yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unflappable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English flap
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English unflappable
From un- + flap (“to upset, stir”) + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more unflappable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unflappable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Remaining composed and level-headed at all times; impossible to fluster; not becoming frustrated or irritated easily.
pos: adj
examples: The whole thing looked remarkably like an implacable force meeting an unflappable object.
It was for this reason that when Lord Hailsham first described Harold Macmillan as "unflappable'", it became an instant catchword, distancing the incoming Prime Minister from his predecessor
Whereas his predecessor was impetuous, Obama was praised for being contemplative and unflappable. Bush had a gut; Obama had a brain.
Hill’s unflappable performance capped an extraordinary two weeks of public testimony, in which 12 witnesses testified during seven public hearings.
It took a lot to get Wheeler's pulse going, but Lillian's dangerous joke had done the job. The otherwise unflappable woman was flushed with adrenaline.
Translations:
dreary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English drery, from Old English drēoriġ (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear + -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English drēor (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).
Base: drear
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: drearier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more dreary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dreariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most dreary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
pos: adj
examples: It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
The train is booked to stop at Jiza for only three minutes, but more often than not twenty minutes or more are spent on shunting before it sets off again on what must be one of the most dreary journeys in the world.
gloss: Grievous, dire; appalling.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: drear
drearihead
drearihood
drearily
dreariment
dreariness
drearisome
Translations:
thoughtful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thoȝtful, thohtful, equivalent to thought + -ful. Compare Dutch gedachtenvol, Swedish tankfull.
Base: thought
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more thoughtful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thoughtful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
pos: adj
examples: Most thoughtful people eventually solve the puzzle.
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
gloss: Demonstrating kindness or consideration for others.
pos: adj
examples: Preparing dinner is a thoughtful gesture for a new mother.
Synonyms: attentive
careful
caring
cogitative
contemplative
considerate
introspective
observative
pensive
thoughty
Antonyms: thoughtless
Related words: sensitive
solemn
Derived words: forethoughtful
overthoughtful
thoughtfully
thoughtfulness
unthoughtful
Translations:
cleaving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cleavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That cleaves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My head blazed with pain. The speed, the cleaving wind, the flailing beams of light from traffic tormented me. And there was the sickly smell too that no night air could clear.
The fight was brutal and intense but soon it became painfully obvious that the fairy could not keep this pace up for much longer. She was beginning to tire. No longer able to attack with each turn and dive, she had to use all of her remaining speed and energy just to dodge pincers. She was on the defensive, and the monster was nowhere near letting up. Her graceful turns and leaps became more and more frantic and less graceful, and the last cleaving strike sent her rolling. She leaped immediately to her feet only to be struck solidly with a sweeping blow from the flat side of the bonecracker’s other crablike claw. Swatted sideways, she flew face-first into a wooden cask at the edge of the well. She crumpled to the floor, her swords sliding from her hands and falling at her side.
That’s worth all the fuss and all the effort, all the sweat and the cleaving wind, the grind of wheels on paviors and the shrill of exaltation that you hold behind your teeth because really, let’s be cool, okay?
gloss: The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
pos: noun
examples: In the luxurious wonder of so rare a dream, I took but little heed of time, and had but little understanding of its flight. But there were days and nights in it; and when the sun was high, and when the rays of lamps were crooked in the running water, I was still afloat, I thought: plashing the slippery walls and houses with the cleavings of the tide, as my black boat, borne upon it, skimmed along the streets.
Many of Spenser's readers today find the cleavings and reunifications of Redcrosse and Una presenting a psychodrama of mental fragmentation […]
gloss: The act of one who cleaves, clings, or adheres.
pos: noun
examples: On all of them they renew their cleavings to God with love and delight.
Derived words: autocleaving
cleavingly
noncleaving
Translations:
cloudberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cloud + berry.
Compound parts: cloud
berry
Inflected forms:
form: cloudberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus.
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of these plants.
pos: noun
Translations:
soft-boiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: softboiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: soft boiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: softhearted or sentimental
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: hard-boiled
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: рохко сварен
roman: rohko svaren
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 半熟
roman: bànshóu; bànshú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溏心
roman: tángxīn
lang: Dutch
word: zachtgekookt
lang: Finnish
word: pehmeäksi keitetty
lang: French
word: à la coque
lang: German
word: weichgekocht
lang: Greek
word: μελάτος
roman: melátos
lang: Hawaiian
word: moʻa hapa
lang: Hebrew
word: רכה
roman: raka
lang: Icelandic
word: linsoðinn
lang: Italian
word: uovo alla coque
lang: Italian
word: uovo bazzotto
lang: Japanese
word: 半熟
roman: hanjuku
lang: Korean
word: 반숙
roman: bansuk
lang: Malay
word: separuh masak
lang: Malay
word: setengah masak
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bløtkokt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: blautkokt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: blautkokt
lang: Polish
word: na miękko
lang: Romanian
word: fiert moale
lang: Russian
word: сва́ренный всмя́тку
roman: svárennyj vsmjátku
lang: Russian
word: сва́ренный в мешо́чек
roman: svárennyj v mešóček
lang: Spanish
word: pasado por agua
lang: Swedish
word: löskokt
lang: Tagalog
word: malasado
lang: Turkish
word: rafadan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: رافدان
roman: rafadan
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: رفدان
roman: rafadan
hard-boiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Inflected forms:
form: more hard-boiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hard-boiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hardboiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hard boiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a boiled egg, cooked to a solid consistency.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a person, especially a detective, callous and unsentimental.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He told me afterward that he tried to find his folks and square himself—and maybe it was the truth—but some of the hard-boiled townspeople found him, instead, and he had a running fight all the way to the depot.
'Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.'
Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled. The kind of a broad who knew a hell of a lot.
gloss: Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
circlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French cerclet, diminutive of cercle.
Inflected forms:
form: circlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small circle.
pos: noun
gloss: A ring (typically of gold or silver) worn as an ornament on the head.
pos: noun
examples: He wore in addition to his leathern trappings and jewelled ornaments a great circlet of gold about his brow in the exact centre of which was set an immense stone, the exact counterpart of that which I had seen upon the breast of the little old man at the atmosphere plant nearly twenty years before.
gloss: A crown without arches or a covering.
pos: noun
examples: Her faire lockes in rich circlet be enrold.
gloss: A round body; an orb.
pos: noun
examples: Fairest of stars […] that crown'st the smiling morn / With thy bright circlet.
Derived words: circleted
Translations:
Hermitian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: After the French mathematician Charles Hermite (1822–1901), + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Hermitians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Equal to its own transpose conjugate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If φ=φ^† then φ is Hermitian.
gloss: A Hermitian operator.
pos: noun
Translations:
tope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: topes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.
pos: noun
Translations:
idiotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English idiot
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English idiotic
From idiot + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more idiotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most idiotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: idiotick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish
pos: adj
examples: Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life.
Synonyms: idiotish
Related words: idiocy
idiot
idiotically
idioticness
Derived words: idiotical
idioticity
unidiotic
Translations:
demos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: political-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”). Doublet of deme.
Inflected forms:
form: demoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: demoi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancient subdivision of Attica; (now also) a Greek municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together.
pos: noun
gloss: The ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state; hence, the common populace of a state or district (especially a democratic one); the people.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
examples: When the demos took charge, law and order inevitably collapsed, or so they concluded.
Translations:
elemental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English elementall, from Medieval Latin elementālis; compare Old French elementel. By surface analysis, element + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: elementals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Basic, fundamental or elementary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity.
The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.
gloss: Of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Seth is the embodiment of mother-right, warfare, terror, human sacrifice; he is an elemental deity who deals in the fundamental reality of blood.
gloss: Of, or relating to a force of nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
gloss: A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
pos: noun
examples: Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.
This time they got into print, all right. But the much-handled stories, written up with that blend of cautiously defensive frivolity which the press habitually employed to cover themselves in matters regarding sea-serpents, elementals, thought transference, and other irregular phenomena, prevented anyone from realizing that these accomplished plants at all resembled the quiet, respectable weed beside our rubbish heap.
Derived words: bielemental
bioelemental
dielemental
elementalism
elementality
elementalize
elementally
elemental magic
monoelemental
multielemental
nonelemental
omnielemental
trielemental
unelemental
Translations:
anharmonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
geometry
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der.
English an-
English harmonic
English anharmonic
From an- + harmonic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not harmonic. Inharmonic.
pos: adj
gloss: Exhibiting anharmonicity
pos: adj
examples: An anharmonic oscillator is a perturbed version of a harmonic oscillator.
gloss: Describing the section of a line by four points, A, B, C, D, when their mutual distances are such that AB divided by CB is not equal to AD divided by CD.
pos: adj
Related words: anharmonics
Derived words: anharmonically
anharmonic ratio
equianharmonic
Translations:
formalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
literature
mathematics
media
music
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English formal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English formalism
From formal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: formalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Heisenberg seems to have been motivated by his intense annoyance that Schrödinger's more intuitive version of quantum theory was more widely accepted than his own, even though both formalisms led to the same results.
gloss: A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dirac approaches quantum mechanics by means of a so-called symbolic method, the bracket formalism. Although this formalism has a mathematical flavour, in fact, it is based upon bold claims which lack mathematical foundation.
1992, tuart M. Shieber, Constraint-based Grammar Formalisms, The MIT Press, page 51,
It is this abstraction that justifies considering these methods as characterizing constraint-based formalisms in general, rather than an individual formalism.
gloss: The ontological view of mathematics as a mere collection of string manipulation rules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: formalist
formulism
Derived words: antiformalism
Bird-Meertens formalism
canonical formalism
neoformalism
nonformalism
path integral formalism
Russian formalism
zombie formalism
Translations:
crumpet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First appears c. the 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. An alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”).
The sense of a “desirable woman” is attested since 1936, possibly as Cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“a loose woman, a prostitute”) (itself possibly Cockney rhyming slang for heart or sweetheart). Note that muffin has a similar sense, and that, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Muffins and crumpets was a familiar street-cry in the UK.
Inflected forms:
form: crumpets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: T-Saint: I say we kill 'em!
Donner: I say we hump 'em.
Booga: I say we eat crumpets and tea.
Deetee: Tasty! Crumpets and tea. All in favor of crumpets and tea, say "I."
All: I!
T-Saint: Shut up! Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea.
gloss: A sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
slang
uncountable
examples: Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".
John and his mates have gone out to find themselves some crumpet.
The regulars are all guys, a varied selection, my friends. There's Sammy—small, wiry, dark-haired. A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.
Our lives are saturated with middle-class crumpet Benedict Cumberbatch - but does he deserve the attention, asks Michael Hogan
gloss: The head.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf.
"If I don't get down them stairs soon I'll go off my crumpet, sittin' about up here all day with the jumps on me."
Related words: crempog
crumple
crumpled
pikelet
strumpet
tart
Derived words: crumpet-faced
Translations:
drowning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drownings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of a person or animal drowning.
pos: noun
examples: It's dangerous to swim in that river — there were three drownings there last year.
gloss: An instance of a person or animal being drowned.
pos: noun
Derived words: drowning chain
secondary drowning
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: غَرَق
roman: ḡaraq
lang: Arabic
word: غَرَق
roman: ḡarag
lang: Catalan
word: ofegament
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溺水的
lang: Czech
word: tonoucí
lang: Czech
word: utopení
lang: Dutch
word: verdrinking
lang: Estonian
word: uppumine
lang: Finnish
word: hukkuminen
lang: French
word: noyade
lang: German
word: Ertrinken
lang: Greek
word: πνιγμός
roman: pnigmós
lang: Greek
word: πνίξιμο
roman: pníximo
lang: Hebrew
word: טביעה
roman: t'vi'a
lang: Hungarian
word: fulladás
lang: Italian
word: annegamento
lang: Macedonian
word: давење
roman: davenje
lang: Polish
word: utonięcie
lang: Portuguese
word: afogamento
lang: Russian
word: утопле́ние
roman: utoplénije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: utapanje
lang: Spanish
word: ahogamiento
lang: Swedish
word: drukning
lang: Welsh
word: bawdd
lang: Welsh
word: boddiad
angelfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From angel + fish; so called for its wing-like pectoral fins.
Compound parts: angel
fish
Inflected forms:
form: angelfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: angelfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: angel fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: angel-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Pterophyllum of freshwater, tropical cichlids.
pos: noun
gloss: Any marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae, common on shallow tropical reefs.
pos: noun
gloss: Atlantic pomfret (Brama brama).
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: Angelshark, of the family Squatinidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
pos: noun
gloss: cave angelfish, a karst-dwelling member of the family Balitoridae, found only in Thailand.
pos: noun
Derived words: gray angelfish
queen angelfish
royal angelfish
yellowbar angelfish
Translations:
lungful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lung + -ful.
Base: lung
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: lungfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lungsful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: As much as the lungs will hold.
pos: noun
examples: The diver took in lungfuls of air as he returned to the surface.
For there are many kinds of freedom, not just the ones that involve surf and lungfuls of fresh air.
Translations:
frippery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.
Inflected forms:
form: fripperies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.
Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy. Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril.
The frippery-filled world of fashion confounded its critics yesterday when it became sombre and serious in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the US.
And so frippery and force combine to make a political position – support for the monarchy – seem like the natural, sacred default.
gloss: Useless things; trifles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
“At any rate you see me still unmarried. I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.”
[Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.
gloss: Cast-off clothes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs.
gloss: The trade or traffic in old clothes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The place where old clothes are sold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano.
gloss: Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There's my pretty darling Kate; the faſhions of the times have almoſt infected her too. By living a year or two in town, ſhe is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the beſt of them.
[…] but consider I was born in the land of talisman and spell, and my childhood lulled by tales which you can only enjoy through the gauzy frippery of a French translation.
But, there were preparations for a Festa; the pillars of stately marble were swathed in some impertinent frippery of red and yellow[…]
We detest the affectation and effeminate frippery which is but too frequent in the modern novel
Translations:
prefabricated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English fabricated
English prefabricated
From pre- + fabricated.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: manufactured in advance, usually to a standard format, and then assembled on site
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A prefabricated home
gloss: invented or constructed in advance
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They both told the police a prefabricated version of events.
Some computer fonts include a prefabricated ellipsis.
Synonyms: prefab
Related words: prefabricate
prefabrication
Derived words: nonprefabricated
non-prefabricated
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: prefabricat
lang: Danish
word: præfabrikeret
lang: Finnish
word: valmis
lang: French
word: préfabriqué
lang: German
word: vorgefertigt
lang: Italian
word: prefabbricato
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: prefabrikkert
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: prefabrikkert
lang: Spanish
word: prefabricado
lang: Catalan
word: prefabricat
lang: Finnish
word: keksitty
ase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Yoruba àṣẹbor.
English ase
Borrowed from Yoruba àṣẹ.
Inflected forms:
form: ashe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An essential energy in West African religions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fānāticuslbor.
▲
French fanatiqueinflu.
English fanatic
English fancyinflu.
English fan
English fiction
English fan fiction
English fanfic
English fic
Clipping of fanfic, itself a clipping of fan fiction.
Inflected forms:
form: fics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional story set within a preexisting fandom; a fanfic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
Translations:
sugarcoat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor.
Latin cotta
Old French cottebor.
Middle English cote
English coat
English sugarcoat
From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill).
Inflected forms:
form: sugarcoats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sugarcoating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sugarcoated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sugarcoated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sugar coat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sugar-coat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To coat with sugar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.
I went to the unheard-of trouble of re-writing the letter and saying the same harsh things softly, so as to sugarcoat the anguish and make it a little more endurable […]
The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all / And I don't gotta be false or sugarcoat it at all
[…] And I don't think we can sugarcoat both the human toll that is unfolding in Ukraine, but also how it is reordering the international architecture in ways that we haven't seen in decades.
"The insurgents killed them all?"
"Very likely." Scout's expression was kindly, but he was apparently not the sort to sugarcoat things. Then again, maybe he had simply read her receptivity well.
Derived words: sugarcoat a bitter pill
sugarcoated
sugarcoating
Translations:
burlesque
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).
Inflected forms:
form: burlesques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burlesk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: burlesques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burlesquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burlesqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burlesqued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: burlesk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.
“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
gloss: A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
gloss: To make a burlesque parody of.
pos: verb
examples: When the venerable New York Times took my quote in which I described the neon elements as "burlesquing the myth of male dominance" and instead printed "he prefers to describe them as . . . symbols of male dominance" it became clear that dealing with journalists was going to be one long, rocky road.
gloss: To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
pos: verb
examples: They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
Derived words: boylesque
burlesquer
neoburlesque
preburlesque
unburlesqued
Translations:
shepherdess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scheperdesse, shepperdesse; equivalent to shepherd + -ess.
Base: shepherd
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: shepherdesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female shepherd.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: I thought it a crime to refuse nature the maintenance of a life much more grievous than death. I changed my* dress for the simple habit of a shepherdess, and embraced this state as my only refuge; since that time all my consolation has been to weep over this grave, which shall be my own.
A Faithful Shepherdess
September 2014, New York Film Festival to Revive Paul Grimault’s Animated Classic IndieWire
the satirical The King And The Mockingbird follows a chimney sweep and shepherdess on the run from a tyrannical king
November 2014, It’s Taken Decades, But the Surreal Animated Film The King and the Mockingbird Is Finally Here Vulture
The king is in love with a beautiful shepherdess in a painting on his wall, but she herself is in love with the handsome chimney sweep in the painting beside her.
gloss: A large and deep armchair with a cushion.
pos: noun
Derived words: shepherdess pie
Translations:
calzone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian calzone (literally “stocking, trouser”). Doublet of chausson.
Inflected forms:
form: calzones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calzoni
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calzony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: calzoney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: calzoni
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: calzonie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A baked Italian turnover made of pizza dough and stuffed with tomato, cheese and other toppings.
pos: noun
examples: It was a much classier presentation than the oil-stained paper plate I would use to transport my calzones of yore, and it tasted better, too. […] That was the first calzone I made after my Lucali meal, and the recipe is a good template for a calzone of the cheesiest kind.
Translations:
sheepherder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sheep + herder.
Compound parts: sheep
herder
Inflected forms:
form: sheepherders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who herds sheep; a shepherd.
pos: noun
Translations:
lowball
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.
Inflected forms:
form: lowballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lowballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lowballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lowballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Significantly below the actual cost or value.
pos: adj
examples: In April, NASA selected SpaceX to build the lunar lander for the Artemis program, thanks in part to a lowball $2.9 billion bid.
At the meeting last Wednesday during which these changes were announced, the interim head of the NEH also estimated that each of the 250 statues would cost $100,000 to $200,000, bringing the total cost as high as $50 million. And this may have been a lowball figure.
gloss: To give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It may be, but it is worth noting that if the mortality rate is as low as 0.7% as some experts now hope rather than between 3 and 5% as the data suggests so far, that is still a lot of dead Americans. Californian health officials are bracing for a 56% infection rate. In New York, they are talking about a range of between 30% and 80%, so if we just lowball that, that is close to seven hundred thousand dead Americans as a result of COVID-19. Modeling based on current social and economic disruption actually puts the number at 1.2 million people dying, all the way up to 2.2 million if no measures are taken to reduce contagion and the virus is allowed to run its course.
gloss: To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A few other news flashes from the interview: The president of the United States thinks that the government should not pay its bills in full. It should lowball its contractors and force them to accept half payment, he said.
gloss: To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: highball
Derived words: lowballer
Translations:
shocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more shocked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shocked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback, particularly when also indignant.
pos: adj
examples: We were shocked to see how ill she was.
gloss: Suffering from shock.
pos: adj
examples: The patient is shocked.
gloss: Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves.
pos: adj
examples: shocked quartz
gloss: Subjected to electric shock.
pos: adj
examples: Dr. Kurt Urban, most shocked man in the world, on roof of Mt. Generoso lightningproof cabin.
Derived words: shell-shocked
shockedness
shocked Pikachu
shocked quartz
shocked, shocked
sticker-shocked
unshocked
Translations:
shopgirl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skup-
Old English scoppa
Middle English shoppe
English shop
Proto-West Germanic *gaurā
Proto-West Germanic *-ilā
Proto-West Germanic *gurilā
Old English *gyrele?
Middle English girle
English girl
English shopgirl
From shop + girl.
Inflected forms:
form: shopgirls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A girl who works in a shop; a young saleswoman.
pos: noun
examples: 'Makes no odds,' conceded George generously. 'Shopgirl—kept company with a foreigner—known as Peter. Even without anything else there ought to be no difficulty in finding her.'
Translations:
shoreline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shore + line.
Compound parts: shore
line
Inflected forms:
form: shorelines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The divide between land and a body of water.
pos: noun
examples: An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage.
gloss: The line on a map that illustrates this.
pos: noun
Derived words: palaeoshoreline
shorelined
Translations:
sharecropping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From share + cropping.
Compound parts: share
cropping
Inflected forms:
form: sharecroppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The system where a tenant farmer, especially in the southern United States, farms the land in exchange for a portion of the crops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Slim came from sharecropping stock, his people farmed land but never owned it
Translations:
downfall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From down- + fall. In this spelling, from 16th century; spelled as two words from 13th century.
Base: fall
Affixes: down-
Inflected forms:
form: downfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: downfal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: downfalls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downfalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: downfell
pos: verb
tags: past
form: downfallen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: downfal
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.
The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as [Wayne] Rooney tucked in at the back post.
gloss: The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Orson Scott Card
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
gloss: An act of falling down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a downfall of rain
[T]he prominent character of leading young lady or heroine, which Paula was to personate, was really the most satisfactory in the whole list for her. For although she was to be wooed hard, there was just as much love-making among the remaining personages; while, as Somerset had understood the play, there could occur no flingings of her person upon her lover's neck, or agonized downfalls upon the stage, in her whole performance, [...]
gloss: To fall down; deteriorate; decline.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall" or "fall down."
Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.
It should be noted that the magnitude of satellites decreases when tuning out of degeneracy, and in the wavelength range of 1.2-1.3 pm it downfalls to the value of 10-15% of the main spike magnitude.
[...] As goodly air as ever From lunar orb downfell— Be it by hazard, Or supervened it by arrogancy?
Derived words: Operation Downfall
Willsons Downfall
Translations:
kingpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From king + pin.
Compound parts: king
pin
Inflected forms:
form: kingpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place.
pos: noun
examples: The employees brought back the apparently disappointing news that almost all components showed signs of wear. The sole exceptions were the kingpins, which remained virtually unworn. To the employees’ surprise, [Henry] Ford, instead of expressing pride in his well-made kingpins, declared that the kingpins were overbuilt, and that in the future they should be made more cheaply.
gloss: The pivot or connector between a tractor and trailer in the fifth-wheel coupling of semi-trailer truck.
pos: noun
gloss: The most important person in a usually evil undertaking or organization, often a druglord.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: The rare salarian females are cloistered on their worlds out of tradition and respect. Powerful female Dalatrasses are dynasts and political kingpins. They determine the political course of their respective regions through shrewd negotiation.
As anyone who has ever paid remote attention to global affairs might have predicted, violence has broken out across several Mexican states in the aftermath of the killing – which is generally what happens when you take out a cartel kingpin.
gloss: The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex.
pos: noun
gloss: The bolt holding together the truck of a roller skate or skateboard.
pos: noun
Related words: linchpin
Derived words: kingpin to rear axle
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ос
roman: os
lang: Danish
word: kongetap
lang: Finnish
word: olkatappi
lang: German
word: Königszapfen
lang: German
word: Königsbolzen
lang: Polish
word: przednia oś zwrotnicy
lang: Russian
word: ось
roman: osʹ
lang: Russian
word: вал
roman: val
lang: Russian
word: шкво́рень
roman: škvórenʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: osovina
lang: Swedish
word: spindelbult
kinesthetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more kinesthetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most kinesthetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: kinaesthetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kinæsthetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to kinesthesia.
pos: adj
Translations:
cataclysmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cataclysm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English cataclysmic
From cataclysm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more cataclysmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cataclysmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
pos: adj
examples: It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic: one had been judged and found wanting.
Translations:
climactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English climax
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English climactic
From climax + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more climactic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most climactic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest excitement.
pos: adj
examples: The race ended in a climactic, neck-and-neck scramble for the finish line.
... and the ending (within the last 50-ish pages) is simply incredible; very climactic.
And in Paris, Wick has a meeting with the Marquis, the Eiffel Tower providing a picturesque backdrop. A big, climactic scene is set on the steps and in the shadow of Sacré-Coeur.
Then we went to General Hospital, which is a very climactic sound. And we ended it with the best, Days of our Lives.
Translations:
alfresco
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Italian al fresco. Compare Spanish al fresco.
Inflected forms:
form: al fresco
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adverb
especially
form: al-fresco
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adjective
form: al fresco
pos: adv
tags: alternative
adverb
especially
form: al-fresco
pos: adv
tags: alternative
adjective
Senses:
gloss: Outdoor, open to the atmosphere.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The walking district features many alfresco cafés.
gloss: Outdoors; in fresh air.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: As it was a sunny afternoon, we decided to dine alfresco on the patio.
We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]
gloss: Onto fresh plaster that is still moist.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: al desko
Translations:
arty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
Latin artemder.
Old French artbor.
Middle English art
English art
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English arty
From art + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: artier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: artiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: artsie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: artsy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: arties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inclined towards the arts.
pos: adj
examples: But the film is depressingly thin on the women; often it seems more interested in arranging them in arty tableaux than investigating the way that isolation has shaped their personalities and how they see the world.
gloss: Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: “Half of these Cate Blanchett movies – they’re all just like these arty things. I’m not saying they’re bad movies, but I don’t think most of them have a shelf life,” he said.
gloss: Artillery.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An artillery crew member.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: artily
artiness
arty-crafty
arty-farty
Translations: