yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
fleece
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
Etymology: From Middle English fles, flees, flese, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.
Inflected forms:
form: fleeces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fleeces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fleecing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fleeced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fleeced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Sun ſhall change, the Moon to change ſhall ceaſe; / The Gaits to clim-----the Sheep to yield the Fleece, / Ere ought by me be either ſaid or done, / Shall do thee Wrang, I ſwear by all aboon.
Wool became the substitute for money. […] In all the middle periods of British history, the fleece was the expression and the measure of national prosperity or calamity.
We carefully skirt and weigh each fleece, calculate shipping, and notify the buyer when the fleece is ready. Sound but more workaday fleeces are batched to make roving and yarn.
gloss: Insulating skin with the wool attached.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An insulating wooly jacket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alas! in the morning the eaglet was gone; and, full of sorrow, they stooped to pick up the shining fleece with which the floor was spread. At their touch, every feather became a golden coin.
gloss: The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To con or trick (someone) out of money.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.
gloss: To cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.
gloss: To cover with, or as if with, wool.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: China fleece vine
Chinese fleece vine
defleece
feather fleece
fleeceflower
fleecehold
fleeceless
fleecelike
fleece vine
fleeceware
fleecewear
fleece wool
fleece worm
fleecy
Golden Fleece
green fleece
microfleece
polar fleece
smooth golden fleece
fleeceable
fleecer
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 抓绒衣
lang: Czech
word: flís
lang: Finnish
word: fleecetakki
lang: Finnish
word: fleece
lang: Finnish
word: fliisi
lang: French
word: polaire
lang: German
word: Fleecejacke
lang: Icelandic
word: flíspeysa
lang: Italian
word: pile
lang: Korean
word: 플리스
roman: peulliseu
lang: Romanian
word: polar
bishopric
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bischopriche, from Old English bisċoprīċe, equivalent to bishop + -ric (compare German Reich).
Base: bishop
Affixes: -ric
Inflected forms:
form: bishoprics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bishoprick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bishoprike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A diocese: a region in which a bishop of a church governs.
pos: noun
examples: Later that year, he was appointed to the bishopric of Lindesmeere.
Iohn Fiſher Biſhop of Rocheſter, when the King [Henry VII of England] would have tranſlated him from that poore Biſhopricke to a better, he refuſed, saying: He would not forſake his poore little olde wife, with whom he had ſo long lived.
Wiltshire actually comes from Wiltonshire, for Wilton was once a county town, royal residence and bishopric - a place of significance.
gloss: The office or function of a bishop.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: episcopacy, episcopate, monepiscopacy
Translations:
iced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der.
Proto-Germanic *īsą
Proto-West Germanic *īs
Old English īs
Middle English is
English ice
English -ed
English iced
From ice (“noun”) + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more iced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most iced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With ice added.
pos: adj
examples: I'd like an iced tea.
gloss: Very cold, but not necessarily containing ice.
pos: adj
examples: an iced drink
gloss: Covered with icing.
pos: adj
examples: an iced cake
gloss: Having a glittering papillose surface.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of iced out (“copiously decorated with jewelry”)
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: ice cream
iced capp
iced coffee
iced cream
iced gem
iced out
iced-over
iced tea
iced water
noniced
uniced
Translations:
veg
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.
Inflected forms:
form: vegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: veges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: veg
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vegs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vegges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: veges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vegging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: veging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vegged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vegged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: veged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: veged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vedge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Vegetarian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.
gloss: vegetable(s).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: She paused, still clutching her fork, and pushed back a lock of hair with the crook of her wrist. "It'll help if one of you takes charge of the veg. and the other helps with the plates," she said.
2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 http://www.google.com/patents?id=spsQAAAAEBAJ, page 5,
Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]
[…] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg?
Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do.
A day.
A WHAT??!
fruit and veg
gloss: vegetarian food.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
gloss: to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.
Synonyms: veggie
vegie
Derived words: meat and two veg
veg box
veg-head
Translations:
quartet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French quartette, from Italian quartetto. Doublet of cuarteto and quartetto.
Inflected forms:
form: quartets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quartette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of four people or things, particularly
pos: noun
examples: The last of the quartet of American fighter pilots to join the RAF before the war was Cyril 'Pussy' Palmer, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 1918.
gloss: A group of four people or things, particularly
pos: noun
examples: The string quartet played some chamber music.
gloss: A group of four people or things, particularly
pos: noun
examples: He composed a string quartet.
gloss: A group of four people or things, particularly
pos: noun
examples: The barbershop quartet performed the composition a cappella.
Synonyms: foursome
quadruplet
quadruplicity
quadrad
quaternion
quaternity
quartet
tetrad
tetraplet
Related words: number
Derived words: barbershop quartet
quartetist
string quartet
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: четворка
roman: četvorka
lang: Danish
word: kvartet
lang: Dutch
word: viertal
lang: Dutch
word: kwartet
lang: Finnish
word: nelikko
lang: Finnish
word: nelikkö
lang: French
word: quatuor
lang: French
word: quadrille
lang: Georgian
word: კვარტეტი
roman: ḳvarṭeṭi
lang: German
word: Quartett
lang: Hungarian
word: négyes
lang: Italian
word: quartetto
lang: Japanese
word: 四人組
roman: yoningumi
lang: Māori
word: tokowhā
lang: Portuguese
word: quarteto
lang: Russian
word: кварте́т
roman: kvartét
lang: Russian
word: четвёрка
roman: četvjórka
lang: Russian
word: че́тверо
roman: čétvero
lang: Spanish
word: cuarteto
lang: Swedish
word: kvartett
papal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English papal, from Old French papal and Medieval Latin pāpālis (“papal”).
Inflected forms:
form: more papal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most papal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
pos: adj
examples: In both the 2005 and 2013 papal elections there were whispers circulating that back in 1976 Francis had failed to help the two priests in their hour of need.
Translations:
verve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His hands were strong and elegant; his experience of life evidently varied; his speech full of pith and verve; his manners forward, but perfectly presentable.
They played through vacation to the fashionable of eight cities. […] Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as the Yale Glee Club was expected in a week the Triangle received only divided homage.
Normally, this [girl] presents to the world the appearance of one who is feeling that if it isn't the best of all possible worlds, it's quite good enough to be going on with till a better one comes along. Verve, I mean, and animation and all that sort of thing. But now there was a listlessness about her […]
After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage.
gloss: A particular skill in writing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: If he be above Virgil, and is reſolv'd to follow his own Verve (as the French call it,) the Proverb will fall heavily upon him; Who teaches himſelf, has a Fool for his Maſter.
Derived words: vervy
Translations:
brumby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown; perhaps from James Brumby, early Australian soldier and pastoralist, who is said to have left horses at his abandoned property.
Inflected forms:
form: brumbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wild or feral horse.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: I'm too weak to ride. I'd have to ride, because for one thing the white-ants have eaten the wheels of my buckboard, and my one cart-horse has gone bush with the brumbies.
"It could mean one of two things," he said. "Either that help is coming, or that a herd of wild brumbies is passing somewhere near."
He captures brumbies, the wild horses of the outback, running them down on motorcycles and shipping them to the city where they are butchered for pet food.
If the latter situation prevails, brumbies can be developed into valuable stockhorses, either for use on the local property or for sale in other areas.
Whatever the condition of a captured brumby, there is always the potential of selling it for pet food, fish bait, or even for human consumption.
Harry Farquharson said there were two or three springs and that the horses were “bloody wild”. He said there were probably about 300 and they were good horses, a long way above the average brumby.
Translations:
frank
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English frank, from Old French franc (“free”), in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks, from Proto-West Germanic *frankō (“javelin, spear”). Doublet of Frank, franc, and farang.
Inflected forms:
form: franker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frankest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: franks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: franks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: franking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: franked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: franked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
pos: adj
examples: May I be frank with you?
gloss: Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident.
pos: adj
examples: The research probes whether treating pre-diabetes with metformin can prevent progression to frank diabetes.
gloss: Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: It is of frank gift.
gloss: Liberal; generous; profuse.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Frank of Civilities that cost them nothing.
gloss: Unrestrained; loose; licentious.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: Over the fields, in his franke lustinesse,
And all the champain o're he soared light.
gloss: Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
pos: noun
examples: October 5, 1780, William Cowper, letter to Rev. William Unwin
I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again.
gloss: The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
pos: noun
examples: But, although her friends were kind, Lady Anne was not easy; neither daughter made her appearance, nor did she receive a letter to account for their silence. She remembered, indeed, that Charles Penrhyn could not get franks now, and her daughters knew she would not pay postage; and she had commanded Helen to work night and day, saying, "surely they can give her common materials."
gloss: To place a frank on an envelope.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It will be so ridiculous to see all his letters directed to him with an M.P.—But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me?
gloss: To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send by public conveyance free of expense.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1850-1859, Charles Dickens, Household Words
This required extensive correspondence; so, in the next place, the privilege of franking letters in reference to the emigrants' registration office, was obtained—much to the indignation of red tapists.
Related words: prepay
Derived words: frank bank
frank-fee
frankly
frank-marriage
frankness
frankpledge
franksome
to be frank
unfrank
overfrank
frankable
prefranked
unfranked
Translations:
hebephilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hebe-
Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der.
English -philia
English hebephilia
From hebe- (“relating to youth”) + -philia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sexual preference for adolescent girls.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: This finding, if confirmed, may offer a useful lead for research in heterosexual pedophilia or hebephilia (a preference for pubescent girls)
paraphilias are included: hebephilia (adolescent girls) and ephebophilia (adolescent boys), although the dynamics of these latter two may be closer to those of adult attraction.
gloss: Adult sexual attraction primarily towards pubescent children and younger adolescents, usually between 10 and 14 years old. Can fall under the same definition as pedophile.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: ephebophilia
pederasty
romantic
sexual relationship between a man and an adolescent boy
Derived words: hebephile
hebephiliac
hebephilic
pedohebephilia
Translations:
ephebophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
sexology
sexuality
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”) + φιλία (philía, “love, friendship”). By surface analysis, ephebe + -philia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sexual attraction towards postpubescent adolescents.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A sexual preference for adolescent boys.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: The assertion, often naïvely made, that in the Homeric poems there is as yet no trace of the love of boys to be met with, and that it was a phenomenon which first appeared during the so-called decadence is, in my opinion, false, for I have already shown in an earlier work (in Anthropophyteia, ix, pp. 291 ff.) that the bond of friendship between Achilles and Patroclus (the most important passages are Il., xxiii, 84; ix, 186, 663; xviii, 22 ff., 65, 315, 334; xix, 209, 315), however ideal it was, yet contains a high percentage of homoerotic sentiment and action; that the Homeric epos also abounds in undoubted traces of ephebophilia, and that no one in the ancient times of Greece ever supposed otherwise.
1981 Brian Taylor, PhD Perspectives on Paedophilia page XIII
Thus, paedophilia, denoting sexual interest in pre-pubertal children, can be distinguished from paederasty, indicating sexual interest in pre-pubertal boys alone. These two together could then be distinguished from ephebophilia, denoting sexual preference for post-pubertal and adolescent boys.
Freund, "Male Homosexuality," p. 44 .. "Paedophilia is the erotic preference for children, ephebophilia that for male ... pubescents."
paraphilias are included: hebephilia (adolescent girls) and ephebophilia (adolescent boys), although the dynamics of these latter two may be closer to those of adult attraction.
2006 Looking at Ephebophilia through the Lens of Cleric Sexual Abuse from volume 13 issue 4 of "Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity"
The term ephebophilia seems to have been coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in his Wesen der Liebe (1906), where he applied to sexually mature youths from puberty up to the age of 20; in his 1914 magnum opus, Die Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes, Hirschfeld specified the range of love objects as from "the beginning to the completion of maturity, so approximately ages 14-21." The German research estimated that 45 of all homosexuals were ephebophiles. For women, he used the term "parthenophiles."
The authors propose that the diagnosis of ephebophilia, which is a sexual attraction to pubescent or post-pubescent males, is better suited to the sample of Catholic priests in the John Jay study.
Related words: pederast
hebephilia
a preference for pubescents
early adolescents
Derived words: ephebophile
ephebophilic
Translations:
flan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: Borrowed around 1846 from French flan (“cheesecake, custard tart, flan”), or in some uses (in reference to Spanish/Latin American flans) later from Spanish flan (itself from the French), both from Old French flaon (whence also Middle English flaon, flaun (“pie; cake”)), from Late Latin fladō (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþō (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”); compare German Fladen. Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”). Doublet of flathe.
Although the -n is generally believed to derive from the Late Latin accusative form (fladonem) of fladō (“flat cake”), it might alternatively derive from an inflected form of the Frankish word (such as the Frankish accusative *flaþan, or the like). For a similar case, see garden.
Inflected forms:
form: flans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A baked tart with a sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: The menu includes a number of excellent fish dishes such as the […] broccoli flan.
gloss: A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.
pos: noun
tags: Belize
US
gloss: A coin die.
pos: noun
gloss: To splay or bevel internally, as a window-pane.
pos: verb
Related words: flathe
flathon
flawn
leche flan
custard
Translations:
eaglet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eagle
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English eaglet
From eagle + -let (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: eaglets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick.
pos: noun
examples: He [Christopher North] speaks in his "Second Canticle" of "the imps," "the eaglets," "the young ones," "the bursting of the shells," as though it were the commoner occurrence for there to be several eaglets in a nest. This is not the case.
Alas! in the morning the eaglet was gone; and, full of sorrow, they stooped to pick up the shining fleece with which the floor was spread. At their touch, every feather became a golden coin.
[A]fter the ten days Arkirie came to the king and asked him to give him two eaglets.
Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans. They'll rip food into bite-size pieces for the eaglets and stand ceaseless watch over the eyrie.
The early days and weeks of an eaglet’s life are not without risks.
Translations:
paedophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paedo-
Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der.
English -philia
English paedophilia
From paedo- + -philia.
Inflected forms:
form: paedophilias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of pedophilia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yes, really. Blanchard has expanded the DSM's "paraphilia" section (where crimes such as paedophilia and exhibitionism go) to include transvestic disorder.
Translations:
sherry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).
Inflected forms:
form: sherries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
gloss: A variety of sherry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They produce several quality sherries.
gloss: A glass of sherry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Would you like a sherry?
Related words: amontillado
Derived words: cooking sherry
natural sherry
sherried
sherrify
sherrylike
sherry vinegar
washing sherry
Translations:
stridulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”).
Inflected forms:
form: stridulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.
Translations:
goof
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
Etymology: Perhaps from dialectal English goff (“foolish clown”), from earlier goffe, in which case further etymology is uncertain.
Perhaps from Middle English goffen (“to speak in a frivolous manner”), possibly from Old English gaf, ġegaf (“base; wanton; lewd”, adjective), ġegaf (“buffoonery; scurrility”, noun), gaffetung, golfettung (“buffoonery; mockery”). Compare English dialectal gauffin (“lightheaded; foolish; giddy”), Scots gaff, gawf (“to talk loudly; babble”), Scots gaffaw (“a loud laugh”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Middle French goffe (“awkward; stupid”). Compare also Spanish gofo, Italian goffo.
Inflected forms:
form: goofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mistake or error.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: I made a goof in that last calculation.
gloss: A mistake or error.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
gloss: A foolish and/or silly person; a goofball.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
informal
examples: Your little brother is a total goof.
gloss: A rapist.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
gloss: To make a mistake.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: It's my fault. I goofed.
GCN is in a sticky situation because we goofed and bought 10 pounds of a type of wax that we cannot use.
gloss: To engage in mischief.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: We were just goofing by painting the neighbor's cat green.
Derived words: goof around
goofball
goofer
goofery
goofish
goof off
goof-off
goof on
goofproof
goof up
goofus
goofy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гаф
roman: gaf
lang: Czech
word: bota
lang: Czech
word: hloupá chyba
lang: Estonian
word: viga
lang: Finnish
word: moka
lang: Finnish
word: virhe
lang: Finnish
word: munaus
lang: French
word: gaffe
lang: Italian
word: sbaglio
lang: Italian
word: errore
lang: Persian
word: گاف
roman: gâf
lang: Polish
word: babol
lang: Portuguese
word: gafe
lang: Russian
word: опло́шность
roman: oplóšnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: оши́бка
roman: ošíbka
lang: Swedish
word: misstag
lang: Swedish
word: fel
lang: Swedish
word: tabbe
lang: Russian
word: растли́тель
roman: rastlítelʹ
lang: Russian
word: растли́тельница
roman: rastlítelʹnica
lang: Russian
word: педофи́л
roman: pedofíl
lang: Swedish
word: peddo
stakeholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
law
Etymology: From stake + holder.
Compound parts: stake
holder
Inflected forms:
form: stakeholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person holding the stakes of bettors, with the responsibility of delivering the pot to the winner of the bet.
pos: noun
gloss: A person such as a trustee, escrow agent or garnishee, who holds money or assets under trust for another party in a contractual agreement or as part of a claim.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or organisation with a legitimate interest (a stake) in a given situation, action or enterprise.
pos: noun
examples: Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce (TVCC) and other stakeholders are now increasingly concerned about the risks of delay and urging progress on a project with a strong economic, commercial and environmental case.
Related words: seat at the table
Derived words: multi-stakeholder
multistakeholder
multistakeholders
stakeholder capitalism
stakeholderism
stakeholdership
stakeholder society
Translations:
gent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for gentleman.
Inflected forms:
form: gents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gentleman.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent.
Translations:
sojourn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sojourne (noun) and sojournen (verb), from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurnāre, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).
Inflected forms:
form: sojourns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sojourns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sojourning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sojourned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sojourned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short stay somewhere.
pos: noun
examples: Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.
But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.
The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues[…]
gloss: A temporary residence.
pos: noun
examples: Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn
gloss: To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.
Synonyms: abode
Derived words: sojourn time
Translations:
broomstick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From broom + stick.
Compound parts: broom
stick
Inflected forms:
form: broomsticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broom-stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: broomsticks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: broomsticking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: broomsticked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broomsticked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: broom-stick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The handle of a broom (sweeping tool); (sometimes) the entire broom.
pos: noun
gloss: A broom imbued with magic, enabling one to fly astride the handle.
pos: noun
examples: Witches of all ages attended these lively gatherings by flying away on their broomsticks[.]
She really was a witch now. No one but a witch could fly a broomstick.
Harry ripped the parcel open and gasped as a magnificent, gleaming broomstick rolled out onto his bedspread. [...] It was a Firebolt, identical to the dream broom Harry had gone to see every day in Diagon Alley.
Greebo, hiccuping occasionally, oozed into his accustomed place among the bristles of Nanny’s broomstick. As they rose above the forest a thin plume of smoke also rose from the castle.
Most people are familiar with the age-old superstition that witches fly on broomsticks to their covens (though they were formerly also reputed to use shovels, cleft sticks, eggshells, ANIMALS and other means of flight).
gloss: A control stick of an airplane or other vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A firearm.
pos: noun
tags: rare
slang
examples: Gangdem known for the shootings, go ask Ramz – got whooshed with a broomstick.
gloss: To fly on a broomstick, as witches are said to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: BATTY: But, Mother Witch, I want to go broomsticking, too.
Cynthia the Witch, whenever she broomsticked back into town would not even be given the chance to lay eyes on my machine or my clothes.
Related words: witch's besom
witch's broom
Derived words: broomsticking
broomstickless
broomsticklike
marry over the broomstick
Translations:
scanlation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: comics
literature
manga
media
publishing
Etymology: Blend of scan + translation.
Compound parts: scan
translation
Inflected forms:
form: scanlations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scanslation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the original text to produce a second-language version of the comic; a scanlated comic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: scanlate
scanlator
Translations:
lang: French
word: scantrad
lang: French
word: scanlation
lang: Indonesian
word: pindai terjemahan
lang: Italian
word: scanlation
gizzard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gyser, geser, from Old French gesier, giser et al. (French gésier), from Latin gigēria.
Inflected forms:
form: gizzards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.
pos: noun
examples: As fortune has it, kingbirds, like owls, lack a grinding gizzard and regurgitate hard fragments from their meals.
gloss: The (human) stomach.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Pushing a man's face into his own breakfast is beyond rules or reason, and deserves a punch in the gizzard."
Related words: crop
Derived words: dotted gizzard shad
fret the gizzard
gizdodo
gizzardless
gizzard shad
gizzard stone
stick in one's gizzard
Translations:
eldritch
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the earlier form elritch, of uncertain origin. The second element, -ritch, is generally taken to be Old English rīċe (“realm, kingdom”). Some think that the first element, el-, derives from an Old English root meaning “foreign, strange, other” (related to Old English ellende and modern English else); others think that it derives from elf. It was reintroduced into popular literature by the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.
Inflected forms:
form: more eldritch
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eldritch
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eldrich
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: elrich
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: elritch
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unearthly, supernatural, eerie, preternatural.
pos: adj
examples: So Maggie runs, the witches follow, / Wi' mony an eldritch ſkreech and hollow.
I look'd upon the rotting Sea, / And drew my eyes away; / I look'd upon the eldritch deck / And there the dead men lay.
Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent.
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
The thing advanced to the table. The bright flame of the slush lamp caught its eye. It was amused, and gave voice to eldritch cackles which betokened mirth.
Surprise, horror, loathing were depicted on all faces while he eyed them with a ghostly grin. I anticipated some such reception, he began with an eldritch laugh, for which, it seems, history is to blame.
The Scandinavian Eddas and Sagas thunder with cosmic horror, and shake with the stark fear of Ymir and his shapeless spawn; whilst our own Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and the later Continental Nibelung tales are full of eldritch weirdness.
The large vessel's dark form was massive, eldritch, as it loomed off the Cushing's port bow in the flash-lit darkness. This was the Hiei. The recognition of the battleship spread down the van, from the Cushing to the Laffey to the Sterett to the O'Bannon.
But in 2022, he agreed to a cameo in one: Mr. Spielberg’s autobiographical feature “The Fabelmans,” where the enigmatic if not eldritch Mr. Lynch was cast as John Ford, the maker of westerns and the grand old curmudgeon of American cinema. It was a sentimental gesture that one can only call Lynchian.
Translations:
palisade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
government
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palissade, from Old French, from Old Occitan palissada, from palissa (“stake”), probably from pal (“stake”), or possibly from Gallo-Romance *pālīcea, from Latin pālus (“stake”) + -ade.
Affixes: -ade
Inflected forms:
form: palisades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palisades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: palisading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: palisaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: palisaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
pos: noun
gloss: A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
pos: noun
examples: We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.
I realize how universal the desire to injure your fellow man is. … Only hear the government of laws and lawyers puts a palisade up. They can injure you a lot, make your life hideous, but they can't actually do you in.
gloss: A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
pos: noun
gloss: An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
pos: noun
gloss: To equip with a palisade.
pos: verb
tags: also
intransitive
passive
transitive
usually
examples: The Hut, well palisaded, would make a work that could not be easily carried, without artillery."
But where, through the development of trade or any other cause, a good many of them grew up close together within a narrow compass, they gradually coalesced into a kind of compound town; and with the greater population and greater wealth, there was naturally more elaborate and permanent fortification than that of the palisaded village.
They stood at bay in an old palisaded fort.
The ensuing dispute led to a bloody battle on the island, in which the English rushed up to the palisaded fort, began firing in at the portholes, and set fire to the village.
Derived words: impalisade
Pacific Palisades
palisade cell
palisade-hedge
palisade mesophyll
palisade parenchyma
palisade tissue
palisade-tree
palisade trench
palisade worm
palisadic
pseudopalisade
Willow Palisade
Translations:
guesstimate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of guess + estimate.
Compound parts: guess
estimate
Inflected forms:
form: guesstimates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guestimate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: guesstimates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guesstimating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guesstimated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guesstimated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: guestimate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An estimate that is hardly any better than a guess, often because it is based on insufficient or unreliable data.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Near-synonym: educated guess
I'm not sure how many people were at the festival. My best guesstimate is 50,000.
gloss: To make a guesstimate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a guesstimate of a specific quantity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: guesstimative
guesstimator
misguesstimate
overguesstimate
underguesstimate
Translations:
braggadocio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.
Inflected forms:
form: braggadocios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: braggadocioes
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: braggadocii
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: braggadose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A braggart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.
Having received an Inſult from Otho H. W. Luckett, for which he refuſed to make the Reparation demanded―I do declare him a Coward, a Bragadochio, and a Fellow, at whom the ☞ Finger of Contempt ſhould always be pointed.
Shut thy trap, Braggadose. To whom art thou speaking?
gloss: Empty boasting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.
He’s also come to be known for his braggadocio about his net worth during his 2016 run.
Russia’s use of social media in America’s 2016 presidential race reflected particularly poorly on Facebook, which was seen as doing too little to stamp out deceptive ads and fake news stories. As for nuclear braggadocio on Twitter, let’s not even go there.
Prime Minister Johnson adopted an unfamiliar tone of seriousness. Gone was the braggadocio of superheroes and handshakes.
Related words: braggadocious
machismo
Derived words: braggadocian
Translations:
annihilate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin annihilātus, perfect passive participle of annihilō (“to reduce to nothing”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also an-.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: annihilates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: annihilating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: annihilated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: annihilated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
pos: verb
examples: An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
But eagerness in this case, as in most others, annihilated its own delight; down came the tottering height, while the disappointed builder found relief for his sorrow in anger—sorrow's best remedy after all.
gloss: To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
pos: verb
tags: particle
gloss: To treat as worthless, to vilify.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.
gloss: To render null and void; to abrogate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator.
pos: verb
Antonyms: create
generate
Related words: annihilable
annihilation
annihilative
annihilator
annul
nihilism
nihilist
null
nullify
Derived words: annihilator method
coannihilate
self-annihilate
Translations:
vanquish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English venquysshen, vaynquisshen, borrowed from a conjugated form of Old French veincre, from Latin vincō.
Inflected forms:
form: vanquishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vanquishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vanquished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vanquished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To defeat (someone); to overcome.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In ſingle Combat thou ſhalt buckle vvith me; / And if thou vanquiſheſt, thy vvords are true, / Othervviſe I renounce all confidence.
This bold assertion has been so fully vanquish'd in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
They […] vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
Translations:
thrall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English thral, thralle, threl, threlle, from Old English þrǣl (“thrall, slave, servant”), from Old Norse þræll (“slave”), from Proto-Germanic *þrahilaz, *þragilaz, *þrigilaz (“runner, gofer, servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, drag, race, run”), possibly a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to run”); related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan), Old English þrǣġan (“to run”).
Inflected forms:
form: thralls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thralls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thralling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thralled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thralled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Slave; one under the control of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
uncountable
examples: My father was always a thrall to alcohol.
My servant, which that is my thrall by right
Hereat its Marid appeared and said to him, "Adsum! thy thrall between thy hands is come: ask of me whatso thou wantest."
And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls, and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
gloss: The state of being under the control of another person.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Today's kids are in thrall to their phones.
Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
[Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.
A more enlightened Conservative prime minister, better attuned to the “one nation” tradition of the party of Disraeli and Macmillan, less in thrall to Little Englanders, and less intimidated by the peculiarly vicious and Manichaean worldview of the Daily Mail, would have taken a more consensual approach.
Labour needs to engage positively with the unions on wider policy issues, but not be in thrall with them.
gloss: A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To make a thrall; enslave.
pos: verb
tags: literary
Related words: thraldom
Translations:
palus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pālus (“stake, post”). Doublet of pole, peel, and pale.
Inflected forms:
form: pali
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vertical pillar along the inner septal margin of a coral.
pos: noun
Translations:
silva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
forestry
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.
Inflected forms:
form: silvas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: silvae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sylva
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The forest trees of a particular area
pos: noun
examples: The most interesting and striking features of the silva of California relate to its composition, the geographical distribution of the species and their biological history.
Translations:
renegade
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin renegātus, perfect participle of renegō (“to deny”). See also renege.
Inflected forms:
form: renegades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more renegade
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most renegade
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An outlaw or rebel.
pos: noun
gloss: A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Deserting, treacherous, disloyal.
pos: adj
gloss: Unconventional, unorthodox.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Related words: negate and its related terms
abnegate
neglect
negative
negotiate
négligée
Derived words: paragade
renegade row
renegadism
Translations: