yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bogeyman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bogey
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English bogeyman
From bogey + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: bogeymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bogieman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bogyman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boogieman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boogeyman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boogyman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: buggerman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bogeyperson, bogeywoman
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
gloss: Any make-believe threat, especially one used to intimidate or distract; a real threat greatly exaggerated for those purposes.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: Near-synonyms: bug-a-boo, bugaboo, chimera
The bogeyman of a Halloween-candy poisoner behind every door has animated occasional moral panics against trick-or-treating.
With no original ideas or solutions, they've now resorted to bringing out a tried-and-tested bogeymen in a last-ditch attempt to derail much-needed legislation.
Before the Internet it was television. And, if not that, it was radio, films, or games. All have taken their turn as the popular bogeyman, blighting the minds of the young.
If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.
Translations:
misspeak
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English misspeken, mispeken, mysspeken, from Old English *misspecan, missprecan (“to murmur”), equivalent to mis- + speak.
Base: speak
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misspeaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misspeaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misspoke
pos: verb
tags: past
form: misspoken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
examples: Either I misspoke or you misheard.
The president’s comments on Wednesday came after Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chamber’s only Black Republican, said that “white supremacy should be denounced at every turn. I think he misspoke, I think he should correct it. If he doesn’t correct it I guess he didn’t misspeak.”
In July, both Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves appeared to contradict the commitment to public ownership - but then subsequently said they had misspoken.
gloss: To speak insultingly or disrespectfully.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Related words: misphrase
misstate
misword
Derived words: misspeaker
Translations:
niglet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nig(ger) + -let. Modelled after piglet.
Base: nigger
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: niglets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nigglet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A black child.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
Translations:
misrule
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English mysrule; equivalent to mis- + rule.
Base: rule
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misrules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: misrules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misruling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misruled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misruled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The state of being ruled badly; disorder, lawlessness, anarchy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They followed their leader in regular procession, and the motley characters, which had waited his arrival, now crowded into the church in his train, shouting as they came,—“A hall, a hall! for the venerable Father Howleglas, the learned Monk of Misrule, and the Right Reverend Abbot of Unreason!”
Before and after the revolution, in the several states and in the country at large, pressing emergencies have occurred, periods of danger, trouble and dismay have arisen, when the community was full of misrule, and a particular state or the nation, seemed to be upon the brink of some fearful and disastrous change—yet the danger passed quickly away.
An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow.
gloss: Misgovernment; bad or unjust government.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But in the recent past, there had been plenty of accusations and instances of Henry's oppressive misrule, of which the execution of the earl of Warwick, Suffolk's cousin, was the most recent and emphatic example.
gloss: Of a trial judge, to make a bad decision in court.
pos: verb
gloss: To rule badly; to misgovern.
pos: verb
Related words: misruler
Lord of Misrule
Translations:
modulus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
programming
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from French module as Latin modulus. Doublet of module and mold.
Inflected forms:
form: moduli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The base with respect to which a congruence is computed.
pos: noun
gloss: The absolute value of a complex number.
pos: noun
gloss: A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance.
pos: noun
gloss: A scalar field controlling the shape and size of extra dimensions in a compactification.
pos: noun
gloss: An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
pos: noun
Synonyms: mod
%
Derived words: bulk modulus
elastic modulus
hydromodulus
modulo
modulus of elasticity
modulus of rigidity
modulus of rupture
rigidity modulus
shear modulus
Young's modulus
Translations:
obloquy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin obloquium (“contradiction”), from Latin obloquor (“speak against, contradict”).
Inflected forms:
form: obloquies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obloquie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Abusive language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is surprising, therefore, that this philosophy, which, in almost every instance, must be harmless and innocent, should be the subject of so much groundless reproach and obloquy.
Slowly her thoughts reverted to herself; the blood rushed to her brow. What would she be to-morrow? the mark for obloquy and ridicule! disgraced, and for what? to minister to the wretched vanity of one whom she loathed even more than she scorned.
The Territory suffered in consequence, and once more a storm of obloquy was cast upon her.
“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.[…]”
Much of this work of public repudiation is done through unglamorous politics: activism of civic groups and church organizations that educates citizens and the enactment of local policies, state laws, and other texts through which the people turn a legal ruling into an object of obloquy.
gloss: Disgrace.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her death I could have born, but the death of her honour has added obloquy and shame to that sorrow which bends my grey hairs to the dust!
His name undoubtedly stands very high in the present age, and will in all probability go down to posterity with more or less of renown or obloquy.
It was comparatively easy for him to accept himself as the son of a terribly light Frenchwoman; there seemed a deeper obloquy even than that in his having for his other parent a nobleman altogether wanting in nobleness.
gloss: A false accusation; malevolent rumors.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: It is as cruel as the grave to any man, when he knows his own rectitude of conduct, to have his hard services not only debased and underrated. But the Revolutionary soldiers are not the only people that endure obloquy.
"But, sir," said Mr. Brande—who, being a traveller himself, considered that their injuries were personal ones—"look at the long years of obloquy and wrong, of taunts and doubts, which embittered Bruce's return home."
Related words: oblocutor
obloquious
Translations:
prevarication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; duplicity, deceit; violation of duty, transgression”, literally “stepping out of line”), from praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; go astray; transgress”) + -tās. The virtually obsolete sense of deviation or transgression may have been influenced by an earlier stage of borrowing via Middle English prevaricacioun, prevaricacion (“deviation from the law; transgression”) from Anglo-Norman prevaricaciun (“transgression, violation of correct conduct”).
Inflected forms:
form: prevarications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Evasion of the truth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
The trumpet—vvill it ſound? the curtain riſe? And ſhow th' auguſt tribunal of the ſkies, / VVhere no prevarication ſhall avail, / VVhere eloquence and artifice ſhall fail, […]
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
gloss: Deviation from what is right or correct.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.
Related words: prevaricate
prevaricator
lie
equivocate
Translations:
Delaware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The river in the northeastern United States was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618). The people and the state were named for the river.
Inflected forms:
form: Delawares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Delawar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Lenape / Delaware people.
pos: noun
gloss: An American variety of grape, with compact bunches of small, sweet, amber-colored berries.
pos: noun
Translations:
sombre
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).
Base: umbra
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: sombrer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sombrest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: somber
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: somber
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: sombres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sombring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sombred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sombred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: somber
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
examples: The lady led him into a sombre hallway and disappeared. A moment later the windowless chamber was illuminated by the entry of a heavenly creature emitting a radiance prone to pierce the heart of any youth exposed to it.
All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
gloss: Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
examples: His tall and slender figure, dressed in sombre black, his hair of that peculiar reddish auburn so rarely seen, his flashing black eyes, in which a fitful fire seemed for ever burning; all combined to give something almost of a demoniac air ...
gloss: Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
examples: The dinner was silent and sombre; happily it was also short.
It was a wonder that he had not been a victim of the ferocious and summary executions which marked the course of that tyranny; for Guzman had ruled the country with the sombre imbecility of political fanaticism.
A sombre mood, very sombre in fact, thought Hennessey, as he stood against the wall observing the procedure for the police. He had not known a mood more sombre to have previously descended on the room.
gloss: Grave; extremely serious.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
examples: a sombre situation
gloss: To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
UK
Derived words: sombrely
sombreness
sombre rock chat
sombresome
sombre tit
somber tit
sombrish
unsombre
Translations:
amphitheater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: amphitheaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: American form of amphitheatre.
pos: noun
examples: The symphony warmed up inside the amphitheater while the audience crowded around outside.
Translations:
Iowa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Aiouez/Ayoés, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“the sleepy ones”).
Inflected forms:
form: Iowas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Iowa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.
pos: noun
Translations:
Idaho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from Plains Apache ídaahȩ́ (“Comanche”), though the Oxford English Dictionary states that the development of the state’s name from that word remains undocumented. The name Idaho was said to have been considered around 1860 for what was eventually called the Colorado Territory (now the state of Colorado) in 1861, and in 1863 was given to Idaho County (now part of Idaho); the county was named after a steamship launched on the Columbia River in 1860.
The eccentric political lobbyist George Maurice Willing, Jr. (c. 1829 – 1874) claimed to have coined the name after a girl named Ida, though saying it was a Shoshoni term meaning “gem of the mountains” (no such term exists), but evidence suggests that there was use of the name in Colorado pre-dating Willing’s arrival in the West in 1859.
The common noun (“type of potato”) is derived from the name of the state.
Inflected forms:
form: Idahos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In full Idaho potato: a variety of potato grown in Idaho, especially the Russet Burbank.
pos: noun
Translations:
Illinois
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Illinois, an adaptation of an Algonquian (perhaps Ojibwe) name derived from Miami ilenweewa (“he speaks the regular way”).
Inflected forms:
form: Illinois
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the above-mentioned tribe.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the Illinois Confederacy, its people or its culture.
pos: adj
Translations:
transaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. By surface analysis, trans- + action.
Inflected forms:
form: transactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
pos: noun
examples: The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.
gloss: A deal or business agreement.
pos: noun
gloss: An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.; personal interaction.
pos: noun
examples: I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.
gloss: The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
pos: noun
examples: But also: all of the banking transactions you carry out, each phrase you dictate to Alexa, each scan of a UPS package en route to your door, every record of a COVID-19 PCR test in your Labcorp account, every bucket of wings you DoorDashed.
gloss: An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
pos: noun
gloss: A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
pos: noun
tags: especially
plural
gloss: A social interaction.
pos: noun
Related words: piece of the action
Derived words: bed-and-breakfast transaction
cybertransaction
e-transaction
microtransaction
mistransaction
personal transaction
posttransaction
pretransaction
subtransaction
supertransaction
transactional
transactionalism
transactionalization
transactionally
transactionary
transaction block
transaction cost
transaction data
transaction journal
transactionless
transaction time
transaction utility
Translations:
remnant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Middle English, contraction of remenant, from Anglo-Norman remanant, present participle of remaindre, from Latin remaneō.
Inflected forms:
form: remnants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: remnaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: remenant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A small portion remaining of a larger thing or group; part of a former whole.
pos: noun
examples: The remnants of the Neanderthal race mixed with members of Homo sapiens.
20 ¶ And it shal come to passe in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Iacob, shall no more againe stay vpon him that smote them: but shall stay vpon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in trueth.
21 The remnant shall returne, euen the remnant of Iacob, vnto the mightie God.
22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall returne: the consumption decreed shall ouerflow with righteousnesse.
Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs,
And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs
A feeble Army, and an empty Senate,
Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.
Even while within sight of persons of the prevailing faith, there were individuals bold enough, by folding their arms and bending their head, to give distant and silent intimation that they recognized sister Magdalen, and honoured alike her person and her purpose. […] “You see,” she said, “my son, that the enemies have been unable altogether to suppress the good spirit, or to root out the true seed. Amid heretics and schismatics, spoilers of the church’s lands, and scoffers at saints and sacraments, there remains a remnant.”
gloss: The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
pos: noun
examples: Usually not enough to make an entire project by itself, remnants of several fabrics can be used to make quilts.
gloss: An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
pos: noun
examples: All the remnants were sold in the flea market.
A large number of remnants were taking up too much space, so we disposed of them.
gloss: The passionate, influential minority of radicals in a faction or party.
pos: noun
Synonyms: residue
remainder
lave
Related words: remain
remanent
Derived words: nova remnant
remnantal
supernova remnant
Translations:
revealed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the revelations of a divinity to humankind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Michigan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Ojibwe mishi-gami / ᒥᔑᑲᒥ (“giant lake”), referring to Lake Michigan.
Inflected forms:
form: Michigans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: MI
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: M
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A deke consisting of lifting the puck with the stick and throwing it under the top corner of the goal, while skating behind the net.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mississippi
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ojibwe misi-ziibi, ᒥᓯ᐀ᓰᐱ (misi-siipi, “great river”).
Inflected forms:
form: Missippi
pos: intj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: Mississippis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Missippi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
pos: intj
examples: Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.
gloss: A recitation of Mississippi (the interjection).
pos: noun
examples: I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.
We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board. In the summer sea when it was flat-calm and there was nothing else to do but dive down and lie on the clean, ribbed bottom and hold our breaths to count Mississippis we got pretty close to our goal.
Translations:
uncivilized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + civilized.
Base: civilized
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more uncivilized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncivilized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncivilised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Not having developed a civilization.
pos: adj
examples: The explorers wrote about the so-called uncivilized tribes.
gloss: Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
pos: adj
examples: utterly uncivilized
They described the practice as uncivilized.
gloss: Lacking good manners.
pos: adj
examples: uncivilized behavior
Derived words: uncivilizedly
uncivilizedness
Translations:
miscreant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English myscreaunt, miscreaunt, from Old French mescreant (1080) "mis-believer", present participle of mescreire "to misbelieve" (modern mécroire). Cognate with French mécréant.
Inflected forms:
form: more miscreant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miscreant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: miscreaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: miscreants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miscreaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
pos: adj
examples: How do we get fair treatment when confronting miscreant workers sometimes means no care at all?
gloss: Holding an incorrect religious belief.
pos: adj
gloss: One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
pos: noun
examples: The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.
Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant;
Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue,
Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:
gloss: One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
pos: noun
examples: A meagre Catchpole hurries me to fail; No Miscreant, so remorseless, ever tore
Thy Journals, Fog, or knock'd at Franklin's door
gloss: One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.
pos: noun
examples: Now wil the Chriſtian miſcreants be glad,
Ringing with ioy their ſuperſtitious belles:
And making bonfires for my ouerthrow.
But ere I die thoſe foule Idolaters
Shall make me bonfires with their filthy bones, […]
Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt,
That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train
Faire knighthood fowly shamed
Before thine eyes, thou mild and blessed one, said he, half aloud, are these miscreants daring to hold their market, and trafficking in their hellish drugs
Translations:
Tennessee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cherokee ᏔᎾᏏ (tanasi), believed to mean “winding river”.
Inflected forms:
form: Tennessees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Tennessee warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina.
pos: noun
examples: The Nashville's cousin, the Tennessee warbler, is just as badly named: neither can be found in Tennessee, except during migration. Tennessees vary a lot in fall; some are almost pure white below, mimicking spring plumage, while immatures like the one pictured on page 304 can be quite yellow below.
Translations:
Utah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Yuta, of Pueblo and/or Apache origin.
Inflected forms:
form: Utahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Timpanogos people.
pos: noun
Translations:
Washington
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Washington (the town in Tyne and Wear, northeast England): probably from the Old English place name Hwæssingatūn (literally “a settlement of the household of *Hwæssa”), from *Hwæssa (a Saxon chieftain's name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“homestead, settlement”). It was attested in 1096 as Wasindone. Hwæssa is of uncertain origin, said to possibly correspond to waþ (“hunt”) + sige (“victory”), or possibly related to hwæte (“wheat”). There are other theories; more on Wikipedia.
The surname derives from the town, and most places in the United States are named for George Washington.
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: Washingtons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A U.S. one-dollar bill, which features a portrait of George Washington.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: He could open that footlocker once in awhile^([sic]) and look at actual cash, loads of bills, tens, twenties, eagles, Grants, Lincolns, Washingtons.
Presidents: Cash money, folding bills, the green stuff, cabbage, lettuce, bucks, dough, i.e., Washingtons ($1), Jeffersons ($2), Lincolns ($5), Jacksons ($20), Grants ($50), McKinleys ($500), Clevelands ($1,000), Madisons ($5,000), and Wilsons ($100,000).
How much money would you have if you had 2 Grants, 4 Washingtons, and 1 Lincoln?
Linus is afraid of money. Not the smaller bills, the Washingtons and Lincolns, the Jacksons and Grants, but the larger sums, the cashier’s checks with multiple zeros, the stock portfolios and escrow accounts, afraid too of what they buy, the new cars with their leather stink, the first-class seats on airplanes, the cellular phones and fax modems.
9 Jacksons = / 3 Grants = / 2 Washingtons =
Joseph had missed the feeling of carrying a phat bankroll, one not padded with Washingtons and topped with Grants.
I would go over to his house wide eyed, ears open, and seeking any form of obtaining money to strengthen up my outfits. I would help him count money that would spread across the entire living room. This temptation of stealing some of those Franklins, Grants, Jacksons, Hamiltons, Lincolns, Jeffersons, and Washingtons was too strong for me to resist at twelve years old.
Not counting the loose change jiggling in my pocket, (and it sounded like a lot of pennies to me), I only had one Ben Franklin, two Ulysses S. Grants, a crinkly Andrew Jackson that someone had drawn an ink moustache on, two Lincolns and two Washingtons.
Translations:
deprave
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English depraven, from Old French depraver, from Latin dēprāvāre (“pervert, distort, corrupt”), from de- + pravus (“crooked, distorted, perverse, wicked”).
Inflected forms:
form: depraves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: depraving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: depraved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: depraved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: depravation
depraved
depravedness
depravity
Derived words: depravement
depravingly
Translations:
alexia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + -ia.
Base: λέξις
Affixes: ἀ-
Inflected forms:
form: alexias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
splotchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From an alteration (due to splotch) of Middle English splotty, equivalent to splotch + -y.
Base: splotch
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: splotchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: splotchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked or covered with large, irregular spots.
pos: adj
Translations:
spliff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Jamaican Creole, possibly a blend of split, referring to the ready-made wrap, + whiff, referring to the smell of the smoke.
Inflected forms:
form: spliffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spiff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: spleef
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: splif
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cannabis cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
Jamaica
UK
slang
examples: smoke a spliff
Pablo switched off the wipers and struck a match to light the spliff he had just finished building.
Danny takes another toke on the spliff and then passes it over to Griff, who accepts it and draws deep on it and then points with the lit end across the room at Gwenno like some strange weatherman indicating a pocket of high pressure.
“Well, well, well,” Ma Taffy says, sitting back and returning the spliff to her mouth. She exhales a cloud of ganja that envelops herself and the boy.
Translations:
freesia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: freesias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any flowering plant of the genus Freesia, native to South Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
equitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French équitable, from Old French, from equité (“equity”).
Inflected forms:
form: more equitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most equitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: æquitable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Marked by or having equity.
pos: adj
gloss: Fair, just, or impartial.
pos: adj
examples: I may justly require you to produce that argument; nor have you any pretence to refuse so equitable a demand.
Security can be obtained but by defined rights, and these can be ensured only by equitable laws.
gloss: Relating to the general principles of justice that correct or supplement the provisions of the law; relating to equity or courts of equity.
pos: adj
Related words: equity
equitabilis
Derived words: equitableness
equitable tolling
equitably
inequitable
unequitable
Translations:
geranium
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γερᾰ́νῐον (gerắnĭon), from γέρᾰνος (gérănos, “crane”) + -ῐον (-ĭon, diminutive suffix).
Base: γέρᾰνος
Affixes: -ῐον
Inflected forms:
form: geraniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gerania
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more geranium
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geranium
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, of family Geraniaceae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any flowering plant of the genus Pelargonium, of family Geraniaceae.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium (Pelargonium inquinans) .
pos: noun
gloss: Of a bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium (Pelargonium inquinans).
pos: adj
Related words: geraniol
alfilaria
storksbill
Geranium
Pelargonium
Derived words: apple geranium
Carolina geranium
coconut geranium
geranium bronze
geraniumlike
geranium oil
horseshoe geranium
Indian geranium
ivy geranium
lemon geranium
Martha Washington geranium
mint geranium
nutmeg geranium
peppermint geranium
regal geranium
rock geranium
rose geranium
scarlet geranium
strawberry geranium
wild geranium
zonal geranium
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: غُرْنُوق
roman: ḡurnūq
lang: Arabic
word: جِيرَانِيُوم
roman: jīrāniyūm
lang: Bulgarian
word: здравец
roman: zdravec
lang: Catalan
word: gerani
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 老鸛草 /老鹳草
lang: Czech
word: kakost
lang: Danish
word: storkenæb
lang: Danish
word: geranium
lang: Finnish
word: kurjenpolvi
lang: French
word: géranium
lang: Galician
word: xeranio
lang: Georgian
word: ნემსიწვერა
roman: nemsic̣vera
lang: German
word: Storchschnabel
lang: German
word: Geranie
lang: Greek
word: γεράνιον
roman: geránion
lang: Greek
word: γεράνι
roman: geráni
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γεράνιον
roman: geránion
lang: Hungarian
word: gólyaorr
lang: Irish
word: crobh fola
lang: Irish
word: geiréiniam
lang: Italian
word: geranio perenne
lang: Italian
word: geranio
lang: Japanese
word: ゼラニウム
roman: zeraniumu
lang: Mirandese
word: geránio
lang: Mirandese
word: malbas
lang: Mirandese
word: sardineira
lang: Norman
word: djérainium
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: geranium
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: storkenebb
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: geranium
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: storkenebb
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Ommeraunje
lang: Polish
word: bodziszek
lang: Polish
word: geranium
lang: Portuguese
word: gerânio
lang: Romanian
word: geraniu
lang: Russian
word: гера́нь
roman: geránʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zdravnjak
lang: Spanish
word: geranio
lang: Tagalog
word: heranyo
lang: Turkish
word: çobaniğnesi
lang: Turkish
word: leylekgagası
lang: Turkish
word: leylekayağı
lang: Turkish
word: leylekburnu
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چوبان ایكنهسی
roman: çoban iğnesi
lang: Volapük
word: gerum
lang: Welsh
word: pig yr aran
lang: Welsh
word: troedrudd
lang: Finnish
word: oranssinpunainen
lang: Italian
word: geranio
heartsease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heart + -s- + ease: an infusion made from the plant is traditionally believed to cure lovesickness.
Base: heart
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: heartseases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heart's-ease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: heart's ease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy.
pos: noun
Translations:
outwith
Part of speech: prep
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outwith, outewith, a transposed variant of Middle English withoute (“without”). Cognate to Scots ootwi. By surface analysis, out + with.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Outside; beyond; outside of.
pos: prep
tags: Scotland
examples: All at once he’d wanted to buy a place there, but it had been too isolated for his wife – and outwith their means anyway.
2004, Official Journal of the European Union, 24.7.2004, C190/10, reporting on a judgment of the European Court of Justice.
Finally, the Court failed to examine, and thus to show, in what way such differentiated treatment is objectively justified. The fact that it is the result of circumstances outwith the control of the Communities does not constitute such justification […] .
It is not acceptable to have EU-US deals on extradition, information collection and exchange, and border controls which are cooked up in secret and outwith the democratic control of the European and national parliaments.
Although Burton’s work lies outwith the scope of the current book, Cockburn’s response reveals a great deal about how Hume and his works were received in Scotland in the half century after his death […].
These spent convictions for most purposes only fall outwith the scope of the exception of section 4(3)(b) if they are not included in a higher level disclosure sent in connection with the profession, office, type of employment, occupation, decision or proposed decision to which the exception would otherwise apply.
To others, it is an escape, a chance to think of ways of life outwith those we experience now […].
Trams are one of the easiest ways to get to and from the airport with fast and frequent services to Edinburgh city centre. Trams depart every 7 minutes, between 7am and 7pm, and every 15 minutes outwith these hours, with an end-to-end journey of just 30 minutes.
gloss: Outside, outwardly; outwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: within
Translations:
hellebore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ellebore, from Old French ellebre, elebore, from Medieval Latin eleborus, via Latin from Ancient Greek ἑλλέβορος (helléboros), possibly from ἄλκη (álkē, “elk [moose]”) βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”). The initial h was restored in English to reflect the Ancient Greek etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: hellebores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the common garden flowering plants of the genus Helleborus, in family Ranunculaceae, having supposed medicinal properties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Aretæus recommends moderate venæsection to be repeated, if the patient is plethoric, purging with black hellebore, and in some cases emetics; nourishing diet.
Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation[.]
1998, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine, Volume III: Roman Medicine, page 122,
Then the physician would use the king of remedies, the powerful one, hellebore: […] We suspect that after a sufficient number of administrations of hellebore the patient, if he had not done so before, would declare himself cured.
It's Virgil who sends me to the hellebores. He mentions them as a component of an ointment to be applied to sheep suffering from skin diseases. The ointment comprises “olive oil lees mixed with silver slag, sulphur, pitch from Mount Ida, wax rich in oil, sea-squill, as well, and strong hellebore and black bitumen.”
gloss: A toxic extract of certain false hellebores (Veratrum album or Veratrum viride), formerly used as a pesticide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1915 July 14, Leland Ossian Howard, Robert Harris Hutchison, House Flies, US Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 679, page 15,
Of the numerous substances tried, the one which seems best to fulfill these conditions is powdered hellebore. Some of the powdered hellebore in use is prepared from the roots of a plant which botanists know as Veratrum viride, and which is popularly known as Indian polk or itch weed.
Hellebore is a classic insecticide that has not found much favor in today's pest-control recommendations, though it was certainly effective for its time. In some organic pest-control books information on hellebore can still be found, but by and large its use went out of favor in the 1920s and 1930s.
Related words: veratridine
Derived words: American hellebore
American white hellebore
bastard hellebore
big hellebore
black hellebore
European white hellebore
false hellebore
fetid hellebore (Helleborus foetidus
green false hellebore
green hellebore
helleboric
helleborin
helleborine
helleborism
hellebortin
stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus
swamp hellebore
white hellebore
winter hellebore
Translations:
hollyhock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English holihocke, holyhokke, holihoc, from holi (“holy”) + hocke, hokke, hoc (“mallow”) (from Old English hoc (“marsh mallow”). The modern hollyhock was probably unknown in England until the 15th century, so usage before then no doubt referred to some other mallow.
Apparently so called for being brought from the Holy Land; compare an old name for it in Medieval Latin cauli Sancti Cuthberti (“St. Cuthbert's cole”).
Inflected forms:
form: hollyhocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
pos: noun
examples: No cottage in Coughton boasted taller hollyhocks, nor finer Michaelmas daisies in the autumn than Dame Magdalen’s almshouses; […]
Translations:
hyacinth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English jacinth, partly from Old French jacincte, from Medieval Latin jacintus, and partly from Old English iacinþ, from Medieval Latin jacinthus, both from Latin hyacinthus, from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “any of several dark blue flowers”), ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language. Re-Latinized in the 16th century.
Inflected forms:
form: hyacinths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, native to the Mediterranean and South Africa.
pos: noun
examples: On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue.
gloss: A variety of zircon, ranging in color from brown, orange, reddish-brown and yellow; a jacinth.
pos: noun
Derived words: Cape hyacinth
common hyacinth
grape hyacinth
hyacinth bean
hyacinthine
hyacinthlike
hyacinth macaw
hyacinth of Peru
hyacinth orchid
lily hyacinth
pine hyacinth
starch hyacinth
star hyacinth
summer hyacinth
tassel hyacinth
water hyacinth
wild hyacinth
wood hyacinth
Translations:
larkspur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lark + spur, so named for the spur's shape, which resembles the hind toe of a lark.
Compound parts: lark
spur
Inflected forms:
form: larkspurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A delphinium: any plant of the genus Delphinium, especially Delphinium ajacis and other plants of the subgenus Delphinium subg. Consolida
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lobelia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Internationalism. Learned borrowing from translingual Lobelia.
Inflected forms:
form: lobelias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants.
pos: noun
Translations:
hovercraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: transport
vehicles
Etymology: From hover + -craft. Originally a trademark by Saunders-Roe Limited, a British aero- and marine-engineering company.
Base: hover
Affixes: -craft
Inflected forms:
form: hovercraft
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hovercrafts
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
pos: noun
examples: The snapshot shows the whale parallel above the water almost as if it’s competing in belly-flop contest, doing a midair plank or floating across the bay like a hovercraft.
Translations:
risible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French risible and directly from Late Latin rīsibilis, from Latin rīsus (“laughter”) + -ibilis, from the perfect passive participle of rīdeō (“laugh”).
Inflected forms:
form: more risible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most risible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to laughter
pos: adj
examples: the risible muscles
A joke merely affected her with silent convulsive twitchings, as though the risible faculties struggled somewhere within her but could not bring the laugh to birth.
gloss: Provoking laughter; ludicrous; ridiculous; humorously insignificant
pos: adj
examples: "[…] I hope you find nothing risible in my complaisance?" replied his companion, something jealously.
Do you find it risible when I say the name, 'Biggus Dickus'?
Whelan called the offer "risible", describing it as a "land grab for all the terms and conditions we have negotiating over the years". He demanded a no-strings pay offer that recognises the "significant cost of living increases" since the last pay rise in 2019.
gloss: Easily laughing; prone to laughter
pos: adj
examples: We are got indeed into a merry world, Laughing is our main buſiniſs; as if becauſe it has bin made part of the Definition of man, that he his Riſible, his man-hood conſiſted in nothing elſe.
She was half risible, half concerned.
Related words: deridable
derisible
Derived words: irrisible
risibleness
risibly
Translations:
dilemma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
First attested 1523, from Late Latin dilemma, from Ancient Greek δίλημμα (dílēmma, “ambiguous proposition”), from δι- (di-, “having two of”) + λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, proposition”), equivalent to di- + lemma.
Base: lemma
Affixes: di-
Inflected forms:
form: dilemmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dilemmata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
pos: noun
examples: A strong dilemma in a desperate case! / To act with infamy, or quit the place.
gloss: Any difficult circumstance or problem.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
pos: noun
gloss: Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
Synonyms: Catch-22
dilemma
Hobson's choice
Morton's fork
no-win situation
quandary
Sophie's choice
Related words: lemma
trilemma
tetralemma
pentalemma
polylemma
between a rock and a hard place
between the devil and the deep blue sea
between Scylla and Charybdis
Buridan's ass
catch-22
damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
doomed if you do, doomed if you don't
predicament
conundrum
have the wolf by the ear
lose-lose
spanner
in a dilemma
Derived words: agency dilemma
centipede's dilemma
dilemmalike
dilemmanade
dilemmatic
dilemmaticity
dilemmic
Euthyphro dilemma
false dilemma
Faustian dilemma
Goldman's dilemma
gunfighter's dilemma
Heinz dilemma
innovator's dilemma
on the horns of a dilemma
table-maker's dilemma
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُعْضِلَة
roman: muʕḍila
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 二難推理 /二难推理
roman: èrnántuīlǐ
lang: Esperanto
word: dilemo
lang: Finnish
word: dilemma
lang: Galician
word: dilema
lang: Hebrew
word: דילמה
roman: diléma
lang: Polish
word: dylemat
lang: Portuguese
word: dilema
lang: Spanish
word: dilema
lang: Tagalog
word: awampili
ananas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).
Inflected forms:
form: ananases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ananasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pineapple.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of vegetable Life […].
The Apple Tree delights evry Eye, while the Anana gives no Notice of its future excellence.
gloss: Bromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.
pos: noun
Translations: