
stone
Inflected forms:
form: brimstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.
And thus I sawe the horses in the vision, and them that sate on them, hauing brest-plates of fire and of Iacinct, and brimstone, & the heades of the horses were as the heads of Lions, and out of their mouthes issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.
Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.
[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss […]
But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.
gloss: Sulfur.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats.
Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.
gloss: A whore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: I went to the park, picked up a low Brimstone, called myself a Barber, & agreed with her for Sixpence, went to the bottom of the park, arm in arm, & dipped my machine in the Canal […].
gloss: Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
You're a brimstone idiot.
I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
gloss: The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
Derived words: brimstone flower
brimstone match
brimstonewort
brimstony
fire and brimstone
rain fire and brimstone
Translations:
paddle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδόν (pēdón, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).
Inflected forms:
form: paddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paddled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: paidle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: as the Men were Paddling for their Lives
while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe[…]
gloss: To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To spank with a paddle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do you think we'll get paddled? They can't paddle me! I'm a girl!!
gloss: To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
pos: verb
examples: to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
gloss: To tread upon; to trample.
pos: verb
Derived words: backpaddle
knee-paddle
mispaddle
paddleable
paddle one's own canoe
paddling pool
Translations:
Christocentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Christo-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der.
English -centric
English Christocentric
From Christo- + -centric.
Inflected forms:
form: more Christocentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Christocentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Concentrating on the teaching of Jesus Christ.
pos: adj
examples: De Profundis is full of religiosity, whether it be Christocentric aesthetics, moral injunction, or just the usual self-castigation/reformation stuff of the Born Again variety.
Translations:
bombshell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bomb + shell.
Compound parts: bomb
shell
Inflected forms:
form: bombshells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell (hollow metal object) containing a charge that can explode.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: "This—this is a bombshell!" exclaimed the Colonel. "What does it mean?"
"Politics," replied Carrados tersely.
Singer and Jeffreys had focused their attention on cancer risk, but the bombshell of the report was the danger to children.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell proposal to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate its Palestinian inhabitants has made the forced transfer of populations – a war crime – a policy discussion, galvanizing Arab states.
gloss: Someone who is very attractive; a sex symbol.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Diana Dors, the 1950s blonde bombshell
The singer once identified by her shock of green hair has gone blonde and full bombshell, swapping her trademark sweats for a style more domme than deb: pink Gucci corset and skirt over Agent Provocateur skivvies, accessorized with latex gloves and leggings.
Derived words: blonde bombshell
drop a bombshell
Translations:
glute
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Clipping of gluteus.
Inflected forms:
form: glutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gluteal muscle.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The hamstrings also get worked in a number of quad and glute moves.
Translations:
smoothie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English smōþ
Middle English smothe
Proto-West Germanic *smanþī
Old English smēþe
Middle English smethe
English smooth
English -ie
English smoothie
From smooth + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: smoothies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smoothy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A smooth-talking person.
pos: noun
examples: True to their reputations, Paul was a smoothie who put a public relations gloss on everything he said, and John was abrasive and sarcastic, speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may.
gloss: A drink made from whole fruit, thus thicker than fruit juice.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes he brings her smoothies from his favourite place on Judd Street. He has a weakness for these glutinous confections that are supposed to extend his life.
gloss: A blending of different things, a mishmash
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: He shook his head and cleared the pentup anger and sadness that mixed his mind into a smoothie of emotions he bottled up inside, then scolded himself for allowing the outburst.
gloss: A member of the mod subculture who is relatively non-violent and wears expensive clothing.
pos: noun
examples: 1987, John Irwin (quoting Piri Thomas), The Felon
The decision to cool myself made the next two years the hardest I had done because it meant being a smoothie and staying out of trouble, which in prison is difficult, […]
Film Comment's David Chute described him as: "small, stringy and intense, but he's better dressed and groomed (than Ferrara), less of a punk and more of a smoothie."
2011, Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged
[…] mods, skins, suedes, smoothies, punks, skunks, rude boys, soul boys and headbangers […]
gloss: A person with shaven body hair, especially pubic hair.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Smoothies seem much more acceptable now. Back in the "good old days" it [pubic hair] was almost essential for pics etc.
These new smoothies are everywhere. The "Body for Life" fitness program asks people to spend six weeks getting into shape and then send in before-and-after pictures. The men in the "after" shots invariably have shaved chests.
not a wisp of pubic hair peeking out of even the tiniest thongs and bikini briefs and jockstraps. they should hire, oh, zak spears. he'd blow these smoothies off the page.
Related words: thickie
Derived words: Bandera smoothie
fruit smoothie
green smoothie
smoothify
white smoothie
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 能說會道的人 /能说会道的人
roman: néngshuōhuìdào de rén
lang: Dutch
word: gladjanus
lang: Dutch
word: gladakker
lang: Finnish
word: imartelija
lang: German
word: aalglatter Bursche
lang: Indonesian
word: pembujuk rayu
lang: Latin
word: blandilocutor
lang: Polish
word: pochlebca
lang: Polish
word: pochlebczyni
lang: Russian
word: льсте́ц
roman: lʹstéc
lang: Russian
word: красноба́й
roman: krasnobáj
lang: Spanish
word: zalamero
booger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of the English dialectal words buggard (bug + -ard), boggart or boggard. Compare bogey. Compare also Alemannic German Naaseböög (“booger”).
Inflected forms:
form: boogers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
slang
examples: Mama says you mustn't pick boogers out of your nose with your fingers; you must use your handkerchief.
Now in the halls of the necro lord / Flash of fear when he sees my sword / Raped his woman, smoked his bone / Leave a booger underneath his throne!
gloss: Something suggestive of this material.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: The latter is discovered by Caesar, Maurice, and their compadres living in a crumbling, snow-packed ski lodge, its antler chandeliers hung with boogers of ice in a mockery of humanity’s pretensions of alpha-predator-hood.
gloss: A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A monster, a bogey.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: bed booger
boogerball
booger brain
booger off
booger sandwich
booger sugar
booger up
eye booger
Translations:
beautify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).
Inflected forms:
form: beautifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beautifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beautified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beautified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1592, Robert Greene, Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, London: William Wright, “Robertoes Tale”
[…] there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you:
And now, / This ornament [i.e. beard] / Makes me look dismal will I clip to form; / And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d, / To grace thy marriage-day, I’ll beautify.
[…] she was at the other end of the room, beautifying a nosegay;
“[…] I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”
‘Boy, you take a big chance,’ Moses say. ‘Them pigeons there to beautify the park, not to eat. The people over here will kill you if you touch a fly.’
Officials are taking these old palm trees down in several parks and public spaces as they try to beautify the city, and prevent rotting tree trunks from falling on people.
gloss: To become beautiful.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: […] it must be a Prospect pleasing to God himself, to see his Creation for ever beautifying in his Eyes, and drawing nearer to him, by greater Degrees of Resemblance.
gloss: To make oneself beautiful.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: She’d felt silly when she first put cucumbers on her eyes (to diminish puffiness), or oatmeal on her face (to cleanse the pores and absorb excess oils), or egg yolks in her hair (to make it shine). Her use of groceries had even made my mother laugh, then wonder if she should start to beautify.
gloss: Synonym of pretty-print.
pos: verb
Related words: beautification
beautifier
beautifiable
beautifying
Derived words: rebeautify
unbeautify
Translations:
argent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English argent, from Old French argent m (“silver”), from Latin argentum n (“white money, silver”).
Inflected forms:
form: argents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arg.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arg.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: a.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The metal silver.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
gloss: Whiteness; anything that is white.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
poetic
uncountable
examples: The polish'd argent of her breast.
gloss: A moth of the genus Argyresthia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of silver or silver-coloured.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?
gloss: Of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.
The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
In the chief (top) of the arms are three wheels argent symbolising railway locomotives and rolling stock; […] The crest consists of a demi-lion rampant gules (red) holding between its paws a wheel argent similar to those included in the arms.
Synonyms: blanc
silver
Related words: Ag
Derived words: argentic
argentiferous
argentine
argentite
argentous
argentum nitricum
Translations:
retracement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: retracements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reversal in the trend of the price of a stock or commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
offside
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bridge
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From off- + side. Compare German Abseite (“remote area, backside”), German abseits (“out of the way, apart, aside”, adverb), Dutch afzijdig (“neutral, impartial”).
Base: side
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: more offside
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most offside
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: off-side
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: offsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: off-side
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Out of bounds.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
slang
examples: [Verse 2:Kano]:On-sight, thought he was onside, innit. Saw them guys, no shots fired innit. If you ain't real then don't ride, innit. That postcode, that's offside, innit.
gloss: To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: an offside diner
gloss: Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
pos: adj
gloss: To the side of a boat, opposite the primary side on which one paddles.
pos: adj
gloss: An offside play.
pos: noun
gloss: The side of a road vehicle furthest from the kerb: the right side if one drives on the left of the road.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: My offside wing mirror got snapped off.
They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.
gloss: The right-hand side of a working animal such as a horse or bullock, especially when in harness.
pos: noun
gloss: The side of a canal opposite the towpath.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Antonyms: nearside
Related words: off side
off-side rule
offside trap
Derived words: offside rule
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: крайпътен
roman: krajpǎten
lang: Finnish
word: tienvarsi-
lang: Finnish
word: tienvieri-
lang: German
word: am Straßenrand
lang: German
word: Straßenrand-
lang: Portuguese
word: junto à estrada
corrode
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English corrōden, that borrowed from Old French corroder or directly from Latin corrōdere (“to gnaw”), from con- (“completely”) + rōdere (“to gnaw”).
Base: rōdere
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: corrodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: corroding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: corroded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: corroded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My morale is being corroded day by day.
gloss: To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: corrodable
corrodible
corroding lead
corrodingly
noncorroding
Translations:
celerity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
geography
hydrology
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.
Latin celer
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin celeritāsder.
Old French celeriteeder.
English celerity
From Old French celeritee (compare French célérité), from Latin celeritas, from celer (“fast, swift”).
Inflected forms:
form: celerities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Speed, swiftness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: O most kind maid, / It was the swift celerity of his death, / Which I did think with slower foot came on, / That brain'd my purpose.
...when a new medium for attraction was started in the bazaar to which we have alluded, and her letter was dispatched with all possible celerity, insisting that her daughters "should work day and night"—so ran the document—for three weeks,...
The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
Warning messages were relayed to the signalmen at Slough East and Dolphin Junction boxes with such celerity that the up main signals were replaced to danger in front of the express before it finally stopped. The signalman at Dolphin Junction just had time to replace the down main signals and pull the emergency lever to lay detonators in front of the fast approaching 7 p.m. Paddington-Reading train.
The celerity of executions is a generally neglected issue in the empirical literature on deterrence and capital punishment.
As of 2006, celerity has disappeared entirely from the deterrence equation among both high- and low-volume executing jurisdictions.
When Churchill and Roosevelt were considering their declaration of the Atlantic Charter, it was Attlee, acting with a celerity and a clarity of purpose that belied his reputation for caution, who insisted on including “freedom from want” as one of its aims, making economic rights and, with them, a decent life for all, one of the official aims of the war.
gloss: The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The speed of an individual wave (as opposed to the speed of groups of waves); often denoted c.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
examples: Celerity of dispatching the Chappe telegraph [section title]
...and many endeavours have been made, not only to transmit signals with celerity, but also to transmit more than one communication at the same time along the same wire.
Related words: accelerate
celeripede
decelerate
Translations:
lang: French
word: célérité
lang: Malay
word: laju rambat
lang: Portuguese
word: celeridade
arrow-finger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: arrow-fingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The forefinger.
pos: noun
Translations:
demonstrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti
Proto-Italic *moneō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Italic *-trom
Proto-Italic *monestrom
Latin mōnstrum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin mōnstrō
Latin dēmōnstrō
Latin dēmōnstrātusbor.
English demonstrate
English -or
English demonstrator
From demonstrate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: demonstrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who demonstrates anything, or proves beyond doubt.
pos: noun
gloss: The forefinger.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes part in a demonstration; a protester.
pos: noun
gloss: One who demonstrates products in a retail environment; a merchandiser.
pos: noun
gloss: An item, particularly a vehicle, used in demonstrations to a customer or user.
pos: noun
examples: Young people have been involved in choosing which resources and educational toys are used to deliver sex and relationship education – including leaflets, videos and condom demonstrators.
gloss: An assistant to a lecturer.
pos: noun
gloss: One who teaches anatomy from the dissected parts.
pos: noun
Synonyms: index finger
Derived words: counterdemonstrator
demonstratorship
telestrator
Translations:
gold-finger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gold fingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ring finger.
pos: noun
Translations:
mid-finger
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
English finger
English mid-finger
From mid- + finger.
Inflected forms:
form: midfinger
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mid finger
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the middle of a finger, such as the intermediate phalange or proximal interphalangeal joint regions
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pinkie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch pinkje (literally “little finger”), which in the Holland dialects takes the form pinkie.
Inflected forms:
form: pinkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pinky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A little finger, the finger furthest on a hand from the thumb.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A little toe, the toe furthest on a foot from the big toe.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncommon
Translations:
compunction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English compunccion, borrowed from Old French compunction, from Late Latin compunctionem (“a pricking”), from Latin compunctus, the past participle of compungere (“to severely prick”), from com- + pungere (“to prick”).
Inflected forms:
form: compunctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Besides, to do De Joinville justice, he felt, too, a degree of kindly compunction for the former harsh judgment entertained of one who so little deserved it; and—for there is no such thing in the human mind as an unmixed sensation—he was struck both with the spirit with which she resented, and the proud humility with which she forgave the affront.
His age—his kindness, disarmed Pen’s anger somewhat, and made Arthur feel no little compunction for the deed which he was about to do.
[H]e would have had no compunction whatever in flinging him out of the highest window in Venice into the deepest water of the city.
[T]he instant the door had closed behind him, I leaned over and looked at the letters, which were face down on the table. I felt no compunction in doing so, for under the circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way I could.
But he felt, later, a little compunction. He had been violent, cruel with poor Hermione. He wanted to recompense her, to make it up.
As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa.
Translations:
pipi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori pipi (“Paphies australis”).
Inflected forms:
form: pipis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The edible saltwater clam Paphies australis, of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: She chuckles, and prises another shrinking pipi from its shell.
gloss: The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, endemic to Australia.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-South-Wales
examples: The sand whiting feeds on nippers, pipis, prawns and especially beach, squirt or blood worms and all these make terrific baits.
Pipis are very good baits for catching bream, trevally, whiting, particularly King George Whiting, leatherjackets and many others.
Bivalves are shells with two valves joined at a hinge, like oysters, pipis and many of the shells picked up on a modern beach.
Translations:
kludge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Perhaps from British military slang, possibly based on Scots word kludge or kludgie (“common toilet”), or perhaps from German klug (“clever”). Alternatively, possibly related to Polish klucz (“key, clue, main point”) and Russian ключ (ključ, “key, clue”).
Alternatively, perhaps from (a form related to) Germanic words such as Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Dutch kluit(je) or Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare and standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare klutz.)
There is evidence that kluge (which see) was once a separate word with similar meaning but separate derivation, but the spelling kludge was widely popularized in the US by an article in Datamation "How to Design a Kludge" (1962), and since then the two words have often been used as alternative spellings of each other.
According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge.
Inflected forms:
form: kludges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cludge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kluge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kludges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kludging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kludged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kludged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cludge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kluge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To build or use a kludge.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Antonyms: engineer
plan
Related words: kludgy
Translations: