yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
meh
Part of speech: adj
intj
noun
particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Popularized by the American television show The Simpsons; first used on the show in the episode titled "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (1994).
Possibly ultimately from Yiddish מע (me, “so-so”). First attested in 1928, with usage as an interjection dated to 1992.
Inflected forms:
form: more meh
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most meh
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mediocre; lackluster; unexceptional; uninspiring.
pos: adj
examples: They redeemed themselves with this show. The first song or two was meh, but they were on fire after that.
The voice is excellent as always, but the overall effect was meh until the end, where he became a little bit awesome.
Nothing that was supposed to be big and exciting came off as such and the rest was meh at best.
gloss: Apathetic; unenthusiastic.
pos: adj
examples: Both shows left me feeling, meh.
I’m a huge Clay fan, love Ruben’s voice, and have become quite a fan of Kelly’s, as well. Fantasia just leaves me feeling meh.
I liked it but I wasn’t feeling it for some reason that day, again, I was feeling meh toward video games in general.
gloss: Expressing indifference or lack of enthusiasm.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: “What do you want for dinner?” — “Meh. I’m not really hungry.”
“That film was awesome!” — “Meh. I’ve seen better.”
Marge: [weaving on a loom] “Hi Bart, I’m weaving on a loom!”
Bart: “Meh”.
Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.
gloss: A judgement marked by indifference; lack of impression.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Final question particle expressing skepticism.
pos: particle
tags: Hong-Kong
Manglish
Singlish
interrogative
examples: Really meh?
This one your one meh?
You got send [e-mail] meh? I never receive leh.
“Nice meh?” I would think sourly.
"Huh? At this hour? Really meh?" He couldn't believe his own ears.
Not pain, meh. When you have eczema and do tattoos?
Translations:
dealer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.
Inflected forms:
form: dealers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
pos: noun
examples: That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!
gloss: A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
pos: noun
examples: It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
 Who said they were through with dealing
gloss: A particular type of stock broker or trader.
pos: noun
gloss: The person who deals the cards in a card game.
pos: noun
gloss: One who deals or metes out anything.
pos: noun
examples: Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]
Derived words: AADAOPA
arms dealer
art dealer
bookdealer
broker-dealer
dealer board
dealerdom
dealer's choice
dealership
double-dealer
drug dealer
drug-dealer
horsedealer
interdealer
macaroni dealer
meat dealer
megadealer
misdealer
newsdealer
nondealer
plain dealer
scrap dealer
slavedealer
subdealer
wheeler-dealer
Translations:
illness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ill
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English illness
From ill + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: illnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
suffer form a severe illness
a mild illness
This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
gloss: A state of bad health or disease.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.
Synonyms: sickness
Related words: ill
hypochondriac
Derived words: accelerated critical illness
chronic illness
critical illness
final illness
folk illness
foodborne illness
food-derived illness
Gulf War illness
illnesslike
mental illness
nonillness
postorgasmic illness syndrome
seroconversion illness
terminal illness
Translations:
apathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French apathie, from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “impassibility”, “insensibility”, “freedom from emotion”), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “not suffering or having suffered”, “without experience of”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πάθος (páthos, “anything that befalls one”, “incident”, “emotion”, “passion”). Doublet of apatheia, which was borrowed directly from Ancient Greek.
Inflected forms:
form: apathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate and the wonderful facts which he relates soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm.
Antonyms: concern
enthusiasm
excitement
interest
passion
vigour
Translations:
Filipino
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Spanish filipino m, from Felipe + -ino, demonym to Spanish las Islas Filipinas (“The Philippine Islands (P.I.); The Philippines”), after Spanish El Rey Felipe II de España (“King Philip II of Spain”). The Spanish term formerly only referred to a male Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent, synonym to Spanish insular (“islander”) (plural insulares) in the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines, before it was applied as a nationality for every citizen of the Philippines from the First Philippine Republic during the Philippine Revolution.
Base: Felipe
Affixes: -ino
Inflected forms:
form: Filipinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pilipino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Philipino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
proscribed
form: Philippino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
proscribed
form: Pilipino
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Philipino
pos: adj
tags: alternative
proscribed
form: Philippino
pos: adj
tags: alternative
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: A citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.
pos: noun
gloss: Specifically the male equivalent of Filipina.
pos: noun
gloss: A male Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Philippines or its peoples, languages, and cultures.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to Tagalog, the basis of the national language of the Philippines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: Filipina
Pinay
goo-goo
gook
Derived words: Chinese Filipino
Filipin@
Filipinx
Flip
Pinoy
American-Filipino
Chinese-Filipino
Fil-
Fil-Am
Fil-Chi
Filipino American
Filipino-American
Filipino-Australian
Filipino-Canadian
Filipino Canadian
Filipino-Chinese
Filipino English
Filipino-Spanish
Filipino time
Indian-Filipino
Iranian-Filipino
Japanese-Filipino
Korean-Filipino
OFW
Spanish-Filipino
Translations:
deface
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (“to mutilate, destroy, disfigure”), from des- (“away from”) (see dis-) + Late Latin facia.
Inflected forms:
form: defaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
pos: verb
examples: 1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal
That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
After the painting was defaced a decade ago, it went viral and has been a tourist attraction ever since.
gloss: To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.
pos: verb
examples: He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.
gloss: To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
pos: verb
examples: You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.
Synonyms: befoul
besmirch
blemish
blight
contaminate
contort
damage
deface
defame
defile
deform
demolish
destroy
destruct
devastate
dilapidate
disgrace
distort
harm
impair
injure
maim
mangle
mutilate
pollute
ruin
scath
scathe
scratch
shend
soil
spoil
stain
sully
taint
tarnish
trash
uglify
undermine
worsen
wreck
Antonyms: beautify
fix
rectify
Related words: efface
Derived words: defaceable
defacement
defacer
defacingly
undefaced
Translations:
spank
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly imitative, or perhaps a special use of Etymology 2 (below) in the sense of a horse stamping its foot against the ground. There is no evidence of a relation with Portuguese espancar (“to batter, strike”).
Inflected forms:
form: spanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spanked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To soundly defeat, to trounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit very hard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Spurs had a free-kick on the edge of the Liverpool box. Érik Lamela spanked it low into the wall, got the ball back, played it out to Christian Eriksen.
gloss: An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
pos: noun
examples: Three men were about a foot behind my left shoulder trading off spanks on each others butts.
gloss: A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
examples: spank bank
to have a quick spank
I'm not a porn addict. I only watch it when I have a spank. It usually takes less than 10 minutes to go from zipper down to zipper up. And that's it till the next time I spank.
As much as I wanted to find a bone to pick with the Satisfyer Pro 2, I get why this toy is a mainstay in "best sex toys" lists: 1) It's versatile, and an ideal clitoral toy for beginner and experienced sex toy users, and 2) it seems to have cracked the design code on how to be a toy for both people with sensitive clitorises and those who want to get their pussy tenderized into schnitzel. It will have me yodeling for many spank sessions to come.
I don't believe there's anything wrong with a spank here and there especially if you're partnerless, but it's a slippery slope that people seem to struggle with restraint/boundaries.
Synonyms: smack
thrash
trounce
thump
wallop
Derived words: spankable
spankee
spanker
spank it
spank out
spank the monkey
spanky
spank you
spank you very much
unspanked
spanking
spankavision
spank bank
spankies
spanko
spankophile
spanktastic
spankworthy
Translations:
nomenclature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.
Inflected forms:
form: nomenclatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
The existence of a systematic nomenclature for the unknown elements does not deny the right of 'discoverers' of new elements to suggest other names to the Commission after their discovery has been established beyond all doubt in the general scientific community.
gloss: A set of names or terms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
gloss: A name.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: terminology
Related words: nomenclator
nomenclatory
numericlature
Derived words: binomenclature
binomial nomenclature
bionomenclature
chemical nomenclature
comiconomenclaturist
Linnaean nomenclature
nomenclatural
nomenclaturally
nomenclaturism
nomenclaturist
substitutive nomenclature
Translations:
icing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
cooking
engineering
food
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
skating
sports
Etymology: Gerund of the verb to ice.
Inflected forms:
form: icings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar, often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, or flavorings, typically used for baked goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: THICK FLUFFY ICING
At the present time there is a demand for very light fluffy icing that may be piled high on a cake. For beating many of the icings of this variety an electric beater is used, and the syrup is added very slowly.
gloss: A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Conditions conducive to the formation of ice on aircraft surfaces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Cessna pilots reported that moderate icing was present between 13,000 and 4,000 feet in the cloud layers.
Derived words: anti-icing
butter icing
flood icing
fondant icing
icinged
icinglike
icing on the cake
icing sugar
royal icing
water icing
Translations:
Bambara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bambaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bambara
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa.
pos: noun
gloss: The Bambara groundnut, Vigna subterranea.
pos: noun
Translations:
effulgence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ex- (“out of, from”) and fulgere (“to shine”). By surface analysis, ef- + Latin fulg(ere) + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: effulgences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: affulgence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of being bright and radiant, splendor, brilliance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the clear effulgence of the stars by night […]
He stood for a moment taking in the effulgence.
These jewels, drinking in the sunshine by day, gave it forth during the hours of darkness in a radiance of pink light and a soft effulgence as of moonbeams.
Translations:
POST
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: POSTs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: POSTing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: POSTed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: POSTed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To successfully perform a power-on self-test.
pos: verb
examples: The computer had a bunch of strange components, but it still POSTed so I assumed everything worked.
Translations:
caduceus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Latin cādūceus, cādūceum, adaptation of Doric Ancient Greek καρύκειον (karúkeion, “herald’s wand or staff”). This and Attic Greek κηρύκειον (kērúkeion) are derived from κῆρυξ (kêrux, “herald, public messenger”). Related to κηρύσσω (kērússō, “to announce”).
Inflected forms:
form: caducei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.
pos: noun
examples: Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]
gloss: A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:caduceus.
Related words: Aesculapian staff
Star of Life
Translations:
casket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Base: cask
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: caskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caskets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: casketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: casketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: casketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
pos: noun
examples: They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
The Hunt for the Red Casked
gloss: An urn.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A coffin.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A gasket.
pos: noun
gloss: To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
transitive
examples: I have […] casketed my treasure.
Derived words: casketful
casketless
casket magazine
encasket
recasket
closed casket
Translations:
perspicuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin perspicuus, in turn from perspiciō (“see through”).
Inflected forms:
form: more perspicuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perspicuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
pos: adj
examples: I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious in order to be sure that I am perspicuous […]
gloss: (Of a language or notation) the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
pos: adj
gloss: That can be seen through clearly; that lets light through.
pos: adj
tags: rare
Related words: perspective
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspicacity
perspicuity
Derived words: perspicuously
perspicuousness
semiperspicuous
unperspicuous
Translations:
homograph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From homo- + -graph.
Base: homo
Inflected forms:
form: homographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A word that is spelled the same as another word, usually having a different etymology.
pos: noun
gloss: A text character or string that looks identical to another when rendered.
pos: noun
Related words: allograph
autograph
homeograph
homoglyph
homographic
homography
isograph
polyphone
capitonym
identical
same
homophone & homograph
homophone
different
homophone & heterograph
alternative spelling
homonym
synonym
heterophone & heterograph
heteronym
heterophone & homograph
alternative pronunciation
distinct
Derived words: homographic
homographous
Translations:
cobbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler.
Sense 2 (“sheep left to the end to be sheared”) is a pun on cobbler’s last (“tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes”); while sense 3 (“clumsy workman”) is derived from cobble + -er: see above.
Base: cobble
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: cobblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cobler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
pos: noun
examples: This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.
[W]hat would they think of a French cobler cutting ſhoes for ſeveral of his fellow-ſubjects out of an old apple-tree?
All honeſt jogg trotmen, who go on ſmoothly and dully, and write hiſtory and politics, and are praiſed; and who, had they been bred coblers, would all their lives have only mended ſhoes, but never made them.
But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
gloss: A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
gloss: A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Truely Sir, in reſpect of a fine Workman, / I am but as you would ſay, a Cobler.
Related words: cobblestone
cobble-stone
cobbling
gentle craft
Derived words: Cobbler
cobbler, keep to your last
cobbler's
cobblership
cobbler's pegs
cobbler's punch
cobblery
let the cobbler stick to his last
the cobbler always wears the worst shoes
the cobbler's children are the worst shod
the cobbler's children go barefoot
Translations:
imitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French imitable, from Latin imitābilis. See imitate.
Inflected forms:
form: more imitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being imitated or copied.
pos: adj
examples: The characters of man placed in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers.
gloss: Worthy of imitation.
pos: adj
examples: otherwise how were it possible, that the most base men, and separate from all imitable qualities, could so often attain to honour and riches, but by such an observant slavish course ?
Synonyms: copiable
imitable
Antonyms: inimitable
Related words: imitate
imitation
imitative
Derived words: imitableness
unimitable
Translations:
paddlewheel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: paddlewheels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large wheel fitted with thick slats, turned by an engine and used to propel a boat.
pos: noun
gloss: A boat propelled by a paddlewheel.
pos: noun
Derived words: paddlewheeler
Translations:
attest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from Middle French attester, from Latin attestor (“to witness to, bear witness”), from at-, combining form of ad (“to”) + testor (“to bear witness”), from testis (“a witness”).
Inflected forms:
form: attests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: attested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When will the appraiser attest the date of the painting?
Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest that those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you.
[W]e have already ſeen many particular facts vvhich are recorded in holy vvrit, atteſted by particular Pagan Authors: […]
As the Wildlings can attest, there’s already new life even north of the wall, poking up through the ice. Winter only lasts so long.
gloss: To certify by signature or oath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You must attest your will in order for it to be valid.
gloss: To certify in an official capacity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To supply or be evidence of.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Her fine work attested her ability.
O pardon : since a crooked Figure may / Attest in little place a Million, / And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, / On your imaginarie Forces worke.
The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
gloss: To put under oath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To call to witness; to invoke.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state / Attests in oaths, and fears to violate.
Related words: cite
quote
Derived words: attestability
attestable
attestation
attested
attestive
attestment
coattest
reattest
unattestable
Translations:
gizmo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: gizmos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gismo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something, generally a device or gadget, whose real name is unknown or forgotten.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
wiry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wire
English -y
English wiry
From wire + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wirier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wiriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling wire.
pos: adj
examples: My hair was very wiry in my teens.
gloss: Thin, muscular and flexible.
pos: adj
examples: Don't fight him. He may be small, but he's wiry.
Translations:
stoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stoner, stonere, stonare, staner, equivalent to stone + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (measurement suffix).
Base: stone
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: stoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who stones.
pos: noun
examples: At eight you thought of boys as cat drowners and bird stoners. At nine there was another reason for boys' existence: they either noticed you or they didn't, and it desperately mattered which.
gloss: A machine to remove the stones (pits) from fruit.
pos: noun
gloss: A habitual user of cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "You're useless when you're high on catnip, you know that?" "Mewww mew?" "No I will NOT put on Dark Side of the Moon and the Wizard of Oz for you. Goddamned stoner cat."
gloss: Someone or something that weighs a certain number of stones.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
Derived words: stoner film
stonerific
stonerlike
stoner metal
stoner rock
Translations:
strapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From strap + -er, principally strap + -er (agent noun suffix). The sense referring to a poorly producing milk cow (from strap + -er) came from a dialectal sense of the verb strap as a troponym of milk: not even the most skilful milking action could coax enough milk from the udder.
Base: strap
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: strappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large, strong, robust person (usually a man).
pos: noun
gloss: A person who works with straps, as on leather goods.
pos: noun
gloss: One who straps horses; now, specifically, someone employed to attend and groom racehorses.
pos: noun
examples: I was, however, but a very brief period employed as a strapper, as from the care and pains which I took in cleaning and watering the horses they soon mended in their jaded, worn-out appearance, for they were regularly fed, because I was regularly sober, a state, I have been informed, in which my predecessor was never in after mid-day.
On large establishments a head-man superintends the strappers, and the general management of the horses.
A boy was called a strapper because when you cleaned and dressed a horse properly, you had a nice flat towel, and you used to hit them on all the muscles.
gloss: A cow which yields a small amount of milk.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: “Nabla, Nabla,” says he, “them was the true words of Father Luke's when he said them would lend him a strapper would be repaid twofold. Here comes our own strapper back to us in company with a brave lump of a bullockeen. Faith,” says he, “Father Luke, you're the man for my money, and if ever ye want a strapper again, just tip me the word, and I'll go bail ye'll not want one long; and if ye want two, why, I'll steal one for ye.”
gloss: A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.
pos: noun
Related words: strapping
Derived words: understrapper
Translations:
vapid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin vapor
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin vapidusbor.
English vapid
Borrowed from Latin vapidus (“flat, vapid”).
Inflected forms:
form: more vapid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vapid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
pos: adj
examples: In Koons' best-known works—a life-sized poly-chromed wood replica of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles; vapid fin de siècle readymades such as a trio of basketballs floating in a fishtank […]
gloss: Lifeless, dull, or banal.
pos: adj
examples: Then there was a little more trite conversation between Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding; trite, and hard, and vapid, and senseless.
gloss: Tasteless, bland, or insipid.
pos: adj
Derived words: vapidity
vapidly
vapidness
Translations:
rile
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a dialectal pronunciation of roil.
Inflected forms:
form: riles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: riling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: riled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: riled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stir or move from a state of calm or order.
pos: verb
examples: Money problems rile the underpaid worker every day.
Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really rile me.
It riles me that she never closes the door after she leaves.
“Boh!” said Tom, “don’t I know?—don’t make me too sick with any yer stuff,—my stomach is a leetle riled now;” and Tom drank half a glass of raw brandy.
gloss: To make angry.
pos: verb
examples: Nothing riles an anti-mosque demonstrator more than being called a bigot.
Riled by a decision that went against him, Ziv kicked his displaced boot at the assistant referee and, after a short consultation between the officials, he was given his marching orders and the loudest cheer of the night.
Francis riled conservative cardinals with his compassion for migrants and refugees, openness towards LGBTQ+ Catholics and demands for action on the climate crisis.
Derived words: rilesome
rile up
riley
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: сърдя
roman: sǎrdja
lang: Bulgarian
word: дразня
roman: draznja
lang: Czech
word: lézt na nervy
lang: Czech
word: vytáčet
lang: Czech
word: štvát
lang: Finnish
word: ärsyttää
lang: Finnish
word: suututtaa
lang: German
word: aufbringen
lang: German
word: reizen
lang: German
word: ärgern
lang: Hungarian
word: bosszant
lang: Hungarian
word: dühít
lang: Hungarian
word: kihoz a sodrából
lang: Ido
word: iracigar
lang: Māori
word: whakariri
lang: Māori
word: whakatakariri
lang: Russian
word: злить
roman: zlitʹ
lang: Russian
word: раздражать
roman: razdražatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: encolerizar
lang: Spanish
word: irritar
lang: Spanish
word: sacar de quicio
lang: Spanish
word: sulfurar
lang: Spanish
word: encabronar
lang: Tagalog
word: mang-inis
lang: Tagalog
word: inisin
lang: Turkish
word: kızdırmak
octogenarian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin octōgēnārius + -an (suffix forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French octogénaire, from Latin octōgēnus (“80 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from octōgintā (“eight tens, 80”).
Inflected forms:
form: octogenarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of eightysomething: a person between 80 and 89 years old.
pos: noun
examples: Mama was by no means the only grandma present, for the octogenarians had turned out en masse from their huts and lean-tos and were paddling about, diving and splashing as unconcernedly as though they really belonged in the sea rather than on land.
Finsbury Park station, one of the most important L.N.E.R. suburban junctions, is now an octogenarian.
To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every scientist who is doing quantitative work.
First up for recriminations may be President Biden. What if the octogenarian had stuck to his original suggestion that he’d be a “bridge” president – i.e., a one-termer – and announced he wouldn’t run for a second term early last year, allowing for a proper primary competition among the next generation of Democratic leaders?
gloss: Of or related to eightysomethings.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
somnambulist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French somnambuliste, from Medieval Latin somnambulus (“sleepwalker”). By surface analysis, somn- + -ambulist.
Inflected forms:
form: somnambulists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker.
pos: noun
examples: The clergyman floundered a moment, as is usual with an absent man who is recovering the train of his ideas, or a somnambulist when he is suddenly awakened.
The slim one got up and walked straight at me - still knitting with downcast eyes - and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up.
He must have promptly rejected an alternative explanation which would better fulfill the demands of verisimilitude (“My wife, poor thing, in her nervous condition, now is afflicted also with sleepwalking!”), seeing the laborious tasks to which the resumed somnambulist devotes herself: kneeling at the edge of a pit, she anoints the earth with murky philters (unless the implements she holds in her hand are to be interpreted actually as acetylene torches scattering sparks, to melt the lead seals of a coffin).
Translations:
caul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
arts
business
carpentry
construction
cooking
crafts
food
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
medicine
sciences
woodworking
Etymology: From Middle English calle, kelle, kalle, kolle (“caul, net, basket”), from Old English cāwl, cāul, cēawl, cēaul (“basket, container, net, sieve”), of uncertain origin. Reinforced by Old French cale (“close-fitting cap”), possibly a borrowing of the Old English term above, or alternatively related to Old French calotte (“headdress”), from Italian callotta, from Latin calautica (“type of female headdress which fell down over the shoulders”), itself of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots kell (“caul”).
Inflected forms:
form: cauls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: call
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cawl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold […]
gloss: An entry to a mill lead taken from a burn or stream (a mill lead (or mill waterway) is generally smaller than a canal but moves a large volume of water).
pos: noun
tags: UK
capitalized
historical
often
gloss: A membrane.
pos: noun
gloss: The thin membrane which covers the lower intestines; the omentum.
pos: noun
gloss: The amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth (traditionally considered to be good luck).
pos: noun
examples: I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.
Even in the mid seventeenth century a country gentleman might regard his caul as a treasure to be preserved with great care, and bequeathed to his descendants.
gloss: The surface of a press that makes contact with panel product, especially a removable plate or sheet.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip or block of wood used to distribute or direct clamping force.
pos: noun
gloss: Caul fat.
pos: noun
Translations:
troglodytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin troglodyticus, Ancient Greek τρωγλοδυτικός (trōglodutikós, “of cave-/hole-dwellers”) from τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “cave-/hole-dweller”) from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + δύω (dúō, “enter, go into”), equivalent to troglodyte + -ic.
Base: troglodyte
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more troglodytic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most troglodytic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trogloditic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves.
pos: adj
examples: Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.
gloss: Like or befitting a troglodyte; brutish, backwards, etc.
pos: adj
examples: ‘There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I think; for O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.’
You have my thanks for not closing debate in Community Voices, so that the late but thoughtful and intelligent contributions to a controversy isn't squelched. I've found this usually means clawing one's way through mounds of troglodytic gay male misogyny and an occasional off-the-wall lesbian interpretation of gay male sexuality, but it's worth it.
Derived words: troglodytically
Translations:
lockjaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From lock + jaw.
Compound parts: lock
jaw
Inflected forms:
form: lockjaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
evince
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French évincer, from Latin ēvincō (“conquer entirely, prevail over; prove exhaustively”), from ē- (short form of ex- (intensive prefix)) + vincō (“conquer”). Doublet of evict.
Inflected forms:
form: evinces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evincing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evinced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evinced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For You will find in the Progress of our Dispute, that I had some reason to question the very way of Probation imploy'd both by Peripateticks and Chymists, to evince the being and number of the Elements.
Common sense and experience will and must evince the truth of this.
To evince the abſurdity of that prejudice which conſiders human creatures as brutes, merely becauſe they differ from ourſelves in colour, I muſt beg leave to mention a few of the principal ceremonies that attended the ratification of this peace.
‘That unless all the people of Kasson would embrace the Mohammedan religion, and evince their conversion by saying eleven public prayers, he, the king of Foota-Torra, could not possibly stand neuter in the present contest, but would certainly join his arms to those of Kajaaga.’
Could a man so situated fail to evince the joy he felt in the circumstance expected; thereby, delighting and sustaining his suffering young wife, if he were not wrapt and absorbed in the contemplation of an object still more interesting—an object still living, still capable, however high or virtuous, of working woe to Isabella?
Quite an excellent repast consisting of rashers and eggs, fried steak and onions, done to a nicety, delicious hot breakfast rolls and invigorating tea had been considerately provided by the authorities for the consumption of the central figure of the tragedy who was in capital spirits when prepared for death and evinced the keenest interest in the proceedings from beginning to end [...]
As the game proceeded it became evident that Porgy's luck was with him; he was the most consistent winner, and Sportin' Life was bearing most of the burden. But the mulatto was too good a gambler to evince any discomfiture.
When Mrs C. described this to me the next day she shuddered all over, but also evinced, in her manner and choice of words, an unmistakable relish.
Bare reportage cannot convey the deep hatred sometimes evinced between men through the simplest address.
But despite the overt similarity of the rules, Rome II does not evince a broad, transatlantic consensus on conflict of laws. The new European rules differ from outwardly similar American formulations in animating principle.
Translations:
slithy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of lithe + slimy, coined by Lewis Carroll in 1871.
Compound parts: lithe
slimy
Inflected forms:
form: slithier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slithiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: lithe and slimy or slithery.
pos: adj
examples: The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
She wanted to wear these slithy, snaky gowns you see in the pictures in the hallways of the $3 photographers.
Such a carriage is known as “an araba,” or alternatively as an yaili—a name which is probably onomatopœic, for it is about the “slithiest” thing that runs on wheels.
Falling roof, hidden shafts, slithiest snakes could not have stopped me after that. I arrived in the sparkling area.
He sweeps down; a frog is pinioned / Swift arrives his faithful soul-mate / True-loves share their slithy dinner.
The Beast, slithier even than the Jabberwock and certainly a deal more manxsome as a foe, grips in its claws a dreaded P45 from Piers marking the end of employment at Gussage Court.
Translations:
saltpetre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English saltpetre, alteration of Old French salpetre, from Medieval Latin sāl petrae (“salt of the rock”), named so being found as an incrustation. Alteration of the first element is from folk-etymological association with salt (which is, nevertheless, cognate to Latin sāl).
Inflected forms:
form: saltpetres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saltpeter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: saltpetres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saltpetring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saltpetred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saltpetred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: saltpeter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Potassium nitrate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Sodium nitrate.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
uncountable
usually
gloss: To treat with saltpetre.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Chile saltpetre
Chilean saltpetre
Norway salpetre
Translations:
nitrate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French nitratebor.
English nitrate
Borrowed from French nitrate.
Inflected forms:
form: nitrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nitrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nitrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nitrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nitrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
pos: noun
examples: Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium and potassium nitrates. Numerous water wells have had to be abandoned because of the lack of a way to deal with the problem.
The underground water which feeds Britain's springs and rivers and provides a third of its drinking water is becoming seriously polluted with nitrates, causing a threat to wildlife and landing consumers with a big purification bill.
The pinkness of bacon – or cooked ham, or salami – is a sign that it has been treated with chemicals, more specifically with nitrates and nitrites.
gloss: To treat, or react, with nitric acid or a nitrate
pos: verb
Translations:
ester
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Ester, perhaps a contraction or abstraction of Essigäther (“ethyl acetate”), from Essig (“vinegar”) (from Latin acetum) and Äther (“ether”). See ether for more.
Inflected forms:
form: esters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.
pos: noun
examples: To produce a test material containing at least 75 percent omega-3 polyunsaturates, the menhaden triglycerides are transesterified to produce fatty acid ethyl esters. The esters are reacted with urea dissolved in hot ethanol and the solution is cooled overnight.
The thiol-coenzyme-A ester formed by R-arylpropionic acid can bind to triglyceride to form a “hybrid” triglyceride: such hybrid triglycerides can cause alteration of fatty-acid metabolism and membrane function, and a lipophilic triglyceride–propionic-acid hybrid would be able to cross lipid membranes such as the blood–brain barrier.
The effort’s primary material systems are vinyl esters and polyurethanes, reinforced with inexpensive chopped-glass rovings. Automated glass-fiber preforming processes and high-rate molding procedures are being studied in an effort to reduce cycle times and production costs substantially.
Translations: