yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
verbatim
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested in English since 1481 (therefore considered a Middle English derivation by some): from Medieval Latin verbātim (“word for word”), from Latin verbum (“word”) + -ātim (adverbial suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more verbatim
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most verbatim
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: verbatims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have copied his speech verbatim, so this is exactly what he said, word for word.
[…] in several instances Mancini’s text is virtually reproduced verbatim by Bellori.¹²⁰
gloss: Orally; verbally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: I […]am not able
Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen
gloss: Corresponding with the original word for word.
pos: adj
examples: Date unknown: Joint Committee on Printing Congress of the United States, General Statement of Procedure for Verbatim Reporting of Proceedings in Senate Chamber, page five:
Ironically, verbatim note taking can interfere with listening attentively.
gloss: Able to take down a speech word for word, especially in shorthand.
pos: adj
examples: Some States require voice writers to pass a test and to earn State licensure. As a substitute for State licensure, the National Verbatim Reporters Association offers three national certifications to voice writers: Certified Verbatim Reporter (CVR), the Certificate of Merit (CM), and Real-Time Verbatim Reporter (RVR). Earning these certifications is sufficient to be licensed in States where the voice method of court reporting is permitted.
gloss: A word-for-word report of a speech.
pos: noun
Synonyms: by heart
in so many words
word for word
wordmeal
Related words: gradatim
literatim
seriatim
Derived words: verbatim et literatim
nonverbatim
verbatimness
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: һүҙмә-һүҙ
roman: hüźmə-hüź
lang: Bulgarian
word: дословен
roman: dosloven
lang: Czech
word: doslovný
lang: Dutch
word: letterlijk
lang: Finnish
word: sananmukainen
lang: Finnish
word: sanatarkka
lang: Finnish
word: kirjaimellinen
lang: French
word: littéral
lang: Georgian
word: სიტყვასიტყვითი
roman: siṭq̇vasiṭq̇viti
lang: Georgian
word: ზედმიწევნითი
roman: zedmic̣evniti
lang: Georgian
word: ზუსტი
roman: zusṭi
lang: Greek
word: κατά λέξη
roman: katá léxi
lang: Icelandic
word: orðréttur
lang: Icelandic
word: orðrétt
lang: Lithuanian
word: pažodinis
lang: Norwegian
word: ordrett
lang: Polish
word: dosłowny
lang: Portuguese
word: verbatim
lang: Portuguese
word: palavra por palavra
lang: Russian
word: досло́вный
roman: doslóvnyj
lang: Slovene
word: dobeseden
lang: Spanish
word: trasuntado
lang: Spanish
word: trasuntivo
lang: Swedish
word: ordagrann
Disneyfication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Disney + -ification, referring to the American mass media and entertainment conglomerate Disney. Compare earlier Disneyfied and later Disneyfy.
Base: Disney
Affixes: -ification
Inflected forms:
form: disneyfication
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Disneyification
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Disnification
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process whereby something is Disneyfied.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He may even be having his first doubts about the neon chrome artyfake Disneyfication of America.
Cultural diversity mirrors the biological and geographical diversity of our planet. ’Disneyfication’, like economic globalization, tends to ride roughshod over local variety. So baseball hats, blue jeans and running shoes become the uniform of teenagers in both Budapest and Bangalore while Western TV shows promote the illusion of limitless wealth.
The Disneyfication of Tibet
How tourism has become a tool of occupation.
Given that Onward itself is a family-friendly project, the film thrives on these self-aware digs at Disneyfication; any good D&D mission should have a sense of real danger, so it’s worth pointing out how that’s missing from so much mainstream entertainment.
The importation of New World featherworks into Europe was a journey of dilution, degradation and eventual loss of meaning - a banal Disneyfication of indigenous dignity.
Translations:
anagram
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Late 16th century, either from Middle French anagramme or Latin anagramma, formed on Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “up, back”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”). Analyzable as ana- (“up, back”) + -gram (“letter”).
Affixes: ana-
-gram
Inflected forms:
form: anagrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anagramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: anagrams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: anagramming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: anagrammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: anagrammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: anagramme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
pos: noun
examples: As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in "team", but there is an "I" in "pie". And there's an "I" in "meat pie". Anagram of "meat" is "team"… I don't know what he's talking about.
gloss: To form anagrams.
pos: verb
Translations:
anyways
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From any + adverbial genitive of way (compare always).
Inflected forms:
form: anyway
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In any way or respect, at all.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: it behoves them[…]to remove all objects, causes, companies, occasions, as may anyways molest him […].
...we are bound to assert that we never heard either in his public discourses or private conversation, anything that might tend towards encouraging sedition, or anyways insolencing the government
gloss: Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
conjunctive
informal
not-comparable
examples: "Anyways," said the damsel, "I am glad punishment followed, and I say so."
Translations:
devilish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English develissh, develyssh, equivalent to devil + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian düvelsk, düüwelsk (“devilish”), West Frisian duvelsk (“devilish”), Dutch duivels (“devilish”), German Low German düvelsk (“devilish”), German teuflisch (“devilish”), Danish djævelsk (“devilish”), Swedish djävulsk (“devilish”),
Norwegian djevelsk (“devilish”).
Base: devil
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more devilish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most devilish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a devil.
pos: adj
examples: Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes, / And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe, / In loue of honor and defence of right / Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe, / Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.
[C]urrently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]
gloss: Evil, wicked.
pos: adj
examples: For I abhore to smatter / Of one so deuyllysshe a matter.
[S]ome turne agayne by grace frõ their deadly hereſies into yͤ life of faith, ⁊ ſome be ſo ſore nowſeled in the falſe hereſies, ⁊ in their obſtinate frowardneſſe take ſuch a deueliſhe delight, yͭ finally thei die therin as did Baifield, Bainã, ⁊ Tewkeſbury.
[…] devilish cruelty - for devilish cruelty it was, as three or four drivers armed with whips, lingered up and down the slowly-staggering file of Indians, and avenged every moment's lagging, even every stumble, by a blow of the cruel [whips].
[T]he devilish destructiveness of modern conventional weapons and the need for future Saddam-busters to control their spread. (Think of the damage that a Saddam with longer-range missiles, cleverer warheads and better defences [could do][…].)
gloss: Roguish or mischievous.
pos: adj
examples: a devilish grin
[S]he gave me that lovely devilish smile that said: I like liberty, and not necessarily accountability.
gloss: Excessive, extreme.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: A devilish effort yielded a devilish success.
I had a devilish time moving the wardrobe downstairs.
Derived words: devilishly
devilishness
undevilish
Translations:
gut-wrenching
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gut + wrenching.
Compound parts: gut
wrenching
Inflected forms:
form: more gut-wrenching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gut-wrenching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sickening.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Difficult to tolerate.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Related words: heartrending
nerve-racking
stomach-churning
stomach-turning
stomach-wrenching
Derived words: gut-wrenchingly
Translations:
minotaur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Minotaure, Mynataur, mynatour, Mynotaur, Mynotawre; see Minotaur.
Inflected forms:
form: minotaurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything resembling the Greek monster, whether by appearance or by strength.
pos: noun
Translations:
passenger
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
government
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Old French passagier with intrusive n (see etymology of messenger).
Inflected forms:
form: passengers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: passengers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: passengering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: passengered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: passengered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
pos: noun
examples: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
gloss: Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
gloss: A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
pos: noun
gloss: A migratory bird, a bird of passage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Meander, thou my faithfull Counſellor,
Declare the cauſe of my conceiued griefe,
Which is (God knowes) about that Tamburlaine:
That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time,
Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers: […]
gloss: A passer-by; a wayfarer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: These are my mates, that make their wills their law, / Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
[The boys] have taken possession of the turnpike road to play the before-mentioned games, to the serious inconvenience of the passengers, one of whom, a woman, was yesterday knocked down by a nurr which struck her in the head.
gloss: A ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A moth, Dysgonia algira
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
pos: noun
gloss: To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: blind passenger
chance passenger
copassenger
foot passenger
non-passenger
nonpassenger
passenger car
passenger compartment
passenger dedicated line
passenger kilometer
passengerless
passenger liner
passenger mile
passenger pigeon
passenger princess
passenger seat
passenger ship
passenger-side
passenger train
passenger virus
preighter
way passenger
Translations:
coronary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin corōnārius, from corōna (“crown”).
Inflected forms:
form: more coronary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coronary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a crown or garland.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The coronary thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers by that figure into which they were contrived, but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.
The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus.
gloss: Encircling something (like a crown), especially with regard to the arteries or veins of the heart.
pos: adj
Derived words: aortocoronary
bicoronary
coronarography
coronaropathy
coronary artery
coronary band
coronary cushion
coronary heart disease
coronary sinus
coronary steal
coronary thrombosis
coronary vein
extracoronary
intracoronary
mammacoronary
noncoronary
percutaneous coronary intervention
pericoronary
postcoronary
supracoronary
transcoronary
Translations:
iffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English if
English -y
English iffy
From if + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: iffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: iffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of dubious authenticity, legitimacy or legality.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He's selling new CD players for £20 each – that sounds a bit iffy to me.
gloss: Uncertain or chancy; risky.
pos: adj
examples: The weather is still iffy for Saturday's rocket launch.
That potato salad smells a bit iffy. Don't chance it — it's not worth salmonellosis.
“He’s underground, anyway, so reception would be iffy.”
"Definitely something iffy, that's for sure.”
Synonyms: dicey
dodgy
dubious
fishy
iffy
questionable
shady
shonky
sketchy
Antonyms: absolute
reliable
solid
Derived words: iffily
iffiness
Translations:
whiffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whiff
English -y
English whiffy
From whiff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: whiffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: whiffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad smell.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The whiffy smell of the compost pile made me turn away.
The clothes smelled whiffy after being left in the damp laundry room.
Translations:
stiffy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stiff
English -y
English stiffy
From stiff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: stiffies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An erection of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Fred's got a bulge in his pants — you can tell that he's got a stiffy.
gloss: A computer floppy disk of the kind supplied in a stiff plastic outer shell.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: Never leave home without a spare stiffy disc in your bag.
gloss: An extended magazine of a gun.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Oh you know I like to mac
When they don’t talk back
I'll be there in a jiffy with a stiffy
Niggas iffy, uh, blicky got the stiffy, uh
You niggas too iffy, my Glock got a stiffy
gloss: A rigidly conformative person; a square or goody-goody.
pos: noun
Related words: computer
floppy
CD
flash drive
Translations:
explanation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin explanatio (“an explanation, interpretation”), from explanare (“explain”); see explain. Morphologically explain + -ation. Displaced native Old English racu.
Base: explain
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: explanations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: explaination
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of explaining.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The explanation was long and drawn-out.
gloss: Something that explains or makes understandable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An explanation for the UFO sightings was easily found.
The socialist will, of course, see in this merely a proof that the more intelligent person is today bound to become a socialist. But this is far from being the necessary or even the most likely explanation.
gloss: A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This little explanation with Mr. Knightley gave Emma considerable pleasure.
Related words: explain
explanatory
explicative
explicator
explicatory
Derived words: counterexplanation
explainification
explanationism
explanationist
explorable explanation
inference to the best explanation
misexplanation
nonexplanation
reexplanation
subexplanation
Translations:
biggy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English big
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English biggy
From big + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: biggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biggie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something large in size in comparison to similar things.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The wardrobe is the biggy – we'd better move that first.
There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
Let's start with the biggy - the role of Network Rail.
gloss: Something impressive in comparison to similar things.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Here's the biggy: she's only getting divorced!
gloss: Big deal.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: - Dude, I forgot to return your book!
- No biggie: I don't need it for another week.
gloss: A person of importance or power, especially in the entertainment industry.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Related words: no biggie
Translations:
gobshite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gob (“mouth”) + shite (“excrement”).
Compound parts: gob
shite
Inflected forms:
form: gobshites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: What’s that gobshite talking about now?
That whereas for anie time this foure and twentie yeare they haue plaid the fantasticall gub-shites and goose-giblets in Print, […]
gloss: A person of very poor judgment and unpleasant character.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: LaTisha […] left school a head-banging argumentative gobshite with no qualifications who wouldnʼt take no orders from no one.
“Water Lily of the Nile. That is what they call it. It’s a medicinal flower. It’s a narcotic that the Egyptians used to bury with their dead in order to help ease the sufferings of the afterlife. And according to the Compendium Narcoticum, it is the only drug that helps with the pain of being a wraith. Very hard to come by. And it is said that those little gobshites will do anything for it.”
Well, we have to start with Aleksandr Dugin, ideologue and genocide-inciting gobshite.
gloss: Nonsense; speech or writing that is untrue, meaningless, or otherwise unwelcome.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: “You do work on the brick when you raise it. The Earth doesn’t do work on the brick as it falls.”
With all due respect, that’s a load of gobshite, John.
Aw they were always talking gobshite as far as I was concerned, but for most bods, if it was in black and white it was true.
Translations:
figgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fig + -y. However, figgy pudding has a different origin; see Figgy pudding#Etymology on Wikipedia.
Base: fig
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: figgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: figgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or like figs.
pos: adj
examples: This cake has a figgy taste.
gloss: Containing figs.
pos: adj
Derived words: figginess
figgy-dowdy
figgy duff
Translations:
ciggy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ciggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ciggie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: “Open early and close up late, get people before work and get people after work, not just the dear bloody housewifes going out for a packet of ciggies and a chit-chat.”
Translations:
piggy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: From pig + -y (diminutive suffix).
Base: pig
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: piggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piggie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: piggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: piggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A pig (the animal).
pos: noun
tags: childish
examples: This little piggy went to market.
"Where might you come from?" When she had got a satisfactory answer to this, she continued, while she repeatedly addressed herself to the young pigs: "Ah, so! you are at school at the parson's, eh! - hush, hush! little piggies then!"
gloss: A guinea pig.
pos: noun
tags: childish
examples: If you're dead-set on breeding your piggies, here are some things to remember and purchase[…]
gloss: A toe.
pos: noun
tags: childish
slang
examples: He has such cute piggies!
gloss: A pig (greedy person).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
endearing
examples: Can't you finish your dinner? You've been a piggy, haven't you?
gloss: A member of the police.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: Paypig.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
gloss: Resembling a pig.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a pig.
pos: adj
examples: He himself, who had always tried to be gentle and good (whatever “good” meant in this crazy world), had married Lina, who had developed into a silent, piggy woman, and had gotten Seth by her.
gloss: Resembling a pig.
pos: adj
examples: Finding quality flms of a sexual nature is difficult. Many of the films we have investigated for this program are down-right piggy. I wanted films of a sensual interest that also had some political sensibilities, especially in regards to women.
Derived words: pay piggy
piggy bank
piggy flu
piggy in the middle
piggy move up
piggy stick
piggy-wig
piggy wiggy
piggily
pigginess
Translations:
brickie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brick
English -ie
English brickie
From brick + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: brickies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bricklayer.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
slang
Translations:
gob
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gobbe (also Middle English gobet), from Old French gobet, gobe (“lump, mouthful”), from Transalpine Gaulish *gobbo- (“neb, muzzle”).
Inflected forms:
form: gobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lump of soft or sticky material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309,
These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
gloss: Saliva or phlegm.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
gloss: A whoopie pie.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
regional
gloss: A large amount.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: gobs of money
The story of “Strangers” is a cliché of well-to-do Manhattan: Husband makes gobs of money. Wife, despite her august educational pedigree, stays at home to raise the kids, relinquishing career and otherwise idling in the make-work realm of school boards and volunteering.
gloss: To gather into a lump.
pos: verb
examples: 1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60,
I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
gloss: To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
Derived words: dough gob
glob
gobber tooth
gobble
gobby
gobful
gob iron
gobline
gob off
goboon
gobshite
gobsmacked
gobsmacker
gobsmacking
gobstopper
gob-string
gobstruck
gob up
goo-gob
shut one's gob
rent-a-gob
Translations:
billy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Perhaps a variant of bully (“companion, mate, comrade”). Compare Scots billie (“a comrade; companion”). Compare also Middle Low German billig (“equitable, reasonable, lawful, fitting, according to natural law, just”).
Inflected forms:
form: billies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fellow, companion, comrade, mate; partner, brother.
pos: noun
gloss: A good friend.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
examples: Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
gloss: A billy goat.
pos: noun
examples: 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62,
Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.
In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.
gloss: A silk handkerchief.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]
Derived words: billy boy
billy buttons
billy-cock
billygoat
billy-goat
billyhood
billy-o
billy-oh
hillbilly
silly-billy
Silly Billy
silly billy
swampbilly
Translations:
willy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wilȝe, from Old English wiliġ (“willow”). More at willow.
Inflected forms:
form: willies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: willying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: willied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: willied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cleanse wool or cotton, etc. with a willy, or willow.
pos: verb
Translations:
Gollum
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol but was later named Gollum after his habit of making “a horrible swallowing noise in his throat”.
The name Sméagol comes from Old English smeagan (“to question, scrutinize”).
Inflected forms:
form: Gollums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gollums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Golluming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Gollumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Gollumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
pos: noun
gloss: To act like Gollum, the fictional character.
pos: verb
examples: Mike Biggins Gollumed...
"After a few years it still amazes me that there are so many egocentric 'facilitators' trying to pass 'enlightenment' to the uneducated via Apz... but... APZ is MINE, it's MY PRECIOUS!"
And it came to pass that he spent his life festering in the cayons and caves of his own poisoned min(es)d!
Translations:
slinky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slink
English -y
English slinky
From slink + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: slinkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slinkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Furtive, stealthy or catlike.
pos: adj
examples: “But of all the awful, second-rate girls I ever met, she’s the worst! […] She’s a sly, creepy, slinky, made-up, insincere vampire! She’s common! She’s awful! She’s a cat!”
The concert touched on all this. You could sense history in the various dances of the pianists’ left hands: the slinky syncopations of habanera; the manic but metronomic bounce, in swing, as if between two trampolines.
gloss: Thin; lank; lean.
pos: adj
tags: Northumbria
dated
examples: Do you see that are tall, limber-timbered, slinky-lookin' man with the blue cloak and two long black cords a-hangin' from it with almighty big tassels a-danglin' to the eend^([sic]) of it like the lamp-rope there, a-carryin' part of the cloak folded on one arm like a Roman senator, and t'other arm kimber, with his hat cockaded military like?--well, that is General Conrad Corncob.
"Oh—that," said Mrs. Savaker, jerking her head in the direction of the defunct exciseman; "that war my husband, and war thow't a gude likeness. But it's not. It's not half red enough, an' a deal too slinky in the shouls for him."
gloss: Of a garment: close-fitting; clingy.
pos: adj
examples: The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
Synonyms: surreptitious
willowy
snug
Derived words: slinkily
slinkiness
Translations:
nippy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
weather
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nip
English -y
English nippy
From nip + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: nippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fast; speedy.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: The jaunty 1969 crime caper about the cockney casanova of crime who pulls off a bullion heist in Turin during an England versus Italy football match using three nippy Mini Coopers—red, white and blue—speaks of a forgotten age in England[…].
A Rolls Royce will not do if you need an economical, nippy car that is easy to park.
Small, nippy and ever present in the England set-up, the Fulham winger [Rachel Yankey] is one of the the^([sic]) most recognisable faces in the game.
gloss: Rather cold.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Gosh, it's a bit nippy today: I'd better wear my gloves.
Raj took a deep breath, and reached out to give Armitage the gentlest little stroke. “It’s nippy out. Let’s take him inside.”
Hertfordshire: On a nippy day in our local wood, we found a field mouse. It was a mouse with a plan[.]
gloss: Inclined to nip; bitey.
pos: adj
examples: Spoiling may create a pushy, nippy dog that lacks confidence.
gloss: Annoying; irritating.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
informal
gloss: Sharp in taste.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
gloss: Spicy tasting.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
gloss: Curt.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
gloss: Parsimonious.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
Derived words: nippily
nippiness
Nippy
Translations:
Aphrodite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē) (see it for more).
Inflected forms:
form: Aphrodites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Aphrodité
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Aphrodite Giant (“breed of cat”).
pos: noun
Translations:
fumarole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fumarola. Likely a doublet of femerell. By surface analysis, fume + -ar + -ola.
Inflected forms:
form: fumaroles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opening in the ground that emits steam and gases due to volcanic activity.
pos: noun
examples: Masaya did not offer an opportunity to sample high-temperature fumaroles, but its neighbors, Momotombo and Cerro Negro volcanoes, are noted for their fumarolic activity
Translations:
guardian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law
military
politics
video-games
war
Etymology: From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: guardians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
pos: noun
examples: Thoſe who ought to be the guardians of propriety are often the perverters of it. Hence Accidence for Accidents, Prepoſtor for Prepoſitor and Conſtur for Conſtrue[…]
I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.
As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.
gloss: A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
pos: noun
gloss: A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
pos: noun
gloss: A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
pos: noun
gloss: A major or final enemy; boss.
pos: noun
examples: Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.
'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'
gloss: A servicemember of the United States Space Force.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: coguardian
Earth Guardian
gate guardian
guard
guardenage
guardian ad litem
guardianage
guardian angel
Guardian Cap
guardian cell
guardiancy
Guardianesque
guardianess
guardianless
guardianlike
guardian lion
guardianly
guardian of the peace
guardianship
testamentary guardian
underguardian
Translations:
castration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English castrate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English castration
From castrate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: castrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of removing the testicles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration
Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages
Probed and beaten
A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness
gloss: Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Synonyms: orchiectomy
Related words: castrate
castrati
emasculation
testiclectomy
desex
geld
neuter
spay
Derived words: alimentary castration
anti-castration
autocastration
cashtration
castration anxiety
chemical castration
elastration
hemicastration
immunocastration
postcastration
semicastration
Translations:
unrestrained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more unrestrained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrestrained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: immoderate; not restrained or held in check; inordinate (literary).
pos: adj
examples: The party was a scene of unrestrained debauchery.
gloss: spontaneous, natural and informal; unconstrained
pos: adj
examples: Their meeting was one of unrestrained joy.
gloss: Not subject to physical restraint.
pos: adj
examples: Managing unrestrained prisoners alone in any environment is inherently dangerous and should not be tolerated.
In an accident there will often be injuries, as people are unrestrained. But in the case of Sandilands, I don't think anyone would have foreseen the seven deaths and 62 injuries that occurred when the tram overturned [...].
Related words: restrain
restrained
Derived words: unrestrainedly
unrestrainedness
Translations:
obligation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).
Inflected forms:
form: obligations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I feel I'm under obligation to attend my sister's wedding, even though we have a very frosty relationship.
The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast.
The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise.
How the Vice President discharges this constitutional obligation is not a question of his loyalty to the President any more than it would be a test of a President’s loyalty to his Vice President
whether the President assented to the impeachment and prosecution of his Vice President for the commission of high crimes while in office.
No President and no Vice President would—or should—consider either event as a test of political loyalty of one to the other.
And if either did, he would have to accept that political loyalty must yield to constitutional obligation.
Neither the President nor the Vice President has any higher loyalty than to the Constitution.
gloss: A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
gloss: Reason for being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I am indebted to several friends for notes, observations, and correspondence on this subject, more especially to one, referred to as "Z.," and to another as "Q.," who have obtained a considerable number of reliable histories for me, and have also supplied many valuable notes [...]. Other obligations are mentioned in the text.
Related words: obligate
obligated
obligational
obligato
obligatorily
oblige
obligee
obliger
obliging
obligingly
obligingness
obligor
Derived words: collateralized debt obligation
collateralized fund obligation
collateralized loan obligation
counterobligation
debt obligation
disobligation
holy day of obligation
moral obligation
Sunday obligation
Translations:
Xanadu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 上都 (Shàngdū, “Upper Capital”). The first Romanized form comes from Marco Polo's writings in Italian as Shan-Du. In 1617, Purchas his Pilgrimage […] by Samuel Purchas was published in London, containing the phrase “In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace” on page 472. This was the inspiration for Coleridge's poem which uses the spelling Xanadu.
Inflected forms:
form: Xanadus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place full of beauty, happiness and wonder.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu
And now, open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu
That's from the poem of the legend of Kubla Kahn's palace in the lost valley of Xanadu! Alph was the river in the legend! Unca Scrooge, this is the road to Xanadu! You've hit the jackpot! The most wondrous valley on earth! The land of milk and honey!
The lyric, as the ideological critics in particular would have it, plays host to a panoply of enticing pipe dreams conjured up by benighted idealists whose visions are doomed in advance to frustration as reality fails, time and again, to ratify their various Xanadus and Byzantiums.
I never guessed that when I stumbled into the sheriff's office on a warm August afternoon, I'd met my future. I'd had no dream of finding my own little Eden, my snowcapped paradise, my Xanadu in the Valley of the Sky.
gloss: An opulent building or resort that provides entertainment or luxurious living.
pos: noun
examples: “The United States in the twenties was dotted with a thousand Xanadus,” wrote movie-theater historian Ben Hall."
The postmodern Xanadus that support this hallucination in the desert offer a particularly attractive paradise of the popular.
The Normans went Muslim with such remarkable style that even Muslim poets were soon praising the new Norman Xanadus. Of one such place, which included nine brooks and a small lake with an island covered with lemon and orange trees, the poet Abd ur-Rahman Ibn Mohammed Ibn Omar wrote: […]
Under the blazing Nevada sun, a dozen Xanadus glittered with million-watt neon signs.
My only company among the vanished pleasures was a four-foot-long goanna, warily immobile on the stone wall, then slowly climbing a tree trunk, pausing now and then to check on me. Elsewhere in Middle Harbour there are half a dozen other abandoned Xanadus.
Over the last century, Fire Island Pines, as the central square-mile section of this sandy spit is known, has evolved into something of a queer Xanadu. Now counting about 600 homes, it is a place of mythic weekend-long parties and carnal pleasure, a byword for bacchanalia and fleshy hedonism – but also simply a secluded haven where people can be themselves.
Related words: Kaiping
Translations:
ur
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing hesitation or inarticulacy; er, um.
pos: intj
Translations:
coz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: cousin (usually as a term of address)
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.
1844, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, "The Love Quarrel", in The Columbian Magazine Vol 1. Issue 1. page 6, col. 2, New York, Israel Post, ed John Inman
"I do not expect that, coz; nor do I desire it."
Translations:
gubernatorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“govern”), + -ial.
Affixes: -ial
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a governor or the office of governor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.
Translations:
hentai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
Etymology: Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変(へん)態(たい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変(へん)態(たい)性(せい)欲(よく)者(しゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).
Inflected forms:
form: hentai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hentais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
countable
uncountable
examples: There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love
X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".
Translations:
charset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipped compound of character set. By surface analysis, char + set.
Inflected forms:
form: charsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A character set.
pos: noun
Translations:
counterpoise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French contrepois, contrepeser, later assimilated to poise.
Inflected forms:
form: counterpoises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counterpoises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counterpoising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counterpoised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counterpoised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight.
pos: noun
gloss: An effect of equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force or influence
pos: noun
examples: This necessary counterpoise, the affectionate and simple-minded will readily conceive, would arise to Louisa from the absence of those "dear familiar faces" which had hitherto constituted her world.
gloss: The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium
pos: noun
gloss: To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
pos: verb
examples: Weights, counterpoising one another.
gloss: To act against with equal power; to balance.
pos: verb
examples: So many freeholders of English […]will be able to beard, and to counterpoise the rest.
Derived words: counterpoise-lift
Translations:
fumarolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fumarole
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English fumarolic
From fumarole + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2003: Masaya did not offer an opportunity to sample high-temperature fumaroles, but its neighbors, Momotombo and Cerro Negro volcanoes, are noted for their fumarolic activity — L.J. Wardell, P. Delmelle, T. Fischer, J.L. Lewicki, E. Malavassi, J. Stix, W. Strauch, Volcanic gas workshop features state-of-the-art measurement techniques.
Translations:
collusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Dated from the 14th century C.E. as Middle English collusioun, collusion; from Old French collusion, from Latin collusio (“act of colluding”).
Inflected forms:
form: collusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A private, cooperative agreement or arrangement between groups that otherwise maintain the pretense of competition, contention or non-cooperation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Furthermore, there is good reason for firms to try to collude without express communication, and thus find themselves dealing with less than full mutual understanding.
gloss: A private agreement for a fraudulent or illegal purpose; conspiracy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such tunges unhappy hath made great diviſion
In realmes, in cities, by ſuche fals abuſion;
Of fals fickil tunges ſuche cloked colluſion
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
So why is Japan going ahead with the Olympics, against the public’s objections, while the pandemic is still a major public health concern? The answer is familiar: collusion among the elites.
Once derided as a nationalist conspiracy theory, collusion is by now an undeniable fact. The scale, however, remains unknown.
Related words: collude
delusion
allusion
elusion
illusion
Derived words: anticollusion
noncollusion
postcollusion
precollusion
tacit collusion
Translations:
SUSY
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: SUSYs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Syllabic abbreviation of supersymmetry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2004: SUSY is a symmetry between particles of half-integer spin (fermions such as quarks and leptons) and those of whole-integer spin (bosons such as photons, gluons and other force carriers). — Scientific American, Sept 2004, p.58
Translations:
jibber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jib
English -er
English jibber
From jib + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: jibbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse that jibs, i.e. refuses, stops short.
pos: noun
Translations:
bor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Old English ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”)
Inflected forms:
form: bors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: man (not used for children).
pos: noun
tags: Norfolk
Translations: