yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
subcontinent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + continent.
Base: continent
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subcontinents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).
pos: noun
Translations:
landmass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From land + mass.
Compound parts: land
mass
Inflected forms:
form: landmasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: land mass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: land-mass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, continuous area of land surrounded by sea or contiguous with another landmass.
pos: noun
Translations:
prophecy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin prophētīa, from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía, “prophecy”), from προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “speaker of a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “to tell”). Displaced native Old English wītgung. Doublet of prophesy.
Inflected forms:
form: prophecies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prophecie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prophesy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
But Nature, prevoyant, tingled into his heart an inarticulate thrill of prophecy.
It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.
Flatterers were indeed beginning to wonder whether Edward I was not a new Arthur in the mould of Merlinic prophecies.
gloss: The public interpretation of Scripture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: prophesy
prophet
prophetation
prophetic
prophetically
propheticism
propheticly
prophetocracy
prophetry
Derived words: counterprophecy
propheciographer
prophecize
self-defeating prophecy
self-fulfilling prophecy
Translations:
prediction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin praedictiō, praedictiōnis; equivalent to predict + -ion. Compare the Germanic equivalents forespeaking, foretale, foretelling.
Base: predict
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: predictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prædiction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A statement of what will happen in the future.
pos: noun
examples: make predictions about something
correct prediction
offer up a prediction
incorrect prediction
the prediction came true
The weather forecaster made a prediction of heavy rain tomorrow.
His prediction about the stock market proved correct.
It’s difficult to make an accurate prediction about the future.
The scientists issued a bold prediction of technological change.
gloss: A probability estimation based on statistical methods.
pos: noun
Synonyms: foretale
foretelling
prediction
prognostication
weird
Related words: predict
anticipation
premonition
presage
presentiment
divination
precognition
Derived words: hopediction
interprediction
metaprediction
misprediction
neuroprediction
overprediction
postprediction
predictional
prediction market
retrodiction
underprediction
Wiener-Kolmogorov prediction
Translations:
Berkshire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Middle English Barrokschire, Berchesire, Barrokshyre, Berrucsire, from Old English Bearrocsċīr. The first element is possibly from Proto-Brythonic *barrọg, perhaps meaning “hilly” (compare *barros (“hill, peak, top”)) + Old English sċīr (“shire, county”).
Inflected forms:
form: Berkshires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A breed of pig from Berkshire county.
pos: noun
gloss: A steam locomotive of the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: Erie, always an interesting road to watch, fortified itself in the late '20's with the largest roster of Berkshires in the land, and these engines were easily able to sustain the road until dieselization …
Translations:
Hampshire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Hampteschire, from Old English Hāmtūnsċīr, from Hāmtūn (“Southampton”) + sċīr (“shire”).
For the development of epenthetic /p/, compare Thompson.
The community in Prince Edward Island is named after the county in England. The name was inspired by nearby Wiltshire.
Inflected forms:
form: Hampshires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pig of a domestic breed characterized by erect ears, a black body, and a white band around the middle, covering the front legs.
pos: noun
Translations:
Lancashire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Lancastreschire, from Lancastre (“Lancaster”) + schire (“shire, county”). By surface analysis, Lanca(ster) + -shire.
Inflected forms:
form: Lancashires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of cheese made in Lancashire, England.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Norfolk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Northfolk, from Old English Norþfolc (literally “northern people”), from norþ (“north, northern”) + folc (“folk, people, race, nation”). As an Ecuadorian island, clipping of Duke of Norfolk's Island, bestowed by William Ambrosia Cowley in 1684 honor of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk; his son Henry, the 7th duke; or both. As an Australian island and territory, bestowed by James Cook in 1774 in honor of Mary Howard, wife of the 9th duke.
Inflected forms:
form: Norfolks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Norfolk jacket.
pos: noun
gloss: A Norfolk spaniel.
pos: noun
Translations:
Shropshire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English Sċrobbesbyriġscīr, from Sċrobbesburh (“Shrewsbury”) + sċīr (“shire”).
Inflected forms:
form: Shropshires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of an English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sussex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people.
The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.
Inflected forms:
form: Sussexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A British breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for its meat and for its eggs.
pos: noun
examples: In the blood of the four groups of birds examined, (viz. purebred Sussexes and Bantams and their reciprocal hybrids) distinct differences were found of the content of DNA and RNA between the Sussexes and the three remaining groups.
In the USSR, Sussexes are distributed in the western and southern parts of the Ukrainian SSR.
Grouped around the fowl of the second class (see Fig. 3) are such breeds as White Plymouth Rock, Light Sussex, White Cornish, and Kuchinskaya yubileinaya – all meat breeds, apart from the sussexes; […]
Spring and summer were more kind and the flock multipled,^([sic]) although no purebred Sussexes had survived the winter.
In this group fall the medium-size breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Reds, New Hampshires, Sussexes, Orpingtons, Australorps, and others.
Brown eggs come from white Plymouth Rock chickens, New Hampshire chickens, white and dark Cornish chickens, Rhode Island reds, barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and light Sussexes.
[“Egg Color”:] Cream eggs [“Chicken”:] Polish, Sussexes, Faverolles
Some of the hybrid layers I would recommend are Black Rocks, Skylines, Maran Cuivres, Sussexes, Blacktails, Gold Lines, and Blue and White Leghorns.
The couple currently keeps seventeen chickens—Araucanas, some Sebright bantams, Silkies, speckled Sussexes, and a Maran—in a coop built by Brian.
Translations:
Wiltshire
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Wilteschire, from Old English Wiltūnsċīr (Wiltescire 1086 Domesday Book), named after the town of Wilton in the county (Old English Wiltūn).
Inflected forms:
form: Willshaw
pos: adj
tags: alternative
surname
Senses:
gloss: Prepared using the Wiltshire cure technique.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wiltshire bacon; Wiltshire ham; a Wiltshire side
Translations:
piffle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unknown, 1847. Perhaps blend of piddle + trifle, perhaps puff (“(onomatopoeia, puff of air)”) + -le (“diminutive”).
Base: puff
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: piffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: piffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: piffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: piffled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Nonsense, foolish talk.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The wafflier the piffle, the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.
The move is obviously pure piffle: a dumbshow designed to placate (or at least entertain) the conservative base while distracting and antagonising rivals.
gloss: To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
pos: verb
gloss: To waste, to fritter away.
pos: verb
gloss: To be squeamish or delicate.
pos: verb
tags: dated
Derived words: piffler
Translations:
skiffle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skiffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skiffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skiffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skiffled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The cats and the bats—and I hope you dig that one about the bats—played like mad in the backbeat 12, skiffling and skuffling , trying to get under the wire .
In Liverpool, the Quarrymen were one group of teenage Donegan admirers, but there were plenty of others: the Martinis, the Raving Texans, the Bluegenes and the Blackjacks—all skiffling their hearts out .
They've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening.
gloss: To play skiffle.
pos: verb
Translations:
inebriated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.
Base: ēbrius
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inebriated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inebriated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.
pos: adj
examples: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
Translations:
dreadfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dredfully, dradefullich, dredefullich; equivalent to dreadful + -ly.
Base: dreadful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more dreadfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dreadfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dreadful manner; terribly.
pos: adv
examples: You behaved dreadfully yesterday night
The smellful old heathen was snoring dreadfully.
gloss: Exceptionally, eminently, very much.
pos: adv
tags: dated
examples: That restaurant seems dreadfully expensive.
At that moment a curious crack sounded inside the statue, as if something had broken. The fact is that the leaden heart had snapped right in two. It certainly was a dreadfully hard frost.
“Here it is,” said Eddie. “‘Why Must it Always be Tomato Soup?’ It's so deeply true, don't you feel? Tomato soup is so dreadfully eternal.”
Translations:
perjury
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman perjurie, from Latin perjūrāre (“swear falsely”), from per- + jūrāre. Displaced native Old English mānāþ (literally “false oath”).
Base: jūrāre
Affixes: per-
Inflected forms:
form: perjuries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Translations:
climbing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English clymbyng, clymbynge; equivalent to climb + -ing.
Base: climb
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: climbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.
gloss: Climb; ascent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: anticlimbing
board climbing
climbing-boy
climbing kiln
climbing shoe
climbing wall
directory climbing
free climbing
hillclimbing
ice climbng
mixed climbing
speed climbing
stairclimbing
superclimbing
Translations:
sloper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slope
English -er
English sloper
From slope + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: slopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which angles or slopes, as distinguished from one that is vertical or horizontal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If one saw only the Rheims benches, one would scarcely prefer the slopers to horizontal retorts with good stoking machinery ; as for instance the Ross stoker at the Cincinnati gas works.
Yeah, that new pair of half-slopers really works — a lot better than the old inverted-V they're made from, ha ha!
gloss: A climbing hold that has a smooth surface and sloping shape, making it difficult to hold.
pos: noun
gloss: A custom-fitted basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be created.
pos: noun
gloss: An assistant or apprentice cutter.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The wages of slopers, so far as they have been found designated as such on the pay rolls, are given in Table 63.
gloss: A member of the peerage who has fallen from wealth but maintains social contacts.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In this work he displayed an energy and courage that not only disgusted the slopers, but likewise astonished the police authorities.
Translations:
flocculation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English floccule
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 flocculation
From floccule + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: flocculations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: Repeated use of this type of [water] on plants results in deflocculation[] of the soil. Good quality soil consists of loose aggregates which provide natural aeration and ease of root run. Sodium accumulation in soil destroys this natural flocculation and causes the soil to pack.
It might seem that Mr. Holl, whose initial sketches are glorious watercolors, was an unlikely candidate for a job that is all about hydrodynamics. But he credits much of his inspiration to repeated meetings with engineers -- as many as 30 at a time -- to discuss topics like "flocculation" (the process by which particles form coagulated masses, or flocs).
Antonyms: deflocculation
Translations:
narcissus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to νάρκη (nárkē).
Inflected forms:
form: narcissuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narcissi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
pos: noun
examples: The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]
At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
gloss: A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus
pos: noun
Derived words: narcissus-flowered anemone
Translations:
nasturtium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nasturcium, from Old English nasturcium (“watercress”), from Latin nasturtium.
Inflected forms:
form: nasturtiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nasturtia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nasturtian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nasturtion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
pos: noun
examples: To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!
Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
gloss: A plant in this genus, garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the plants in the genus Nasturtium that includes watercress.
pos: noun
Derived words: garden nasturtium
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كَبُوسِين
roman: kabūsīn
lang: Armenian
word: հնդկոտեմ
roman: hndkotem
lang: Basque
word: kaputxina
lang: Belarusian
word: настурка
roman: nasturka
lang: Belarusian
word: капуцын
roman: kapucyn
lang: Bulgarian
word: лати́нка
roman: latínka
lang: Catalan
word: caputxina
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旱莲草
roman: hànliáncǎo
lang: Czech
word: lichořeřišnice
lang: Danish
word: tallerkensmækker
lang: Esperanto
word: tropeolo
lang: Finnish
word: koristekrassi
lang: French
word: capucine
lang: German
word: Kapuzinerkresse
lang: Italian
word: nasturzio
lang: Japanese
word: 金蓮花
roman: kinrenka
lang: Japanese
word: キンレンカ
roman: kinrenka
lang: Japanese
word: 凌霄葉蓮
roman: nōzenharen
lang: Japanese
word: ノウゼンハレン
roman: nōzenharen
lang: Kashubian
word: rãplôcz
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Kjrass
lang: Polish
word: nasturcja
lang: Russian
word: насту́рция
roman: nastúrcija
lang: Russian
word: капуци́н
roman: kapucín
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: kraska
lang: Spanish
word: capuchina
lang: Swedish
word: krasse
subarctic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Middle French artiquebor.
English Arctic
English subarctic
From sub- + Arctic.
Inflected forms:
form: sub-Arctic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: subarctics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sub-Arctic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subarctic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A subarctic region.
pos: noun
Translations:
pansy
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Inflected forms:
form: pansies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pansies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pansying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pansied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pansied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
pos: noun
examples: The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]
Oh, what a perfect thought. Lilies-of-the-valley, and white pansies, double white violets and white velvet ribbon… From an unknown friend. … From one who understands. … For a Little Girl.
gloss: A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
pos: noun
gloss: A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
gloss: A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
derogatory
gloss: Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To mess about; to fail to get things done.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
usually
Related words: pensive
poise
peso
Derived words: Bertoloni's pansy
chocolate pansy
horned pansy
nansy pansy
pansyish
pansylike
pansy orchid
pansy shell
peacock pansy
sea pansy
blue pansy
pansified
pansification
wild pansy
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: schijtlijster
lang: French
word: fiotte
lang: Italian
word: mammoletta
lang: Italian
word: femminuccia
lang: Italian
word: coniglio
lang: Italian
word: merlo
lang: Italian
word: pollo
lang: Italian
word: smidollato
lang: Italian
word: pappa molle
lang: Italian
word: pappamolle
lang: Italian
word: rammollito
lang: Italian
word: fifone
lang: Italian
word: codardo
lang: Italian
word: cortigiano
lang: Italian
word: mollusco
lang: Italian
word: vigliacco
lang: Italian
word: pusillanime
lang: Italian
word: eunuco
lang: Italian
word: debole
lang: Italian
word: pisciasotto
lang: Italian
word: cacasotto
lang: Italian
word: pauroso
lang: Italian
word: vile
lang: Italian
word: checca
lang: Italian
word: frocio
lang: Italian
word: ricchione
lang: Italian
word: finocchio
lang: Polish
word: baba
lang: Russian
word: хлюпик
roman: xljupik
lang: Russian
word: слабак
roman: slabak
lang: Spanish
word: marica
lang: Spanish
word: fifí
lang: Spanish
word: fifirifi
pelargonium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Pelargonium, from Ancient Greek πελαργός (pelargós, “stork”).
Inflected forms:
form: pelargoniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pelargonia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium, similar to (and often confused with) true geraniums, but less hardy and often cultivated as annuals for ornamental purposes.
pos: noun
examples: The growing of pelargoniums in this country is increasing and they are destined to come to the front and stay there. The pelargoniums that have been distributed during the past several years are giving great satisfaction, combining as they do new shades of color […].
Translations:
peony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, pyoine (French pivoine), from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paeon, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).
Inflected forms:
form: peonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paeony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pioney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: piony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
pos: noun
examples: The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness.
There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day.
Mr. Farzan’s narrow backyard in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood is a lush, if slightly chaotic, oasis. There are Fuji apples, Meyer lemons, figs, peonies and avocados — although that’s far from a complete census of all that grows there.
gloss: A dark red colour.
pos: noun
examples: She was a fine and handsome girl—not handsomer than some others, possibly—but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape.
Derived words: peonidin
peonylike
Translations:
petunia
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Tupian *pe
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨm
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm
Old Tupi petymabor.
French pétun
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)der.
taxonomic name -ia
taxonomic name Petunialbor.
English petunia
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“tobacco”), from Old Tupi petyma (“tobacco”).
Inflected forms:
form: petunias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.
pos: noun
examples: Usually petunias are quite pest free, but aphids are occasional problems.
The small purple petunias are produced in profusion and without ceasing during the entire season.
Closely related calibrachoas, often called miniature petunias, offer dainty petunia-like blossoms that are perfect for planting in pots.
No matter what type of petunias you choose, they all prefer plenty of sun.
gloss: A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: A homosexual.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: hairyflower wild petunia
Petunia vein banding virus
petunidin
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: петуния
roman: petunija
lang: Catalan
word: petúnia
lang: Czech
word: petúnie
lang: Czech
word: petunie
lang: Finnish
word: petunia
lang: German
word: Petunie
lang: Greek
word: πετούνια
roman: petoúnia
lang: Hunsrik
word: Pëtunje
lang: Italian
word: petunia
lang: Japanese
word: ペチュニア
roman: pechunia
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: petunia
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: petunia
lang: Polish
word: petunia
lang: Portuguese
word: petúnia
lang: Punjabi
word: ਪਟੂਨੀਆ
roman: paṭūnīā
lang: Romanian
word: petunie
lang: Russian
word: пету́ния
roman: petúnija
lang: Spanish
word: petunia
lang: Tagalog
word: petunya
lang: Turkish
word: petunya
phlox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin Phlox, from Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).
Inflected forms:
form: phlox
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phloxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
poinsettia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: After the obsolete genus name Poinsettia, named after Joel Roberts Poinsett (19th-century US minister to Mexico); equivalent to Poinsett + -ia.
Base: Poinsett
Affixes: -ia
Inflected forms:
form: poinsettias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers surrounded by large bright red leaves; native to Mexico and Central America and widely cultivated as a garden plant;; widely used in Christmas floral displays.
pos: noun
examples: Masses of scarlet Poinsettias glowed bravely against the dark green background formed by broad-leafed plantains, whose great tattered leaves rustled with every gust of wind that reached them.
“So red,” she said of the poinsettias behind Florencia, which Jacquie didn’t even like because of how even the real ones look fake.
Translations:
stroppy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From obstropulous, obsolete slang form of obstreperous, + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: stroppier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stroppiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: In this case, the application of the famous method was a little shaky. To be fair, the director was dealing with a pretty stroppy cast.
Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter′s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.
Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.
The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.
Davina told me earlier that Luke was the stroppiest patient she'd ever had and that he'd given her a lecture on how inefficient and time-wasting her medical was.
Translations:
guild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.
Inflected forms:
form: guilds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gild
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.
pos: noun
examples: The swinging of its censers, the silence of its members / Oh, the Guild of Mute Assassins
gloss: A corporation.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
pos: noun
gloss: An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.
pos: noun
Derived words: altar guild
extraguild
frithguild
guildable
guildic
guildie
guildless
guildlike
guildmaster
guildmate
guildmember
guildmistress
guildship
guildwide
intraguild
Translations:
deranged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French dérangébor.
English deranged
Borrowed from French dérangé.
Inflected forms:
form: more deranged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deranged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disturbed or upset, especially mentally.
pos: adj
examples: Though Bane's sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn't have any of the Joker's deranged wit, and Nolan isn't interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
Stewing over recent legal defeats, he [Donald Trump] spent Sunday night posting a series of rambling rants assailing the “completely inept and embarrassing” Supreme Court, the “Deranged” former special counsel, […] and “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge” who ruled against him.
gloss: Insane.
pos: adj
examples: When he was finally arrested, Sutcliffe hoped that by claiming to be deranged he would be convicted of manslaughter rather than murder, and therefore sent to hospital and perhaps released after 10 years.
gloss: Malfunctioning or inoperative.
pos: adj
examples: 4-14. Reference (b) reports that "there was hardly any part of the boat that had not in some way been damaged." Only one of the four main Diesel engines was not damaged beyond immediate repair. However, the two auxiliary engines (Winton 6-241) were still operable. The port reduction gear casing was cracked and lost lubricating oil constantly. As mentioned above, the submerged propulsion plant was put out of commission due to deranged control equipment and motor damage. Numerous holding down bolts on the main motors, main generators and main engines were reported to have broken.
Derived words: derangedly
derangedness
underanged
Translations:
foundry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French fonderie. By surface analysis, found (“to melt (metals)”) + -ry (“place; process”).
Inflected forms:
form: foundries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foundery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry. […] So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.
gloss: The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Chang gained trust by allaying fears that TSMC would steal designs, as pure-play foundries have no use of them; TSMC stealing from chip designers would be like a printing press stealing plots from novelists.
Derived words: foundryman
foundrywoman
type foundry
Translations:
cake-eater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cake-eaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A well-off person who indulges himself or herself; a playboy or playgirl.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
endearing
slang
usually
examples: And you fellows, if you find some cake-eaters trying to take advantage of your sister, what are you going to do?
"Nowadays, these cake-eaters all died young. They had no teeth. They all went to doctors who fixed teeth. But still they died young and without their teeth."
"'... We got us a cake eater, right here at the sink!' He turned to me. 'Have you ever had your hands dirty, new kid?'"
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, eater.
pos: noun
examples: If ever there was a birthday in the home she would bake a special cake for the occasion, with the result that very few of our inmates lasted for more than a year. I myself am no great cake-eater, and I made a special point of keeping my birthday secret.
Translations:
primula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: The genus Primula was named by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707-1778) after Latin primus (“first”) because it flowers early.
Inflected forms:
form: primulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses.
pos: noun
Translations:
ragwort
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rag (referring to the ragged leaves) + wort.
Compound parts: rag
wort
Inflected forms:
form: ragworts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.
Sea-poppies and ragwort were plants of ill-fame, too.
As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
Translations:
snowdrop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snow + drop.
Compound parts: snow
drop
Inflected forms:
form: snowdrops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snowdropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snowdropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snowdropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
ambitransitive
slang
examples: MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive.
‘Snowdropping’ is the business of some poor sods who, often from laundry drying on a clothes line, pinch items of ladies’ underwear, take them away and sniff them.
It'll be like snowdropping clothes from a clothesline. We'll snowdrop a baby.
Translations:
wallflower
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wall + flower.
Compound parts: wall
flower
Inflected forms:
form: wallflowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wall-flower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wall flower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wallflowers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wallflowering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wallflowered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wallflowered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wall-flower
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: wall flower
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
pos: noun
examples: A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
gloss: Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who does not dance at a party, due to shyness or unpopularity; by extension, anyone who is left on the sidelines while an activity takes place.
pos: noun
examples: Mrs. Galbraith shook all over with laughter as she replied, "Hear that boy, asking me to dance ! I'm content to be a wallflower, now-a-days."
And now, by virtue of his office, he is entitled to a seat in the Grand Lodge. Is it any wonder he is a wall-flower there […]
It is a triumph, of course, to have plenty of partners, and not to be a wallflower for a single dance.
Jack Breen was a wallflower; still at the same time I noticed he was cultivating an ornamental smile — a Jack of Trumps, you bet.
She was a wallflower in a sleepy little town itself a wallflower. She was a joke to the village wits and a byword to the village belles.
"Where--oh. Hidden in the corner. You two aren't already going all wallflower, are you?" "We are not wallflowers." "To be fair, I can be. But then I get mad at myself for it and get all loud and snarky."
Second City was a wallflower at the show business ball. It needed to be. Improvisers needed to fail, and fail safely; and in the Midwest, far from Broadway and Hollywood, they really could. Second-class stature was the secret ingredient, ...
gloss: Any person who is socially awkward, shy, or reserved.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I've always been a wallflower, even in my own home. But, I'm willing to learn to be a part of your world. I would like to. I have already told my parents that I want to go to soirées.
gloss: To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] the idea that a full tango experience is impossible without the presence of wallflowers and without the threat of wallflowering as the potential dancers enter the tango club.
Derived words: wallflower cabbage
wallflower poison
Translations:
interesting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interest
English -ing
English interesting
From interest + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more interesting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interesting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of concern; affecting, important.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: He indeed had good reason to be offended; for though Dr. Swinfen's motive was good, he inconsiderately betrayed a matter deeply interesting and of great delicacy, which had been entrusted to him in conference […].
gloss: Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
pos: adj
examples: Cricket is not interesting to watch.
Comics were just another form of entertainment to me, but it got to be more and more interesting every day.
gloss: Pregnant. (used with situation and condition)
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: I found myself in a fair way of being a mother; and that I might be near my own relations, in such an interesting situation, I and my dear companion departed from H—n, not without great reluctance […].
Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.
I’m afraid I seem to make heavy weather of my interesting condition.
Synonyms: absorbing
gripping
Antonyms: uninteresting
boring
soggy
Derived words: interesting condition
interestingly
interestingness
interesting number paradox
interesting situation
make interesting
make it interesting
make things interesting
may you live in interesting times
noninteresting
superinteresting
Translations:
lemming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek. Sense 2 derives from a longstanding myth that they exhibit so much herd mentality that populations jump off cliffs to their deaths together.
Inflected forms:
form: lemmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small arctic and subarctic rodent of the tribes Lemmini, Dicrostonychini and Lagurini.
pos: noun
examples: The well-known lemmings, in severe winters, at long intervals, move down from the mountains of Scandinavia in immense numbers, crossing lakes and rivers, eating their way through haystacks, and surmounting every obstacle till they reach the sea, whence very few return.
gloss: Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Lemmings are strongly cohesive, but could be, in organisational terms, highly destructive for the business.
Like a lemming, I followed the crowd, got to the right line and was concentrating hard when queried by the customs officer.
“It’s like the one person did it once and since then everyone has followed like lemmings, they all just copy each other’s behaviour,” said [Paul] Loebenberg.
Synonyms: sable mouse
Derived words: bog lemming
collared lemming
Eurolemming
lemmingism
lemminglike
northern bog lemming
Norway lemming
steppe lemming
true lemming
wood lemming
yellow steppe lemming
Translations:
assholery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English asshole
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English assholery
From asshole + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: assholeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arseholery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Patterns of behavior consistent with those of an asshole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
vulgar
examples: Near-synonyms: assclownery, asshattery, assholedom, assholism, douchebaggery, douchery
As the War's front moves away from them, and the Casino becomes more and more a rear area, as the water grows more polluted and the prices rise, so the personnel coming down on leave get noisier and more dedicated to pure assholery—none of Tantivy's style about them, his habit of soft-shoe dancing when drunk, his make-believe foppishness and shy, decent impulses to conspire, however marginally, whenever possible, against power and indifference.
Garp felt dishonest with Cushie for not mentioning what he took to, be the utter assholery of her father, Fat Stew.
It was a piece of utter assholery of course, like the stupid confidence of a man who believes it's safe to drive when totally shitfaced as long as he's wearing his St. Christopher's medallion.
And the incentives were perverse: In a culture war, assholery or hypocrisy against the other side can raise your status with allies.
Translations:
malnutrition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-?
Proto-Italic *malos
Latin malus
Latin maleder.
Old French mal-
English mal-
English nutrition
English malnutrition
From mal- + nutrition.
Inflected forms:
form: malnutritions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lack of adequate nourishment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It is predictable that some of these infections occur in individuals immunocompromised by malnutrition or underlying disease (notably cancer or AIDS) or by immunosuppressive therapy.
Translations:
starvation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English starve
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 starvation
From starve + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: starvations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"
Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu’s orders to resume delivery of food aid, an abrupt about-face under intense U.S. and international pressure, came as warnings of mass starvation intensify, including from within Israel’s own security establishment.
gloss: Severe shortage of resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Fuel starvation has several causes.
However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.
gloss: A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.
Derived words: antistarvation
mass starvation
overstarvation
prestarvation
rabbit starvation
semistarvation
starvational
starvation marrow
starvation wage
Translations: